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Introduction: chlorine dioxide was used as prevention and treatment of COVID-19, in pandemic times, however, there is still no evidence-based medicine to support its benefit. Aim: to describe the perceptions of patients with COVID-19 about chlorine dioxide consumption. Method: a qualitative methodology was used for a deep and experiential approach on the subject in 15 adults belonging to the Huachi Loreto parish of the Ambato canton, in Ecuador, the interviewees are between 30 and 45 years old, with an average of 38,9 years, being 60 % adult men while the remaining 40 % are adult women. Results: the results show that chlorine dioxide was used for both treatment and prevention of COVID-19, what motivated its use was the lack of knowledge of the disease and its high mortality at the beginning of the pandemic, in addition to the influence of people close to the population under study and finally the effect of chlorine dioxide was only positive. Conclusions: all persons who used chlorine dioxide either as treatment or prevention for COVID-19, for multiple reasons, reported no unfavorable effects, however, WHO, PAHO and the Ministry of Health of Ecuador prohibit its use as it lacks evidence-based medicine to justify its effectiveness. © Este es un artículo en acceso abierto.
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One of the effects caused by the Covid-19 health emergency, worldwide, was the shaking of all humanity both politically, socially, culturally, educational and sports, among others. Especially in terms of the decrease and loss of jobs, since the latter constitutes the main source for the development and well-being of a progressive society. In Ecuador, one of the effects caused by the pandemic has been that the development of economic and production activities had to be paralyzed, while the confinement lasted to safeguard the health of the inhabitants. Although production was later reactivated, seeking to guarantee the rights of workers immersed in a contractual employment relationship, the different work modalities that are applied had to be modified for the permanence of its workers, and created others that would allow the sustainability of employment. dependent. This led to the fact that, in the investigation, the measures they want in the Ecuadorian legal regime for the sustainability of employment, established in different normative bodies issued for this purpose, are analyzed and taken. To achieve the objective of the research, a qualitative methodology was applied based on a bibliographic study of the labor law in Ecuador, and a quantitative approach where experts on labor issues contributed their professional criteria to the subject. What to conclude, that there is a violation and transgression of labor rights, where the principle of job stability should have been guaranteed.
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BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: The spectrum of COVID-19, caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 infection (SARS-CoV-2), includes different neurologic manifestations of the central and peripheral nervous system. METHODS: From March through April 2020, in two university hospitals located in western Switzerland, we examined three patients with Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) following SARS-CoV-2. RESULTS: These cases were characterized by a primary demyelinating electrophysiological pattern (Acute inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy or AIDP) and a less severe disease course compared to recently published case series. Clinical improvement was observed in all patients at week five. One patient was discharged from hospital after full recovery with persistence of minor neurological signs (areflexia). Two of the three patients remained hospitalized: one was able to walk and the other could stand up with assistance. CONCLUSIONS: We report three cases of typical GBS (AIDP) occurring after SARS-CoV-2 infection and presenting with a favourable clinical course. Given the interval between COVID-19-related symptoms and neurological manifestations (mean of 15 days) we postulate a secondary immune-mediated mechanism rather than direct viral damage.