libera/##covid-19/ Sunday, 2021-12-26

BrainstormUpdates for Colombia: +3414 cases (now 5.1 million), +43 deaths (now 129729), +27310 tests (now 29.3 million) since 23 hours ago — Madagascar: +2295 cases (now 49590), +31 deaths (now 1027), +13701 tests (now 320884) since 6 days ago00:02
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Gunhild Alvik Nyborg (@GANyborg): Interviewed in @LEXPRESS, France. @CecPhil @TheWHN @CovidActionGrp twitter.com/LEXPRESS/statu… → https://twitter.com/GANyborg/status/147487660325993267800:18
* ferret coughs in the room00:34
BrainstormUpdates for Jamaica: +158 cases (now 92513) since a day ago — St. Kitts and Nevis: +14 cases (now 2836) since 22 hours ago — Netherlands: +13002 cases (now 3.1 million) since 21 hours ago00:46
BrainstormNew from r/WorldNews: worldnews: Officials in the north-western Chinese city of Xian are facing punishment for “not doing a good job” after a Covid-19 outbreak led to the lockdown of its 13 million residents. → https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/rok02q/officials_in_the_northwestern_chinese_city_of/00:47
BrainstormNew from r/Coronavirus: Coronavirus: Anger over mask mandates, other covid rules, spurs states to curb power of public health officials → https://old.reddit.com/r/Coronavirus/comments/rok7eg/anger_over_mask_mandates_other_covid_rules_spurs/00:56
BrainstormUpdates for Panama: +865 cases (now 486377), +3 deaths (now 7409), +11945 tests (now 4.4 million) since a day ago — Rwanda: +713 cases (now 104512), +1 deaths (now 1346), +35940 tests (now 3.9 million) since a day ago01:11
BrainstormNew from r/Coronavirus: Coronavirus: Omicron blindspots: why it’s hard to track coronavirus variants → https://old.reddit.com/r/Coronavirus/comments/rokt2r/omicron_blindspots_why_its_hard_to_track/01:34
LjLbecause we don't fucking sequence01:34
LjL's why01:34
BrainstormUpdates for Ivory Coast: +455 cases (now 63847), +2478 tests (now 1.2 million) since a day ago — Cabo Verde: +148 cases (now 39013), +929 tests (now 388481) since a day ago01:35
BrainstormNew from r/Coronavirus: Coronavirus: How long does it take for taste and smell to return? I’m currently on Day 6 and I’ve only just lost it. → https://old.reddit.com/r/Coronavirus/comments/rol5uy/how_long_does_it_take_for_taste_and_smell_to/01:52
BrainstormNew from r/Coronavirus: Coronavirus: 2 Caribbean ports turn away Florida cruise ship, citing COVID outbreak → https://old.reddit.com/r/Coronavirus/comments/rolilk/2_caribbean_ports_turn_away_florida_cruise_ship/02:12
BrainstormNew from NPR: COVID-19 outbreaks hit 3 cruise ships as Florida breaks record for new cases: An undisclosed number of passengers and crew aboard the Carnival Freedom tested positive. It was the third outbreak this week affecting ships operated by Carnival and Royal Caribbean. → https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2021/12/25/1068023210/cruise-ships-covid-florida02:21
BrainstormNew from r/Coronavirus: Coronavirus: UK sets new record for Covid cases as Omicron sweeps London → https://old.reddit.com/r/Coronavirus/comments/rolw3y/uk_sets_new_record_for_covid_cases_as_omicron/02:31
BrainstormNew from r/Coronavirus: Coronavirus: As COVID-19 causes Premier League chaos, focus turns to convincing vaccine-hesitant players → https://old.reddit.com/r/Coronavirus/comments/rolzqy/as_covid19_causes_premier_league_chaos_focus/02:40
BrainstormUpdates for Antigua and Barb.: +20 cases (now 4236) since a day ago02:44
LjL"Does anyone think that London is like NYC and hitting the testing limit? They had projected 200,000 cases a day in London by last Monday, if the doubling rate holds."  "For sure they’ve hit their limit. My wife took a private test post travel. Did not get results back. Was sick (but boosted.) Then took an NHS test early last week. Mailed it. No results from that one either."02:53
LjL( https://old.reddit.com/r/Coronavirus/comments/rolw3y/uk_sets_new_record_for_covid_cases_as_omicron/ )02:53
LjLwe've had two years to at least organize decent testing during peaks02:53
drein my city, cars are parked for 1/2 mile to get tested02:55
BrainstormNew from Reddit (test): CoronaVirus_2019_nCoV: Long COVID patients and doctors detail the growing 'mass disabling event' in America → https://old.reddit.com/r/CoronaVirus_2019_nCoV/comments/romjd5/long_covid_patients_and_doctors_detail_the/02:59
LjLdre, one absurd thing here is until you get a positive PCR result, your household is technically supposed to keep going to work (and "technically" becomes "practically" if they can't afford to take leave)03:01
LjLwe don't do contact tracing anymore... okay, we've stopped doing that long ago... i "accept" that03:02
LjLbut seriously, *discouraging* people from quarantining?03:02
LjLbut in NY they are apparently telling people who are positive to stop isolating *after 5 days* (did you know this ublx?) as long as they are only "mildly" symptomatic, without needing to take a test03:02
LjLi guess they've just gone with "omicron is mild, also we need people to be working, let them all catch it"03:03
ublxin 5 days?03:04
ublxwell i have often seen "most contagious 2 days before and 3 days after" quoted03:04
LjLublx, sure let's take an average and veeeery narrowly make the quarantine time be just a tiny bit past it ;(03:05
xxwhich country will be the first one to basically declare covid over by giving up on everything?03:05
LjLwell NY may not be a country but it's bigger than many03:05
ublxon the other hand, also see numerous accounts of staff shortages owing to isolating03:05
lastshellI hear they reduce the number of isolation only 7 days03:06
LjLublx, yes i know, i assume that's why they're doing it, but...03:06
xxyeah it feels like we're close to declaring covid over just due to not having enough staff03:06
