libera/##covid-19/ Tuesday, 2022-12-20

BrainstormUpdates for Argentina: +62261 cases, +39 deaths since 8 days ago00:09
BrainstormNew from The Lancet (Online): [Department of Error] Department of Error: Guttman-Yassky E, Simpson EL, Reich K, et al. An anti-OX40 antibody to treat moderate-to-severe atopic dermatitis: a multicentre, double-blind, placebo-controlled phase 2b study. Lancet 2022; published online Dec 9. [... want %more?] → https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(22)02581-8/fulltext00:35
BrainstormNew from ##covid-19 Zotero group: Identification of Deaths With Post-acute Sequelae of COVID-19 From Death Certificate Literal Text: United States, January 1, 2020–June 30, 2022: Type Report Author Farida Ahmad Author Robert Anderson Author Jodi Cisewski Author Paul Sutton URL https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/121968 [... want %more?] → https://www.zotero.org/groups/covid_links/items/3FDM348W00:45
BrainstormUpdates for Uruguay: +4941 cases, +4 deaths since 6 days ago01:05
BrainstormUpdates for Norway: +310 cases since 23 hours ago — Bulgaria: +284 cases, +4948 tests since 23 hours ago02:01
LjL%print https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/160488201981240115202:09
BrainstormLjL, It says: Eric Topol on Twitter: "The tonsils and adenoids of children who have had Covid have persistent tissue-specific immunity which includes antigen-specific memory B and T cells https://t.co/fxTpLKz1oU @NatImmunol by @ManthiramMD and colleagues @NIAIDNews https://t.co/dkxB458zgt" / Twitter02:09
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Eric Topol (@EricTopol): Why we desperately need nasal vaccines to block infections and reinfectionsthelancet.com/journals/ebiom… @eBioMedicine by @FelicityLiew @ShubhaTalwar and colleagues pic.twitter.com/G3nJiGwiSz → https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/160501174607839641602:31
LjLokay my computer is misbehaving now03:14
LjLi just typed it all!03:14
LjLi can't see what i'm typing though03:14
BrainstormNew from Reddit (test): nCoV: China reports first COVID-19 deaths in weeks as official count questioned → https://old.reddit.com/r/nCoV/comments/zqbf1o/china_reports_first_covid19_deaths_in_weeks_as/03:28
BrainstormUpdates for Belize: +299 cases since 7 days ago05:08
BrainstormUpdates for Germany: +55015 cases, +161 deaths since a day ago — Bolivia: +2491 cases, +2 deaths since a day ago06:10
BrainstormUpdates for North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany: +16306 cases, +38 deaths since 2 days ago — New York, United States: +13483 cases, +52 deaths since 23 hours ago — Lower Saxony, Germany: +9728 cases, +16 deaths since 2 days ago — Illinois, United States: +9079 cases, +23 deaths since 2 days ago07:00
BrainstormNew from r/Coronavirus: Coronavirus: CVS, Walgreens limit purchase of children's pain medicines → https://old.reddit.com/r/Coronavirus/comments/zqfcf6/cvs_walgreens_limit_purchase_of_childrens_pain/08:25
BrainstormNew from r/Coronavirus: Daily Discussion Thread | December 20, 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/zqihji/daily_discussion_thread_december_20_2022/09:05
BrainstormUpdates for Taiwan: +17125 cases, +29356 tests since 11 hours ago09:11
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Marc Veldhoen (@Marc_Veld): China COVID wave could kill one million people, models predictWithout the booster for vulnerable, medication and some curtailment measures, it may be bleak. nature.com/articles/d4158… → https://twitter.com/Marc_Veld/status/160512286720041779309:51
BrainstormNew from EMA: What's new: Event: First European Medicines Agency - Vaccines Europe meeting, European Medicines Agency, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, from 28/11/2022 to 28/11/2022 → https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/events/first-european-medicines-agency-vaccines-europe-meeting10:10
