libera/##covid-19/ Wednesday, 2021-09-22

twomoonoh....00:01
BrainstormNew from Reddit (test): CoronaVirus_ITALIA: Francia: Hackerato il Green Pass di Macron e divulgato in Rete sui Social...Qualche giorno fa era toccato al premier Castex. → https://is.gd/IykV5f00:05
twomoonHackerato il Green Pass di Macron e divulgato in Rete sui Social...Qualche giorno fa era toccato al premier Castex = ?00:17
twomooni'm having trouble translating this using google00:17
de-factohuh whats the problem?00:22
de-facto %tr <it Hackerato il Green Pass di Macron e divulgato in Rete sui Social...Qualche giorno fa era toccato al premier Castex00:23
de-facto%tr <it Hackerato il Green Pass di Macron e divulgato in Rete sui Social...Qualche giorno fa era toccato al premier Castex00:23
Brainstormde-facto, Italian to English: Macron's Green Pass hacked and spread on the Net on Social... A few days ago it was the turn of Prime Minister Castex (MyMemory) — Macron's Green Pass hacked and disclosed on Social Networks ... A few days ago it was the turn of Prime Minister Castex (Google)00:23
twomooni don't know what 'era toccato al premier castex' means00:23
twomooni don't think google is translating that correctly00:23
de-factoi guess it means few days ago same happened to premier Castex?00:25
twomoonyes, that must be it00:26
imaginaryen español existe "le tocaba" y significa algo similar00:34
imaginaryo "le toco"00:34
twomooni am surprised that italian uses the "personal a"00:38
twomoondoesn't that seem odd to you?00:38
twomooni thought italian didn't use that special 'a'00:38
imaginaryi mean, if anything it'd be weird not to use it from our pov00:43
imaginarywe are spanish speakers after all :x00:43
twomoonoh ok but ljl once said that 'a' is sacrilege or whatever the right word is00:44
twomoontotally weird00:44
twomoonso i'm wondering if i'm misinterpreting it now00:45
imaginarycould also just be a regular 'a' and not a personal one00:47
nixonixthere was quite a bit of expert discussion in several threads, about that recent leak (ecohealth, daszak etc), where role of furin site, spikes generally were discussed. because here some people were asking about furin etc, they are useful to read. like this one00:48
nixonix.title https://twitter.com/stuartjdneil/status/143930778796046746700:48
Brainstormnixonix: From twitter.com: Stuart Neil (@stuartjdneil): "Except of course that nature has already shown the PRRAR to be suboptimal by selecting P-to-H and P-to-R changes at position 681 in the alpha, delta and mu. All of which [...]00:48
imaginarytwomoon: i jsut realized this conversation was happening in the covid channel and not the spanish one, my b00:49
nixonix.title https://twitter.com/fitterhappierAJ/status/144014269892974592900:50
Brainstormnixonix: From twitter.com: Anthony J Leonardi, PhD, MS (@fitterhappierAJ): "I'm going to make a layperson translation of this. Before Cov 2's Pandemic, an entity applied for DARPA funding where they would insert the very same [...]00:50
nixonixa finnish virolog claimed in colomobia and ecuador a third and fifth of new infections are mu variant. they dont have recent sequencing data from those countries in outbreak, so maybe he has more information. but probably spotty data and not reliable00:54
nixonixand didnt think it could replace delta's dominance00:54
nixonixvirologist00:55
nixonixthere could be micro-rna drugs some day, that would silence some genes of viruses post-transcription, like those deletions in orf8 in that paper, making it milder or even deactivate the virions00:58
de-factowouldnt that depend on seroprevalence and by what type of s-protein it was induced which variant gets more selected by evasion and breakthrough?00:59
LjL-Matrixtwomoon: that's not "personal a", that's when you use it for a direct object00:59
BrainstormNew from COVID tweets: Eric Topol (@EricTopol): It's 2021, yet we have analog vaccine cards that are easily counterfeited. @DrTomFrieden lays out what a national vaccine certification program should look like @nytopinion nytimes.com/2021/09/21/opi… → https://is.gd/mNBqzc00:59
LjL-MatrixI greet you becoming I greet to you00:59
nixonixfunny how evolution caused something like that to develop in viruses. probably some short leftover snippets first, then by a chance, some day some of them were useful for the virus increasing immune evasion or something01:00
LjL-MatrixBut le tocó is like "it happened to him" (not same meaning but same type of construction), you have "to" in the English one as well01:00
LjL-Matriximaginary: but no, twomoon is right, it's not weird not to use it, it's weird af to use it, objectively01:01
de-factoyeah SARS-CoV-2 got some micro-RNA to suppress cellular mRNA so it can hijack the full cellular production capacity for its own proteins01:01
de-factoamong other functions, i think those NSPs deserve more attention as they probably control a lot of reproduction number (on cellular level) once a virion entered a cell01:02
de-factoand if one cell is able to produce hundrets to thousands of virions it would be quite a relevant control mechanism01:03
de-factoalso fidelity etc01:03
nixonixsomebody wondered in those discussions, if the furin gets used when it steals a few atoms from furin site (if i recall) and breaks the convalent bond. didnt see if somebody answered, but probably. doesnt matter, those used furin molecules will be recycled and enough more will be produced from the remains apparently, since lack of furin doesnt seem01:03
nixonixto slow delta01:03
LjL-Matrixde-facto: it worries so much that they frame this as "his green pass was hacked". His green pass was... photographed, that's all. The message that the green pass must be secret is wrong, the green pass is meant to be used together with ID, and thinking otherwise will lead to lame excuses to justify obnoxious phone features like SafetyNet and mandatory apps to display the green pass instead if just using whatever can display a qr code for you01:03
LjL-Matrixtwomoon: and yes, "it was the turn of" is a pretty reasonable English translation of "era toccato a" given English doesn't have quite that expression01:05
LjL-MatrixOkay these are my contributions for tonight bye now I'll get drunk01:05
nixonixwhen the generation cap isnt decades but microseconds, theres lots of trial and error, and survival of the fittest. a third hand would  be handy? no? how about four? we never had enough time to try it in mammals, i think...01:05
nixonixgap01:06
de-factohmm so the headlines are exaggerated then, i would have understood "hacked" as gaining the ability to use a system in malicious ways such as signing a fake cert or such, but if its only a photograph of the QR code it is completely irrelevant01:06
