libera/##covid-19/ Wednesday, 2022-09-21

BrainstormUpdates for India: +2538 cases since 18 hours ago — Bahrain: +395 cases, +3147 tests since a day ago — Kenya: +18 cases, +987 tests since a day ago01:04
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Eric Topol (@EricTopol): New CDC data on vaccination/boosters during BA.5 wave for deaths, age 50+covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tra…Compared w/unvaccinated:—92% reduction of death for 4 shots—No difference in reduction between 3 and 2 shots (~82%)[that's a 12-fold   risk of death for [... want %more?] → https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/157236254808697651201:17
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Bloom Lab (@jbloom_lab): Also note escape calculator has interactive capability to click sites to add mutations to characterized variants to see residual antigenic structure.Below is adding BA.2.75.2 mutations to BA.2.75 to see next key antigenic sites in that background include 444, [... want %more?] → https://twitter.com/jbloom_lab/status/157237325478614220801:55
BrainstormUpdates for Guatemala: +1055 cases, +10 deaths since 23 hours ago02:07
BrainstormUpdates for Monaco: +20 cases since 4 days ago — Canada: +3630 cases since 4 hours ago03:09
BrainstormUpdates for Germany: +56715 cases, +90 deaths since 23 hours ago — Thailand: +1129 cases, +13 deaths since 23 hours ago05:01
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Bloom Lab (@jbloom_lab): Take a look at @tylernstarr's thread on our pre-print of our latest deep mutational scan of how all mutations to Omicron RBD affect ACE2 affinity, & especially check out heat maps linked in his Tweet below which now display these measurements for many different [... want %more?] → https://twitter.com/jbloom_lab/status/157241987802346700805:06
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Eric Topol (@EricTopol): Discussed the current status of the pandemic with @vausecnn @CNNyoutube.com/watch?v=mFflqp… → https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/157242253956943052805:16
BrainstormNew from r/COVID19: COVID19: Impact of SARS-CoV-2 vaccination and booster on COVID-19 symptom severity over time in the COVID-OUT trial → https://old.reddit.com/r/COVID19/comments/xjt9qf/impact_of_sarscov2_vaccination_and_booster_on/05:25
BrainstormNew from Reddit (test): CoronaVirus_2019_nCoV: 14-year-old tiger dies after contracting COVID-19 at zoo: Columbus Zoo require their staff working with cats, great apes, otters and wolverines -- among other species -- to wear masks whenever they come within six [... want %more?] → https://old.reddit.com/r/CoronaVirus_2019_nCoV/comments/xjugo0/14yearold_tiger_dies_after_contracting_covid19_at/06:21
BrainstormUpdates for Switzerland: +13739 cases since 14 hours ago07:05
BrainstormUpdates for Metropolitana, Chile: +6797 cases, +40 deaths since 7 days ago — Lower Saxony, Germany: +6551 cases, +8 deaths since a day ago — Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany: +5788 cases, +12 deaths since a day ago — Lombardy, Italy: +5570 cases, +10 deaths since a day ago08:08
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Marc Veldhoen (@Marc_Veld): Nanomolar inhibition of SARS-CoV-2 infection by an unmodified peptide targeting the prehairpin intermediate of the spike proteinPotential, economic, drug against SARS-COV-2.  pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn… → https://twitter.com/Marc_Veld/status/157247162372637491208:34
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: (translated) Marc Veldhoen (@Marc_Veld): Rotavirus vaccination included in national vaccination program -Annually between 1900 and 3400 zkh admissions are prevented by this stomach and intestinal inflammation virus that mainly affects children. Administration is through a drink. nos.nl/l/2445346 → https://twitter.com/Marc_Veld/status/157247742710397747408:54
BrainstormNew from r/Coronavirus: Daily Discussion Thread | September 21, 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/xjxljv/daily_discussion_thread_september_21_2022/09:03
BrainstormUpdates for Peru: +2212 cases, +31 deaths, +47062 tests since a day ago — Cambodia: +35 cases since a day ago09:10