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Marc Veldhoen (@Marc_Veld): There are extremist COVID-19 deniers: (it is a flu), that also claim it is simultaneously a bioweapon. There are extremist that claim COVID-19 is the end of humanity with immune dysfunction/deficiency.Both are mad I exist and communicate facts and have the expertise. → https://twitter.com/Marc_Veld/status/160513243534305689610:29
BrainstormNew from r/COVID19: COVID19: Covid-19: Gabriel Leung reflects on Hong Kong’s devastating fifth wave → https://old.reddit.com/r/COVID19/comments/zqk2i0/covid19_gabriel_leung_reflects_on_hong_kongs/10:39
BrainstormNew from StatNews: Opinion: Reducing the threat of vaccine-preventable diseases starts with kids: An unvaccination crisis is brewing that will disproportionately harm America's children and follow them into adulthood. → https://www.statnews.com/2022/12/20/stopping-vaccine-preventable-diseases-starts-with-kids/10:48
BrainstormUpdates for Japan: +187070 cases, +231 deaths since 23 hours ago11:09
-Bridgestorm- 💬 Recent Northern California earthquake might be felt near Santa Rosa, Clearlake, Lakeport, Napa, Vacaville, Petaluma, Fairfield, Cobb, Yuba City (earthquake.usgs.gov)11:38
-Bridgestorm- 🏠 Earthquake? Sismo? M6- estimated tremor, registered by EW,alomax, with 18 reports, 9 early, possibly occurred 4 minutes ago (10:34:07 UTC), during a crescent moon night, Clear Lake Riviera, United States (38.97, -122.69) ± 241 km, ↓4 km likely felt 440 km away (in Santa Rosa, Clearlake, Lakeport, Napa, Vacaville, Petaluma…) by 622300 people (earthquake.usgs.gov)11:39
-Bridgestorm- 🌒 Earthquake! M6- estimated tremor, registered by EW,alomax, with 29 reports, 25 early, occurred 8 minutes ago (10:34:26 UTC), during a crescent moon night, Ferndale, United States (40.51, -124.49) ± 8 km, ↓8 km likely felt 800 km away (in Arcata…) by 70800 people (Twitter)11:42
BrainstormNew from r/COVID19: Can I take a test and just mix with water instead of using the tubes in the kit (I’m out): I don’t have a tube that goes with the Covid test kit I have the nose swab and the panel but not the liquid to dip the swab and is there anything else I could [... want %more?] → https://old.reddit.com/r/COVID19/comments/zqlf9q/can_i_take_a_test_and_just_mix_with_water_instead/11:55
BrainstormUpdates for Hong Kong: +14982 cases since 21 hours ago — Belgium: +6183 cases, +56 deaths since 4 days ago — Poland: +886 cases, +7 deaths, +9879 tests since 23 hours ago — France: +646 cases since 13 hours ago11:59
-Bridgestorm- ⭕ Earthquake! 6.2 M tremor, registered by EMSC,ObservatoryHK,quakenotices, occurred 28 minutes ago (10:34:25 UTC), during a crescent moon night, Ferndale, United States (40.53, -124.41) ± 2 km, ↓5 km likely felt 320 km away (in Eureka, Fortuna, Arcata, McKinleyville…) by 70800 people → https://t.co/NjCjeDaEiQ (www.seismicportal.eu)12:03
BrainstormNew from r/COVID19: COVID19: Apparently "Long Covid-19" will affect all of us → https://old.reddit.com/r/COVID19/comments/zqm8cc/apparently_long_covid19_will_affect_all_of_us/12:43
BrainstormNew from r/COVID19: COVID19: Efficacy of awake prone positioning in patients with covid-19 related hypoxemic respiratory failure: systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized trials → https://old.reddit.com/r/COVID19/comments/zqm9n1/efficacy_of_awake_prone_positioning_in_patients/12:52
BrainstormUpdates for Slovenia: +2693 cases since 22 hours ago13:07
BrainstormNew from r/COVID19: COVID19: Awake prone positioning and covid-19 → https://old.reddit.com/r/COVID19/comments/zqmoqw/awake_prone_positioning_and_covid19/13:12
BrainstormNew from Reddit (test): nCoV: Global COVID Cases For 20DEC22 → https://old.reddit.com/r/nCoV/comments/zqnkw3/global_covid_cases_for_20dec22/13:51
BrainstormNew from Reddit (test): nCoV: Taiwan reports 17,131 new COVID-19 cases, 18 deaths | 20DEC22 → https://old.reddit.com/r/nCoV/comments/zqnu2x/taiwan_reports_17131_new_covid19_cases_18_deaths/14:00
BrainstormNew from Reddit (test): nCoV: Drugs that fight inflammation, clots tied to better 6-month COVID-19 survival | 19DEC22 → https://old.reddit.com/r/nCoV/comments/zqo0gv/drugs_that_fight_inflammation_clots_tied_to/14:10
