Plano da Saúde para o Outono-Inverno 2020-21 - DGS

Plano da Saúde para o Outono-Inverno 2020-21: O Ministério da Saúde apresentou hoje o Plano da Saúde para o Outono-Inverno 2020-21, uma estratégia que visa dar resposta não só à pandemia, mas a todas as necessidades em saúde da população.

COVID-19: aumenta número de internados mas mantém-se proporção face aos ativos

COVID-19: aumenta número de internados mas mantém-se proporção face aos ativos: Até 20 de setembro de 2020, foram registados um total de 68 577 casos confirmados da doença em Portugal. Destes, 45 596 (ou seja, 66.5%), já recuperou, havendo um total de 1912 óbitos, o que equivale a 2.8% do total de infetados.

COVID-19 data scandal prompts tweaks to elite journal’s review process

COVID-19 data scandal prompts tweaks to elite journal’s review process: The now-retracted study, published in May, relied on data from the small Chicago-based company Surgisphere, which purported to have collected and analyzed patient records from hundreds of hospitals around the world. But the paper’s central claim—that antimalarial drugs increased COVID-19 patients’ risk of death—quickly unraveled as observers questioned the study’s large sample size and details about patient demographics and dosing. The Lancet retracted the paper when Surgisphere declined to make underlying data available for an independent audit. The same day, The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) retracted another study using Surgisphere data, which found that certain blood pressure drugs didn’t increase risk of death from COVID-19.

Top stories on the coronavirus pandemic, 22 September

COVID-19: Top stories on the coronavirus pandemic, 22 September: Top stories: South Korea flu vaccine troubles; grim milestones for Mexico and the US; restrictions are relaxed in Bogota; Disneyland Hong Kong reopens.

Income inequality and the welfare state during COVID-19

Income inequality and the welfare state during COVID-19: The economic crisis from the COVID-19 pandemic may disproportionately affect the most vulnerable segments of the population, creating serious challenges for social cohesion and political stability. This column constructs a high-frequency measure of income inequality using anonymised data from bank records on the wages and public transfers of over three million account holders in Spain. Wage inequality increased by almost 30% during the COVID-19 crisis, mainly due to job losses and wage cuts for low-income workers. However, public transfers were very effective at offsetting most, though not all, of this increase.

Experts explain the two most common and confusing questions about Covid-19

Experts explain the two most common and confusing questions about Covid-19: Thirty-four percent of Inverse's survey respondents thought the public was still the most confused about mask effectiveness. That was followed by 26 percent of people, who believed that the asymptomatic spread of the virus was especially perplexing.

Making an apocalypse out of a pandemic

Making an apocalypse out of a pandemic: The great 20th-century pandemics, comparable in so many ways to their 21st-century heir, accounted for myriad private tragedies. Yet, unlike this novel coronavirus, their public, political significance was negligible. They were treated as public-health challenges, problems for clinicians, virologists and epidemiologists. And there were arguments at the time that more should have been done to mitigate their harm. But there was no sense of a world ending. No talk of a new normal. No attempt, that is, to reorganise the entirety of societal life around the threat they posed.