Advisory groups around the world release guidance to prioritize health-care workers and those in front-line jobs.
Whether it takes weeks, as US President Donald Trump has hinted, or months, as most health-care experts expect, an approved vaccine against the coronavirus is coming, and it’s hotly anticipated. Still, it will initially be in short supply while manufacturers scale up production. As the pandemic continues to put millions at risk daily, including health-care workers, older people...

We're now more than seven months into the coronavirus pandemic that has upended the lives of most of Earth's inhabitants. And while it is true that the scientific community has learned many things about the SARS-CoV-2 virus and the disease it causes, Covid-19, there are also many gaps in our understanding.
One big mystery: Why do some people get very sick and even die from their illness, while other similar people show no symptoms and may not realize they've been infected at all?We kno...

Edición genética con CRISPR y estudios de serovigilancia, nuevos informes del Grupo ISCIII de Análisis sobre Coronavirus

El Grupo de Análisis Científico sobre Coronavirus del ISCIII ha publicado dos nuevos informes, sobre los posibles usos de la tecnología CRISPR de edición genética y sobre el desarrollo de estudios de serovigilancia epidemiológica, que como en casos anteriores incluyen un resumen divulgativo y un texto completo de carácter científico-técnico.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has drastically accelerated the need for the advancement of healthcare’s digital transformation. The obligation to stay at home caused by the pandemic has sped up the transition from to face-to-face work to remote work through the use of digital technologies and web resources.

Reliance on technology has negatively affected human attention, decision-making capacity, and emotional wellbeing - added to increased tension and lack of concentration. 31% of primary c...

As lockdowns ease, thermal imaging cameras are popping up in all sorts of public places to assess the state of people's health. In this report you will find some tips regarding thermal imaging cameras. 


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The following is a brief roundup of some of the latest scientific studies on the novel coronavirus and efforts to find treatments and vaccines for COVID-19, the illness caused by the virus.


Convalescent plasma disappoints in Chinese trial

Hydroxychloroquine fails to protect against infection in key trial


Timing, location of sample may impact coronavirus test results

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Questions raised over study claiming drug linked to higher rate of mortality and heart problems in Covid-19 patients

The World Health Organization will resume clinical trials of an anti-malaria drug researchers hope may treat Covid-19, after a study of the drug published in May by a major medical journal prompted them to halt trials due to safety concerns.

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The increased use of antibiotics to combat the Covid-19 pandemic will strengthen bacterial resistance and ultimately lead to more deaths during the crisis and beyond, the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned.



WHO director general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Monday that a “worrying number” of bacterial infections were becoming increasingly resistant to the medicines traditionally used to treat them.



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Manila’s 12 million residents to enjoy free movement as daily infections pass 500; Mumbai’s hospital close to collapse; South Korea records dozens more cases. 



The Philippines president has announced plans to ease one of longest and toughest coronavirus lockdowns in the world despite the country seeing its biggest daily spike in cases since the pandemic began.
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Experts in health policy are contending with the real possibility that the United States will pull away from the World Health Organization (WHO), fracturing a relationship that began in the wake of the Second World War.

They say that the repercussions could range from a resurgence of polio and malaria, to barriers in the flow of information on COVID-19. Scientific partnerships around the world would also be damaged, and the United States could lose influence over global health init...

Pan American Health Organization warns of ‘very tough’ weeks ahead; US approaches 100,000 deaths; New Zealand has fifth day with no cases. 



The Americas have emerged as the new centre of the coronavirus pandemic, the World Health Organization (WHO) has said, as a US study forecast deaths surging in Brazil and other Latin American countries through August.

“Now is not the time for countries to ease restrictions,” Carissa Etienne, WHO director for the Americas and head...

The coronavirus pandemic will have a “disastrous” impact on children’s rights worldwide, making them more vulnerable to forced labour and underage marriage, a rights group has said, as the World Health Organization warned of an “immediate second peak” in cases if restrictions were lifted too soon.

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