libera/##covid-19/ Tuesday, 2024-12-03

BrainstormNew from Politico: Meridith McGraw: Trump to attend reopening of Notre Dame in Paris → https://www.politico.eu/article/trump-to-attend-reopening-of-notre-dame-in-paris/02:59
BrainstormNew from ECDC: ECDC: COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness against hospitalisation and death using electronic health records in eight European countries in the VEBIS monitoring network - October 2023 to April 2024 → https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/publications-data/covid-19-vaccine-effectiveness-hospitalisation--death-health-records10:04
BrainstormNew from ProPublica: Formaldehyde Causes More Cancer Than Any Other Toxic Air Pollutant. Little Is Being Done to Curb the Risk.: by Sharon Lerner 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 [... want %more?] → https://www.propublica.org/article/formaldehyde-epa-trump-public-health-danger11:32
BrainstormNew from BMJ: Applying the precautionary principle to first contact practitioners too: The BMA General Practitioners Committee has voted to stop hiring physician associates and for existing roles to be phased out because of the fundamentally unsafe nature of the role in general practice.1 There is also mounting concern about [... want %more?] → http://www.bmj.com/content/387/bmj.q2674.short12:12
BrainstormNew from PubMed: A case of Mycoplasma pneumoniae-induced rash and mucositis with recent influenza vaccination: A 33-year-old female presented with coryzal symptoms, facial swelling, severe haemorrhagic stomatitis, blistering oral mucositis, conjunctival injection and a sparse targetoid rash on the back and face, requiring admission [... want %more?] → https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39624758/12:32
BrainstormNew from Marc Veldhoen on Mastodon: (news): All this partisan report does is politicising the pandemic and the response. This is not an objective evaluation we can learn from. Worse, it sets a very bad precedent for a future outbreak, where a health crisis may be worsened by political ineptness and infighting. → https://mastodon.online/@marc_veld/11358886613236398713:30
BrainstormNew from StatNews: Sanofi pours $1 billion into China for insulin plant: Sanofi just made its largest investment thus far in China. The company has committed just over $1 billion to build a new insulin manufacturing facility in Beijing, reflecting increasing demand… → https://www.statnews.com/2024/12/03/biotech-news-janux-sanofi-gilead-takeda-obesity-ai-keros-roivant-the-readout/15:19
BrainstormNew from EMA: What's new: (news): Human medicines European public assessment report (EPAR): Fluad, influenza vaccine (surface antigen, inactivated, adjuvanted), Date of authorisation: 15/11/2024, Status: Authorised → https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/medicines/human/EPAR/fluad16:10
ublx%title https://www.statnews.com/2024/12/02/bird-flu-h5n1-mild-cases-mystery/16:14
Brainstormublx: From www.statnews.com: Why have U.S. bird flu cases been so mild? Scientists have some theories16:14
BrainstormNew from The Atlantic: RFK Jr. Is in the Wrong Agency: Leading the Department of Health and Human Services seems, at first glance, like a dream job for Robert F. Kennedy Jr., quite possibly America’s most infamous anti-vaxxer. If confirmed, Kennedy will oversee the agencies that play a central [... want %more?] → https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2024/12/what-is-rfk-jr-job/680860/16:50
BrainstormNew from StatNews: STAT+: The Supreme Court cases already shaping Trump’s term: This week in health policy and public health news: Supreme Court considers cases on vaping and gender affirming care, House Covid report is released, and a new study on Medicare's… → https://www.statnews.com/2024/12/03/supreme-court-fda-vaping-transgender-care-house-covid-report-dc-diagnosis-newsletter/18:20
BrainstormNew from Reddit (test): Final Report of the Select Subcommittee on Oversight and Accountability | U.S. House of Representatives: This is a long and depressing read. I’m going through it in pieces. I think for me, it’s helping me to better understand how human behavior [... want %more?] → https://old.reddit.com/r/COVID19_Pandemic/comments/1h5u3ec/final_report_of_the_select_subcommittee_on/19:29
BrainstormNew from Il Sole 24 Ore: (translated) Health: Alarm scientists on the *Giubileo: with millions of pilgrims any more risks for *Covid, *aviaria and *Mpox → https://www.ilsole24ore.com/art/allarme-scienziati-giubileo-milioni-pellegrini-piu-rischi-covid-aviaria-e-mpox-AGjMjXXB19:49
BrainstormNew from StatNews: Politics: STAT+: RFK Jr. was paid six figures by his vaccine-challenging group before presidential run → https://www.statnews.com/2024/12/03/rfk-jr-maha-pay-vaccine-group-childrens-health-defense/20:59
BrainstormNew from Virology.ws: Trial By Error: Yet Again BMJ Recommends CBT and Exercise for Long Covid: By David Tuller, DrPH What is going on at The BMJ? In May, the journal corrected an obvious error in a paper about a prominent Long Covid mental and physical rehabilitation [... want %more?] → https://virology.ws/2024/12/03/trial-by-error-yet-again-bmj-recommends-cbt-and-exercise-for-long-covid/21:29
BrainstormNew from Marc Veldhoen on Mastodon: immunology101: Antibodies and Antigens → https://mastodon.online/@marc_veld/11359103681197372922:38

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