Leading Chinese Internet giant Tencent said they have launched a COVID-19 medicine mutual aid platform (新冠防护药物公益互助) on its WeChat, for users to share urgently needed medicines. Due to the surge of infections and the shorta...
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, as well as increased access to supportive parents, may have reduced the perceived stress [1,4]. On the contrary, individuals with more severe pre-existing psychiatric illnesses were especially vulnerable to the consequences of COVID-19 [5,6,7], particularly suicide-related ideation and ...
Medical ethicist Ezekiel Emanuel discusses a framework for equitably allocating COVID-19 vaccines based on preventing premature deaths and mitigating long-term economic impacts
they must also be unable to use alternative COVID-19 treatment options, due to being inaccessible or being clinically inappropriate. How does molnupiravir work? Molnupiravir is an oral antiviral medicine that works by decreasing the ability of the virus (SARS-CoV-2) to make copies of itself...
Reform is needed to ensure the world gets the high-quality evidence it needs.#The pandemic has spawned too many uninformative clinical trials and reviews. Reform is needed to ensure the world gets the high-quality evidence it needs.#Clinical trial of the Chinese vaccine CORONAVAC#Clinical trial ...
In the lead up to the U.K.’s first Covid-19 national lockdown, acute medicine consultant Dr Abbey Henderson and NHS staff struggle to cope with the rising number of Covid-19 patients as the disease ravages the ward. Running out of tests, unable to use PPE, and with staff beginning ...
Even people who aren’t that old might want to book a Covid shot soon, said Florian Krammer, an influenza virologist at Mount Sinai’s Icahn School of Medicine in New York City. “Right now there’s a lot of SARS-CoV-2 cases and so if people didn’t have SARS-CoV-2 in a while...
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