BECAUSE the majority of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) cases are expected to be mild, and because the occupancy rate in many healthcare facilities is high, home care may be considered for an adult or a child with confirmed or suspected COVID-19 when inpatient care is unavailable or safe. Such patients who have been discharged from a hospital may also be cared for at home, if necessary.

FILIPINOS are googling unapproved coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) treatments instead of vaccine registrations as the recent surge has driven netizens to look for alternative ways to cope with the virus, according to a study by meta-search website iPrice Group.

Thomas B. Cueni, director general of the International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers and Associations (IFPMA), emphasized that vaccine makers are fully committed to transparency in reporting clinical trial results. They likewise support the need to inform the public of what they know, as well as what they don’t know about the vaccines in development.

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THE IMPACT of the global pandemic, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), “has been harshest on those communities which were already vulnerable, who are more exposed to the disease, less likely to have access to quality healthcare services and more likely to experience adverse consequences as a result of measures implemented to contain the pandemic.”

MANY OF US are looking forward to a summer of relative freedom, with road-mapped milestones that will grant us more opportunities to see our friends and family. But we’ll be carrying the effects of months of isolation into those meetings, including a sense that our social skills will need dusting off, and our wits will need sharpening.

In a previous column, we talked about the four types of COVID-19 vaccines and how they work (“No one is safe unless everyone is safe,” BusinessWorld, Feb. 24, 2021). In today’s column, we will discuss how vaccine manufacturers and regulatory agencies work together to make these all-important vaccines safe and effective.

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THERE IS “low quality of evidence” that ivermectin can be used to prevent or treat coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), according to recommendations from the University of the Philippines Manila’s Institute of Clinical Epidemiology, the Philippine Society for Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (PSMID), and the Department of Science and Technology’s Philippine Council for Health Research and Development.

THE PHILIPPINES is unlikely to meet United Nations adult obesity targets for 2025 and was given a national obesity risk score of 6/10 (moderate risk) by the World Obesity Federation (WOF).