libera/##covid-19/ Tuesday, 2022-08-30

BrainstormUpdates for Serbia: +3675 cases, +14 deaths, +13458 tests since a day ago00:04
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Eric Topol (@EricTopol): Importance of the plasma #SARSCoV2 viral antigen (nucleocapsid) level as a predictor of acute adverse outcomes in hospitalized patients. Its persistence has also been correlated with #LongCovid in smaller series  acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M2… @AnnalsofIM [... want %more?] → https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/156437377562942259200:10
BrainstormUpdates for Armenia: +2124 cases, +7 deaths, +74533 tests since 7 days ago — Bulgaria: +1403 cases, +11 deaths, +7991 tests since a day ago — Norway: +145 cases since a day ago — Syria: +23 cases since 23 hours ago03:11
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Eric Topol (@EricTopol): In the 50-64 year age group, deaths are about 1/10th of those 65+, with similar proportionate reduction by vaccination and boosters pic.twitter.com/NBGGrYLaK3 → https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/156442506858262118403:39
BrainstormUpdates for South Korea: +115519 cases, +71 deaths since 22 hours ago04:01
BrainstormNew from Reddit (test): CoronaVirus_2019_nCoV: Covid-19: New symptoms found in infected children raise concerns in Hong Kong → https://old.reddit.com/r/CoronaVirus_2019_nCoV/comments/x17b3c/covid19_new_symptoms_found_in_infected_children/04:36
BrainstormUpdates for Germany: +54504 cases, +119 deaths since 23 hours ago05:03
BrainstormUpdates for Liberia: +103 cases since 5 days ago — Niger: +66 cases since 3 days ago — United Kingdom: +1 deaths since 3 days ago05:59
BrainstormNew from Il Sole 24 Ore: (translated) The fight against Covid changes, new anti-variant vaccines and the quarantine is reduced: On 1 September, the EU drug agency will give the green light to new bivalent vaccines that are also effective against Omicron. Also [... want %more?] → https://www.ilsole24ore.com/art/cambia-lotta-covid-nuovi-vaccini-anti-varianti-e-quarantena-si-riduce-AEcieOwB07:18
BrainstormUpdates for Texas, United States: +17630 cases, +42 deaths since 3 days ago — Illinois, United States: +7932 cases, +12 deaths since 3 days ago — Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: +7461 cases, +59 deaths since 3 days ago — New York, United States: +7182 cases, +39 deaths since 23 hours ago08:04
BrainstormNew from r/Coronavirus: Daily Discussion Thread | August 30, 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/x1c7yw/daily_discussion_thread_august_30_2022/09:02
BrainstormUpdates for Laos: +101 cases since a day ago09:06
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Marc Veldhoen (@Marc_Veld): Ook eerder opgemerkt:N-antigenemia detection by a rapid lateral flow test predicts 90-day mortality in COVID-19: A prospective cohort studyclinicalmicrobiologyandinfection.com/article/S1198-… → https://twitter.com/Marc_Veld/status/156451484297486745709:30
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Marc Veldhoen (@Marc_Veld): En hier:Serum SARS-CoV-2 Antigens for the Determination of COVID-19 Severity mdpi.com/1999-4915/14/8… → https://twitter.com/Marc_Veld/status/156451567848860876809:39
BrainstormUpdates for Taiwan: +31440 cases, +27 deaths, +72939 tests since 23 hours ago10:09
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: (translated) Marc Veldhoen (@Marc_Veld): Contamination will be inevitable. But part also comes from the unfair distribution and less uptake of vaccines. This ensures continued infections and associated transmission, as well as increased risk for the development of new infectious variants.14/14 → https://twitter.com/Marc_Veld/status/156452674890511974410:17
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Marc Veldhoen (@Marc_Veld): FDA expected to authorize Moderna, Pfizer-BioNTech Omicron boosterspolitico.com/news/2022/08/2… → https://twitter.com/Marc_Veld/status/156453084637103718410:37
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Dr Emma Hodcroft (@firefoxx66): Excited to be on my way to @SwissMicrobe #SSM for a few days of fantastic science! You won't have trouble finding me today if you want to chat or catch up!    I'll also be talking about #phylogenetics, #pandemics & #publichealth at 16.00! pic.twitter.com/IIYErXnkue → https://twitter.com/firefoxx66/status/156454226098912051211:26
BrainstormNew from PubMed: (Re)imagining research, activism, and rights at the intersections of sexuality, health, and social justice: The Covid-19 pandemic inaugurated a new global order of public life and health marked by death, despair and alienation. As a crisis of a global scale, it made the task of (re)imagination simultaneously [... want %more?] → https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36038982/11:44
