libera/##covid-19/ Tuesday, 2022-07-05

BrainstormUpdates for Turkey: +57113 cases, +25 deaths since 5 days ago00:02
BrainstormNew from Reddit (test): Covid2019: Large COVID outbreak in Hong Kong high rise building associated with airborne transmission via the "chimney effect" wherein air travels upwards from lower apartments on thermal gradients through light wells, dry plumbing, and passive floor ventilation. → https://old.reddit.com/r/Covid2019/comments/vrig4z/large_covid_outbreak_in_hong_kong_high_rise/00:03
BrainstormNew from Reddit (test): nCoV: Covid-19: India has a new Omicron sub-variant, may be alarming, says Israeli expert | 05JUL22 → https://old.reddit.com/r/nCoV/comments/vrire0/covid19_india_has_a_new_omicron_subvariant_may_be/00:13
BrainstormNew from Reddit (test): nCoV: Australia is heading for its third Omicron wave. Here’s what to expect from BA.4 and BA.5 | 04JUL22 → https://old.reddit.com/r/nCoV/comments/vrirvk/australia_is_heading_for_its_third_omicron_wave/00:22
LjL<Brainstorm> New from Reddit (test): Covid2019: Large COVID outbreak in Hong Kong high rise building associated with airborne transmission via the "chimney effect" wherein air travels upwards from lower apartments on thermal gradients through light wells, dry plumbing, and passive floor ventilation. → https://old.reddit.com/r/Covid2019/comments/vrig4z/large_covid_outbreak_in_hong_kong_high_rise/00:37
LjLbuuuuut it's just the droplets!00:37
BrainstormNew from Reddit (test): nCoV: Omicron BA.2.75 is alarming! Experts point 3 key reasons why tracking new COVID variant is essential | 04JUL22 → https://old.reddit.com/r/nCoV/comments/vriur5/omicron_ba275_is_alarming_experts_point_3_key/00:41
xxLjL: wasn't that SARS1 too?00:42
xxhigh rise buildings in china00:43
LjLit occurred yes, i remember that00:43
xxwhat a surprise that SARS2 behaves the same...00:44
xxnobody could have expected it00:44
BrainstormUpdates for India: +14224 cases since 16 hours ago00:59
BrainstormNew from Reddit (test): Covid2019: Erectile Dysfunction Risk 6 Times Higher in Men With COVID - "Mask Up to Keep It Up" → https://old.reddit.com/r/Covid2019/comments/vrkndq/erectile_dysfunction_risk_6_times_higher_in_men/01:58
LjLcheap shot02:01
BrainstormUpdates for Bulgaria: +942 cases, +3 deaths, +8055 tests since 23 hours ago02:01
BrainstormNew from Reddit (test): CoronaVirus_2019_nCoV: I didn't care if I lived or died' | Three COVID long haulers share their road to recovery → https://old.reddit.com/r/CoronaVirus_2019_nCoV/comments/vrkvfm/i_didnt_care_if_i_lived_or_died_three_covid_long/02:07
BrainstormUpdates for Dominican Rep.: +3405 cases, +15614 tests since 3 days ago — Canada: +332 cases since 7 hours ago03:10
BrainstormUpdates for Bahamas: +72 cases, +2 deaths since a day ago — Mali: +5 cases since 2 days ago04:00
BrainstormUpdates for South Korea: +18133 cases, +2 deaths since 23 hours ago — Bolivia: +1782 cases since 20 hours ago — Algeria: +45 cases since a day ago05:03
BrainstormNew from r/Coronavirus: Coronavirus: Ontario NDP calls for plan to expand access to 4th COVID vaccine shots → https://old.reddit.com/r/Coronavirus/comments/vrne0s/ontario_ndp_calls_for_plan_to_expand_access_to/05:55
BrainstormUpdates for Germany: +147489 cases, +102 deaths since 22 hours ago06:06
de-factoyay hundreds of thousands of daily new infections and hundreds of deaths in year 3 after the pandemic started. bravo.06:12
BrainstormUpdates for Japan: +20774 cases, +16 deaths, +140465 tests since 23 hours ago07:02
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Scott Gottlieb, MD (@ScottGottliebMD): Elegant scientific work providing more support for view that chronic SARS-CoV-2 infection of immunocompromised individuals could lead to the emergence of genetically divergent lineages. Has implications for how we should identify and address [... want %more?] → https://twitter.com/ScottGottliebMD/status/154418765777272832007:20
BrainstormUpdates for North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany: +33838 cases, +26 deaths since 3 days ago — Bavaria, Germany: +23375 cases, +21 deaths since 3 days ago — Lower Saxony, Germany: +19006 cases, +21 deaths since 3 days ago — Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany: +18227 cases, +11 deaths since 2 days ago08:11
