Las búsquedas en internet predicen brotes del virus ejecentral.com.mx - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from ejecentral.com.mx Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
You’re not feeling well so you open a search engine and type: fever, dry cough, hoping to find hints of what you may have. A handful of days later, you’re feeling worse, and you type in: trouble breathing. It turns out you’re not the only one who’s doing this, and a Harvard senior’s research project suggests that tracking the results of all those searches can tell us something about the progression of a new disease in individuals and through a population.
Tina Lu, a Leverett House computer science concentrator, analyzed search engine data from Google Trends going back to the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic to see how well symptom searches in 32 countries on six continents matched the clinical symptoms of COVID-19 and whether the number of searches served as a harbinger of rising incidence of cases.
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Several weeks following the publication of the large real-world Covid-19 vaccine effectiveness study by the Clalit Research Institute in Collaboration with Harvard University in the
New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), additional results focusing on vaccine effectiveness in specific sub-populations have now been published.
While the original publication demonstrated the effectiveness of the Pfizer-BioNTech mRNA vaccine in the general population, outstanding questions remained regarding vaccine effectiveness in specific sub-populations of interest, including the elderly, multi-morbid individuals, and individuals with specific prevalent chronic conditions.
The new study also took place in Israel and evaluated data on approximately 1,400,000 Clalit members, with extended follow-up time compared to the previous study, and additional subpopulations. The advanced methodologies employed meticulous individual matching techniques to enable an as-clean-as-possible analysis
WASHINGTON: A real world study of 1.2 million in Israel on the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine showed that drug to be 94% effective against the virus reaffirming faith in the power of mass immunization campaigns to end the coronavirus pandemic.
The good news came as Ghana became the first country to receive shots under the global COVAX scheme, paving the way for poorer nations to catch up with wealthier parts of the world.
The Israeli study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, also demonstrated there is likely a strong protective benefit against infection, a crucial element in breaking onward transmission.
“This is the first peer-reviewed large scale evidence for the effectiveness of a vaccine in real world conditions,” Ben Reis, a researcher at Harvard Medical School and one of the paper’s authors, told
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