libera/##covid-19/ Thursday, 2025-04-17

BrainstormNew from MedPageToday: ACIP Endorses RSV Vaccine for At-Risk Adults 50 and Up: (MedPage Today) -- The CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) voted 14-0, with one abstention, on Wednesday to recommend that high-risk patients ages 50 to 59 be vaccinated for respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), and also added... → https://www.medpagetoday.com/meetingcoverage/acip/11515800:27
BrainstormNew from StatNews: Vaccine advisory panel recommends expanded RSV use, and two new vaccines: The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices voted Wednesday to recommend lowering the age at which adults can get a vaccine against respiratory syncytial virus. → https://www.statnews.com/2025/04/16/cdc-acip-advisory-panel-recommends-expanded-rsv-and-two-new-vaccines/00:56
BrainstormNew from Reddit (test): When did you KNOW that the pandemic was coming?: The COVID-19 pandemic took me by surprise. While it was in the news in the months prior to March 2020, I just assumed it would be like SARS in 2002-2003. I had NO idea it would shut everything down. → https://old.reddit.com/r/COVID19_Pandemic/comments/1k108yr/when_did_you_know_that_the_pandemic_was_coming/02:51
BrainstormNew from Science-Based Medicine: Tell us Dr. John Ioannidis, Exactly Who is Waging This “War on Science”?: When science was under attack, Dr. John Ioannidis played the role of enabler. Along with his copious COVID misinformation, that will be his permanent legacy. The post  first appeared on Science-Based Medicine . → https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/war-on-science/09:13
BrainstormNew from ProPublica: Wisconsin’s Name-Change Law Raises Safety Risks for Transgender People: by Phoebe Petrovic , Wisconsin Watch This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with Wisconsin Watch . Sign up for Dispatches to get stories like this one as soon as [... want %more?] → https://www.propublica.org/article/wisconsin-law-transgender-name-changes11:11
BrainstormNew from PubMed: Liliana Veronica Diaconescu: Prevention strategies against academic burnout: the perspective of Romanian health sciences students in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic → https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40242747/12:29
BrainstormNew from BMJ: Tranexamic acid in general surgery. . . and other stories: Tranexamic acidFirst developed in the 1960s, tranexamic acid, an inhibitor of plasminogen activation and fibrinolysis, found niche applications in treating hereditary bleeding disorders. The indications for drugs often narrow over time, but the uses of [... want %more?] → http://www.bmj.com/content/389/bmj.r687.short13:36
BrainstormNew from The Atlantic: The Disaster of School Closures Should Have Been Foreseen: O f the many mistakes made in the COVID era, none were as glaring as prolonged school closures. The damages go beyond loss of learning, a dire consequence in its own right: Millions of families, [... want %more?] → https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2025/04/school-closures-predictable-disaster/682431/15:36
BrainstormNew from MedPageToday: ACIP Backs Virus-Like Particle Chikungunya Vaccine for Travelers, Lab Workers: (MedPage Today) -- The CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) unanimously recommended that U.S. travelers ages 12 years and older receive the virus-like particle chikungunya vaccine (Vimkunya) when [... want %more?] → https://www.medpagetoday.com/meetingcoverage/acip/11516217:22
BrainstormNew from MedPageToday: Experts' Vaccine Recommendations Will Go to Ex-Prosecutor Now at CDC: (MedPage Today) -- A federal panel of medical experts on Wednesday recommended an expansion of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccinations for adults and a new combination shot as another option to protect teens [... want %more?] → https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/vaccines/11516318:12
BrainstormNew from Contagion Live: For Children and Adolescents, COVID-19 Carries Higher Risk For Cardiovascular Outcomes: A large study showed these SARS-CoV-2 positive groups were more prone to myocarditis, heart failure, arrhythmias, and chest pain—regardless [... want %more?] → https://www.contagionlive.com/view/for-children-and-adolescents-covid-19-carries-higher-risk-for-cardiovascular-outcomes18:51
BrainstormNew from CIDRAP: Studies across 14 nations show 25% to 30% rate of long COVID: Among the 25.1% of participants who said they experienced long-COVID symptoms, 12.8% reported sleeping disorders. → https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/studies-across-14-nations-show-25-30-rate-long-covid19:29
BrainstormNew from StatNews: STAT+: RFK Jr. is back to criticizing vaccines, and Trump’s new drug-cost plan: This week in health care politics and policy: RFK Jr.'s shifting rhetoric on vaccines, a window into the HHS reorg, and finding [... want %more?] → https://www.statnews.com/2025/04/17/rfk-jr-vaccine-skeptic-trump-executive-order-drug-prices-hhs-budget-reorganization-dc-diagnosis-newsletter/19:39
BrainstormNew from BMJ Open: Development of FastFrail--a rapid frailty screening tool for medical calls: a development study based on cross-sectional data from an urgent care centre in Norway: Objective To develop a rapid screening tool for the identification of frailty in medical calls and other out-of-hospital acute care [... want %more?] → http://bmjopen.bmj.com/cgi/content/short/15/4/e09595322:12
BrainstormNew from Marc Veldhoen on Mastodon: (news): Vaccines have become the victim of their success. We do not encounter the diseases and consequences anymore, have collectively forgotten. Together with disinformation it has resulted in vaccine hesitancy, and the return of some diseases → https://mastodon.online/@marc_veld/11435525264708320422:51
BrainstormNew from Marc Veldhoen on Mastodon: (news): Claiming autism ‘epidemic,’ RFK Jr. describes NIH initiative to find environmental causes → https://mastodon.online/@marc_veld/11435540841138199223:29
BrainstormNew from Reddit (test): COVID19_Pandemic: 5 years since the pandemic started, long COVID patients are still hoping for a cure → https://old.reddit.com/r/COVID19_Pandemic/comments/1k1o71j/5_years_since_the_pandemic_started_long_covid/23:39

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