Healthcare industries: a world of opportunities?

Published on : 21/01/2022 – 17:48 With the Covid-19 pandemic, big pharma like Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna hit the jackpot: pre-tax profits of $34 billion last year (2021), or $1,000 per second, according to the report. NGO People’s Vaccine Alliance. And they are not the only ones to benefit economically from the health crisis. Many companies … Read more

The bronchiolitis epidemic recedes, that of the flu persists

AFP, published on Wednesday, January 19, 2022 at 1:57 p.m. The bronchiolitis epidemic continues to decrease in France, while that of the flu persists, with regional disparities, according to the weekly report of the public health agency France. The second week of January was marked by a “continued reduction in emergency room visits and hospitalizations … Read more

Vaccines do what they are supposed to do: protect us

R. I. Madrid Updated:01/19/2022 15:26h Keep Related news “Vaccines, including vaccines against Covid-19, aim to prevent serious illness and mortality, and now we have evidence in children that vaccines against Covid-19 have done exactly what they should». That’s how explicit it is Elizabeth Mack, from American Academy of Pediatrics and principal investigator of the Medical … Read more

Against Delta, past infection protects more than vaccination, US study finds

Against the Delta variant, unvaccinated people who had previously contracted Covid-19 were better protected than people who were only vaccinated, according to a study by American health authorities published on Wednesday. Despite everything, “vaccination remains the safest strategy” against the disease, underlined the Centers for Prevention and Control of Diseases (CDC) by publishing these data. … Read more

A collective of millionaires calls for taxing the richest to finance vaccines and the fight against poverty

Published on : 19/01/2022 – 13:45 Several international organizations, including the NGO Oxfam and the Patriotic Millionaires, an organization of wealthy Americans, are participating in this appeal made public on January 19, 2022 during the World Economic Forum in Davos, which is being held online this year due to the pandemic. . In this open … Read more

“We are not going to get better protection by giving one and another dose”

What is the level of immunity necessary to protect us against the coronavirus? How many doses will be needed? “Each dose of vaccine constitutes a stimulus that forces the immune system to produce more antibodies and more specific lymphocytes against the virus,” explains Rafael Correa Rocha, from the Immuno-regulation Laboratory Gregorio Marañón Hospital in Madrid. … Read more

Soon an anti-Covid vaccine in patch? Clinical trials carried out in Switzerland

Published on : 12/01/2022 – 11:55 A patch against the Covid. The hypothesis is currently under study in Switzerland where researchers are testing a new vaccine. Easier to administer and perhaps more effective against variants, this is the bet, in any case, of the British biotech Emergex, which has just launched clinical trials in Lausanne. … Read more