libera/##covid-19/ Thursday, 2025-04-24

BrainstormNew from r/Science: science: New study provides evidence of the potential benefits of herpes zoster vaccination for dementia that is more likely to be causal than that of more commonly conducted correlational studies. Herpes zoster vaccination significantly decreased the [... want %more?] → https://old.reddit.com/r/science/comments/1k6bfl7/new_study_provides_evidence_of_the_potential/00:13
BrainstormNew from Reddit (test): COVID19_Pandemic: RFK Jr again claims autism is ‘worse’ than Covid, which he has emphasized killed ‘old people’ → https://old.reddit.com/r/COVID19_Pandemic/comments/1k6bxk0/rfk_jr_again_claims_autism_is_worse_than_covid/00:23
BrainstormNew from BMJ Open: Replicating a COVID-19 study in a national England database to assess the generalisability of research with regional electronic health record data: Objectives To assess the degree to which we can replicate a study between a regional and a national database of electronic health record data in the UK. [... want %more?] → http://bmjopen.bmj.com/cgi/content/short/15/4/e09308002:29
BrainstormNew from Marc Veldhoen on Mastodon: (news): And, of course, the dangerous and very wrong disinformation about vaccines in general and mRNA vaccines especially? Just some thoughts a real scientist would have thought about! → https://mastodon.online/@marc_veld/11439202580867333010:42
BrainstormNew from PubMed: Jaime A Yáñez: Fear and concern about the outbreak of a world war: validation of an instrument in eight Latin American countries (Third World War scale) → https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40270020/12:30
BrainstormNew from BioNTech: BioNTech to Present Clinical and Preclinical Data Across mRNA and Next-Generation Immuno-Oncology Priority Programs at AACR 2025: MAINZ, Germany, April 24, 2025  --  BioNTech SE  (Nasdaq: BNTX, “BioNTech” or “the [... want %more?] → https://investors.biontech.de/news-releases/news-release-details/biontech-present-clinical-and-preclinical-data-across-mrna-and12:49
BrainstormNew from Marc Veldhoen on Mastodon: (news): As with malaria, there is no vaccine against fascism either. Only education, freedom, justice and empathy can protect us → https://mastodon.online/@marc_veld/11439261996189763513:18
BrainstormNew from Contagion Live: Mathematical Model Highlights Challenges in Combating Hepatitis B in Nigeria: While 254 million affected globally with HBV, the disease remains endemic in Nigeria due to imperfect vaccination efficacy and limited coverage → https://www.contagionlive.com/view/mathematical-model-highlights-challenges-in-combating-hepatitis-b-in-nigeria14:46
BrainstormNew from Marc Veldhoen on Mastodon: (news): Here a subject with single chronic infection lasting more than 500 days from the first wave of the pandemic was identified. Within a cohort of immunocompromised patients, the mutations in SARS-CoV-2 were monitored. → https://mastodon.online/@marc_veld/11439303746436786114:56
BrainstormNew from r/Coronavirus: Coronavirus: ‘The pandemic broke us’: Mass. superintendents see long road to recovery for students → https://old.reddit.com/r/Coronavirus/comments/1k6s4e3/the_pandemic_broke_us_mass_superintendents_see/15:26
BrainstormNew from EMA: What's new: (news): Human medicines European public assessment report (EPAR): Prevenar 20 (previously Apexxnar), pneumococcal polysaccharide conjugate vaccine (20-valent, adsorbed), Date of authorisation: 14/02/2022, Revision: 11, Status: Authorised → https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/medicines/human/EPAR/prevenar-2016:05
BrainstormNew from EMA: What's new: (news): Human medicines European public assessment report (EPAR): Prevenar 13, pneumococcal polysaccharide conjugate vaccine (13-valent, adsorbed), Date of authorisation: 09/12/2009, Revision: 49, Status: Authorised → https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/medicines/human/EPAR/prevenar-1316:35
BrainstormNew from StatNews: Opinion: The U.S. needs an alternative organization to protect vaccine guidance from political interference: A former FDA commissioner and a former Institute of Medicine president are teaming up to create the Vaccine Integrity Project in case [... want %more?] → https://www.statnews.com/2025/04/24/vaccine-integrity-project-acip-cdc-fda-rfk-jr-trump-political-interference/17:05
BrainstormNew from StatNews: Public health leaders, distrustful of RFK Jr., stand up project to defend vaccines: Some key public health figures are taking an extraordinary step to try to shore up U.S. vaccination policy, feared to be under threat from health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. → https://www.statnews.com/2025/04/24/vaccine-integrity-project-cidrap-health-secretary-rfk-jr/17:15
BrainstormNew from r/Science: science: RFK JR doesn't like vaccination because he doesn't believe in germ theory → https://old.reddit.com/r/science/comments/1k6uvoq/rfk_jr_doesnt_like_vaccination_because_he_doesnt/17:34
BrainstormNew from r/Science: science: Modeling Reemergence of Vaccine-Eliminated Infectious Diseases Under Declining Vaccination in the US → https://old.reddit.com/r/science/comments/1k6v2sd/modeling_reemergence_of_vaccineeliminated/18:23
BrainstormNew from r/Science: science: Researchers at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus have uncovered a critical, previously under appreciated role for B cells in vaccine protection. Best known for producing antibodies, B cells also guide other immune cells, teaching them [... want %more?] → https://old.reddit.com/r/science/comments/1k6vk4y/researchers_at_the_university_of_colorado/18:33
BrainstormNew from Contagion Live: CIDRAP Launches its Vaccine Integrity Project: The University of Minnesota’s Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP) announced its initiative that will look to ensure reliable vaccine data and information is available to the public and medical community. → https://www.contagionlive.com/view/cidrap-launches-its-vaccine-integrity-project20:49
BrainstormNew from r/Science: science: Diseases such as measles, rubella and polio could become endemic to the US again if vaccine rates decline, according to researchers at Stanford Medicine. Even at current immunization rates, researchers predict that measles may become endemic [... want %more?] → https://old.reddit.com/r/science/comments/1k70nlb/diseases_such_as_measles_rubella_and_polio_could/21:28
BrainstormNew from Marc Veldhoen on Mastodon: (news): The first paper suffers from confounders (e.g. age), and methods (using antibodies to make claims about reawakening. → https://mastodon.online/@marc_veld/11439488955242938922:56

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