libera/##covid-19/ Monday, 2021-03-01

LjL"By contrast, the EU’s contract basically states that AstraZeneca will only make its "best reasonable efforts" to supply and manufacture the vaccines in the EU, which in the contract includes the U.K. manufacturing sites. In the full version of the contract and order form, the three British plants — as well as a Dutch and German subcontractor that haven't been used for the EU doses — are included in the EU's supply chain. The company hasn't use00:01
LjLd the U.K. doses to fix the shortage of EU supply."00:01
LjLbut the question is, if AZ actually tried to fulfill this part of the contract, would the UK government immediately requisition the plants00:01
LjL"More broadly, the specifics of the EU’s plants have been a subject of confusion. For example, the Commission's published contract said the EU would get drug substance from “I\IL.” When a redacted version was published on January 29, the Commission at first kept on insisting that this referred to Italy and Ireland. It later turned out to be a copy error that should have said “NL,” for the Netherlands, according to Dutch broadcaster NOS."00:02
LjLthis is just politicians saying stuff without knowing what they're talking about at all, despicable00:02
rmonten[m]Sounds like snafu00:09
LjL<Brainstorm> New from r/WorldNews: worldnews: Struggling Czech Republic Turns to Russian Jabs After EU Delays → https://is.gd/dN0AkL00:16
LjLi'd like to know what are some *current* polls on how happy Britons are with leaving the EU. i would imagine more are in favor of Brexit after this debacle than they used to be00:35
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de-factoUK will put all the negative impact of Brexit on the pandemic and all they achieved on the pandemic on Brexit. Help them with that propaganda, Boris will love it, because then he wont be blamed.00:49
de-factobtw EU is already planing ahead with updates on VoCs etc and will help also countries outside EU such as UK00:55
de-factonational strategy wont be enough to control it (unless borders are completely closed) we need a global strategy anyhow00:56
BrainstormNew from StatNews: Johnson & Johnson’s Covid-19 vaccine to start shipping soon, but early supply could be uneven: Health providers will begin receiving the first doses of J&J's vaccine as early as Tuesday, but supply will be uneven in the coming weeks, federal officials said. → https://is.gd/Cb0Awx01:04
BrainstormUpdates for Netherlands: +4814 cases (now 1.1 million), +31 deaths (now 15616) since 23 hours ago01:40
de-factobtw where will the J&J shots for outside of US be produced?01:59
de-factoi thought US got some wartime act in place to prevent exporting vaccines produced inside USA01:59
de-factoah for EU it would be Catalent's Anagni, Italy facility, the Reig Jofre's Barcelona facility and Sanofi's Marcy-l'Étoile, France facility.02:05
BrainstormNew from r/WorldNews: worldnews: France and Germany to require COVID-19 test for some border crossings → https://is.gd/H6R6ZQ02:06
de-factoweird USA is not criticized for not exporting vaccines and when EU only wants to document vaccine exports it gets harsh critique, imho it should be the other way around02:06
de-factoprobably a lot of propaganda machinery at work02:07
de-factonot sure about UK, do they export vaccines or only license remote production with contract agreements?02:09
LjLde-facto, actually the Politico article says that while none of the UK vaccines are making it to the EU despite the UK facilities *being* in the contract AZ has with the EU, the EU *is* getting a (perhaps small) portion of vaccines from the US02:10
LjL"The company hasn't used the U.K. doses to fix the shortage of EU supply. Instead, AstraZeneca has largely relied on a Belgian subcontractor, Thermo Fisher Scientific (originally Novasep), to supply the EU with drug substance. It has also gotten some doses from a U.S. plant in Maryland."02:11
de-factoiirc i have read that US has some kind of wartime act in place to control (and suppress) vaccine export from their soil02:19
de-factoi have no original source for that02:20
de-factodoes someone know more about that?02:20
de-factodoes it have something to do with this? https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/01/21/executive-order-a-sustainable-public-health-supply-chain/02:24
LjL%title https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/lusy4x/struggling_czech_republic_turns_to_russian_jabs/gp8rp63/02:38
