Covid

WHO warns we’re not ready to treat Covid like flu The global health body has said the ongoing spread of Omicron across Europe poses a “huge amount of uncertainty” about the pandemic The World Health Organization’s (WHO) senior emergency officer for Europe has urged governments not to treat Covid as endemic, due to the risk […]

Iran develops adenovirus-based vaccine against corona Vaccine production is done with different technologies. The first generation of vaccines relies on the complete virus particle, including the live, attenuated, and killed virus. The next generation of vaccines relies on recombinant proteins, and finally, a new generation of technology vaccines are developed based on adenovirus. Adenoviruses are

Omicron may be less severe in young and old, but not ‘mild’: WHO The impact on the elderly is one of the big unanswered questions about the new variant as most of the cases studied so far have been in younger people. The more infectious Omicron variant of Covid-19 appears to produce less severe disease

I fear our Covid strategy has put young people’s long-term health at risk After two full years battling the virus, it’s clear that some of the decisions made in the effort to contain it will have far-reaching consequences for the future wellbeing of those previously in good health. R. M. Huffman is a physician, author, and

COVID-Positive or Exposed? What to Do Next   If you have tested positive for COVID, what do you do next? “If you have tested positive, you are infected. At the moment, you are [either] symptomatically infected or pre-symptomatically infected,” says Paul A. Offit, MD, director of the Vaccine Education Center and a professor of pediatrics

We probably will need additional shots. But just how many depends on our immune systems, the virus, and how often they collide. Walter Barker has, since the fall of 2020, had five doses of COVID-19 vaccine. He’s already starting to ponder when he might need a sixth. Barker, a 38-year-old office worker in New York,

Florona infection may indicate a major breakdown of the immunity system as two viruses are entering the human body at the same time. The news of Florona comes at a time when the world is battling a new surge of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic driven by the new variant Omicron, which was first detected in South