xx"some of you will die, but we're willing to accept that"03:06
LjLxx, ublx: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Resignation  "Another theory is that millions of people are also suffering disabilities from Long COVID, altering their ability or desire to work.[19]" - i'd definitely heard this theory before03:07
lastshellthe greather good03:07
xxreally wonder which country will have the guts to say that03:07
LjLxx, eh Johnson pretty much said that at some point03:07
xxyeah but they said it in politicians words, not real words03:07
LjLanyway my point with linking that being: how much *more* "staff shortage" will there be (except permanently) if COVID is just allowed to run rampant?03:08
lastshellmaybe they want to push "heard inmunity"03:09
BrainstormUpdates for New Zealand: +134 cases (now 13855), +1 deaths (now 50), +27763 tests (now 5.5 million) since a day ago03:09
xxI'd guess less staff shortage, because those who are most likely to die or be severely affected are no longer part of the workforce03:09
LjL%title https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.12.23.21268276v103:16
BrainstormLjL: From www.medrxiv.org: Risk of myocarditis following sequential COVID-19 vaccinations by age and sex | medRxiv03:16
LjLi see one number standing out A LOT in this abstract...03:16
LjLand this would also explain why Scandinavia stopped Moderna in people younger than 3003:17
dreBREAKING: New York reports 38,835 new coronavirus cases, the biggest one-day increase on record, of which 22,808 are in New York City03:19
dreuntil the hospitals are full, and people are dying the streets, they won't go back to closing anything03:21
xxwere people actually dying in the streets in front of hospitals, or was that just fake news?03:24
xxI've seen some videos, but could never find out if they were authentic03:25
xxor if they were even from the right year03:25
drein Asia I think there were some03:25
dreand proly in that huge India event03:25
drewhen they ran out of oxygen03:26
LjL(India is "in Asia", just ftr)03:26
xxyeah running out of oxygen kills people, irrelevant of any pandemic03:26
dreshrug s.asia yes, subcontinent03:26
dreum, what, 02 is relevant03:27
xxI never consider india to be part of asia03:27
xxwasn't it its own continent at some point that got rammed into rest of asia (and created those huge mountains)?03:27
BrainstormNew from r/WorldNews: worldnews: The US is undercounting COVID deaths, researchers say. Now they have a tool to figure out why. → https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/romwnb/the_us_is_undercounting_covid_deaths_researchers/03:28
LjLmy point being "in Asia" is so comprehensive as to be pretty much useless as a location03:30
xx"on earth"03:31
xxhave any astronauts in space been positive for rona yet?03:31
BrainstormNew from r/Coronavirus: Coronavirus: Vaxzevria significantly boosted antibody levels against Omicron → https://old.reddit.com/r/Coronavirus/comments/ron169/vaxzevria_significantly_boosted_antibody_levels/03:37
drexx, you seem to be a CV skeptic?03:39
xxwhat's a coronavirus skeptic exactly?03:40
xxmy position is this - it's been two years, everyone who wanted to get their own health in order had enough time, PPE is available, vaccines are available, etc. so anyone who refuses to help their own body should be refused help03:41
dreyeah, I would disagree03:41
dTalmost people would hopefully disagree03:41
xxwell I can't bring myself to care the slightest about people who refuse to get fit, refuse to wear PPE, refuse to wash hands, refuse to observe all sorts of other guidance, refuse vaccines, and still expect doctors to give them the same level of care as those who put the effort in03:44
LjLi guess nobody cares about Moderna having 10x the myocarditis risk for <40 males than Pfizer or AZ, uh03:44
lastshellLjL from Pfizer is less risk of myocarditis ?03:45
LjLlastshell, so indicates this study03:45
LjLand i would say, so indicates the fact all of Scandinavia stopped Moderna for people under 30 but didn't stop Pfizer03:45
LjLi didn't have data they had on this before03:45
xxit's still very small number of events, even considering 42M people03:46
LjLusually when i'd mention that, people would just tell me "they're probably just overreacting"03:46
LjLbut i can say i wouldn't be happy to learn i've taken a vaccine that gives me a 10-fold risk of myocarditis than the guy next to me who got Pfizer or AZ03:46
LjLxx, it's still >10x the number of events you'd get from getting COVID03:46
xxoh is it?03:46
LjL12 vs 7, fine, who cares, greater good03:46
LjLyes, they mostly all are, for this part of the population03:47
LjLplease check out the abstract03:47
LjLbut 12 vs 7 i will accept, 100 vs 7 and most countries being shush about it, not so much03:47
dreomicron is waning less fast with moderna per israel studies than BNT03:48
drerelative risks03:48
lastshellmaybe is a correlation of myocarditis more protection, Moderna protects more than Pfizer03:48
LjLpossible, yes03:48
LjLbut it doesn't protect 10x as much03:48
xxLjL: yikes, I just read that. I get why they don't want to give much publicity to that if the data were checked and found to be truly significant.03:49
LjLxx, note the study comes from a Scottish government agency, not from anti-vax international03:49
xxyeah03:49
LjLand it's on 40 million people which i assume is roughly the vaccinated/recovered UK population03:49
lastshellis right now hard to call pandemic is going to be over ?03:50
LjLthere won't be a discrete time when it's "over"03:51
xxlastshell: don't know, I can't tell which country is closest to being so strained on resources that they'll effectively be forced to declare it over03:51
