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India, the United States, Brazil and South Africa are currently experiencing the largest increases in the number of Covid-19 cases since the beginning of July. These four economic giants are still far from having reached the "peak" of the pandemic, according to experts. State of play. United States The United States, 328 million

The U.S. has purchased virtually all of the stockpile of the promising treatment that could speed the recovery of Covid-19 patients, leaving none for other countries around the world, reports The Guardian. Remdesivir is the first drug approved by the competent authorities in the United States to treat Covid-19,

We know more or less well how the Covid-19 outbreak started: probably because of bats, near Wuhan in China. What no one knows yet is how the pandemic will end. This coronavirus is unprecedented in the combination of its easy transmissibility, a series of

How the coronavirus spreads from one victim to another remains an impenetrable mystery. But in the midst of all the frantic efforts to understand the spread of the epidemic, there is one finding that seems consistent: transmission is inconsistent. Some people - most, in fact - do not

Deconfinement is progressing in most Western countries affected by the coronavirus pandemic. An unprecedented period is coming to an end, and once the astonishment is over, languages are being loosened. Some twenty-fifth hour workers are coming to give lessons and rewrite history, while others had always put in

It's an enigma that has been with us since the early days of the pandemic. Where did this coronavirus come from that turned the world upside down? Hypotheses have been put forward and everyone has put forward their own explanation: the virus comes from a bat, a pangolin, it escaped from a Chinese lab,

The need to trace the circulation of Covid-19 exposes to the four corners of the world the contradiction between two problems at the antipodes of each other. How can the dizzying dilemma between public health and fundamental freedoms be resolved? Restrictions on movement, limitation of gatherings, applications for tracing individual movements, drones of

Resuscitation, death, contamination... Almost 15 days after deconfinement, these indicators are rather positive. However, the authorities judge that it is too early to draw conclusions. And this, despite the opinion of scientists who no longer hesitate to say that the Covid-19 epidemic is behind us. Especially since there is news

Sanofi, by announcing that the United States would be the first to distribute a potential vaccine against Covid-19, provoked anger and indignation. COVID-19 has no nation or ethnicity. If the pandemic is not monitored in one country, it will accelerate beyond the borders of that country.

There is every indication that the coronavirus that is shaking the world could establish itself as an endemic virus, present for a long time, with seasonal peaks in virulence. In this hypothesis, medical experts fear that there may not be enough vaccine for everyone. According to the scientists, it would be necessary to vaccinate

Everyone will be exposed to the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) coronavirus 2, and most people will be infected. Johan Giesecke, the epidemiologist behind Sweden's non-containment strategy, explains in an article published in the medical journal The Lancet the value of choosing herd immunity in his country. He

This coronavirus will have been the revelation of all possible transgressions. Who would have thought only three months ago that a virus from the end of the world would have been able to lock up half of humanity, stop the economy, empty cities, empty shops, and make it rain - in defiance of all the

We know the opinion of the French on the state of the public hospital: 88% of them consider it to be in "danger" and 94% are in favour of increasing the means. Thus, to improve the operation of the public hospital, 87 % suggest more staff and 77 % more budget.

The Covid-19 outbreak that has spread around the world is putting societies and governments around the world to the test. Currently, there is no drug or vaccine available to fight the emerging SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes the disease. Moreover, since no human being

Researchers from the École des Hautes Études de la Santé Publique (EHESP) presented an article on their site estimating that just over 60,000 deaths would have been avoided thanks to containment. This work has been widely commented on in the press and has not been published.

In England, Italy and also in France, an unusual influx of children admitted to intensive care units for severe inflammation of the heart tissue and coronary arteries led paediatricians to issue an alert. Doctors are surprised by this abnormal influx of young patients, some of whom are being tested.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared it: the COVID-19 epidemic is an international public health emergency. A global pandemic evolving into a global economic crisis, which unfortunately disproportionately affects the most vulnerable populations around the world. And among the most affected, the most