libera/##covid-19/ Tuesday, 2025-01-28

BrainstormNew from Ars Technica: Health: Dead babies, critically ill kids: Pediatricians make moving plea for vaccines → https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/01/dead-babies-critically-ill-kids-pediatricians-make-moving-plea-for-vaccines/00:12
BrainstormNew from The Lancet (Online): [Comment] Announcing the Lancet Commission on US Societal Resilience in a Global Pandemic Age: Lessons for the Present from the Future: 5 years since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, with SARS-CoV-2 moving to endemicity and new threats such as H5N1 [... want %more?] → https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(24)02721-1/fulltext00:32
BrainstormNew from r/COVID19: COVID19: SARS-COV-2 in Colorectal Cancer of IBD Patients → https://old.reddit.com/r/COVID19/comments/1ibntuw/sarscov2_in_colorectal_cancer_of_ibd_patients/00:52
BrainstormNew from r/Science: science: Firearm-related hospitalizations dropped before the pandemic, then rose again, study finds: 34% more people were hospitalized for a firearm-related injury in 2020 and 2021 than prepandemic. The rise was fastest for Black patients, children, and [... want %more?] → https://old.reddit.com/r/science/comments/1ibp1qp/firearmrelated_hospitalizations_dropped_before/02:32
BrainstormNew from Marc Veldhoen on Mastodon: (news): They claim coronavirus was found in the biopsies. It would have been helpful to show that. However, it is not shown in a single figure without any information. → https://mastodon.online/@marc_veld/11390473739784967708:20
BrainstormNew from NPR Science: Why scientists' fears about bird flu are intensifying: Bird flu, or avian influenza, is spreading among livestock and other mammals in the United States, raising concerns that another pandemic may be looming. Last month, California declared a state of emergency due to rising cases in [... want %more?] → https://www.npr.org/2025/01/27/1263339284/bird-flu-update-influenza09:09
BrainstormNew from r/Science: science: US researchers say COVID-19 is likely to be more severe and more deadly than flu or respiratory syncytial virus (RSV). Analysing the data, they found COVID-19 was linked with more severe disease outcomes, including long-term mortality, compared [... want %more?] → https://old.reddit.com/r/science/comments/1ibww7l/us_researchers_say_covid19_is_likely_to_be_more/09:38
BrainstormNew from StatNews: STAT+: RFK Jr.’s step-by-step blueprint to question the safety of vaccines: Vaccine policy looms over upcoming HHS confirmation hearings. We analyzed RFK Jr.’s views on liability protection, adverse event reporting, consent. → https://www.statnews.com/2025/01/28/rfk-jr-vaccines-kennedy-confirmation-hearing-vaccination-policy-hhs-secretary/10:37
BrainstormNew from r/COVID19: COVID19: Japanese researchers develop peptide preventing COVID-19 infections → https://old.reddit.com/r/COVID19/comments/1ic1dj3/japanese_researchers_develop_peptide_preventing/14:26
BrainstormNew from r/Science: science: Your Mouth Bacteria May Predict Your Dementia Risk. Researchers found that higher levels of bacteria called Neisseria and Haemophilus were associated with better performance on cognitive tests measuring memory, executive function, and visual [... want %more?] → https://old.reddit.com/r/science/comments/1ic4fof/your_mouth_bacteria_may_predict_your_dementia/17:07
peetaurheh ...meanwhile they continue to ignore the cause of dementia is bad diet ... they talk about another confounder instead of the cause17:50
BrainstormNew from StatNews: STAT+: Unpacking RFK Jr.’s plans for vaccines: This week in health care politics and policy news: RFK Jr.'s vaccine plan, NIH clarifies Trump's freeze, CDC barred from working with WHO. → https://www.statnews.com/2025/01/28/rfk-jr-kennedy-hearing-vaccine-plan-nih-hhs-grants-communications-freeze-trump-cdc-who-dc-diagnosis-newsletter/19:06
BrainstormNew from The Atlantic: America Wouldn’t Know the Worst of a Vaccine Decline Until It’s Too Late: Becoming a public-health expert means learning how to envision humanity’s worst-case scenarios for infectious disease. For decades, though, no one in the U.S. has had to consider the full [... want %more?] → https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2025/01/rfk-jr-vaccine-decline/681489/19:16
BrainstormNew from ProPublica: How Many Students Have Been Expelled Under Tennessee’s School Threats Law? There’s No Clear Answer.: by Aliyya Swaby ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for Dispatches , a newsletter that spotlights wrongdoing around the country, [... want %more?] → https://www.propublica.org/article/tennessee-school-threat-law-expulsions-data19:45
BrainstormNew from Contagion Live: FDA Decisions to Watch Q1-Q2: Infectious Disease: Vaccines and treatments are up for FDA approval in early to mid-2025, including a chikungunya vaccine, a meningococcal vaccine, antibiotics for gonorrhea, a monoclonal antibody for COVID-19, and more. → https://www.contagionlive.com/view/fda-decisions-to-watch-q1-q1-infectious-disease20:05
BrainstormNew from CIDRAP: Poll: Public trust in government health advice drops further, as partisan divide widens: The KFF poll, conducted earlier this month, also teased out impressions of Trump's health nominees and perceptions about the H5N1 threat. → https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/avian-influenza-bird-flu/poll-public-trust-government-health-advice-drops-further-partisan-divide21:14
BrainstormNew from CIDRAP: CDC distinguishes 3 post-COVID MIS-C clusters based on symptoms, complications, severity: The 3 MIS-C clusters are characterized by: 1) Frequent respiratory findings; 2) Frequent shock and/or cardiac complications; and 3) Remaining cases. → https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/cdc-distinguishes-3-post-covid-mis-c-clusters-based-symptoms-complications-severity22:03
BrainstormNew from CIDRAP: VA study shows COVID more severe than RSV, flu: By 180 days, the COVID-19 death rate reached 3.1% in the 2022-23 season and 2.9% in the 2023-24 season. → https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/va-study-shows-covid-more-severe-rsv-flu22:42
BrainstormNew from r/Science: science: Climate change may be driving an expansion of Valley fever, a deadly fungal infection spread by airborne spores → https://old.reddit.com/r/science/comments/1icd7gc/climate_change_may_be_driving_an_expansion_of/23:21

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