libera/##covid-19/ Wednesday, 2022-06-01

BrainstormUpdates for Ethiopia: +296 cases since a day ago — Mozambique: +45 cases, +452 tests since a day ago00:11
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: David Boulware, MD MPH (@boulware_dr): Dear @pfizer, the US gov wants to test different durations of #paxlovid for early #covid19 for you, for free. Will you let @NIH via the ACTIV platform trials? Asking for a friend #IDTwittertheatlantic.com/health/archive… → https://twitter.com/boulware_dr/status/153176255274049126500:35
BrainstormNew from BMJ: The black market for covid-19 antiviral drugs: Recently, reporters from The BMJ posted a request on the online market website Indiamart. They wanted to buy a hundred boxes of generic molnupiravir (Lagevrio), Merck’s oral antiviral drug, given to... → http://www.bmj.com/content/377/bmj.o1282.short01:03
BrainstormUpdates for Brazil: +41377 cases, +108 deaths since 23 hours ago — India: +2784 cases since 18 hours ago — Bahrain: +583 cases, +4436 tests since 23 hours ago — Germany: +10934 cases, +219 deaths since 7 hours ago01:07
BrainstormNew from Novavax: (news): Novavax Initiates Phase 3 Trial of its COVID-19 Omicron Strain Vaccine as a Booster → https://ir.novavax.com/Novavax-Initiates-Phase-3-Trial-of-its-COVID-19-Omicron-Strain-Vaccine-as-a-Booster01:13
BrainstormUpdates for Uruguay: +9389 cases, +11 deaths since 7 days ago02:03
BrainstormNew from Reddit (test): Walgreens COVID-19 Index: submitted by /u/shallah to r/Covid2019 → https://old.reddit.com/r/Covid2019/comments/v23s4b/walgreens_covid19_index/02:11
BrainstormUpdates for Guyana: +135 cases, +1396 tests since a day ago — S. Sudan: +25 cases, +2603 tests since a day ago — France: +35261 cases since 8 hours ago03:00
BrainstormNew from r/COVID19: COVID19: Intrahost evolution and forward transmission of a novel SARS-CoV-2 Omicron BA.1 subvariant → https://old.reddit.com/r/COVID19/comments/v24nph/intrahost_evolution_and_forward_transmission_of_a/03:55
BrainstormUpdates for Australia: +17742 cases, +22 deaths since 23 hours ago04:03
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Eric Topol (@EricTopol): Publsihed today @PNASNews Mask wearing significantly reduces #SARSCoV2 community transmission. Analysis of the effect in 92 regions, 6 continents pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn… by @g_leech_ and colleagues pic.twitter.com/I6HxL5fSR0 → https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/153181628768856883204:05
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Eric Topol (@EricTopol): The BA.2.12.1 variant is now 59% [95% CI 55,63%] of new cases in the United Statescovid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tra…(It's ~25% more transmissible than BA.2, which it out-competed) pic.twitter.com/S6Uo7GscDh → https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/153181867340446515304:14
BrainstormUpdates for Panama: +3819 cases, +1 deaths, +16891 tests since a day ago — Guatemala: +833 cases, +21 deaths since a day ago05:05
BrainstormUpdates for Thailand: +4563 cases, +28 deaths since a day ago06:08
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Josiah Grindrod is usually self limiting (@JT_Grindrod): I'm sorry my not wanting to catch SARS is such an inconvenience to you and your hopeless, meaningless dreams of endemicity. twitter.com/andyaschmidt/s… → https://twitter.com/JT_Grindrod/status/153184989876881408006:18
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Michael Lin, MD PhD   (@michaelzlin): But anyway, is the pandemic phase of the pandemic over? Hard to make that case when some places are seeing their highest infection levels ever → https://twitter.com/michaelzlin/status/153186159458971238406:56
BrainstormUpdates for California, United States: +43896 cases, +71 deaths since 23 hours ago — New York, United States: +23377 cases, +34 deaths since 4 days ago — Texas, United States: +18896 cases since 4 days ago — Illinois, United States: +16039 cases, +1896 deaths since 4 days ago08:01
