libera/##covid-19/ Monday, 2025-01-20

BrainstormNew from r/Science: science: A new study shows that dogs can detect COVID-19 in sweat with 67–87% accuracy and up to 92% reliability. They work best within specific viral levels. → https://old.reddit.com/r/science/comments/1i5jij8/a_new_study_shows_that_dogs_can_detect_covid19_in/07:05
BrainstormNew from ECDC: Weekly respiratory virus update, week 2, January 2025: At the EU/EEA level, influenza activity continues to increase while RSV activity is decreasing. Vaccination campaigns against respiratory pathogens continue in many EU/EEA countries and people who are [... want %more?] → https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/publications-data/weekly-respiratory-virus-update-week-2-january-202509:33
BrainstormNew from StatNews: First Opinion: Opinion: Former surgeon general: Vaccine-preventable diseases are still a major threat → https://www.statnews.com/2025/01/20/surgeon-general-warning-childhood-vaccinations-public-health-security/10:41
BrainstormNew from Reddit (test): Zero mention of the pandemic as a cause of higher disability spending: Disappointed to keep seeing this omission by the guardian who claim to be good on covering long covid. Obviously we are lucky to have a welfare state at all here and [... want %more?] → https://old.reddit.com/r/COVID19_Pandemic/comments/1i5nx4i/zero_mention_of_the_pandemic_as_a_cause_of_higher/12:38
BrainstormNew from StatNews: Biden pardons Fauci to preempt possible charges when Trump takes office: President Biden's pardon protects Anthony Fauci, a long-time target of MAGA critics, from charges related to the contentious debate over origins of Covid or other issues. → https://www.statnews.com/2025/01/20/anthony-fauci-biden-preemptive-pardon-covid-pandemic-targeted-by-maga/13:57
BrainstormNew from Marc Veldhoen on Mastodon: (news): The issue is that the transgene can integrate anywhere, in multiple copies, and expression of hACE2 is driven by K18, meaning hACE2 protein is expressed in all cells. This is not physiological and makes animals highly, and non-physiologically, susceptible to SARS-CoV-2, as the [... want %more?] → https://mastodon.online/@marc_veld/11386126292470387116:06
BrainstormNew from r/COVID19: COVID19: An evolutionary theory on virus mutation in COVID-19 → https://old.reddit.com/r/COVID19/comments/1i5sdu9/an_evolutionary_theory_on_virus_mutation_in/16:17
BrainstormNew from EMA: What's new: (news): Human medicines European public assessment report (EPAR): Spikevax (previously COVID-19 Vaccine Moderna), COVID-19 mRNA vaccine, Date of authorisation: 06/01/2021, Revision: 50, Status: Authorised → https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/medicines/human/EPAR/spikevax17:26
BrainstormNew from Contagion Live: Study Affirms Effectiveness of Vaccination "Ring" Around Ebola: Promptly vaccinating the "ring" of contacts and contacts-of-contacts along with standard infection control measures interrupted Ebola transmission in the DRC. → https://www.contagionlive.com/view/study-affirms-effectiveness-of-vaccination-ring-around-ebola17:45
BrainstormNew from Marc Veldhoen on Mastodon: (news): As expected, when Omicron arrived, more people in the unvaccinated/uninfected group were infected (56%), either vaccinated or infected were similar(~40%), while hybrid immunity provided the best protection (18.6%). There is no indication of symptoms or disease severity. → https://mastodon.online/@marc_veld/11386200437512180219:13
BrainstormNew from r/COVID19: COVID19: Prediction on Emergence of Sars-Cov-2 Based on Evolutionary Theory of Virus Mutation → https://old.reddit.com/r/COVID19/comments/1i5ygtf/prediction_on_emergence_of_sarscov2_based_on/20:30
BrainstormNew from Virology.ws: Trial By Error: Interview with Betsy Ladyzhets and Miles Griffis, Founders/Editors of The Sick Times: By David Tuller, DrPH In November, 2023, journalists Betsy Ladyzhets and Miles Griffis launched The Sick Times, a [... want %more?] → https://virology.ws/2025/01/20/trial-by-error-interview-with-betsy-ladyzhets-and-miles-griffis-founders-editors-of-the-sick-times/21:00
BrainstormNew from Retraction Watch: More than three decades after misconduct ruling, researcher’s IQ test paper is retracted: A psychology journal has retracted an article on IQ tests nearly 50 years after publication — and more than 35 years after an investigation found the lead author had [... want %more?] → https://retractionwatch.com/2025/01/20/stephen-breuning-nimh-misconduct-retraction/21:09
BrainstormNew from MedPageToday: What Role Should Genomic Classifier Testing Play in Prostate Cancer?: (MedPage Today) -- Genomic classifier (GC) tests do not appear to consistently influence risk classification or treatment decisions for patients with newly diagnosed prostate cancer considering first-line [... want %more?] → https://www.medpagetoday.com/hematologyoncology/prostatecancer/11384423:05

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