libera/##covid-19/ Wednesday, 2025-05-21

BrainstormNew from ScienceNews: FDA significantly limits access to COVID-19 vaccines: The new framework unveiled May 20 says new COVID-19 shots should go only to those ages 65 and up or with underlying medical conditions. → https://www.sciencenews.org/article/fda-limit-access-covid-vaccine-approval00:10
BrainstormNew from The Lancet (Online): [Editorial] A wake-up call: the second Commission on adolescent health: 9 years ago, The Lancet published the first Commission on adolescent health, which argued for adolescence as a key stage of development in the life course that has been largely neglected by [... want %more?] → https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(25)00863-3/fulltext00:40
BrainstormNew from BBC Health: (news): World-first gonorrhoea vaccine launched by NHS England as infections soar → https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cded26z16leo02:29
BrainstormNew from r/Coronavirus: Coronavirus: Malaysia Misses Regional COVID-19 Outbreak in May 2025 → https://old.reddit.com/r/Coronavirus/comments/1krlqzp/malaysia_misses_regional_covid19_outbreak_in_may/03:27
BrainstormNew from BMJ: Health of world’s teens is at “tipping point,” expert commission warns: The overall health of adolescents worldwide is at risk of worsening in the coming years despite some improvements in the past decade, an international report has concluded.The Lancet commission on adolescent health and wellbeing warned [... want %more?] → http://www.bmj.com/content/389/bmj.r1034.short11:29
BrainstormNew from PubMed: Matrix stiffness and viscoelasticity influence human mesenchymal stem cell immunomodulation: Human mesenchymal stem cells (hMSCs) have immense wound healing potential due to their immunomodulatory behavior. To control this behavior and reduce heterogeneity, researchers look to biomaterials, as matrix stiffness and [... want %more?] → https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40396128/12:27
BrainstormNew from BMJ Open: Enhancing dyadic outcomes of stroke survivors and caregivers: protocol for a randomised controlled trial: Introduction Stroke is a leading cause of death and disability worldwide. Stroke survivors and their caregivers often face profound social isolation and various participation restrictions, [... want %more?] → http://bmjopen.bmj.com/cgi/content/short/15/5/e09075114:46
ublxa whisker more than tangentially related to covid-19, quasi book review of the day: https://newrepublic.com/article/194726/johnson-and-johnson-investigation-crimes-health-care-system14:49
BrainstormNew from StatNews: Pharma: STAT+: Pharmalittle: We’re reading about Trump’s drug-pricing plan, a Moderna change of plans, and more → https://www.statnews.com/pharmalot/2025/05/21/trump-pharma-biotech-medicines-maryland-roche-moderna-fda-flu-covid-uk-clinical-trials/15:15
BrainstormNew from StatNews: Biotech: Investors unfazed by FDA’s Covid vaccine framework → https://www.statnews.com/2025/05/21/biotech-news-fda-vaccines-ai-drugs-maha-andreessen-absci-pfizer-the-reado/15:55
BrainstormNew from EMA: What's new: (news): COVID-19 vaccines: key facts → https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/human-regulatory-overview/public-health-threats/coronavirus-disease-covid-19/covid-19-medicines/covid-19-vaccines-key-facts18:15
BrainstormNew from Marc Veldhoen on Mastodon: (news): different aim: to neutralise toxins with existing circulating antibodies. These should be maintained. Other vaccines in national vaccination programmes do require the booster strategy, just as ant-COVID-19 required 3 vaccinations. → https://mastodon.online/@marc_veld/11454692557341443419:14
BrainstormNew from Virological.org: Latest posts: SARS-CoV-2 Spike displays multiple adaptive changes in addition to the furin cleavage site: A key omitted reference here: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.14.648681v1 From the abstract: “We [... want %more?] → https://virological.org/t/sars-cov-2-spike-displays-multiple-adaptive-changes-in-addition-to-the-furin-cleavage-site/993#post_319:33
LjLhttps://www.contagionlive.com/view/moderna-withdraws-bla-for-its-influenza-covid-19-combination-vaccine19:52
LjLublx, disheartening article but also i always have trouble just believing the conclusion we should make from capitalist corruption is that we should let the government do everything instead. as an italian i don't have a great relationship or trust in the government. and i mean, the FDA too *is* the government, and the article said it was ineffective to complicit. even without being complicit, "ineffective" is the name of the game with many a government or is it not20:09
ublxdepends on the government, i suppose. if the FDA is The Government™, it certainly isn't government by the people for the people, as the writer has it. he seems to be quite specific about the FDA having been subverted, rather than merely being mysteriously ineffectual20:18
LjLublx, where/when was the last certified by people for people government?20:29
ublxthere's probably a village out there somewhere that runs quite a good inclusive monthly committee20:31
BrainstormNew from CIDRAP: (news): Moderna pulls licensing submission for combo flu-COVID vaccine → https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/moderna-pulls-licensing-submission-combo-flu-covid-vaccine20:41
BrainstormNew from MedPageToday: These European Countries Give the Chickenpox Vaccine: (MedPage Today) -- During a hearing before the House Appropriations Committee last week, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. stopped short of answering whether he would vaccinate his own child against chickenpox."Again, I don't want to give... → https://www.medpagetoday.com/special-reports/features/11570721:20
BrainstormNew from CIDRAP: (news): Viewpoint: Making key COVID vaccine decisions without input, transparency is a public disservice → https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/viewpoint-making-key-covid-vaccine-decisions-without-input-transparency-public-disservice21:59
BrainstormNew from Marc Veldhoen on Mastodon: (news): of its investigational seasonal influenza vaccine, mRNA-1010, are available. Moderna continues to expect interim data from the mRNA-1010 trial to be available this summer. → https://mastodon.online/@marc_veld/11454805109956315023:58

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