Optimizing two-stage surgery by expanding single-stage nasal reconstruction in the COVID-19 era.

The COVID-19 pandemic led to a decrease in the number of operating rooms available. Single-stage islanded forehead flaps have emerged as a good alternative to the classic frontal flap helping to diminish the surgical waiting list. We present our case series of 6 patients reconstructed with islanded forehead flaps between February and July 2020.The purpose of this report is to assess the advantages and disadvantages of this technique in order to inform which subgroup of patients may benefit from the one-stage flap, now the pandemic is better controlled.

Acute telogen effluvium associated with SARS-CoV-2 infection.

Acute telogen effluvium has been recognised as a dermatological sequela of COVID-19.

A patient with COVID-19 and a skin rash.

A woman presented to the emergency department during the COVID-19 pandemic, reporting a slightly pruritic rash that had developed five days after the onset of fever, cough and malaise.

Immunized Community and Biopolitics in Times of Pandemic

A virus, as a vital power, by challenging human life, paradoxically provokes immunity by protecting as much as denying life. The vitality of the virus threatens the life of humanity;it imposes and controls world politics, so that biopolitics is not only about control over life but also about control of life. The life of the community is threatened by the life of a virus, and it is against this risk that the community must be immunized. When the pandemic endangers the way of governing the biological life of populations, questions arise as to how the pandemic positions immunity as the strategic epicentre of biopolitics, and in what sense the pandemic makes protection and denial of life the substantive focus of control and management of the biological life of populations.