libera/##covid-19/ Monday, 2024-06-10

BrainstormNew from r/Coronavirus: Coronavirus: 9th Circuit Court of Appeals Rules mRNA COVID-19 Jab is NOT a Vaccine Under Traditional Medical Definitions → https://old.reddit.com/r/Coronavirus/comments/1dc5gpa/9th_circuit_court_of_appeals_rules_mrna_covid19/00:06
BrainstormNew from Reddit (test): COVID19_Pandemic: Australia hit by 'big wave' of Covid at same time as increase in flu → https://old.reddit.com/r/COVID19_Pandemic/comments/1dc9n0j/australia_hit_by_big_wave_of_covid_at_same_time/03:27
BrainstormNew from This Week In Virology: TWiV Special: How the pandemic began in Nature, in 5 key points: TWiV rebuts a recent opinion piece which falsely claims that the COVID-19 pandemic began in a lab (it began in Nature). This material has been extracted from TWiV 1121. → https://www.microbe.tv/twiv/twiv-special-how-the-pandemic-began/06:10
BrainstormNew from r/Science: science: Study shows enforced masking on long flights prevents SARS-CoV-2 transmission → https://old.reddit.com/r/science/comments/1dcez0x/study_shows_enforced_masking_on_long_flights/08:43
BrainstormNew from Science-Based Medicine: Forget “turbo cancers” caused by COVID-19 vaccines. Does COVID itself cause cancer?: The Washington Post recently published an article asking if COVID-19 infection can cause cancer. Probably not, but cancer caused by a virus [... want %more?] → https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/forget-turbo-cancers-caused-by-covid-19-vaccines-does-covid-itself-cause-cancer/09:02
BrainstormNew from StatNews: Opinion: How faith leaders like me can help address America’s obesity epidemic: New public-private partnerships can learn from the progress faith leaders achieved during the Covid-19 pandemic and reach out to people with obesity. → https://www.statnews.com/2024/06/10/how-faith-leaders-like-me-can-help-address-americas-obesity-epidemic/10:38
BrainstormNew from ProPublica: What’s Next for U.S. Immigration Policy on the Southern Border?: by Connor Goodwin ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Last week, President Joe Biden signed an executive order to [... want %more?] → https://www.propublica.org/article/us-immigration-policy-2024-mexico11:36
BrainstormNew from StatNews: Biotech: STAT+: Moderna says data show its combination Covid-flu vaccine generates a strong immune response → https://www.statnews.com/2024/06/10/moderna-covid-flu-combination-vaccine/12:36
BrainstormNew from BBC Health: Two-in-one flu and Covid jab passes advanced trial: The trial suggests the jab arms the body with protective antibodies as effectively as separate shots. → https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ck55l4rk8z1o12:46
BrainstormNew from r/Science: science: 50% rise in suicide behaviors after the COVID-19 pandemic. Results from a huge 5-year follow-up cohort → https://old.reddit.com/r/science/comments/1dcit2c/50_rise_in_suicide_behaviors_after_the_covid19/13:17
BrainstormNew from BMJ: NHS makes urgent appeal for blood donations after cyberattack on London hospitals: The NHS has made an urgent appeal for O blood type donors in response to the cyberattack that forced some of the largest hospitals in London to cancel operations and divert patients to other trusts.The ransomware attack on [... want %more?] → http://www.bmj.com/content/385/bmj.q1277.short13:46
BrainstormNew from Contagion Live: Moderna’s Influenza-COVID-19 Combination Vaccine Elicits Immune Response in Older Adults: The company announced data this morning for its investigational mRNA-1083 vaccine and plans to continue collecting data and work [... want %more?] → https://www.contagionlive.com/view/moderna-s-influenza-covid-19-combination-vaccine-elicits-immune-response-in-older-adults13:56
BrainstormNew from r/Coronavirus: Coronavirus: Two-in-one flu and Covid jab passes advanced trial → https://old.reddit.com/r/Coronavirus/comments/1dckpfw/twoinone_flu_and_covid_jab_passes_advanced_trial/14:54
BrainstormNew from ScienceNews: Can humans get chronic wasting disease from deer?: Tests on brain organoids suggest the disease-causing prions face a tough barrier to infect people, but ruling out transmission is a difficult task. → https://www.sciencenews.org/article/chronic-wasting-disease-deer-humans-cwd15:24
BrainstormNew from StatNews: The biotech news you missed from the weekend: Moderna’s combination vaccine for Covid-19 and influenza triggered a stronger immune response in older adults than either individual vaccine — putting it on track to potentially bring one to market… → https://www.statnews.com/2024/06/10/moderna-gsk-covid-19-rsv-vaccine-lykos-mdma-congress-rare-disease/15:34
BrainstormNew from r/Science: science: Moderna's two-in-one flu and Covid vaccine passes advanced trial → https://old.reddit.com/r/science/comments/1dcn3zy/modernas_twoinone_flu_and_covid_vaccine_passes/16:52
BrainstormNew from Marc Veldhoen on Mastodon: LongCovid: Nirmatrelvir-Ritonavir and Symptoms in Adults With Postacute Sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 Infection → https://mastodon.online/@marc_veld/11259299233258227517:21
BrainstormNew from MedPageToday: FDA Expands Use of RSV Vaccine to Include More Adults: (MedPage Today) -- The FDA expanded the approval of GSK's respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine (Arexvy) to include adults ages 50 to 59 at risk of RSV-related lower respiratory tract disease (LRTD) due to underlying conditions, [... want %more?] → https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/vaccines/11056718:20
BrainstormNew from Marc Veldhoen on Mastodon: (news): Yes, there will be waves, just like all other respiratory viruses, all of which mutate, some more than coronaviruses. This is however reduced due to collective immunity, which will reduce effects and large-scale measures are not required. This is scaremongering. → https://mastodon.online/@marc_veld/11259345030337046719:18
BrainstormNew from Contagion Live: Understanding COVID-19 Severity with Hospitalization and Mortality based off Age and Demographic Factors: This analysis exposes differences, as exact estimates of hospitalization and fatality rates for [... want %more?] → https://www.contagionlive.com/view/understanding-covid-19-severity-with-hospitalization-and-mortality-based-off-age-and-demographic-factors20:07
BrainstormNew from CIDRAP: AHRQ survey: 7% of US adults reported having long COVID by early 2023: Risk factors for long COVID were female sex, young and old age, White and Hispanic race, and unvaccinated status. → https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/ahrq-survey-7-us-adults-reported-having-long-covid-early-202320:36
LjL<CarlSagan_> [Ars Technica - Science] Bird flu virus from Texas human case kills 100% of ferrets in CDC study https://arstechnica.com/?p=2030152 2024-06-10T17:19:41d21:31
ublx... however the same virus also successfully reanimated Carl Sagan, a feat previously thought to be impossible for a cadaver as old as Sagan's21:34
LjLyes, the old cadaver age is what makes it tricky21:36
ublxhopefully that 100% of test ferrets is a small cohort, lest it yield a more mammal-(un)friendly variant21:46
LjLublx, not sure if it matters when it's likely in a lot of wild *and* domesticated mammals already21:47
ublxhmm, point21:48
BrainstormNew from Eric Topol on Mastodon: sarscov2: Following a Covid shot, the more symptoms, heart rate and temperature response, the more long term neutralizing antibodies vs # SARSCoV2 induced. → https://mstdn.social/@erictopol/11259439349261906923:21
LjLwell then i have no antibodies23:38

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