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Gunhild Alvik Nyborg (@GANyborg): This    is what many Norwegian MDs have been calling a respiratory virus, comparing to the flu, and advocated we stop testing and let it rip (which we have done, more or less - our present government seem fully ignorant in this issue). Wild. twitter.com/zerocovidthai/… → https://twitter.com/GANyborg/status/153189071212342477009:00
BrainstormUpdates for Costa Rica: +13896 cases, +30 deaths, +83847 tests since 7 days ago09:04
BrainstormNew from r/Coronavirus: Daily Discussion Thread | June 01, 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/v2aw5y/daily_discussion_thread_june_01_2022/09:09
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Gunhild Alvik Nyborg (@GANyborg): Yes, the same virus as @DrPatSoonShiong is describing here. (On Covid from 2:35) Learning to live with this might get very complicated in the long run. Like, dystopically complicated. twitter.com/questcnn/statu… → https://twitter.com/GANyborg/status/153189699839526502409:19
BrainstormNew from Reddit (test): CoronaVirus_2019_nCoV: Doctors, nurses risked their lives to battle COVID. Now they're facing a mental health crisis → https://old.reddit.com/r/CoronaVirus_2019_nCoV/comments/v2bem3/doctors_nurses_risked_their_lives_to_battle_covid/09:48
BrainstormUpdates for Taiwan: +88248 cases, +122 deaths, +135445 tests since 23 hours ago10:00
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Oliver Johnson (@BristOliver): Only a factor of 10 out in a week (in fact, it's worse than that, it's nearly a factor of 15, if you just consider how many new cases there were). twitter.com/redouad/status… pic.twitter.com/h5otQaCMGi → https://twitter.com/BristOliver/status/153190881315833446410:07
BrainstormNew from StatNews: Opinion: Listen: Covid-19 is leaving millions of orphaned children behind: This week on the "First Opinion Podcast," @flaxter and @HillisSusan talk about the heartbreaking number of children who have lost a parent or caregiver to Covid-19 — with more to… → https://www.statnews.com/2022/06/01/millions-orphans-covid-is-leaving-behind/11:04
-Bridgestorm- ⭕ 地震? Earthquake? M6+ estimated tremor, registered by ObservatoryHK, possibly occurred 29 minutes ago (09:00:00 UTC), during daytime, Muping, China (30.4, 102.9), ↓10 km likely felt 290 km away (in 雅安市, 眉山市, 康定市…) by 4.5 million people (Twitter)11:29
-Bridgestorm- 🏠 地震! Earthquake! 6.0 M tremor, registered by ObservatoryHK,quakenotices, occurred 31 minutes ago (09:00:08 UTC), during daytime, Muping, China (30.4, 102.97) ± 3 km, ↓10 km likely felt 260 km away (in 雅安市, 眉山市…) by 4.4 million people → https://t.co/v26Q3D8aG2 (Twitter)11:31
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Marc Veldhoen (@Marc_Veld): Effectiveness of heterologous and homologous covid-19 vaccine regimens: living systematic review with network meta-analysisAn mRNA booster is recommended to supplement any primary vaccine course!bmj.com/content/377/bm… → https://twitter.com/Marc_Veld/status/153193283010374451311:42
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Marc Veldhoen (@Marc_Veld): Mask wearing in community settings reduces SARS-CoV-2 transmissionIf it was not clear yet: Wear a mask where crowded and reduce transmission!pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn… → https://twitter.com/Marc_Veld/status/153193560574723686511:52
BrainstormUpdates for Russia: +4151 cases, +83 deaths since 23 hours ago12:00
BrainstormNew from BMJ: Monkeypox: Healthcare workers will be offered smallpox vaccine as UK buys 20 000 doses: People with monkeypox should now isolate at home, if they remain well enough, and avoid contact with others until all their lesions have healed and the scabs have dried, the UK Health Security Agency... → http://www.bmj.com/content/377/bmj.o1379.short12:21
