libera/##covid-19/ Wednesday, 2025-04-09

BrainstormNew from The Lancet (Online): [Comment] Measles: the urgent need for global immunisation and preparedness: Since the beginning of 2025, the USA has reported a rise in the number of measles cases, with 607 confirmed infections across multiple states, as of April 3, 2025.1 Notably, 97% of [... want %more?] → https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(25)00675-0/fulltext00:37
BrainstormNew from BMJ Open: Near-infrared spectroscopy to monitor cerebral and renal oxygen saturation during cardiopulmonary bypass surgery for paediatric congenital heart disease: study protocol for a prospective observational cohort trial: Background Current indicators for monitoring intraoperative organ function remain [... want %more?] → http://bmjopen.bmj.com/cgi/content/short/15/4/e09745906:45
BrainstormNew from Emma Hodcroft on Mastodon: (news): It's beyond ridiculous that one of TWO BSL4 (highest security) labs in the USA & World Reference Centre for Emerging Viruses and Arboviruses has had funding cut by Trump & DOGE because it had a COVID component. → https://mstdn.science/@firefoxx66/11430701346686228310:18
BrainstormNew from BMJ: The assault on US science: a deep dive with Ashish Jha: BiographyAshish Jha is dean of the Brown University School of Public Health and previously professor of global health at Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health.Jha received his MD from Harvard Medical School and then trained in internal medicine at the [... want %more?] → http://www.bmj.com/content/389/bmj.r711.short12:38
BrainstormNew from BMJ: Shingles vaccine may help cut dementia risk, study suggests: Vaccination for shingles could be linked to a reduction in the risk of developing dementia, a study published in Nature has reported.1Researchers at Stanford University in California analysed cases of dementia in Wales, based on the health records of [... want %more?] → http://www.bmj.com/content/389/bmj.r722.short13:26
BrainstormNew from EMA: What's new: (news): Human medicines European public assessment report (EPAR): Ixchiq, Chikungunya vaccine (live), Date of authorisation: 28/06/2024, Revision: 1, Status: Authorised → https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/medicines/human/EPAR/ixchiq13:46
BrainstormNew from EMA: What's new: (news): Amended Biologics Working Party Vaccines Quality Operational Expert Group (BV-OEG) Influenza Meeting: EU recommendations for the seasonal influenza vaccine composition for the season 2025/2026 → https://www.ema.europa.eu/system/files/documents/regulatory-procedural-guideline/amended-eu-recommendation-vaccine-composition-2025-2026_en.pdf14:56
BrainstormNew from EMA: News and press releases: EU recommendations for 2025/2026 seasonal flu vaccine composition: This news announcement was updated on 9 April 2025 to include a recommendation for a strain for seasonal live attenuated influenza vaccines.EMA has issued recommendations [... want %more?] → https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/news/eu-recommendations-2025-2026-seasonal-flu-vaccine-composition15:15
BrainstormNew from BMJ: Health inequalities: What can we learn from Manchester’s approach?: Children born in 2008 in the UK have not yet hit their 18th birthday but have already lived through a global financial crisis, a period of austerity, a pandemic, and now a cost-of-living crisis. Inequality has widened in that time, and local [... want %more?] → http://www.bmj.com/content/389/bmj.r727.short16:35
BrainstormNew from r/Science: science: Human-caused pollution may be concealing the true extent of climate warming, according to a new study. The impact of fine aerosol particles on cloud properties appears to be cooling the planet more than previously estimated — effectively [... want %more?] → https://old.reddit.com/r/science/comments/1jv7uum/humancaused_pollution_may_be_concealing_the_true/17:34
BrainstormNew from Marc Veldhoen on Mastodon: (news): It has been good weather and the Influenza A epidemic has come to an end. The virus will be fully back at the end of 2025 or beginning of 2026, although it will keep circulating at low levels. → https://mastodon.online/@marc_veld/11430900855080933118:52
LjL%title https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cedyylj1v32o20:29
BrainstormLjL: From www.bbc.com: Trump threatens to end pharmaceuticals tariff exemption20:29
BrainstormNew from MedPageToday: We Need a Plan B for Epidemic Preparedness -- Now: (MedPage Today) -- In the event of a serious epidemic, emanating from H5N1 bird flu or any other contagious disease, the usual playbook  --  surveillance, testing, social distancing, quarantine, isolation, treatment, and vaccination  --  is likely... → https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/second-opinions/11503821:08
BrainstormNew from CIDRAP: (news): Studies: 1 in 7 US working-age adults report long COVID, with heaviest burden on the poor → https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/studies-1-7-us-working-age-adults-report-long-covid-heaviest-burden-poor21:38
BrainstormNew from Contagion Live: Sweeping Public Health Changes Creates US and Global Turmoil: With the Trump Administration’s plans to cease funding for Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance as well as to reduce HHS personnel, public health both internationally and domestically, are going to be [... want %more?] → https://www.contagionlive.com/view/sweeping-public-health-changes-creates-us-and-global-turmoil22:17
BrainstormNew from r/COVID19: COVID19: Host cell entry and neutralisation sensitivity of the emerging SARS-CoV-2 variant LP.8.1 → https://old.reddit.com/r/COVID19/comments/1jvgxvb/host_cell_entry_and_neutralisation_sensitivity_of/23:16

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