| Brainstorm | New from Outbreak News Today: Paraguay’s chikungunya epidemic 2023: The country’s largest and one of the largest in South America: NewsDesk @bactiman63 In this news report, I look at the current and ongoing epidemic of chikungunya in [... want %more?] → http://outbreaknewstoday.com/paraguays-chikungunya-epidemic-2023-the-countrys-largest-and-one-of-the-largest-in-south-america-97363/ | 03:16 |
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| Brainstorm | New from Politico: After 3 Czech diplomats die suddenly, Prague urges staff to improve work-life balance: Jan Lipavský says the deaths underscore that diplomats work 'in extremely difficult conditions and often in isolation [... want %more?] → https://www.politico.eu/article/czech-foreign-minister-urges-staff-to-draw-a-line-between-work-and-private-life-after-three-sudden-diplomat-deaths/ | 04:04 |
| Brainstorm | Updates for South Korea: +15134 cases, +8 deaths since a day ago — Bolivia: +80 cases since a day ago — Cuba: +20 cases since a day ago | 05:06 |
| Brainstorm | Updates for New Zealand: +14215 cases since 5 days ago | 08:02 |
| Brainstorm | New from Science-Based Medicine: Why antivaxxers reject the concept of scientific consensus as a “manufactured construct”: Neil deGrasse Tyson invoked the concept of a scientific consensus while supporting vaccines in his debate with Del Bigtree. Why [... want %more?] → https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/why-antivaxxers-reject-the-concept-of-scientific-consensus-as-a-manufactured-construct/ | 09:07 |
| Brainstorm | New from StatNews: Opinion: OTC naloxone is a baby step toward making the life-saving medication accessible: The new over-the-counter status for naloxone is a no-brainer. But as people who work to fight the opioid epidemic, we fear that many others may be overstating the victory here. → https://www.statnews.com/2023/04/17/otc-narcan-naloxone-price-availability/ | 10:35 |
| xx | ^ make all medicines OTC or purchasable online | 10:50 |
| Brainstorm | New from r/COVID19: COVID19: Effects of sleep disturbance on dyspnoea and impaired lung function following hospital admission due to COVID-19 in the UK: a prospective multicentre cohort study → https://old.reddit.com/r/COVID19/comments/12p9n1j/effects_of_sleep_disturbance_on_dyspnoea_and/ | 11:42 |
| Brainstorm | New from Politico: Climate change: Now Frans Timmermans postpones China trip after positive COVID test → https://www.politico.eu/article/china-eu-commission-frans-timmermans-postpones-trip-after-positive-covid-test/ | 11:52 |
| Brainstorm | New from Reddit (test): CoronaVirus_2019_nCoV: Had COVID? Part Of The Virus May Stick Around In Your Brain → https://old.reddit.com/r/CoronaVirus_2019_nCoV/comments/12paxrf/had_covid_part_of_the_virus_may_stick_around_in/ | 12:31 |
| Brainstorm | New from r/COVID19: COVID19: No Red Flags for Risk of Retinal Vascular Occlusion After mRNA COVID-19 Vaccination → https://old.reddit.com/r/COVID19/comments/12pbzn3/no_red_flags_for_risk_of_retinal_vascular/ | 13:10 |
| Brainstorm | New from r/Science: science: McMaster University researchers have developed a rapid and inexpensive test for Salmonella contamination in chicken and other food – one that’s easier to use than a home COVID test. → https://old.reddit.com/r/science/comments/12pcv1k/mcmaster_university_researchers_have_developed_a/ | 13:49 |
| Brainstorm | New from Reddit (test): nCoV: Global COVID Cases For 17APR23 → https://old.reddit.com/r/nCoV/comments/12pdibt/global_covid_cases_for_17apr23/ | 14:08 |
| Brainstorm | New from COVID on Twitter: Marc Veldhoen (@Marc_Veld): First tetanus death in NSW since 1993 prompts urgent vaccination callJust a reminder: Tetanus vaccines are recommended every 10-20 years in most countries. It works via rapid neutralisation of the toxin with antibodies, not against the [... want %more?] → https://twitter.com/Marc_Veld/status/1647940482645860352 | 14:37 |
| Brainstorm | New from StatNews: Pharma: STAT+: Pharmalittle: Merck to acquire Prometheus Biosciences for $10.8 billion; mRNA cancer vaccine reduces melanoma relapse → https://www.statnews.com/pharmalot/2023/04/17/merck-moderna-melanoma-cancer-vaccine-prometheus-catalent-gsk-uti-abortion-executions-roche-shkreli/ | 15:17 |
| LjL | xx, this seems like it would concern you <Brainstorm> New from Politico: Get mpox jabs ahead of ‘kink and fetish events,’ WHO warns: Health body warns at-risk populations not to forget about virus ahead of summer festivities. → https://www.politico.eu/article/who-warns-men-mpox-vaccine-kink-and-fetish-events-music-festival/ | 15:51 |
| xx | thanks, unfortunately not available anywhere close to me | 15:52 |
| xx | (asked in multiple countries, which are generally also not exactly gay-friendly so there's not much demand for this "gay disease" as they label it) | 15:52 |
| LjL | ah right | 15:52 |
| LjL | i forgot for a minute | 15:53 |
| xx | right now there's higher demand for tuberculosis drugs and vaccines | 15:53 |
| xx | it's a silent epidemic, though it spreads really slowly | 15:53 |
| LjL | to be fair, i've heard rhetoric about diseases not being "gay" (specifically HIV since it was before this one) that was pretty weak | 15:53 |
| LjL | i mean they are not "gay diseases", that's obviously not what i think, but i just think that the rhetoric to claim so has sometimes looked appallingly weak | 15:54 |
