Is the current Omicron wave in the UK due to risk compensation?doi:10.1177/14782715221103725SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variantSTAY-at-home ordersSOCIAL distancingCOVID-19 vaccinesINFECTION preventionIyengar, Karthikeyan PNune, ArvindBotchu, RajeshJournal of the Royal College of Phy...
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The development of COVID-19 vaccines was extremely fast and successful, with several manufacturers having obtained market authorization for their products within the first year from the identification of the virus (SARS-CoV-2). These vaccines are now used worldwide for mass immunization programs, an...
Co-circulation of porcine CoVs has been described worldwide, a circumstance that eventually generated a novel pathogenic recombinant variant containing PEDV SP on a TGEV backbone (swine enteric coronavirus, SeCoV) [53]. To date, there are neither specific treatments nor antivirals available for ...
What's become clear is that thanks to Covid, film distribution is a mess. Some animated films are endlessly delayed, some get shown early at film festivals before getting a limited release up to a year later in their home country, and some just... show up, and it's anyone's guess ...
TheUnited Kingdom (UK)has become thefirst countryto approveModerna’s “bivalent” COVID-19 vaccinethat targets both theoriginal strain of COVID-19and thenewer Omicron variant. TheMedicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA)had approved the Moderna vaccine as a “sharpened tool” ag...
New Zealand reported 28 new cases of COVID-19 on Friday, a big drop compared to the last few days, as authorities said the country was breaking the chain of transmission of the highly infectious Delta variant of coronavirus. Authorities said 27 new cases were in Auckland and one was in We...
A study in Brazil found lower vaccine effectiveness among adults older than 70 years in the context of the prevalent Gamma variant (47, 56, and 61 percent against COVID-19, hospitalization, and death, respectively [99]. The observational survey in Chile, which included over 10 million ...
COVID-19; drug treatment; indication; drug metabolism; drug interaction; adverse drug reactions1. Introduction Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is a RNA beta coronavirus, whose main mechanism of viral entry is the interaction between the spike (S) protein and the ...
The COVID-19 Omicron variant, reported to be the most immune-evasive variant of COVID-19, is resulting in a surge of COVID-19 cases globally. This has caused schools, colleges, and universities in different parts of the world to transition to online learning. As a result, social media ...