BrainstormNew from Il Sole 24 Ore: (translated) Drugs, go shopping in the hospital again after the Covid slowdown: This year, spending on direct purchases is expected to grow by 5%: the breaking of the ceiling over 2 billion, half to be borne by companies → https://www.ilsole24ore.com/art/farmaci-torna-correre-spesa-ospedale-la-frenata-covid-AEafv4bB12:59
BrainstormUpdates for Brunei: +296 cases since 23 hours ago — Qatar: +261 cases since 22 hours ago — France: +43132 cases, +97 deaths since 19 hours ago — Liechtenstein: +38 cases since 22 hours ago13:09
BrainstormNew from StatNews: Opinion: Kids and Covid-19: The urgency of equity should outweigh the urgency of normal: Covid-19 affects everyone, but it does not affect everyone equally. The Urgency of Equity recognizes the desire for normalcy without giving short shrift to [... want %more?] → https://www.statnews.com/2022/06/01/kids-and-covid-urgency-of-equity-should-outweigh-urgency-of-normal/13:09
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Gunhild Alvik Nyborg (@GANyborg): Time for a reality check? The population of the UK is 67 million. After 2+ years of pandemic, an estimated 2 million (!) are living with long term post-Covid issues - as a result of the, sorry, idiot policy of letting the virus rip - and rip - and rip    [... want %more?] → https://twitter.com/GANyborg/status/153195701183066931213:19
BrainstormNew from Reddit (test): nCoV: Global COVID Cases For 01JUN22 → https://old.reddit.com/r/nCoV/comments/v2eq7z/global_covid_cases_for_01jun22/13:28
BrainstormUpdates for UAE: +442 cases, +231962 tests since 23 hours ago — Malta: +115 cases, +1370 tests since 23 hours ago13:59
BrainstormNew from Science-Based Medicine: Black Market Anti-virals: New antivirals for COVID have rapidly lead to a black market in dubious knock-offs. The post  first appeared on Science-Based Medicine . → https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/black-market-anti-virals/14:07
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Yale Center for Research on Aging (Y-Age) (@YaleAge): New study whose authors include @VirusesImmunity of @YaleAge & @hmkyale empowers long #COVID19 patients as they struggle to find relief. These @YaleMed researchers are trying to solve the mysteries of long COVID & help patients feeling [... want %more?] → https://twitter.com/YaleAge/status/153197230188918374514:26
BrainstormNew from Pfizer: Pfizer Provides Update on Ownership Interest in Haleon:  Anonymous (not verified) Wed, 06/01/2022 - 08:27 Wednesday, June 01, 2022 - 08:27am Haleon to Become a Publicly Listed Standalone Company in July Following a Demerger by GSK Post-Demerger, [... want %more?] → https://www.pfizer.com/news/press-release/press-release-detail/pfizer-provides-update-ownership-interest-haleon14:46
BrainstormUpdates for Vanuatu: +135 cases since 23 hours ago15:02
BrainstormNew from Virological.org: Latest topics: First 2022 monkeypox outbreak genome sequences from Slovenia:  Tomaž Mark Zorec ¹, Samo Zakotnik ¹, Alen Suljič ¹, Doroteja Vlaj ¹, Maja Mastnak ², Damjana Rozman ³, Cene Skubic ³, Miša Korva ¹, Tatjana Avšič-Županc ¹* and Mario [... want %more?] → https://virological.org/t/first-2022-monkeypox-outbreak-genome-sequences-from-slovenia/84115:06
BrainstormNew from StatNews: Pharma: STAT+: Pharmalittle: Pfizer to exit consumer-health joint venture with GSK; access to obesity drugs in U.S. remains ‘dismal’ → https://www.statnews.com/pharmalot/2022/06/01/obesity-depression-antitrust-novartis-biogen-sage-covid19-vaccines/15:26
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Eric Topol (@EricTopol): A black market for Covid anti-viral pills, the Molnupiravir experience   bmj.com/content/377/bm… @bmj_latest pic.twitter.com/IT6FuMy1rM → https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/153199587034589184215:56
BrainstormUpdates for Canada: +2204 cases, +8 deaths since 19 hours ago16:05