BrainstormLjL: From www.reddit.com: Struggling Czech Republic Turns to Russian Jabs After EU Delays : worldnews02:38
de-factothis needs to be ramped up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVAX02:55
BrainstormUpdates for United Kingdom: +4886 cases (now 4.2 million), +145 deaths (now 122894) since 21 hours ago02:55
BrainstormNew from Reddit (test): Covid2019: Free coffee, cheaper hotel stays, and pub bans — what countries are doing to encourage COVID-19 vaccines → https://is.gd/JvmjFK02:57
xeneca[m]<Brainstorm "Updates for United Kingdom: +488"> Wow, so scared03:36
BrainstormNew from r/WorldNews: worldnews: Mexico's president expected to ask Biden to share U.S. vaccines, say sources → https://is.gd/FN47Y303:49
BrainstormNew from Politico: Coronavirus brings back memories of Naples in the time of cholera: In the 1970s, Italy moved quickly to deal with cholera. So why is it doing so badly tackling coronavirus? → https://is.gd/gILAnZ04:09
CoronaBot/r/covid19: Widely shared vitamin D-COVID-19 preprint removed from Lancet server (85 votes) | https://retractionwatch.com/2021/02/19/widely-shared-vitamin-d-covid-19-preprint-removed-from-lancet-server/ | https://redd.it/lusrhp04:31
LjLuh oh04:48
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BrainstormNew from r/WorldNews: worldnews: A controversial herbal concoction has been in the news again in India, with renewed claims that it is effective against coronavirus. → https://is.gd/JR4zJE04:51
BrainstormUpdates for New Zealand: +2 cases (now 2378) since 23 hours ago05:11
BrainstormNew from r/WorldNews: worldnews: Serbia received new batch of Sputnik V from Russia → https://is.gd/N7ulxO05:22
BrainstormNew from The Indian Express: World: AstraZeneca has sold its stake in Moderna for more than $1 billion: The Times report → https://is.gd/7fiW3L05:43
BrainstormUpdates for Belgium: +2097 cases (now 771511), +25 deaths (now 22077) since 22 hours ago05:49
BrainstormNew from r/WorldNews: worldnews: India Prime Minister Modi takes locally invented vaccine (Covaxin) to encourage citizens to participate in the vaccination drive. India has approved both Aztrazeneca (known as Covishield) by Oxford and Covaxin by Bharath Biotech jabs. → https://is.gd/kFQUUc05:53
najari[m]have there been any studies on P100 or FFP3 masks and covid?05:56
BrainstormNew from EurekAlert!: Why COVID-19 vaccine distribution methods fall short and 3 ways to improve them: Several proposals have emerged on how to distribute the COVID-19 vaccine, but they fall short in ensuring that the vaccine is distributed fairly. A team including Binghamton University professor Nicole Hassoun suggests three ways to more fairly and [... want %more?] → https://is.gd/JWfXqX06:24
BrainstormNew from The Indian Express: World: Up to six cases of Manaus variant of coronavirus detected in UK → https://is.gd/0Gm6lj06:34
BrainstormNew preprint: Histopathological assessments reveal retinal vascular changes, inflammation, and gliosis in patients with lethal COVID-19 by VIJAY K JIDIGAM et al, made available as preprint on 2021-02-28 at https://medrxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2021.02.25.21251531 [... want %more?]06:59
BrainstormUpdates for Lombardy, Italy: +3529 cases (now 603081), +37 deaths (now 28361) since 23 hours ago — United Kingdom: +4535 cases (now 4.2 million), +108 deaths (now 122930) since 23 hours ago — Netherlands: +4674 cases (now 1.1 million), +20 deaths (now 15626) since 23 hours ago — Prince Edward Island, Canada: +12 cases (now 132) since a day ago07:34
CoronaBot/r/covid19: Obesity may hamper SARS-CoV-2 vaccine immunogenicity (80 votes) | https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.02.24.21251664v1 | https://redd.it/lussu708:39
BrainstormNew from Science-Based Medicine: A “not antivaccine” antivax pediatrician asks how we will know a COVID-19 vaccine is safe and effective: Dr. Liz Mumper is associated with Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.'s antivax organization Children's Health Defense. She recently gave a presentation asking: How will we know that a COVID vaccine is safe? It's a [... want %more?] → https://is.gd/6apeIe09:09
BrainstormNew from Medical Xpress: Covid vaccine acceptance rises in some countries: study: Willingness to get a COVID-19 vaccine is on the rise compared to last year, a survey of six industrialised countries published on Monday showed. → https://is.gd/TksjRE09:19
BrainstormNew from r/WorldNews: worldnews: 2 in 3 Russians Believe Coronavirus Is a Bioweapon – Poll → https://is.gd/N2677910:52