BrainstormUpdates for Netherlands: +456 cases (now 3.1 million), +1 deaths (now 21170) since 10 hours ago04:36
BrainstormNew from r/WorldNews: worldnews: Hong Kong researchers say COVID masks could pollute over 54,000 Olympic pools worth of oceans → https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/roo4wz/hong_kong_researchers_say_covid_masks_could/04:44
-RSSBot[LjLmatrix- Zotero / COVID links Group / Top-Level Items: Risk of myocarditis following sequential COVID-19 vaccinations by age and sex ( https://www.zotero.org/groups/covid_links/items/A6G9XNI3 )04:52
BrainstormUpdates for Japan: +316 cases (now 1.7 million), +1 deaths (now 18387), +39654 tests (now 29.1 million) since a day ago05:01
BrainstormNew from BBC Health: First and second Covid jabs surge in England: Vaccinations continue during the festive period as the UK's daily Covid cases hit an all-time high. → https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-5979165605:02
BrainstormUpdates for India: +6987 cases (now 34.8 million), +162 deaths (now 479682) since 23 hours ago05:39
-RSSBot[LjLmatrix- Zotero / COVID links Group / Top-Level Items: Vaxzevria significantly boosted antibody levels against Omicron ( https://www.zotero.org/groups/covid_links/items/F8FVREBD )05:47
BrainstormNew from The Indian Express (Health): Health: All you need to know about loneliness, the ‘urban epidemic’ → https://indianexpress.com/article/lifestyle/health/all-you-need-to-know-about-loneliness-the-urban-epidemic-7685209/05:50
BrainstormUpdates for Peru: +5922 cases (now 2.3 million), +34 deaths (now 202488), +154839 tests (now 21.5 million) since a day ago06:04
BrainstormNew from This Week In Virology: TWiV 846: Beta was stirring, and now in a mouse: TWiV explores the impact of the intestinal virome on seroconversion after rotavirus vaccination, and implications of the ability of the SARS-CoV-2 beta variant to infect wild-type laboratory mice. → https://www.microbe.tv/twiv/twiv-846/06:09
BrainstormNew from r/Coronavirus: Coronavirus: Are pandemic-related stressors increasing young women’s vulnerability to STIs? → https://old.reddit.com/r/Coronavirus/comments/ropzkc/are_pandemicrelated_stressors_increasing_young/06:37
BrainstormNew from r/Coronavirus: Coronavirus: How Costco, Sam's Club and BJ's won the pandemic → https://old.reddit.com/r/Coronavirus/comments/roq3eg/how_costco_sams_club_and_bjs_won_the_pandemic/06:46
BrainstormUpdates for Florida, United States: +75218 cases (now 3.9 million) since 2 days ago — New Jersey, United States: +19481 cases (now 1.4 million), +6 deaths (now 28854) since a day ago — Lombardy, Italy: +17362 cases (now 1.1 million), +38 deaths (now 34925) since a day ago — Puerto Rico, United States: +17254 cases (now 225716), +3 deaths (now 3291) since 2 days ago06:47
BrainstormNew from r/Coronavirus: Coronavirus: Two more members of K-pop group BTS test positive for COVID-19 → https://old.reddit.com/r/Coronavirus/comments/ror45o/two_more_members_of_kpop_group_bts_test_positive/07:43
BrainstormNew from r/COVID19: COVID19: Children develop robust and sustained cross-reactive spike-specific immune responses to SARS-CoV-2 infection → https://www.reddit.com/r/COVID19/comments/rorj16/children_develop_robust_and_sustained/08:49
BrainstormUpdates for Taiwan: +24 cases (now 16915), +19043 tests (now 9.1 million) since a day ago09:11
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Gunhild Alvik Nyborg (@GANyborg): Prevalence of SARS-cov-2 in London currently at 9.4%. Of all peopleEstimated from ongoing community prevalence study. twitter.com/seedragons/sta… → https://twitter.com/GANyborg/status/147501700256990413509:17
-Bridgestorm- 🏠 地震! Earthquake! 6.0 M tremor, registered by yurekuru, occurred 3 minutes ago (08:26:46 UTC), during twilight, Southwestern Ryukyu Isl., Japan (25.2, 125.7), ↓34 km likely felt 260 km away (in 宮古島市, 石垣市, 那覇市, 浦添市, 糸満市…) by 1.0 million people with maximum intensity Shindo 4 → https://twitter.com/yurekuru/status/1475020362098552832 https://twitter.com/yurekuru/status/147502033718019277309:30
-Bridgestorm- Webcams: https://www.windy.com/webcams/1626563335 https://www.windy.com/webcams/1484522198 https://www.windy.com/webcams/1597911339 (Twitter)09:30
BrainstormUpdates for Maharashtra, India: +1485 cases (now 6.7 million), +12 deaths (now 141416) since a day ago — Delhi, India: +249 cases (now 1.4 million), +1 deaths (now 25104) since a day ago — Gujarat, India: +179 cases (now 829182), +2 deaths (now 10113) since a day ago — Haryana, India: +90 cases (now 772541) since a day ago09:36
-Bridgestorm- 🏠 地震! Earthquake! 5.9 Mww tremor, registered by EMSC,ObservatoryHK,US, occurred 22 minutes ago (08:26:46 UTC), during twilight, Southwestern Ryukyu Isl., Japan (25.23, 125.57) ± 2 km, ↓5 km likely felt 250 km away (in 宮古島市, 石垣市…) by 103200 people — Webcams: https://www.windy.com/webcams/1626563335 https://www.windy.com/webcams/1484522198 (www.seismicportal.eu)09:49
Dredd<xx> "my position is this - it's..." <- There are risk factors other than just obesity / being sedentary 🙄09:53
sdfgsdfgeh ? being sedentary is a comorbidity ?09:56
sdfgsdfgactually right, exercise is probably good for immune system09:56
minthosbeing sedentary is a morbidity by itself, and since the virus attacks heart and lungs it makes sense to keep them strong09:59
sdfgsdfgI think I want to dance, I know it's the peak or almost the peak, but I can't hold this any longer... Everyone is having so much fun downtown10:02
sdfgsdfgI'm going out... that's it10:02
BrainstormNew from r/Science: science: Omicron extensively but incompletely escapes Pfizer BNT162b2 neutralization → https://old.reddit.com/r/science/comments/rot6cx/omicron_extensively_but_incompletely_escapes/10:15
