libera/##covid-19/ Tuesday, 2022-03-08

BrainstormUpdates for Sudan: +56 cases, +953 deaths since 3 days ago00:01
BrainstormNew from r/COVID19: COVID19: SARS-CoV-2 triggers Golgi fragmentation via downregulation of GRASP55 to facilitate viral trafficking → https://old.reddit.com/r/COVID19/comments/t923hz/sarscov2_triggers_golgi_fragmentation_via/00:01
BrainstormNew from StatNews: Florida’s decision on Covid vaccines for healthy kids adds to confusion and distrust: Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo’s announcement that the state will recommend that healthy children not be vaccinated against Covid-19 will [... want %more?] → https://www.statnews.com/2022/03/07/floridas-decision-on-covid-vaccines-for-healthy-kids-adds-to-confusion-and-distrust/00:30
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Marc Veldhoen (@Marc_Veld): A nice highlight. Potentially important that Omicron may have less effect due to alteration in tropism and less symptoms resulting in loss of smell and taste.nytimes.com/2022/03/07/hea… → https://twitter.com/Marc_Veld/status/150098120465228185900:49
BrainstormNew from Ars Technica: Science: DOJ, FTC, FDA sue man who claims $60 herbal tea cures COVID → https://arstechnica.com/?p=183883701:09
BrainstormUpdates for Hong Kong: +25150 cases, +280 deaths since a day ago — Samoa: +8 cases since a month ago01:09
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Eric Topol (@EricTopol): The death rate in Hong Kong has now soared to be the highest of any region in the world for the duration of the pandemic pic.twitter.com/dvnQULGpEg → https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/150098930692348313901:28
BrainstormNew from Reddit (test): nCoV: Florida goes against CDC, becomes first state to advise against COVID-19 vaccine for healthy kids | 07MAR22 → https://old.reddit.com/r/nCoV/comments/t93v2w/florida_goes_against_cdc_becomes_first_state_to/01:47
BrainstormUpdates for Australia: +28675 cases, +36 deaths since 22 hours ago02:00
BrainstormNew from BBC Health: Covid vaccines not linked to deaths, major US study finds: The CDC says 92% of reported side effects after the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines are mild. → https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-6065394602:35
LjL%title https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00589-303:01
BrainstormLjL: From www.nature.com: Massive trial shows COVID rapid tests excel at detecting silent cases03:01
LjLthis headline looks a bit surprising03:01
LjL"From January 2021 to June 2021, nearly 322,000 rapid tests were conducted at 73 workplaces. Testing yielded 604 positives; 473 of those were confirmed by PCR to be true positives. Only about one in 4,300 rapid-test results was confirmed by PCR as a false positive, which the authors note was not enough to disrupt workplace operations. "03:02
LjLbit of playing with numbers?03:02
LjLif 473 are true positive out of 604, surely the amount of false positive is significant03:03
LjLbut if you tale 320000 tests done, you can say "only one in 4000 is a false positive", sure03:03
LjLbecause most are just negative, and that's fair enough, but *among the positive*, many are false03:03
LjLanyway, that's a pretty short Nature article :P03:04
BrainstormUpdates for United Kingdom: +420 cases since 7 hours ago03:09
LjLpwr22, this reminds me of something :\ https://twitter.com/annitht/status/150092297406449255103:36
pwr22Oh god03:37
BrainstormNew from r/Science: science: Landmark study finds “significant” brain changes after mild COVID-19 → https://old.reddit.com/r/science/comments/t95fxd/landmark_study_finds_significant_brain_changes/03:53
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Eric Topol (@EricTopol): A unique case report of an immunocompromised patient (blood malignancy) with a chronic Covid infection, treatments, and serial (n=10) sampling/sequencing, in whom, over the course of 7 months, the virus evolved to have many mutations in common w/ Omicronmedrxiv.org/content/10.110… → https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/150102899945513369804:03
BrainstormUpdates for New Zealand: +23936 cases since 23 hours ago — Canada: +7766 cases, +49 deaths since 12 hours ago04:11
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Larry Brilliant  (@larrybrilliant): New study in current Nature suggests Covid infection affects brains more than realized: reduction in grey matter thickness, changes in some markers of tissue damage and increased cognitive decline.  May help explain "brain fog" reported by many [... want %more?] → https://twitter.com/larrybrilliant/status/150103493579199693304:33
