Senior Interventional Cardiologist
Senior Interventional Cardiologist
Articles written during the COVID-19 pandemic on vaccines, treatment protocols and new variants, with attention to what the infection means for patients with heart disease. Some guidance reflects the time of writing; check current recommendations.
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is defined as illness caused by a novel coronavirus now called severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2; formerly called 2019-nCoV), which was first identified amid an outbreak of respiratory illness cases in Wuhan City, Hubei…
On 26 November 2021, WHO designated the variant B.1.1.529 a variant of concern, named Omicron, on the advice of WHO’s Technical Advisory Group on Virus Evolution (TAG-VE). This decision was based on the evidence presented to the TAG-VE that Omicron has several mutations that may have an…
Introduction The development of a safe and effective vaccine against severe acute respiratory syndrome-coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) is critical for ensuring worldwide public health, as well as potentially ending the coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Four vaccine candidates have finished or are currently…