BrainstormNew from Reddit (test): 30/08/22 - ZOE COVID-19 Study Update: 1,526,471 people are currently predicted to have symptomatic COVID-19 in the UK, down by 15,173. Yesterday was 1,541,644 (-1%) and last Tuesday was 1,686,984 (-10%). → https://old.reddit.com/r/CoronavirusUK/comments/x1f0gt/300822_zoe_covid19_study_update/12:04
BrainstormUpdates for Slovenia: +2256 cases since 23 hours ago12:07
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: (translated) Marc Veldhoen (@Marc_Veld): For any disinformation spreader; yes you @RolandBrautigam; here's the weekly update from the UK. Page 21. #Covid_19 #pregnancyassets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/upl… pic.twitter.com/ZgxqYx2sYo → https://twitter.com/Marc_Veld/status/156456517427473613012:50
BrainstormUpdates for Poland: +5300 cases, +29 deaths since 23 hours ago — Qatar: +644 cases since 23 hours ago13:03
BrainstormUpdates for Romania: +4046 cases, +34 deaths since 23 hours ago — UAE: +512 cases, +346725 tests since 23 hours ago — France: +165 cases since 16 hours ago14:05
BrainstormNew from EMA: What's new: Event: EMA regular press briefing on COVID-19 and monkeypox, Online, 14:00 - 14:30 Amsterdam time (CEST), from 02/09/2022 to 02/09/2022 → https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/events/ema-regular-press-briefing-covid-19-monkeypox14:44
BrainstormNew from ScienceNews: The curious case of the 471-day coronavirus infection: One patient couldn’t get rid of their coronavirus infection. The case gave scientists an unprecedented look at viral evolution. → https://www.sciencenews.org/article/covid-infection-471-days-coronavirus-evolution-variants15:04
BrainstormUpdates for Indonesia: +5070 cases, +20 deaths, +98549 tests since a day ago15:08
BrainstormNew from Reddit (test): nCoV: KERRYN PHELPS: Dropping COVID safeguards is just a bad idea | 30AUG22 → https://old.reddit.com/r/nCoV/comments/x1j08f/kerryn_phelps_dropping_covid_safeguards_is_just_a/15:23
BrainstormNew from Reddit (test): nCoV: A potent neutralizing antibody provides protection against SARS-CoV-2 Omicron and Delta variants via nasal delivery | 30AUG22 → https://old.reddit.com/r/nCoV/comments/x1j95o/a_potent_neutralizing_antibody_provides/15:33
BrainstormNew from Reddit (test): nCoV: Japan OKs third Pfizer shot for children and AstraZeneca COVID treatment | 30AUG22 → https://old.reddit.com/r/nCoV/comments/x1jelk/japan_oks_third_pfizer_shot_for_children_and/15:42
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Gunhild Alvik Nyborg (@GANyborg): @WesElyMD The study is here: bmj.com/content/bmj/37…"The findings suggest that people who survive theacute phase of covid-19 are at increased risk of anarray of incident mental health disorders. Tacklingmental health disorders among survivors of [... want %more?] → https://twitter.com/GANyborg/status/156461078943626036315:52
BrainstormNew from Reddit (test): nCoV: Abu Dhabi witnesses launch of real-world evidence study to assess AstraZeneca’s Evusheld | 29AUG22 → https://old.reddit.com/r/nCoV/comments/x1jvs6/abu_dhabi_witnesses_launch_of_realworld_evidence/16:02
BrainstormUpdates for China: +10622 cases since 22 hours ago — Hong Kong: +8848 cases, +13 deaths since 23 hours ago16:10
BrainstormNew from Reddit (test): nCoV: More than 200,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccine for children arrive in Uzbekistan | 30AUG22 → https://old.reddit.com/r/nCoV/comments/x1jyw6/more_than_200000_doses_of_covid19_vaccine_for/16:11
BrainstormUpdates for Singapore: +2900 cases since 23 hours ago17:00
LjL%print https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/156461232535667097817:34
BrainstormLjL, It says: Eric Topol on Twitter: "On the after-effects of Covid, beyond and including #LongCovid "Covid generated a kind of epidemiological aftershock by leaving people susceptible to a huge range of other conditions" https://t.co/Tr9eFjnovw @FT by @SarahNev @federicacocco https://t.co/S2JNYobrhL" / Twitter17:34
BrainstormNew from ##covid-19 Zotero group: LjL: The growing evidence that Covid-19 is leaving people sicker → https://www.zotero.org/groups/covid_links/items/6QSDEB6617:47
pwr22I'm not convinced that covid necessarily leaves people more damaged / susceptible to things after having it than any other serious respiratory illness would. It does suck though in any case17:54
LjL50% of the population doesn't typically have a serious respiratory illness in the span of two years17:55
pwr22Well, proper flu can have an effect though17:55
pwr22I mean, we haven't normally been sampling people at this level before17:55
pwr22So we could easily miss a lot of things we are now seeing a high resolution / granularity17:56
peetaurpwr22: if stuff like this is true, then I can see it causing more random damage to random things, not just the infected organs  https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/08/210824135358.htm  "When the activated enzyme circulates at high levels, it has the capacity to "shred" the membranes of vital organs"  "Many patients who died from COVID-19 had some of the highest levels of this enzyme that have ever been reported"17:58
