Streptococcus, the demand for swabs is growing. What are the symptoms and how to treat them
Streptococcus A is a bacterium commonly found in the throat and on the skin that in most cases triggers infections with mild symptoms. One of the most common is strep throat, but impetigo, otitis media, and scarlet fever can also occur. According to the president of Fedefarma, Marco Cossolo, it is important to test children […]
Buffers galore, but the vaccine recall rate is low. Lopalco: “No more useless tests”
Sip visits and swabs to spend a few minutes together. The epidemiologist and former regional councilor for health, Pierluigi Lopalco, takes sides against the abuse of tampons at the expense of vaccines. “I continue to receive reports of enormous difficulties in visiting their elderly relatives in nursing homes and hospitals,” he explains. “Despite the ministerial […]
Covid symptoms but with negative tampons, why does it happen? The primary of Cotugno answers
In recent weeks, there are more and more cases of patients with Covid symptoms but who test negative for the swab. The phenomenon, which emerged with the new wave of infections led by the Omicron 5 variant, caught the attention of the Federation of the Medical Order which formulated three hypotheses to explain it. According […]
Covid quarantine: goodbye to seven days of isolation
It will not be removed but it could be shortened. The Regions ask the Ministry of Health to “free” from isolation those who no longer have symptoms and test negative for the swab even before 7 days. The consequences, for example on returning to work, would be easily imaginable. Today, with the Omicron 5 summer […]
“A positive for Covid? If he is asymptomatic he can even go to work “
Lucio Bomben director of the Asfo Prevention Department, he is not only in tune with the councilor for health Riccardo Riccardi on the need not to swab the asymptomatic who have had contact with a positive, but goes further and points to one line also for asymptomatic positives. «An asymptomatic positive – he explains – […]
Covid test, this is what the Coi swab is. Does it really tell us what symptoms we will have?
With the surge in Covid infections caused by the new Omicron 5 variant, the demand for rapid antigen tests is also increasing. The EU has approved over 560 different types: one of these, the Coi swab, should also detect the intensity of the viral load. But experts have many doubts about the fact that it […]
“Abolish tampons at home, that’s why”
Contagions from Covid increase, but the numbers are strongly underestimated: as pointed out by doctors and experts in recent days, in fact, there are many who have symptoms but do not swab, or do it at home without reporting themselves. And the microbiologist Andrea Crisantione of the experts on the front […]
how has the virus changed? Questions and answers
That the virus now in circulation is highly transmissible is evident from the continuous increase in infections. On the other hand, the pathogenicity, that is the ability of the omicron 4 and 5 variants to cause more or less serious disease, is what is being discussed. While it is true that most of the people […]
Covid, goodbye to tampons? Here is a patch that detects antibodies to the virus
Subscribe to our newsletter to stay up to date A special patch that is applied to the skin and which can provide a result in about three minutes. It could be the new medical device that, instead of the current swabs, allows you to check for the presence of a Sars-Cov-2 infection in a safe, […]
Omicron 2, unreliable quick swabs. Doctors: “Test valid after 48 hours of symptoms”
It is easily superimposed and lends itself to confusion, after all the symptoms are almost the same: high fever, muscle aches, sore throat. It is thought to be flu and instead it is Covid-19. The Omicron-2 variant has been circulating with greater virulence for weeks and the number of cases – despite the fact that […]