libera/##covid-19/ Friday, 2023-04-21

BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Marc Veldhoen (@Marc_Veld): The NIH has poured $1 billion into long Covid research — with little to show for itThe National Institutes of Health hasn’t signed up a single patient to test any potential treatmentsstatnews.com/2023/04/20/lon… → https://twitter.com/Marc_Veld/status/164918433364153139301:00
BrainstormNew from r/COVID19: COVID19: Cryptic SARS-CoV-2 lineage identified on two mink farms as a possible result of long-term undetected circulation in an unknown animal reservoir, Poland, November 2022 to January 2023 → https://old.reddit.com/r/COVID19/comments/12tinfy/cryptic_sarscov2_lineage_identified_on_two_mink/01:19
BrainstormNew from Reddit (test): CoronaVirus_2019_nCoV: Long COVID Is Being Erased—Again | Ed Yong → https://old.reddit.com/r/CoronaVirus_2019_nCoV/comments/12tjcsl/long_covid_is_being_erasedagain_ed_yong/01:48
BrainstormNew from r/COVID19: COVID19: Risk of new-onset Long Covid following reinfection with SARS-CoV-2: community-based cohort study → https://old.reddit.com/r/COVID19/comments/12tju0r/risk_of_newonset_long_covid_following_reinfection/02:08
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Dr. Lisa Iannattone (@lisa_iannattone): For 3 years I’ve had to entertain the extremely far fetched belief that the rise in diabetes was due to people exercising less for 9 weeks back in 2020 (aka the LoCkDoWnS  ).No. It’s the SARS virus. 12 studies, all with the same [... want %more?] → https://twitter.com/lisa_iannattone/status/164921237888030720103:26
BrainstormUpdates for Norway: +88 cases since a day ago04:03
BrainstormUpdates for Peru: +678 cases, +14 deaths, +17569 tests since 22 hours ago — Germany: +1882 cases, +109 deaths since 22 hours ago — Cabo Verde: +28 cases since 12 hours ago — Laos: +13 cases since 22 hours ago05:05
BrainstormUpdates for United Kingdom: +1222 deaths since a month ago06:08
BrainstormNew from Virology.ws: Trial By Error: Some Recent Long Covid Articles from STAT/MuckRock, The Atlantic, and Nieman Reports: By David Tuller, DrPH*April is crowdfunding month at UC Berkeley. If you like my work, consider making a tax-deductible [... want %more?] → https://virology.ws/2023/04/21/trial-by-error-some-recent-long-covid-articles-from-stat-muckrock-the-atlantic-and-nieman-reports/06:42
BrainstormNew from Science-Based Medicine: “We Want Them Infected” –  My Book is Done!: Prior to the pandemic, the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security ranked the U.S. as the first out of 195 countries on their pandemic preparedness.  What went wrong? The post  first appeared on Science-Based Medicine . → https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/we-want-them-infected/09:08
BrainstormNew from PubMed: Blockade of CCR4 breaks immune tolerance in chronic hepatitis B patients by modulating regulatory pathways: CONCLUSIONS: CCR4 blockade reconstitutes antiviral immune response in T cells and limits the immunosuppressive functions of Tregs, representing them as a promising immunotherapeutic target for functional cure [... want %more?] → https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37081509/11:04
BrainstormUpdates for Australia: +9271 cases, +105 deaths since 6 days ago11:07
BrainstormNew from ECDC: Data on testing for COVID-19 by week and country: Data in multiple file formats with information about testing volume for COVID-19, sorted by week and country, and updated on a weekly basis. → https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/publications-data/covid-19-testing12:32
BrainstormNew from EMA: Human medicine assessment reports: (news): Human medicines European public assessment report (EPAR): Gardasil 9, human papillomavirus 9-valent vaccine (recombinant, adsorbed), Condylomata Acuminata;Papillomavirus Infections;Immunization;Uterine Cervical Dysplasia, Date of authorisation: 10/06/2015, [... want %more?] → https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/medicines/human/EPAR/gardasil-913:22
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Gunhild Alvik Nyborg (@GANyborg): Pre-print on the risk of #LongCovid after 2nd COVID19 infection“there remains some risk of new-onset Long Covid after a second infection, with around 1 in 40 of those ≥16 years and 1 in 165 of those <16 years reporting Long Covid after a second [... want %more?] → https://twitter.com/GANyborg/status/164937751803660697613:52
BrainstormNew from Reddit (test): nCoV: Global COVID Cases For 21APR23 → https://old.reddit.com/r/nCoV/comments/12tzb9o/global_covid_cases_for_21apr23/14:01
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Gunhild Alvik Nyborg (@GANyborg): Unfortunately, these findings indicate that the risk of acquiring LC after your 2nd COVID-19 infection, if you did not get it after the first, is only slightly reduced (aOR 0.72 (95% C.I. 0.63–0.81) for ≥16 years, 0.93 (0.57–1.53) for those <16 [... want %more?] → https://twitter.com/GANyborg/status/164938605237572404014:21
BrainstormNew from ECDC: ECDC: Editable social media cards: European Immunization Week 2023 → https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/publications-data/editable-social-media-cards-european-immunization-week-202314:31
BrainstormNew from EMA: Human medicine assessment reports: (news): Human medicines European public assessment report (EPAR): Regkirona, regdanvimab, COVID-19 virus infection, Date of authorisation: 12/11/2021, Revision: 7, Status: Authorised → https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/medicines/human/EPAR/regkirona15:01
