libera/##covid-19/ Wednesday, 2022-08-10

BrainstormUpdates for India: +13437 cases since 17 hours ago — Canada: +2019 cases since 20 hours ago00:08
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Eric Topol (@EricTopol): Why are people age 50+ at higher risk of severe Covid?A new @PNASNews study indicates their significant narrowing of T cell diversity in response to infections may be part of the explanationpnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn… pic.twitter.com/kbtIfnMv0Y → https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/155713025685457715200:26
BrainstormNew from Reddit (test): nCoV: Twenty-three attorneys general back suit to end CDC mask mandates for public transportation | 09AUG22 → https://old.reddit.com/r/nCoV/comments/wkgwar/twentythree_attorneys_general_back_suit_to_end/00:45
LjLsigh00:48
lulzifera web search for that article title gives this at least: https://www.newindianexpress.com/world/2022/aug/09/henipavirus-new-zoonotic-outbreakhits-china-35-people-infected-2485850.html00:59
BrainstormUpdates for Barbados: +913 cases, +4 deaths, +3403 tests since a day ago — France: +38230 cases, +111 deaths since 11 hours ago — Bahrain: +506 cases since 21 hours ago01:04
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Tom Wenseleers (@TWenseleers): Chasing variants with adapted vaccines will be very tricky though at the current speed at which the virus is evolving. But broadening immunity with multivalent or Omicron-adapted vaccines will still be welcome & should surely help to limit the toll... → https://twitter.com/TWenseleers/status/155713811026120294701:04
Asakosame 23 with the forced birth mandates one imagines01:04
lulziferhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henipavirus01:16
lulziferhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langya_henipavirus01:16
lulziferhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mojiang_henipavirus01:16
* LjL nods01:16
lulziferdidn't know that that fucking mine has this shit too01:17
LjLthere's currently some Langya cases, didn't know where were Mojiang cases01:17
lulziferit's a different henipavirus from the covid mine01:17
lulzifersince bats carry coronaviruses and henipaviruses01:18
lulziferapparently01:18
lulziferno mojiang cases01:18
lulziferjust saying that the mojiang mine has henipaviruses too01:18
lulzifer"In spring of 2012, three miners working in an abandoned copper mine in Mojiang Hani Autonomous County, south China, developed fatal pneumonia.[4] Samples were brought to the Wuhan Institute of Virology where Shi Zhengli and her colleagues ran PCR tests finding that the samples were not the bat coronavirus Rp3 nor SARS-CoV2.[5]"01:19
lulzifermaybe a different mine too?01:19
lulziferjust the same province?01:20
LjLi dunno, Langya patients are currently in two different provinces01:20
LjL(with no human-to-human contact proven or expected)01:21
lulziferyeah langya is a different henipavirus, but didn't know about this other henipavirus case from 2012 from what sounds like the same covid mine01:21
lulziferand it's wuhan institute again01:22
LjLi mean it's the only BSL4 lab they have01:23
lulziferyeah okay. how about more precations about mining then if this shit keeps escaping from those mines?01:25
lulzifercan't secure mines like bsl-4s though01:26
Asakowhy is it the US has 20 biolabs in some countries? surveillance of something ?01:28
lulziferfirst of all we were paying wuhan institute of virology01:34
lulziferthrough ecohealth01:35
lulzifera lot of this is simply research because grants01:35
lulziferbut like what's the point of bsl-4 security when you have people going into mines full of viruses?01:35
lulziferalso leaks happen all the time, and they are public knowledge here01:36
lulzifereven from bsl-x labs01:37
lulziferhttps://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/coronavirus-lab-escape-theory.html01:37
BrainstormUpdates for Brazil: +30220 cases, +292 deaths since 22 hours ago02:06
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Eric Topol (@EricTopol): And what happens if you deplete CD8+ (cytotoxic) T cells with a monoclonal antibody after vaccination + #SARSCoV2 infection?science.org/doi/epdf/10.11… @SciImmunology (macaque model) pic.twitter.com/glworgmhVU → https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/155716774881947238402:56
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Eric Topol (@EricTopol): End of paper:"Consistent w/ this perspective, 70 investigators signed a letter to the FDA on April 21, 2022 encouraging the inclusion of T cell responses in addition to antibody titers for the evaluation of SARS-CoV-2 vaccines in humans"Letter (I [... want %more?] → https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/155716924827056947203:05
