libera/##covid-19/ Monday, 2025-03-24

BrainstormNew from Nature Vaccines: Hongjian Li et al.: Intranasal prime-boost RNA vaccination elicits potent T cell response for lung cancer therapy → https://www.nature.com/articles/s41392-025-02191-102:03
BrainstormNew from NPR Science: What the COVID-19 pandemic tells us about how viruses evolve: Early in the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, scientists predicted the SARS-CoV-2 virus would mutate slowly . They were wrong. Hundreds of thousands of viral mutations and multiple seasonal waves [... want %more?] → https://www.npr.org/2025/03/24/1240552684/covid-19-virus-evolve-immune-system-mutations08:11
BrainstormNew from StatNews: First Opinion: Opinion: Five years ago, early career researchers needed help to survive the pandemic. Now they need it again → https://www.statnews.com/2025/03/24/early-career-researchers-medicine-nih-grants-pipeline/09:40
BrainstormNew from PubMed: Primitive reflexes in infants with cerebral palsy due to Congenital Zika Syndrome and its relationship with other motor features: CONCLUSION: Infants with CP due to CZS present severe motor abnormalities. Lower motor development age is associated with the persistence of more than 5 primitive reflexes, abnormal [... want %more?] → https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40123661/11:30
BrainstormNew from Marc Veldhoen on Mastodon: (news): The best advice is to have a healthy lifestyle and diet. Consult your physician if there are concerns. Vaccinate against the pathogens we have vaccines for: the safest way to select, mature and save pathogen-specific B (antibodies) and T (killing and orchestrating) cells, [... want %more?] → https://mastodon.online/@marc_veld/11421695891549884411:40
BrainstormNew from StatNews: The closest hospital vs. the one people actually deliver at: In today's Morning Rounds newsletter, proposed cuts to cancer research under the Trump administration, a fake CDC page with anti-vaccine messaging, and more. → https://www.statnews.com/2025/03/24/cancer-research-cdc-fentanyl-hospitals-childbirth-morning-rounds-health-news/14:20
ublxmove over PCR testing: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-58173-y14:57
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Brainstormublx: From www.nature.com: Whole-body visualization of SARS-CoV-2 biodistribution in vivo by immunoPET imaging in non-human primates | Nature Communications14:57
ublx> We demonstrate in a COVID-19 non-human primate model that a single injection of radiolabeled COVA1-27-DFO human monoclonal antibody targeting a preserved epitope of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein allows longitudinal tracking of the virus by positron emission tomography with computed tomography.14:57
BrainstormNew from BMJ: Anne Bayley: surgical oncologist who recognised the spread of AIDS in Zambia among heterosexual patients: bmj;388/mar24_9/r574/FAF1faIn 1983 surgeons across East Africa began to compare notes about a new disease, known colloquially as “slim,” which was prevalent across the region. At the time, Anne Bayley was [... want %more?] → http://www.bmj.com/content/388/bmj.r574.short15:41
BrainstormNew from MedPageToday: Astigmatism Increased in Kids After the COVID Pandemic: (MedPage Today) -- The prevalence and severity of refractive and corneal astigmatisms increased among children after the COVID-19 pandemic, a population-based cross-sectional study from Hong Kong showed.In a cohort of 21,655 [... want %more?] → https://www.medpagetoday.com/ophthalmology/generalophthalmology/11478616:11
BrainstormNew from Marc Veldhoen on Mastodon: (news): Yes, the sperm count and health bounces back, many studies show that, also for SARS-CoV-2: https://www. nature.com/articles/s41598-024 -58797-y → https://mastodon.online/@marc_veld/11421866253069210118:51
xxsad news about the sperm count19:17
xxalso what's up with that broken link?19:17
xxLjL: ^19:18
LjLhmm19:19
LjLit's kind of an upstream problem though not entirely19:27
LjLthe RSS feed has https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nature.com/articles/s41598-024</span> in it19:27
LjLand my code just replaces html tags it doesn't care about with spaces19:27
LjLsometimes that results in the best-looking output...19:27
xxI see19:30
xxI thought it parses the actual mastodon message, where the link is fine19:31
xxbut yeah it does sound a fair bit like an upstream issue19:31
xxwho thought it would be a good idea to put html elements inside a link...19:32
BrainstormNew from CIDRAP: (news): COVID symptoms prolonged in adults, kids living on Arizona tribal land, data suggest → https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/covid-symptoms-prolonged-adults-kids-living-arizona-tribal-land-data-suggest19:40
BrainstormNew from CIDRAP: Study links social inequalities to long COVID: The study showed that lingering symptoms could not be explained by pre-existing health conditions, but instead linked to social disadvantages. → https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/study-links-social-inequalities-long-covid21:08
BrainstormNew from ProPublica: NIH Ends Future Funding to Study the Health Effects of Climate Change: by Annie Waldman and Sharon Lerner ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. The National Institutes of [... want %more?] → https://www.propublica.org/article/nih-funding-climate-change-public-health21:28

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