Simultaneous Vaccination against Flu and COVID-19 in Catalonia: Updates and Plans

Simultaneous Vaccination against Flu and COVID-19 in Catalonia: Updates and Plans

Catalonia The campaign began this Tuesday simultaneous vaccination against flu and covid-19 and he has done it in the residences. In this first phase, which will last three weeks, elderly people living in nursing homes, patients with home care and other institutionalized people will be immunized. Left out, for the moment and waiting for more … Read more

“Join the E-SPERANZA Project: Testing a New Treatment for Persistent Covid Symptoms”

The Foundation University Institute for Research in Primary Health Care Jordi Gol i Gurina (IDIAPJGoals) search volunteers with persistent covid infected in the last year and continue with breathing difficulties, to test the effectiveness of a drug which is currently used against asma. Its about E-SPERANZA projectpromoted by the South Metropolitan Research Support Unit together … Read more

Elderly Confinement for Three Years: Spain Reports Up to 15 Daily Covid Deaths as Virus Continues to Worsen.

Just three years ago today, the March 14, 2020, Spain decreed a home confinement to the entire population. First for 15 days, but finally they became about two months. In the social imaginary, the covid-19 pandemic is behind us, but epidemiologists warn that this is not the case: in spain is still the notifiable disease … Read more

Catalonia will vaccinate the entire population in CAPS with the fourth dose starting this Monday

Primary care is already suffering from the current triple epidemic: bronchiolitis (down), coronavirus and influenza (on the rise) Salut closes the Fira de Barcelona vaccination point, ​​opened in April 2021 for mass immunization of the population Catalonia will start vaccinating with the fourth dose of vaccine against covid-19 for children under 60 From next Monday. … Read more

Catalans over 60 will be able to make an appointment to be vaccinated against Covid and the flu from 10 October

From next Monday, Catalans over 60 will be able to request an appointment at the reference clinics to receive the fourth dose of the Covid vaccine in conjunction with the flu vaccine, which should return to pre-pandemic levels this year. The coronavirus vaccine that will be inoculated is adapted to the dominant variant of the … Read more

Spain is getting ready for autumn with four new “anticovid” vaccines.

S second generation anticovid vaccines I’m already here. I am up to date drugs against the new variants, primarily against ómicron, and this will improve the non-negligible defense that conventional vaccines now supply, all those designed by the primary variant, that of Wuhan. just a couple of times ago, The British isles has approved the … Read more

Latest number of coronavirus cases

The covid continues the downward trend for the fifth consecutive week, but there are still 1,024 people admitted in Catalan hospitals, 33 of which are seriously ill in the ICUs, according to the latest epidemiological data for the week of July 31 to August 7. Related news The Department of Health has informed this Tuesday … Read more

A summer of infections pending the fourth vaccine

The covid-19 begins, again, to be a problem in hospitals. Before him infection boom, Specially in older than 60 years, Catalonia asks the Ministry of Health put the fourth doses in those over 80. Health had planned to administer them from autumn. There are also experts, such as the CSIC immunologist Margaret of Val, who … Read more

The easy recontagion of those infected with omicron raises the imminence of the seventh wave

The omicron variant of the coronavirus contains in itself a great benefit and at the same time a great obstacle. Although on the one hand it causes a essentially mild disease, for another generates a poor immune response in the individual. It means that this can be easily reinfect. Says the Head of the Infectious … Read more

Immune coronavirus | Haven’t you caught covid in two years? These could be the reasons

One of the theories put forward by scientists to explain why some people have managed to dodge the infection has to do with the innate immunity: the first barrier that our body forges to deal with external ‘threats’. “There are people who have this first barrier of Much more resistant ‘immunological machinery’ than the rest. … Read more