BrainstormNew from EMA: Human medicine assessment reports: (news): Human medicines European public assessment report (EPAR): Pemetrexed Pfizer (previously Pemetrexed Hospira), pemetrexed, Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung;Mesothelioma, Date of authorisation: 19/11/2015, Revision: 14, [... want %more?] → https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/medicines/human/EPAR/pemetrexed-pfizer-previously-pemetrexed-hospira09:13
BrainstormUpdates for Taiwan: +46834 cases, +39 deaths, +67282 tests since 23 hours ago10:00
BrainstormNew from BMJ: Crafted responses to covid belong in national galleries: I love not only the textile representations of the coronavirus featured in this news story,1 but also the fact that the New Zealand government is actively wanting to incorporate a national artistic response to the pandemic in its most prestigious museum. It [... want %more?] → http://www.bmj.com/content/378/bmj.o2254.short11:17
BrainstormNew from r/Science: science: New research has found people who do not get quality sleep or enough sleep are nearly three times as likely to fall ill with colds, flu and other diseases such as Covid-19. → https://old.reddit.com/r/science/comments/xjzr3s/new_research_has_found_people_who_do_not_get/11:56
BrainstormNew from BMJ: How “long covid” is shedding light on postviral syndromes: Long covid really shouldn’t have been a surprise, says Vett Lloyd, a biologist at Mount Allison University in Sackville, Canada. “When the pandemic started, the general assumption was that there were two possible outcomes to an infection—you’d [... want %more?] → http://www.bmj.com/content/378/bmj.o2188.short12:15
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Tom Wenseleers (@TWenseleers): Agreed: good time to get vaccinated, since several rapidly spreading variants are on the way, e.g. Omicron BA.2.75.2 & more recently BQ.1+BQ.1.1. Per @alexselby1770's estimate BQ.1.1 has a growth rate advantage of 21% (12-29%) per day in the UK right now. [... want %more?] → https://twitter.com/TWenseleers/status/157252947980494438512:25
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Tom Peacock (@PeacockFlu): BQ.1.1 is BA.5 but has gained several additional mutations in the RBD - R346T, K444T and N460K - if those positions sound familiar its because they're very similar to whats appearing in a lot of other variants right now - some massive convergent evolution [... want %more?] → https://twitter.com/PeacockFlu/status/157253549408874905612:44
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Theo Sanderson (@theosanderson): BQ.1.1, or as I like to call it, B.1.1.529.5.3.1.1.1.1.1.1 → https://twitter.com/theosanderson/status/157253738525007052912:53
BrainstormUpdates for Russia: +53045 cases, +107 deaths since a day ago — Malta: +27 cases, +677 tests since a day ago13:06
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Tom Wenseleers (@TWenseleers): Consequently, my multinomial fits (using the global GISAID + COGUK sequence data) predict rapid spread of both variants in most places, with BQ.1.1 (a BA.5.3 offshoot) being the fastest of the two (I now considered BQ.1+BQ.1.1 together, so this is still [... want %more?] → https://twitter.com/TWenseleers/status/157254139477399961613:12
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Gunhild Alvik Nyborg (@GANyborg): “Roughly 10.5 million children worldwide have a parent or carer who died from COVID-19 according to a modelling study”“For the child, it doesn’t matter to them at all what killed their parents” says Hillis.“It matters to them that their parents [... want %more?] → https://twitter.com/GANyborg/status/157254980568732057613:41
BrainstormNew from Reddit (test): nCoV: Global COVID Cases For 21SEP22 → https://old.reddit.com/r/nCoV/comments/xk2lco/global_covid_cases_for_21sep22/13:50
BrainstormNew from StatNews: Pharma: STAT+: Catalent is scolded by FDA for quality control issues at a plant that helps make Covid-19 vaccines → https://www.statnews.com/pharmalot/2022/09/21/catalent-fda-indiana-sterile-covid19-vaccines/14:00
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: (translated) Martin Moder (@Martin_Moder): BA.4/5 Booster from Saturday in Lower Austria, from Tuesday then in Vienna. I just checked 1 appointment. Winter excess here I come  derstandard.at/story/20001392… → https://twitter.com/Martin_Moder/status/157256583687088128214:58
BrainstormNew from Reddit (test): nCoV: If It’s Over, Why the Continued Emergency? | 20SEP22 → https://old.reddit.com/r/nCoV/comments/xk49yz/if_its_over_why_the_continued_emergency_20sep22/15:08