BrainstormNew from ##covid-19 Zotero group: Covid May Cause Changes in the Brain, New Study Finds: Type Newspaper Article Author Pam Belluck URL https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/07/health/covid-brain-changes.html Publication The New York Times ISSN 0362-4331 Date 2022-03-07 Section Health Accessed 2022-03-08 04:18:11 Library [... want %more?] → https://www.zotero.org/groups/covid_links/items/RSBFSM3805:20
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Tulio de Oliveira (@Tuliodna): Amazon s nearing a threshold beyond which its forests may be replaced by grasslands, with huge repercussions for biodiversity, climate change and epidemics. nytimes.com/2022/03/07/cli… → https://twitter.com/Tuliodna/status/150105008244721254405:29
JanChttps://www.themoscowtimes.com/2022/01/28/russias-pandemic-excess-death-toll-almost-1m-a7619405:32
LjL%title https://twitter.com/BinitaKane/status/150093875462164070706:04
BrainstormLjL: From twitter.com: Binita Kane (@BinitaKane): "Today,a colleague asked me about whether #COVID19 can cause memory problems in a 5yr old. As conversation developed transpired his daughter has had complete [...]06:04
LjLfirst time i hear about this syndrome06:04
LjL%print https://twitter.com/BinitaKane/status/150093875462164070706:04
BrainstormLjL, It says: Binita Kane (@BinitaKane): "Today,a colleague asked me about whether #COVID19 can cause memory problems in a 5yr old. As conversation developed transpired his daughter has had complete behaviour/personality change since COVID + tires more easily. I mentioned PANS/PANDA. By the end of the conversation (1/2)" | nitter06:04
BrainstormNew from r/Coronavirus: Coronavirus: U.S. far from normal with Covid deaths 10 times higher than seasonal respiratory viruses, report says → https://old.reddit.com/r/Coronavirus/comments/t98ps0/us_far_from_normal_with_covid_deaths_10_times/06:45
BrainstormUpdates for Germany: +167409 cases since 17 hours ago — Sverdlovsk, Russia: +4744 cases, +9 deaths since a day ago — Bashkortostan, Russia: +3102 cases, +12 deaths since a day ago — Kedah, Malaysia: +2884 cases, +12 deaths since a day ago07:06
BrainstormNew from MedicineNet: (news): Heart Defects Could Raise Odds for Severe COVID-19 → http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp07:42
BrainstormUpdates for Cambodia: +357 cases, +1 deaths since a day ago08:03
BrainstormNew from r/Coronavirus: Daily Discussion Thread | March 08, 2022: 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://old.reddit.com/r/Coronavirus/comments/t9bwar/daily_discussion_thread_march_08_2022/09:08
BrainstormNew from WHO Euro: Getting vaccinated while pregnant – one woman’s story of what persuaded her to get the jab: As we celebrate International Women’s Day on 8 March, we recognize that pregnant [... want %more?] → https://www.euro.who.int/en/health-topics/health-determinants/gender/news/news/2022/3/getting-vaccinated-while-pregnant-one-womans-story-of-what-persuaded-her-to-get-the-jab209:46
BrainstormNew from StatNews: Prisons skimp on Covid treatments like Paxlovid, even as Biden plans to flood pharmacies with it: Pfizer’s drug Paxlovid seems tailor-made for helping to combat Covid-19 in prisons. But the drug isn’t available to the vast majority of federal prisoners, according to STAT’s [... want %more?] → https://www.statnews.com/2022/03/08/prisons-skimp-covid-treatments-paxlovid/10:44
BrainstormNew from EMA: Human medicine assessment reports: (news): Human medicines European public assessment report (EPAR): Pregabalin Pfizer, pregabalin, Anxiety Disorders;Epilepsy, Date of authorisation: 10/04/2014, Revision: 26, Status: Authorised → https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/medicines/human/EPAR/pregabalin-pfizer10:53
BrainstormNew from Il Sole 24 Ore: (translated) Health: From the Gemelli in Rome to the Niguarda in Milan: here are the 16 Italian hospitals in the world top 250 → https://www.ilsole24ore.com/art/dal-gemelli-roma-niguarda-milano-ecco-16-ospedali-italiani-top-250-mondiale-AE9LfZIB11:31
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Marc Veldhoen (@Marc_Veld): Duration of effectiveness of vaccines against SARS-CoV-2 infection and COVID-19 disease: results of a systematic review and meta-regressionthelancet.com/journals/lance… → https://twitter.com/Marc_Veld/status/150114476511039488011:41
BrainstormUpdates for Brunei: +3984 cases, +4 deaths since 22 hours ago12:01
