libera/##covid-19/ Thursday, 2023-03-23

BrainstormUpdates for Chile: +4154 cases, +5 deaths, +28344 tests since a day ago — Israel: +840 cases, +2 deaths since a day ago — Montenegro: +72 cases, +2 deaths, +695 tests since a day ago — Myanmar: +24 cases, +5936 tests since a day ago00:03
BrainstormNew from r/Coronavirus: Coronavirus: Wuhan Market Samples Contained Covid and Animal Mixtures, Report Says → https://old.reddit.com/r/Coronavirus/comments/11z0nx7/wuhan_market_samples_contained_covid_and_animal/01:02
ferretwow cant stop sneezing01:20
ferretthis is new from covid01:20
ferretlol01:20
ferretprob covid-19 being mistified01:21
ferretturning on ventelation and blowing air to the outside world01:21
LjLferret, you haven't stopped taking the paxlovid, aye?02:08
ferretLjL: still taking it02:08
ferreti was shocked to turn up a negitive test in 3 days02:09
ferretthats pretty cool02:09
BrainstormNew from r/Coronavirus: Coronavirus: White House disbanding its covid-19 team in May → https://old.reddit.com/r/Coronavirus/comments/11z1tgm/white_house_disbanding_its_covid19_team_in_may/02:10
ferretLjL: paxlovid is AMAZING02:19
LjL-Matrixferret: yup, a bit frustrating many countries are using it in almost no cases02:39
BrainstormUpdates for Norway: +78 cases since 23 hours ago — Sudan: +46 cases, +3 deaths since 7 days ago03:10
LjL<Brainstorm> New from r/Coronavirus: Coronavirus: White House disbanding its covid-19 team in May → https://old.reddit.com/r/Coronavirus/comments/11z1tgm/white_house_disbanding_its_covid19_team_in_may/03:26
BrainstormNew from Reddit (test): Media vs IRL: submitted by /u/Le0zel1g to r/CoronaVirus_2019_nCoV → https://old.reddit.com/r/CoronaVirus_2019_nCoV/comments/11z5ly1/media_vs_irl/03:27
BrainstormNew from ##covid-19 Zotero group: White House disbanding its covid-19 team in May: Type Newspaper Article Author Dan Diamond Author Tyler Pager URL https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/03/22/biden-disband-covid-team/ Publication Washington Post ISSN 0190-8286 Date 2023-03-23 Accessed 2023-03-23 02:31:08 [... want %more?] → https://www.zotero.org/groups/covid_links/items/SCWK4JUL03:37
BrainstormUpdates for Uzbekistan: +230 cases since 6 days ago — Ghana: +124 cases, +1185 tests since 7 days ago04:00
BrainstormUpdates for Pakistan: +168 cases, +1 deaths since a day ago — Laos: +3 cases since a day ago05:03
BrainstormNew from r/COVID19: COVID19: SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccines decouple anti-viral immunity from humoral autoimmunity → https://old.reddit.com/r/COVID19/comments/11z8rpc/sarscov2_mrna_vaccines_decouple_antiviral/05:34
BrainstormNew from BBC Health: Polio vaccine catch-up push to launch in London: London primary-school pupils not fully vaccinated against polio are to be offered catch-up jabs after Easter. → https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-6504333307:09
BrainstormNew from r/Coronavirus: Daily Discussion Thread | March 23, 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/11zbzff/daily_discussion_thread_march_23_2023/08:07
BrainstormUpdates for India: +1300 cases, +3 deaths since 22 hours ago — Germany: +7118 cases, +180 deaths since a day ago09:06
BrainstormNew from r/COVID19: COVID19: Effectiveness of nirmatrelvir–ritonavir in preventing hospital admissions and deaths in people with COVID-19: a cohort study in a large US health-care system → https://old.reddit.com/r/COVID19/comments/11zeq9m/effectiveness_of_nirmatrelvirritonavir_in/10:24
BrainstormNew from r/COVID19: COVID19: SARS-CoV-2 wastewater-based epidemiology in an enclosed compound: A 2.5-year survey to identify factors contributing to local community dissemination → https://old.reddit.com/r/COVID19/comments/11zgkn0/sarscov2_wastewaterbased_epidemiology_in_an/11:53
BrainstormNew from Politico: How COVID-19 changed cities — and how it didn’t: From bike lanes and ventilation to housing prices and tourism, the pandemic has reverberated through city life. → https://www.politico.eu/article/covid-19-change-cities-public-transport-work-from-home-lockdown-aviation-social-distance-overpopulation/12:03
