libera/##covid-19/ Friday, 2022-04-15

BrainstormUpdates for United Kingdom: +34229 cases since 15 hours ago00:03
LjL<CarlSagan_> [Ars Technica - Science] Puzzling cases of severe liver disease in children spark international probe https://arstechnica.com/?p=1848183 2022-04-14T21:08:5100:04
BrainstormNew from Reddit (test): Covid2019: 2022 ACC Expert Consensus Decision Pathway on COVID-19: Return-to-Play Take Home Points - American College of Cardiology → https://old.reddit.com/r/Covid2019/comments/u3seqh/2022_acc_expert_consensus_decision_pathway_on/00:23
BrainstormUpdates for Gibraltar: +256 cases since 5 days ago01:06
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Eric Topol (@EricTopol): Prospective tracking of a school Omicron outbreak with a very high transmission rate in Geneva, Switzerland thelancet.com/journals/lanin… @TheLancetInfDis pic.twitter.com/XZiWS7Kyla → https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/151475131736059494601:51
BrainstormUpdates for Malaysia: +10413 cases, +18 deaths since a day ago02:03
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Josiah 'So Mild' Grindrod (@JT_Grindrod): Imagine if the CDC had informed the public about what happened to SARS-CoV survivors, and how they hadn't recovered a decade post infection.How differently do you think people would have treated this? twitter.com/PPEtoheros/sta… → https://twitter.com/JT_Grindrod/status/151475775583112806402:19
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Eric Topol (@EricTopol): A Covid breath test with results in a few minutes gets the FDA go ahead. Sure beats having a nasopharyngeal swab PCR with multiple day turnaround.nytimes.com/live/2022/04/1… → https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/151478205771239424803:53
BrainstormUpdates for Barbados: +817 cases, +2 deaths, +2621 tests since 2 days ago04:02
BrainstormNew from Reddit (test): China_Flu: Long COVID Prevalence and Most Common Symptoms (UK, Italy, France, Germany) Dr. Syed → https://old.reddit.com/r/China_Flu/comments/u3y0i4/long_covid_prevalence_and_most_common_symptoms_uk/04:50
BrainstormUpdates for Trinidad and Tobago: +449 cases, +2 deaths, +1129 tests since a day ago05:05
BrainstormNew from Politico: Declassified: Get vaccinated 90 times and go see Putin: A beginner’s guide to being an entrepreneur → https://www.politico.eu/article/get-vaccinated-90-times-and-go-see-putin-a-beginners-guide-to-being-an-entrepreneur/05:38
BrainstormUpdates for Germany: +156864 cases since 21 hours ago — United Kingdom: +34809 cases, +359 deaths since 21 hours ago — France: +222 cases since 7 hours ago06:08
TimvdeHow many days after contact should an infection be detected by a PCR?06:32
Timvde(Or rather the inverse: how many days after contact can I be reasonably certain that a negative PCR result would mean no infection?)06:33
BrainstormUpdates for New South Wales, Australia: +33121 cases, +37 deaths since a day ago — Unknown, China: +22475 cases since 23 hours ago — Victoria, Australia: +18919 cases, +21 deaths since a day ago — Queensland, Australia: +16407 cases, +6 deaths since a day ago08:01
BrainstormNew from r/Coronavirus: Daily Discussion Thread | April 15, 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/u427ki/daily_discussion_thread_april_15_2022/09:08
BrainstormUpdates for Taiwan: +1283 cases, +145092 tests since a day ago10:06
BrainstormNew from StatNews: Leana Wen talks Covid risk tolerance and her response to critics: "We have to be able to live with the risk of Covid as we live with the risk of virtually everything else in our lives," @DrLeanaWen told STAT on "The… → https://www.statnews.com/2022/04/15/leana-wen-talks-covid-risk-tolerance-and-her-response-to-critics/10:43
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Tom Wenseleers (@TWenseleers): How to make Covid figures look good: just count a small fraction of the real Covid deaths. China hardly counts any of the Covid deaths by the looks of it, but the Netherlands doesn't do much better: they count only slightly over half... twitter.com/Jean__Fisch/st… → https://twitter.com/TWenseleers/status/151489673324700467211:31