BrainstormNew from The Atlantic: How Did This Many Deaths Become Normal?: The United States reported more deaths from COVID-19 last Friday than deaths from Hurricane Katrina, more on any two recent weekdays than deaths during the 9/11 terrorist attacks, more last month than deaths from flu in a bad season [... want %more?] → https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2022/03/covid-us-death-rate/626972/13:19
BrainstormNew from StatNews: STAT+: Moderna looks to enforce its Covid-19 vaccine patents in wealthy countries: Moderna said it will not seek to enforce its patents on its Covid-19 vaccine in low- to middle-income countries — but will do so in wealthier nations. → https://www.statnews.com/pharmalot/2022/03/08/covid19-vaccine-patent-moderna-who-africa/13:48
BrainstormNew from r/COVID19: COVID19: Potent prophylactic and therapeutic efficacy of recombinant human ACE2-Fc against SARS-CoV-2 infection in vivo → https://old.reddit.com/r/COVID19/comments/t9g9f8/potent_prophylactic_and_therapeutic_efficacy_of/14:17
BrainstormNew from The Atlantic: My Baby Is 2 Years Old. So Is the Pandemic.: For many people, or so I hear, the days and weeks and months of this pandemic have tended to blur together, into a static lump of time. For me, this time has had a different shape. At any moment, you could have asked [... want %more?] → https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2022/03/covid-pandemic-baby-growing-up/626969/14:27
BrainstormNew from BioNTech: BioNTech and Regeneron Expand Strategic Collaboration to Advance Clinical Development of FixVac and Libtayo® (cemiplimab) Combination in NSCLC: BioNTech and Regeneron plan to jointly conduct clinical trial s evaluating FixVac [... want %more?] → https://investors.biontech.de/news-releases/news-release-details/biontech-and-regeneron-expand-strategic-collaboration-advance14:36
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Gunhild Alvik Nyborg (@GANyborg): If you’re planning to get pregnant, remember to get vaccinated! There’s evidence maternal Covid-infection can lead to serious placental damage in rare cases. This may partly explain incr. neonatal deaths seen during the pandemic. Here, none were [... want %more?] → https://twitter.com/GANyborg/status/150119162048564838514:46
xx^ getting pregnant during a pandemic and possibly just before a worldwide conflict? Not a good idea.14:50
xxmedical personnel have bigger issues than having to deal with pregnancies14:50
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Scott Gottlieb, MD (@ScottGottliebMD): New study finds risk of a second person in household getting Covid when one person had infection was 25.1% when variant of initial index case was Omicron, 19.4% when it was Delta, 17.9% when it was nonclassified. Was higher for unvaxxed and those [... want %more?] → https://twitter.com/ScottGottliebMD/status/150119310551676518614:56
BrainstormNew from StatNews: Pharma: STAT+: Pharmalittle: U.S. lawmaker proposes bill to curtail FDA’s accelerated approval; Moderna to enforce Covid patents in wealthy countries → https://www.statnews.com/pharmalot/2022/03/08/covid19-vaccine-patent-fda-moderna-gilead-jnj-esg-biosimilars/15:06
BrainstormUpdates for Bhutan: +441 cases, +4191 tests (10.5% positive) since 23 hours ago — Germany: +149441 cases since 21 hours ago15:09
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Scott Gottlieb, MD (@ScottGottliebMD): Covid rapid tests on sale at @amazon pic.twitter.com/eguXBmU1Q5 → https://twitter.com/ScottGottliebMD/status/150119957476089446615:27
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Bespoke (@bespokeinvest): Covid rapid tests are one of the only things not going up in price right now. twitter.com/ScottGottliebM… → https://twitter.com/bespokeinvest/status/150120038209724826015:37
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Dr Emma Hodcroft (@firefoxx66): New feature: Direct URL linking to the countries & variants you want to show!Perhaps you'd like to focus on Delta + Omicron in Nordic Countries? Now you can link directly!Use menus on the left to select what you'd like to show, & copy the [... want %more?] → https://twitter.com/firefoxx66/status/150120592500844954415:47
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Dr Naomi Park (@SequencingPark): Thankyou for listening and sharing my reflections on working at the start of the pandemic and being a woman in science @sangerinstitute  #IWD2022 #WomenInSTEM twitter.com/sangerinstitut… → https://twitter.com/SequencingPark/status/150120778987573248016:06
BrainstormNew from Pfizer: Pfizer Invites Public to View and Listen to Webcast of Pfizer Discussion at Healthcare Conference:  Anonymous (not verified) Tue, 03/08/2022 - 10:00 Tuesday, March 08, 2022 - 10:00am NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE) [... want %more?] → https://www.pfizer.com/news/press-release/press-release-detail/pfizer-invites-public-view-and-listen-webcast-pfizer-416:16
