libera/##covid-19/ Friday, 2023-08-25

BrainstormNew from The Lancet (Online): [Correspondence] New Zealand's COVID-19 elimination strategy and mortality patterns: In 2020, New Zealand adopted an elimination strategy using a wide range of public health interventions in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. This approach successfully [... want %more?] → https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(23)01368-5/fulltext00:32
BrainstormNew from Outbreak News Today: Las Vegas: Legionnaires’ disease investigations at Caesars Palace and The Orleans Hotel & Casino: NewsDesk @bactiman63 The Southern Nevada Health District reports investigating travel-associated cases of [... want %more?] → https://outbreaknewstoday.com/las-vegas-legionnaires-disease-investigations-at-caesars-palace-and-the-orleans-hotel-casino-42396/01:31
BrainstormNew from Virology.ws: Trial By Error: DecodeME Team Describes Study Sample; The Atlantic’s Ed Yong Covers PEM; STAT Busts NIH’s Stumbling Long Covid Efforts: By David Tuller, DrPH DecodeME paper finds ME/CFS [... want %more?] → https://virology.ws/2023/08/24/trial-by-error-decodeme-team-describes-study-sample-the-atlantics-ed-yong-covers-pem-stat-busts-nihs-stumbling-long-covid-efforts/02:01
BrainstormNew from r/COVID19: COVID19: 2m extra deaths recorded in China after zero Covid ended → https://old.reddit.com/r/COVID19/comments/160iwwh/2m_extra_deaths_recorded_in_china_after_zero/02:11
BrainstormNew from BMJ Open: Impact of SARS-CoV-2 infection on postoperative complications of patients undergoing surgery after general outbreak in China: a protocol for multicentre prospective cohort study: Introduction There is currently limited evidence addressing perioperative prognosis of surgical patients during COVID-19 [... want %more?] → http://bmjopen.bmj.com/cgi/content/short/13/8/e07260803:40
BrainstormNew from r/COVID19: COVID19: Omicron infection following vaccination enhances a broad spectrum of immune responses dependent on infection history → https://old.reddit.com/r/COVID19/comments/160nyf0/omicron_infection_following_vaccination_enhances/05:50
BrainstormNew from BBC Health: Families sue government for failing to protect care homes from Covid: Relatives of residents who died with the virus are claiming damages for loss of life and distress caused. → https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-6658287306:09
BrainstormNew from Reddit (test): CoronavirusUK: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome correlation with SARS-CoV-2 N genotypes → https://old.reddit.com/r/CoronavirusUK/comments/160rfs3/acquired_immune_deficiency_syndrome_correlation/09:13
BrainstormNew from Science-Based Medicine: Vulnerable Children Really Count: Why were misinformation doctors so eager to spread the easily-refutable myth that "no healthy child" had died of COVID The post  first appeared on Science-Based Medicine . → https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/vulnerable/09:33
BrainstormNew from EMA: What's new: Medicine: Human medicines European public assessment report (EPAR): Regkirona, regdanvimab, COVID-19 virus infection, Date of authorisation: 12/11/2021, Revision: 8, Status: Authorised → https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/medicines/human/EPAR/regkirona11:20
BrainstormNew from PubMed: Efficient fabrication of thermo-stable dissolving microneedle arrays for intradermal delivery of influenza whole inactivated virus vaccine: Dissolving microneedle arrays (dMNAs) can be used to deliver vaccines via the intradermal route. Fabrication of dMNAs using centrifugation is the most common preparation method [... want %more?] → https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37622228/12:48
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-testing13:08
BrainstormNew from StatNews: STAT+: Pharmalittle: This fall’s COVID booster rollout; approval for Pfizer’s RSV vaccine: Good morning Pharmalittle students. This is Allison DeAngelis, filling in for Ed Silverman while he’s away from the Pharmalot campus. I debated assigning you [... want %more?] → https://www.statnews.com/pharmalot/2023/08/25/covid-booster-flu-rsv-vaccine-cdc-pfizer-allina-health/15:25