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Marc Veldhoen (@Marc_Veld): Omicron: bleak New Year or beginning of the end for the pandemic?Signs remain positive.theguardian.com/world/2021/dec… → https://twitter.com/Marc_Veld/status/147503487535487795310:43
BrainstormNew from r/WorldNews: worldnews: Covid-19: 'Everybody in Australia will get Omicron,' NSW Premier warns → https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/rotq7f/covid19_everybody_in_australia_will_get_omicron/10:53
BrainstormUpdates for Oman: +121 cases (now 305105), +1 deaths (now 4114) since 2 days ago11:03
BrainstormNew from r/WorldNews: worldnews: Three new studies suggest omicron has lower hospitalization risk and is milder than other variants → https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/rou11f/three_new_studies_suggest_omicron_has_lower/11:11
BrainstormNew from r/Science: science: A synthetic defective interfering SARS-CoV-2 → https://old.reddit.com/r/science/comments/roud8y/a_synthetic_defective_interfering_sarscov2/11:40
BrainstormUpdates for Nepal: +213 cases (now 827271), +2 deaths (now 11585), +7180 tests (now 4.8 million) since 23 hours ago11:40
BrainstormUpdates for Libya: +735 cases (now 385398), +10 deaths (now 5651), +5449 tests (now 2.0 million) since a day ago12:05
BrainstormNew from r/Coronavirus: Coronavirus: Australian state sees record cases, lab sends false results | AP News → https://old.reddit.com/r/Coronavirus/comments/rouy6a/australian_state_sees_record_cases_lab_sends/12:27
BrainstormNew from r/Coronavirus: Coronavirus: German government wants 80% vaccination rate by the end of January. The goal of reaching it by January 7th has not been achieved, the current vaccination rate is at 73,8%. → https://old.reddit.com/r/Coronavirus/comments/rovbzl/german_government_wants_80_vaccination_rate_by/12:55
BrainstormNew from r/Coronavirus: Coronavirus: Covid live: UK considering door-to-door vaccination teams, reports say; new restrictions in Wales, Scotland and NI | World news → https://old.reddit.com/r/Coronavirus/comments/rovhwg/covid_live_uk_considering_doortodoor_vaccination/13:14
BrainstormNew from r/WorldNews: worldnews: South Australia will reintroduce a raft of COVID-19 restrictions after Omicron cases surge → https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/rovvgb/south_australia_will_reintroduce_a_raft_of/13:33
BrainstormUpdates for Germany: +13923 cases (now 7.0 million) since 22 hours ago — Bangladesh: +268 cases (now 1.6 million), +4 deaths (now 28060), +17072 tests (now 11.4 million) since 22 hours ago13:39
Arsaneritso convenient that the counting offices are closed, almost no cases </s>13:47
BrainstormUpdates for UAE: +1803 cases (now 751333), +2 deaths (now 2158), +334211 tests (now 109.3 million) since a day ago14:04
BrainstormNew from r/Coronavirus: Coronavirus: Massachusetts state trooper fired over Gov. Charlie Baker’s COVID vaccine mandate → https://old.reddit.com/r/Coronavirus/comments/rowdz4/massachusetts_state_trooper_fired_over_gov/14:10
BrainstormNew from r/Coronavirus: Coronavirus: TWiV 846: Beta was stirring, and now in a mouse → https://old.reddit.com/r/Coronavirus/comments/rowjrh/twiv_846_beta_was_stirring_and_now_in_a_mouse/14:20
BrainstormUpdates for Senegal: +59 cases (now 74412), +1575 tests (now 912419) since 23 hours ago14:29
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Scott Gottlieb, MD (@ScottGottliebMD): My JAMA editorial: ‘The regulatory path outlined by FDA for COVID tests… represents a cultural shift likely to persist… It offers profound opportunity to improve the affordability, access, and effectiveness of medical care for a range of [... want %more?] → https://twitter.com/ScottGottliebMD/status/147509656152901632914:39
BrainstormNew from The Indian Express (Health): Health: Doctors weigh in on the importance of Covid vaccine for kids and booster shots for adults → https://indianexpress.com/article/lifestyle/health/doctors-weigh-in-on-the-importance-of-covid-vaccine-for-kids-and-booster-shots-for-adults/14:48
BrainstormUpdates for Denmark: +14200 cases (now 699608), +13 deaths (now 3210), +318506 tests (now 105.0 million) since a day ago — Saudi Arabia: +389 cases (now 552795), +1 deaths (now 8871), +66375 tests (now 32.8 million) since a day ago15:06
BrainstormNew from r/Coronavirus: Coronavirus: Omicron extensively but incompletely escapes Pfizer BNT162b2 neutralization → https://old.reddit.com/r/Coronavirus/comments/roxffg/omicron_extensively_but_incompletely_escapes/15:17
BrainstormNew from r/WorldNews: worldnews: Two-thirds of new Covid hospital patients in England only tested positive AFTER being admitted → https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/roxrqp/twothirds_of_new_covid_hospital_patients_in/15:36
BrainstormNew from r/Coronavirus: Coronavirus: NYC COVID surge: 'Striking' jump in pediatric hospitalizations → https://old.reddit.com/r/Coronavirus/comments/roy21o/nyc_covid_surge_striking_jump_in_pediatric/15:55
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Scott Gottlieb, MD (@ScottGottliebMD): “New York State Department of Health is closely monitoring an upward trend in pediatric hospitalizations associated with COVID-19.” health.ny.gov/press/releases… pic.twitter.com/EzM6r2YS8K → https://twitter.com/ScottGottliebMD/status/147512399633307238616:23
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Steve Miller (@SteveMillerOC): I find myself very strongly anti-anti-vaccine mandate. I basically view people opposed to vaccine mandates as advocating for the freedom to breath disease in my face, and I have both a rational and an emotional reaction to that advocacy. twitter.com/nbsaphiermd/st… → https://twitter.com/SteveMillerOC/status/147512806762226892916:42
