libera/##covid-19/ Tuesday, 2023-02-28

BrainstormUpdates for Montenegro: +109 cases, +3 deaths, +1031 tests since 2 days ago00:08
LjLyeah well the president won't have "facts" when even the WHO had to give up a second part of their investigation due to China's disagreement00:10
LjLPOTS makes me think of ryouma01:03
BrainstormUpdates for Brazil: +13813 cases, +72 deaths since 22 hours ago — Serbia: +894 cases, +5 deaths since a day ago01:10
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Eric Topol (@EricTopol): This is a unique "bedside to bench to model" study (starting with affected patients to RNA-seq to experimental model) for #LongCovid and may help identify specific candidate anti-inflammatory therapies → https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/163035820501147648001:16
BrainstormNew from r/COVID19: COVID19: Past SARS-CoV-2 infection protection against re-infection: a systematic review and meta-analysis → https://old.reddit.com/r/COVID19/comments/11dsmje/past_sarscov2_infection_protection_against/02:13
BrainstormUpdates for Singapore: +4391 cases since 15 days ago — Bulgaria: +105 cases, +5 deaths, +4344 tests since a day ago — Norway: +72 cases since a day ago03:02
BrainstormUpdates for South Africa: +1854 cases, +322041 tests since 3 days ago — Croatia: +326 cases, +21 deaths since 6 days ago04:04
BrainstormUpdates for Germany: +32970 cases, +139 deaths since 2 days ago06:03
BrainstormNew from The Atlantic: The Lab Leak Will Haunt Us Forever: The lab-leak theory lives! Or better put: It never dies. In response to new but unspecified intelligence, the U.S. Department of Energy has changed its assessment of COVID’s origins: The [... want %more?] → https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2023/02/covid-pandemic-origin-china-lab-leak-theory-energy-department/673230/06:24
BrainstormUpdates for North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany: +10701 cases, +28 deaths since 2 days ago — Sao Paulo, Brazil: +5281 cases, +42 deaths since 2 days ago — Bavaria, Germany: +4802 cases, +41 deaths since 2 days ago — Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany: +4543 cases, +11 deaths since 2 days ago06:59
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Tulio de Oliveira (@Tuliodna): As expected, Omicron XBB.1.5 (in pink) is now dominating the infections in South Africa. HOWEVER, we did not see increase of infections & no increase in hospitalisation or death. Is the very high pop. immunity providing protections for new COVID-19 waves? [... want %more?] → https://twitter.com/Tuliodna/status/163044826074053427207:11
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Tulio de Oliveira (@Tuliodna): Genomics surveillance in SA is still very active, we are < 1 week turn-around time. Very important to understand how XBB.1.5 cause OR NOT cause waves in places with high population immunity. Of course, always great to boost the immunity & vaccine boosters [... want %more?] → https://twitter.com/Tuliodna/status/163044826263626547307:21
BrainstormNew from BBC Health: (news): Bowel cancer: Pioneering blood tests for patients in Swansea → https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-6478482607:50
BrainstormNew from r/Coronavirus: Daily Discussion Thread | February 28, 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/11e0hc4/daily_discussion_thread_february_28_2023/09:06
BrainstormNew from r/COVID19: COVID19: Blood Inflammatory Biomarkers Differentiate Inpatient and Outpatient COVID-19 from Influenza → https://old.reddit.com/r/COVID19/comments/11e1x7c/blood_inflammatory_biomarkers_differentiate/10:42
BrainstormNew from PubMed: Discounting money and health effects from communicable and noncommunicable diseases in Thailand: The purpose of this study was to determine the discount rates for money and health outcomes in the Thai context, including the discount rates for communicable and non-communicable diseases. Moreover, this study aimed to [... want %more?] → https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36849620/11:02
BrainstormUpdates for Lithuania: +636 cases since a day ago11:08
BrainstormNew from Reddit (test): nCoV: Global COVID Cases For 28FEB23 → https://old.reddit.com/r/nCoV/comments/11e4217/global_covid_cases_for_28feb23/12:48
BrainstormUpdates for Poland: +3769 cases, +16 deaths since 23 hours ago — Slovenia: +588 cases since 23 hours ago13:00
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: (translated) Tom Wenseleers (@TWenseleers): "Vaccine makers mainly benefited from mega profits themselves". Well, and vaccines prevented >20 million Covid deaths worldwide. And provided trillions in economic benefits by allowing economies to safely reopen... → https://twitter.com/TWenseleers/status/163054860614594969613:46
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: zeynep tufekci (@zeynep): Lovely profile of immunologist @VirusesImmunity (and @PutrinoLab has an appearance, too).We need more research into Long Covid by top notch scientists like her and more clinical treatment centers like David’s. (Last I asked him, recently: six month waitlist). The [... want %more?] → https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/163054994330684211214:06
BrainstormNew from r/COVID19: COVID19: Increases in ‘deaths of despair’ during the COVID-19 pandemic in the USA and UK → https://old.reddit.com/r/COVID19/comments/11e5fc3/increases_in_deaths_of_despair_during_the_covid19/14:25