BrainstormNew from r/COVID19: COVID19: The Safety Profile of COVID-19 Vaccines in Patients Diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis: A Retrospective Observational Study → https://old.reddit.com/r/COVID19/comments/zqobxl/the_safety_profile_of_covid19_vaccines_in/14:21
BrainstormNew from r/COVID19: Seeking Quality Vaccine Info/Studies: I am being required to get a 2nd booster in order to attend my organization’s annual advanced teacher training. I had primary Pfizer vax in April 2021 and first booster December 2021. The training means a lot to me, but I’ve [... want %more?] → https://old.reddit.com/r/COVID19/comments/zqotvs/seeking_quality_vaccine_infostudies/14:51
BrainstormNew from r/COVID19: COVID19: Effectiveness of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Bivalent Vaccine → https://old.reddit.com/r/COVID19/comments/zqpqht/effectiveness_of_the_coronavirus_disease_2019/15:21
BrainstormNew from NPR Science: Popular COVID FAQs in 2022: Outdoor risks, boosters, 1-way masking, faint test lines: Let's revisit some of 2022's still relevant queries. Like: Does one-way masking help? What's the risk of outdoor [... want %more?] → https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2022/12/20/1142006506/popular-covid-faqs-in-2022-outdoor-risks-boosters-1-way-masking-faint-test-lines15:31
BrainstormNew from New Scientist: Why are children catching so many illnesses this winter?: Many countries in the northern hemisphere are seeing surges of childhood respiratory infections like influenza and RSV. While this is partly because child infections fell during covid-19 [... want %more?] → https://www.newscientist.com/article/2352525-why-are-children-catching-so-many-illnesses-this-winter/15:51
BrainstormUpdates for Singapore: +1540 cases since 23 hours ago — Iceland: +873 cases, +10 deaths since 21 days ago — Qatar: +368 cases since a day ago — Azerbaijan: +107 cases, +4 deaths since 23 hours ago16:02
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Science Magazine (@ScienceMagazine): The authors of “Gradual emergence followed by exponential spread of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant in Africa” are retracting their study after a reanalysis revealed SARS-CoV-2 genomic fragments contaminated some of the samples and sequence [... want %more?] → https://twitter.com/ScienceMagazine/status/160521799357051699916:10
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Eric Topol (@EricTopol): New @ScienceMagazineFollowing Covid, MIS-C, the rare and potentially lethal multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children, has been elusive for its biologic basis. Today a report of 5 unrelated kids with genetic OAS-RNase L [... want %more?] → https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/160522375412816691316:40
BrainstormNew from BBC Health: Rishi Sunak refusing to budge on pay as strike action escalates: The prime minister is under pressure to reopen nurses' pay talks, as ambulance workers prepare for walk outs. → https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-6403729217:29
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: (translated) Marc Veldhoen (@Marc_Veld): Number of confirmed corona infections stable, variant BQ.1 now dominant nu.nl/coronavirus/62… → https://twitter.com/Marc_Veld/status/160524439293934796917:59
BrainstormUpdates for Netherlands: +2985 cases, +10 deaths since 3 days ago18:00
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Eric Topol (@EricTopol): A good sign. France, the 1st country to face the BQ.1.1 variant dominance, and the US, were running neck and neck for Covid hospital admissions. Now they're diverging and France is in descent for cases.@OurWorldInData pic.twitter.com/Gl7UoLZ6AX → https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/160524952679247872118:18
BrainstormNew from Politico: Qatargate: former MEP’s daughter fights extradition to Belgium on human rights grounds: Investigators have accused Silvia Panzeri, a 38-year-old lawyer practising in Milan, of money laundering, corruption and [... want %more?] → https://www.politico.eu/article/qatargate-panzeri-former-meps-daughter-fights-extradition-to-belgium-on-human-rights-european-parliament/18:47
