COVID-19 em 2020

30 julho 2020

OMS: Hydroxychloroquine and COVID-19

Q&A : Hydroxychloroquine and COVID-19: hydroxychloroquine does not result in the reduction of mortality of hospitalised COVID-19 patients, when compared with standard of care.

Coronavirus and hydroxychloroquine: What do we know?

Coronavirus and hydroxychloroquine: What do we know? But despite some early studies raising hopes, one subsequent larger scale trial has shown it's not effective as a treatment.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has halted its trials, saying that the drug doesn't reduce death rates in patients with coronavirus.

How Covid-19 Could Give Kim Jong Un a Doomsday Weapon

How Covid-19 Could Give Kim Jong Un a Doomsday Weapon: North Korea’s secrecy makes it hard to know anything definitive about the state of its bioweapons program.

The Race for a Coronavirus Vaccine

The Race for a Coronavirus Vaccine: Latest Update & Developments: Rarely has the fate of the world depended on an international competition like the one for a Covid-19 vaccine. It's a race against time, it's a race to save lives, it's a race for glory. Trials are underway.

How Long Does Coronavirus Last in the Body?

How Long Does Coronavirus Last in the Body? “There are probably all sorts of stages in the middle between the acute
infection and the persistent infection, and it’s not just an academic
armchair pursuit. It may actually make a difference in terms of
understanding disease.”

Strengthening Privacy Protections in COVID-19 Mobile Phone–Enhanced Surveillance Programs

Strengthening Privacy Protections in COVID-19 Mobile Phone–Enhanced Surveillance Programs: Facilitated by a trove of technology-based data sources—in particular, the data generated from the widespread use of mobile phones—these public health surveillance programs could prove especially valuable for preventing successive waves of infections as quarantine orders are relaxed and economies reopen.