libera/##covid-19/ Friday, 2025-02-28

BrainstormNew from The Lancet (Online): [Articles] Trends in the global, regional, and national burden of oral conditions from 1990 to 2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021: The minor changes in the burden of oral conditions over the past 30 years demonstrate that [... want %more?] → https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(24)02811-3/fulltext00:41
BrainstormNew from The Atlantic: RFK Jr., America’s Leading Advocate for Getting Measles: “It’s not unusual.” That’s how Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the anti-vaccine activist and secretary of Health and Human Services, described an ongoing measles outbreak in and around Texas that has [... want %more?] → https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2025/02/rfk-measles-vaccines-texas-outbreak/681860/01:11
BrainstormNew from Reddit (test): COVID19_Pandemic: Pat Just Pat: "Love how an article that basically says we've been right about everything still finds a way to smear Covid realists. Sorry about raising the alarm about the literal pandemic being ignored  " → https://old.reddit.com/r/COVID19_Pandemic/comments/1izyaw2/pat_just_pat_love_how_an_article_that_basically/04:31
BrainstormNew from Science-Based Medicine: Welcome to the Resistance UCSF Doctors: The many doctors who are just now realizing that misinformation wasn't "COVID hysteria nonsense" have a lot of catching up to do to understand how the forces they've legitimized the led to this moment. The post  first appeared on Science-Based Medicine . → https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/ucsfapathy/09:13
BrainstormNew from EMA: What's new: (news): Human medicines European public assessment report (EPAR): Fluenz, influenza vaccine (live attenuated, nasal), Date of authorisation: 03/06/2024, Revision: 3, Status: Authorised → https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/medicines/human/EPAR/fluenz10:32
BrainstormNew from PubMed: Inequalities in COVID-19 impact on preschool mental health in India: key moderators of adverse outcome: CONCLUSION: A small overall increase in preschool mental health problems was evident. However, this masked substantial worsening of such problems in families with elevated COVID-19 adversities in India. These [... want %more?] → https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40018614/12:32
BrainstormNew from Marc Veldhoen on Mastodon: (news): The conclusion is that the booster helped, especially in more vulnerable groups such as the elderly and immunocompromised. Keep that in mind for Autumn 2025, not only for COVID-19 but also for Flu and RSV vaccines. → https://mastodon.online/@marc_veld/11408131239805254212:42
BrainstormNew from Marc Veldhoen on Mastodon: (news): Interim Estimates of 2024–2025 Seasonal Influenza Vaccine Effectiveness — Four Vaccine Effectiveness Networks, United States, October 2024–February 2025 → https://mastodon.online/@marc_veld/11408136797541310113:02
BrainstormNew from Marc Veldhoen on Mastodon: (news): The possible dominant subvariant, LP.8.1 or offspring, LP.8.1.1 will be caught by neutralising and other antibodies as soon as it infects, with T cell recognition remaining in place. → https://mastodon.online/@marc_veld/11408149571290391413:31
BrainstormNew from Marc Veldhoen on Mastodon: (news): Note that the vaccine is made to target seasonal influenza strains. This is not a vaccine against potential new strains such as the bird-flu H5N1 strain. If human-to-human transmission is detected or is an imminent risk a separate vaccine will be rolled out. → https://mastodon.online/@marc_veld/11408154234162168513:42
BrainstormNew from StatNews: Turbulence at the FDA & bluebird Bio’s sale: Friday's biotech news includes Pfizer's shifting DEI focus and Eli Lilly's costly expansion. → https://www.statnews.com/2025/02/28/biotech-news-bluebird-bio-praxis-precision-pfizer-eli-lilly-the-readout/15:21
BrainstormNew from StatNews: Pharma: STAT+: Pharmalittle: We’re reading about Pfizer and GSK DEI changes, pharma navigating tariffs, and more → https://www.statnews.com/pharmalot/2025/02/28/medicare-pfizer-gsk-dei-trump-tariffs-lilly-india-walgreens/15:32
BrainstormNew from ProPublica: Speaker Mike Johnson Is Living in a D.C. House That Is the Center of a Pastor’s Secretive Influence Campaign: by Joshua Kaplan , Justin Elliott and Alex Mierjeski ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our [... want %more?] → https://www.propublica.org/article/mike-johnson-evangelical-pastor-steve-berger-roommates16:21
BrainstormNew from BMJ: GP leaders in England agree {pound}889m funding deal as “starting point”: The BMA has agreed “in principle” to an £889m funding uplift to GPs’ contracts in England this year, on the condition that the government commits to negotiating a completely new national contract within the current parliament.1The [... want %more?] → http://www.bmj.com/content/388/bmj.r426.short16:41
BrainstormNew from Eric Topol on Substack: Eric Topol: Carl Zimmer: Air-Borne and the Big Miss With Covid → https://erictopol.substack.com/p/carl-zimmer-air-borne-and-the-big17:01
BrainstormNew from CIDRAP: Liberals', conservatives' trust in US government's use of digital health data diverged during COVID: Relative to 2020 respondents, 2022 participants had less confidence in the CDC, NIH, and local public health departments and more [... want %more?] → https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/liberals-conservatives-trust-us-governments-use-digital-health-data-diverged-during-covid18:02
BrainstormNew from MedPageToday: Boarding Is Making Our Emergency Departments Miserable: (MedPage Today) -- Last night when I came to work most of the beds in our 31-bed emergency department (ED) were full. There were more than 20 patients either in the waiting room proper or in the chairs that serve as "rooms" behind the triage area... → https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/rural/11443319:31
BrainstormNew from CIDRAP: (news): Hospitalized COVID patients at higher risk for organ-related death, readmission for 2.5 years, data suggest → https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/hospitalized-covid-patients-higher-risk-organ-related-death-readmission-25-years-data20:49
BrainstormNew from Contagion Live: WHO Releases 2025-2026 Influenza Vaccine Recommendations: With the release of these guidelines and the US Health and Human Services cancelling the FDA VRBPAC meeting set for mid-March to discuss these vaccine recommendations, Robert Hopkins, Jr, MD, medical [... want %more?] → https://www.contagionlive.com/view/who-releases-2025-2026-influenza-vaccine-recommendations21:59
BrainstormNew from CIDRAP: US flu season shows signs of peak: Twelve more pediatric flu deaths were reported, mostly caused by the H1N1 strain, raising the season's total to 98. → https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/influenza-general/us-flu-season-shows-signs-peak22:29
BrainstormNew from MedPageToday: RFK Jr. Misstated Key Facts About Deadly Measles Outbreak: (MedPage Today) -- HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. earlier this week dismissed the measles outbreak in West Texas that killed an unvaccinated child as "not unusual" and appeared to misstate a number of key facts.Kennedy, a [... want %more?] → https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/vaccines/11444323:37
BrainstormNew from ScienceNews: What experts say about childhood vaccines amid the Texas measles outbreak: As the Texas measles outbreak grows and HHS head RFK Jr. puts vaccines under new scrutiny, two experts answer questions about the public health tool. → https://www.sciencenews.org/article/experts-vaccines-texas-measles23:47

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