libera/##covid-19/ Thursday, 2025-01-30

BrainstormNew from MedPageToday: Vaccines a Major Focus of RFK Jr.'s Senate Confirmation Hearing: (MedPage Today) -- The gloves came off at Wednesday's Senate Finance Committee confirmation hearing for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as HHS secretary, with Democratic senators grilling Kennedy about his views on vaccines and [... want %more?] → https://www.medpagetoday.com/publichealthpolicy/healthpolicy/11400300:10
BrainstormNew from Reddit (test): COVID19_Pandemic: Don Ford is writing a comprehensive article on the Novavax vaccine, part 1 of 3 is now live → https://old.reddit.com/r/COVID19_Pandemic/comments/1id8msg/don_ford_is_writing_a_comprehensive_article_on/01:09
BrainstormNew from Virology.ws: Trial By Error: Norwegian Long Covid Rehab Trial Misrepresents Clinically Insignificant Findings As “Effective”: By David Tuller, DrPH If the results for a trial’s primary outcome do not meet the threshold [... want %more?] → https://virology.ws/2025/01/30/trial-by-error-norwegian-long-covid-rehab-trial-misrepresents-clinically-insignificant-findings-as-effective/07:18
BrainstormNew from Reddit (test): COVID19_Pandemic: Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Senate confirmation hearing and the rise of anti-science quackery → https://old.reddit.com/r/COVID19_Pandemic/comments/1idgk5m/robert_f_kennedy_jrs_senate_confirmation_hearing/07:47
BrainstormNew from ProPublica: In the Wild West of School Voucher Expansions, States Rely on Untested Companies, With Mixed Results: 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 [... want %more?] → https://www.propublica.org/article/school-voucher-management-classwallet-odyssey-merit-student-first11:22
BrainstormNew from EMA: What's new: (news): Human medicines European public assessment report (EPAR): Flucelvax Tetra, influenza vaccine (surface antigen, inactivated, prepared in cell cultures), Date of authorisation: 12/12/2018, Revision: 17, Status: Authorised → https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/medicines/human/EPAR/flucelvax-tetra16:02
BrainstormNew from StatNews: Health: At confirmation hearing, RFK Jr. refuses to say that vaccines don’t cause autism → https://www.statnews.com/2025/01/30/rfk-jr-vaccines-autism-confirmation-hearing/17:53
peetaurthus supporting the idea that he's not acting like a lobbyist for big pharma17:56
BrainstormNew from ScienceNews: A tiny neutrino detector scored big at a nuclear reactor: A compact method of detecting neutrinos provides new tests of physics theories and could lead to new reactor-monitoring methods. → https://www.sciencenews.org/article/neutrino-detector-nuclear-reactor18:52
BrainstormNew from Marc Veldhoen on Mastodon: (news): RFK Jr says he wants to tackle chronic disease. His war on the HPV vaccine shows otherwise. → https://mastodon.online/@marc_veld/11391893503874402020:31
BrainstormNew from StatNews: STAT+: Takeaways from RFK Jr.’s first day before Congress: This week in health care policy and politics news: The first RFK Jr. Senate hearings, and RFK Jr.'s private emails show vaccine criticism. → https://www.statnews.com/2025/01/30/rfk-jr-hhs-senate-finance-hearing-day-one-takeaways-kerry-kennedy-meltzer-emails-dc-diagnosis-newsletter/21:29
BrainstormNew from Marc Veldhoen on Mastodon: (news): SARS-CoV-2 wastewater levels are very low in the Netherlands. → https://mastodon.online/@marc_veld/11391922430791830921:39
BrainstormNew from r/COVID19: COVID19: Potential protective role of interferon-induced protein with tetratricopeptide repeats 3 (IFIT3) in COVID-19 → https://old.reddit.com/r/COVID19/comments/1idxon3/potential_protective_role_of_interferoninduced/22:18
BrainstormNew from StatNews: Biotech: STAT+: Analysis: RFK Jr. doubles down on vaccine criticism and misinformation, imperiling key votes → https://www.statnews.com/2025/01/30/rfk-jr-senate-hearing-kennedy-trump-hhs-secretary-takeaways-vaccines/23:26

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