libera/##covid-19/ Wednesday, 2025-02-26

BrainstormNew from Politico: Elections: Why the 2025 vote risks turning eastern Germans' sense of isolation into a self-fulfilling prophecy. → https://www.politico.eu/article/germany-election-rekindles-old-divisions/04:05
BrainstormNew from Politico: Big EU countries push expanded carbon border tax to help repay Covid debt: France, Italy and Poland support the move, but others fear it might prompt Donald Trump to retaliate in anger. → https://www.politico.eu/article/big-eu-countries-push-expanded-carbon-border-tax-to-help-repay-covid-debt/04:44
BrainstormNew from NPR Science: How Jocelyn Bell once made a discovery that changed the field of astronomy: In 1967 Jocelyn Bell Burnell made a discovery that revolutionized the field of astronomy. She detected the radio signals emitted by certain dying stars called pulsars. This encore episode: [... want %more?] → https://www.npr.org/2025/02/26/1233894764/radio-astronomy-pulsar-discovery-space09:13
BrainstormNew from Marc Veldhoen on Mastodon: (news): 3) "living the SARS-COV-2"?? Psychodelic babble. → https://mastodon.online/@marc_veld/11406942612997117910:22
BrainstormNew from StatNews: Opinion: RFK Jr.’s dangerous misuse of ‘informed consent’ on vaccines: Giving people an uncontextualized list of possible vaccine side effects is not the kind of "informed consent" worth promoting. → https://www.statnews.com/2025/02/26/rfk-jr-vaccines-informed-consent-cdc-messaging-vaccinations/10:42
BrainstormNew from PubMed: Uptake, scale up, integration of caccine, immunization, and health supply chain management technologies and innovation into policy: experience from Tanzania: CONCLUSION: The value of technologies and innovations for improving VIHSCM is highly recognized for facilitating high-quality, effective, efficient, and [... want %more?] → https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40001103/11:12
BrainstormNew from PubMed: The Association of VDR/FokI Gene Polymorphism and Protein Expression With Histopathological Alterations in Patients With Thyroid Colloid Nodule: Objective: Colloid nodules are common and benign thyroid lesions that usually progress slowly and are asymptomatic. It requires follow-up because untreated colloid nodules [... want %more?] → https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40008182/12:30
BrainstormNew from EMA: What's new: (news): Human medicines European public assessment report (EPAR): MenQuadfi, meningococcal group A, C, W-135 and Y conjugate vaccine, Date of authorisation: 18/11/2020, Revision: 19, Status: Authorised → https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/medicines/human/EPAR/menquadfi13:39
BrainstormNew from EMA: What's new: (news): Human medicines European public assessment report (EPAR): ProQuad, measles, mumps, rubella and varicella vaccine (live), Date of authorisation: 05/04/2006, Revision: 33, Status: Authorised → https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/medicines/human/EPAR/proquad13:59
BrainstormNew from BMJ: NHS chief Amanda Pritchard announces surprise resignation: NHS England’s chief executive, Amanda Pritchard, has announced that she is to step down at the end of next month after three and a half years in the post.The surprise announcement on 25 February followed recent strong criticism by two high profile [... want %more?] → http://www.bmj.com/content/388/bmj.r399.short16:48
BrainstormNew from Marc Veldhoen on Mastodon: (news): SARS-CoV-2 and humans are now well-acquainted, although we will unlikely become good friends. The room for large improvements seems more limited, it will now be smaller ones, largely concentrating on avoiding some neutralising antibodies. This may make it seem there are fewer [... want %more?] → https://mastodon.online/@marc_veld/11407105525343818517:18
BrainstormNew from BMJ Open: Healthcare professionals attitudes towards digital health interventions and perspectives on digital health inequalities in cardiometabolic care: a qualitative study: Background The ue of digital health interventions (DHIs) for the management of cardiometabolic diseases has increased but may exacerbate [... want %more?] → http://bmjopen.bmj.com/cgi/content/short/15/2/e09101818:08
BrainstormNew from CIDRAP: (news): New data: Early fears that COVID raises risk of sudden cardiac events in athletes unfounded → https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/new-data-early-fears-covid-raises-risk-sudden-cardiac-events-athletes-unfounded18:18
BrainstormNew from Marc Veldhoen on Mastodon: (news): SARS-CoV-2 and humans are now well-acquainted, although we will unlikely become good friends. The room for large improvements seems more limited, it will now be smaller ones, largely concentrating on avoiding some neutralising antibodies. This may make it seem there are fewer [... want %more?] → https://mastodon.online/@marc_veld/11407135396784141218:28
BrainstormNew from MedPageToday: Propranolol Can Reduce Sedative Use in Ventilated ICU Patients: (MedPage Today) -- ORLANDO  --  Enteral propranolol eased the need for sedatives in critically ill patients on mechanical ventilation, a randomized trial conducted during the pandemic found.In patients receiving protocol-titrated [... want %more?] → https://www.medpagetoday.com/meetingcoverage/sccm/11438420:17
BrainstormNew from r/Science: science: Social media influencers are ‘fearmongering’ to promote health tests with limited evidence, study finds. Researchers warn of harms of overdiagnosis for generally healthy people as well as the cost of tests themselves. → https://old.reddit.com/r/science/comments/1iywdc3/social_media_influencers_are_fearmongering_to/20:56
BrainstormNew from Contagion Live: Measles: The Canary in the Coal Mine for Childhood Vaccine Decline: Paul Offit, MD, says measles outbreaks are the first sign that childhood vaccination rates are starting to decline. He offers insights on the disease’s clinical presentation, [... want %more?] → https://www.contagionlive.com/view/measles-the-canary-in-the-coal-mine-for-childhood-vaccine-decline21:45
BrainstormNew from CIDRAP: Imaging shows significant lung injury in kids with long COVID: In participants with long COVID, greater lung perfusion correlated with increased chronic fatigue severity. → https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/imaging-shows-significant-lung-injury-kids-long-covid22:24
BrainstormNew from Reddit (test): My partner doesn't want a baby with me because I got the covid vax: My partner doesn't want to have a baby with me because I got the covid vaccine ( when the roll pit first happened years ago) He seems to think that its going to change our [... want %more?] → https://old.reddit.com/r/COVID19_Pandemic/comments/1iyzgiq/my_partner_doesnt_want_a_baby_with_me_because_i/23:13

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