BrainstormNew from EMA: What's new: PIP: Opinion/decision on a Paediatric investigation plan (PIP): Recombinant human monoclonal antibody to GM-CSF (GSK3196165), decision type: , therapeutic area: , PIP number: P/0266/2020 → https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/medicines/human/paediatric-investigation-plans/emea-001882-pip02-16-m0216:25
BrainstormNew from Eric Topol on Mastodon: (news): The BA.2.86 variant → https://mstdn.social/@erictopol/11095076666808226516:44
LjLhttps://mastodon.social/@ljl/11095084786714403517:00
BrainstormNew from ECDC: Communicable disease threats report, 20-26 August 2023, week 34: This issue of the ECDC Communicable Disease Threats Report (CDTR) covers the period 20-26 August and includes updates on avian influenza, botulism,  autochthonous dengue, Legionnaires' [... want %more?] → https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/publications-data/communicable-disease-threats-report-20-26-august-2023-week-3417:04
BrainstormNew from StatNews: Pharma: STAT+: AstraZeneca sues to immediately stop Medicare drug price negotiation program → https://www.statnews.com/2023/08/25/astrazeneca-medicare-drug-price/17:24
BrainstormNew from r/WorldNews: worldnews: Norway to spend $6 million a year stock-piling grain, citing pandemic, war and climate change → https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1612472/norway_to_spend_6_million_a_year_stockpiling/17:34
BrainstormNew from r/COVID19: COVID19: Report: COVID Pushed 68M Asians into Extreme Poverty → https://old.reddit.com/r/COVID19/comments/1614csb/report_covid_pushed_68m_asians_into_extreme/18:52
BrainstormNew from Eric Topol on Mastodon: LongCovid: Today's editorial on the new # LongCovid study → https://mstdn.social/@erictopol/11095136562016812719:21
BrainstormNew from Contagion Live: The Latest Infectious Disease News: In this week's biggest stories, masks are seeing a small resurgence; expanding HCV screening for all persons with HIV; Pfizer's maternal vaccine gets FDA approved; and how a risk-based screening for multidrug-resistant gut microbes could [... want %more?] → https://www.contagionlive.com/view/the-latest-infectious-disease-news20:49
LjLwe have 11600 cases this week21:52
LjLthat's twice last week21:52
LjLalso 15 people newly in ICU and 319 in hospital21:52
LjLit's definitely started here as well21:52
LjLand stupid newspapers lack the neurons to avoid saying "there have been only 12 cases of BA.2.86"21:53
BrainstormNew from r/COVID19: COVID19: A friend of mine sent me this study. - Meditation-induced bloodborne factors as an adjuvant treatment to COVID-19 disease - I am skeptical about the sample size and the lack of diversification in the sample and survey group. Wanted to ask you guys what you [... want %more?] → https://old.reddit.com/r/COVID19/comments/1619ab0/a_friend_of_mine_sent_me_this_study/21:57
LjLde-facto, look at our R https://lab24.ilsole24ore.com/coronavirus/?refresh_ce#box_2222:42
de-factohmm which one is it? id does not work on that site22:53
de-factohttps://corona-pandemieradar.de/abwasser22:57
LjLde-facto, Crescita nuovi casi su base settimanale23:23
de-factohmm ok not good :(23:25
de-factois there a reason for people to get more tests, other than being infected?23:25
de-factowhats that metric actually?23:26
de-facto"Growth of new cases on a weekly basis "23:26
de-factohttps://public.flourish.studio/visualisation/7866268/?utm_source=embed&utm_campaign=visualisation/786626823:29
de-factohow is "Growth" defined here?23:29
de-factois that something similar to R ?23:29
LjLconsidering i said "look at our R", what do you think'23:47
LjLanyway it's not more people getting tested because the pos/test ratio is skyrocketing too23:48
LjLsee Tamponi giornalieri e contagiati23:48
LjLblack line is the ratio23:48
LjLthe Matrix room must be almost completely dead. I only see people having read up to a given message extremely sparingly23:53

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