World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said Wednesday that there has been a 90% drop in global COVID-19 deaths since February, which he called a “cause for optimism” but still urged “caution” amid the ongoing pandemic. “Just over 9,400 COVID-19 deaths were reported to WHO last week — almost 90% less than in […]
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Plans for the first test of whether Pfizer’s COVID-19 pill known as Paxlovid can alleviate Long Covid were unveiled last week, as organizers said they expect to begin recruiting 1700 volunteers in January 2023. Patient groups and researchers have long sought such a trial to study whether suppressing the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus can reduce Long COVID’s debilitating
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The Chinese city of Shanghai started administering an inhalable COVID-19 vaccine last Wednesday in what appears to be a world first. www.pbs.org/newshour/world/china-begins-administering-inhalable-covid-19-vaccine-boosters? The vaccine, a mist that is sucked in through the mouth, is being offered for free as a booster dose for previously vaccinated people, according to an announcement on an official city social
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Wuhan, locked down one of its central districts after Covid cases were found, as China persists with a zero-tolerance approach to the virus almost three years since the pathogen first emerged in the city. The roughly 900,000 residents of Hanyang district were told to stay in their homes from Wednesday, a spokeswoman from the area’s
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Article original publié par Newsweek : Disponible sur https://www.newsweek.com/why-are-some-global-health-efforts-failing-opinion-1751649 HARALD NUSSER RESPONSABLE DES SOLUTIONS GLOBALES POUR LES PATIENTS CHEZ GILEAD SCIENCES Le bilan mondial des décès officiellement attribués au COVID-19 s’élève à plus de 6,5 millions. Et lorsque les chercheurs incluent les décès qui sont probablement dus à la pandémie, le bilan est beaucoup plus
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Artigo original publicado pela Newsweek: Disponível em https://www.newsweek.com/why-are-some-global-health-efforts-failing-opinion-1751649 HARALD NUSSER DIRETOR DA DIVISÃO “GLOBAL PATIENT SOLUTIONS” DA EMPRESA GILEAD SCIENCES O número oficial de mortos em decorrência da COVID-19 já ultrapassa 6,5 milhões de pessoas. E, quando nesta estatística os pesquisadores incluem os casos de mortes que de algum modo também estão associadas à pandemia,
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Original article published by Newsweek: Available at https://www.newsweek.com/why-are-some-global-health-efforts-failing-opinion-1751649 HARALD NUSSERHEAD OF GLOBAL PATIENT SOLUTIONS AT GILEAD SCIENCES The worldwide death toll officially attributed to COVID-19 stands at more than 6.5 million. And when researchers include deaths that are likely due to the pandemic as well, the toll stands much higher. Many of these tragic deaths
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Long COVID is “devastating” the lives and livelihoods of tens of millions of people, and wreaking havoc on health systems and economies, WHO director general, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has warned as he urged countries to launch “immediate” and “sustained” efforts to tackle the “very serious” crisis. www.theguardian.com/society/2022/oct/12/long-covid-who-tedros-adhanom-ghebreyesus? The world has never been in a
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The acrimonious debate over the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic flared up again last week with a report from an expert panel concluding that SARS-CoV-2 likely spread naturally in a zoonotic jump from an animal to humans—without help from a lab. www.science.org/content/article/evidence-suggests-pandemic-came-nature-not-lab-panel-says “Our paper recognizes that there are different possible origins, but the evidence towards
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Another wave of COVID-19 infections may have begun in Europe as cases begin to tick up across the region, the World Health Organization (WHO) and European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) said last Wednesday. www.medscape.com/viewarticle/982296?src=wnl_edit_tpal&uac=398271FG&impID=4751294&faf=1 “Although we are not where we were one year ago, it is clear that the COVID-19 pandemic is
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