libera/##covid-19/ Friday, 2024-06-07

BrainstormNew from MedPageToday: Texas Rancher Develops Rare Case of Anthrax After Butchering Dead Lamb: (MedPage Today) -- A rancher in Texas contracted anthrax earlier this year after butchering a lamb that died suddenly on his ranch, CDC researchers said.Two wound swabs from the rancher, a male in his [... want %more?] → https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/generalinfectiousdisease/11052900:32
BrainstormNew from Marc Veldhoen on Mastodon: (news): No, absolutely, no. COVID-19 vaccination are NOT associated with worse clinical outcomes and decreased SARS-CoV-2/CCCoV Ab levels. No, also not with IgG4, as the authors claim. The conclusion is not substantiated by the data shown. This is again a large misstep @FrontImmunol. → https://mastodon.online/@marc_veld/11257212390284044401:00
BrainstormNew from BMJ Open: Long COVID cognitive sequelae 6 months postinfection and beyond: a scoping review protocol: Introduction The novel and expanding field of long COVID research has undergone diverse methodological approaches in recent years. This protocol lays out the methodological approach, which aims at identifying [... want %more?] → http://bmjopen.bmj.com/cgi/content/short/14/6/e08479802:28
BrainstormNew from r/WorldNews: worldnews: Yamaha motorbike manufacturer and four other Japanese vehicle makers, including Toyota Motor, falsified performance tests to obtain certifications for their products. → https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1d9yvc0/yamaha_motorbike_manufacturer_and_four_other/03:47
BrainstormNew from r/Science: science: A new matched case-control study from Yale found no association between receiving an mRNA COVID-19 vaccine during pregnancy and stillbirth. Furthermore, no association was detected by vaccine manufacturer, number of doses received during [... want %more?] → https://old.reddit.com/r/science/comments/1d9yy1l/a_new_matched_casecontrol_study_from_yale_found/05:25
BrainstormNew from EMA: What's new: (news): Opinion/decision on a Paediatric investigation plan (PIP): Vaxchora, Cholera vaccine, live attenuated, oral (strain CVD 103-HgR), decision type: PM: decision on the application for modification of an agreed PIP, therapeutic area: Vaccines, [... want %more?] → https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/medicines/human/paediatric-investigation-plans/emea-001490-pip01-13-m0411:27
BrainstormNew from BMJ: Bird flu: First person with confirmed H5N2 infection dies: The first ever confirmed human case of influenza A(H5N2) has been reported in a person who has since died in Mexico City, the World Health Organization has said.1It is not yet known how the person was exposed to the virus, but A(H5N2) viruses have been [... want %more?] → http://www.bmj.com/content/385/bmj.q1260.short12:16
BrainstormNew from PubMed: Current landscape of exosomes in tuberculosis development, diagnosis, and treatment applications: Tuberculosis (TB), caused by the bacterial pathogen Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB), remains one of the most prevalent and deadly infectious diseases worldwide. Currently, there are complex interactions between host [... want %more?] → https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38846947/12:46
BrainstormNew from Science-Based Medicine: Pertussis Cases are Rising Sharply in 2024: As the pandemic "winds down", cases of whooping cough are on the rise in dramatic fashion. The post  first appeared on Science-Based Medicine . → https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/pertussis-cases-are-rising-sharply-in-2024/13:06
ublxLjL: maybe Brainstorm would like to munch on this site: https://afludiary.blogspot.com/14:42
BrainstormUnexpected error (You exceeded your current quota, please check your plan and billing details. For more information on this error, read the docs: https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/error-codes/api-errors.) from ublx at 2024-06-07 12:42:55.757819. Message was: LjL: maybe Brainstorm would like to munch on this site: https://afludiary.blogspot.com/14:42
* ublx slaps Brainstorm around a bit with an ascii rendered trout14:44
BrainstormUnexpected error (You exceeded your current quota, please check your plan and billing details. For more information on this error, read the docs: https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/error-codes/api-errors.) from ublx at 2024-06-07 12:44:32.205375. Message was: slaps Brainstorm around a bit with an ascii rendered trout14:44
* Brainstorm starts to flub ublx with some unable troublesomeness 14:44
BrainstormNew from EMA: What's new: (news): Orphan designation: Chimeric anti-interleukin-6 monoclonal antibody (siltuximab) Treatment of Castleman's disease, 30/11/2007 Expired → https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/medicines/human/orphan-designations/eu-3-07-50815:05