BrainstormNew from EMA: Human medicine assessment reports: (news): Human medicines European public assessment report (EPAR): Jcovden (previously COVID-19 Vaccine Janssen), COVID-19 vaccine (Ad26.COV2-S [recombinant]), COVID-19 virus infection, Date of authorisation: 11/03/2021, Revision: [... want %more?] → https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/medicines/human/EPAR/jcovden-previously-covid-19-vaccine-janssen16:05
BrainstormNew from COVID19 Vaccine Tracker: valerie: Airlangga University: UNAIR Inactivated COVID-19 Vaccine → https://covid19.trackvaccines.org/vaccines/181/16:35
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Eric Topol (@EricTopol): Yes, the marked increase in transmissibility of Omicron over Delta was a driving factor. But vaccinations in age 65+ during Omicron were critical: 2-shots reduced deaths by 85% and with a booster there were 96% less deaths pic.twitter.com/8jL05VYudb → https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/153200944539107737616:44
BrainstormNew from ClinicalTrials.gov: (translated) The Families and Middle School Success Project: Requirements: Parenting; Parent-Child Relations; self-regulation; Problem Behavior in School; School Adjustment; Depression → https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT0540056417:04
BrainstormNew from LitCovid: (news): Frailty, Vaccination, and Hospitalization Following COVID-19 Positivity in Older Veterans. → https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/research/coronavirus/publication/3563904317:14
BrainstormNew from ClinicalTrials.gov: (news): Promoting HIV Self-testing Among MSM During COVID-19 Pandemic → https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT0539883517:24
BrainstormNew from ClinicalTrials.gov: (news): Impact of COVID-19 Vaccination on Serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D Level → https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT0539893917:43
BrainstormUpdates for Germany: +54042 cases, +293 deaths since 23 hours ago — Italy: +18822 cases, +59 deaths, +192108 tests since 23 hours ago18:04
BrainstormNew from ClinicalTrials.gov: (news): Long Haul COVID Rehabilitation & Recovery Research Program → https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT0539869218:13
BrainstormNew from New Scientist: Covid-19 vaccine hesitancy cut by sharing doctors’ positive views: When people in the Czech Republic learned that a high number of doctors intended to take a covid-19 vaccine, they were slightly more likely to get the vaccine themselves → https://www.newscientist.com/article/2322870-covid-19-vaccine-hesitancy-cut-by-sharing-doctors-positive-views/18:25
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: (translated) Tom Wenseleers (@TWenseleers): The Omicron wave will therefore kill about 50,000, which is about 5 times the estimated annual death toll from influenza. See samrc.ac.za/reports/report… dropbox.com/s/hxah14qynhn3… → https://twitter.com/TWenseleers/status/153203471308657049618:35
BrainstormUpdates for Israel: +5191 cases since 21 hours ago — Solomon Is.: +2903 cases since 21 days ago — Morocco: +361 cases, +1 deaths since 21 hours ago19:00
BrainstormNew from BioNTech: Voting Results from BioNTech’s Annual General Meeting 2022: Shareholders reappointed Helmut Jeggle as Chairman of the Supervisory Board Prof. Dr. Anja Morawietz and Prof. Dr. Rudolf Staudigl will complement the existing Supervisory [... want %more?] → https://investors.biontech.de/news-releases/news-release-details/voting-results-biontechs-annual-general-meeting-202219:23
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: (translated) Tom Wenseleers (@TWenseleers): If you can't write about Covid with knowledge @Pmagazine then rather leave it. I don't think anyone reads your magazine for the science section... → https://twitter.com/TWenseleers/status/153205575856053452819:53
