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

“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.

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

Covid-19 indicators continue to drop in Spain after Christmas

Covid-19 indicators continue to drop in Spain after Christmas

The indicators that measure the spread of COVID-19 in Spain they continue stable and decreasing after the Christmas festivities, with 3,505 patients admitted linked to infection “with or by” covid-19, which translates into a 2.7% hospital occupancy and a downward incidence of 124 cases per 100,000 inhabitants. According to the data of the Ministry of … Read more

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

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

neutralizes omicron variants and its immunity is “longer” than existing ones

neutralizes omicron variants and its immunity is “longer” than existing ones

In the midst of a debate about when is the ideal time to administer the fourth dose (second booster) of the vaccine against him coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, the cause of covid-19, the Spanish company Hyper presents the results of the most recent scientific studies on its efficacy as a “heterologous booster”, that is, as a booster … Read more

A summer of infections pending the fourth vaccine

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 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

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