libera/##covid-19/ Monday, 2024-09-09

BrainstormNew from BBC Health: Corruption review finds 'red flags' in more than 130 Covid contracts: An anti-corruption charity finds significant concerns in £15.3bn worth of contracts awarded during the pandemic. → https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cevj3y7n33vo02:13
BrainstormNew from BBC Health: ‘I grieve for the person I was before Covid’: The Covid inquiry opens its next set of hearings on Monday, looking at the impact on healthcare and the NHS. → https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crrlv0enpeno02:23
BrainstormNew from StatNews: She was told she might have cancer: How medicine pathologizes Black patients’ normal test results: Blood tests set to norms based on the physiology of white men can lead to misdiagnosis and unnecessary health scares for people of different races. → https://www.statnews.com/2024/09/09/embedded-bias-part-5-benign-ethnic-neutropenia-racial-health-disparities/06:18
BrainstormNew from r/Coronavirus: Coronavirus: Newly Discovered Antibody Protects Against All COVID-19 Variants → https://old.reddit.com/r/Coronavirus/comments/1fcimep/newly_discovered_antibody_protects_against_all/08:10
BrainstormNew from The Lancet (Online): [Series] Respiratory syncytial virus vaccination and immunoprophylaxis: realising the potential for protection of young children: The search for safe and efficacious products to prevent severe respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) disease in young infants has [... want %more?] → https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(24)01699-4/fulltext10:25
BrainstormNew from StatNews: Medicine struggles to define chronic Lyme. Long Covid has only made it harder: The overlapping symptoms of long Covid and persistent Lyme challenge patients and doctors alike. Researchers are seeking biomarkers and devising "cross-illness" trials. → https://www.statnews.com/2024/09/09/lyme-disease-long-covid-symptoms-diagnosis-research/10:35
BrainstormNew from ProPublica: These Household Brands Want to Redefine What Counts as “Recyclable”: by Lisa Song ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Most of the products in the [... want %more?] → https://www.propublica.org/article/recycling-recyclable-plastics-consumer-brands-association11:46
BrainstormNew from Marc Veldhoen on Mastodon: (news): So don´t be gaslit that infections are not frequent, did not happen before COVID-19, etc. → https://mastodon.online/@marc_veld/11310695574509612211:57
BrainstormNew from PubMed: The application of predictive value of diabetes autoantibody profile combined with clinical data and routine laboratory indexes in the classification of diabetes mellitus: CONCLUSION: The established prediction model combining patient's age, PA, HDL-C, ICA, IA-2A, GADA, and C-peptide can assist in differential [... want %more?] → https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39247917/12:49
BrainstormNew from Marc Veldhoen on Mastodon: (news): Fur farming a ‘viral highway’ that could spark next pandemic, say scientists → https://mastodon.online/@marc_veld/11310749295220132014:15
BrainstormNew from CIDRAP: Long-COVID rate among disabled people double that of able-bodied: People with disabilities are also more likely to have severe COVID-19, face treatment refusals, and be hospitalized, the researchers say. → https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/long-covid-rate-among-disabled-people-double-able-bodied17:50
BrainstormNew from BBC Health: NHS was 'creaking at seams' when Covid hit: Lack of staff and beds hampered care for both Covid and non-Covid patients, the inquiry is told. → https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c23ldze4eveo18:54
BrainstormNew from Marc Veldhoen on Mastodon: (news): Like for any infection, SARS-CV-2 infection will cause annual deaths. It remains to be determined if this is largely the same group hit by infection-caused deaths annually, or if there are additional deaths. Annual data suggests there is no increase in total deaths. → https://mastodon.online/@marc_veld/11310870432880263819:16
BrainstormNew from CIDRAP: New report: COVID more severe, longer-lasting than other respiratory diseases: COVID-19 participants most often reported fatigue, muscle aches, headache, and loss of taste and/or smell, consistent with the more extensive systemic COVID-19 effects. → https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/new-report-covid-more-severe-longer-lasting-other-respiratory-diseases20:30
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BrainstormNew from Il Sole 24 Ore: (translated) Health: Pandemic and lockdown have "aged" kids' brains more quickly → https://www.ilsole24ore.com/art/pandemia-e-lockdown-hanno-invecchiato-piu-fretta-cervello-ragazzi-AFStvgoD21:46
BrainstormNew from CIDRAP: Cancer diagnoses lagged into year 2 of pandemic: Early-stage diagnoses especially were lagging for lung and cervical cancers. → https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/cancer-diagnoses-lagged-year-2-pandemic22:49
BrainstormNew from r/Science: science: Covid lockdowns prematurely aged girls’ brains more than boys’, study finds. MRI scans found girls’ brains appeared 4.2 years older than expected after lockdowns, compared with 1.4 years for boys. → https://old.reddit.com/r/science/comments/1fczvkt/covid_lockdowns_prematurely_aged_girls_brains/23:10
BrainstormNew from Marc Veldhoen on Mastodon: (news): Also in the host virion selection continues. The host is immunocompromised but makes antibodies, which results in selection pressure to escape neutralising antibodies (Yes, Jan Bruut). → https://mastodon.online/@marc_veld/11310971225089160423:32

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