BrainstormNew from r/COVID19: COVID19: Intravenous ravulizumab in mechanically ventilated patients hospitalised with severe COVID-19: a phase 3, multicentre, open-label, randomised controlled trial → https://old.reddit.com/r/COVID19/comments/11zi37f/intravenous_ravulizumab_in_mechanically/13:22
BrainstormUpdates for Russia: +12512 cases, +36 deaths since 23 hours ago — Japan: +8485 cases, +40 deaths, +126642 tests since a day ago14:10
BrainstormNew from Reddit (test): nCoV: Global COVID Cases For 23MAR23 → https://old.reddit.com/r/nCoV/comments/11zkahu/global_covid_cases_for_23mar23/14:34
BrainstormNew from r/COVID19: COVID19: Prion-like Domains in Eukaryotic Viruses → https://old.reddit.com/r/COVID19/comments/11zkvdt/prionlike_domains_in_eukaryotic_viruses/15:23
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Tom Wenseleers (@TWenseleers): Say farewell to @CovidGenomicsUK. Thanks for all their great work! They were a model of successful scientific collaboration & open data sharing that should be emulated in other places of the world if we would ever end up in a new pandemic! twitter.com/CovidGenomicsU… → https://twitter.com/TWenseleers/status/163891052999656243515:33
BrainstormUpdates for Saudi Arabia: +355 cases, +2 deaths, +10480 tests since a day ago — Afghanistan: +81 cases, +422 tests since 23 hours ago — Nepal: +17 cases since 3 days ago16:02
BrainstormNew from Eric Topol on Substack: Preventing Long Covid: While the risk of severe, acute Covid that leads to hospitalization or death has decreased during the 3+ years of the pandemic, the primary concern has shifted to the chronic side—winding up with Long Covid. My colleagues and I reviewed Long Covid in-depth → https://erictopol.substack.com/p/preventing-long-covid16:14
BrainstormNew from WebMD: 'We're Struggling': Long COVID Mystery Has Doctors in the Dark: The lack of knowledge regarding long COVID makes it difficult for doctors to counsel patients on how long symptoms will last, why they are experiencing it, or what its actual cause is. → https://www.webmd.com/covid/news/20230323/long-covid-mystery-has-doctors-in-the-dark16:44
BrainstormNew from StatNews: First Opinion: Opinion: There is no epidemic of autism. It’s an epidemic of need → https://www.statnews.com/2023/03/23/autism-epidemic-cdc-numbers/18:11
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: (translated) Marc Veldhoen (@Marc_Veld): COVID-19 vaccinations, fertility and menstruationA conclusion is deliberately, erroneously, suggested that if the vaccines alter the menstrual cycle, they must be harmful to female fertility. → https://twitter.com/Marc_Veld/status/163895162004924828618:21
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Tulio de Oliveira (@Tuliodna): So happy to see African lead main manuscripts. Great paper at PLoS Public Health from Mozambique on the COVID-19 pandemic. Priceless that was lead by Mozambique women scientist that produced the data! Well done Nalia Ismael and INS Mozambique!  [... want %more?] → https://twitter.com/Tuliodna/status/163895451206407372818:31
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Tulio de Oliveira (@Tuliodna): The COG-UK was a great example! We did study them very well and based the model of the Network of Genomics Surveillance in South Africa (NGS-SA) on their model of federated labs! Sad to say farewell to them and hope they build on their success as we are trying [... want %more?] → https://twitter.com/Tuliodna/status/163896067825273652718:50
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Michael Lin, MD PhD   (@michaelzlin): Out today in @JAMA: Paxlovid reduces relative risk of post-coronavirus condition (PCC, a.k.a. PASC and "long COVID"  ) by 26%. Absolute risk reduces from 17.5% to 13%.First study showing protease inhibitor treatment reduces long-term [... want %more?] → https://twitter.com/michaelzlin/status/163896416298559897719:10
