libera/##covid-19/ Thursday, 2024-10-17

BrainstormNew from MedPageToday: Lawmakers Pan DEA's Leaked Plans for Telehealth: (MedPage Today) -- Legislators who want to see an extension of COVID-era telemedicine flexibilities slammed a draft proposed rule from the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) that would curb telemedicine prescribing of controlled substances... → https://www.medpagetoday.com/practicemanagement/telehealth/11243100:23
BrainstormNew from The Lancet (Online): [Correspondence] Polio eradication: 25 years overdue, US$25 billion overrun: The Global Polio Eradication Initiative has lost its way in terms of polio eradication by focusing on eliminating the poliovirus with mass rounds of the oral poliovirus vaccine [... want %more?] → https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(24)01913-5/fulltext00:33
BrainstormNew from Marc Veldhoen on Mastodon: (news): SARS-CoV-2 is now a much-optimised virus adapted to infect humans. It will be "better" in infecting us, SC2 is intrinsically not less harmful. Rapid containment by our immune memory response ensures it does not disseminate and cause severe symptoms and disease. → https://mastodon.online/@marc_veld/11331950083275286300:43
BrainstormNew from BMJ Open: Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on initiation of antihypertensive drugs in Sweden: an interrupted time series study: Objectives Antihypertensives reduce the risk of myocardial infarction and stroke. Restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic limited access to healthcare, which may have had a negative [... want %more?] → http://bmjopen.bmj.com/cgi/content/short/14/10/e08220901:22
BrainstormNew from r/Science: science: Cat-borne parasite Toxoplasma gondii linked to increased anxiety risk, study finds - individuals with detectable antibodies to the parasite had a higher likelihood of being diagnosed with anxiety, while also noting a reduced risk of epilepsy among [... want %more?] → https://old.reddit.com/r/science/comments/1g5cx4r/catborne_parasite_toxoplasma_gondii_linked_to/01:52
BrainstormNew from r/Science: science: mRNA vaccines to be synthesized in less time with new technique: Novel phosphorylation reagent with a nitrobenzyl group serves as a hydrophobic purification tag, reducing side effects → https://old.reddit.com/r/science/comments/1g5grvd/mrna_vaccines_to_be_synthesized_in_less_time_with/05:06
BrainstormNew from Reddit (test): COVID19_Pandemic: PFIZER Admits SARS-COV-2 Causes Viral Persistence → https://old.reddit.com/r/COVID19_Pandemic/comments/1g5jyvq/pfizer_admits_sarscov2_causes_viral_persistence/08:59
BrainstormNew from EMA: What's new: (news): Veterinary medicines European public assessment report (EPAR): Nobilis IB 4-91, live attenuated vaccine against avian infectious bronchitis, Status: Authorised → https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/medicines/veterinary/EPAR/nobilis-ib-4-9109:49
BrainstormNew from r/COVID19: COVID19: Systematic review and meta analysis of cross immunity and the smokers paradox in COVID19 → https://old.reddit.com/r/COVID19/comments/1g5n05l/systematic_review_and_meta_analysis_of_cross/11:40
BrainstormNew from Marc Veldhoen on Mastodon: long: These autoantibodies are becoming a prime target and explanation for the diverse symptoms related to long-term post-infection effects, collectively called # Long COVID. Of note, they may be (temporarily) re-triggered upon re-infection or vaccination. That would be important. → https://mastodon.online/@marc_veld/11332291068152744715:10
BrainstormNew from StatNews: Pharma: STAT+: Pharmalittle: We’re reading about doctors powering telehealth GLP-1 scripts, an FDA hold on a Novavax shot, and more → https://www.statnews.com/pharmalot/2024/10/17/novavax-flu-covid-vaccine-smoking-fda-telehealth-weight-obesity-moderna-northwestern-novartis-novo-lilly-roche-mckinsey-opioids/15:20
BrainstormNew from r/COVID19: COVID19: Coronavirus M protein promotes mitophagy over virophagy by recruiting PDPK1 to phosphorylate SQSTM1 at T138 → https://old.reddit.com/r/COVID19/comments/1g5rl2c/coronavirus_m_protein_promotes_mitophagy_over/16:09
BrainstormNew from EMA: What's new: (news): IgG antibodies to Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV) Viral Capsid Antigen (VCA) - Notified body 0123 - 16/02/2022 - View in the context of the performance evaluation consultation procedure (PECP) → https://www.ema.europa.eu/system/files/documents/other/pecp-ivd-2021-0000014-view_en.pdf16:29
BrainstormNew from MedPageToday: Kids' Neurodevelopment Appears Unharmed by Maternal COVID Infection: (MedPage Today) -- Exposure to maternal COVID-19 was not associated with abnormal neurodevelopmental screening results through 24 months' postpartum, according to a cohort study in JAMA Network Open.In this video [... want %more?] → https://www.medpagetoday.com/pediatrics/generalpediatrics/11243717:29
BrainstormNew from Marc Veldhoen on Mastodon: (news): T cells cannot change their receptor, as B cells (antibodies) can. Their job is not to neutralise the virus and they can be raised against more structural proteins. There change much less, and variants do not undergo strong selection pressure to reduce T cell recognition. → https://mastodon.online/@marc_veld/11332369525483423318:28
BrainstormNew from Marc Veldhoen on Mastodon: (news): Using mice, the authors show that T cells, especially Trm cells, protect against different variants of SARS-CoV-2, even though the variant may circumvent antibody neutralisation. This does not protect against infection, but does against disease! → https://mastodon.online/@marc_veld/11332369679192779418:38
BrainstormNew from Contagion Live: Analyzing Household Transmission of COVID-19: At ID Week 2024, an investigator, Amanda M. Casto, MD, PhD, discusses her work on the CASCADIA study, which examined infection rates in this setting, and how it challenged assumptions that there is likely a singular carrier [... want %more?] → https://www.contagionlive.com/view/analyzing-household-transmission-of-covid-1921:03
BrainstormNew from Marc Veldhoen on Mastodon: (news): You cannot detox from a vaccine, it is also not necessary! → https://mastodon.online/@marc_veld/11332462772808043222:32
BrainstormNew from Ars Technica: Health: US vaccinations fall again as more parents refuse lifesaving shots for kids → https://arstechnica.com/health/2024/10/us-vaccinations-fall-again-as-more-parents-refuse-lifesaving-shots-for-kids/23:02

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