libera/##covid-19/ Wednesday, 2024-02-28

BrainstormNew from r/COVID19: COVID19: Protection of natural infection against reinfection with SARS-CoV-2 JN.1 variant → https://old.reddit.com/r/COVID19/comments/1b1r3uh/protection_of_natural_infection_against/00:57
BrainstormNew from StatNews: Cholera vaccine shortage reaches worst point yet, with experts fearing deadly outbreaks: An unprecedented shortage of cholera vaccine has public health experts fearing that a recent surge of outbreaks across developing countries will only worsen, a situation [... want %more?] → https://www.statnews.com/2024/02/27/cholera-vaccine-shortage-outbreaks-reported-16-countries/02:22
BrainstormNew from BMJ Open: Impact of the pandemic and concomitant COVID-19 on the management and outcomes of middle cerebral artery strokes: a nationwide registry-based study: Objectives To investigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic as well as concomitant COVID-19 itself on stroke care, focusing on middle cerebral artery [... want %more?] → http://bmjopen.bmj.com/cgi/content/short/14/2/e08073808:48
BrainstormNew from PubMed: Estrogen-modulating treatment among mid-life women and COVID-19 morbidity and mortality: a multiregister nationwide matched cohort study in Sweden: CONCLUSIONS: Systemic or local use of estrogens does not decrease COVID-19 morbidity and mortality to premenopausal background levels. Excess risk for COVID-19 [... want %more?] → https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38414048/11:05
BrainstormNew from PubMed: A pediatric HIV outbreak in Pakistan: CONCLUSIONS: Investigations indicate that unsafe healthcare practices in formal and informal healthcare settings as the most likely cause of the 2019 outbreak of HIV infection in Larkana, Pakistan. Measures should be taken to improve IPC practices at the facility level, [... want %more?] → https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38415337/12:51
BrainstormNew from Science-Based Medicine: What Is Somatic Therapy?: Is modern medicine descending into pseudoscience, or is scientific medicine still going strong? Unfortunately, I think both of these things can happen at the same time. On the one hand, scientific research in medicine is progressing nicely. We are seeing the [... want %more?] → https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/what-is-somatic-therapy/13:41
BrainstormNew from Reddit (test): CoronavirusUK: Preparing for a successful spring 2024 COVID-19 vaccination campaign → https://old.reddit.com/r/CoronavirusUK/comments/1b259yr/preparing_for_a_successful_spring_2024_covid19/13:50
peetaurmodern medicine is not pseudoscience...it's profit driven cherry picked real science13:51
peetaurunlike with pseudoscience, take some claims, get their sources, read them and see what they really say... eg. vegans all say things like https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22983636/ says meat causes type 2 diabetes...but this study really just shows a bunch of associations, including: the "more meat" group clearly ate way more processed food, HIGHER PUFA/SFA ratio, waaaay more kJ (massively overeating), etc. plus of course more red meat. So it jus tshows13:54
peetaurwhat we already knew as the error of the seven countries study... eg. wealth class correlates to both overeating junk food and eating more meat.13:54
peetaur...and has no ability what so ever to establish cause and effect13:55
BrainstormNew from Contagion Live: us: Immunity Through Vaccine and Infection-Induced Antibody Responses → https://www.contagionlive.com/view/immunity-through-vaccine-and-infection-induced-antibody-responses15:09
BrainstormNew from r/WorldNews: worldnews: Cholera vaccine stocks run out as Africa battles outbreaks → https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1b28mie/cholera_vaccine_stocks_run_out_as_africa_battles/16:48
BrainstormNew from BMJ: Linda Beecham: a love of the arts, the BMA, and The BMJ: bmj;384/feb28_10/q481/FAF1faWere you lucky enough over the past 40 years to have a hot ticket for the first night of an opera or play in London or even Milan or New York, you might well have seen Linda Beecham sitting in the row in front of you. Linda’s [... want %more?] → http://www.bmj.com/content/384/bmj.q481.short17:17
BrainstormNew from Il Sole 24 Ore: (translated) High cholesterol, turn off the defective gene without modifying the *Dna: Al *Tiget of *Milano #be been demonstrated for the first time in alive the effectiveness of the *silenziamento *epigenetico, of carrying out an alone vault in [... want %more?] → https://www.ilsole24ore.com/art/colesterolo-alto-spegnere-gene-difettoso-senza-modificare-dna-AFJNjysC18:35
BrainstormNew from Reddit (test): nCoV: Phone sex video → https://old.reddit.com/r/nCoV/comments/1b2cp6l/phone_sex_video/19:14
LjL...20:02
LjLthanks Brainstorm, that reminds me that r/nCoV should be removed from the list, after a cursory glance at its posts20:02
BrainstormMy pleasure, my friend.20:02
BrainstormNew from Reddit (test): CoronavirusUK: SITC evidence: The UK Health Security Agency and the legacy of UK Covid19 programmes - Committees - UK Parliament → https://old.reddit.com/r/CoronavirusUK/comments/1b2e6o7/sitc_evidence_the_uk_health_security_agency_and/20:02
BrainstormNew from The Atlantic: Why Are We Still Flu-ifying COVID?: Four years after what was once the “novel coronavirus” was declared a pandemic, COVID remains the most dangerous infectious respiratory illness regularly circulating in the U.S. But a glance at the United States’ [... want %more?] → https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2024/02/covid-anniversary-flu-isolation-cdc/677588/20:41
BrainstormNew from StatNews: CDC advisory panel says people 65 and older should get a Covid spring booster shot: An expert panel advising the CDC on vaccines on Wednesday recommended that people 65 and older should get an additional Covid-19 vaccine shot this spring. → https://www.statnews.com/2024/02/28/covid-spring-booster-recommendation/20:51
BrainstormNew from CIDRAP: (news): As home death rates in cancer patients rose unequally during COVID-19 in 2020, less palliative care given → https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/home-death-rates-cancer-patients-rose-unequally-during-covid-19-2020-less-palliative-care21:20
BrainstormNew from CIDRAP: Antiplatelet therapy linked to less severe COVID outcomes: There was also a lower 3-month mortality (31% vs 39%) for the antiplatelet-therapy group. → https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/antiplatelet-therapy-linked-less-severe-covid-outcomes22:09
BrainstormNew from CIDRAP: CDC advisers recommend spring COVID booster for seniors: The group voted on stronger wording to clarify advice for patients and simplify decisions for clinicians. → https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/cdc-advisers-recommend-spring-covid-booster-seniors22:28
BrainstormNew from r/Coronavirus: Coronavirus: CDC panel recommends additional COVID-19 booster for people over age 65 → https://old.reddit.com/r/Coronavirus/comments/1b2ib6r/cdc_panel_recommends_additional_covid19_booster/22:48
BrainstormNew from Eric Topol on Substack: Long Covid and Cognitive Deficits: What we're learning from 2 new, large population prospective assessments → https://erictopol.substack.com/p/long-covid-and-cognitive-deficits23:07
BrainstormNew from r/COVID19: COVID19: Cognition and Memory after Covid-19 in a Large Community Sample → https://old.reddit.com/r/COVID19/comments/1b2k3kr/cognition_and_memory_after_covid19_in_a_large/23:56

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