libera/##covid-19/ Wednesday, 2022-12-14

BrainstormUpdates for Brazil: +37398 cases, +157 deaths since 23 hours ago — Ethiopia: +136 cases since a day ago — Albania: +32 cases since a day ago00:09
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Michael Lin, MD PhD   (@michaelzlin): HKU solved this by using not a live attenuated coronavirus, but a live attenuated flu virus which expresses SARSCoV2 spike.Thanks to @______snc for pointing out that I had missed this factoid → https://twitter.com/michaelzlin/status/160282965943933337601:59
BrainstormUpdates for Slovakia: +445 cases since 23 hours ago02:01
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Michael Lin, MD PhD   (@michaelzlin): Given the novel nature of this vaccine, the trial data will be esp informative when revealed. Interestingly, as maybe the only country to harbor a large fraction of immunonaive people after 2022, China was the one place that could test new vax using [... want %more?] → https://twitter.com/michaelzlin/status/160283159863368908802:09
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Eric Topol (@EricTopol): In just 3 weeks using the mRNA platform we've seen: —a universal flu vaccine effective in multiple experimental modelsscience.org/doi/10.1126/sc…—1st sign of efficacy in a cancer randomized trial (vs Stage 3/4 melanoma)statnews.com/2022/12/13/mod… [... want %more?] → https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/160283741821794304002:38
BrainstormNew from r/COVID19: COVID19: Autopsy-based histopathological characterization of myocarditis after anti-SARS-CoV-2-vaccination → https://old.reddit.com/r/COVID19/comments/zletu0/autopsybased_histopathological_characterization/03:36
BrainstormNew from ##covid-19 Zotero group: Effectiveness of ChAdOx1-S COVID-19 booster vaccination against the Omicron and Delta variants in England: Type Journal Article Author Freja Cordelia Møller Kirsebom Author Nick Andrews Author Ruchira Sachdeva Author Julia Stowe Author Mary Ramsay Author Jamie Lopez Bernal URL [... want %more?] → https://www.zotero.org/groups/covid_links/items/AQPG78H903:46
BrainstormUpdates for Bolivia: +2271 cases since 21 hours ago04:06
BrainstormNew from BBC Health: How Covid has dealt the NHS a lasting blow: The health service is treating fewer patients than before Covid, so why is it still struggling? → https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-6396262904:14
BrainstormUpdates for Germany: +48327 cases, +190 deaths since a day ago06:10
BrainstormNew from StatNews: Death certificate records of long Covid are a ‘floor of an estimate,’ experts say: Long Covid has begun appearing on death certificates for a small percentage of people who have died during the pandemic, but that tiny fraction of records only hints at the… → https://www.statnews.com/2022/12/14/long-covid-death-certificate-records/06:10
BrainstormNew from NPR Science: China reduces COVID-19 case number reporting as virus surges: China's National Health Commission is scaling down its daily COVID-19 report starting Wednesday after a sharp decline in PCR testing even though daily cases are hitting record highs. → https://www.npr.org/2022/12/14/1142700327/china-reduces-covid-19-case-number-reporting-as-virus-surges06:39
BrainstormUpdates for Tokyo, Japan: +19804 cases, +12 deaths since 23 hours ago — Peru: +14624 cases, +52832 tests since 22 hours ago — Aichi, Japan: +13254 cases, +8 deaths since 23 hours ago — Osaka, Japan: +10685 cases, +9 deaths since 23 hours ago07:00
BrainstormNew from Virology.ws: Trial By Error: Is the Long Covid Phenomenon an Expression of “Psychosocial Distress”?: By David Tuller, DrPH For the second time in a few weeks, a major US news organization has provided Professor Michael Sharpe, lead PACE [... want %more?] → https://www.virology.ws/2022/12/14/trial-by-error-is-the-long-covid-phenomenon-an-expression-of-psychosocial-distress/08:05
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Tulio de Oliveira (@Tuliodna): A tsunami wave of COVID in China. We need to keep an eye for the development of new variants in China as spread of Covid ‘impossible’ to track as infections soar in Beijing  theguardian.com/world/2022/dec… → https://twitter.com/Tuliodna/status/160292673442847949008:24
BrainstormNew from r/Coronavirus: Daily Discussion Thread | December 14, 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/zll6vs/daily_discussion_thread_december_14_2022/09:03
BrainstormUpdates for Taiwan: +17638 cases, +37 deaths, +23730 tests since a day ago09:05
BrainstormNew from r/COVID19: COVID19: Safety and Immunogenicity of an Omicron BA.4/BA.5 Bivalent Vaccine against Covid-19 → https://old.reddit.com/r/COVID19/comments/zllh6b/safety_and_immunogenicity_of_an_omicron_ba4ba5/09:22
BrainstormNew from StatNews: STAT+: Nine in 10 health care companies with financial stress are owned by private equity: Almost 90% of health care companies Moody’s classifies as being under financial stress are owned by private equity. Weakened by high debt loads, they were less resilient to [... want %more?] → https://www.statnews.com/2022/12/14/moodys-private-equity-health-care-financial-stress/10:58