de-factoeveryone knows the full name and date of birth of those ministers anyhow01:07
imaginaryLjL-Matrix: no u01:07
LjLde-facto, they may have "hacked" it, i haven't heard/read about this event, but i'm extrapolating based on talk there was in italy of people using other people's green pass and that you should keep it to yourself to avoid having it "hacked"01:08
LjLimaginary, you mean "no @ u"01:09
de-factoyeah, in my experience here noone controls the validity of the QR code anyhow, so basically i could print out any sample QR code and use it (except i would risking getting into serious trouble (maybe even jail) if they control it one day)01:10
LjLgenerally speaking, when you see LjL-Matrix speak instead of me, you can assume i'm either half-reading with just one eye opening, or crossing the street while looking at my phone01:10
LjL(when it's 1am the former is more likely)01:10
LjLde-facto, yes, and i guess it's not surprising that they do it like that in many circumstances, but we must keep in mind it's kind of an "informal" use of it and not the way it's *meant* to be used01:11
LjLinstead with terms like "hacked" for simply having a copy, you encourage people to think that's the normal and correct way01:11
de-factoyeah people should get used to control those, otherwise we dont need QR codes01:13
de-factoanyhow i am not convinced about all this vaccination passport thing, instead we should establish more testing01:16
dTalwhat's actually the point of the vaccine passport?01:17
nixonixreduce spreading and get more people to get a jab01:18
dTalseems to me it's mostly about the illusion of control01:18
de-factoyeah but imho it should not replace testing01:18
dTalYou know my boss flew to Lithuania the other day01:18
dTalmandatory covid testing on arrival01:19
de-factothats very good01:19
dTalno it ain't01:19
dTalapparently the procedure there is they drip 15 drips on a lateral flow test instead of the usual 2, wait 15 seconds, then call it negative and chuck it in the bin01:19
dTalcomplete theatre01:19
de-factoahm what?01:20
dTalmiraculously, no positive results with that procedure, in a queue with hundreds of people01:20
dTalimagine that01:20
de-factothat indeed does not sound good, they should use PCR01:20
dTalmy boss got a certificate and everything01:21
dTalPCR!? and somehow house hundreds of people for many days?01:21
dTalisolating?01:21
de-factolateral flow tests need 15 minutes in the right temp range01:21
dTalthe ones we get here say half an hour, in no uncertain terms01:22
de-factoand PCR maybe three times that, if done at site01:22
dTalbut it sounds like they were doing it like passport control01:22
de-factothey should not be able to issue a cert then if they do it incorrectly01:23
dTalindeed, but there's no authority to say that01:24
nixonixits just for show. what they really want, is mass infection of kids (ive been reading irene tosetti...01:24
dTalnever heard of her but boy she got dem crazy eyes, according to google01:27
nixonix.title https://twitter.com/itosettiMD_MBA/status/143788389712830464901:28
Brainstormnixonix, the URL could not be loaded01:28
BrainstormUpdates for Anguilla: +1 deaths (now 1) since 17 hours ago01:29
de-factoimho vaccination is for introducing the immune system to s-protein hence protection against (symptomatic infections) and even more against severe progressions, meaning personal protection and taking load from healthcare system, (proper) testing can end infection chains by preventing more spreading and also allows for monitoring breakthrough rates (important to estimate vaccination efficacy)01:29
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-Bridgestorm- ⭕ Earthquake! 6.2 Mb tremor, registered by alomax,scevent, with 33 reports, 33 early, occurred 14 minutes ago (23:15:55 UTC), during daytime, Near S.E. Coast Of Australia (-37.46, 146.39), ↓5 km likely felt 240 km away (in Melbourne…) by 5.4 million people — Webcams: https://www.windy.com/webcams/1216174612 https://www.windy.com/webcams/1618543217 https://www.windy.com/webcams/1431412855 (quakesearch.geonet.org.nz)01:30
dTalquick question, why do we get earthquake notifications here01:30
nixonixand its to lessen the chances to infect other people, who then can infect more and after some time:01:31
nixonix.title https://www.nbcboston.com/news/coronavirus/biogen-conference-in-boston-now-tied-to-more-than-300000-coronavirus-cases/2254941/01:31
Brainstormnixonix: From www.nbcboston.com: Biogen Conference in Boston Linked to More Than 300,000 COVID-19 Cases, Science Journal Study Suggests – NBC Boston01:31
nixonixwe discussed about that in april 2020 or so, check from logs01:41
nixonixthere are regions in usa with over 95% vax coverage of 12+. with population of tens of thousands. i doubt we have here01:41
nixonix.title https://twitter.com/Cascadia/status/144035747560190362501:44
Brainstormnixonix: From twitter.com: Sherry Reynolds 🌟 (@Cascadia): "In one Seattle suburbs (Bellevue is majority minority and 38% foreign born) they have 95% vaccination rates and zero deaths in last 14 days." | nitter01:44
BrainstormUpdates for Mayotte: +3 cases (now 20179) since 2 days ago — Fr. Polynesia: +3 deaths (now 602) since 20 hours ago02:06
BrainstormNew from BBC Health: Covid vaccine stockpiles: Are 241m doses at risk of going to waste?: Joe Biden wants more global vaccine equality but the US and other nations have not backed promises with action. → https://is.gd/W8BzzU02:13
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BrainstormNew from COVID tweets: Eric Topol (@EricTopol): 5. The variables associated with breakthrough hospitalizationsMost notable: Prior covid + vaccine marked protection pic.twitter.com/NFD3nT6LZf → https://is.gd/FywGm004:43
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BrainstormNew from COVID tweets: Eric Topol (@EricTopol): As far as I know, this is the largest dataset of vaccinated Americans for breakthrough hospitalizations, w/ data several months out from getting vaccinated, multiple weeks into the 4th Delta wave (with the caveats of an insurance claims resource) → https://is.gd/LHdKdP05:05
BrainstormNew from Reddit (test): China_Flu: Study - Antiandrogens Reduce COVID Hospitalization, Deaths, And Disease Progression (Dr. Syed) → https://is.gd/9Vi11F05:15
LjLdTal, because big earthquakes impacting many people may have effects on lockdowns and quarantines and containment and COVID procedures in general05:23