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Eric Topol (@EricTopol): When it's hard to explainJapan has withstood Omicron's rise to dominance with very few cases, deaths, boosters to date, 78% vaccinatedWhile South Korea, like Japan, masking and distancing, 82% vaccinated, high use of boosters, had a significant [... want %more?] → https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/147513026904045158816:51
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Eric Topol (@EricTopol): A variant-proof, pan-coronavirus vaccine is on the horizon, now with the first starting a Phase 2 clinical trial. I had the privilege of teaming up with @dr_kkjetelina to write about it @SubstackInc yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/pan-coronavi… → https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/147513256027543142617:01
ArsaneritWould a pan-coronavirus vaccine have an effect that lasts longer?17:13
BrainstormNew from r/Coronavirus: Coronavirus: HCMC risks lack of oxygen for Covid patients → https://old.reddit.com/r/Coronavirus/comments/rozo4s/hcmc_risks_lack_of_oxygen_for_covid_patients/17:20
ArsaneritI want a pan-coronavirus vaccine please.17:22
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Eric Topol (@EricTopol): We reflect on the progress of science throughout the pandemic, now with a potent anti-Covid pill emerging, and the persistent vulnerability in the US, with net optimism, @cuttingforstone and me looking back and forward, new @Medscape podcast and [... want %more?] → https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/147513916454682214717:30
xxArsanerit: probably as close as a cancer cure17:31
BrainstormUpdates for Netherlands: +12342 cases (now 3.1 million), +12 deaths (now 21181) since 23 hours ago17:36
BrainstormNew from r/Coronavirus: Coronavirus: Florida COVID update: State sets another new record for single-day case increase → https://old.reddit.com/r/Coronavirus/comments/rp03n7/florida_covid_update_state_sets_another_new/17:39
lastshellhow things going on ?17:42
Arsaneritxx: I want a cancer cure too, please.17:48
BrainstormNew from r/Coronavirus: Coronavirus: UM Upper Chesapeake Health declares hospital disaster in Harford County as COVID cases hit new peak → https://old.reddit.com/r/Coronavirus/comments/rp095t/um_upper_chesapeake_health_declares_hospital/17:49
BrainstormUpdates for Montenegro: +545 cases (now 163373), +5 deaths (now 2394), +2769 tests (now 954972) since a day ago18:01
Arsaneritxx: Is it that hard really?18:06
BrainstormNew from r/Coronavirus: Coronavirus: Omicron cases in Singapore have not been severe, none required intensive care, oxygen supplementation so far → https://old.reddit.com/r/Coronavirus/comments/rp0m8m/omicron_cases_in_singapore_have_not_been_severe/18:08
xxArsanerit: top minds have been trying to find a coronavirus vaccine for over 20 years.18:11
xxTop. Minds.18:11
xxthere doesn't seem to be a universal stable surface on coronaviruses that would be accessible to detection by the immune system18:12
xxso I don't see that method (which is the method that has always been used) working out ever18:12
xxa completely novel way of making the immune system recognize coronaviruses would need to be developed, but it is not even being funded currently18:13
xxbecause it is unlikely to be profitable in the next 10-15 years, which basically means nobody will provide funding18:13
Arsaneritok18:13
xxso the scientists are just working with scraps18:14
Arsaneritpity18:14
Arsaneritbut this one is starting phase 2 already?  or is that not too much special?18:14
xxbasically spending more time doing paperwork and trying to find grants than doing actual science18:14
BrainstormNew from r/Coronavirus: Coronavirus: Israel said delaying rollout of 4th COVID shots amid signs Omicron less severe → https://old.reddit.com/r/Coronavirus/comments/rp0tow/israel_said_delaying_rollout_of_4th_covid_shots/18:17
BrainstormNew from r/Coronavirus: Coronavirus: SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant shows less efficient replication and fusion activity when compared with delta variant in TMPRSS2-expressed cells → https://old.reddit.com/r/Coronavirus/comments/rp0z6u/sarscov2_omicron_variant_shows_less_efficient/18:27
BrainstormUpdates for Italy: +24882 cases (now 5.6 million), +81 deaths (now 136611), +217052 tests (now 135.4 million) since a day ago18:32
BrainstormNew from r/WorldNews: worldnews: France breaks 100,000 barrier for 24-hour Covid infections → https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/rp1l1u/france_breaks_100000_barrier_for_24hour_covid/18:56
xxwhere are they even getting these numbers from? Who is getting tested these days?19:07
xxI've seen testing centres closed over the last two days19:08
camelia[m]!help19:09
camelia[m]How do i give brainstorm commands?19:09
xxwhat commands are you looking for?19:09
BrainstormUpdates for Qatar: +296 cases (now 248092), +1 deaths (now 615), +5602 tests (now 3.1 million) since a day ago19:09
camelia[m]i'd like to tell it show me updates for canada19:09
xx.cases canada19:10
Brainstormxx: Canada has had 2.0 million confirmed cases (5.2% of all people) and 30203 deaths (1.5% of cases; 1 in 1257 people) as of 20 hours ago. 51.5 million tests were done (3.9% positive). 31.6 million were vaccinated (83.3%). +18992 cases since 23 hours ago. See https://resources-covid19canada.hub.arcgis.com/19:10
camelia[m].help19:11
Brainstormcamelia[m]: Hi, I am LjL's bot! Say %modules or %commands to me in private to see my features.19:11
camelia[m]Whats the command for this:19:13
camelia[m]Updates for Qatar: +296 cases (now 248092), +1 deaths (now 615), +5602 tests (now 3.1 million) since a day ago19:13
camelia[m]except canada19:13
