Health experts have noted a trend for months: A growing number of children are becoming infected with COVID-19 as the Delta variant spreads across the United States. Now older teenagers 16 and 17 years old have the highest COVID infection rate among all age groups — adult or children — in the […]
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A medida que avanza nuestra batalla contra la pandemia de COVID-19 también lo hace la polémica conversación sobre las vacunas contra el SARS-CoV-2. Para muchas personas las vacunas son la respuesta que salva vidas y que pueden hacernos avanzar a nosotros y a nuestra sociedad. Para muchas otras son vistas […]
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Upon first inspection, the mutations in the highly contagious delta covid variant don’t look that worrisome. For starters, delta has fewer genetic changes than earlier versions of the coronavirus. “When people saw that the epidemic in India was driven by delta, they did not suspect it would be so bad […]
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Researchers have identified a new binding site on the spike protein of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. They believe the new binding site could be a key part of the process involved in the virus infecting human cells, giving a new target for possible intervention. The new binding site […]
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Más de tres cuartos de los estados y territorios estadounidenses están experimentando un aumento de casos de COVID-19 El promedio de 7 días de casos nuevos diarios es de 24,141, un aumento del 65.9 % con respecto al período anterior de 7 días. Esto es un 110.4 % más alto […]
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Further details from multiple cases of myocarditis linked to the Pfizer and Moderna mRNA COVID vaccines have been described in recent papers in the medical literature. The cases appear to occur almost exclusively in males and most often in younger age groups. While symptoms and signs of myocarditis mostly resolved with a […]
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Las células T que producen las vacunas, que son las directoras de orquesta de nuestro sistema inmune y las importantes frente a los cuadros severos de la enfermedad Covid19, no se están viendo afectadas por las nuevas cepas. Carmen Cámara, secretaria de la SEI
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A través de un comunicado, la farmacéutica CanSino Biologics dio a conocer que en China fue aprobada su vacuna anti Covid-19 inhalada. Esta presentación inhalable tiene como ventaja que sólo requiere una quinta parte del fármaco para ser efectiva, en comparación de la vacuna inyectable, de acuerdo a la farmacéutica. Esta vacuna es apta […]
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Summary What is already known about this topic? Most COVID-19–associated hospitalizations occur in adults, but severe disease occurs in all age groups, including adolescents aged 12–17 years. What is added by this report? COVID-19 adolescent hospitalization rates from COVID-NET peaked at 2.1 per 100,000 in early January 2021, declined to […]
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Créditos: Comité científico Covid
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