A pulse oximeter is a small device that can typically be clipped on a finger (toe or earlobe is also possible) to measure oxygen levels in the blood.
This works completely painless and will give you a reading within a few seconds.
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the inadequacy of investments in public health, the persistence of profound economic and social inequalities and the fragility of many key global systems and approaches.
Sepsis contributes significantly to preventable mortality and is the final common pathway to death for severe infectious diseases; it can also arise as a complication of injuries and non-communicable diseases.
An estimated 99% of children worldwide – or more than 2.3 billion children – live in one of the 186 countries that have implemented some form of restrictions due to COVID-191. Although children are not at a high risk of direct harm from the virus, they are disproportionately affected by its hid...den impacts.
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Le coronavirus. Ce nom est aujourd’hui sur toutes les lèvres. Certains le redoutent, et constituent des réserves de masques et de gel désinfectant. D’autres s’agacent de tout le ramdam fait autour d’un virus qui fait bien moins de morts que la grippe saisonnière. Alors où se trouve la v...érité ? Doit-on vraiment redouter cette épidémie de pneumonie virale venue de Chine ? Doit-on se calfeutrer chez soi pour éviter le danger ? Et le coronavirus pourrait-il échapper à tout contrôle ? Canal Détox coupe court aux fausses infos.
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Alors que la Covid-19 se propage dans le monde entier, les spéculations et les fausses nouvelles se répandent également à grande vitesse. La DW démonte les mythes qui entourent le virus.
The speed of developing diagnostics for SARS-CoV-2, the causative agent of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), has been quite remarkable. Diagnostics have focused on nucleic acid amplification testing (NAAT) to identify infected individuals in acute-phase disease for timely implementation of mitiga...tion strategies and case management. More and more immunodiagnostics, mostly rapid diagnostic tests, are being made available as an alternative to NAATs. This type of test can be used out-of-laboratory conditions at large scale.
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