COVID-19

Cleaning the blood is one of the options already being considered to mitigate the effects produced by the Covid-19. This technique, which does not have clinical trials that have proven its effectiveness, is intended for those people who suffer symptoms after having been infected with coronavirus; that is, suffering what is already known as persistent covid. A doctor, said last week that, at least, between 5% and 7% of the […]

The cumulative incidence of COVID-19 is 1,225.28 cases per 100,000 inhabitants at 14 days, according to the latest report of the Ministry of Health, which measures the incidence in those over 60 years. The increase in infections is skyrocketing in recent weeks, partly due to the appearance of two omni-variants: BA.4 and BA.5. This is a summer without restrictions or quarantine after two years of COVID-19 pandemic with continuous waves […]

The uncontrolled expansion of the new variants BA.4 and BA.5 -more contagious and that escape the immunity of the vaccine- has provoked a curious phenomenon with antigen tests as protagonists: delayed positivity. Not always a negative means that you are not infected with covid. The new variants are generating that, although you have all the symptoms -cough, fever and/or nasal congestion-the autotests do not reflect the diagnosis. That causes many […]

In the midst of the seventh wave of coronavirus, and with the contagions triggered throughout Europe, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has just met to assess the situation. The Community body remains alert for the increase in positive covid, which coincides with the beginning of summer, a stage in which more international movements are expected. Given this situation, the EMA could approve in a few days the Spanish vaccine Hipra, […]

We now have a cumulative incidence of more than 1,100 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, it has grown 139 points in three days. To understand this 'explosion' of contagions, we must take into account the variants that are circulating right now. As the virus "changes", it is spreading to more and more people. This data reveals a study available in medrxiv, although it has not yet been peer-reviewed. Self sick leave […]

This new variant was first detected in India and has since spread to 10 other countries. Although it does not yet have an official name, some members of the scientific community call this subvariant of the Omicron the BA 2.75 or centaurus. At the moment, there is not enough evidence to conclude whether the new strain has the capacity to aggravate Covid-19 infection, although it is already beginning to worry […]

As more people flock to large-scale travel and events, COVID infections are on the rise in Europe. So says the World Health Organization (WHO). " We’re seeing the much more intense wave of the disease coming back through Europe," says Michael Ryan, executive director of the WHO Health Emergency Program. "And we’ll see what happens elsewhere; we are already seeing it in South-East Asia and also in the Eastern Mediterranean […]

Coronavirus infections are skyrocketing in Spain just as the holidays begin. Sanidad calls for prudence in the face of an upturn that comes a few days from the Pride or San Fermin festivities and recommends the use of a mask to protect the elderly. The Head of Sanidad has called for the use of protection measures by recalling that, "in this time we have learnedo to keep the virus at […]

The new variants of the coronavirus have given way to the so-called 'new Covid-22', which has caused a notable increase in the number of people infected. The rise in infections has soared to 841 cases among those over 59. Also of concern is the rise in hospital occupancy, with a total of 9,553 hospitalized, with ICUs rising from 3.8% to 5% of the total occupancy. It is the new situation […]