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Eric Topol (@EricTopol): A small East African island nation currently has the highest new cases per capita, and one of the highest death rates in the world, with higher 2 and 3-shot vaccination rates than the United States@OurWorldInData pic.twitter.com/lIGHJQNgrm → https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/150121938120797798416:37
BrainstormNew from StatNews: STAT+: Congress considers a longer phase-out of looser, Covid-era telehealth policies: Lawmakers are planning to extend more flexible telehealth policies put in place during the pandemic for five months after the end of the formal public health emergency → https://www.statnews.com/2022/03/08/congress-telehealth-phase-out/16:47
BrainstormNew from Johnson&Johnson: Johnson & Johnson Announces Landmark Agreement to Enable its COVID-19 Vaccine to be Manufactured and Made Available by an African Company for People Living in [... want %more?] → https://www.jnj.com/johnson-johnson-announces-landmark-agreement-to-enable-its-covid-19-vaccine-to-be-manufactured-and-made-available-by-an-african-company-for-people-living-in-africa16:57
BrainstormUpdates for Canada: +9066 cases, +61 deaths since 22 hours ago17:01
BrainstormNew from ClinicalTrials.gov: (news): Covid-19 Vaccine Immune Response in Multiple Sclerosis → https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT0526988817:07
BrainstormNew from ClinicalTrials.gov: (news): Efficacy of Chinese Herbal Medicine to Prevent and Treat COVID-19 Close Contacts → https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT0526951117:17
BrainstormNew from ClinicalTrials.gov: (news): COVID-19 Research: COPE Trial in Health Care Workers → https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT0527100617:27
BrainstormNew from ClinicalTrials.gov: (news): FDG (Fluorodeoxyglucose) Findings After COVID-19 Vaccination → https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT0527096717:37
BrainstormNew from ClinicalTrials.gov: (news): Safety, Tolerability and Immunogenicity of Recombinant COVID-19 Vaccine Betuvax-CoV-2 → https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT0527095417:47
BrainstormNew from ClinicalTrials.gov: (news): COVID-19 Serologic Strategies for Skilled Nursing Facilities → https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT0527098018:06
BrainstormUpdates for Netherlands: +66244 cases, +12 deaths since 20 hours ago18:10
BrainstormNew from ClinicalTrials.gov: (news): Evaluating Public Health Interventions to Improve COVID-19 Testing Among Underserved Populations → https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT0527069418:16
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Chise  (@sailorrooscout): In regards to BA.2. Per @tuliodna, WHO stated: •There’s NO evidence of a difference in severity between BA.2 & BA.1 (BOTH are Omicron)•BA.2 is more transmissible than BA.1 BUT the gap is smaller than between Omicron & Delta•Vaccines are EQUALLY [... want %more?] → https://twitter.com/sailorrooscout/status/150124139812065690018:35
rpifani finally got the novavax18:54
BrainstormUpdates for Italy: +60753 cases, +184 deaths, +531194 tests (11.4% positive) since 22 hours ago19:00
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Phillip Febbo, MD (@PhilFebboMD_CMO): Honored to have @illumina #5 on @FastCompany’s 10 most innovative health companies of 2022. While based on our COVID work during the pandemic, broader awareness of sequencing is accelerating the incorporation of #genome insights into health and [... want %more?] → https://twitter.com/PhilFebboMD_CMO/status/150125369279574835619:04
BrainstormNew from Contagion Live: Valneva Successfully Completes Chikungunya Vaccine Phase 3 Trial: There is no vaccine to prevent or treat chikungunya virus. Valneva announced 98.9% of phase 3 trial participants achieved CHIKV neutralizing antibodies after a signle dose of their [... want %more?] → https://www.contagionlive.com/view/valneva-successfully-completes-chikungunya-vaccine-phase-3-trial19:43
LjL-MatrixHmm Italy cases going up19:44
LjL-MatrixDo we have BA.2 coming19:44
de-factoin Germany cases are going up and vaccine efficacy going down19:50
de-factoGovernment wants to open more, completely insane19:51
