π Updated guidelines on the management of multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children associated with #COVID19bit.ly/3l0vZQW
The updated guidelines recommend the use of corticosteroids in hospitalized children (aged 0-18 years) with this condition, in addition to supportive treatment and care bit.ly/3l0vZQW
Multisystem inflammatory syndrome is a rare but serious condition where children with #COVID19 develop inflammation affecting different organs of the body bit.ly/3l0vZQW
Children with multisystem inflammatory syndrome need specialized care & may need to be admitted to intensive care.
Although this syndrome is a serious condition, with the right medical care, children with this condition can recover bit.ly/3l0vZQW
@DrTedros "Last week, more than 60% of all reported cases and deaths from #COVID19 globally were once again in Europe. The sheer number of cases is translating to unsustainable pressure on health systems and exhausted #healthworkers"-@DrTedros
@DrTedros "In many countries and communities, we are concerned about a false sense of security that vaccines have ended the #COVID19 pandemic, and that people who are vaccinated do not need to take any other precautions"-@DrTedros
WHO & @MedsPatentPool announce the first transparent, global, non-exclusive licence for a #COVID19 technology, after finalizing a licensing agreement with @CSIC for a COVID-19 serological antibody technology.
The test effectively checks for the presence of anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibodies developed either in response to an infection or to a vaccine. This represents the first test licence signed by @MedsPatentPool & included in WHOβs #COVID19 Technology Access Pool
The aim of the licence is to facilitate the rapid manufacture and commercialization of @CSICβs #COVID19 serological test worldwide. The agreement covers all related patents and the biological material necessary for manufacture of the test.
Those rebuilding their lives after road traffic crashes and their families deserve appropriate medical, psychological, legal, and financial support. bit.ly/3HuLScd
Antimicrobials β including antibiotics, antivirals, antifungals & antiparasitics β are medicines π used to prevent & treat infections in humans, animals & plants.
@DrTedros "The #COVID19 pandemic is a vivid reminder of just how important the simple act of breathing is to life.
Nobody should die from breathing.
And yet every year, an estimated 7 million people worldwide die because they inhale polluted air"-@DrTedros at the #CleanAirEU Forum
"Several hundred thousand of these deaths occur in @WHO_Europe Region. Almost everyone around the world lives in areas where the air contains high levels of harmful and dangerous pollutants"-@DrTedros#CleanAirEU
"Last month, I had the honour of meeting the @LacksFamily. For those who donβt know her story, Henrietta Lacks was a black woman who attended a hospital in Baltimore in 1951 complaining of vaginal bleeding β a common symptom of #cervicalcancer"-@DrTedros