BrainstormUpdates for Trinidad and Tobago: +327 cases, +855 tests since a day ago — Canada: +2021 cases since 23 hours ago03:08
BrainstormUpdates for South Korea: +151734 cases, +50 deaths since 23 hours ago — Thailand: +2335 cases, +32 deaths since 23 hours ago — Marshall Is.: +49 cases, +1 deaths since 5 hours ago05:00
BrainstormNew from Reddit (test): CoronaVirus_2019_nCoV: What is BA.4.6? The CDC is tracking a new COVID ‘variant of concern’ → https://old.reddit.com/r/CoronaVirus_2019_nCoV/comments/wkmh47/what_is_ba46_the_cdc_is_tracking_a_new_covid/05:07
BrainstormUpdates for Germany: +72737 cases, +213 deaths since a day ago06:09
de-facto%title https://www.pei.de/EN/newsroom/dossier/coronavirus/medicine-safety.html06:22
Brainstormde-facto: From www.pei.de: Dossier Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 - Safety of COVID-19 Vaccines - Paul-Ehrlich-Institut06:22
BrainstormUpdates for Osaka, Japan: +25293 cases, +39 deaths since 23 hours ago — Aichi, Japan: +16940 cases, +19 deaths since 23 hours ago — Kanagawa, Japan: +13609 cases, +19 deaths since 23 hours ago — Hyogo, Japan: +10536 cases, +12 deaths since 23 hours ago08:01
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Tulio de Oliveira (@Tuliodna): Our genomics, bioinformatics and clinical teams are using the knowledge and resources that we acquired during the COVID pandemic to fight the HIV/AIDS and TB epidemics in Africa and the Dengue. Zika and Chikungunya epidemics in Latin America [... want %more?] → https://twitter.com/Tuliodna/status/155724720684289638608:14
BrainstormNew from r/Coronavirus: Daily Discussion Thread | August 10, 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/wkqno1/daily_discussion_thread_august_10_2022/09:10
BrainstormNew from EMA: Human medicine assessment reports: (news): Human medicines European public assessment report (EPAR): Comirnaty, Tozinameran,COVID-19 mRNA Vaccine (nucleoside modified), COVID-19 virus infection, Date of authorisation: 21/12/2020, Revision: 27, Status: Authorised → https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/medicines/human/EPAR/comirnaty09:38
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Marc Veldhoen (@Marc_Veld): Global patterns of antigen receptor repertoire disruption across adaptive immune compartments in COVID-19Comparing T and B cell receptor repertoire in hospitalized and nonhospitalized individuals; with age there is a narrowing of repertoire.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn… → https://twitter.com/Marc_Veld/status/155727151889539072609:47
BrainstormUpdates for Taiwan: +23773 cases, +25 deaths, +56661 tests since 23 hours ago09:59
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Marc Veldhoen (@Marc_Veld): -Vulnerable groups require boosters, the uptake should be encouraged, and antiviral therapies, such as Paxlovid, made easily accessible.-We must improve our understanding and treatment of long COVID syndromes.Thanks to @ENirenberg @GYamey @GermHunterMD → https://twitter.com/Marc_Veld/status/155727506588406579210:06
BrainstormNew from BMJ: Covid-19 vaccination in pregnancy: ABSTRACTPregnancy is an independent risk factor for severe covid-19. Vaccination is the best way to reduce the risk for SARS-CoV-2 infection and limit its morbidity and mortality. The current recommendations from the World Health Organization, Centers for Disease Control [... want %more?] → http://www.bmj.com/content/378/bmj-2021-069741.short11:59
BrainstormUpdates for Russia: +23771 cases, +56 deaths since a day ago — Peru: +10514 cases, +45 deaths since a day ago12:04
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: iMM (@IMMolecular): Study @FrontMedicine Ana Cruz-Machado & Sofia Barreira led by Vasco Romão in collaboration @Marc_Veld w/ the aim of assessing risk factors for SARS-CoV-2 infection & for severe COVID-19 & assessing patients humoral response  bit.ly/3REanbK@lisboa_norte [... want %more?] → https://twitter.com/IMMolecular/status/155730661549738393612:08
BrainstormNew from Politico: Borders: Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas tests positive for COVID → https://www.politico.eu/article/estonian-prime-minister-kaja-kallas-test-positive-covid/12:18
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: (translated) Nelleke (@Nelleke33401661): @Marc_Veld Maybe you should do that yourself. Are you sure you can do all that? Dancing with Jansen SUCCESS, QR success... vaccinated positive could legitimately spread the virus? You knew all that in advance... too bad nothing was done about it → https://twitter.com/Nelleke33401661/status/155731089720236851812:27
BrainstormNew from Reddit (test): nCoV: Global COVID Cases For 10AUG22 → https://old.reddit.com/r/nCoV/comments/wku85t/global_covid_cases_for_10aug22/12:55