LjLand that Australia earthquake was definitely unusual and i'm getting a slew of comments on Reddit about it05:23
twomoonwhy does 'a' get used for direct objects ljl ?05:30
twomoonisn't that a bit odd? i thought you said 'a' never gets used for direct objects in italian.05:30
LjLprobably because with human objects (which is what it gets used for, or sometimes personalized animals" it feels more like you're doing an action "to" them, as they're conscious, rather than directly operating "on" them. and there is already a lot of "a" used for what english calls indirect objects, when verbs involve people: i talk TO you, the difference between "i talk to you about something" and "i talk you about doing something" is subtle, you're still talking05:33
LjLto the person05:33
LjLin italian we call direct objects "complemento oggetto" and indirect objects "complemento di termine". you can probably understand these terms. in one, you're acting on something, in the other, your action as "terminal" effect on something, or, often, someone05:35
LjLeven in some southern italian dialects or just colloquial speech from those regions "a" is sometimes used the way spanish does05:35
LjL"i shoot you" sounds like a direct object in english (although with english it's kind of hard to tell, but you can tell because "i shoot to you" would be ungrammatical), but in italian "ti sparo" expands to "sparo a te". i.e. i shoot at you, in your direction. the meaning is the same as "i shoot you", but in one language you're the direct object of being shot, in the other you are the person the action acts on, terminates on05:36
* LjL sleeps now05:37
twomoonthanks ljl05:37
twomoonsorry to bug you once again05:37
BrainstormNew from r/WorldNews: worldnews: EU states breached air pollution limits in 2020 despite COVID → https://is.gd/Z3cqPV07:01
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BrainstormNew from The Indian Express: World: India’s decision to resume Covid-19 vaccine shipments important development: WHO chief → https://is.gd/RYY1xi07:33
BrainstormNew from The Indian Express: World: Coronavirus vaccine: Johnson & Johnson says second shot boosts protection → https://is.gd/Q88M6W08:05
BrainstormNew from The Indian Express: World: ‘Soul-crushing’: US COVID-19 deaths are topping 1,900 a day → https://is.gd/FiuqNX08:48
BrainstormNew from r/Coronavirus: Daily Discussion Thread | September 22, 2021: Please refer to our Wiki for more information on COVID-19 and our sub. You can find answers to frequently asked questions in our FAQ , where there is valuable information such as our: → https://is.gd/gjsi3M09:09
BrainstormNew from The Indian Express: World: Brazil’s unvaccinated President Bolsonaro eats pizza for dinner on New York street → https://is.gd/3AQ6Xs09:20
BrainstormNew from COVID tweets: Prof Francois Balloux (@BallouxFrancois): This is incorrect. The grant proposed to vaccinate bats against Sarbecoviruses, not to release 'airborne coronaviruses'. The idea was largely similar to vaccinating wildlife (foxes, coyotes, raccoons, ...) against rabies, which is effective in reducing human spillover cases. twitter.com/R_H_Ebright/st… → https://is.gd/2DRb8Z09:30
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BrainstormNew from The Indian Express: World: COVID-19 sends northern Chinese city into semi-shutdown → https://is.gd/PLlEHF09:51
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BrainstormUpdates for Saint Lucia: +87 cases (now 10727), +18 deaths (now 168), +151 vaccines (now 43582), +281 tests (now 77248) since 8 hours ago10:36
BrainstormNew from StatNews: Opinion: Do we need vaccine exemption boards?: Like with draft boards during the Vietnam War, local or state vaccine boards could consider individual requests for exemptions, whatever the reason given. → https://is.gd/mnpLTJ10:44
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BrainstormNew from BBC Health: Covid: People are vaccinated - so why are there so many cases?: More than four out of five UK adults are now fully vaccinated, but daily case rates remain high. → https://is.gd/zEPKnU11:05
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BrainstormNew from r/WorldNews: worldnews: Vaccinated individuals now account for over half of new deaths in Israel → https://is.gd/SS9nk411:27
xrogaan>> Covid: People are vaccinated - so why are there so many cases?11:31
xrogaanBecause that's the wrong metric. You need to look at how many people are dying, not the amount of cases.11:32
xrogaanIt's like during WWI. They started to distribute hard hats to the soldiers, and a high graded (general?) seeing the increase in non-fatal casualties stated that the hats didn't work. Failed to recognize that the people who are then alive wouldn't have been if it weren't for the hats.11:34
BrainstormNew from The Indian Express (Health): Food & Wine: Young children’s diets ‘could get much worse’ under Covid: Unicef report → https://is.gd/z49PMe11:38
BrainstormUpdates for Russia: +19706 cases (now 7.3 million), +817 deaths (now 200625), +352095 tests (now 187.7 million) since a day ago — Cyprus: +248 cases (now 117483), +1 deaths (now 548), +2668294 tests (now 9.4 million) since a day ago12:03
BrainstormNew from BioNTech: Pfizer and BioNTech Expand Collaboration with U.S. to Provide 500 Million Additional COVID-19 Vaccine Doses at Not-For-Profit Price for Donation to Poorest Countries: Expanded agreement brings the total number of COVID-19 vaccine doses to be supplied to the U.S. government for donation to one billion Effort contributes to [... want %more?] → https://is.gd/IW6VVs12:10
-Bridgestorm- ⭕ Sismo! Earthquake! 6.5 Mw tremor, registered by EMSC,US, occurred 22 minutes ago (09:57:08 UTC), with a gibbous moon, Near Coast Of Nicaragua (12.16, -87.82) ± 3 km, ↓32 km likely felt 380 km away (in Chinandega, León…) by 284900 people (www.seismicportal.eu)12:19
BrainstormNew from r/WorldNews: worldnews: The U.S. Is Buying 500 Million More Pfizer Vaccine Doses To Donate To Other Countries → https://is.gd/wkJuzG12:32
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ViRoNUpdates for Belgium : +1797 cases (now 1.23M) 7-day avg: 208212:49
BrainstormNew from The Indian Express (Health): Health: Is Covid-19 associated with acute weight loss and malnutrition? Here’s what you need to know → https://is.gd/ppeFJQ13:15
BrainstormNew from The Indian Express: World: UNGA: Brazil’s health minister tests positive for Covid-19 in New York → https://is.gd/urGoup13:26
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BrainstormNew from Science-Based Medicine: Chipping Away at Vaccine Hesitancy: How to persuade the remaining unvaccinated. The post  first appeared on Science-Based Medicine . → https://is.gd/tajMcM14:19