BrainstormNew from ScienceNews: Trained dogs sniff out COVID-19 as well as lab tests do: Dogs can be trained to sniff out COVID-19 cases. They’re overall as reliable as PCR tests and even better at IDing asymptomatic cases, a study suggests. → https://www.sciencenews.org/article/covid-dog-detection-pcr-test-screening-coronavirus20:02
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Eric Topol (@EricTopol): The overall sensitivity of Covid detection by trained dogs was 97% and "even reached 100% in asymptomatic individuals" compared to nasopharyngeal swab PCR tests. Overall canine sensitivity vs PCR (97% CI: 91 to 99 versus 84% CI: 74 to 90, p = 0.006), [... want %more?] → https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/153206317164448972820:21
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: (translated) Marc Veldhoen (@Marc_Veld): 8/8A negative consequence is the detection of new infections. This is often based on detecting anti-N antibodies because anti-S antibodies are already present by vaccination. This can reduce infection detection. → https://twitter.com/Marc_Veld/status/153206447598956134420:31
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Tulio de Oliveira (@Tuliodna): Real-time surveillance and epidemic response in Europe. Over 50 days since they could get a decent picture of a caucasian with Monkeypox. In the previous 1000s news pieces with African people... pic.twitter.com/PDmAdaA7OU → https://twitter.com/Tuliodna/status/153206854162878873620:41
BrainstormNew from Politico: EU vows deal to unlock Poland’s pandemic cash hinges on reforms: Yet rule-of-law advocates are already angry at the EU for striking the deal, warning that Poland's proposed reforms are merely cosmetic. → https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-vows-deal-to-unlock-poland-pandemic-cash-hinges-recovery-fund-covid-19-on-reforms/21:00
BrainstormUpdates for Canada: +2187 cases, +27 deaths since 22 hours ago — France: +8184 cases since 23 hours ago21:12
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Marc Veldhoen (@Marc_Veld): Medication against SARS-CoV-2 helps also with Omicron waves.Oral Nirmatrelvir and Severe Covid-19 Outcomes During the Omicron SurgeIn age 65+:  81% reduction in death and 67% reduction in hospitalizations!researchsquare.com/article/rs-170… → https://twitter.com/Marc_Veld/status/153209043792160768022:09
BrainstormNew from CIDRAP: News Scan for Jun 01, 2022: 3-dose COVID vaccine efficacy COVID-19 vaccines and pneumonia → https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2022/06/news-scan-jun-01-202222:18
BrainstormNew from CIDRAP: Global COVID-19 cases fall 11%, deaths drop 3%: Jim Wappes | Editorial Director | CIDRAP News Jun 01, 2022 Though falling or holding steady elsewhere, COVID cases are still increasing in the Americas. → https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2022/06/global-covid-19-cases-fall-11-deaths-drop-322:38
BrainstormNew from CIDRAP: Pulse oximetry bias led to less treatment for non-White COVID patients: Mary Van Beusekom | News Writer | CIDRAP News Jun 01, 2022 Too-high pulse oximetry readings led clinicians to believe patients weren't ill enough for certain therapies. → https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2022/06/pulse-oximetry-bias-led-less-treatment-non-white-covid-patients22:47
BrainstormUpdates for India: +4372 cases since 21 hours ago — Luxembourg: +4097 cases, +5 deaths since 19 days ago — Ethiopia: +445 cases since 22 hours ago — Germany: +52361 cases, +89 deaths since 21 hours ago23:05
BrainstormNew from Reddit (test): Covid2019: Give physicians’ views to improve COVID vaccine uptake: Informing people once about physicians’ views on COVID-19 vaccination improves vaccination rates by 4 percentage points after 9 months → https://old.reddit.com/r/Covid2019/comments/v2r9c9/give_physicians_views_to_improve_covid_vaccine/23:56

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