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Gunhild Alvik Nyborg (@GANyborg): Now this is where it starts to make a difference.We should keep our eyes open to the fact that controlling this pandemic may soon get a lot easier with the help of science & innovation twitter.com/EricTopol/stat… → https://twitter.com/GANyborg/status/151490481653908275912:00
BrainstormNew from PubMed: Vaccination strategy for preventing the spread of SARS-CoV-2 in the limited supply condition: a mathematical modelling study: CONCLUSION: It is crucial to encourage people to vaccinate in establishing immune barriers. Especially, when the supply is limit, a wiser strategy to restrict the SARS-CoV-2 transmission is [... want %more?] → https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35426142/13:07
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Marc Veldhoen (@Marc_Veld): This is the scienceMultivalent designed proteins neutralize SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern and confer protection against infection in miceStill early days, still in mice;  but this is very promising.science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… twitter.com/NorthwesternU/… → https://twitter.com/Marc_Veld/status/151493007793444045113:45
BrainstormNew from Reddit (test): nCoV: Global COVID Cases For 15APR22 → https://old.reddit.com/r/nCoV/comments/u46b0u/global_covid_cases_for_15apr22/13:55
BrainstormNew from Politico: Coronavirus: Spain, Ireland report cases of mystery hepatitis in children first detected in UK: WHO → https://www.politico.eu/article/spain-ireland-report-cases-of-mystery-hepatitis-in-children-first-detected-in-uk-who/14:53
BrainstormUpdates for Vanuatu: +566 cases since 21 hours ago15:01
BrainstormNew from Contagion Live: Pfizer-BioNTech Booster Dose Demonstrates Protection Against Omicron in Pediatric Population: The 36-fold increase in Omicron neutralizing titers in children between 5-11 years old is providing data for the companies to be able to file for an FDA [... want %more?] → https://www.contagionlive.com/view/pfizer-biontech-booster-dose-demonstrates-in-pediatric-population15:12
BrainstormNew from StatNews: Pharma: STAT+: Pharmalittle: WTO head says Covid vaccine IP talks are nearing agreement; RSV is the next big target for vaccine makers → https://www.statnews.com/pharmalot/2022/04/15/covid19-vaccine-patent-who-hiv-aids-cancer-bristol/15:32
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Tom Wenseleers (@TWenseleers): According to the @IHME_UW models we had 10.9 million Covid infections in Belgium since the start of the pandemic up to March 14 2022 (population 11.56 million). The worldwide estimate is 6.1 billion infections. ourworldindata.org/grapher/daily-… pic.twitter.com/wak53ay2h8 → https://twitter.com/TWenseleers/status/151495970730326016515:43
BrainstormNew from The Atlantic: Have We Already Ruined Our Next COVID Summer?: Almost exactly 12 months ago, America’s pandemic curve hit a pivot point. Case counts peaked—and then dipped, and dipped, and dipped, on a slow but sure grade, until, somewhere around the end of May, the numbers [... want %more?] → https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2022/04/covid-pandemic-free-summer/629568/16:02
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Eric Topol (@EricTopol): The good news that seems to get missedThe US BA.2 wave is ongoing, accounting for almost all new cases, yet hospitalizations/ICUs continue to drop every daywsj.com/articles/omicr…There'will be a reversal of this trend, but it's a far better look to date than it [... want %more?] → https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/151496981827270246916:23
BrainstormNew from ClinicalTrials.gov: (news): Covid-19 Associated Coagulopathy Predicted by Thrombodynamic Markers (CoViTro-I) → https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT0533083217:24
BrainstormNew from ClinicalTrials.gov: (news): Interleukine 6 (IL6) Assay for Predicting Failure of Spontaneous Breathing in Patients With COVID-19 Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome → https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT0533084517:35
