Covid-hit now battling a rare fungal infection

AHMEDABAD: The fight for survival has got tougher for coronavirus patients with doctors reporting an alarming incidence of mucormycosis — a rare and serious fungal infection with 50% mortality rate — preying on patients battling Covid-19 or those who recently recovered. Ahmedabad-based retina and ocular trauma surgeon Dr Parth Rana has reported mucormycosis in five men suffering from coronavirus, wherein two patients died while two survived with vision loss. Of them, four were aged between 34 and 47, while the fifth was a 67-year-old from Bhuj who was rushed to Ahmedabad in a critical condition late Friday. All reported enlarged eyeballs that bulged out of their sockets. ....read more

CMAAO Coronavirus Facts and Myth Buster: Sweden and COVID-19

1195: HCFI Round Table Expert Zoom Meeting on “COVID-19 virus is infectious for 10 days in human body as per reports, so why quarantine/isolate for 14-17 days?” 5th December, 2020, 11am-12pm,Participants: Dr KK Aggarwal, Dr JA Jayalal, Dr Jayakrishnan Alapet, Dr YK Gupta, Dr Vikas Manchanda, Dr Anita Arora, Dr Anita Chakravarti, Dr Ashok Gupta, Mr Bejon Misra, Dr Suresh Mittal, Ms Upasana Arora, Mr Vivek Kumar, Dr KK Kalra, Ms Ira Gupta, Dr S Sharma Consensus Statement of HCFI Expert Round Table, CDC guidelines on discontinuing home isolation (3.12.20):Persons with COVID-19 who have symptoms and were directed to care for themselves at home may discontinue isolation under the following conditions: At least 10 days have passed since symptom onset and at least 24 hours have passed since resolution of fever without the use of fever-reducing medications and other symptoms have improved. ....read more

World COVID Meter 12th December, Acute manageable immunogenic thrombogenic inflammatory viral disease pandemic

Cases: 1M April 2, 2M April 15, 3M April 27, 4M May 8, 5M May 20, 6M May 30, 7M June 7, 8M June 15, 9M June 22, 10M June 29th, 11M July 4, 12M July 8, 13M July 13, 14M July 17, 15M July 23, 16M July 25, 17M July 29, 18M August 1, 19M August 6, 20M August 10, 21M August 16, 22M August 19, 23M August 21, 24M August 27, 25M August 30, 26M September 3, 27M September 7, 28M September 10, 29M September 14, 30M September 18, 31M September 21, 32M September 23, 33M September 28, 34M October 1, 35M October 4, 36M October 8, 37M October 11, 38M October 14, 39M October 17, 40M October 19, 41M October 22, 42M October 24, 43M October 26, 44M October 28, 45M October 30, 46M November 2, 47M November 4, 48M November 6, 49M November 7, 50M November 8, 51M November 10, 52M November 12, 53M November 14, 54M November 15, 55M November 17, 56M November 19, 57M November 20, 58M November 22, 59M November 24, 60M November 25, 61M November 27, 62M November 29, 63M December 1, 64M December 2, 65M December 4, 66M December 6, 67M December 7, 68M December 9, 69M December 10, 70M December 12 Ground Zero: Wuhan - in live animal market or cafeteria for animal pathogens: 10th January; Total cases are based on RT PCR, 67% sensitivity Coronavirus Cases: 71,414,034 Deaths: 1,600,360,Recovered: 49,598,148,ACTIVE CASES 20,215,526,Currently Infected Patients 20,108,957 (99.5%) in Mild Condition ....read more

Relieve Stress by Changing the Interpretation

Stress is the reaction of the body or the mind to the interpretation of a known situation. Stress management, therefore, involves either changing the situation, changing the interpretation or taming the body the yogic way in such a way that stress does not affect the body. Every situation has two sides. Change of interpretation means looking at the other side of the situation. It is something like half glass of water, which can be interpreted as half empty or half full. ....read more

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COVID-19 vaccine: Serum Institute to make 10 crore doses each month from next year

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Serum Institute of India plans to make up to 10 crore doses of coronavirus vaccine each month, starting next year, said chief executive officer Adar Poonawalla. Pune-based drugmaker partnered with global pharma giant AstraZeneca to produce COVID-19 vaccine by University of Oxford for low-and-middle income countries. Dubbed as Covishield, the COVID-19 vaccine is currently in the Phase III clinical trial in India. In an interview with The Associated Press, Poonawalla revealed that the pharma major is increasing its production capacity by the end of 2021 to over 250 crore doses a year to cope with future disease outbreaks. Poonawallas company now has an annual capacity of 150 crore doses.

Sanofi, GSK COVID-19 vaccine rollout delayed on low immune response in older adults

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French pharma major Sanofi and British multinational pharma company GSK have said their COVID-19 vaccines will not be ready before the end of 2021. The announcement came after interim results showed their vaccine candidate generated low immune response among older adults. "Sanofi and GSK announce a delay in their adjuvanted recombinant protein-based COVID-19 vaccine programme to improve immune response in the elderly," a statement by GSK said, adding the final rollout of its vaccine has now been delayed from mid-2021 to Q4 2021. GSK said the phase 1/2 interim results showed an immune response comparable to patients who recovered from COVID-19 in adults aged 18 to 49 years. "A recent challenge study in non-human primates performed with an improved antigen formulation demonstrated that the vaccine candidate could protect against lung pathology and lead to rapid viral clearance from the nasal passages and lungs, within 2 to 4 days. These results increase the companys confidence in the capacity of the adjuvanted recombinant platform to deliver a highly efficient vaccine for all adults," said the company.

Indian doctors strike to save “modern medicine” from a risky fusion with alternative medicine

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Doctors in India have become the latest group to protest against the Narendra Modi government’s policies. The Indian Medical Association (IMA), an apex body of doctors in India, has called for a nationwide strike today (Dec. 11) to express its opposition of the government’s decision to allow Ayurvedic practitioners to perform medical surgeries. “We stood up for India, lost 700 doctors to Covid. Your turn now to save modern medicine from mixopathy,” a newspaper ad by the IMA said.

India coronavirus: The trauma and pain of being a Covid doctor

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A patient suffering from a long-term effect of Covid-19 in India begged her doctor to take her off the ventilator because she didnt want to live any longer. The woman had recovered from a severe bout of the infection after spending a month in critical care in summer and returned home, on oxygen. A month later, she was readmitted to Pandit Bhagwat Dayal Sharma Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences in Rohtak, some 90km (55 miles) from the capital, Delhi. She was suffering from lung fibrosis, an irreversible effect of Covid-19, where fragile parts of the lungs become damaged even after the infection is gone.