COVID-19 Pandemic

The article discusses how the COVID-19 pandemic has magnified challenges in thalassaemia care worldwide and underscores TIF’s activities throughout the coronavirus outbreak in support of patients with haemoglobinopathies. Hematology Advisor…

During this last fortnight, experts have scrambled to gain an understanding of the new heavily mutated variant, what kind of symptoms and illness it can cause, and whether it undermines…

 

As vaccination rates are slowing in the US and Europe, the spread of the Delta coronavirus variants causes growing concerns worldwide with health experts predicting the highly infectious variant to…

A new reassuring US study, published recently in the journal Transfusion, suggests that the risk of transmission of SARS-CoV2 through blood transfusion is highly unlikely. For the study, the investigators…

The World Health Organization (WHO) announced yesterday that it has approved a COVID-19 vaccine made by Sinovac Biotech (SVA.O) for emergency use listing, paving the way for a second Chinese shot…

In the midst of the raging COVID-19 pandemic, US President Joe Biden openly supported the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) proposal to lift the proprietary limits on COVID-19 vaccines, in service…

The multi-stakeholder Blood and Beyond initiative recently published a policy briefing shedding light on how the COVID-19 pandemic affects blood use, blood transfusion services, and patients in whom transfusions are…