specing> how to14:31
specingez14:31
specingif they had just listened for a moment to the reasons why they don't want to get vaccinated14:31
specingand fixed them14:31
specingbecause most are easily fixable14:31
BrainstormUpdates for Switzerland: +1048 cases (now 828981), +39034 tests (now 10.5 million) since 23 hours ago14:32
specingthis covid thing is honestly a tragedy-comedy now14:39
specingI don't usually link stuff from GAFAM, but anyway https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXTGgup_Yto14:40
BrainstormNew from StatNews: Remdesivir reduces Covid hospitalizations when given early, study shows: Gilead’s Covid-19 drug remdesivir appeared to reduce hospitalizations by 87% in high-risk patients diagnosed early in the disease in a new study, the company said. → https://is.gd/81PGHw14:41
BrainstormNew from Reddit (test): CoronaVirus_2019_nCoV: California now has nation's lowest virus transmission rate → https://is.gd/fIwDn214:52
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BrainstormNew from Contagion Live: COVID-19 Vaccination Declared Safe and Effective for Cancer Patients: Patients with cancer now have official confirmation that vaccinating against COVID-19 will protect them from contracting the virus. → https://is.gd/FzoZgW15:14
BrainstormNew from COVID tweets: Eric Topol (@EricTopol): This surge in Singapore may be a harbinger of a positive future scenario when a country has 80% of their total population vaccinated: 98% of >13,000 cases were asymptomatic or mild pic.twitter.com/10B6zzw2xn → https://is.gd/7Jm66M15:25
BrainstormUpdates for Brunei: +201 cases (now 5586), +2 deaths (now 31), +5195 tests (now 317241) since a day ago15:59
BrainstormNew from COVID tweets: Eric Topol (@EricTopol): Some progress on the global vaccination missionwashingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/… by @JeffreyZients and @AnthonyBlinken1 @PostOpinions ft.com/content/f0bf29… @FT @donatopmancini @JamieSmythF Several more billion doses needed ASAP for LMIC and especially Africa pic.twitter.com/2g3Iy6kR5l → https://is.gd/rBQGxV16:09
BrainstormUpdates for Bangladesh: +1376 cases (now 1.5 million), +36 deaths (now 27313) since 22 hours ago — Fiji: +311 cases (now 50270), +13 deaths (now 579), +4911 tests (now 402792) since 2 days ago — Zambia: +77 cases (now 208676), +6769 tests (now 2.4 million) since a day ago — Gibraltar: +7 cases (now 5490), +976 tests (now 354553) since 23 hours ago16:31
BrainstormNew from EMA: Human medicine assessment reports: (news): Human medicines European public assessment report (EPAR): COVID-19 Vaccine Janssen, COVID-19 vaccine (Ad26.COV2-S [recombinant]), COVID-19 virus infection, Date of authorisation: 11/03/2021, Revision: 8, Status: Authorised → https://is.gd/leysw616:31
BrainstormNew from COVID tweets: Eric Topol (@EricTopol): On the waning impact of @moderna_tx vaccination over time: people who got their vaccination earlier (e column) had less protection than more recent (p column) in the US Delta wave medrxiv.org/content/10.110… pic.twitter.com/mI7J2kMjUz → https://is.gd/r2ACHv16:53
BrainstormUpdates for Germany: +7251 cases (now 4.2 million) since 23 hours ago17:02
BrainstormNew from ClinicalTrials.gov: (news): COVID-19 Antibody Responses in Cystic Fibrosis → https://is.gd/XWkPxC17:15
BrainstormNew from ClinicalTrials.gov: (news): Examine the Psychosocial Impacts of Covid-19 Pandemic. → https://is.gd/C1Sdck17:26
pwr22https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-5862868917:29
pwr22That's interesting17:29
BrainstormNew from ClinicalTrials.gov: (news): The South African Coronavirus Disease of 2019 (COVID-19) Surgical Outcomes Study → https://is.gd/JHxjsB17:37
BrainstormUpdates for Chile: +524 cases (now 1.6 million), +5 deaths (now 37379), +43427 tests (now 21.3 million) since a day ago17:39
nixonixModerna COVID-19 Vaccine Update September 15th, 2021 - pdf file  https://investors.modernatx.com/static-files/4826b212-0777-4b17-852e-0f32ca42bc9217:45
pwr22nixonix: I thought that was talking about an updated vaccine for a second ☹️17:46
nixonixModerna Highlights New Clinical Data on its COVID-19 Vaccine September 15, 2021 - pdf file https://investors.modernatx.com/node/12856/pdf17:46
pwr22> In a prospective cohort study at Kaiser... (full message at https://libera.ems.host/_matrix/media/r0/download/libera.chat/8ad082dba63bed6497fdbf741916c12575217352)17:47
pwr22That seems unlikely17:47
nixonixno, comparing the efficacy drop around 10 moths vs 5 months or so after the 2nd dose (huge confidence intervals with severe and deaths, though)17:47
BrainstormNew from ClinicalTrials.gov: (news): Music for Decreasing Dental Anxiety During Oral Surgery in Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) → https://is.gd/AmN5nM17:48
nixonix.title https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.09.17.21263624v117:48
Brainstormnixonix: From www.medrxiv.org: Covid-19 in the Phase 3 Trial of mRNA-1273 During the Delta-variant Surge | medRxiv17:48
pwr22whats mRNA-1273?17:49
nixonix.title https://investors.modernatx.com/news-releases/news-release-details/moderna-highlights-new-clinical-data-its-covid-19-vaccine/17:49
Brainstormnixonix: From investors.modernatx.com: Moderna Highlights New Clinical Data on its COVID-19 Vaccine | Moderna, Inc.17:49
nixonixvaccine, that normal moderna ronavax17:49
pwr22Ah17:49
nixonixe and p in the end means e was the non-placebo group that got the vax in the fall, p was then in placebo arm, and got vaxed in jan-march mostly17:50
nixonixi estimated the they had around 10 months and 5 months on average from 2nd dose to the infection in the summer, in that comparison and study17:51
nixonixthe=that17:51
nixonixhttps://investors.modernatx.com/news-releases/17:51
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nixonixthat first pdf file, i couldnt find the web page where pdf files like that one were listed for download, just that pdf link. tell me if you find the right web page for future checking17:52
pwr22Wait, so they think their third booster is going to increase immunity nearly 200% over the peak from the earlier shots17:53
pwr22There's more to immunity than just serum antibody titres too 🤦‍♂️17:53
pwr22I know they're easy to measure but at this point they're starting to become a bit less useful17:53
pwr22There's also the case of "Anti-bodies that work how well against what strains?"17:54
pwr22I hear the monolithic term "anti-body" titres a lot17:54
pwr22I wonder if the market / analysts are smart enough to see though this suspect investors deck 😀 ?17:56
