libera/##covid-19/ Friday, 2023-09-08

BrainstormNew from NPR Science: Airborne antibiotic resistance, farms supporting biodiversity and how black holes eat: NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Short Wave hosts Regina Barber and Aaron Scott about antibiotic resistance spreading through air, how farms can [... want %more?] → https://www.npr.org/2023/09/07/1198301859/airborne-antibiotic-resistance-farms-supporting-biodiversity-and-how-black-holes00:04
BrainstormNew from Eric Topol on Mastodon: (news): First human data for new XBB.1.5 booster vs the BA.2.86 variant: the neutralization antibody response looks very good, along with current main US circulating variants of EG.5.1 and FL.1.5.1 → https://mstdn.social/@erictopol/11102699935139422803:52
BrainstormNew from r/COVID19: COVID19: Transmissibility, infectivity, and immune resistance of the SARS-CoV-2 BA.2.86 variant → https://old.reddit.com/r/COVID19/comments/16d11ss/transmissibility_infectivity_and_immune/07:00
BrainstormNew from Science-Based Medicine: Take a Pledge to Enroll in a Randomized-Controlled Trial: As COVID cases and hospitalizations increase yet again, I'd like my contribution to medical research to be more than convincing people to skip vaccine doses. So should you. The post  first appeared on Science-Based Medicine . → https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/pledge/09:27
BrainstormNew from StatNews: First Opinion: Opinion: STAT+: Sanofi CEO Paul Hudson: The right way to bring AI into pharma → https://www.statnews.com/2023/09/08/artificial-intelligence-pharmaceutical-industry-paul-hudson-sanofi/10:38
BrainstormNew from BBC Health: New Covid variant BA.2.86 behind Norfolk care home outbreak: Health officials say it is too early to know whether BA.2.86 is more serious than previous strains. → https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-6675035912:30
BrainstormNew from ProPublica: He Fled a Traffic Stop in Louisiana. Now He’s in Prison for Life.: by Richard A. Webster , Verite News This article was produced for Verite News by Richard A. Webster, who covered Jefferson Parish as part of ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network [... want %more?] → https://www.propublica.org/article/jefferson-parish-louisiana-three-strikes-habitual-offender-jeff-landry13:32
BrainstormNew from Reddit (test): CoronavirusUK: Why aren’t we all being offered an autumn Covid booster? It’s not cost-effective to keep Britain healthy → https://old.reddit.com/r/CoronavirusUK/comments/16d974g/why_arent_we_all_being_offered_an_autumn_covid/14:37
BrainstormNew from r/Science: science: MIT engineers design more powerful Covid-19 RNA vaccines that produce a stronger immune response, at a lower dose. Mice injected with it produced 10 times more antibodies than mice given unadjuvanted Covid RNA vaccines. The vaccine intranasally had [... want %more?] → https://old.reddit.com/r/science/comments/16d9d3u/mit_engineers_design_more_powerful_covid19_rna/14:47
BrainstormNew from Il Sole 24 Ore: (translated) In the emergency room, swabs only for those with Covid symptoms, tests where there are fragile people: the Ministry of Health has decided to intervene with a circular to regulate the issue of tests for those entering [... want %more?] → https://www.ilsole24ore.com/art/al-pronto-soccorso-tamponi-solo-chi-ha-sintomi-covid-test-dove-ci-sono-fragili-AFjpOpm16:59
BrainstormNew from Eric Topol on Mastodon: (news): The BA.2.86 variant nursing home outbreak in England → https://mstdn.social/@erictopol/11103018834880759217:19
BrainstormNew from r/Coronavirus: Coronavirus: New Covid variant BA.2.86 behind Norfolk care home outbreak → https://old.reddit.com/r/Coronavirus/comments/16dhu52/new_covid_variant_ba286_behind_norfolk_care_home/20:20
LjLI see from their press releases that EMA has approved Comirnaty-XBB.1.5, but have they approved the equivalent Moderna too?20:29
BrainstormNew from ##covid-19 Zotero group: Comirnaty: EMA recommends approval of adapted COVID-19 vaccine targeting Omicron XBB.1.5: Item Type Web Page Author EMA URL https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/news/comirnaty-ema-recommends-approval-adapted-covid-19-vaccine-targeting-omicron-xbb15 Date 2023-08-30T13:33:34+02:00 Accessed [... want %more?] → https://www.zotero.org/groups/covid_links/items/9KU8AD3420:41
BrainstormNew from Eric Topol on Substack: The BA.2.86 variant and the new booster: There has been so much new on this since my quick update 2 weeks ago , I need to dedicate this newsletter to reviewing what’s up. → https://erictopol.substack.com/p/the-ba286-variant-and-the-new-booster22:26
BrainstormNew from Eric Topol on Mastodon: sarscov2: The significance of the 1st human data for the new XBB.1.5 booster vs BA.2.86, 5 lab studies, a BA.2.86 outbreak in the UK, and all the latest # SARSCoV2 summarized in a new Ground Truths just posted https:// erictopol.substack.com/p/the-b a286-variant-and-the-new-booster → https://mstdn.social/@erictopol/11103150156719939822:57
BrainstormNew from r/Coronavirus: Coronavirus: US CDC says existing antibodies can work against new COVID variant → https://old.reddit.com/r/Coronavirus/comments/16dmtbi/us_cdc_says_existing_antibodies_can_work_against/23:29

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