BrainstormNew from r/WorldNews: worldnews: Germany hits goal in push for 30 million new vaccine shots → https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/rp22cn/germany_hits_goal_in_push_for_30_million_new/19:15
xxcamelia[m]: that just might be a regular ticker, not a response to any command19:15
camelia[m].deaths canada19:16
LjLIt's shown as part of .cases...19:17
camelia[m]ohh like a feed19:17
camelia[m]xx: ticker?19:17
camelia[m]I assume it's possible to make brainstorm spit out a specifc country info19:17
xxyes, that's what `.cases quatar` does19:18
camelia[m]LjL: "+1 deaths (now 615)" is missing from .cases19:18
LjLcamelia[m]: if it's missing its probably just because in the last update deaths were not reported19:34
BrainstormNew from r/Coronavirus: Coronavirus: Latin America Is Now a World Leader in Vaccinations → https://old.reddit.com/r/Coronavirus/comments/rp2hqg/latin_america_is_now_a_world_leader_in/19:34
BrainstormUpdates for Canada: +9314 cases (now 2.0 million) since 23 hours ago19:34
LjLIf I'm not mistaken the bot just puts the very latest update for a country into .cases as-is19:34
LjL-MatrixAnyone know about any brand of FFP2 or FFP3 available on EU Amazon that have around-the-ears straps and look like the classic () masks (I know that's not the best but my parents insist on those) and that have some kind of reliable lab certifying them? I'm lost in the amount of available ones that are all very Chinese-anonymous, I think I remember reading some of them have pictures showing legit labs certifying them, but I need to pick some19:38
LjL-Matrixquickly as they are becoming mandatory for some things here and so they are being sold out19:38
LjL-Matrix(Also yes I know being on EU Amazon doesn't necessarily mean they're on amazon.it in particular but what can I do)19:39
LjL-MatrixAlso do you know if FFP3 tend to be much harder to breathe through than FFP2? I'd get FFP3 but my mom is very picky with feeling like she can't breathe...19:40
xxtake it as an opportunity to strengthen your lungs19:41
xxdiaphram or something19:41
xxI definitely breathe much better now than at the start of the pandemic19:41
xxthe other issue with ffp3 is that unless the person wears it properly, there might be a higher chance of leaks around the face19:42
xxcompared to ffp219:42
xxI've heard good things about breasafe on amazon.de19:43
xxthey have ffp2 and ffp3 that look like regular masks19:43
LjL-MatrixHmm not available on .it19:45
xx.de might deliver to IT19:45
xxthey deliver to switzerland19:46
xxbut overall I don't know of many brands made in EU, these ones are made in some eastern european country19:46
LjL-Matrixxx: oh they can be 3M or whatever, they don't have to be made in the EU, they can be Chinese too as long as tested somewhere half reliable. I just asked EU Amazon because worst case indeed I could buy from .de with a surcharge, but I just can't buy from .com19:51
LjL-MatrixI know 3M Aura are good and I've got some by my parents won't use them, same for some KF94, "they don't fit properly"19:51
LjL-MatrixSo they need to be as similar to random Chinese masks as possible but I can't bring myself to actually just buy the first random mask I find19:52
BrainstormNew from r/Coronavirus: Coronavirus: Will this pandemic ever end? Here's what happened with the last ones → https://old.reddit.com/r/Coronavirus/comments/rp2t4i/will_this_pandemic_ever_end_heres_what_happened/19:53
xxthe only 3m thing I have is this one https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B099F8ZKVC and I wear it regularly19:53
xxuh, not that, I mean https://www.amazon.it/dp/B00478E87W19:54
xxbut yeah, in general, can't go wrong with 3M19:55
BrainstormNew from r/Coronavirus: Coronavirus: Omicron Fears Outpacing Real World Risks For People Vaccinated, Boosted, Masked | MSNBC → https://old.reddit.com/r/Coronavirus/comments/rp30oj/omicron_fears_outpacing_real_world_risks_for/20:02
-Bridgestorm- 🏠 Σεισμός! Earthquake! 6.0 Mb tremor, registered by EMSC,alomax, occurred 6 minutes ago (18:59:03 UTC), with a crescent moon, Crete, Greece (35.0, 26.97), ↓4 km likely felt 270 km away (in Ηράκλειο, Ρόδος, Κως, Ρέθυμνο…) by 243200 people (alomax.free.fr)20:05
BrainstormNew from r/Coronavirus: Coronavirus: Pan-coronavirus "super" vaccine → https://old.reddit.com/r/Coronavirus/comments/rp382m/pancoronavirus_super_vaccine/20:12
BrainstormNew from r/Coronavirus: Coronavirus: Which workers have seen wage gains during the pandemic? → https://old.reddit.com/r/Coronavirus/comments/rp3e0q/which_workers_have_seen_wage_gains_during_the/20:21
BrainstormUpdates for Jamaica: +192 cases (now 92705), +1 deaths (now 2463) since 19 hours ago20:37
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Eric Topol (@EricTopol): Denmark's new cases reach >200/100,000, a level rarely (if ever) seen during the pandemic, Omicron impact. Recall Denmark tests more/capita than almost anywhereYes, deaths remain very low. Hospital admits ⬇️Prior sense of's turnaround was inaccurate d/t 2 days [... want %more?] → https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/147518810203340800020:50
sdfgsdfgfirst response to Eric Topol was from another credible epidemiologist from Denmark who corrects him to say the hospitalizations and deaths are rising fast, the chart doesn't have this latest data21:05
hyrchttps://www.bitchute.com/video/OA27zgQhM31n/  Covid - For two pennies (putting the policy in perspective!)  [00:03:30]21:06
sdfgsdfgthis new "beginning of the end for pandemic" trend feels so stupid. Suddenly global media thinks there won't be a destructive variant of concern ever again and we are somehow at the end of this whole thing21:08
edcbaso hadn't we enough time to determine whether omicron is dangerous ?21:08
xxwe should start a bet on when the next variant comes out21:08
