libera/##covid-19/ Thursday, 2024-12-19

BrainstormNew from The Lancet (Online): [Correspondence] The perils of RFK Junior's anti-vaccine leadership for public health: With global measles cases surging more than 20% in a year, the spectre of an anti-vaccine leader like Robert F Kennedy Junior at the helm of US health policy has alarmed [... want %more?] → https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(24)02603-5/fulltext00:38
BrainstormNew from r/Science: science: Almost all leading large language models or “chatbots” show signs of mild cognitive impairment in tests widely used to spot early signs of dementia, study finds: Findings challenge assumption that AI will soon replace human doctors → https://old.reddit.com/r/science/comments/1hhk281/almost_all_leading_large_language_models_or/05:27
BrainstormNew from Marc Veldhoen on Mastodon: (news): Did lockdowns have an effect? They were not very strict or long, if there was an effect, it seemed short-lived. Why? It could be changes in behaviours, more or less stress (from the pandemic?) etc. Reduced exposure to microbes seems very unlikely. → https://mastodon.online/@marc_veld/11367883496731333410:54
BrainstormNew from PubMed: Prioritizing vaccine introduction to China's National Immunization Program: a multi-criteria decision analysis: CONCLUSIONS: This study provides a transparent, comprehensive, and quantifiable vaccine value framework to aid decision-making for introducing new vaccines into China's NIP. According to the MCDA results, [... want %more?] → https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39695502/11:17
BrainstormNew from ProPublica: The Story of One Mississippi County Shows How Private Schools Are Exacerbating Segregation: by Jennifer Berry Hawes , data analysis by Nat Lash , with additional reporting by Mollie Simon ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. [... want %more?] → https://www.propublica.org/article/segregation-academies-public-schools-amite-county-mississippi12:27
BrainstormNew from PubMed: Hua Zhou: Pilot Trial of Hydroxychloroquine as Add-On Therapy in Patients With Membranous Nephropathy → https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39698370/12:42
BrainstormNew from r/Coronavirus: Coronavirus: U.S. life expectancy rose significantly last year, hitting highest level since pandemic → https://old.reddit.com/r/Coronavirus/comments/1hhsgsj/us_life_expectancy_rose_significantly_last_year/14:08
BrainstormNew from EMA: What's new: (news): Veterinary medicines European public assessment report (EPAR): Nobivac L4, Vaccine to prevent Leptospira infections in dogs, Status: Authorised → https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/medicines/veterinary/EPAR/nobivac-l414:56
BrainstormNew from Marc Veldhoen on Mastodon: (news): Although not impossible, influenza and SARS-CoV-2 waves at the same time are not the most likely scenario. Taking the speed of antibody waning into account, there may be enough hosts available from spring, after the influenza wave. → https://mastodon.online/@marc_veld/11368006889883360915:59
BrainstormNew from Contagion Live: COVID-19 Roundtable: Should Clinicians Consider Off Label COVID Therapies?: In this week's episode, the panel weighs in on treatments not specifically indicated for COVID-19 treatment, including metformin, and concerns around using [... want %more?] → https://www.contagionlive.com/view/covid-19-roundtable-when-should-clinicians-consider-off-label-covid-therapies-16:37
BrainstormNew from FDA Press Releases: FDA Updates “Healthy” Claim, Providing a Refreshed Tool for Consumers: FDA announced a final rule to update the definition of the nutrient content claim “healthy” marking an important step in the agency’s nutrition [... want %more?] → http://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-updates-healthy-claim-providing-refreshed-tool-consumers17:48
BrainstormNew from Reddit (test): COVID19_Pandemic: Mask mandates back at these Monmouth, Ocean hospitals, but it's not because of COVID → https://old.reddit.com/r/COVID19_Pandemic/comments/1hhx4fe/mask_mandates_back_at_these_monmouth_ocean/17:57
BrainstormNew from MedPageToday: U.S. Deaths Are Down and Life Expectancy Is Up, but Improvements Are Slowing: (MedPage Today) -- U.S. life expectancy jumped last year, and preliminary data suggest there may be another  --  much smaller  --  improvement this year.Death rates fell last year for almost all leading [... want %more?] → https://www.medpagetoday.com/publichealthpolicy/publichealth/11347618:38
BrainstormNew from StatNews: Telehealth hangs in balance as spending bill in question: In this edition STAT's Health Tech: Uncertainty over if expiring pandemic-era telehealth provisions would be extended, and more. → https://www.statnews.com/2024/12/19/telehealth-hangs-in-balance-as-spending-bill-in-question-health-tech/19:19
de-factohttps://x.com/CDCgov/status/186942393154471537819:42
BrainstormNew from Marc Veldhoen on Mastodon: (news): But when you are not a scientist but are blinded by activism, you lose all credibility by making non-scientific and known false posts and blame things directly on SARS-CoV-2. It is the identical tactic used by anti-vaxxers. → https://mastodon.online/@marc_veld/11368122674563389421:02
BrainstormNew from CIDRAP: Review of US vaccine injury reimbursement program shows less than 3% of claims eligible for compensation: About half of the claims were related to COVID vaccine, but the vast majority of money paid for claims—$6.5 million—was for [... want %more?] → https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/review-us-vaccine-injury-reimbursement-program-shows-less-3-claims-eligible-compensation21:33
de-facto%title https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2024/m1218-h5n1-flu.html22:39
Brainstormde-facto: From www.cdc.gov: CDC Confirms First Severe Case of H5N1 Bird Flu in the United States | CDC Newsroom22:39

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