Epidemiological studies suggest that the world's oldest vaccine, the BCG used against tuberculosis, may reduce the risk of coronavirus infection as well as the risk of severe forms of Covid-19 disease. Professor Camille Locht, director of INSERM research at the Pasteur Institute in Lille, France, is the author of this study.
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The United States has taken the option of having hundreds of millions of doses of vaccine manufactured, even before clinical trials have begun. They want to be ready for the market before others are. A risk in the form of a poker strike.
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British American Tobacco, the manufacturer of cigarette brands such as Lucky Strike, Dunhill, Rothmans and Benson & Hedges, said a potential vaccine against coronavirus was being developed from tobacco plants. According to the firm, tobacco plants cannot, by their nature, be used to produce a vaccine,
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Faced with the coronavirus and the containment it causes, Gallimard publishes one or two "Crisis leaflets" every day, free of charge, signed by the House's leading figures such as Erik Orsenna, Sylvain Tesson, Cynthia Fleury, Régis Debray and Danièle Sallenave, in order to reflect on the questions raised by the coronavirus and the containment it causes.
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What could a world organized in an ecological way look like? It is from this challenge that Wildproject editions proposes in free access Marin Schaffner's book, "Un sol commun : Lutter, Habiter, Penser". This pedagogical and radical book allows to understand all that ecology is in
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Faced with the coronavirus and the containment that it causes, Gallimard publishes one or two "Crisis leaflets" every day, free of charge, signed by some of the House's leading figures such as Erik Orsenna, Sylvain Tesson, Cynthia Fleury, Régis Debray and Danièle Sallenave, in order to reflect on the questions raised by the epidemic.
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Disruptions in agricultural commodity markets, lack of arms in the fields, inadequate protection of food workers against coronavirus: in a rare joint statement, the leaders of the three multilateral organizations responsible for food, health and trade, FAO, WHO and WTO, warn against
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In the midst of the crisis, Europe is in a state of shock. Italy, Spain and France, in particular, are experiencing an extremely deep sadness and a sense of powerlessness to help the most vulnerable, and in particular the elderly in our societies, despite health and social care systems that have been weakened by the crisis.
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This epidemic is forcing us to come back to the obvious: life is unique. This concept of "global health" is being developed all over the world, at the WHO (World Health Organization) as well as at the Pasteur Institute, notably with Professor Arnaud Fontanet. If the environment is bad, how do animals
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The first evidence of an alarming number of pneumonias in Wuhan, China, emerged in early January 2020. Since then, the epidemic has continued to spread across the globe, taking a toll on governments, health professionals and public opinion. Also creating an unprecedented health shock
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Since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, the statistics have been consistent: the vast majority of children and young people under the age of 18 are either spared the disease or develop asymptomatic or mild forms. As the pandemic increases around the world,
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Individuals with Covid-19 show a wide variety of symptoms, ranging from a complete absence of clinical signs to critical conditions such as acute respiratory distress syndrome. However, patients' condition evolves over time, sometimes unexpectedly or even abruptly, which complicates management.
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The pandemic, which is forcing more than three billion people to remain confined to their homes, seems to have come as a surprise, like a plague fallen from the sky. Most of the leaders of the states that govern us swear by their hearts that this pandemic is a unique, unprecedented, and unprecedented event of a "global nature".
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According to Jean-François Toussaint, professor of physiology at the University of Paris, the epidemic peak would have occurred on Saturday in Italy. The curve of acceleration of the daily number of new deaths and the curve of acceleration of the daily number of deaths indicate a very clear inflection. Taking into account the respective evolution of the Italian curves
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The names of these promising drugs to treat COVID-19 patients are beginning to become known to the public: Remdesivir, Ritonavir, Lopinavir and of course the most talked about, Chloroquine. These four promising treatments will be the subject of a major global study by the World Health Organization.
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The COVID-19 pandemic is forcing our society to make choices of a magnitude and intensity whose consequences cannot yet be measured. While it is certainly justified to base decisions on the expertise of scientists, the crucial trade-offs are a political responsibility. In the area of public health, they constitute a
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The Assembly votes on the article on the state of health emergency. Adopted by a show of hands after several hours of discussion, the article provides that a state of public health emergency, which makes it possible to restrict public freedoms (confinement, requisitioning, etc.), must be introduced as soon as the law comes into force, and for two months. This article provides, in particular, for
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Confinement means giving up our freedom to move, to meet and to trade. It means preserving ourselves, a necessary measure to slow the exponential progression of coronavirus contamination. With his epidemiological crisis leaflet, Bernard Umbrecht offers us a moment of joyful curiosity about the definition of the word "coronavirus".
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The world is facing a coronavirus epidemic. In an attempt to stop the spread of the virus, governments are taking steps to limit contacts and activities. As part of this effort, UCLouvain is launching an extensive survey to find out how and how containment affects the psychological and social well-being of the
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Bad news is piling up day after day about the global evolution of the coronavirus. Confinements are taking hold in the daily lives of hundreds of millions of people on every continent. Everybody's lives have changed in a matter of handfuls of days. Priorities have been turned upside down and everyone is faced with
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