14 January 2021, 10:15 pm EST By
Experts warn that more super-covid variants are coming all around the globe. As Daily Mail reports, the rise of about 230,000 cases in a day is triggering the virus to mutate at a higher rate. It may have higher chances of beating people with weak immune systems such as those with chronic infections.
(Photo : Screenshot: Youtube Video by Scientific Animations) Coronavirus outbreak (covid 19) explained through 3D Medical Animation The uptick in mutations (we are seeing) is expected because there is more circulation of the virus, and more chances for a mutation to occur. , according to Dr Ali Mokdad, an epidemiologist with the University of Washington s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation through his interview with DailyMail.
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The first medical system to care for soldiers wounded in battle was created by Dominque-Jean Larrey (1766-1842), a surgeon in Napoleon’s Grand Army. Larrey saw that men were dying of treatable wounds because there was no mechanism for retrieving them until the fighting was over. He organized an ambulance system that brought men from the battlefield to mobile hospitals behind the lines. Priority was given to soldiers who would die without immediate medical treatment. This was the first step in the development of medical triage from the French “trier,” to pick or sort. In 1846, British surgeon John Wilson (1780-1856) approached the sorting of wounded soldiers in a different manner with a different goal. Wilson believed army surgeons should initially focus on men who needed immediate treatment and for whom that treatment was likely to be successful that is, would save their lives. Of secondary importance were the less seriously wounded and those so gravel
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