BrainstormNew from NPR Science: How did COVID warp our sense of time? It's a matter of perception: Many people reported a distortion in their sense of time during the pandemic, but the individual experience is highly dependent on a range of factors from emotional state to culture. → https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2022/12/14/1127361435/how-covid-warped-time-perception11:08
BrainstormUpdates for Japan: +190607 cases, +244 deaths since a day ago — Russia: +7532 cases, +55 deaths since a day ago — Israel: +1693 cases, +14 deaths since 15 hours ago11:09
BrainstormUpdates for Lithuania: +1330 cases, +8 deaths since 2 days ago11:59
BrainstormNew from BMJ: Careful, kind care is our compass out of the pandemic fog: Healthcare has become industrialised. Healthcare organisations have largely responded to rising demand, increased harm, and growing costs by applying management and improvement approaches from manufacturing and engineering to healthcare delivery.1 [... want %more?] → http://www.bmj.com/content/379/bmj-2022-073444.short12:16
BrainstormNew from ECDC: ECDC expert consultation on the implementation and evaluation of non-pharmaceutical interventions: In order to explore how insights from the implementation of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) during the COVID-19 pandemic may guide [... want %more?] → https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/publications-data/ecdc-expert-consultation-implementation-and-evaluation-non-pharmaceutical12:26
BrainstormUpdates for China: +22106 cases, +35 deaths since 23 hours ago — Hong Kong: +14870 cases, +35 deaths since 23 hours ago13:01
BrainstormNew from ProPublica: Why the U.S. Is Losing the Fight to Ban Toxic Chemicals: by Neil Bedi , Sharon Lerner and Kathleen McGrory ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. When ProPublica published [... want %more?] → https://www.propublica.org/article/toxic-chemicals-epa-regulation-failures13:44
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: (translated) Penguinone (@penguinone): Omicron is simply SARS-CoV-2: the virus that causes COVID-19. It's not mild; it is SARS-CoV-2 that causes COVID-19. Vaccination protects.volkskrant.nl/nieuws-background… → https://twitter.com/penguinone/status/160301109332007321614:04
BrainstormNew from EMA: What's new: Event: Joint EMA-FDA workshop: Efficacy of monoclonal antibodies in the context of rapidly evolving SARS-CoV-2 variants, Online, 13:00 - 17:00 Amsterdam time (CET), from 15/12/2022 to 15/12/2022 → https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/events/joint-ema-fda-workshop-efficacy-monoclonal-antibodies-context-rapidly-evolving-sars-cov-2-variants14:24
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: (translated) Penguinone (@penguinone): Two Years of U.S. COVID-19 Vaccines Have Prevented Millions of Hospitalizations and Deathsextra >18.5 million hospital admissions and 3.2 million deaths prevented! But anti-vaxers will close their eyes and ears and pretend this doesn't [... want %more?] → https://twitter.com/penguinone/status/160302408359528038614:54
BrainstormUpdates for Croatia: +577 cases, +2 deaths, +3484 tests since a day ago — Malta: +28 cases, +2 deaths since a day ago15:06
BrainstormNew from StatNews: Pharma: STAT+: Pharmalittle: Lawmakers accuse Pfizer of ‘pure greed’ over Covid vaccine price hike; Takeda to spend $4 billion on experimental pill → https://www.statnews.com/pharmalot/2022/12/14/covid19-vaccines-pfizer-moderna-biden-generics-desantis-takeda-cytokinetics-sickle-cell/15:14
BrainstormNew from Reddit (test): nCoV: Global COVID Cases For 14DEC22 → https://old.reddit.com/r/nCoV/comments/zlsnw5/global_covid_cases_for_14dec22/15:43
BrainstormUpdates for Austria: +7136 cases, +14 deaths, +99362 tests since a day ago — Azerbaijan: +92 cases since a day ago16:08
BrainstormNew from EMA: What's new: Orphan: Orphan designation: Humanised monoclonal IgG4 antibody against tissue-factor-pathway inhibitor (concizumab), Treatment of haemophilia A, 10/10/2012, Withdrawn → https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/medicines/human/orphan-designations/eu-3-12-105216:23
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Penguinone (@penguinone): Entirely misleading. Extremely dangerous.Ron DeSantis calls for grand jury to investigate Covid vaccineyoutu.be/_G1uNMgNnWk → https://twitter.com/penguinone/status/160304746963759104816:33
BrainstormNew from Contagion Live: COVID-19 Pandemic Drove Carbapenem Resistance in Gram-Negative Infections: In this podcast episode, Dr. Christian Sandrock describes the need to make significant progress in antimicrobial stewardship. → https://www.contagionlive.com/view/covid-19-pandemic-drove-carbapenem-resistance-in-gram-negative-infections17:02
