The Prime Minister of France , Jean Castex , has assured that health professionals who are not immunized as of September 15 , the maximum date that was set, will be sanctioned . The politician justified this decision by referring to the cases of infections that have occurred in residences in recent times. «We will not go back,» Castex ...
Leer Más »The Delta variant defeats the de-escalation plan and herd immunity
The Delta variant, detected for the first time in India, has put the management of the Covid-19 pandemic in check. «The Delta variant is more in everything»: more contagious, more viral load, it replicates faster and infects vaccinated. For this reason, experts such as Rafael Bengoa , who was the Basque Country Health Minister and adviser to the ...
Leer Más »What do we know about the mortality rate of the Delta variant?
The Delta variant of SARS-CoV-2 (B.1.617.2, originally detected in India) is between 40-60% more transmissible than the Alpha variant (B.1.1.7, originally detected in the UK), and is it is also associated with an increased risk of hospitalization . Scientific evidence suggests that people infected with this variant have a higher viral load and that it requires a shorter ...
Leer Más »Experts Urge People Who Have Overcome COVID-19 To Get Vaccinated
The immunity that is generated against COVID-19 , whether mediated by vaccines or after managing to overcome the natural infection, continues to raise many unknowns. The most important ones focus on its duration and strength. The short period of relationship of SARS-CoV-2 with humans, means that the duration of immune ...
Leer Más »Two independent studies reveal Moderna to be more effective against Delta than Pfizer
Moderna would be more effective than Pfizer against the Delta variant. While both sera protect against Covid-19, two independent studies have shown that US serum is more effective against the predominant variant , known as Delta or Indian , than Pfizer BioNTech’s vaccine. The first study, published in medRxiv analyzed over 50,000 patients from the Mayo Clinic and ...
Leer Más »CARTEL DEL DÍA MUNDIAL DE LA FISIOTERAPIA 2021
El enfoque del Día Mundial de la fisioterapia de este año es la rehabilitación y el Long COVID y el papel de los fisioterapeutas en el tratamiento y manejo de las personas afectadas por Long COVID.
Leer Más »The Covid-19 vaccine in pregnant women is safe and effective: «A 2×1 that protects the mother and the baby»
A few days ago, both the Minister of Health, Carolina Darias , and the Andalusian Health Minister, Jesús Aguirre , among others, called on pregnant women to be vaccinated against Covid-19 due to the increase in the number of hospital admissions due to coronavirus reported among these women. ConSalud.es has spoken with the coordinator of the Research ...
Leer Más »Main routes of contagion of SARS-CoV-2 and fifth wave: what should we know?
The epidemiological situation in Spain shows us a complex picture. We are facing a fifth wave of the pandemic that differs significantly from the previous ones in which the National Vaccination Strategy against COVID-19 advances positively, but the cumulative incidence at 14 days per 100,000 inhabitants continues to skyrocket. The reason is found in ...
Leer Más »Pfizer insists on the need for a third dose to face the Delta variant
This Wednesday, the US pharmaceutical Pfizer has presented new data from its own study that suggests that a third dose of the vaccine against Covid-19 can «strongly» boost protection against the delta variant, compared to the two-dose scheme. The preliminary study, and which has not been subjected to peer review, shows that with a third dose ...
Leer Más »The Pfizer / BioNTech vaccine, the one with the highest reporting of adverse events
The Spanish Agency for Medicines and Health Products (Aemps) has published its seventh Pharmacovigilance Report on the vaccines developed against COVID-19 in our country. A document through which the main adverse events reported after the administration of the different sera are collected . Until July 11, 2021, 47,780,916 doses of vaccines against COVID-19 have been administered in ...
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