nixonixyeah and theres more than just circulating neut ab titers too, from memory b-cells and bone marrow plasma cells, and the maturating, breadth, polyclonality...17:57
BrainstormNew from ClinicalTrials.gov: (news): Association of the Neutrophil/Lymphocyte Ratio With Pulmonary Complications and Mortality in COVID-19 Patients → https://is.gd/PslzZF17:59
nixonixwhile maturating depends on follicular t-cells recruited to germinal centers, and thus if the vaccine induces right cytokines for that, it prob also depend how low the circulating ab titers have waned before the next shot (or infection)17:59
nixonixso when moderna with 100mcg dose has 4 weeks standard dose interval, while its a bit longer than pfizer's, their titers are supposedly perhaps 2x pfizers, so they havent waned as low in 4 weeks, as pfizer's in 3 weeks18:00
nixonixso while moderna's circulating titers may still be higher than pfizer's, after like 5 months, its possible that pfizer's germinal center b-cells have maturated more because of that, so when the protection might be better for moderna at 6 months or so, but that may well reverse after more time has passed18:02
nixonixor become more even anyway. vs severe especially, when the circulating titers have gone too low to protect much vs infection18:02
nixonixso for moderna, even longer dose interval would be better than for pfizer, probably18:03
nixonixremembering their neut intervals have never been compared in the same study. only binding ab titers18:03
BrainstormUpdates for United Kingdom: +21584 cases (now 7.5 million), +1011639 tests (now 294.9 million) since 21 hours ago18:04
nixonix*neut ab titers18:04
nixonix *neut ab titers havent been compared in the same study. binding ab titers have been compared18:04
nixonix.title https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/1440506149095100430/photo/1  here we see, that moderna (with 4 weeks standard dose interval) seems to give only couple of weeks advantage vs identified infection, vs pfizer with 3w18:07
Brainstormnixonix: From twitter.com: Eric Topol (@EricTopol): "2. No significant difference of waning for Pfizer vs Moderna for protection from breakthrough infections" | El Pajarito de NoGAFAM18:07
nixonixbut its raw data, not stratified by age. and those getting moderna or pfizer are not necessarily comparable groups in some other ways either (like here they used moderna earlier in the far north lapland because easier cold chain)18:10
nixonix.title https://www.humetrix.com/powerpoint-vaccine.html  damn slides, tell me if you cand dl those as a pdf or something18:11
Brainstormnixonix: From www.humetrix.com: Waning Effect of COVID Vaccine18:11
nixonix.title https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.09.17.21263532v118:14
Brainstormnixonix: From www.medrxiv.org: Strong humoral immune responses against SARS-CoV-2 Spike after BNT162b2 mRNA vaccination with a sixteen-week interval between doses | medRxiv18:14
nixonixhttps://pbs.twimg.com/media/E_2l_zaVIAQM0Y-?format=jpg&name=4096x409618:15
nixonixprior the first dose of vaccine (V0), three weeks (V1, median [range]: 21 days [13–28 days]) and three months (V2, median [range]: 85 days [73–104 days]) after the first dose of vaccine and three weeks after the second vaccine injection (V3, median [range]: 21 days [13–42 days])18:16
nixonixnotice that naive (who dont have previous infection) vaccinated with 16 weeks interval beat both of those "hybrid immunity" groups (infection + one or 2 doses of vaccine)18:20
BrainstormNew from The Indian Express: World: Joe Biden to double US global donation of COVID-19 vaccine shots → https://is.gd/md78vt18:21
nixonixin circulating neut ab titers at least...18:21
nixonix3 weeks after the last dose. who knows how is it vs severe, or after several months. but anyways18:22
nixonix.title https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/1440506163246743562  yeah, but how about those vaxed with longer dose interval?18:27
Brainstormnixonix: From twitter.com: Eric Topol (@EricTopol): "5. The variables associated with breakthrough hospitalizations Most notable: Prior covid + vaccine marked protection" | nitter18:27
nixoniximo give it 16 weeks post infection before another dose, if you are pretty sure it was systemic infection. fever and stuff idk18:28
BrainstormNew from COVID tweets: Eric Topol (@EricTopol): Summary of the evidence to support use of Ivermectin for any covid-related indication pic.twitter.com/z6jW1PzjGx → https://is.gd/x0RcTh18:31
BrainstormNew from StatNews: First Opinion: Opinion: Biden’s global summit Covid-19 targets are woefully inadequate and must be corrected → https://is.gd/0KwgEF18:42
nixonixhere's how i would improve these current mrna vaccines (they know all this, and way more, so if they are not doing something like this, there are reasons like production issues, approval and need for new trials, costs etc from the changes - im pretty sure they know what is the most profitable for them to get steady profits from new doses needed):18:46
nixonixboth should increase the interval between 1st and 2nd dose. moderna could reduce mrna to something like 50mcg to save it and also titers would reduce lower in shorter time, so 2nd would be more beneficial18:47
nixonixpfizer should optimize its product since 100mcg gives a bit poorer neutralization than 30mcg, peak being perhaps at 50-75 or something. moderna doesnt have similar issue apparently. or pfizer could increase its dose for the 2nd18:49
nixonixboth should perhaps use two antigens, like delta spike and one with 484K - SA variant or some recombinant with that mutation. unless it decreases the production too much18:50
nixonixboth should test protein adjuvants like unmethylated CpG to induce cxcl13/il-17 for b-cell maturation and lasting protection. mrna for adjuvant production would be added in the vaccine18:51
BrainstormNew from r/WorldNews: worldnews: Chinese whistleblower claims first COVID outbreak was intentional and happened in October 2019 at Military World Games in Wuhan - two months before China notified the world about virus → https://is.gd/bqT2xe18:53
nixonix.title https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/27/11/21-1557_article19:00
Brainstormnixonix: From wwwnc.cdc.gov: Early Release - COVID-19 Vaccination Coverage, Intent, Knowledge, Attitudes, and Beliefs among Essential Workers, United States - Volume 27, Number 11—November 2021 - Emerging Infectious Diseases [...]19:00
BrainstormUpdates for Greenland: +24 cases (now 528), +1963 tests (now 70717) since 22 hours ago19:00