BrainstormNew from ProPublica: How Inequity Gets Built Into America’s Vaccination System: by Maryam Jameel and Caroline Chen ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. It’s a fact that simply being eligible for a vaccine in America doesn’t mean that you can [... want %more?] → https://is.gd/IRzjwT11:23
BrainstormNew from BMJ: “We are setting ourselves on fire to keep everyone else warm”—what does the recovery look like for NHS staff?: The number of people in UK hospitals with covid-19 is currently just under 17 000, having reached twice the April peak in mid-January. There have been 50% more intensive care beds in use than during... → https://is.gd/z4zaW811:33
BrainstormNew from BMJ: Acute covid-19 and multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children: What you need to knowChildren with acute covid-19 can present with non-specific symptoms. Exclude covid-19 in children with fever and respiratory tract symptoms or loss of taste or smell, especially... → https://is.gd/x1ZvHr11:43
BrainstormNew from r/WorldNews: worldnews: Tokyo asks China to stop anal swab tests for COVID-19 on Japanese citizens → https://is.gd/iMbli312:36
BrainstormNew from Medical Xpress: Germany reopens hairdressers, considers way ahead on virus: Hairdressers across Germany reopened for business Monday after a 2½-month closure, another cautious step as the country balances a desire to loosen restrictions with concern about the impact of more contagious coronavirus variants. → https://is.gd/ypqKA212:46
zutt"Tokyo asks China to stop anal swab tests for COVID-19 on Japanese citizens" -- is this some political statement from China Lol :D13:04
zuttUS politicians complained about anal swab tests, Japanese.. ;D13:04
zuttsorry, serious topic but this is kinda funny13:04
BrainstormNew from r/WorldNews: worldnews: Czechs ask Poland to help with its COVID-19 patients → https://is.gd/pMh06C13:17
BrainstormNew from BMJ: Researcher broke embargo to leak BMJ paper to Trump administration: A medical researcher who took a political appointment with the Trump administration while working on a major international meta-analysis of potential covid-19 treatments leaked a preprint version of... → https://is.gd/NvcHo313:59
BrainstormNew from Medical Xpress: World's first Covax jab injected as US eyes J&J rollout: Ghana's President Nana Akufo-Addo on Monday became the first recipient of a coronavirus vaccine under the global Covax scheme, as US health workers prepared to distribute nearly four million doses of the single-shot Johnson & Johnson jab. → https://is.gd/iUQ9vF14:09
BrainstormNew from BMJ: Covid-19: UK officials try to trace unidentified case of Brazil variant: Public health officials are trying to trace an unidentified person in England who has been infected with the variant of SARS-CoV-2 first identified in Manaus in Brazil.Lawrence Young, professor of... → https://is.gd/jNuHYp14:31
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BrainstormNew from Emma Hodcroft: @firefoxx66: Given the Swiss Task Force is entirely voluntary & unpaid, I expect that if the Swiss gov't votes to 'muzzle' the Task Force, they will rapidly find themselves without a Task Force at all, yet with an increasingly vocal group of scientists. Perhaps not ideal in a pandemic? → https://is.gd/E5iqme14:42
BrainstormNew from Scientific American: To Beat COVID, We May Need a Good Shot in the Nose: Intranasal vaccines might stop the spread of the coronavirus more effectively than needles in arms -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com → https://is.gd/DwDJ1815:14
BrainstormNew from StatNews: STAT+: Pharmalittle: J&J Covid-19 vaccine supply will be uneven; pandemic ushers in a ‘golden age of vaccinology’: Health care providers will begin receiving the first 3.9 million doses of the newly authorized J&J Covid-19 vaccine as early as Tuesday morning, though supply will be uneven in the… → https://is.gd/6Zl5BR15:24
BrainstormNew from Medical Xpress: Can vaccinated people still spread the coronavirus?: So you've gotten your coronavirus vaccine, waited the two weeks for your immune system to respond to the shot and are now fully vaccinated. Does this mean you can make your way through the world like the old days without fear of spreading the virus? Deborah Fuller is a [... want %more?] → https://is.gd/UGmWMc15:46
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BrainstormNew from r/WorldNews: worldnews: Chinese hackers target Indian vaccine makers SII, Bharat Biotech, says security firm → https://is.gd/vOVJUn15:56
