Vaccination is an important part of family and public health, because vaccines do prevent the spread of contagious, dangerous, and deadly diseases.
All of us, being on the eye storm of COVID 19 pandemic we must act proactive through our behavior. At the same time, scientist all over the world are working to develop a suitable vaccine to prevent the disease to spread in the future.
We continuously monitor the COVID-19 virus pandemic. There are currently no approved therapies or vaccines to treat COVID-19 and any reference to our services providing protection against or helping to treat any medical illness, including COVID-19, is in violation of our policy and is strictly prohibited. We encourage everyone to practice COVID-19 prevention measures.
COVID-19 is a precedent-shattering monster of a pandemic. There’s never been anything quite like it.
Historians of public health have struggled mightily to find apt comparisons to our current pandemic. They’ve landed most often on the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918. On the surface,...
It’s still early days for 2 coronavirus vaccine candidates, but trial results published yesterday in The Lancet earned promising (though qualified) results.
The first vaccine, developed by Oxford University and AstraZeneca and sporting the catchy name of ChAdOx1 nCoV-19, safely generated...
WHO is enlisting an independent panel to evaluate its global COVID-19 response, the agency announced yesterday.
The evaluation, the WHO emphasized, is a response to a request from member states in May—not to scrutiny from the US, whose President Trump has accused the agency of kowtowing...
Frontline health workers report a frustrating return to shortages of protective gear.
The White House’s suggestion? Reuse their face masks and personal protective equipment, reports Fox News, citing Vice President Mike Pence’s comments yesterday.
National Nurses United expressed...
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is an infectious disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2).
Coronavirus around the world, also known as:
The COVID19 virus affects different people in different ways. COVID-19 is a respiratory disease and most infected people will develop mild to moderate coronavirus disease symptoms and recover without requiring special treatment. People who have underlying medical conditions and those over 60...
To prevent infection and to slow transmission of the new coronavirus (COVID-19), do the following:
Treatment of Coronavirus disease 2019 is mainly supportive care, which may include fluid, oxygen support, and supporting other affected vital organs. The WHO and CDC recommend that those who suspect they carry the virus wear a simple face mask. Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) has been...