BrainstormUpdates for Bangladesh: +641 cases, +4351 tests since 23 hours ago15:11
BrainstormNew from Reddit (test): nCoV: Risk of blood clots remains for almost a year after COVID-19 infection, study suggests | 20SEP22 → https://old.reddit.com/r/nCoV/comments/xk4m44/risk_of_blood_clots_remains_for_almost_a_year/15:17
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Bloom Lab (@jbloom_lab): We hope this project can similarly help to promote respectful and broad-based discussion on the difficult question of how to best leverage advances in the biological sciences to mitigate the risks of both natural and lab-based pandemics. → https://twitter.com/jbloom_lab/status/157257561620100710515:27
BrainstormNew from Reddit (test): nCoV: CORONAVIRUS/Taiwan records 46,902 new COVID-19 cases, 39 deaths | 21SEP22 → https://old.reddit.com/r/nCoV/comments/xk5h72/coronavirustaiwan_records_46902_new_covid19_cases/15:56
BrainstormUpdates for China: +6432 cases since 23 hours ago — Croatia: +958 cases, +4244 tests since 23 hours ago16:01
BrainstormNew from Reddit (test): nCoV: New York City ends private employer vaccine mandate, pushes boosters | 21SEP22 → https://old.reddit.com/r/nCoV/comments/xk5uao/new_york_city_ends_private_employer_vaccine/16:06
BrainstormNew from The Atlantic: Lemurs Defeated an Ancient, HIV-Like Virus: Many, many millions of years ago, an HIV-like virus wriggled its way into the genome of a floofy, bulgy-eyed lemur, and got permanently stuck. Trapped in a cage of primate DNA, the virus could no longer [... want %more?] → https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2022/09/lentiviruses-lemurs-hiv-treatment-cure/671498/16:35
BrainstormNew from r/COVID19: COVID19: Comparison of the reactogenicity and immunogenicity of a reduced and standard booster dose of the mRNA COVID-19 vaccine in healthy adults after two doses of inactivated vaccine → https://old.reddit.com/r/COVID19/comments/xk6v9q/comparison_of_the_reactogenicity_and/16:45
BrainstormNew from r/COVID19: COVID19: Safety, immunogenicity, and immune persistence of two inactivated COVID-19 vaccines replacement vaccination in China: An observational cohort study → https://old.reddit.com/r/COVID19/comments/xk7ysb/safety_immunogenicity_and_immune_persistence_of/17:33
BrainstormNew from ScienceNews: Animals: After eons of isolation, these desert fish flub social cues → https://www.sciencenews.org/article/pahrump-poolfish-desert-isolation-social-cues-fish-fear17:42
BrainstormNew from Contagion Live: Paxlovid Prescribing by Pharmacists: A New Paradigm: The Paxlovid approval reaffirms the importance of pharmacists in fighting COVID-19 → https://www.contagionlive.com/view/paxlovid-prescribing-by-pharmacists-a-new-paradigm18:21
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Theo Sanderson (@theosanderson): "GISAID already provides the public with open access to data in a transparent way."Really important that this commitment is implemented for anyone trying in good faith to access the world's collected SARS-CoV-2 data. twitter.com/Asinickle1/sta… [... want %more?] → https://twitter.com/theosanderson/status/157262196593200742618:31
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Eric Topol (@EricTopol): You're familiar w/the blood-brain barrierNow discovery of the blood-olfactory barrier relevant to loss of smell and brain inflammation w/ Covid, not inhibited by systemic (shot-derived) antibodies, but with mucosal immunitycell.com/immunity/fullt… @ImmunityCP [... want %more?] → https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/157262518964047462418:41
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Eric Topol (@EricTopol): Yet another important reason to aggressively go after achieving mucosal immunity via nasal or oral vaccines.Neuro-inflammation is an underpinning for many of the symptoms of #LongCovid, including hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis dysfunction → https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/157262683002021068818:50
BrainstormUpdates for Myanmar: +469 cases, +1 deaths since a day ago — Italy: +21188 cases, +46 deaths, +166500 tests since a day ago19:07
BrainstormNew from BMJ: The needs of patients with long covid must not be ignored: The covid-19 pandemic continues to have an impact on the nation’s health. It is encouraging that deaths are now at a comparatively low level, but sadly morbidity as a result of SARS-CoV-2 affects a large number of people, many of whom are effectively [... want %more?] → http://www.bmj.com/content/378/bmj.o2287.short19:20
