libera/##covid-19/ Tuesday, 2023-02-14

BrainstormUpdates for Congo: +7443 cases since 21 days ago — Canada: +381 cases since 5 hours ago00:10
BrainstormNew from r/Coronavirus: Coronavirus: U.S. Government and Novavax Extend Partnership, Securing Up to 1.5 Million Additional Doses of Novavax' COVID-19 Vaccine → https://old.reddit.com/r/Coronavirus/comments/111ncaw/us_government_and_novavax_extend_partnership/00:29
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Eric Topol (@EricTopol): Accompanying editorialthelancet.com/journals/lanin…"Given that no association was found between oral antiviral treatment and viral burden rebound ... emphasizes the importance of continuing to offer antivirals to individuals with COVID-19 who are at increased [... want %more?] → https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/162528248390970572800:58
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Eric Topol (@EricTopol): New Ontario, Canada report of Paxlovid effectiveness shows 44% reduction of hospitalizations, 51% reduction of deaths (point estimates) without being significantly affected by age (67% age 70+) or vaccination statuscmaj.ca/content/195/6/… @CMAJ pic.twitter.com/3xej0K2xIm → https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/162528532053429043201:17
BrainstormNew from r/COVID19: COVID19: Detection of SARS-CoV-2 viral proteins and genomic sequences in human brainstem nuclei → https://old.reddit.com/r/COVID19/comments/111p2a5/detection_of_sarscov2_viral_proteins_and_genomic/01:46
BrainstormUpdates for Brazil: +20655 cases, +88 deaths since a day ago02:08
BrainstormUpdates for South Africa: +1755 cases since 7 days ago — Norway: +67 cases since 23 hours ago03:04
BrainstormUpdates for Bulgaria: +88 cases, +1 deaths, +4470 tests since a day ago04:00
BrainstormNew from Reddit (test): CoronaVirus_2019_nCoV: As a doctor with long covid, I feel abandoned by the NHS → https://old.reddit.com/r/CoronaVirus_2019_nCoV/comments/111t466/as_a_doctor_with_long_covid_i_feel_abandoned_by/04:57
BrainstormNew from Reddit (test): CoronaVirus_2019_nCoV: Paxlovid may help prevent hospitalization, death in COVID outpatients | The drug was linked to a reduced 28-day all-cause death rate and fewer emergency department visits for clinically significant relapse. → https://old.reddit.com/r/CoronaVirus_2019_nCoV/comments/111t9j9/paxlovid_may_help_prevent_hospitalization_death/05:06
BrainstormUpdates for Germany: +21632 cases, +112 deaths since 3 days ago06:11
BrainstormUpdates for Minas Gerais, Brazil: +13723 cases since a day ago — North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany: +5524 cases, +18 deaths since a day ago — Bavaria, Germany: +4418 cases, +22 deaths since a day ago — Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany: +2706 cases, +11 deaths since a day ago07:07
BrainstormNew from r/Coronavirus: Coronavirus: [x-post from r/science] Extracts from two common wildflowers, tall goldenrod and eagle fern blocked SARS_CoV_2, the virus responsible for COVID-19, from entering human cells. The findings could provide a new avenue to develop [... want %more?] → https://old.reddit.com/r/Coronavirus/comments/111tywv/xpost_from_rscience_extracts_from_two_common/07:38
BrainstormNew from r/COVID19: COVID19: Real-world use of nirmatrelvir-ritonavir in outpatients with COVID-19 during the era of omicron variants including BA.4 and BA.5 in Colorado, USA → https://old.reddit.com/r/COVID19/comments/111x0xo/realworld_use_of_nirmatrelvirritonavir_in/08:44
BrainstormNew from r/Coronavirus: Daily Discussion Thread | February 14, 2023: 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/111xa8s/daily_discussion_thread_february_14_2023/09:03
BrainstormNew from Science-Based Medicine: Are Vaccine-Advocates “Idiots”, Indifferent to the Death of a Mentally Ill Woman and Her Family?: Rather than face the real-world consequences of their anti-vaccine advocacy, it's easier for contrarian doctors to fantasize that COVID's youngest victims were mere figments of our imagination. [... want %more?] → https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/ofcoursenot/09:51
BrainstormUpdates for Jammu and Kashmir, India: +3 cases since 23 hours ago10:02
BrainstormUpdates for Japan: +32070 cases, +135 deaths since 23 hours ago — Taiwan: +20502 cases, +36 deaths since a day ago11:04
BrainstormNew from BMJ: John Launer: Wishing upon a tsar—covid and health literacy: I was once invited to become a tsar. This wasn’t a tsardom of the Ivan the Terrible variety, which might have appealed. It was a request to take on one of those government posts designed to make a noise about an aspect of health policy.1 The job was [... want %more?] → http://www.bmj.com/content/380/bmj.p331.short12:06
BrainstormUpdates for Lithuania: +578 cases, +2 deaths since a day ago — Slovenia: +370 cases since 22 hours ago12:06
BrainstormUpdates for Poland: +2316 cases, +6 deaths since 23 hours ago13:02
BrainstormNew from Reddit (test): nCoV: Global COVID Cases For 14FEB23 → https://old.reddit.com/r/nCoV/comments/1123mg8/global_covid_cases_for_14feb23/13:03
BrainstormNew from r/COVID19: COVID19: Short and Long-Term Cardiovascular Sequelae after SARS-CoV-2 Infection: A Narrative Review Focusing on Athletes → https://old.reddit.com/r/COVID19/comments/1124lj8/short_and_longterm_cardiovascular_sequelae_after/13:51
BrainstormNew from Reddit (test): Anti-mask radiographer: I had to have a chest X-ray at the local hospital last week. The radiographer told me I could remove my mask, but I chose not to. When he asked why I needed the X-ray, I said that it was breathing problems. He said "Of course you have breathing [... want %more?] → https://old.reddit.com/r/CoronavirusUK/comments/1124o7h/antimask_radiographer/14:01