BrainstormNew from r/COVID19: COVID19: Get Ready for the Forever Plague → https://old.reddit.com/r/COVID19/comments/vrr6sn/get_ready_for_the_forever_plague/08:16
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: (translated) Marc Veldhoen (@Marc_Veld): Medical disinformation has consequences:Fewer and fewer parents have their children vaccinated against mumps, measles, rubella, polio, whooping cough and other diseases that are included in the national vaccination program.And the consequences? [... want %more?] → https://twitter.com/Marc_Veld/status/154420752942877900808:35
BrainstormNew from Science-Based Medicine: Statistical Shenanigans?: The manufacturers of Covid-19 vaccines say they are 95% effective. Peter Doshi re-examined the evidence and estimates they are only 19-29% effective. This pre-print of an as-yet unpublished re-analysis raises many questions but doesn't support the claims [... want %more?] → https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/statistical-shenanigans/09:03
BrainstormNew from BBC Health: Covid Wales: Masks back at more hospitals as cases rise: One hospital also goes further by reinstating a temporary ban on visits to patients. → https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-6204004809:33
BrainstormUpdates for Taiwan: +35984 cases, +103 deaths, +78152 tests since a day ago10:10
BrainstormUpdates for Tamil Nadu, India: +2654 cases since 23 hours ago — Mizoram, India: +138 cases, +1 deaths since 23 hours ago — Himachal Pradesh, India: +133 cases since 23 hours ago11:00
BrainstormNew from EMA: What's new: Document: Meningococcal group c polysaccharide conjugate vaccine : List of nationally authorised medicinal products - → https://www.ema.europa.eu/documents/psusa/meningococcal-group-c-polysaccharide-conjugate-vaccine-list-nationally-authorised-medicinal-products_.pdf11:37
BrainstormNew from BMJ: Covid-19: GPs are asked to opt into next vaccination phase this autumn: General practices that wish to continue giving covid booster vaccinations from September have until 14 July to sign up, NHS England has said.In guidance setting out expectations for the autumn... → http://www.bmj.com/content/378/bmj.o1657.short11:56
BrainstormUpdates for Estonia: +1343 cases since 6 days ago — Poland: +1075 cases, +2 deaths since a day ago — New Caledonia: +1070 cases since 7 days ago — Liechtenstein: +97 cases since 3 days ago12:59
BrainstormNew from Reddit (test): nCoV: Thai public health ministry warns medical workers of new Covid-19 wave in a secret document | 05JUL22 → https://old.reddit.com/r/nCoV/comments/vrv71y/thai_public_health_ministry_warns_medical_workers/13:03
BrainstormNew from Reddit (test): nCoV: Expert: Covid-19 underreported, estimates 50,000 daily cases | 05JUL22 → https://old.reddit.com/r/nCoV/comments/vrv9is/expert_covid19_underreported_estimates_50000/13:41
BrainstormNew from Contagion Live: Investigational Vaccine Meets RSV Inoculation Challenge: Investigational vaccine demonstrates efficacy against respiratory syncytial virus in trial with adults inoculated with active RSV. → https://www.contagionlive.com/view/investigational-vaccine-meets-rsv-inoculation-challenge13:51
BrainstormUpdates for Indonesia: +2577 cases, +8 deaths, +91018 tests since a day ago — Slovenia: +1815 cases since 23 hours ago — UAE: +1732 cases, +221968 tests since 23 hours ago — Iran: +1084 cases, +4 deaths since 21 hours ago14:08
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Gunhild Alvik Nyborg (@GANyborg): "Thanks to bad public policy, the frightening reality of a forever pandemic is becoming more probable day by day-Let’s call it a plague of willful incompetence or an outbreak of epidemiological stupidity.-Yes, the people have been abandoned." [... want %more?] → https://twitter.com/GANyborg/status/154429286901134540814:20
BrainstormNew from Reddit (test): 05/07/22 - ZOE COVID-19 Study Update: 3,760,682 people are currently predicted to have symptomatic COVID-19 in the UK, up by 97,256. Yesterday was 3,663,426 (+3%) and last Tuesday was 3,057,628 (+23%). → https://old.reddit.com/r/CoronavirusUK/comments/vrxige/050722_zoe_covid19_study_update/15:18
