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Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. A systematic review of studies of infections found no evidence of airborne transmission of respiratory or enteric pathogens in public washrooms, but some experts disagree with the study’s conclusions. The study was published in Science of the Total Environment. Dr Sotiris […]
(Reuters) – COVID-19 vaccines and flu vaccines can be safely administered at the same time, and doing so might increase vaccination rates, according to a report in The Lancet. Researchers randomly assigned 697 adult volunteers to receive their second dose of either the mRNA vaccine from Pfizer/BioNTech or the viral-vector vaccine from AstraZeneca/Oxford, along with […]
Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. A new study that followed 131 children with cancer who were infected with SARS-CoV-2 shows that most (79%) did well and had only asymptomatic or mild disease. However, others developed severe symptoms; 49 children (37%) were hospitalized, 15 (11%) required admission […]
US Covid cases increased by 11 percent while deaths decreased by 16 percent in the last two weeks, according to latest data compiled by New York Times. The weekly average in daily coronavirus infections has gone up to 80,885, while the 7-day average of the pandemic deaths fell to 1,133. With 23578 new cases reporting […]
PARIS (Reuters) – French vaccines company Valneva’s share price jumped more than 20% on Wednesday after it won European Commission approval for a deal under which it would supply up to 60 million doses of its COVID-19 vaccine candidate over two years. The eighth such deal by the European Union’s executive body in the fight […]
Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. A leaked trove of papers from inside Facebook shows that the social media giant’s internal research uncovered a host of problems on the platform related to public health and other issues, but did virtually nothing about it. The files were leaked […]
Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. The effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines produced by Pfizer/BioNTech, Moderna, and Johnson & Johnson dropped dramatically as the Delta variant swept the United States, a study of almost 800,000 veterans found. The study, published in the journal Science, says the three vaccines […]
(Reuters) – Deaths and infections related to COVID-19 have declined across the Americas for the eighth consecutive week, the Pan American Health Organization said, zovirax desciption adding that a very high percentage of hospitalized cases now were unvaccinated people.FILE PHOTO: People wearing face masks are seen at the Kazansky railway station amid the outbreak of […]
The daily cases of coronavirus infection in the United States have come down to the lowest level in more than three months. This excludes low figures due to reporting delays at weekends. With 63438 new cases reporting on Tuesday, the total number of Covid infections in the country rose to 45,616,157, as per the latest […]
BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil’s health regulator Anvisa said on Friday that all five of its directors have received death threats over possible approval by the agency of COVID-19 vaccinations for children aged between five and 11 years old. In a statement, Anvisa said it had reported the emailed threats to the police and prosecutors. It […]