| LjL | such as "more straight people get HIV than gay people in this country" | 15:54 |
| LjL | ... have you checked the ratio of straight people to gay people? maybe try stating that again as ratios and see if it's true | 15:54 |
| xx | HIV is a little different over here, ukraine has the highest number of +ve people but it's not due to it being a "gay disease" | 15:55 |
| xx | but monkeypox has been overwhelmingly presented as "doesn't concern married heterosexual couples" | 15:55 |
| xx | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV/AIDS_in_Ukraine | 15:56 |
| Brainstorm | New from r/COVID19: COVID19: Masking strategy to protect healthcare workers from COVID-19: An umbrella meta-analysis → https://old.reddit.com/r/COVID19/comments/12pgped/masking_strategy_to_protect_healthcare_workers/ | 15:57 |
| Brainstorm | Updates for Nepal: +63 cases, +1 deaths since a day ago | 16:08 |
| LjL | xx, at least around these parts, monkeypox numerically doesn't. pretty much only concerns so called MSM. of course so did HIV at the beginning but it didn't stay that way. | 16:23 |
| LjL | still, of course, calling it a gay disease instills a false sense of security that will inevitably make it not-just-a-gay-disease later | 16:25 |
| LjL | so it's terrible communication, but, also, kind of true | 16:25 |
| LjL | for now | 16:25 |
| xx | I'm not knowledgeable enough in this field to make any sort of future predicitons | 16:27 |
| xx | human behavior is a terrible thing to base predictions on | 16:28 |
| xx | like, we still have no idea what would happen if covid-23 was announced today | 16:28 |
| LjL | "pfft, another variant, enough of this, don't you dare lockdown or anything" | 16:34 |
| LjL | unless mortality very high | 16:34 |
| LjL | like >10% | 16:34 |
| Brainstorm | Updates for Afghanistan: +322 cases, +1095 tests since 23 hours ago | 17:04 |
| Brainstorm | New from COVID on Twitter: Eric Topol (@EricTopol): The mRNA cancer vaccines are starting to click and there's considerable room for improvement (new review article)wsj.com/articles/moder… by @Brabbott42cell.com/cell/fulltext/… @CellCellPress by @RaimondoTheresa and colleagues @kochinstitute @MIT pic.twitter.com/MRSAxnGDnI → https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/1647979575383846912 | 17:16 |
| Brainstorm | New from NPR Science: A Spanish athlete spent 500 days alone in a cave — for science: Beatriz Flamini was 48 when she entered the Granada cave in November 2021, and 50 when she emerged on Friday. Her experiment aims to shed light on the physical and mental effects of isolation. → https://www.npr.org/2023/04/17/1170388759/500-days-cave-beatriz-flamini-spain | 17:26 |
| Brainstorm | New from COVID on Twitter: (translated) Marc Veldhoen (@Marc_Veld): There are several reasons to assume that the number of reports will increase in the coming years. Epidemics break out from time to time among populations that do not get vaccinated. There is a revival every four or eight years. The last revival was [... want %more?] → https://twitter.com/Marc_Veld/status/1647997857092325376 | 18:27 |
| Brainstorm | New from Contagion Live: Long COVID Prevalence and Severity in Vaccinated Versus Unvaccinated Children: Post-COVID-19 conditions were more common in unvaccinated children than in children who had received at least 1 dose of a COVID-19 vaccine. → https://www.contagionlive.com/view/long-covid-prevalence-and-severity-in-vaccinated-versus-unvaccinated-children | 19:06 |
| Brainstorm | New from COVID on Twitter: Steve Miller (@SteveMillerOC): I did the same calculation for students exceeding state English standards and for students scoring a 5 on AP tests.That gives 3 different ways of calculating “top scoring students”. (We don’t have enough data on overlap to rationally combine [... want %more?] → https://twitter.com/SteveMillerOC/status/1648016256153567238 | 19:35 |
| Brainstorm | New from r/Coronavirus: Coronavirus: State of Wisconsin ends free in-person COVID-19 testing. But free at-home tests remain available through “Say Yes! Covid Test” and the federal government. → https://old.reddit.com/r/Coronavirus/comments/12pqvfb/state_of_wisconsin_ends_free_inperson_covid19/ | 20:14 |
| Brainstorm | New from Virology.ws: Trial By Error: Professors Crawley, Chalder & Colleagues Investigate Pediatric Long Covid in Yet Another Study with a Stupid Acronym: By David Tuller, DrPH *April is crowdfunding month at UC [... want %more?] → https://virology.ws/2023/04/17/trial-by-error-professors-crawley-chalder-colleagues-investigate-pediatric-long-covid-in-yet-another-study-with-a-stupid-acronym/ | 20:34 |
| Brainstorm | New from r/COVID19: COVID19: Determination of the factors responsible for host tropism of SARS-CoV-2-related bat coronaviruses → https://old.reddit.com/r/COVID19/comments/12pv84g/determination_of_the_factors_responsible_for_host/ | 22:22 |
| Brainstorm | New from COVID on Twitter: Eric Topol (@EricTopol): A group of infectious disease specialists argue that universal face masks in health care settings is no longer necessary acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M2…@AnnalsofIM by @ericashenoy @h_babcock @KarenBrustMD @CalderwoodMD @ShiraDoronMD @wbranchelliman pic.twitter.com/9GyJavB3NG → https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/1648072207116156928 | 23:21 |
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