BrainstormNew from Reddit (test): nCoV: Why it’s impossible to say if the worst of the pandemic is over | 10AUG22 → https://old.reddit.com/r/nCoV/comments/wkv0ml/why_its_impossible_to_say_if_the_worst_of_the/13:32
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: iMM (@IMMolecular): Study @FrontMedicine Ana Cruz-Machado & Sofia Barreira led by Vasco Romão in collaboration @Marc_Veld  w/ the aim of assessing risk factors for SARS-CoV-2 infection & for severe COVID-19 & assessing patients humoral response bit.ly/3REanbK@lisboa_norte [... want %more?] → https://twitter.com/IMMolecular/status/155733024275010764913:42
BrainstormNew from Reddit (test): nCoV: Almost 36,000 UK retailers in ‘significant financial distress’ | 10AUG22 → https://old.reddit.com/r/nCoV/comments/wkv9qh/almost_36000_uk_retailers_in_significant/13:52
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Tom Wenseleers (@TWenseleers): PS Also a couple of graphs with BA.2.38 split off for India, as that one caused an infection wave in several states there too... pic.twitter.com/doLJ7aFbFQ → https://twitter.com/TWenseleers/status/155733541701119181314:01
BrainstormUpdates for Croatia: +1872 cases, +12 deaths, +4894 tests since a day ago — Qatar: +760 cases since a day ago14:08
BrainstormNew from Reddit (test): nCoV: Liberia: Gov't Blamed for Increasing COVID-19 Cases | 10AUG22 → https://old.reddit.com/r/nCoV/comments/wkwciw/liberia_govt_blamed_for_increasing_covid19_cases/14:38
BrainstormNew from Politico: Global health: London children aged 1 to 9 offered polio booster vaccine as more virus found in sewage → https://www.politico.eu/article/poliovirus-uk-london-children-offered-booster-vaccine-as-more-virus-found-in-sewage/14:48
BrainstormNew from Reddit (test): CoronaVirus_2019_nCoV: Study finds COVID associated with abnormal placental pathologies in nearly 50% of cohort → https://old.reddit.com/r/CoronaVirus_2019_nCoV/comments/wkwmon/study_finds_covid_associated_with_abnormal/14:57
BrainstormNew from StatNews: Pharma: STAT+: Pharmalittle: Endo bankruptcy filing over opioid crisis appears imminent; U.S. to allow fractional doses of monkeypox vaccine → https://www.statnews.com/pharmalot/2022/08/10/monkeypox-vaccine-endo-opioids-merck-nitrosamine-pfizer-hepatitis-jnj/15:17
BrainstormNew from WebMD: Monkeypox Vaccine Supply Stretched by Giving Smaller Doses: The FDA said that instead of  a standard  subcutaneous injection, the new regimen will be given just under the skin (intradermally) at one-fifth the usual dose. → https://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/news/20220810/fda-stretches-monkeypox-vaccine-supply-by-authorizing-smaller-doses15:26
BrainstormUpdates for Hong Kong: +4593 cases, +4 deaths since 23 hours ago — Micronesia: +275 cases, +2 deaths since a day ago16:00
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Eric Topol (@EricTopol): The enhanced protection afforded by hybrid immunity (Covid infection plus vaccination) is influenced by variants nature.com/articles/s4157… @NatRevImmunol @rahulsurya85 @TheOttLab pic.twitter.com/X7d4L6wAS8 → https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/155737367862654566416:33
BrainstormNew from EMA: What's new: Orphan: Orphan designation: allogeneic peripheral blood mononuclear cells incubated ex-vivo with 16, 16-dimethyl prostaglandin E2,dexamethasone, Treatment in haematopoietic stem cell transplantation, 10/08/2022, Withdrawn → https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/medicines/human/orphan-designations/eu-3-16-177416:42
BrainstormNew from r/COVID19: COVID19: COVID-19 during pregnancy, maternal immune response and neonatal cell-specific immunity → https://old.reddit.com/r/COVID19/comments/wkzbwj/covid19_during_pregnancy_maternal_immune_response/16:52
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Eric Topol (@EricTopol): How does Covid heighten the risk of clotting?nature.com/articles/s4157…@NatRevImmunol @emconway99 @JHMorrissey pic.twitter.com/DkXwSpUbRB → https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/155738100378136576017:01
BrainstormNew from Reddit (test): CoronavirusUK: Wednesday 10 August 22 - England Hospitalisation Weekly Update (28Th July - 10Th August) → https://old.reddit.com/r/CoronavirusUK/comments/wkztil/wednesday_10_august_22_england_hospitalisation/17:29
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Eric Topol (@EricTopol): New insights on the underpinnings and biomarkers for #LongCovid (LC) in a systematic study medrxiv.org/content/10.110…*Uniformly low cortisol level*, along w/antibody and T cell findings @VirusesImmunity @PutrinoLab HC-healthy controls, CC-convalesced w/o LC [... want %more?] → https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/155739201102343373017:48
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Prof. Akiko Iwasaki (@VirusesImmunity): Here is the summary of our findings. There are many implications for diagnosis and therapy for #longCOVID. (26/) pic.twitter.com/kBI7e79Uao → https://twitter.com/VirusesImmunity/status/155739419222515712217:57
