libera/##covid-19/ Friday, 2025-04-11

BrainstormNew from The Lancet (Online): [Comment] Accelerating vaccine development in Africa: lessons from HIV research: Africa bears a disproportionate infectious disease burden, with HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria posing ongoing threats alongside recurrent outbreaks of mpox, Ebola virus disease, [... want %more?] → https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(25)00564-1/fulltext00:33
BrainstormNew from r/Science: science: U.S. physician burnout rates drop yet remain worryingly high, Stanford Medicine-led study finds. Doctors felt less occupational distress in 2023-2024 than they did during the COVID-19 pandemic, but nearly half said they experienced at least one symptom [... want %more?] → https://old.reddit.com/r/science/comments/1jwbnbf/us_physician_burnout_rates_drop_yet_remain/01:40
BrainstormNew from BMJ Open: Twenty-year trend in comorbidity score among adults aged 50-85 years in Lombardy, Italy: Age-Cohort-Period analysis and future trends: Objectives To assess the effects of age, birth cohort, and period on comorbidity rates as well as project their future trends over the next 25 years. Design [... want %more?] → http://bmjopen.bmj.com/cgi/content/short/15/4/e09738504:37
BrainstormNew from Science-Based Medicine: Science Based Satire:  Falling Vaccine Coverage Over The Years Is A Problem That Likely Increased Due To The Failed Covid-19 Policies That Jonathan Howard Championed.: If RFK Jr. is to blame for measles outbreaks and deaths, then I would be responsible for saying he would be a net positive for [... want %more?] → https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/pathetic/09:16
BrainstormNew from EMA: What's new: (news): Veterinary medicines European public assessment report (EPAR): Nobilis Multriva Gm+REOm, avian infectious bursal disease,avian reovirus vaccine (inactivated), Status: Opinion → https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/medicines/veterinary/EPAR/nobilis-multriva-gmreom15:06
BrainstormNew from r/COVID19: COVID19: Brain hypoxia, neurocognitive impairment, and quality of life in people long-COVID-19 → https://old.reddit.com/r/COVID19/comments/1jwpsb4/brain_hypoxia_neurocognitive_impairment_and/15:26
BrainstormNew from EMA: What's new: (news): COVID-19 vaccines: key facts → https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/human-regulatory-overview/public-health-threats/coronavirus-disease-covid-19/covid-19-medicines/covid-19-vaccines-key-facts15:36
BrainstormNew from ECDC: Weekly respiratory virus update, week 14, April 2025: Respiratory virus activity is decreasing overall but remains elevated in some EU/EEA countries affected by ongoing flu and/or RSV epidemics. Preventive measures, such as frequent handwashing, maintaining [... want %more?] → https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/publications-data/weekly-respiratory-virus-update-week-14-april-202515:56
BrainstormNew from StatNews: RFK Jr. has yet another theory about vaccines: In today's Morning Rounds newsletter, RFK Jr.'s latest theory about vaccines, how sweeping FDA layoffs could impact drug reviews, and more. → https://www.statnews.com/2025/04/11/rfk-jr-vaccines-fda-drug-reviews-hhs-usaid-health-news-morning-rounds/16:06
BrainstormNew from EMA: What's new: (news): Human medicines European public assessment report (EPAR): Abrysvo, Respiratory syncytial virus vaccine (bivalent, recombinant), Date of authorisation: 23/08/2023, Revision: 9, Status: Authorised → https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/medicines/human/EPAR/abrysvo17:24
peetaurRFK Jr.'s "latesty theory" ... "The idea that respiratory vaccines targeting only one portion of the pathogen don't work."    uh yeah that's not a new idea, and it's true but misworded. They work, and quickly don't due to it being trivial for it to mutate only one specific portion to escape immunity.17:31
peetaurand they can also work by targetting the most deadly part, and then hope such a mutation that escapes it is then less deadly ...not immune, but some benefit nonetheless17:35
BrainstormNew from Marc Veldhoen on Mastodon: (news): What to make of it? Most parameters were similar pre- and post-pandemic. As you would expect, some people scored a little higher, some a little lower. No differences were found comparing the infected and "non-infected" groups. → https://mastodon.online/@marc_veld/11432018344209708418:13
BrainstormNew from CIDRAP: Child, adult COVID survivors more likely to have heart disease, symptoms, data suggest: Relative to controls, children and adolescents who had COVID-19 were at significantly greater risk for cardiac conditions such as high blood pressure, [... want %more?] → https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/child-adult-covid-survivors-more-likely-have-heart-disease-symptoms-data-suggest20:28
BrainstormNew from The Atlantic: Trump’s Revenge on Public Health: If the United States learned any lesson from HIV, it should have been that negligence can be a death sentence. In the early 1980s, the virus’s ravages were treated as “something that happens over there, only to those [... want %more?] → https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2025/04/trump-hiv-public-health-revenge/682410/20:57

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