xxI'd say sometime during february21:08
xxlet's make it 14th, it's gonna be a valentine-variant21:09
BrainstormNew from r/Science: science: Scientists developed a needle-free COVID-19 vaccine in the form of a patch that slowly delivers the serum through the skin.This type of vaccine delivery is not only painless, but studies on mice also showed that the generated immune response [... want %more?] → https://old.reddit.com/r/science/comments/rp48dj/scientists_developed_a_needlefree_covid19_vaccine/21:09
sdfgsdfgmy bet is January 202321:09
sdfgsdfgafter everyone's convinced that it's over21:09
xxeveryone's been convinced it's over almost a year ago21:10
sdfgsdfglol21:10
edcbawell omicron variant seemed to originate from  a guy thatwas keeping it warm long time enough in himself ?21:10
sdfgsdfgquite a lot of convinced that it never existed, it's like a dream21:10
hyrcthe policy response is the problem21:10
edcbaso i think you can't have a variant right awa, you need some divergence from main variant for another to appear21:10
edcbabut if it can diverge in same host during a long time it's probably because it's not that lethal21:12
edcbaproblem is when host has better defenses than humans :p21:14
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Steve Miller (@SteveMillerOC): Not being a left-liberal or progressive person myself, I don’t allow this excuse for ignorant anti-vaccination sentiment.I don’t trust the left AT ALL.I understand that the covid vaccines are excellent and save lives, and that people who refuse [... want %more?] → https://twitter.com/SteveMillerOC/status/147520315832639897621:37
BrainstormUpdates for United States: +69872 cases (now 53.1 million), +21 deaths (now 837786) since 23 hours ago — France: +27697 cases (now 9.2 million), +96 deaths (now 123627) since a day ago — Canada: +26 cases (now 2.0 million) since 23 hours ago21:45
BrainstormNew from r/Coronavirus: Coronavirus: Israeli hospital to begin study on efficacy of 4th COVID vaccine dose → https://old.reddit.com/r/Coronavirus/comments/rp59dd/israeli_hospital_to_begin_study_on_efficacy_of/22:06
BrainstormNew from Reddit (test): CoronaVirus_2019_nCoV: Beleaguered hospitals warn patients, push back treatments amid Covid surge: It appears patients should once again prepare to delay treatments, procedures and operations as the omicron variant spreads. → https://old.reddit.com/r/CoronaVirus_2019_nCoV/comments/rp5u9s/beleaguered_hospitals_warn_patients_push_back/22:15
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Marc Veldhoen (@Marc_Veld): Very good development is the enormous testing prior to Christmas, which will happen again prior to new years eve. It uncovered many, otherwise asymptomatic infections, which may look worrying, but it prevents the further spread and shows vaccines work! pic.twitter.com/4JNMd5pWBJ → https://twitter.com/Marc_Veld/status/147521776261622989622:43
hyrcboostershot -> additionalpoisonshot22:45
xxthe worst poison is added sugar22:49
xxif I was dictator of the earth, added sugar would not be allowed22:49
hyrci avoid it also22:49
hyrcis there any new research on spike protein distribution from the various jabs?22:50
hyrcaround the body22:50
xxstill waiting for conclusive info on that one, will probably take a while22:51
hyrccoroners of the jabbed have found lymphocytes everywhere22:52
xxyeah, the problem is that those people were dead22:57
xxwhich means something caused them to die, and that something might relate to a different distribution of spikes compared to healthy people22:58
xxwe need enough healthy people hit by busses22:58
xxand we need to be sure that they were hit by busses completely by accident, not due to some underlying/undetected illness22:59
hyrcmhm. i also don't find any assay kits for s-protein itself, just antibodies22:59
hyrcseems like some sort of blot could be engineered for this22:59
BrainstormUpdates for India: +8017 cases (now 34.8 million) since 23 hours ago — Germany: +9121 cases (now 7.0 million), +56 deaths (now 111081) since 9 hours ago23:00
hyrcbut what's a 'case'23:01
xxthe numbers are and will be a mess for a while23:01
xxlack of access to testing, lack of open testing places, lack of bothering to get tested because celebrating/vacations, etc.23:02
xxexpect testing numbers to get back to normal after new year23:02
hyrcwell a positive pcr isn't a case of disease23:02
hyrcnot by the pre-2020 standards23:02
xxwell pcr detects coronavirus, not covid23:02
hyrcunfortunately the numbers everyone cites is positive pcr tests23:03
ArsaneritWhy is that unfortunate?23:03
ArsaneritThere are other numbers cited as well, such as hospitalisation rates, ICU occupancy, and death rates.23:03
hyrcbecause it includes asymptomatic people23:03
ArsaneritWhy is it unfortunate to include asymptomatic people?23:03
hyrcbecause it's misleading23:04
ArsaneritNo, it isn't.  It measures the spread of the virus and enters into models to forecast hospitalisation rates.23:04
hyrcdo you realize that no 'cases' were ever reported this way before the covid-19 event?23:04
ArsaneritThat's because we have not had a comparable pandemic in modern times.23:05
hyrcjust trying to be on the same planet with you23:05
hyrcso you agree that the standard for reporting a case of disease was changed23:05
ArsaneritThe case rate is the first advance warning we have to estimate how many people are going to get sick in the near future.23:05
ArsaneritNo, I don't.23:05
hyrcyou just did, now you don't23:06
ArsaneritNo, I didn't.23:06
ArsaneritThe case positivity rate does not measure the spread of any disease.23:06
ArsaneritIt can be used to forecast the prevelance of the disease, though.23:06
