libera/##covid-19/ Tuesday, 2023-08-08

BrainstormNew from The Lancet (Online): [Comment] Universal free school meals: the future of school meal programmes?: School meal programmes create one of the world's most extensive social safety nets, with 83% of countries providing school meals to an estimated 418 million children daily.1 But this [... want %more?] → https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(23)01516-7/fulltext00:35
BrainstormNew from Nature Vaccines: Hangjie Zhang et al.: Safety and immunogenicity of Ad5-nCoV immunization after three-dose priming with inactivated SARS-CoV-2 vaccine in Chinese adults → https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-40489-211:13
BrainstormNew from ProPublica: The (Random) Forests for the Trees: How Our Spillover Model Works: by Irena Hwang and Al Shaw ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. [For more technical details, [... want %more?] → https://www.propublica.org/article/ebola-spillover-machine-learning-methodology-nigeria11:42
BrainstormNew from PubMed: COVID-19 immunity and vaccines: what a pharmacist needs to know: COVID-19 vaccines are being produced using different platforms by different companies, some of which are entering Phase 3 and 4 trials. Due to the pandemic, this production has been accelerated, which leaves a window for speculation on the method of [... want %more?] → https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37551403/12:46
BrainstormNew from ProPublica: How Social Media Apps Could Be Fueling Homicides Among Young Americans: by Alec MacGillis ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. This story is exempt from our Creative Commons [... want %more?] → https://www.propublica.org/article/social-media-violence-young-americans13:35
BrainstormNew from StatNews: STAT+: Beleaguered drug manufacturer Emergent cuts jobs, executive role in business shake-up: Emergent Biosciences, which into hot water in 2021 due to a contamination issue involving millions of doses of Covid vaccines, is pivoting [... want %more?] → https://www.statnews.com/2023/08/08/beleaguered-drug-manufacturer-emergent-cuts-jobs-executive-role-in-business-shake-up/14:25
BrainstormNew from NPR Science: A new clue to the reason some people come down with long COVID: Researchers have found a link between the FOXP4 gene and the occurrence of what's known as long COVID. The finding could lead to a better understanding of a [... want %more?] → https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2023/08/08/1192496578/a-new-clue-to-the-reason-some-people-come-down-with-long-covid16:19
BrainstormNew from New Scientist: Vaccine shows promise against the virus linked to multiple sclerosis: A vaccine has induced antibodies and other immune cells against the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) in mice. EBV can cause flu-like symptoms but is also increasingly being [... want %more?] → https://www.newscientist.com/article/2386557-vaccine-shows-promise-against-the-virus-linked-to-multiple-sclerosis/18:34
BrainstormNew from Contagion Live: Pandemic Disrupts Progress Toward Hepatitis B Control: Efforts to ramp up hepatitis B vaccination at birth and in infancy are crucial to controlling the disease in Africa, which accounted for 66% of new infections in 2019. → https://www.contagionlive.com/view/pandemic-disrupts-progress-toward-hepatitis-b-control19:13
BrainstormNew from Politico: What to know about the latest dominant COVID-19 variant: The new coronavirus strain, while fast-spreading, does not appear to cause significant illness. → https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/08/what-to-know-about-covid-variant-eris-0011028621:14
BrainstormNew from Outbreak News Today: Florida local transmission of dengue cases now 10, New cases reported in Broward and Miami-Dade counties: NewsDesk @bactiman63 Florida state health officials reported four additional cases of locally [... want %more?] → https://outbreaknewstoday.com/florida-local-transmission-of-dengue-cases-now-10-new-cases-reported-in-broward-and-miami-dade-counties-91913/22:50

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