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Michael Lin, MD PhD  (@michaelzlin): And if we're ditching masks because COVID19 is no longer an emergency, I don't think we should be liberally handing out drugs with serious side effects (Paxlovid) and the ability to mutate the virus (molnupiravir) that were approved only under EUA at [... want %more?] → https://twitter.com/michaelzlin/status/150126743346145690219:52
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Eric Topol (@EricTopol): Who needs a booster? The @WHO reverses its position and supports "urgent and broad" 3-shot vaccination apnews.com/article/covid-… @AP The evidence has supported that move for several months."Fully vaccinated" = 3-shots (or confirmed infection-acquired immunity [... want %more?] → https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/150127069579950489820:02
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Marc Veldhoen (@Marc_Veld): Analysis of death reports to VAERS following mRNA vaccination, found no unusual patterns in cause of death among the death reports received. Similar to general mortality in the adult population, reporting rates for deaths in this analysis increased with [... want %more?] → https://twitter.com/Marc_Veld/status/150127621267660800020:23
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Marc Veldhoen (@Marc_Veld): The concentrated reporting of deaths on the first few days after vaccination follows patterns similar to those observed for other adult vaccinations. → https://twitter.com/Marc_Veld/status/150127621506742681720:33
BrainstormNew from Reddit (test): Covid2019: Omicron BA.2 (B.1.1.529.2): high potential to becoming the next dominating variant → https://old.reddit.com/r/Covid2019/comments/t9ow0d/omicron_ba2_b115292_high_potential_to_becoming/20:43
BrainstormNew from Reddit (test): CoronaVirus_2019_nCoV: The mutational steps of SARS-CoV-2 to become like Omicron within seven months: the story of immune escape in an immunocompromised patient. → https://old.reddit.com/r/CoronaVirus_2019_nCoV/comments/t9p1u0/the_mutational_steps_of_sarscov2_to_become_like/20:52
BrainstormUpdates for United Kingdom: +62024 cases, +212 deaths since 22 hours ago — Spain: +23149 cases, +285 deaths since 22 hours ago20:59
BrainstormNew from Contagion Live: Monoclonal Antibodies Least Available for those at Highest Risk for Severe COVID-19: Study with Medicare beneficiaries found those at highest risk of severe COVID-19 among least likely to receive monoclonal antibody treatment. → https://www.contagionlive.com/view/monoclonal-antibodies-least-available-for-those-at-highest-risk-for-severe-covid-1921:22
BrainstormNew from r/COVID19: COVID19: Infection with Omicron variant generates neutralizing antibodies to BA.1 and BA.2 sub-lineages and induces higher levels of cross-neutralizing antibodies to Delta variant → https://old.reddit.com/r/COVID19/comments/t9q6ta/infection_with_omicron_variant_generates/21:41
BrainstormNew from CIDRAP: Study reveals some brain changes, even in mild COVID-19: Mary Van Beusekom | News Writer | CIDRAP News Mar 08, 2022 The imaging differences between COVID-19 and non-COVID patients were modest, about 2%. → https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2022/03/study-reveals-some-brain-changes-even-mild-covid-1922:00
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Eric Topol (@EricTopol): Yet another warning from our 󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 friendsWaning is the leading theory (not BA.2)At least they have a plan for using a 4th dose (age 75+ at 6 months after last shot)We have no plan in the US twitter.com/chrischirp/sta… → https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/150131066742848307822:40
BrainstormNew from CIDRAP: News Scan for Mar 08, 2022: COVID-19 pneumonia and new dementia Between-species CWD transmission COVID-19 and resistant co-infections Infectious disease risk in Ukrainian refugees → https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2022/03/news-scan-mar-08-202222:50
BrainstormUpdates for Malaysia: +31490 cases, +79 deaths, +110130 tests (28.6% positive) since a day ago — Germany: +185054 cases since 23 hours ago23:04
BrainstormNew from r/COVID19: COVID19: Early clues regarding the pathogenesis of long-COVID → https://old.reddit.com/r/COVID19/comments/t9rl4i/early_clues_regarding_the_pathogenesis_of/23:09
BrainstormNew from CIDRAP: WHO lays out plan for COVID vaccines to tackle new variants: Lisa Schnirring | News Editor | CIDRAP News Mar 08, 2022 Different approaches may be needed in the future, experts say, such as vaccines that target a specific variant. → https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2022/03/who-lays-out-plan-covid-vaccines-tackle-new-variants23:19

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