libera/##covid-19/ Thursday, 2025-02-20

BrainstormNew from Reddit (test): bird flu goggles: Do you guys have goggles recommendation for bird flu? I remember seeing one post on tw about 3m goggles, do you know anything? Thanks! → https://old.reddit.com/r/COVID19_Pandemic/comments/1itti17/bird_flu_goggles/09:27
BrainstormNew from ProPublica: Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared.: by Lizzie Presser , Andrea Suozzo , Sophie Chou and Kavitha Surana ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. [... want %more?] → https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-abortion-ban-sepsis-maternal-mortality-analysis11:25
BrainstormNew from PubMed: VaxBot-HPV: a GPT-based chatbot for answering HPV vaccine-related questions: CONCLUSIONS: This study underscores the importance of leveraging large language models and fine-tuning techniques in the development of chatbots for healthcare applications, with implications for improving medical education and public [... want %more?] → https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39975811/12:28
BrainstormNew from Marc Veldhoen on Mastodon: (news): A small fraction of the population reports a chronic debilitating condition after (COVID-19) vaccination (+/- infection). This exploratory cross-sectional study involving 42 post-vaccine syndrom (PVS) subjects and 22 healthy controls. Some modest differences were found. → https://mastodon.online/@marc_veld/11403645433916762514:36
BrainstormNew from r/Coronavirus: Coronavirus: Long-term outcomes of SARS-CoV-2 variants and other respiratory infections: evidence from the Virus Watch prospective cohort in England → https://old.reddit.com/r/Coronavirus/comments/1iu1ne8/longterm_outcomes_of_sarscov2_variants_and_other/16:55
BrainstormNew from Contagion Live: Paxlovid Does Not Significantly Reduce COVID-19 Hospitalization, Mortality in Vaccinated Older Adults: In a novel natural experiment associated with age and the antiviral, investigators were able to see the effects [... want %more?] → https://www.contagionlive.com/view/paxlovid-does-not-significantly-reduce-covid-19-hospitalization-mortality-in-vaccinated-older-adults17:45
BrainstormNew from StatNews: Exclusive: Meeting of key CDC vaccine advisory panel, under scrutiny by RFK Jr., is postponed → https://www.statnews.com/2025/02/20/acip-cdc-vaccine-meeting-postponed/18:05
BrainstormNew from MedPageToday: Trump Plans to Impose Tariffs on Pharmaceuticals. Here's What to Know.: (MedPage Today) -- Medical professionals in the U.S. and worldwide came to understand the global nature of medical supply chains during the COVID-19 pandemic. Shortages of personal protective equipment (PPE), SARS-CoV-2 [... want %more?] → https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/second-opinions/11429419:24
BrainstormNew from The Atlantic: The Axe Hanging Over America’s Disease Detectives: Americans have plenty to worry about these days when it comes to infectious-disease outbreaks. This is the worst flu season in 15 years, there’s a serious measles outbreak roiling Texas, and the [... want %more?] → https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2025/02/epidemic-intelligence-service-doge-layoffs/681771/20:13
BrainstormNew from Reddit (test): Question on Vaccine: Hello lovely people! I have a question about the timeline on vaccines and I wasn’t sure where else to ask this where it’ll be taken seriously. I have a conference I’m flying to in March and while I always mask, I’m wondering if I should get [... want %more?] → https://old.reddit.com/r/COVID19_Pandemic/comments/1iu6ost/question_on_vaccine/20:23
BrainstormNew from Contagion Live: High Uptake for RSV Vaccine and Nirsevimab Among Pregnant Women, Infants: A new study published in JAMA Network Open points out that immunization also occurred in individuals who did not receive routine prenatal or infant vaccines. → https://www.contagionlive.com/view/high-uptake-for-rsv-vaccine-and-nirsevimab-among-pregnant-women-infants21:41
BrainstormNew from MedPageToday: ACIP Meeting Postponed Days After RFK Jr. Took Over as HHS Chief: (MedPage Today) -- A panel of experts that advises the CDC on vaccine policy will not meet as previously scheduled next week.The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) was slated to meet in Atlanta from Feb. [... want %more?] → https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/vaccines/11430322:10
BrainstormNew from StatNews: Health: HHS orders CDC to halt some vaccine ads, saying RFK Jr. wants message focused on ‘informed consent’ → https://www.statnews.com/2025/02/20/cdc-vaccine-promotions-rfk-jr-informed-consent/22:59

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