BrainstormNew from BBC Health: HRT tsar returns to role overseeing Covid boosters: Madelaine McTernan was the head of the HRT Taskforce, to ease UK supply issues, for four months. → https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-6272174218:16
BrainstormUpdates for Italy: +31087 cases, +98 deaths, +208996 tests since 23 hours ago — El Salvador: +10967 cases, +1 deaths since 17 hours ago — Spain: +9554 cases, +140 deaths since 3 days ago19:04
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Eric Topol (@EricTopol): Good to see steady, albeit slow decline in US Covid hospitalizations, now less than 37,000But still nearly 3-fold that of April 2022's lowest point (metric definition hasn't changed) which should be attainable, at the leastcharts.medriva.com/us/ pic.twitter.com/im2u98ovUI → https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/156466190008796364819:13
BrainstormNew from r/Coronavirus: Coronavirus: Sundance Will Return In-Person in 2023 With Later Digital Component, Unveils COVID Safety Measures → https://old.reddit.com/r/Coronavirus/comments/x1omm7/sundance_will_return_inperson_in_2023_with_later/19:42
BrainstormUpdates for Japan: +152487 cases, +319 deaths since 23 hours ago — Canada: +191 cases, +2 deaths since 21 hours ago20:07
BrainstormNew from r/COVID19: COVID19: If you don’t know any younger people with long covid, consider maybe they’ve kept quiet because of the stigma associated with disability. → https://old.reddit.com/r/COVID19/comments/x1ptu6/if_you_dont_know_any_younger_people_with_long/20:10
BrainstormNew from CIDRAP: SARS-CoV-2 antibodies in kids after COVID may peak at 1 to 3 months: Mary Van Beusekom | News Writer | CIDRAP News Aug 30, 2022 Neutralizing antibody levels peaked at 84% 1 to 3 months post-infection but stayed around 70% for 13 months. → https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2022/08/sars-cov-2-antibodies-kids-after-covid-may-peak-1-3-months20:30
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Eric Topol (@EricTopol): The term "accessory genes mutations" is used to denote those outside of the spike"We interpret these data as suggesting that mutations outside of spike may be driving critical phenotypes of #SARSCoV2 infection and disease"Nice work by @mcgrath_marisa @MattFrieman [... want %more?] → https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/156468331631740928120:39
BrainstormNew from Science Daily: Understanding the expanded role of clinical ethicists: The COVID-19 pandemic brought many troubling ethical issues to the frontlines of clinical care, creating significant distress for clinicians, patients, and families. Behind the scenes, clinical ethicists managed those issues to [... want %more?] → https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/08/220830145208.htm21:08
BrainstormNew from CIDRAP: COMMENTARY: Navigating COVID language traps: Peter M. Sandman, PhD Aug 30, 2022 Public health professionals use some terms imprecisely, others incorrectly, and still others technically accurate but almost sure to be misunderstood by the public. → https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2022/08/commentary-navigating-covid-language-traps21:27
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Eric Topol (@EricTopol): Pandemic mortality over the past 12 months, outliers, per capitaOnly Greece and Hong Kong fared worse than the United StatesJapan (even w/ BA.5 wave that has doubled cumulative deaths), UAE, Qatar are among the lowest fatality ratesvia @OurWorldInData [... want %more?] → https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/156470533781017395222:06
BrainstormUpdates for France: +27521 cases, +72 deaths since 8 hours ago — Austria: +17026 cases, +15 deaths since 3 days ago — Seychelles: +229 cases, +1 deaths since 13 days ago — Uzbekistan: +41 cases since 3 days ago22:11
LjLEurope is definitely going up already, eh22:15
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Marc Veldhoen (@Marc_Veld): Long-COVID ‘absolutely smashed’ the labour marketAustralia Treasury: #LongCovid (symptoms 4 more wks after infection, and said 4.5% of people in that category. Dropped to 0.2% at the 6-mo mark. After 6-mo 0.02% can't return to workRT @taipan168afr.com/politics/feder… → https://twitter.com/Marc_Veld/status/156471226864602316822:34
LjLde-facto: but will this?23:43
de-facto[m]yes23:44
de-factoyour matrix messages are not visible here though23:48
LjLyeah the mess isn't over23:52
LjLmy matrix user isn't in the room23:52
LjLit'll probably rejoin... at some point23:52
LjLand when everyone has rejoined, rooms that don't have the options enabled will go back to seeing *your* messages23:53
LjLLjL-Matrix not being visible here is a direct cause of your messages not going through in other places :P23:53
de-factoi see, yeah its a mess indeed23:54

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