The current COVID-19 pandemic has challenged the international paediatric otolaryngology community: we review its impact in clinical, resource, and human settings.The SARS-CoV-2 virus, while generally mild in paediatric populations, has caused an increased incidence in severe croup, invasive fungal ...
The rapid development of COVID-19 vaccines and their deployment in less than a year is an unprecedented scientific, medical, and public health achievement. This rapid development leveraged knowledge from decades of HIV/AIDS research and advances. However
A leading vaccinologist and director of the University of Oxford’s Jenner Institute, Hill has been at the forefront of vaccine development efforts since the COVID-19 pandemic began to sweep across the world, working with a team of scientists on the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine. Through his work...
A report recently published by an independent panel of experts who reviewed the global response to the COVID-19 pandemic has pinpointed equitable and widespread distribution of vaccines, along with the consistent rollout of regular disease ...
NEW YORK, March 18 (Xinhua) -- As the world is scaling up efforts to fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, many turned their attention to China and tried to learn from its anti-virus response. What does media worldwide say about Chinese experiences? We collected some of the reports for ...
COVID-19 vaccine development has been done at unprecedented speed, with the usual sequential steps done in parallel. The pandemic has illustrated the feasibility of this approach and the benefits of a globally coordinated response and infrastructure. Some of the COVID-19 vaccines recently developed ...
Although the COVID-19 pandemic is still active worldwide, health care industry leaders and regulators have already begun to think about how to implement post-pandemic changes to health care delivery based on lessons learned during the global emergency of the past year ...
Countries subsequently rapidly implemented public health and social measures (PHSM) to contain the COVID-19 epidemic. These measures are likely to have slowed the spread of the virus, and the number of cases in Africa remained lower than initially forecast. Our need to fast-track regional ...
Responding quickly to unknown pathogens is crucial to stop uncontrolled spread of diseases that lead to epidemics, such as the novel coronavirus, and to keep protective measures at a level that causes as little social and economic harm as possible. This
Since its outbreak in December 2019, the COVID-19 pandemic has caused the death of more than 6.5 million people around the world. The high transmissibility of its causative agent, the SARS-CoV-2 virus, coupled with its potentially lethal outcome, provoked a profound global economic and social...