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Michael Lin, MD PhD   (@michaelzlin): A *big* problem with these numbers is that all subjects had COVID19. We don't know what % of people would have reported these symptoms in a span of 180 days even without COVID19. The authors could have looked at 180 days of VA records in 2019 if they [... want %more?] → https://twitter.com/michaelzlin/status/163896802281064038519:20
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Eric Topol (@EricTopol): The #SARSCoV2 virus impact on our epigenomenature.com/articles/s4156… @NatureMicrobiol may help "pave the way for unraveling the molecular basis of #LongCovid for its intervention" pic.twitter.com/5SNK6JvGTf → https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/163896992643746611219:29
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Michael Lin, MD PhD   (@michaelzlin): By the way, I'd be impressed if the Topol news service notices there was no non-COVID19 group to control for the baseline non-COVID19 rate of the reported symptoms → https://twitter.com/michaelzlin/status/163897331248230809619:49
BrainstormNew from Reddit (test): CoronavirusUK: The Reality Gap - John Snow Project → https://old.reddit.com/r/CoronavirusUK/comments/11zup79/the_reality_gap_john_snow_project/20:37
ferretLjL:21:10
ferreti got another pack of paxlovid im going to take a partial and extend to 7 days21:11
ferretnot 10 days but testing 721:11
ferret10 might be overkill21:11
ferretLjL: what do you think :D21:13
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Eric Topol (@EricTopol): Summary of data supporting less #LongCovid with Omicron and its subvariants (along with more immunity built via vaccinations, infections, and their combinations)science.org/content/articl…@NewsfromScience @ScienceMagazine by @jcouzin → https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/163899530506368204821:16
LjLferret, i don't think, i can only tell you to do exactly what your doctor prescribes21:28
ferrethe said im welcome to explore21:29
ferrethe did say that rebound might happen, viral load increase 2 to 4 days after stopping paxlovid after a 5 day course21:30
ferretgave me the option to test 7 to 10 days21:30
ferreti know its a little out of FDA guidelines and the science sooo21:30
ferretno blood tests to measure the viral load will be done or any liver enzyme tests till 14 days after the test21:32
ferretits a rare opportunity21:33
ferreti could go for 8 days but that might be overkill21:36
BrainstormNew from Virological.org: Latest topics: First emergence of Marburg virus in Equatorial Guinea, 2023: On February 7th, 2023, an alert was given by the Ministry of Health in the district of Kie Ntem province, in eastern Equatorial Guinea. Several patients presented with symptoms [... want %more?] → https://virological.org/t/first-emergence-of-marburg-virus-in-equatorial-guinea-2023/92421:45
BrainstormNew from ScienceNews: How raccoon dog DNA fits into the COVID-19 origins debate: Did the virus that causes COVID-19 come from animals or a lab? Evidence hints at animals. Either way, we should be prepping for the next pandemic. → https://www.sciencenews.org/article/raccoon-dog-dna-covid-origins-debate22:34
BrainstormNew from Reddit (test): CoronaVirus_2019_nCoV: A new generation Mpro inhibitor with potent activity against SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variants | displayed potent in vitro antiviral activity against not only the predominant SARS-CoV-2 Omicron sublineage BA.5, but also other [... want %more?] → https://old.reddit.com/r/CoronaVirus_2019_nCoV/comments/11zyegc/a_new_generation_mpro_inhibitor_with_potent/22:43
BrainstormNew from Reddit (test): CoronaVirus_2019_nCoV: Why we need a deeper understanding of the pathophysiology of long COVID: disease hypotheses for the root causes of long COVID include viral persistence ..., autoimmunity triggered by the infection, reactivation of latent [... want %more?] → https://old.reddit.com/r/CoronaVirus_2019_nCoV/comments/11zykam/why_we_need_a_deeper_understanding_of_the/22:53
BrainstormUpdates for Serbia: +1987 cases, +6 deaths, +16589 tests since a day ago23:07

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