Covid-19
As of 31 August 2021, there have
been 1,500,618 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Bangladesh, reported to WHO, and
a total of 26,535,211 vaccine doses have been administered. An important question emerges: if
infected, are we protected? There has been considerable discussion over the
past 4 months on COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness, but what is th...
Food and Drug Administration
advisory committee (US FDA) unanimously recommend the third shots to people age
65 and older and those at a high risk of suffering from severe illness if they
get the coronavirus.
Rejected a proposal to distribute
booster/third shots of Pfizer and BioNTech’s Covid-19 vaccine to the General Public. RemoveA...
This WHO Therapeutics and COVID-19: living guideline now includes two recommendations regarding the combination of neutralizing monoclonal antibodies, Casirivimab and Imdevimab: a conditional recommendation in favour of use in non-severe patients (the condition being patients’ risk of severe disease: patients at highest risk represent good candidat...
Current recommendations from the Joint
Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) UK and the Royal College of
Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) state that, all
pregnant women should be offered the COVID-19 vaccine at the same time as the
rest of the population, based on their age and clinical risk group.Vaccination is the best way t...
This Practice Advisory was
developed by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists’
Immunization, Infectious Disease, and Public Health Preparedness Expert Work
Group.The American College of
Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) recommends that pregnant
individuals should have access to COVID-19 vaccines.
While limited, cu...
Having a comprehensive
understanding of the transmission patterns of SARS-CoV-2
is necessary for the successful implementation of these public health
measures.For example, obtaining
information about when individuals with SARS-CoV-2 are most likely to spread
the virus may guide decisions about the duration of contact tracing an...
Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19)
Guidelines of Bangladesh.
The guidelines for the diagnosis,
treatment, and control of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19).
Gamaleya Research Institute of Russia on August 11 became the first
country in the world to have registered a vaccine against the coronavirus - Sputnik V which is Adeno-based Non-replicating
viral vector. It is a combination of two adenoviruses, Ad5 and Ad26, both
engineered with a coronavirus gene.
“The vaccination of first...
The U.S. Food and Drug
Administration issued an emergency use authorization (EUA) for
bamlanivimab and etesevimab administered together for the treatment of mild to
moderate COVID-19.
In a clinical trial of patients
with COVID-19 at high risk for disease progression, a single intravenous
infusion of bamlanivimab and etesevimab administe...
The COVID-19 pandemic has presented challenges in management and
follow-up in common respiratory diseases such as asthma.
This review will discuss the current recommendations regarding asthma and
COVID-19 based on best available evidence at this time. RemoveAvailable Brand
Oxford researchers say having
AstraZeneca then Pfizer vaccine is almost as potent as two shots of Pfizer.Scientists in Oxford looked at
the impact of a mix-and-match approach to vaccinations where people were given
either the standard two shots of Oxford/AstraZeneca or Pfizer/BioNTech
vaccine, or a combination of the two. Mixed schedules involv...
More good news! In addition to last week’s announcement of very high (90%) COVID-19 vaccine efficacy emerging from the first interim analysis of a phase 3 trial [1], we received word that a second vaccine had similar initial efficacy at 94.5%.[2] Both of these candidates use an mRNA platform, a novel approach to human vaccines. Th...