BrainstormNew from Contagion Live: Top Infectious Disease News Stories Week of June 1-7: FDA VRBPAC recommends protection against JN1 for the fall COVID-19 vaccines, a multidrug-resistant form of gonorrhea gives cause for concern, piperacillin-tazobactam shown to have higher mortality than [... want %more?] → https://www.contagionlive.com/view/top-infectious-disease-news-stories-week-of-june-1-715:34
BrainstormNew from r/Coronavirus: Coronavirus: COVID vaccines saved millions of lives – linking them to excess deaths is a mistake → https://old.reddit.com/r/Coronavirus/comments/1dacaw0/covid_vaccines_saved_millions_of_lives_linking/16:44
BrainstormNew from Eric Topol on Mastodon: (news): The KP.3 variant is taking over in the US, with 2 key mutations beyond JN.1 (F456L and Q493E) at the same time FDA has planned for JN.1 to be the target of the new Covid booster in September. Big mismatch and bad call. → https://mstdn.social/@erictopol/11257588611384082216:55
LjLcases in italy keep going up considerably, despite the number of tests going down, https://lab24.ilsole24ore.com/coronavirus/20:06
ublxtake heart, JN1 vaccine will be ready in time for the tail end of the wave20:26
LjLublx, earlier: <Brainstorm> New from Eric Topol on Mastodon: (news): The KP.3 variant is taking over in the US, with 2 key mutations beyond JN.1 (F456L and Q493E) at the same time FDA has planned for JN.1 to be the target of the new Covid booster in September. Big mismatch and bad call. → https://mstdn.social/@erictopol/11257588611384082220:48
BrainstormUnexpected error (You exceeded your current quota, please check your plan and billing details. For more information on this error, read the docs: https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/error-codes/api-errors.) from LjL at 2024-06-07 18:48:28.586067. Message was: ublx, earlier: <Brainstorm> New from Eric Topol on Mastodon: (news): The KP.3 variant is taking over in the US, with 2 key mutations beyond JN.1 (F456L and Q493E) at the same time FDA20:48
ublxhmm20:50
BrainstormNew from CIDRAP: Study shows no link between stillbirths, COVID-19 vaccines: 38.4% of patients experiencing stillbirth received a COVID-19 vaccine in pregnancy compared with 39.3% of those with live births. → https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/study-shows-no-link-between-stillbirths-covid-19-vaccines21:03
BrainstormNew from Contagion Live: Paxlovid Regimen Safe, But Not Effective for Postacute Sequelae of COVID-19: A newly published study suggests that a 15-day regimen, while safe, did not statistically separate from a placebo comparator group in main outcomes for PASC of SARS-CoV-2 infection. → https://www.contagionlive.com/view/paxlovid-regimen-safe-not-effective-postacute-sequelae-covid-1921:22
BrainstormNew from r/Coronavirus: Coronavirus: New COVID variant KP.3 climbs to 25%, now largest in CDC estimates → https://old.reddit.com/r/Coronavirus/comments/1dajk1q/new_covid_variant_kp3_climbs_to_25_now_largest_in/21:32
LjLublx, that blog you linked seems specifically about avian flu, if i add it here it'll filter posts with COVID-specific keywords only21:48
BrainstormNew from CIDRAP: Paxlovid fails to improve long COVID symptoms in small study: Although a 15-day course of Paxlovid was found to be safe, it didn't demonstrate a significant benefit in improving symptoms. → https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/paxlovid-fails-improve-long-covid-symptoms-small-study21:52
ublxtis, yes. but it might be a reasonably clean signal for avian flu related things, if that's worth tracking.. elsewhere even21:52
LjLublx, yeah, so far i have nothing for [avian] flu except what pops up every now and then here due to the keyword filters still hitting related things. i don't know whether to make a dedicated channel given there's barely anyone left even here, but i still could just for info about it even if it's going to be basically just you and me i guess22:03
ublxwell. on its own, and given vulnerability left behind by covid, and testing being scaled back in many places, and a general sense of deja vu vis a vis institutional non-reaction, and with influenza's more threatening potential than covid.. well, i'll keep an eye on headlines22:23
BrainstormNew from r/COVID19: COVID19: Stanford Medicine trial: 15-day Paxlovid regimen safe but adds no clear long-COVID benefit → https://old.reddit.com/r/COVID19/comments/1dalci2/stanford_medicine_trial_15day_paxlovid_regimen/22:51
BrainstormNew from This Week In Virology: TWiV 1120: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin: In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin reports the third case of influenza H5N1 infection in a human, this time with respiratory symptoms, an H5 avian influenza virus wastewater dashboard, FDA approves Moderna’s mRNA vaccine for respiratory [... want %more?] → https://www.microbe.tv/twiv/twiv-1120/23:21

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