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: (translated) Marc Veldhoen (@Marc_Veld): Something about "flu season" doesn't make any sense at all, but it is deliberately distracting and responding to "it's just a flu". A coronavirus is not an influenza virus. And, no, there's no SARS-CoV-2 season yet: pic.twitter.com/OXco1ZAFrA → https://twitter.com/Marc_Veld/status/162548105324993331514:10
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Marc Veldhoen (@Marc_Veld): COVID-19 Incidence and Mortality Among Unvaccinated and Vaccinated Persons Aged ≥12 Years by Receipt of Bivalent Booster Doses and Time Since Vaccination — 24 U.S. Jurisdictions, October 3, 2021–December 24, 2022Vaccines work... yes, really, they [... want %more?] → https://twitter.com/Marc_Veld/status/162548317836959744114:20
BrainstormNew from r/Science: science: Paxlovid slashed severe outcomes for at-risk patients after Omicron surge, study finds → https://old.reddit.com/r/science/comments/1125lfy/paxlovid_slashed_severe_outcomes_for_atrisk/14:49
BrainstormUpdates for Saudi Arabia: +67 cases, +2 deaths since 20 hours ago15:01
BrainstormNew from StatNews: Pharma: STAT+: Pharmalittle: Biotech is in shake-out mode; Sanofi R&D head jumps to Johnson & Johnson → https://www.statnews.com/pharmalot/2023/02/14/sanofi-jnj-pfizer-sorrento-novo-soligenix-lilly-merck-novavax-covid19-vaccines/15:29
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Dr Emma Hodcroft (@firefoxx66): As before, I've created a file for 23A (XBB.1.5) mapping all defining mutations (relative to ancestral), including nuc->AA. This is available on the CoVaritants Github!Huge   to all who helped check it! (Esp @CorneliusRoemer [... want %more?] → https://twitter.com/firefoxx66/status/162550754425163776115:58
BrainstormUpdates for Iran: +187 cases, +5 deaths since a day ago16:09
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Tulio de Oliveira (@Tuliodna): Great paper from our good friends and colleagues from Nigeria     @christian_happi   @Chikwe_I   @acegid  - Emergence and spread of two SARS-CoV-2 variants of interest in Nigeria | Nature Communications nature.com/articles/s4146… → https://twitter.com/Tuliodna/status/162551599113948364916:27
BrainstormNew from Contagion Live: MOA of Testing Platforms for Respiratory Infections: Jacinda Abdul-Mutakabbir, PharmD, examines the mechanisms of action of the different respiratory viral infection tests. → https://www.onclive.com/view/moa-of-testing-platforms-for-respiratory-infections16:37
BrainstormNew from BBC Health: Male contraceptive pill prototype stops sperm swimming: Early tests in mice look promising for a non-hormonal, on-demand pill that immobilises sperm. → https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-6463544617:45
BrainstormNew from ClinicalTrials.gov: (news): IVD_ Starfish_Clinical Performance Study Protocol for US - Project STARFISH - PRJ0002679 → https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT0572720218:05
BrainstormUpdates for Netherlands: +1547 cases since 3 days ago — Canada: +497 cases since 23 hours ago18:08
BrainstormNew from ClinicalTrials.gov: (news): Beyond COVID-19: Supporting Resilience With a Trauma-informed Music Composition Program → https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT0572751418:14
BrainstormNew from New Scientist: How prepared is the world for a pandemic of bird flu in people?: Bird flu is infecting wild birds and poultry around the world. If it were to crossover into humans, some antiviral drugs are available but it would take time to develop a vaccine → https://www.newscientist.com/article/2359516-how-prepared-is-the-world-for-a-pandemic-of-bird-flu-in-people/18:34
BrainstormNew from Contagion Live: us: Novavax Provides More COVID-19 Vaccines for US Government → https://www.onclive.com/view/novavax-provides-more-covid-19-vaccines-for-us-government19:03
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Marc Veldhoen (@Marc_Veld): WHO abandons plans for crucial second phase of COVID-origins investigationSensitive studies in China were intended to pinpoint the source of the pandemic virus.Not unexpected; but more oil for conspiracy theories.nature.com/articles/d4158… → https://twitter.com/Marc_Veld/status/162556084341591655719:32
BrainstormNew from r/Coronavirus: Coronavirus: Long COVID Now Looks like a Neurological Disease, Helping Doctors to Focus Treatments | The causes of long COVID, which disables millions, may come together in the brain and nervous system → https://old.reddit.com/r/Coronavirus/comments/112ds9b/long_covid_now_looks_like_a_neurological_disease/21:00
BrainstormUpdates for Canada: +298 cases, +9 deaths since 20 hours ago21:08
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Eric Topol (@EricTopol): The article features @UCLAHealth's #LongCovid Clinic, with a section here on POTSuclahealth.org/medical-servic… pic.twitter.com/TNLZ3Kyt37 → https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/162558570766127923321:10
BrainstormUpdates for UAE: +147 cases since 2 days ago22:11
BrainstormNew from StatNews: A rare Marburg outbreak sparks a race against time to test vaccines and drugs: Finding out if Marburg vaccine candidates actually work in people requires an outbreak, and outbreaks are blessedly rare. But now there are cases in Equatorial Guinea. → https://www.statnews.com/2023/02/14/marburg-outbreak-race-to-test-vaccines-drugs/22:38

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