BrainstormUpdates for Russia: +7116 cases, +33 deaths since a day ago15:04
BrainstormNew from r/Science: science: Universal Influenza Vaccine performs well in Phase 1 trail → https://old.reddit.com/r/science/comments/12u112k/universal_influenza_vaccine_performs_well_in/15:11
BrainstormNew from WebMD: Rate of U.S. Kids Attempting Suicide by Overdose Rose During Pandemic: Suspected suicide attempts by poisoning in 10- to 19-year-olds that were reported to poison centers increased by 30% in 2021. → https://www.webmd.com/children/news/20230421/rate-of-us-kids-attempting-suicide-by-overdose-rose-during-pandemic15:42
BrainstormUpdates for Hong Kong: +234 cases, +3 deaths since a day ago16:06
BrainstormNew from r/Coronavirus: Coronavirus: We’re Still Getting Our Pandemic Preparation Horribly Wrong: Until we focus on the combustible social conditions that made Covid so devastating, we’ll never be truly ready for the next pandemic. → https://old.reddit.com/r/Coronavirus/comments/12u3q5o/were_still_getting_our_pandemic_preparation/16:42
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Eric Topol (@EricTopol): The US transition to the XBB.1.16 variant continues, the variant driving a new wave in India (see by @akshathk5), but unlikely to have such impact herecovid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tra… pic.twitter.com/UcJXORkEFK → https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/164942551422073241917:02
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Eric Topol (@EricTopol): Spike mutation maps for XBB.1.5 and XBB.1.16 show the 2 added (E180V, K478R)by @firefoxx66 twitter.com/firefoxx66/sta… pic.twitter.com/iN4p9xfsma → https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/164942902125865780017:11
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Eric Topol (@EricTopol): At 2 years #LongCovid: 4 Nordic countries, >22,000 individuals with Covid vs uninfected controls"An overall 37% higher prevalence of severe physical symptom burden (PHQ-15 score ≥ 15, adjusted prevalence ratio [PR] 1.37 [95% CI] 1.23-1.52])." [... want %more?] → https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/164943205429428633717:21
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Tulio de Oliveira (@Tuliodna): Thanks for the visit today @RickABright we really look forward to work together and make the world a safer place protected from epidemics and pandemics and the effect of climate change in diseases. twitter.com/rickabright/st… → https://twitter.com/Tuliodna/status/164943444833982055217:31
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Scott Gottlieb, MD (@ScottGottliebMD): Latest genomic data from CDC, XBB.1.16 is continuing to displace other variants in U.S. Good thread here on the experience in India with this variant, where it became the dominant circulating strain: twitter.com/akshathk5/stat… link to CDC [... want %more?] → https://twitter.com/ScottGottliebMD/status/164943630073765888117:41
BrainstormNew from Contagion Live: How Omicron Reinfection and Disease Severity Compare to Previous COVID-19 Variants: Omicron lineages, and especially BA.5, were determined to have higher reinfection rates and lower disease severity than previously circulating [... want %more?] → https://www.contagionlive.com/view/how-omicron-reinfection-and-disease-severity-compare-to-previous-covid-19-variants17:51
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Eric Topol (@EricTopol): While these added mutations provide some growth advantage for XBB.1.16 over XBB.1.5, their clinical impact is a different matter. Explainer erictopol.substack.com/p/a-break-from… → https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/164945890819978854519:11
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Bloom Lab (@jbloom_lab): Also, slightly unrelated point, but given the Tweet that I quoted in the second Tweet in my thread, I wanted to add that I think that Omicron originated from chronic human infections. I explain why here: twitter.com/jbloom_lab/sta… → https://twitter.com/jbloom_lab/status/164946173098737254419:20
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Tom Peacock (@PeacockFlu): @jbloom_lab The omicron lab leak narrative is incredibly silly, particularly when it would have had to have escaped 5-6 independent times... (ie ba.1-ba.5 and the never assigned other ba.x @nzm8qs spotted) → https://twitter.com/PeacockFlu/status/164946357536944948619:30
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Rick Bright (@RickABright): It was an honor to meet one of my pandemic #Heroes @Tuliodna today at @ceri_news @StellenboschUni w/ the fearless & visionary @MRCza leader Richard GordonStanding in newly opened largest genomic sequencing facility in AfricaDreams do come [... want %more?] → https://twitter.com/RickABright/status/164946702791907737721:00
BrainstormNew from Reddit (test): CoronaVirus_2019_nCoV: Kaiser hospital returns to masking amid COVID-19 outbreak → https://old.reddit.com/r/CoronaVirus_2019_nCoV/comments/12uerya/kaiser_hospital_returns_to_masking_amid_covid19/21:49
BrainstormNew from r/COVID19: COVID19: Does The Gut Microbiome Hold The Key To Understanding Chronic Fatigue Syndrome? - Emeran Mayer, MD → https://old.reddit.com/r/COVID19/comments/12ug7v7/does_the_gut_microbiome_hold_the_key_to/22:09

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