BrainstormNew from r/COVID19: COVID19: Proteomics of fibrin amyloid microclots in long COVID/post-acute sequelae of COVID-19 (PASC) shows many entrapped pro-inflammatory molecules that may also contribute to a failed fibrinolytic system | Cardiovascular Diabetology → https://old.reddit.com/r/COVID19/comments/xkb24i/proteomics_of_fibrin_amyloid_microclots_in_long/19:31
BrainstormNew from r/COVID19: COVID19: Considerations for the chemistry, manufacturing and Controls (CMC) - quality package for COVID-19 vaccines- interim lessons learnt by the European medicines Agency (EMA) → https://old.reddit.com/r/COVID19/comments/xkcbr8/considerations_for_the_chemistry_manufacturing/20:09
BrainstormUpdates for Japan: +69804 cases, +126 deaths since 23 hours ago20:10
BrainstormNew from COVID19 Vaccine Tracker: valerie: Adimmune Corporation: AdimrSC-2f → https://covid19.trackvaccines.org/vaccines/63/20:19
BrainstormUpdates for Malaysia: +2111 cases, +6 deaths since 23 hours ago20:59
BrainstormNew from CIDRAP: News Scan for Sep 21, 2022: COVID racial death disparities Blood clots and COVID-19 Monkeypox decline in Europe Global flu low More avian flu in US → https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2022/09/news-scan-sep-21-202221:36
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Eric Topol (@EricTopol): There are too many new #SARSCoV2 variants on the radar screen that show growth advantage vs BA.5, and 2 with extreme immune evasiveness to date. One is a BA.5 descendant, BQ.1.1; the other is derived from BA.2, BA.2.75.2. They share a RBD mutation, R346T(Maps from [... want %more?] → https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/157267397935328870521:56
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Gunhild Alvik Nyborg (@GANyborg): How to make people support your message even when it's immoral and goes against logic and their own best interest? Cambridge Analytica found out & the tricks have been used on us during the pandemicIf you don't know how this works, read&learn to protect [... want %more?] → https://twitter.com/GANyborg/status/157267578969022873622:05
BrainstormNew from r/COVID19: COVID19: Parents’ views on the acceptability of a COVID-19 vaccine for their children: A cross-sectional study in Abu Dhabi-United Arab Emirates → https://old.reddit.com/r/COVID19/comments/xkf4wj/parents_views_on_the_acceptability_of_a_covid19/22:15
BrainstormNew from CIDRAP: US healthcare workers more emotionally exhausted amid pandemic: Mary Van Beusekom | News Writer | CIDRAP News Sep 21, 2022 "We are only beginning to understand the toll of the pandemic on HCW well-being." → https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2022/09/us-healthcare-workers-more-emotionally-exhausted-amid-pandemic22:25
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Eric Topol (@EricTopol): The basis for rare mRNA vaccine-induced myocarditis has largely been a mysteryA new @NEJM report provides evidence for interleukin-1 receptor antagonist (IL-1RA) autoantibodies, w/ heart biopsies, as a potential causenejm.org/doi/full/10.10…@LorenzThurner [... want %more?] → https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/157269214796224921723:04
BrainstormUpdates for Serbia: +2435 cases, +11 deaths since a day ago — France: +38303 cases, +33 deaths since a day ago — Canada: +926 cases, +10 deaths since 23 hours ago23:04
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Marc Veldhoen (@Marc_Veld): COVID-19-Associated Hospitalizations Among Vaccinated and Unvaccinated Adults 18 Years or Older in 13 US States, January 2021 to April 2022 COVID-19 vaccines are strongly associated with prevention of serious COVID-19 illness. Who would have [... want %more?] → https://twitter.com/Marc_Veld/status/157269637173572812823:23
BrainstormNew from The Atlantic: Fauci Addresses ‘The Pandemic Is Over’: Several days after President Joe Biden declared that “the pandemic is over,” Anthony Fauci weighed in on the president’s controversial remarks during an interview at The Atlantic Festival, an annual live [... want %more?] → https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2022/09/fauci-addresses-the-pandemic-is-over/671507/23:42

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