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Reactions to the study quantifying the risk of developing thrombosis following covid-19

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Reactions to the study quantifying the risk of developing thrombosis following covid-19

SMC Spain

A study published in the BMJ concludes that covid-19 is a risk factor for developing venous thrombosis, pulmonary embolism and haemorrhage.

Reaction to the EMA and ECDC announcement on the desirability of waiting with fourth doses

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Reaction to the EMA and ECDC announcement on the desirability of waiting with fourth doses

SMC Spain

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) consider it too early for the general population to receive a fourth dose of covid-19 mRNA vaccines. Both agencies do agree that people over 80 years of age should receive it because of their increased risk of severe disease.

Reactions to the announcement that face masks will no longer be mandatory indoors from 20 April

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Reactions to the announcement that face masks will no longer be mandatory indoors from 20 April

SMC Spain

The Minister of Health, Carolina Darias, today announced that face masks will no longer be compulsory indoors after Easter. The measure will come into force on 20 April. It will continue to be compulsory in public transport, health centres and residences, but the final details of the new scenario are not yet known.

Reactions to artificial intelligence linguistic analysis showing that the term 'people' is biased towards 'men'

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Reactions to artificial intelligence linguistic analysis showing that the term 'people' is biased towards 'men'

SMC Spain

A study of more than 630 billion words (mostly in English) used on 3 billion web pages concludes that the term 'people' is not gender-neutral: its meaning is biased towards the concept 'men'. The authors write in Science Advances that they see this as "a fundamental bias in the collective view of our species", relevant because the concept 'people' is "in almost all societal decisions and policies".

Reaction: three new recombinant SARS-CoV-2 variants detected

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Reaction: three new recombinant SARS-CoV-2 variants detected

SMC Spain

The UK Health Security Agency published in its latest report on 25 March the detection of three recombinant forms of omicron, called XE, XD and XF. The WHO mentions them in its 29 March report, noting that the possibility that XE is more transmissible than BA.2 still requires further study.

Reaction to the release of the IPCC Panel III (Mitigation) report

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Reaction to the release of the IPCC Panel III (Mitigation) report

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The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has just approved the study on measures to curb the climate crisis on which more than 200 authors from around the world have been working for three years. It is the report of Working Group III and is the final component of the IPCC's Sixth Assessment Report.

We are not on track to limit the planet warming to 1.5ºC, but there is still hope

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We are not on track to limit the planet warming to 1.5ºC, but there is still hope

Luisa Cabeza

The latest IPCC report shows that we are not close to limiting the rise in temperatures to 1.5ºC. Fortunately, he points out that climate action in the form of policy and law has increased, and that there is hope to cut emissions by at least half by 2030. In this sense, the retrofitting of existing buildings and the adequate design of new ones will play a fundamental role.

Reaction to two studies showing that covid-19 vaccines offer extra protection to those already infected

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Reaction to two studies showing that covid-19 vaccines offer extra protection to those already infected

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Two studies published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases confirm that covid-19 vaccines offer additional protection for those already infected with SARS-CoV-2, especially against severe disease.

Why further exploration of our genome is worthwhile

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Why further exploration of our genome is worthwhile

Alfonso Valencia

The effort to decipher the human genome led 21 years ago to the publication of a first sequence that has already revolutionised medicine. The full version published today by Science represents a technical feat that will provide new information about disease, disease susceptibility and the evolution of our species.

Reaction: Europe's dangerous sea level rise is becoming more frequent and attributable to climate change

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Reaction: Europe's dangerous sea level rise is becoming more frequent and attributable to climate change

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Storm surges, one-off events associated with storms that can cause flooding, are rare and highly destructive phenomena. A paper published this week in Nature finds that they have increased since 1960, comparable to the increase in average sea level rise over the same period.

The authors, led by Spaniard Francisco Calafat of the National Oceanography Centre in Liverpool, UK, statistically analyse observations of extreme tides from 79 tide gauges on European coasts over the period 1960-2018, and compare them with climate models.

Their results point to an increase in extreme sea levels in the future, something the authors say has implications for coastal planning. So far, the most widely accepted hypothesis is that the frequency of such extreme storm surges would not increase.

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