La vacunación confiere efectos tanto directos como indirectos. El efecto directo de las vacunas implica protección contra enfermedades en las personas vacunadas, mientras que la protección indirecta es cuando las personas evitan la infección porque las personas que los rodean están vacunadas1. La Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS) estima […]
Cases of COVID-19 in England underwent a steep rise in the first half of December when the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 began to spread rapidly, according to a new preliminary analysis. However, large reductions in infection were seen in secondary school children and older adults between 23 November and 14 […]
New modelling shows that more than 35 billion infections are expected worldwide over the next two months. The UK has recorded more than 100,000 cases of Covid for the first time since the pandemic began. Latest data from the UK Health Security Agency shows that more than 106,122 people tested positive for […]
Según una nota de prensa de la farmacéutica Novavax, la vacuna NVX-CoV2373 ha demostrado respuestas inmunes cruzadas neutralizantes frente a la variante Ómicron (B.1.1..529) tras un esquema de dos dosis, pero reducidas en cuatro veces respecto del virus pandémico original. No obstante, tras una tercera dosis de 5 microgramos administrada a los […]
Medical researchers say there is renewed promise in reducing COVID-19-related hospitalizations and deaths by increasing the use of convalescent plasma treatments early on in a coronavirus infection. And some medical experts are pushing the federal government to allow more patients to receive the treatment, as lab-based monoclonal treatments such as […]
CIUDAD DE MÉXICO, MEX. La posibilidad de tener una cuarta ola en México está presente. Con la reactivación de actividades sociales, de entretenimiento y económicas, mismas que se unen a la temporada invernal, en la que aumentan los casos de enfermedades respiratorias, los especialistas proyectan un pico entre finales de diciembre de […]
Major differences in how efficiently Omicron and other variants of the coronavirus multiply may help predict Omicron’s effects, researchers said on Wednesday. Compared to the earlier Delta variant, Omicron multiplies itself 70 times more quickly in airway passages, which may facilitate person-to-person spread, they said. But in lung tissues, Omicron […]
The U.S. may see as many as 140 million new COVID-19 infections in the first two months of 2022, according to new modeling data from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington’s School of Medicine. After revising their modeling data to include updated information about the omicron variant, researchers […]
If you want to know what the Omicron variant means for protecting you and your community in the next few months, look at New York City. The variant is causing a dramatic surge of cases in the unvaccinated and vaccinated alike and will almost certainly become the dominant strain in […]
Predicting future COVID waves and hospital surges is always fraught with challenges, but there are early indications from Texas, Minnesota, Britain and South Africa that the U.S. health system will experience yet another great challenge. There is little doubt we are headed for an unprecedented COVID surge from Delta and Omicron variants […]