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BrainstormUpdates for Switzerland: +2560 cases (now 557492), +5 deaths (now 9971) since a day ago — Germany: +5772 cases (now 2.5 million) since 23 hours ago16:09
BrainstormNew from Medical Xpress: Ivory Coast begins its vaccination campaign with COVAX doses: Ivory Coast has begun giving shots to inoculate against COVID-19 with vaccines delivered last week by the global COVAX initiative, which was created to ensure that low- and middle-income countries have fair access to doses. → https://is.gd/9rrlP116:28
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skruffen[m]https://unlimitedhangout.com/2020/12/investigative-series/developers-of-oxford-astrazeneca-vaccine-tied-to-uk-eugenics-movement16:47
bin_bashthat sounds like conspiracy bullshit17:06
BrainstormNew from ClinicalTrials.gov: Anti-Sars-Cov2 Vaccine Efficacy in Patients With Malignant Pathologies: Conditions :    Solid Tumor;   Hematologic Malignancy;   Thoracic Cancer;   Cancer, Treatment-Related;   Vaccine Response Impaired → https://is.gd/ZIceVx17:10
BrainstormNew from ClinicalTrials.gov: (news): Antibody Response to COVID-19 Vaccines in Liver Disease Patients → https://is.gd/3xnnLp17:21
BrainstormNew from ClinicalTrials.gov: (news): CPAP Observance During the COVID 19 Pandemic → https://is.gd/6XC5zC17:31
BrainstormUpdates for Canada: +30 deaths (now 21996) since 23 hours ago17:55
CoronaBot/r/covid19: Reanalysis of the Pfizer mRNA BNT162b2 SARS-CoV-2 vaccine data fails to find any increased efficacy following the boost: Implications for vaccination policy and our understanding of the mode of action (86 votes) | https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.02.23.21252315v1 | https://redd.it/lvatje18:06
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BrainstormNew from r/WorldNews: worldnews: Sprinter Blake says he would rather miss Olympics than get Covid-19 vaccine → https://is.gd/dj4yD318:33
BrainstormNew from Medical Xpress: Majority of Russians believe coronavirus is a bioweapon: poll: Close to two out of three Russians believe that the coronavirus is a man-made biological weapon and less than a third are willing to get vaccinated, a poll said Monday. → https://is.gd/R8LHhD18:44
de-factointeresting, so the preprint of CoronaBot also did not see any kinks in the vaccine efficacy curve for BNT162b2 on booster18:55
de-factohmm not sure is that good or bad?18:56
de-factogood as in primer already maxes out possible immunity, bad as in booster effect minimal (hopefully due to maxed out protection and not due to some other mechanism lowering effectiveness of N>1 doses of mRNA vaccines)18:58
de-factoa bit weird actually when comparing that to19:01
de-facto.title https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.12.09.20245175v1.full-text19:01
Brainstormde-facto: From www.medrxiv.org: BNT162b2 induces SARS-CoV-2-neutralising antibodies and T cells in humans | medRxiv19:01
de-factoespecially Fig 1 a and b https://www.medrxiv.org/content/medrxiv/early/2020/12/11/2020.12.09.20245175/F1.large.jpg19:02
BrainstormUpdates for Kuwait: +1179 cases (now 192031), +2 deaths (now 1085) since 23 hours ago19:03
de-factoalso i thought day 11-21 was like 85% or such they say ~95% on day 11-28 already19:04
BrainstormNew from r/WorldNews: worldnews: Covid vaccines cut risk of serious illness by 80% → https://is.gd/8HaOBh19:04
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de-factothey say in that paper19:07
de-factoDiscussion19:07
de-facto"These results are surprising: the Pfizer BNT162b2 mRNA vaccine appears to achieve full efficacy approximately 11 days following a single vaccination with no observable increase in efficacy following the second vaccination."19:07
de-facto"The efficacy estimates calculated using the infection rates in the vaccinees from day 11 to day 28 and day 28 to day 111, compared to the infection rates in the vaccinees from day 1 to day 11, are indistinguishable at 0.95."19:07
de-facto"The calculated efficacy rates are similar to the efficacy calculated in the Phase III trial by comparing infection rates in vaccine and placebo groups from day 28 on."19:07
de-facto.title https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.02.23.21252315v1 <-- this paper i cited from19:09
Brainstormde-facto: From www.medrxiv.org: Reanalysis of the Pfizer mRNA BNT162b2 SARS-CoV-2 vaccine data fails to find any increased efficacy following the boost: Implications for vaccination policy and our understanding of the mode of action [...]19:09
