Tag Archives: Covid-19

F8 studio/Shutterstock Carmen Álvarez Domínguez, UNIR – Universidad Internacional de La Rioja El reciente anuncio de Oxford suspendiendo el ensayo clínico con la vacuna para SARS-CoV-2 debido a un efecto adverso denominado Mellitis transversa, una inflamación de la médula espinal, tras un análisis rutinario de un voluntario vacunado, es una buena noticia por varias razones. Primero, refleja que las agencias …

Jack Parkin, Western Sydney University A banknote has been sitting in my wallet for six months now. As time ticks on, it burns an ever greater hole in my pocket. At first I felt uneasy spending it, following COVID-19 warnings to pay more attention to hand hygiene and the surfaces we all touch on a daily basis. Now I have …

Shutterstock Paul Gill, Monash University y Menno van Zelm, Monash University The Oxford vaccine trial at the centre of safety concerns this week highlights the idea that people’s immune systems respond to vaccines differently. We don’t yet know whether reports of immune complications in one or two trial participants have been linked to the COVID-19 vaccine itself, or if they …

Shutterstock / Harvepino Ángeles Sánchez Díez, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid y Laura Pérez Ortiz, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid La integración regional en América Latina vive un momento decisivo ante los importantes retos del futuro más inmediato. Si ya antes de la pandemia el escenario económico y social latinoamericano no era bueno, ahora ha empeorado. Los organismos internacionales estiman importantes caídas …

Hudeide: a monumental musician who uplifted Somali life Al Eyad/Flickr Ahmed I Samatar, Macalester College There are many attributes that capture Somali identity, however none seem so deep and abiding as these two: constant hyper anxiety over scarce rainfall, and uncommon talent in poetic composition and artistic performance. The first underscores the ecological brittleness of the Sahel landscape; the latter …

Anne Moore, University College Cork President Vladimir Putin recently announced that a team of Russian scientists had developed a COVID-19 vaccine and that it had been approved for use by the regulators – at least, in Russia. However, the announcement caused consternation among scientists and clinicians in the rest of the world as human trials for the vaccine – nicknamed …

Watering plants in Ethioipa: how young lives have been affected by COVID-19. © Young Lives / Mulugeta Gebrekidan Marta Favara, University of Oxford; Alan Sánchez, University of Oxford; Catherine Porter, Lancaster University, and Douglas Scott, University of Oxford For many young people around the world, the economic effects of lockdown policies have been more significant than the health impacts of …

Dominique Costagliola, Inserm; Ignacio López-Goñi, Universidad de Navarra y Jasmina Panovska-Griffiths, UCL En toda Europa, desde Luxemburgo hasta Croacia, los casos de coronavirus están empezando a aumentar en países que anteriormente habían conseguido controlar la propagación de la enfermedad. Países como España, Francia y Alemania están registrando un aumento significativo en el número de personas con la enfermedad. La mayoría …