BrainstormNew from Politico: Coronavirus: EU, US announce ‘partnership’ on global vaccine distribution effort → https://is.gd/lFOXn619:04
nixonix.title https://twitter.com/bjornpiltz/status/144065573819655782519:11
Brainstormnixonix: From twitter.com: Björn Piltz (@bjornpiltz): "The pressure is up! No wages for unvaccinated in quarantine. https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/gesundheitsminister-beschliessen-ende-der-lohnfortzahlung-fuer- [...]19:11
nixonix.title https://twitter.com/pbleic/status/1440569286460727301  they used to be rare when pre-alpha and esp delta19:18
Brainstormnixonix: From twitter.com: Paul Bleicher (@pbleic): "1/With ongoing “spin” that breakthrough infections are “rare” from public health officials and media, the reality - in a 79% vaccinated prison population, the attack rate was [...]19:18
nixonix.title https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/09/21/wuhan-scientists-planned-releaseskin-penetrating-nanoparticles/  didnt read yet, but lets read together19:26
Brainstormnixonix: From www.telegraph.co.uk: Wuhan scientists planned to release coronavirus particles into cave bats, leaked papers reveal19:26
BrainstormNew from WebMD: Some States Limit Monoclonal Antibody Treatment to High-Risk, Unvaccinated Patients: At least two states are recommending that doctors prioritize the limited supply of monoclonal antibody treatments for high-risk COVID-19 patients, including unvaccinated people who face severe disease. → https://is.gd/RTFTSS19:26
nixonix"A Covid-19 researcher from the World Health Organisation (WHO), who wished to remain anonymous, said it was alarming that the grant proposal included plans to enhance the more deadly disease of Middle-East Respiratory Syndrome (Mers)19:32
nixonixwell maybe it would become endemic flu-like too, like sars2 is supposed to become...19:33
BrainstormUpdates for Italy: +3963 cases (now 4.6 million), +67 deaths (now 130488) since 23 hours ago19:37
de-factonixonix, where is that quote from?19:46
nixonixthat telegraph article. there's discussion in twitter (prob many places, tho), ill link a thread... lots of familiar names, including irene tosetti who invited daszak (:19:47
de-factoi meant the mers statement19:48
nixonixme too19:49
nixonix.title https://twitter.com/R_H_Ebright/status/144042316004259020819:49
Brainstormnixonix: From twitter.com: Richard H. Ebright (@R_H_Ebright): ""Wuhan scientists were planning to release enhanced airborne coronaviruses into Chinese bat populations to inoculate them against diseases that could jump to [...]19:49
nixonixor do you mean original source of it?19:49
nixonixi dont know if telegraph got it straight from him or from that Drastic group, or wherever19:50
de-factoah yeah there (had to disable their annoying JS paywall)19:50
nixonixnoscript is handy19:51
nixonixalong with ublock origin19:51
de-factowhy would they want to innoculate bats when they know they would not clear the virus from their body?19:51
de-factoafaik their immune system is different from ours19:52
nixonixhundreds of post in the thread. link here if you find something interesting, im not reading all of them19:52
nixonixposts19:52
nixonixyeah i was thinking the same, maybe not true claim or just some suggested idea19:52
de-factois it about putting some artificial virus into serial passage of a natural reservoir?19:54
nixonixit isnt described that clearly, but from the article it looked liked they had plans or ideas that they could vaccinate bats so that they wouldnt get infected by human coronaviruses, which could then combine in bats' ideal immune system creating recombinant viruses that would infect humans easily and would be already airborne infecting between20:00
nixonixhumans (and picked up something nasty when in bats)20:00
BrainstormUpdates for Spain: +130 cases (now 4.9 million), +7 deaths (now 85990) since 22 hours ago20:02
nixonixand the other plans were those chimeric viruses with added pathogenicity like cleavage sites in mers etc20:02
nixonixthose spikes generally prevent viruses to get back easily to the same cells where they were produced. but instead have a bit more diffucult time, and more likely to find other cells, that were not infected20:03
nixonixbut then if those spikes, especially if they are rigid (like having prolines in them), may have hard time to find receptors they bind efficiently, so further evolution with less flexibility helps the spikes to brush easily on cells surfaces to find the receptors20:05
nixonixand then easy cleavage like furin site, makes many of them more flexible already in ERGIC where they are built20:06
nixonixtmprss2 would cut both those cleavage sites afaik, but doesnt happen too often20:07
nixonixi dont know mers, but maybe it has rigid spikes that are not cleavaged efficiently20:07
nixonixP681R mutation makes furin cleavage even easier (as does P681H if i recall), in the beginning of PRRAR motif20:09
nixonixsome claim that PRRAR in ancient variants proves it was not made in purpose, since it isnt optimal. but they dont know necessarily what is optimal, as if you make it too easy, it will go back to the cell where it came from. its a balance game, and the fittest will survive (not saying it was necessarily added on purpose, even if it was a lab leak -20:12
nixonixand if it was on purpose, you test and add pieces from other viruses, not trying to plan an ultimat virus from the beginning)20:12
nixonixwhy do they have different numbers of S-spikes? average 26 or something like that, but it varies a lot. its by no accident, but evolution towards optimal, so they can infect easily different types of cells, with different sizes and densities of ACE2 and TMPRSS220:18
lastshellhttps://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/09/22/1039272244/is-the-worst-over-modelers-predict-a-steady-decline-in-covid-cases-through-march20:19
nixonixi wonder if theres a web site dedicated for those forecasts...20:22
lastshellthere is one20:25
nixonixgraveyard of epidemiologists. with numbers of forecasts that turned out good in tombstones, and number of models that somehow got it right (by a chance)20:26
lastshellhttps://covid19.healthdata.org/united-states-of-america this one nixonix20:26
lastshellyeah I thing is hard to predict behavior20:27
nixonixi mean past forecasts20:28
lastshellhttps://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/science/forecasting/forecasting-us-previous.html20:28
nixonixi dont want more forecasts... btw, IHME had 35% estimate for prevalence in usa in early may (they increased it at the time, when it used to be less in late april or so, like 30%). at the time cdc's estimate was very close20:29
