COVID-19

At the end of November 2021, a new strain was reported to have been found in South Africa and was at serious risk of worldwide expansion, which eventually happened. This strain, known scientifically as B.1.1.529 and later called omicron, has presented a series of features that make it very characteristic and distinguishable from other variants such as delta. So much so that the WHO has already warned that more than […]

Several countries, including Spain, are already administering a booster dose of the Covid-19 vaccine to their population. According to the latest report of the Ministry of Health, the Autonomous Communities have administered 85,480,089 doses of the vaccine, which represents 95.8% of the population with a complete regimen. The data indicate that there are close to 12 million people vaccinated with the booster dose. The data include, in addition to high-risk […]

Pfizer has announced on Monday that its vaccine against the omicron variant, with which it hopes to achieve better results of protection against this mutation of the Covid-19, will be ready next March. This was confirmed by Albert Bourla, CEO of the pharmaceutical company during an interview on the American network 'NBC'. As he explained, the company does not know if the use of this new dose of vaccine will […]

The Omicron variant of the coronavirus never ceases to amaze. Although it seems milder than the previous variants of the COVID-19, its transmissibility is much greater, which causes the Primary Care to be overwhelmed and many health professionals decide to hang their robe when they cannot perform their work as they would like. In addition, many people are reinfecting themselves with this variant. Some people have passed the coronavirus up […]

It is difficult to distinguish the symptoms of the Omicron variant from those of the Delta or Deltacron variant, as the clinical pictures can be very similar. However, there are a number of basic symptoms of these variants of COVID-19 that are important to know and that can help us distinguish one from another. These variants share a number of common traits that will make you suspect that it is […]

Pedro Sánchez announced this morning in an interview that the government will act on the prices of antigen tests. " We will", the President of the Government has answered categorically to the question of whether the prices of these products will be controlled. During the interview, Sánchez recalled that the Government of Spain had already acted on these covid-19 tests. When the VAT on surgical masks was extended on 21 […]

The General Director of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, has criticized in a press conference the distribution of vaccine doses in several countries. It has failed countries that are proceeding with the fourth dose of the vaccine. Mr Tedros called for an end to inequality and for an equitable distribution of inequality. "At the current rate of vaccine launch, 109 countries would miss the opportunity to fully […]

The omic variant of Covid-19 is leaving figures never before seen throughout the pandemic. In Spain alone, 789,409 positives were registered in the last week. In the face of the outbreak of contagion, some experts are already beginning to ask themselves whether it is useful to continue counting the number of infected people one by one, as has been done so far, or whether we should start using other indicators […]

Since the emergence of the omni-variant, the speed with which the coronavirus is spread has become one of the main problems of the virus. The Clínica Universidad de Navarra is the first hospital in the world that has already conducted a clinical trial with infected patients that would help reduce the spread of the virus. The Clinic is conducting a study that aims to eliminate the viral load accumulated in […]