BrainstormNew from Reddit (test): Covid2019: Shanghai police ‘beat elderly and women’ as residents are forced to evict homes for Covid patients → https://old.reddit.com/r/Covid2019/comments/u4bihz/shanghai_police_beat_elderly_and_women_as/18:14
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: (translated) Marc Veldhoen (@Marc_Veld): The data that there is an increased risk of death after even mild infection; in addition, there are increases in diabetes, neurological damage, cardiovascular disease.#Vaccination #COVID19frontiersin.org/articles/10.33… → https://twitter.com/Marc_Veld/status/151500125003049779718:24
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Tulio de Oliveira (@Tuliodna): South Africa's scientists and vaccine developers are working with Ukraine and @WHO to make sure that we can have a more equitable world and produce vaccines were most needed. twitter.com/DrTedros/statu… → https://twitter.com/Tuliodna/status/151501087568554803319:04
BrainstormUpdates for Italy: +62290 cases, +130 deaths since 22 hours ago — Germany: +85486 cases, +89 deaths since 19 hours ago19:06
BrainstormNew from Contagion Live: us: Antimicrobial Stewardship Education Reduces Antibiotic Prescriptions in COVID-19 Patients → https://www.contagionlive.com/view/antimicrobial-stewardship-education-reduces-antibiotic-prescriptions-in-covid-19-patients19:33
BrainstormNew from Contagion Live: FDA Authorizes First COVID-19 Diagnostic Breath Test: The InspectIR COVID-19 Breathalyzer test detects chemical compounds in breath samples associated with a SARS-CoV-2 infection. → https://www.contagionlive.com/view/fda-authorizes-first-covid-19-diagnostic-breath-test19:43
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Eric Topol (@EricTopol): The situation in Taiwan and China indicate how formidable and different BA.2 is compared with prior variants and the ancestral strain. pic.twitter.com/IB9V63362o → https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/151502506126229913720:02
BrainstormNew from CIDRAP: News Scan for Apr 15, 2022: COVID, upper airway infection in kids Avian flu detected in Idaho flocks US flu continues slow rise Polio in Nigeria and Israel → https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2022/04/news-scan-apr-15-202220:41
BrainstormNew from Virological.org: Latest topics: SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus: Linking Genotype to Phenotype: Further Exploration of Mutations in SARS-CoV-2 Associated with Mild or Severe Outcomes → https://virological.org/t/linking-genotype-to-phenotype-further-exploration-of-mutations-in-sars-cov-2-associated-with-mild-or-severe-outcomes/79420:51
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: William Haseltine (@WmHaseltine): A hallmark of serious SARS-CoV-2 infection is lymphopenia. Recent work attributes lymphopenia at least in part to SARS-CoV-2 infection and killing of lymphocytes through an ACE2-independent entry route. forbes.com/sites/williamh… → https://twitter.com/WmHaseltine/status/151504230621011150221:10
BrainstormUpdates for France: +125616 cases, +151 deaths since 23 hours ago — Germany: +87682 cases, +91 deaths since 22 hours ago — Canada: +6256 cases since 22 hours ago22:01
BrainstormNew from CIDRAP: FDA authorizes COVID breath test for emergency use: Lisa Schnirring | News Editor | CIDRAP News Apr 15, 2022 In China, officials say they will help key industries resume operations in Shanghai. → https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2022/04/fda-authorizes-covid-breath-test-emergency-use22:08
BrainstormNew from CIDRAP: Psychiatric disorders may up risk for COVID-19 reinfection: Mary Van Beusekom | News Writer | CIDRAP News Apr 15, 2022 Certain psychiatric disorders may predispose fully vaccinated COVID-19 survivors to reinfection. → https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2022/04/psychiatric-disorders-may-risk-covid-19-reinfection22:37
BrainstormNew from WebMD: COVID Breath Test: Fascinating Technology, Limited Potential?: The new test may be useful for screening in doctors' offices but not yet for concerts, ball games, or other large gatherings. → https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20220415/covid-breath-test-fascinating-technology-limited-potential22:56

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