BrainstormNew from New Scientist: Nearly 15 million excess deaths occurred globally in 2020 and 2021: World Health Organization research suggests that during just the first two years of the pandemic, 14.83 million more deaths occurred worldwide than would otherwise have [... want %more?] → https://www.newscientist.com/article/2351763-nearly-15-million-excess-deaths-occurred-globally-in-2020-and-2021/17:32
BrainstormNew from r/COVID19: COVID19: The WHO estimates of excess mortality associated with the COVID-19 pandemic → https://old.reddit.com/r/COVID19/comments/zlvli1/the_who_estimates_of_excess_mortality_associated/17:42
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Eric Topol (@EricTopol): The deaths from Covid in the first 2 years of the pandemic were nearly 3-fold reported—~15 million globally—by @WHO excess death calculationsnature.com/articles/s4158…@Nature pic.twitter.com/sE7wVs0tWR → https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/160306748737285325217:52
BrainstormUpdates for Chile: +4290 cases, +4 deaths since 23 hours ago18:00
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: (translated) Marc Veldhoen (@Marc_Veld): The end of the worst seems over, but SARS-CoV-2 remains. We can limit the damage caused by SARS-CoV-2, but also Influenza and others. But that is only possible together. twitter.com/penguinone/sta… → https://twitter.com/Marc_Veld/status/160307131040969932818:02
BrainstormNew from r/COVID19: COVID19: Evaluation the efficacy and safety of N-acetylcysteine inhalation spray in controlling the symptoms of patients with COVID-19: An open-label randomized controlled clinical trial → https://old.reddit.com/r/COVID19/comments/zlwymr/evaluation_the_efficacy_and_safety_of/18:51
BrainstormNew from WebMD: “Alone” and “Survivor”: Health Risks and High Rewards for Contestants: Survival reality TV tests the mettle of contestants to see who can last the longest in a challenging environment and win a pile of cash. But the health risks are as real as the rewards. → https://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/features/alone-survivor-health-risks19:10
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Eric Topol (@EricTopol): Among @Nature's Top 10 people who shaped science in 2022, big congratulations to@yunlong_cao Covid predictorand @LisaAMcCorkell #LongCovid advocatenature.com/immersive/d415… pic.twitter.com/AMGURebvvy → https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/160308975150212301319:20
BrainstormNew from Reddit (test): You can now enter results from non NHS tests into the NHS app: I have just received a notification from the NHS Covid app to say that you can now enter the results from purchased tests. → https://old.reddit.com/r/CoronavirusUK/comments/zlyo6a/you_can_now_enter_results_from_non_nhs_tests_into/19:41
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Tom Wenseleers (@TWenseleers): Omicron BQ.1 hospitalisation wave in France will likely be of similar magnitude than that of Omicron BA.2. 60% of these hospitalisations are directly Covid related...Hope we will do better than that in BE given our better vaccination rate... twitter.com/nicolasberrod/… → https://twitter.com/TWenseleers/status/160309701325984563419:52
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Eric Topol (@EricTopol): This is what not protecting seniors results in....Add the BQ.1.1 variant to under-boosting, lack of mitigation factorsOn the way to exceeding BA.5 variant wave peak twitter.com/BNOFeed/status… → https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/160309972125752115220:03
BrainstormUpdates for Canada: +12 deaths since 23 hours ago20:04
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: belynda (@bel10): This is a really positive, hopeful read if you need one today. Actual lasting silver linings of this pandemic have been few and far between but this is a pretty big one that looks due to get a lot bigger. twitter.com/EricTopol/stat… → https://twitter.com/bel10/status/160310332365714637020:14
BrainstormNew from Contagion Live: CDC: Long COVID Responsible for Over 3500 Deaths: A new report looked at mortality over a 2 ½ year period, and the epidemiology of who was most affected. → https://www.contagionlive.com/view/cdc-long-covid-responsible-for-over-3500-deaths20:37
BrainstormUpdates for Ukraine: +4286 cases, +56 deaths since 9 hours ago — France: +494 cases, +5 deaths since 23 hours ago21:07
BrainstormUpdates for Morocco: +148 cases, +1 deaths, +2490 tests since a day ago22:09
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Eric Topol (@EricTopol): "Loss of smell and taste during COVID-19 infection are strong predictive factors for a robust immunologic response based on IgG [antibody] titers"journals.plos.org/plosone/articl… @PLOSOne @ColumbiaOto @ColumbiaMed → https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/160314368012616089622:50
BrainstormUpdates for Canada: +1300 cases since 23 hours ago22:59

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