LjLTV just said that the EU signed a contract for another 300 million of Moderna, but that sounds like suspiciously much and suspiciously similar the news we've heard of already a while ago, so not sure if it's actually new19:10
LjLde-facto, didn't they just look at efficacy though? we already knew the booster doesn't boost the efficacy very visibly, but the antibody tithers go up a lot, i believe, which 1) may make the immunity longer-lasting, and 2) may make the six-fold decrease in antibodies with the SA variant less dangerous19:11
LjLsome reddit comments about it are on that tune19:11
de-factohow do we know that a mRNA LNP works for a second shot (e.g. a booster or update after primer) and that it is not directly nullified by some learned immune response from the primer shot?19:12
de-facto(disclaimer: that is purely speculative)19:12
de-factoLjL, yes thats why i linked that second medrxiv paper (with Fig 1), but how do we know if those antibody titers would not have gone up from the primer shot onto such a level too?19:13
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de-factoi mean we know that igG takes quite a while to appear19:15
LjLde-facto, well, i'm not sure. i guess i'm no longer completely opposed to single shots. the shortage we have puts us at an incredibly high risk of this "never ending" and of a substantial portion of the population getting the actual disease.19:15
de-factohow can that onset of appearance for IgG be distinguished from a booster effect?19:15
de-factoi am only opposed to experimenting with population when not sticking to approved vaccination schemes, i think it would be completely fine to do a one-shot trial and to have some waterproof stats and then approve schemes on that19:17
de-factoalso the effect on how soon escaping mutants can break through such a one-shot immunity compared to a two-shot immunity should be researched in more detail19:18
de-factoi mean they are already discussing trials for three-shot schemes, hence i assume we will know more about this soon19:18
LjLdo we have the months needed to run such trials?19:19
de-factoyes we have to take that time and meanwhile ramp up production rates19:19
LjLespecially in the current months we are getting way fewer vaccines than initially thought (at least, i *hope* in the next months we'll get the agreed-upon amounts)19:19
de-factoyeah rares will increase with time19:20
LjLhow many people will get sick and die that could be saved if we used the shots we have for them instead of for second shots? at this point it's clear we'll need more shots later anyway, for the variants, so at some point the strict schedule according to trials will go down the drain in any case19:20
LjLi'm thinking about Pfizer the most. i would stick to two shots with AZ, considering it's not so effective.19:21
LjLi think i'd rather have my second shot later, but with something covering variants19:21
LjLpersonally, that's what i'd prefer19:21
de-factomy standpoint still is: incidence should be brought down with NPIs and vaccinations done with maximum high rates but only by approved schemes19:21
BrainstormUpdates for Italy: +13106 cases (now 2.9 million), +246 deaths (now 97945) since a day ago — United Kingdom: +3377 cases (now 4.2 million), +74 deaths (now 122953) since 23 hours ago — Switzerland: +6 deaths (now 9977) since 3 hours ago19:21
BrainstormNew from Derek Lowe: @Dereklowe: A new malaria vaccine candidate rides the interest in mRNA technology. So what is "PIMF" and why might it help with malaria infections?https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2021/03/01/a-malaria-vaccine-candidatehttps://is.gd/kIBjUV19:25
LjL%fdroid BOINC19:45
BrainstormLjL, BOINC 7.16.16 (edu.berkeley.boinc) in https://f-droid.org/repo: Use your device to advance scientific research. - updated 2021-03-01, see https://github.com/BOINC/boinc19:45
BrainstormLjL, Last time I checked, not all indexes could be downloaded!19:45
LjLthis has just been added to F-Droid today. you can use it to take part in Rosetta@Home which does COVID-19 research19:45
LjLit also does https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Community_Grid which also covers COVID-1919:50
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BrainstormNew from NPR: Johnson & Johnson Vaccine Rollout Begins In U.S. As COVID-19 Cases Tick Up: Johnson & Johnson has started shipping its first vaccine doses across the U.S., adding a third vaccine to the country's arsenal as public health officials warn of an uptick in cases. → https://is.gd/RhL0ay19:56
