libera/##covid-19/ Monday, 2024-02-12

BrainstormNew from Reddit (test): NZ Professor "COVID-19 pandemic is intensifying": Coronavirus: Professor Michael Baker warns COVID-19 pandemic is intensifying | Newshub → https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2024/02/coronavirus-professor-michael-baker-warns-covid-19-pandemic-is-intensifying.html02:55
BrainstormNew from r/WorldNews: worldnews: Turkmenistan Conducting Virginity Tests To 'Evaluate Teenagers' Morality' → https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1aovec1/turkmenistan_conducting_virginity_tests_to/09:53
BrainstormNew from BMJ: Advances in diagnosis and treatment of bladder cancer: AbstractBladder cancer remains a leading cause of cancer death worldwide and is associated with substantial impacts on patient quality of life, morbidity, mortality, and cost to the healthcare system. Gross hematuria frequently precedes the diagnosis of [... want %more?] → http://www.bmj.com/content/384/bmj-2023-076743.short12:10
BrainstormNew from r/COVID19: COVID19: Blood transcriptomics reveal persistent SARS-CoV-2 RNA and candidate biomarkers in Long COVID patients → https://old.reddit.com/r/COVID19/comments/1aoxy3v/blood_transcriptomics_reveal_persistent_sarscov2/12:39
BrainstormNew from BioNTech: BioNTech Receives Science Based Targets Initiative Validation for Near-term Emissions Reduction Targets: Mainz, Germany, February 12, 2024 -- BioNTech SE (Nasdaq: BNTX, “BioNTech” or “the Company”) announces that the [... want %more?] → https://investors.biontech.de/news-releases/news-release-details/biontech-receives-science-based-targets-initiative-validation12:49
BrainstormNew from BMJ: GP redundancies: sending the wrong message: News that 11 salaried GPs at a surgery in Surrey have been offered redundancy1 has sent shockwaves through medical students and junior doctors. Drivers for redundancy included “new ways of working” (patient demand for virtual appointments) and recruitment of [... want %more?] → http://www.bmj.com/content/384/bmj.q367.short14:16
BrainstormNew from Marc Veldhoen on Mastodon: (news): Hippocampal Structures Among Japanese Adolescents Before and After the COVID-19 Pandemic → https://mastodon.online/@marc_veld/11191870758436768614:25
BrainstormNew from StatNews: Pharma: STAT+: Pharmalittle: We’re reading about Moderna’s RSV vaccine, Aurobindo problems, and more → https://www.statnews.com/pharmalot/2024/02/12/moderna-rsv-vaccines-patents-aurobindo-novo-ozempic-obesity-wegovy-paxlovid-pfizer/15:14
BrainstormNew from Marc Veldhoen on Mastodon: (news): This is a prospective cohort study. Four groups were analysed and compared: those who had never contracted SARS-CoV-2 (n = 13), infected but had no PASC (n = 34), infected with former PASC that resolved (n = 40) and patients with ongoing PASC after infection (n = 91) → https://mastodon.online/@marc_veld/11191898539299109615:33
BrainstormNew from CIDRAP: (news): Data from China suggest no survival benefit of two antiviral drugs in elderly COVID patients → https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/data-china-suggest-no-survival-benefit-two-antiviral-drugs-elderly-covid-patients18:57
LjLstupid reporting19:00
LjL"Neither antiviral demonstrated a survival benefit, with a Cox analysis of all-cause death showing a 0.73 risk of death in the azvudine group and 0.80 in Paxlovid recipients compared with no antiviral treatment."19:00
LjLthis seems contradictory on its face, but "of course" the actual study shows that the confidence intervals are such that these numbers are not significant19:00
LjLalso, anyway, paxlovid confers no survival advantage? :(19:00
LjL(yes, in the elderly, i realize, but that's where it is most important...)19:00
BrainstormNew from StatNews: Ebola vaccine cuts fatality even in people who were infected before the jab, new study shows: A new study shows that in addition to preventing infections, the Ebola vaccine can save some people who are already sick with the often fatal disease. → https://www.statnews.com/2024/02/12/ebola-vaccine-new-study/19:16
BrainstormNew from r/Science: science: New infection and immunity center at Yale looking into long COVID-19, chronic Lyme disease → https://old.reddit.com/r/science/comments/1ap73bj/new_infection_and_immunity_center_at_yale_looking/19:56
BrainstormNew from r/COVID19: COVID19: Prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 infections among Swedish healthcare workers on duty in December 2023 → https://old.reddit.com/r/COVID19/comments/1ap805n/prevalence_of_sarscov2_infections_among_swedish/20:15
BrainstormNew from CIDRAP: (news): Study: COVID-19 raises risk of heart attack in HIV patients → https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/study-covid-19-raises-risk-heart-attack-hiv-patients20:34
BrainstormNew from r/Coronavirus: Coronavirus: Health expert shares key differences between deadly fungal disease sweeping the US and Covid-19 → https://old.reddit.com/r/Coronavirus/comments/1ap8yne/health_expert_shares_key_differences_between/20:54
BrainstormNew from r/Science: science: Ebola vaccine cuts fatality even in people who were infected before the jab, new study shows → https://old.reddit.com/r/science/comments/1ap9lbq/ebola_vaccine_cuts_fatality_even_in_people_who/21:32
BrainstormNew from r/Coronavirus: Coronavirus: Americans Have One Trusted Source for Info on COVID Vaccines → https://old.reddit.com/r/Coronavirus/comments/1apa9gv/americans_have_one_trusted_source_for_info_on/21:42
BrainstormNew from CIDRAP: CDC tracking BA.2.87.1 SARS-CoV-2 variant: So far, the cases have been detected in three South African provinces and aren't fueling a resurgence in cases. → https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/cdc-tracking-ba2871-sars-cov-2-variant22:30
BrainstormNew from CIDRAP: (news): Those hospitalized with COVID-19 later at risk for several key symptoms → https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/those-hospitalized-covid-19-later-risk-several-key-symptoms22:40

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