nixonixbut i looked at IHME's recent estimate, and it was even less than a few months ago, for usa (their european estimates were just bad - generally too low imo)20:30
nixonixbut i thought maybe they put lots of effort in usa and got it close to right. idk20:30
lastshellthe first link has the IMHE logo20:30
nixonixthats why i mentioned it, its IHME20:31
nixonix.tr ihme <fi20:31
Brainstormnixonix, English to English: ihme <fi (Google)20:31
nixonixdamn, how did this work...20:32
nixonix.tr ihme <en20:32
Brainstormnixonix, English to English: ihme <en (Google)20:32
nixonix.tr ihme <fin20:32
Brainstormnixonix, English to English: ihme <fin (Google)20:32
nixonixgod damn it! screw you guys, im going home20:33
BrainstormNew from COVID tweets: Eric Topol (@EricTopol): "will be remembered as one of the best examples of using data in the fight against COVID-19"nature.com/articles/d4158… @NatureNV by @oziadiasAgree 💯 pic.twitter.com/Is8vA8exrH → https://is.gd/oHKmJC20:41
de-facto.tr <fi ihme20:42
Brainstormde-facto, Finnish to English: Miracle (Wikipedia, Wikipedia) — Miracles (Wikipedia) — wonder (Google)20:42
Arsanerit.tr <fi riisuuntukaa20:43
BrainstormArsanerit, Finnish to English: undress (MyMemory) — take off (Google)20:43
lastshellhttps://boriquagato.substack.com/p/the-vaccinated-superspread-hypothesis20:45
nixonix.title https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-021-01535-y20:47
Brainstormnixonix: From www.nature.com: The lesson of ivermectin: meta-analyses based on summary data alone are inherently unreliable | Nature Medicine20:47
de-factoits a bit like a unix pipe %tr <fi <content>20:47
de-factopiping from "fi" to "%tr"20:47
de-facto.tr <auto ihme20:49
Brainstormde-facto, Pulie-Rauto to English:20:49
de-factolol20:49
nixonixthere was some guy they hired in florida as a surgeon general. i looked for information on him. he was in harvard with eric feigl-ding, but has since been in that hcq scheme20:49
nixonixand guess what else? ivermectin with mccullough and like...20:49
nixonix.title https://twitter.com/MegEileenGreen/status/1440465630444986372  and kory. i wonder who finances these, all that ivm scam, and hcq before it20:52
Brainstormnixonix, the URL could not be loaded20:52
nixonix.title https://twitter.com/MegEileenGreen/status/144046563044498637220:52
Brainstormnixonix: From twitter.com: MG, MD (@MegEileenGreen): "I was heartbroken when I found out that Dr. Pierre Kory is behind the whole group promoting ivermectin. He was the best critical care doc, and one of the best teachers in my [...]20:52
nixonix.title https://www.sarasotamagazine.com/news-and-profiles/2021/09/joseph-a-ladapo-named-florida-surgeon-general20:56
Brainstormnixonix: From www.sarasotamagazine.com: Gov. Ron DeSantis Names Dr. Joseph A. Ladapo Florida Surgeon General | Sarasota Magazine20:56
nixonix.title https://www.miamiherald.com/news/coronavirus/article254412224.html20:57
Brainstormnixonix: From www.miamiherald.com: New FL surgeon general opposes mask, vaccine mandates | Miami Herald20:57
nixonix"When asked whether Florida should be promoting vaccines, Ladapo replied that too much emphasis had been placed on that approach. “The state should be promoting good health, and vaccination isn’t the only path for that,” Ladapo said. “It’s been treated almost like a religion, and that’s just senseless.”21:01
nixonix.title https://www.wsj.com/articles/are-covid-vaccines-riskier-than-advertised-11624381749  by surgeon general Joseph A. Ladapo and Harvey Risch21:01
Brainstormnixonix: From www.wsj.com: Are Covid Vaccines Riskier Than Advertised? - WSJ21:01
nixonixwho is behind all this, who pays them?21:02
nixonix.title https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/covid19/8779721:02
Brainstormnixonix: From www.medpagetoday.com: No Evidence That Doctor Group in Viral Video Got Near COVID 'Front Lines' | MedPage Today21:02
nixonixlabapo is there too, check if some other familiar names21:02
nixonixladapo21:03
nixonix.title https://mobile.twitter.com/RandomOpOnions/status/138479693666697216121:03
Brainstormnixonix: From mobile.twitter.com: Random OpOnions (@RandomOpOnions): "Is this the same Joseph Ladapo from the Reagan medical center that has advocated for the use of Ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine last year?" | nitter21:03
nixonix.title https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.09.30.20204693v1  Joseph A. Ladapo, John E. McKinnon, Peter A. McCullough, Harvey A. Risch  - no, not worth reading prob (i didnt)21:03
Brainstormnixonix: From www.medrxiv.org: Randomized Controlled Trials of Early Ambulatory Hydroxychloroquine in the Prevention of COVID-19 Infection, Hospitalization, and Death: Meta-Analysis | medRxiv21:03
BrainstormUpdates for Qatar: +138 cases (now 235907), +5308 tests (now 2.6 million) since a day ago21:04
BrainstormNew from COVID19 Vaccine Tracker: Andy Becker: Altimmune Inc: AdCOVID → https://is.gd/bnKPpU21:13
nixonix.title https://twitter.com/MatBrnstein/status/1440712652867600390  prob more to follow in the thread (there was topol's trolling above this one)21:16
Brainstormnixonix, the URL could not be loaded21:16
BrainstormNew from COVID19 Vaccine Tracker: Andy Becker: Aivita Biomedical Inc: AV-COVID-19 → https://is.gd/qrWy9m21:24
BrainstormNew from COVID tweets: Eric Topol (@EricTopol): Further evidence of Moderna edge vs Pfizer in kidney transplant patients and those undergoing dialysismedrxiv.org/content/10.110… with significantly higher mean antibody titer response (Figure) and seroconversion rates (65% vs 35% after 1st dose, respectively) pic.twitter.com/CoJtHFqbE6 → https://is.gd/RhwXLA21:45
BrainstormNew from COVID tweets: Tom Wenseleers (@TWenseleers): Political polarisation and the tribalism that goes with it can be quite deadly. Here Covid mortality in the US against the % that voted for Trump in 2020. twitter.com/charles_gaba/s… → https://is.gd/kpyPcW22:09
TurboTechHowdie Howdie22:10
TurboTechCepheids new cartridge for this winter.  https://cepheid.widen.net/s/vdxl5wwglx/cepheid-xpert-cov-2-flu-rsv-plus-flyer-eua-0854-english22:16
TurboTechRegarding sars cov it will look for 3 targets instead of two.22:16
de-factohey TT :)22:22
de-factono targets on s for lineage discrimination?22:22
de-factopcr in 25 minutes, thats neat :))22:24
TurboTechPrevious was 55 minutes22:24
nixonixsars1 or 2? what kind of targets?22:25
TurboTechCurrent sars cov2 is 55 minutes22:25
TurboTechThis new cartridge will look to pick up variants as well so there has to be a common gene target in there.22:25
