A World Health Organization technical body said on Tuesday that current COVID-19 vaccines may need to be reworked to ensure they are effective against Omicron and future variants of the coronavirus. The technical group, made up of independent experts, said it would consider a change in vaccination composition and stressed […]
De acuerdo a la información ofrecida por el Departamento de Salud de Puerto Rico, para este viernes se reportaron un promedio de 1,912 casos con prueba molecular positivo a COVID-19 y 5,456 en prueba de antígeno. Un total de 651 personas están hospitalización, de los cuales 51 adultos y 1 menor se encuentran en ventilador, […]
Cases of the highly transmissible Omicron variant continue to skyrocket, but hospitalizations and deaths remain much lower by comparison ― another sign that Omicron is less deadly than previous strains, White House officials said on Wednesday. “The rapid increase of cases we’re seeing across the country is, in large part, […]
As the omicron variant continues to spread throughout the world, new modeling data shows the latest strain may cause millions more new infections per day in the U.S. but fewer hospitalizations and deaths compared to the delta variant. Researchers at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington’s […]
Several experts have been warning that more restrictions will be necessary to get the UK through the Omicron wave, but according to Prof Ewan Birney, director of the European Bioinformatics Institute, “such decisions are likely to be needed to be made in advance of conclusive evidence” about the severity of Omicron […]
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 […]
La Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS) ha confirmado este lunes que hay evidencia clara de que las personas que han sido vacunadas contra la Covid-19 y aquellas que se infectaron en el pasado pueden contraer la variante Ómicron, cuya propagación se acelera en el mundo. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus admite que esta variante […]
La comunidad científica ya ha esbozado un primer retrato de ómicron, la nueva versión del coronavirus detectada hace tres semanas en el sur de África. La variante, con una cantidad insólita de mutaciones, se está expandiendo por el planeta a una velocidad nunca vista en sus antecesoras. Las autoridades europeas han alertado de que […]
NUEVA YORK, USA. Ómicron tiene una nueva mutación en comparación con otras variantes. Sin embargo, esta mutación está presente en el virus del resfriado común, el virus de inmunodeficiencia humana y el genoma humano. ¿Es ómicron el resultado de una recombinación entre el SARS-CoV-2 y estos materiales genéticos? ¿Virus “humanizado”? La […]
While the world waits on data regarding omicron, a coronavirus variant that has spread rapidly around the world, epidemiologists and health care experts again point to basic public health practices that can significantly reduce the spread of disease. While concerns have arisen about whether the existing COVID-19 vaccines will be […]