BrainstormNew from Politico: English data shows 80 percent fall in hospitalization after vaccines: England deputy chief medical officer says decision to approve Oxford/AstraZeneca jab for people aged over 65 'clearly vindicated.' → https://is.gd/OP1Dmd20:07
xeneca[m]<LjL "this has just been added to F-Dr"> Awesome, I will be using it to help with the research 🦄20:10
LjLit works when your phone is charging and your screen is off, so i would still check that it doesn't get too hot, but it shouldn't otherwise impair things much i guess20:10
xeneca[m]Its a small price to pay for defeating such a dangerous and scary disease20:13
BrainstormNew from r/WorldNews: worldnews: Israel to use electronic tagging on travelers from next week. Those refusing electronic monitoring, which allows home quarantine, will be taken to coronavirus hotels. → https://is.gd/AAU97W20:28
BrainstormNew from r/WorldNews: worldnews: BBC News - Covid: Japan asks China to stop anal tests on its citizens → https://is.gd/Q10ffR20:38
CoronaBot/r/covid19: New data show vaccines reduce severe COVID-19 in older adults (83 votes) | https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-data-show-vaccines-reduce-severe-covid-19-in-older-adults | https://redd.it/lvesaz20:49
BrainstormNew from NPR: Israeli Health Officials To Government: Vaccinate All Palestinians: An outgoing high official told NPR that Israel has a public health imperative to protect all Palestinians from COVID-19, plus a humanitarian obligation. → https://is.gd/ToHWM721:19
BrainstormUpdates for France: +32578 cases (now 3.8 million), +405 deaths (now 86737) since 23 hours ago — Spain: +15978 cases (now 3.2 million), +467 deaths (now 69609) since 2 days ago — Canada: +2569 cases (now 869598), +26 deaths (now 22003) since 23 hours ago — Germany: +4630 cases (now 2.5 million) since 23 hours ago21:26
BrainstormNew from Medical Xpress: Optimism replaces anxiety in COVID-19 wards as cases plummet: To Brandon Mulvany, the past 11 months have felt more like five or ten years. And though it's not over yet, he's finally feeling a sense of relief he hasn't felt since the summer. → https://is.gd/iF1c7P21:40
BrainstormNew from Medical Xpress: Spain suffers second-wost month for virus deaths: Spain suffered its second-worst month for coronavirus deaths in February with 10,528 fatalities, the worst figure since April last year, government figures showed on Monday. → https://is.gd/OXr6FT22:11
BrainstormNew from Medical Xpress: Public attitude toward COVID-19 is more "infectious" than disease itself, study shows: Public attitude toward COVID-19 and its treatments is more "infectious" than the disease itself, according to a new Northwestern Medicine study using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to analyze tweets about the virus. Researchers studied the [... want %more?] → https://is.gd/kVgjxy22:21
BrainstormNew from Medical Xpress: States easing virus restrictions despite experts' warnings: With the U.S. vaccination drive picking up speed and a third formula on the way, states eager to reopen for business are easing coronavirus restrictions despite warnings from health experts that the outbreak is far from over and that moving too quickly could prolong [... want %more?] → https://is.gd/Ilgwa622:42
BrainstormNew from Politico: Austria and Denmark eye alliance with Israel on coronavirus vaccines: Austrian chancellor says his country and Denmark no longer want to be 'only' dependent on the EU for vaccines. → https://is.gd/Nn21cR23:13
de-facto.title https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7xsOsrDmPQ23:15
Brainstormde-facto: From www.youtube.com: Coronavirus Mutations and COVID 19 Vaccine Implications with Shane Crotty, PhD (SARS CoV 2 Variants) - YouTube23:15
BrainstormNew from Ars Technica: Policy: Why N95 masks are still hard to get even though production is up → https://is.gd/2VXXiQ23:33
BrainstormNew from Medical Xpress: Why you still can't visit unmasked, even if you're fully vaccinated: The day has finally come—two weeks have passed since you received your second dose of the vaccine, making you officially fully vaccinated. You're ready to celebrate. And you're dreaming of having your other vaccinated friends over to join. But is it a good idea? → https://is.gd/lNPIn023:43

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