ArsaneritI don't know if there are measurements of how many people get sick, but there certainly are measurements of how many people are hospitalised due to COVID-19.23:06
hyrca 'case' of the flu isn't a symptomless person who pings positive on a positive-pcr test at 40 cycles23:07
hyrcit's fraud23:07
ArsaneritThere is no fraud.23:07
ArsaneritI don't know much about the virus causing the flu or if asymptomatic infection is common.  Is it?23:07
ArsaneritThe coronavirus spreads so well because there are many asymptomatic infections.23:08
hyrcpcr can be indicative of a viral load significant enough to show infection, if the cycle threshold is calculated properly, if the test is run properly, against controls23:08
ArsaneritThose people infected with coronavirus without symptoms can still infect others who then can get seriously ill, get a lifelong disability, or die.23:08
hyrcthis isn't being done23:08
ArsaneritWhat isn't being done?23:09
ArsaneritI admit that I don't know what exactly the PCR labs are doing, but I don't think they're doing fraud.23:09
BrainstormNew from r/Coronavirus: Coronavirus: NY Pre-Christmas COVID Testing Delivers Record Total Just Shy of 50,000 Cases in Single Day → https://old.reddit.com/r/Coronavirus/comments/rp6qxk/ny_prechristmas_covid_testing_delivers_record/23:11
ArsaneritIf everyone infected got seriously ill within hours we wouldn't all this testing.23:12
ArsaneritIt would also never have become a pandemic.23:12
hyrcThere are several fundamental terms that have been corrupted ("redefined") in the Covid-19 event23:12
hyrcOne is 'case' of disease23:13
ArsaneritI am not aware that the definition of a disease has been redefined.23:13
hyrcAnother is 'death', which used to mean death from, and is now being tallied as 'death with'.23:13
hyrcAnother is 'pandemic', which the WHO corrupted to mean any worldwide infectious disease;  they dropped the qualifier for massive deaths caused by it.23:14
ArsaneritIt's presented as "death from or which" here.  Is there something wrong with that?23:14
hyrcI wonder what the statistics of death with acne are.23:14
ArsaneritWhat is your point?23:14
ArsaneritSARS-CoV-2 is infecting people worldwide, a subset of infected people get sick, some seriously so, and millions have died.23:15
ArsaneritIf that's not a pandemic, then what is?23:15
xxebola, if it happened in europe23:17
xxlets say among frankfurt airport employees23:17
ArsaneritEbola did not spread worldwide.  Or do you mean it would have spread worldwide if it had originated in Europe?23:17
ArsaneritMaybe it would have.  We don't know.  The real world does not have a control run.23:18
xxyeah, given how non-existent european people's hygiene habits are, if ebola happened to spread among some large airport employees, it would have been a total disaster and a pandemic23:18
sdfgsdfgdo vaccines protect against long covid ?23:18
Arsaneritsdfgsdfg: mostly yes23:19
xxsdfgsdfg: not enough data on that yet23:19
xxwe suspect it does, but it is not conclusive yet23:19
ArsaneritThere are some pointers at https://unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com/p/long-covid-chronic-fatigue-syndrome which someone here linked recently23:19
ArsaneritI don't know if that's the final conclusive answer.23:20
BrainstormNew from r/WorldNews: worldnews: Omicron grounds 1,000 more U.S. flights over Christmas weekend → https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/rp6yc8/omicron_grounds_1000_more_us_flights_over/23:21
xxI suspect if someone is part of the population that is likely to get long covid instead of short covid (and we don't know the cause yet), then being vaccinated will not be 100% protective, because something is already off with their immune system23:21
sdfgsdfgand the symptoms are so diverse that apparently even WHO is trying to reach a consensus on this, hmm23:28
Arsaneritnasty beast23:28
BrainstormNew from r/Coronavirus: Coronavirus: Pandemic linked to more sleepless nights → https://old.reddit.com/r/Coronavirus/comments/rp74ms/pandemic_linked_to_more_sleepless_nights/23:30
xxnasty people, spitting everywhere, coughing everywhere, ...23:30
sdfgsdfg7 months after covid, persistence of memory issues was 50%, fatigue was 80% (lungs are irreversibly damaged) and speech issues 40% (central nervous system irreversible damage?). 7 months !23:30
hyrcwhat's the study sdfgsdfg23:32
Arsaneritsdfgsdfg: that's 80% of those with long covid, not 80% of those with covid, isn't it?23:32
sdfgsdfghttps://unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com/p/long-covid-chronic-fatigue-syndrome23:32
Arsaneritthat's not the actual study, but that blog article links to the actual studies23:32
sdfgsdfgArsanerit yes, of course23:32
ArsaneritLong covid was my biggest wear before I got vaccinated23:32
hyrci don't see the baseline for those metrics (people who haven't 'had covid')23:33
hyrcah there's a chart23:34
sdfgsdfgon an initial search on google you also see tons of headlines from early 2021 like: "Gene changes caused by Spike protein could explain long covid "23:34
hyrcgood thing we're informed in this channel and not injecting ourselves with spike protein23:35
hyrcunfortunately the study didn't factor out covid + injected and covid - injected23:36
hyrcso there's a major flaw23:36
ArsaneritWhat is covid + injected and covid - injected?23:40
BrainstormUpdates for Bahrain: +287 cases (now 279805), +39847 tests (now 7.9 million) since a day ago23:44
BrainstormNew from r/COVID19: COVID19: Attenuated fusogenicity and pathogenicity og SARS-CoV2- Omicron Variant → https://www.reddit.com/r/COVID19/comments/rp7rzt/attenuated_fusogenicity_and_pathogenicity_og/23:49
hyrcSchool District in New York Sends out Email Warning Parents of Sudden Cardiac Arrest in Students Grades K-1223:56

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