TurboTechHere is all information avail.  https://www.cepheid.com/en_US/tests/Critical-Infectious-Diseases/Xpert-Xpress-CoV-2-Flu-RSV-plus#product-resources22:26
nixonixbut can you recognize long deletions in N?22:26
nixonixwas in open reding frame...22:27
nixonix.title https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/13/9/1870/htm22:28
Brainstormnixonix: From www.mdpi.com: Viruses | Free Full-Text | Multiple Occurrences of a 168-Nucleotide Deletion in SARS-CoV-2 ORF8, Unnoticed by Standard Amplicon Sequencing and Variant Calling Pipelines | HTML22:28
de-facto"Robust design with three distinct gene targets for SARS-CoV-2:  N2, E, RdRP"22:31
BrainstormUpdates for Germany: +8053 cases (now 4.2 million) since 23 hours ago22:31
nixonixsingapore rocketing, despite one of worlds highest vacc coverage. almost all pfizer and moderna (also some chinavax, so that ccp allows travelling there). why's that?22:39
nixonixi think that it proves my hypothesis, what comes down, must go up again. they are just in that phase now22:41
BrainstormNew from COVID tweets: Trevor Bedford (@trvrb): The @fredhutch is recruiting for a faculty position in Infectious Disease Phylodynamics / Genomic Epidemiology. COVID-19 has pushed pathogen genomics well into the future and now is the time to advance research on methods/applications for sequence data.apply.interfolio.com/92807 pic.twitter.com/h8rPt7OTVu → https://is.gd/Mf8SFU22:45
nixonix.title https://twitter.com/fitterhappierAJ/status/1440667618457784328  piers morgan was vaxed (and vocal proponent of vaxing), but seems to have some long covey problem. so its not just a flu even when recently vaxed22:52
Brainstormnixonix: From twitter.com: Anthony J Leonardi, PhD, MS (@fitterhappierAJ): "I am tired of some academics (some virologists) downplaying the physiological and immunological consequences of Cov2 infection It's rhetorical damage [...]22:52
de-factoTurboTech, what is your opinion about this? https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scitranslmed.abc707522:55
TurboTechsorry guys I had to take a phone call23:05
TurboTechIf lamp works we should use it.  I am all for technology.23:07
TurboTechKeep an eye on NY's numbers23:08
BrainstormNew from COVID tweets: Eric Topol (@EricTopol): Difference between protection, VE for symptomatic infections during extended follow-up of Pfizer and Moderna Pfizer data nejm.org/doi/full/10.10… pic.twitter.com/jTViAJEbuu → https://is.gd/0riGAI23:09
TurboTechRegarding long covid or long term problems.  If you have endothelial dysfunction or an immune system that is not at the top of its game, a vaccine will only do so much  (probably keep you alive) but I do not think it can help with the exacerbation of the pre existing conditions.23:09
nixonix.title https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/144050616324674356223:12
Brainstormnixonix: From twitter.com: Eric Topol (@EricTopol): "5. The variables associated with breakthrough hospitalizations Most notable: Prior covid + vaccine marked protection" | 42l - nitter23:12
nixonixtheres some comorbidities and their effect listed. the last one, previous infection as a strong protective factor, it could perhaps be replaced by just longer interval of doses. check my earlier comment and link to support the idea from logs (in topic), earlier today23:18
TurboTechI was watching a few videos and one video broke down an Isreili study that stated that longer term pre covid infection was more effective than Vaccine alone.23:19
TurboTechWait let me restate that.23:20
TurboTechAccording to the study.  from least effective to most effective.   Vaccine alone-Covid infection- Covid infection + Vaccine23:21
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TurboTechI just have a problem believing that a vaccine which is a small part can provide longer immunity that a whole virus.  It does not stimulate anywhere near as many processes then the real thing.  It can't.  Maybe I am missing something.23:22
TurboTechI think New York Deaths are on the verge of exploding.23:23
TurboTechI think we will play a game of Tag your it from South to north23:24
nixonixtheres been lots of critique against the study that video prob refers. like here (there's a typo in the first tweet confusing what was meant):23:25
nixonix.title https://twitter.com/PeterHotez/status/143160966968505959123:25
Brainstormnixonix: From twitter.com: Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD (@PeterHotez): "1/5 This ⁦@medrxivpreprint⁩ has generated some confusion, with some making the case that if you are recovered + infected, then you have the best protection of [...]23:25
nixonixnot all the infections give any kind of lasting immune memory. it may be just in upper airways, not systemic infection. those in hospital get a good infection, but the purpose of vaccines is try to avoid infection and the damages23:27
nixonixgood *protection23:27
TurboTechI need to find the Isreili study23:27
TurboTechHow ever you spell it.23:28
TurboTechIt was huge.23:28
TurboTechsize wise23:28
TurboTechIt was like 20% of the population23:28
lastshellhey guys is true moderna offer better protection than pfizer ?23:28
nixonixthose vaccines just arent very good yet for long protection. that israeli study is in that tweet, but its a bad study23:28
LjLanother israeli study? they gave us none before, now they're shooting out one per day?23:29
nixonixwe have discussed about this, and also moderna vs pfizer etc. pretty much everything, exp what comes out tomorrow...23:30
BrainstormUpdates for Kuwait: +38 cases (now 411316), +1 deaths (now 2442), +15197 tests (now 4.1 million) since 22 hours ago23:40
nixonix.title https://www.cloverbiopharma.com/news/83.html  uses a type of CpG adjuvant i wrote earlier about, which prob activates follicular dendritic cells needed for b-cell maturation and better lasting protection23:48
Brainstormnixonix: From www.cloverbiopharma.com: Clover’s COVID-19 Vaccine Candidate Demonstrates 79% Efficacy Against Delta in Global Phase 2/3 SPECTRA Trial Dominated by Variants of Concern and Interest - Clover Biopharmaceuticals23:48
nixonix.title https://www.cell.com/cell-reports/pdf/S2211-1247(21)01243-2.pdf  mclellan in the team, so prob worth a look23:52
Brainstormnixonix: From www.cell.com: Home: Cell Press23:52
nixonix*Potent neutralization of SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern by an antibody with an uncommon genetic signature and structural mode of spike recognitionp, li { white-space: pre-wrap; }23:52

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