BrainstormUpdates for Serbia: +7061 cases, +14 deaths, +18728 tests since 23 hours ago — Kosovo: +1197 cases since a day ago — Montenegro: +789 cases, +3242 tests since a day ago — Italy: +31699 cases, +145 deaths, +201509 tests since 23 hours ago18:05
BrainstormNew from r/COVID19: COVID19: Cardiovascular Effects of the BNT162b2 mRNA COVID-19 Vaccine in Adolescents → https://old.reddit.com/r/COVID19/comments/wl144i/cardiovascular_effects_of_the_bnt162b2_mrna/18:07
BrainstormNew from COVID19 Vaccine Tracker: valerie: Aivita Biomedical Inc: AV-COVID-19 → https://covid19.trackvaccines.org/vaccines/74/18:16
BrainstormNew from COVID19 Vaccine Tracker: valerie: Airlangga University: UNAIR Inactivated COVID-19 Vaccine → https://covid19.trackvaccines.org/vaccines/181/18:26
BrainstormUpdates for Chile: +11243 cases, +5 deaths, +69809 tests since 23 hours ago — Azerbaijan: +1097 cases, +7 deaths since 2 days ago — Myanmar: +36 cases since 23 hours ago19:01
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Eric Topol (@EricTopol): South Korea's BA.5 wave. Currently highest cases per capita in the world. Much less impact than (and an outgrowth from) its striking BA.1 wave.@OurWorldInData pic.twitter.com/ui1mrfJr4c → https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/155741817505397964819:32
BrainstormNew from r/COVID19: COVID19: Inactivated COVID-19 vaccination does not affect in vitro fertilization outcomes in women → https://old.reddit.com/r/COVID19/comments/wl3fkp/inactivated_covid19_vaccination_does_not_affect/19:41
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Tulio de Oliveira (@Tuliodna): The South African dream team struck a again and show why the BA.5 can easily cause wave of infections in countries that had a BA.1 wave before BA.4/5.Great work on live virus by @sigallab twitter.com/sigallab/statu… → https://twitter.com/Tuliodna/status/155742236470670540819:51
BrainstormUpdates for Moldova: +10147 cases, +32 deaths since 6 days ago — Malaysia: +4896 cases, +12 deaths, +57838 tests since a day ago — France: +207 cases since 18 hours ago20:03
BrainstormNew from r/COVID19: COVID19: Distinguishing features of Long COVID identified through immune profiling → https://old.reddit.com/r/COVID19/comments/wl48k5/distinguishing_features_of_long_covid_identified/20:19
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Eric Topol (@EricTopol): My colleagues @scrippsresearch just published exciting work discovering broad neutralizing antibodies from macaques (with their structural biology) that could be used as a template for variant-proof Covid vaccinesscience.org/doi/10.1126/sc…  @andrabi_raiees [... want %more?] → https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/155743112495917465820:28
BrainstormNew from The Atlantic: America’s New Monkeypox Strategy Rests on a Single Study: Once again, the United States is messing up its approach to vaccines. Three months into its monkeypox outbreak, just 620,000 doses of the two-injection Jynneos shot—the nation’s [... want %more?] → https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2022/08/monkeypox-vaccine-splitting-doses-fda-gamble/671100/20:57
BrainstormNew from WebMD: Regular Fasting Linked to Less Severe COVID: Study: Intermittent fasting was not linked with a smaller chance of getting COVID-19, but it was linked with getting a less severe infection, according to the findings of a new study. → https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20220810/regular-fasting-linked-less-severe-covid-study21:35
BrainstormUpdates for Japan: +250288 cases, +251 deaths since a day ago22:01
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Tom Wenseleers (@TWenseleers): @PeacockFlu @umm_rit_ @GooglyChess1 @ToshiAkima Yes, below the raw data & my multinomial fits - current wave in Delhi should mainly be driven by BA.2.75 now... pic.twitter.com/a6CKrVo15V → https://twitter.com/TWenseleers/status/155746226356877721622:31
BrainstormUpdates for Canada: +1213 cases since 22 hours ago23:04
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Shannon Woodward ( ,  ) (@shannonwoodward): Long covid study! Incredible work and explainer by @VirusesImmunity . twitter.com/virusesimmunit… → https://twitter.com/shannonwoodward/status/155747422257362124823:28
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Jason Kaelber (@Kaelberviridae): I'm going to rank this right behind strain-updated boosters as the biggest SARS-CoV-2 story of the summer. The parallels to ME/CFS are becoming increasingly clear too. twitter.com/VirusesImmunit… → https://twitter.com/Kaelberviridae/status/155747843647345049623:37

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