BrainstormNew from BBC Health: Covid inquiry: Race should be at its core, say campaigners: A coalition of organisations says the official inquiry does not focus enough on the role of racism. → https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-6478375315:05
BrainstormUpdates for Austria: +5889 cases, +15 deaths since 23 hours ago — Malta: +139 cases, +5893 tests since 6 days ago16:01
BrainstormNew from BMJ Open: Protocol of a randomised controlled trial to assess medical staffs inhalation exposure to infectious particles exhaled by patients during oesophagogastroduodenoscopy and the efficacy of surgical masks in this context: Background Aerosol-generating procedures such as oesophagogastroduodenoscopy (OGD) [... want %more?] → http://bmjopen.bmj.com/cgi/content/short/13/2/e06829116:23
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Marc Veldhoen (@Marc_Veld): In addition, local T cells generated on the site of infection, tissue resident memory T cells, may play an even faster role upon subsequent infections (Hybrid immunity). Killing infected cells, enabling antibodies and cells to reach the site of [... want %more?] → https://twitter.com/Marc_Veld/status/163059818984466022417:03
BrainstormNew from The Atlantic: No One Really Knows How Much COVID Is Silently Spreading … Again: In the early days of the pandemic, one of the scariest and most surprising features of SARS-CoV-2 was its stealth. Initially assumed to transmit only from people who were actively [... want %more?] → https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2023/02/rules-asymptomatic-covid-have-changed/673233/17:23
BrainstormNew from Contagion Live: The Link Between Early COVID-19 Infection and Alcohol Use Disorder Diagnoses: It seems likely that stress, anxiety, and isolation could be factors, but have not yet been definitively determined, the study authors said. → https://www.onclive.com/view/the-link-between-early-covid-19-infection-and-alcohol-use-disorder-diagnoses17:32
BrainstormNew from r/Coronavirus: Coronavirus: Study shows that post-COVID fatigue is associated with distinct structural brain alterations in subcortical hubs that are detectable using MRI. → https://old.reddit.com/r/Coronavirus/comments/11ed0m2/study_shows_that_postcovid_fatigue_is_associated/17:53
BrainstormUpdates for Indonesia: +266 cases, +3 deaths since a day ago17:59
BrainstormNew from r/Coronavirus: Coronavirus: Gov. Newsom rescinds California's COVID-19 state of emergency, marking an end to the pandemic era → https://old.reddit.com/r/Coronavirus/comments/11eeclz/gov_newsom_rescinds_californias_covid19_state_of/18:50
BrainstormUpdates for South Korea: +12291 cases, +11 deaths since 20 hours ago — Azerbaijan: +33 cases, +1 deaths since 8 hours ago — Canada: +87 cases, +1 deaths since 20 hours ago19:01
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Marc Veldhoen (@Marc_Veld): Population-based cohort study of 1.65 million doses of BNT162b2 vaccinations among adolescents; 77 reports of myocarditis or pericarditis among those aged 12 to 17 years. 63 male individuals [81.8%], 51 (66.2%) developed myocarditis or pericarditis after dose 2 [... want %more?] → https://twitter.com/Marc_Veld/status/163063173597624320019:19
BrainstormUpdates for Malaysia: +206 cases, +1 deaths since 23 hours ago20:04
BrainstormNew from Contagion Live: FDA Advisory Committee Recommends Approving First-Ever RSV Vaccine: Pfizer indicates their RSV vaccine candidate, Abrysvo (RSVpreF), to prevent acute respiratory disease and lower respiratory tract disease caused by respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) in [... want %more?] → https://www.onclive.com/view/fda-advisory-committee-recommends-approving-first-ever-rsv-vaccine22:06
BrainstormUpdates for Serbia: +859 cases, +5 deaths since 21 hours ago — Canada: +689 cases since 4 hours ago23:04
BrainstormNew from Pfizer: Anonymous: Pfizer Receives Positive FDA Advisory Committee Votes Supporting Potential Approval for Vaccine Candidate to Help Combat RSV in Older Adults → https://www.pfizer.com/news/press-release/press-release-detail/pfizer-receives-positive-fda-advisory-committee-votes23:16
roosterphant%cases serbia23:18
Brainstormroosterphant: Serbia has had 2.5 million confirmed cases (35.8% of all people) and 17826 deaths (0.7% of cases; 1 in 391 people) as of 14 minutes ago. 12.4 million tests were done (1.8 per capita, 20.1% positive). 3.3 million were vaccinated (47.6%). +859 cases, +5 deaths since 21 hours ago. See https://offloop.net/covid19/?default=Serbia&legacy=no23:19
roosterphant%cases croatia23:19
Brainstormroosterphant: Croatia has had 1.3 million confirmed cases (31.1% of all people) and 17971 deaths (1.4% of cases; 1 in 227 people) as of 19 hours ago. 5.5 million tests were done (1.4 per capita, 23.1% positive). 2.3 million were vaccinated (55.5%). +326 cases, +21 deaths since 6 days ago. See https://offloop.net/covid19/?default=Croatia&legacy=no23:19
roosterphantweird23:20
LjLi have a feeling there are some important discrepancies that have received little attention on patient treatment and outcomes23:31
LjLof course there could also be differences in what counts as a COVID death and such, but my feeling remains23:32

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