BrainstormNew from Novavax: (news): Novavax Nuvaxovid  COVID-19 Vaccine Conditionally Authorized in the European Union for Adolescents Aged 12 Through 17 → https://ir.novavax.com/2022-07-05-Novavax-Nuvaxovid-TM-COVID-19-Vaccine-Conditionally-Authorized-in-the-European-Union-for-Adolescents-Aged-12-Through-1715:38
BrainstormNew from BMJ: Helen Salisbury: Discouraging self-isolation with covid: Every day, all over the country, NHS workers go to work even when they don’t feel very well. Some do so because they know that wards and surgeries are short staffed even without an additional... → http://www.bmj.com/content/378/bmj.o1637.short15:57
BrainstormUpdates for North Macedonia: +293 cases, +1112 tests since 23 hours ago16:07
de-facto%title https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1083443/Vaccine-surveillance-report-week-24.pdf16:44
Brainstormde-facto: From assets.publishing.service.gov.uk: COVID-19 vaccine surveillance report: week 24 (UKHSA)16:44
BrainstormUpdates for Switzerland: +28019 cases, +13 deaths, +108256 tests since 6 days ago — Greece: +25875 cases, +22 deaths since a day ago — Singapore: +12784 cases since 16 hours ago — Iraq: +4698 cases since a day ago17:04
LjLhttps://twitter.com/fearnley_k/status/1544201982596071424  "the symptoms resemble those of viral meningitis" → "IT'S CAUSING viral meningitis", an NHS doctor should know better17:08
BrainstormNew from Reddit (test): CoronaVirus_2019_nCoV: Are pockets of Covid in the gut causing long-term symptoms? | Long Covid → https://old.reddit.com/r/CoronaVirus_2019_nCoV/comments/vs0572/are_pockets_of_covid_in_the_gut_causing_longterm/17:14
de-factough LjL thats what i was fearing we could see when talking about mass disabling events for working population :(17:22
BrainstormNew from BioNTech: Statement on Patent Infringement Lawsuit in Germany: BioNTech values and respects valid intellectual property rights. BioNTech's work is original, and we will vigorously defend it against all allegations of patent infringement. However, we are [... want %more?] → https://investors.biontech.de/news-releases/news-release-details/statement-patent-infringement-lawsuit-germany17:24
de-facto%title https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(22)00710-3  "Antibody escape of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron BA.4 and BA.5 from vaccine and BA.1 serum"17:27
Brainstormde-facto: From www.cell.com: Antibody escape of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron BA.4 and BA.5 from vaccine and BA.1 serum: Cell17:27
de-facto%title https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.05.26.493539v117:29
Brainstormde-facto: From www.biorxiv.org: Virological characteristics of the novel SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variants including BA.2.12.1, BA.4 and BA.5 | bioRxiv17:29
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Céline Gounder, MD, ScM, FIDSA    (@celinegounder): 1/ #Monkeypox cases are on the rise.The @CDCgov recommends that high-risk individuals get the vaccine.cbsnews.com/video/omicron-…with @CBSNews @AMGreenCBS (Jump to 2:36) pic.twitter.com/nYbJptCiFj → https://twitter.com/celinegounder/status/154434352272731340917:44
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: (translated) Marc Veldhoen (@Marc_Veld): Measles is caused by a contagious virus. Vaccination has greatly reduced the virus. If you are vaccinated you can still get infected, but the symptoms are much milder. The disease starts with a cold, a high fever, a rash with red spots. pic.twitter.com/8G7cSmbjpQ → https://twitter.com/Marc_Veld/status/154434824118537830517:54
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: (translated) Marc Veldhoen (@Marc_Veld): In addition, #COVID-19 is certainly not harmless for children. Now that many adults have built up immunity through vaccination and/or infection, it is the young, unvaccinated, who have the serious symptoms.twitter.com/jneill/status/…twitter.com/Marc_Veld/stat… → https://twitter.com/Marc_Veld/status/154434891251726336718:04
de-facto%title https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthandsocialcare/conditionsanddiseases/articles/coronaviruscovid19/latestinsights18:05
Brainstormde-facto: From www.ons.gov.uk: Coronavirus (COVID-19) latest insights - Office for National Statistics18:05
