Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc’s COVID-19 antibody treatment and other similar drugs could be less effective against the new Omicron coronavirus variant, the company said on Tuesday. The drugmaker said further analyses are ongoing to confirm and quantify this potential impact using the actual Omicron variant sequence. Global markets fell on Tuesday […]
A wealth of evidence has shown that wearing a face mask helps prevent people from spreading the virus that causes COVID, SARS-CoV-2, to others and from becoming sick themselves. But there has been less guidance from public health officials on what kind of masks provide the best protection. Early on in the […]
It is now widely known that COVID-19 is associated with the transient or long-term loss of olfaction (the sense of smell) but the mechanisms remain obscure. An unresolved question is whether the olfactory nerve can provide SARS-CoV-2 with a route of entry to the brain. Scientists at the Max Planck […]
At 7:30 a.m. on 24 November, Kristian Andersen, an infectious disease researcher at Scripps Research, received an instant message on Slack: “This variant is completely insane.” Molecular evolutionary biologist Andrew Rambaut of the University of Edinburgh was reacting to a set of new SARS-CoV-2 genome sequences shared on the global […]
The United Kingdom, Italy, Germany, Belgium and Australia reported their first cases of the new Omicron variant during the weekend, joining a growing list of countries that have confirmed cases among travelers returning from southern Africa. The U.S. hasn’t detected the variant yet, but it’s possible that it could already […]
Key questions answered about coronavirus variant first detected in southern Africa Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage What is it called? The variant was initially referred to as B.1.1.529, but on Friday was designated as a variant of concern (VOC) by the World Health Organization because of its “concerning” […]
La doctora Angelique Coetzee, presidenta de la Asociación Médica de Sudáfrica, dijo que hasta ahora los pacientes contagiados con la nueva variante ómicron del coronavirus causante de la covid han presentado síntomas muy leves. “Lo que estamos viendo ahora en Sudáfrica, y recuerden que estoy en el epicentro, es extremadamente leve“, […]
Lo que se sabe de la variante ómicron Créditos: Comité científico Covid
Una nueva variante de Coronavirus hallada en Sudafrica tiene 50 mutaciones. Créditos: Comité científico Covid
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday classified a new COVID-19 variant from South Africa as a variant of concern, which means it could be more contagious, cause more severe disease, and reduce the efficacy of vaccines and treatments. WHO convened an independent group of experts on Friday to assess the new […]