BrainstormNew from r/COVID19: COVID19: SARS-CoV-2 Infection, Hospitalization, and Death in Vaccinated and Infected Individuals by Age Groups in Indiana, 2021‒2022 → https://old.reddit.com/r/COVID19/comments/zqvdta/sarscov2_infection_hospitalization_and_death_in/19:17
BrainstormNew from Virology.ws: Trial By Error: A Stupid Study of Exercise for Long Covid Patients With Post-Exertional Symptom Exacerbation: By David Tuller, DrPH The Journal of Medical Virology has just published a study called “Effect [... want %more?] → https://www.virology.ws/2022/12/20/trial-by-error-a-stupid-study-of-exercise-for-long-covid-patients-with-post-exertional-symptom-exacerbation/19:37
BrainstormUpdates for Canada: +1017 cases since 23 hours ago20:05
BrainstormNew from Reddit (test): CoronaVirus_2019_nCoV: Moderna Receives FDA Emergency Use Authorization for Omicron-Targeting Bivalent COVID-19 Booster Vaccine in Children 6 Months Through 5 Years of Age → https://old.reddit.com/r/CoronaVirus_2019_nCoV/comments/zqwnyw/moderna_receives_fda_emergency_use_authorization/20:16
BrainstormNew from University of Washington: Is COVID a Common Cold Yet?: news_covid_and_common_cold.PNG At the start of the coronavirus pandemic, one of the worst things about SARS-CoV-2 was that it was so new: The world lacked immunity, treatments and vaccines. A strange new virus was colliding with [... want %more?] → https://globalhealth.washington.edu/news/2022/12/20/covid-common-cold-yet21:34
BrainstormNew from Retraction Watch: Contamination leads to swift retraction for Science paper on the origins of Omicron in Africa: The authors of a paper that proposed the Omicron variant of SARS-Cov-2 had evolved in Western Africa months before it [... want %more?] → https://retractionwatch.com/2022/12/20/contamination-leads-to-swift-retraction-for-science-paper-on-the-origins-of-omicron-in-africa/21:53
BrainstormUpdates for France: +71858 cases, +130 deaths since 23 hours ago — Estonia: +818 cases, +23 deaths since 5 days ago — Luxembourg: +401 cases, +3 deaths since a day ago22:03
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Gunhild Alvik Nyborg (@GANyborg): A new study shows that the rate of new-onset Postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS) diagnoses is slightly increased after COVID-19 vaccination, but is five times lower than the rate of POTS diagnoses after SARS-CoV-2 infection nature.com/articles/s4416… → https://twitter.com/GANyborg/status/160530745640998502422:13
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Marc Veldhoen (@Marc_Veld): The data provide evidence for persistent tissue-specific immunity to SARS-CoV-2 in the upper respiratory tract of children after infection.SARS-CoV-2 causes a good immune response; no silly bales and nonsenses of immune damage. → https://twitter.com/Marc_Veld/status/160531556011551948922:42
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Eric Topol (@EricTopol): For the "it's a cold" and "the pandemic is over" folks pic.twitter.com/mzIAinl8LS → https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/160531717753547571222:52
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Marc Veldhoen (@Marc_Veld): The impact of pre-existing cross-reactive immunity on SARS-CoV-2 infection and vaccine responsesThe role of such cross-reactive responses in the outcome of SARS-CoV-2 infection and vaccination is currently unclearnature.com/articles/s4157… → https://twitter.com/Marc_Veld/status/160532072588718899223:02
BrainstormUpdates for Guatemala: +2819 cases, +2 deaths since a day ago — Canada: +1941 cases since 23 hours ago23:05
LjLSurely something is fishy in Italy's chart https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explorer?zoomToSelection=true&time=2022-05-19..latest&uniformYAxis=0&pickerSort=asc&pickerMetric=location&Metric=Cases+and+deaths&Interval=7-day+rolling+average&Relative+to+Population=true&Color+by+test+positivity=false&country=USA~GBR~DEU~ITA~JPN~KOR~GRC (and, look at Japan)23:58

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