BrainstormNew from r/COVID19: COVID19: Analysis of COVID-19–Related Croup and SARS-CoV-2 Variant Predominance in the US → https://old.reddit.com/r/COVID19/comments/vs1r0r/analysis_of_covid19related_croup_and_sarscov2/18:23
LjL-Matrixde-facto, what, the alleged meningitis, or the persistence in the guts?18:52
de-factothe meningitis18:53
de-factoeconomies reliant on mental abilities of their working class population should consider prevention of such meningitis cases on large scale outbreaks to protect their economies (and populations health)18:55
BrainstormNew from WebMD: COVID-19 and Summer 2022: Boost Now or Best to Wait?: A new combination vaccine for COVID-19 will likely be coming out this fall, offering more protection against the Omicron variants of COVID-19. → https://www.webmd.com/vaccines/covid-19-vaccine/news/20220705/covid-19-and-summer-2022-boost-now-or-best-to-wait19:01
BrainstormUpdates for Spain: +71818 cases, +148 deaths since 4 days ago — Serbia: +1364 cases, +3 deaths since 23 hours ago — Iceland: +1268 cases since 4 days ago19:04
de-facto%title https://www.ilpandacentrostudio.it/coronavirus-world.html19:24
Brainstormde-facto: From www.ilpandacentrostudio.it: Coronavirus World Data | Twitter @antonio_caramia19:24
de-factoLjL-Matrix, ^^19:24
BrainstormUpdates for Italy: +133015 cases, +94 deaths, +464732 tests since a day ago — Morocco: +3849 cases, +11 deaths, +13735 tests since 23 hours ago20:01
BrainstormNew from CDC (old): Coronavirus [CoV]: COVID-19 Travel Recommendations by Country → https://tools.cdc.gov/api/embed/downloader/download.asp20:09
LjLit's rising SO fast in Italy20:17
de-factohave you seen that site https://www.ilpandacentrostudio.it/coronavirus-world.html  LjL ?20:18
LjLde-facto, that's a lot of graphs20:18
de-factoyes some seem to be quite useful, e.g. for current trends20:19
LjLde-facto, i saw a doctor yesterday, and the patient who left (who was in before me) was unmasked :\20:22
de-factomost people here are unmasked now :\20:24
de-factoin public stores, transport, not sure about MDs offices20:25
LjLyes on transport too here, even though it's STILL mandatory on public transport20:25
LjLbut they've just stopped caring20:25
LjLthe moment they made it no longer mandatory in stores, it seems people seem to have taken as "yeah well we can just stop caring now"20:25
LjLeven though the mask mandate for public transport was extended to 30 September20:25
de-factoits not good as we are in the BA.5 wave, its gaining momentum in most EU countries as well as US20:26
de-factoi think i am the only one wearing FFP3 i stores, some few (maybe 5-10%) do wear FFP2 or surgical masks20:26
de-factonow they started charging people for testing, 3€ per test20:27
de-factohence i guess: registered case numbers will drop while real case numbers raise unrestricted20:27
LjLde-facto, 22B is BA.5 right? what is 22C?20:28
de-factowe would need more restrictions, obviously, since people dont care about the increasing wave, yet we get less restrictions20:28
LjLtests are even more expensive than that here20:28
BrainstormNew from ##covid-19 Zotero group: Coronavirus World Data | Twitter @antonio_caramia: Type Web Page URL https://www.ilpandacentrostudio.it/coronavirus-world.html Accessed 2022-07-05 18:24:50 → https://www.zotero.org/groups/covid_links/items/TFQPPJZE20:28
LjLi think €15 for a pharmacy test that actually gets counted as a case20:28
de-facto22B = Omicron BA.5, and 22C = Omicron BA.2.12.120:29
LjLoh lord20:29
LjLthat one is already here?20:29
LjLi was just eyeing it about India yesterday20:29
de-factoair travel makes any variant available within hours20:30
LjLokay but it takes longer to sequence them20:30
LjL(at least in countries like ours that don't do a great job of finding and sequencing)20:30
de-factoindeed, there are probably a few weeks delay in such sequence data to arrive in trackers from the sample being taken20:31
de-factointerestingly most of those have mutations on L25220:35
de-factohttps://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.05.26.493539v1.full.pdf20:35
de-facto"After the global spread of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron BA.2 lineage, some BA.2-related variants that acquire mutations in the L452 residue of spike protein, such as BA.2.9.1 and BA.2.13 (L452M), BA.2.12.1 (L452Q), and BA.2.11, BA.4 and BA.5 (L452R), emerged in multiple countries. "20:36
