libera/##covid-19/ Thursday, 2025-05-29

BrainstormNew from Reddit (test): In Patients with Long COVID, Immune Cells Don’t Follow the Rules: • The team analyzed immune cells and hundreds of different immune molecules in the blood of 43 people with and without long COVID. → https://old.reddit.com/r/COVID19_Pandemic/comments/1kxyw4k/in_patients_with_long_covid_immune_cells_dont/04:10
BrainstormNew from BMJ: Medical news in brief: GPs help find infected blood victims, West Nile virus in UK, pandemic agreement, and other stories: Blood scandalGPs will help find infected patients in EnglandNew patients registering at general practices in England will be asked whether they had a blood transfusion before 1996, as part of [... want %more?] → http://www.bmj.com/content/389/bmj.r1057.short08:28
BrainstormNew from StatNews: Opinion: The U.S. medical system is overrun with ‘numerical epidemics’: “We are squandering trillions of dollars, often to the detriment of our patients, merely to push a number across some arbitrary line of what we call ‘normal.’ ” → https://www.statnews.com/2025/05/29/numerical-epidemics-high-blood-pressure-return-to-healing-excerpt/10:33
BrainstormNew from Marc Veldhoen on Mastodon: (news): NB.1.8.1 may spread a little easier and partially sidestep NEUTRALISING ANTIBODIES from prior infections or vaccination, but NOT other antibodies, it will activate memory B and T cells. → https://mastodon.online/@marc_veld/11459023771492638410:53
BrainstormNew from ProPublica: Nike Repeatedly Raised Concerns About Repression in Cambodia. It Expanded Its Factory Workforce There Anyway.: by Rob Davis ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for Dispatches , a newsletter that spotlights wrongdoing around the country, to [... want %more?] → https://www.propublica.org/article/nike-employment-cambodia-labor-rights11:51
BrainstormNew from BMJ: Drug treatments for mild or moderate covid-19: systematic review and network meta-analysis: AbstractObjectiveTo compare the effects of treatments for mild or moderate (that is, non-severe) coronavirus disease 2019 (covid-19).DesignSystematic review and network meta-analysis.Data sourcesCovid-19 Living [... want %more?] → http://www.bmj.com/content/389/bmj-2024-081165.short12:01
BrainstormNew from PubMed: Zheng-Ji Song: Diverse phenotypic manifestations of small intestinal mucosa in non-infectious common variable immunodeficiency bowel disease: A case report → https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40438712/12:29
BrainstormNew from The Atlantic: The Conversations Trump’s Doctors Should Be Having With Him: In contrast to his aging predecessor, President Trump appears robust and energetic. Yet, like Joe Biden, Donald Trump is an elderly man, and he will become the oldest sitting president in U.S. history by [... want %more?] → https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2025/05/trump-aging-medical-care/682962/14:34
BrainstormNew from StatNews: Pharmalot: STAT+: Pharmalittle: We’re reading about HHS canceling a Moderna contract, FDA rejecting a rare disease drug, and more → https://www.statnews.com/pharmalot/2025/05/29/novo-wegovy-ozempic-weight-diabetes-lilly-stealth-biotech-pharma-rare-disease-fda-moderna-vaccine-hhs-bird-flu-antibiotics-gonorrhea-alcon-eyes-pubmed-germany/14:44
BrainstormNew from MedPageToday: CDC Blindsided by RFK Jr.; Bird Flu in Farm Poultry; Double-Dipping Risks?: (MedPage Today) -- Note that some links may require registration or subscription.The CDC reportedly was blindsided by HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s announcement earlier this week ending COVID-19 [... want %more?] → https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/covid19vaccine/11579616:12
BrainstormNew from MedPageToday: Trump Admin Cancels $766M Moderna Contract to Fight Pandemic Flu, Including H5N1: (MedPage Today) -- The Trump administration has canceled $766 million awarded to drugmaker Moderna to develop a vaccine against potential pandemic influenza viruses, including the H5N1 bird flu.The [... want %more?] → https://www.medpagetoday.com/publichealthpolicy/washington-watch/11579917:20
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BrainstormNew from ProPublica: A Tennessee School Agreed to Pay $100,000 to Family of 11-Year-Old Student Arrested Under School Threats Law: by Aliyya Swaby , ProPublica, and Paige Pfleger , WPLN/Nashville Public Radio ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for [... want %more?] → https://www.propublica.org/article/tennessee-school-threats-law-lawsuit-settlement17:48
BrainstormNew from LitCovid: (news): The "crossover effect" of COVID-19 in pregnancy on the infant microbiome. → https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/research/coronavirus/publication/4043821318:26
BrainstormNew from StatNews: STAT+: RFK Jr.’s latest moves on vaccines: This is the web edition of D.C. Diagnosis, STAT’s twice-weekly newsletter about the politics and policy of health and medicine. → https://www.statnews.com/2025/05/29/rfk-jr-moderna-pandemic-influenza-vaccine-mrna-covid-shot-cdc-guidelines-pregnant-dc-diagnosis-newsletter/18:46
BrainstormNew from MedPageToday: Here's What to Know About NB.1.8.1, the COVID Variant Surging in Asia: (MedPage Today) -- A new COVID variant driving a surge of infections in China and other parts of Asia has been detected by U.S. airport screening programs, and experts say it may drive a summer wave in the U.S.NB.1.8.1 [... want %more?] → https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/covid19/11580621:12
BrainstormNew from StatNews: Moderna’s vaccine hit, the MAHA report, and an ASCO preview: On this week's podcast, STAT's Helen Branswell talks about BARDA cancelling its contract with Moderna and RFK Jr. taking an unprecedented move on Covid shots. → https://www.statnews.com/2025/05/29/modernas-vaccine-hit-the-maha-report-and-an-asco-preview/22:30
BrainstormNew from CIDRAP: Prior COVID vaccination produces immune response against new SARS-CoV-2 strains, study finds: Neutralizing antibodies tested 90 days after infection were greater in participants who had been vaccinated before their variant infections [... want %more?] → https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/prior-covid-vaccination-produces-immune-response-against-new-sars-cov-2-strains-study22:39

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