de-factothat was published 26th of May, hence they had quite some time to spread20:36
de-factoLjL, have you seen that graph on page 49 of that?20:38
de-factoit would suggest that BA.4/5 is almost 20-fold as infective as BA.220:38
de-factothat would be cRaZy20:38
de-factoFigure 3A "Pseudovirus infection"20:41
LjLI don't know what to say/do, I can't tell my family to be 20x more careful, even if they're people who realize that the government is downplaying this wave for some reason, they'd laugh at the idea of going back to deliveries-only, disinfecting everything, etc20:54
de-factoi mean the pseudovirus infectivity in cell cultures does not directly translate into reproduction numbers or such, but it certainly shows that BA.4/5 got a significant fitness advantage20:57
de-factomore fit and more evasive mutant combined with a population investing less care into closing transmission paths certainly does result in increased reproduction and breeding20:59
BrainstormUpdates for Japan: +22271 cases, +16 deaths since 14 hours ago — France: +4978 cases since 23 hours ago — Canada: +3 deaths since 17 hours ago21:03
BrainstormNew from r/COVID19: COVID19: Third Dose of BNT162b2 Vaccine and Incidence of SARS-CoV-2 Infection, Hospitalization, and Death → https://old.reddit.com/r/COVID19/comments/vs5ftz/third_dose_of_bnt162b2_vaccine_and_incidence_of/21:07
BrainstormNew from CIDRAP: News Scan for Jul 05, 2022: COVID-related croup amid Omicron Convalescent plasma for COVID-19 DRC Ebola outbreak over Ice cream and deadly Listeria H5N1 avian flu in Maine seals → https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2022/07/news-scan-jul-05-202221:36
BrainstormNew from Politico: Black Sea grain deal is close, says Erdoğan: Russia and Ukraine may be just a week away from a deal to reopen key sea lanes for grain shipments, according to Turkish leader. → https://www.politico.eu/article/black-sea-grain-deal-close-say-erdogan/21:45
BrainstormUpdates for Belarus: +11170 cases, +140 deaths since a month ago — Kuwait: +1647 cases, +1 deaths since 3 days ago — Oman: +1397 cases since 15 days ago — Monaco: +97 cases since a day ago22:00
BrainstormNew from CIDRAP: Two or 3 vaccine doses may cut risk of long COVID: Mary Van Beusekom | News Writer | CIDRAP News Jul 05, 2022 The odds of having long COVID fell from 48% before vaccines to 16% after a third vaccine dose. → https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2022/07/two-or-3-vaccine-doses-may-cut-risk-long-covid22:04
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: (translated)  Fenna  (@PostvanFenna): Emergency wire in collaboration with @Marc_Veld because @RTLnieuws shares #misinformation about #vaccines, whether or not on behalf of @rivm. Claim: the #vaccine effectiveness would have fallen to 0% with 2 shots. NOT TRUE! So #RTL if you rectify, [... want %more?] → https://twitter.com/PostvanFenna/status/154441162089770598622:14
BrainstormNew from CIDRAP: BA.4/5 COVID-19 variants now dominant in all US regions: Lisa Schnirring | News Editor | CIDRAP News Jul 05, 2022 BA.5 now makes up 53.6% of cases, BA.4 makes up 16.5%, and both are highly transmissible. → https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2022/07/ba45-covid-19-variants-now-dominant-all-us-regions22:52
BrainstormUpdates for Canada: +2919 cases, +24 deaths since 19 hours ago — Montenegro: +433 cases, +1444 tests since a day ago23:09
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter:    Dieren_Doc      (@Dieren_Doc): In this randomized clinical trial among 546 patients with COVID-19 and severe AHRF, no difference was observed in 60-day mortality according to dexamethasone dose or in 28-day cumulative need for IMV according to oxygenation strategy.jamanetwork.com/journals/jamai… → https://twitter.com/Dieren_Doc/status/154442354063151104023:50
BrainstormNew from ProPublica: The Supreme Court’s EPA Decision Could Hamper Regulators’ Ability to Protect the Public: by Lisa Song ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. The Supreme Court [... want %more?] → https://www.propublica.org/article/scotus-epa-climate-greenhouse-clean-air-act#136468923:59

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