libera/##covid-19/ Friday, 2021-04-02

BrainstormNew from r/WorldNews: worldnews: Portable test can diagnose COVID-19 in just 15 minutes and determine if it is a variant in 3 hours → https://is.gd/XHYiWs00:07
BrainstormNew from The Lancet (Online): [Correspondence] COVID-19 vaccines in high-risk ethnic groups: Black, Asian, and minority ethnic communities worldwide have a disproportionate risk of severe COVID-19. In the UK, as of May 19, 2020, 36% of critically ill patients with COVID-19 requiring intensive care were from Black, Asian, or minority ethnic groups.1 [... want %more?] → https://is.gd/qbSzAD00:38
BrainstormNew from Reddit (test): China_Flu: Why Did Media Label the Wuhan Lab Theory ‘Baseless’ and ‘Debunked’ When it is Neither of Those Things? → https://is.gd/QU9Wei02:00
BrainstormNew from FDA Press Releases: FDA: Coronavirus (COVID-19) Update: FDA Makes Two Revisions to Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine Emergency Use Authorization to Help Increase the Number of Vaccine Doses Available → https://is.gd/UPuMh102:31
najari[m]i heard that covid doesn't do what other viruses do where they absorb random dna from the environment. Is this true?02:48
BrainstormNew from Virological.org: Latest posts: Detection of a large cluster and multiple introductions of the P.1 SARS-CoV-2 Variant of Concern in Massachusetts: Background The P.1 lineage of SARS-CoV-2, recognized as a Variant of Concern (VoC) by the US CDC and WHO 1 , is characterized by 17 mutations including several known or suspected to have functional [... want %more?] → https://is.gd/XNwWD503:44
BrainstormNew from Politico: Africa: Business class and bureaucracy hell: Surviving global travel during coronavirus → https://is.gd/rhh50s04:15
BrainstormNew from The Indian Express: World: UK regulator found total of 30 cases of blood clot events after AstraZeneca vaccine use → https://is.gd/yBH84v04:57
BrainstormNew from The Indian Express: World: Kamala Harris applauds Vivek Murthy for working on COVID-19 → https://is.gd/rFhwBn05:08
BrainstormNew from The Indian Express (Health): Health: Is it safe to have sex after you take the COVID vaccine? Here’s what experts say → https://is.gd/tkuv5w05:49
BrainstormNew from Virology.ws: Trial By Error: More on that WSJ Opinion Piece; and Q-and-A with Author of this Week’s WSJ Rebuttal: By David Tuller, DrPH Last week, The Wall Street Journal published a passionate but clueless opinion piece from a psychiatric resident at McMaster University in Ontario, Canada. The author, Jeremy Devine, portrayed the entire [... want %more?] → https://is.gd/7sv4Fq06:41
BrainstormNew from The Indian Express: World: WHO: Europe’s vaccination programme is ‘unacceptably slow’ → https://is.gd/vg5rmO08:04
BrainstormNew from r/WorldNews: worldnews: Google rejects remote work trend, accelerates office reopening → https://is.gd/pfSWEF08:25
erredfwiptables is a script to configure a firewall08:27
BrainstormNew from The Indian Express (Health): Life-style: Christians mark Good Friday as holy sites gradually reopen → https://is.gd/jPUynq08:57
BrainstormNew from r/Coronavirus: Daily Discussion Thread | April 02, 2021: Please refer to our Wiki for more information on COVID-19 and our sub. You can find answers to frequently asked questions in our FAQ , where there is valuable information such as our: → https://is.gd/7M2Dr309:07
BrainstormNew from r/WorldNews: worldnews: Pfizer 91% effective in updated data, protective against South African variant → https://is.gd/1yowKH09:48
BrainstormNew from r/WorldNews: worldnews: China aims to vaccinate entire city in 5 days after outbreak → https://is.gd/oHfI0109:58
BrainstormNew from Medical Xpress: COVID overwhelms ICUs in Syrian capital: Inside the emergency room of a hospital of the Syrian capital, an elderly woman with COVID-19 waited for a bed at an intensive care unit packed with coronavirus patients. → https://is.gd/bUBB2l10:40
BrainstormNew from Medical Xpress: Israel's dilemma: Can the unvaccinated return to workplaces?: After spending much of the past year in lockdown, Tel Aviv makeup artist Artyom Kavnatsky was ready to get back to work. But when he showed up for a recent photo shoot, his employer turned him away. The reason? He had not been vaccinated against the coronavirus. → https://is.gd/RzEwRy11:11
BrainstormUpdates for India: +207276 cases (now 12.3 million), +889 deaths (now 163250) since a day ago — Maharashtra, India: +110645 cases (now 2.9 million), +476 deaths (now 54898) since a day ago — Peru: +28602 cases (now 1.6 million), +526 deaths (now 52161) since a day ago — Chhattisgarh, India: +12288 cases (now 353804), +73 deaths (now 4204) since a day ago11:18
BrainstormNew from The Indian Express (Health): Art and Culture: Kolkata-based gallery Experimenter presents ode to life in pandemic at Art Dubai → https://is.gd/l3qX6N11:22
stupidfox%cases Brazil11:26
Brainstormstupidfox: In Brazil, there have been 12.8 million confirmed cases (6.1% of the population) and 325559 deaths (2.5% of cases) as of 8 minutes ago. 28.6 million tests were performed (44.9% positive). Fatality can be broadly expected to lie between 0.3% (assuming prevalence as in tests) and less than 2.8% (considering only deaths and recoveries). See https://offloop.net/covid19/?default=Brazil for time series data.11:26
stupidfox%cases USA11:27
Brainstormstupidfox: In United States, there have been 30.8 million confirmed cases (9.4% of the population) and 559321 deaths (1.8% of cases) as of 10 minutes ago. 405.0 million tests were performed (7.6% positive). Fatality can be broadly expected to lie between 2.2% (assuming prevalence as in tests) and less than 2.3% (considering only deaths and recoveries). See https://offloop.net/covid19/?default=United%20States for time series data.11:27
BrainstormNew from r/WorldNews: worldnews: As WHO highlights COVID animal origins, China wildlife crackdown needs more teeth: experts: China and its neighbours must not only crack down on wildlife trade but also shut legal loopholes that allow disease-prone species to be farmed,... Shut down Pangolin trafficking. → https://is.gd/6AZ9tz12:35
BrainstormNew from r/WorldNews: worldnews: Covid: England adds Pakistan, Bangladesh, Kenya and Philippines to travel 'red list' → https://is.gd/o0wzY812:55
BrainstormNew from Scientific American: COVID Showed How Trials for New Drugs Could Be Faster and Better: The pandemic has spotlighted ways to make clinical trials easier on patients and better for science, a heart drug researcher says -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com → https://is.gd/xsk80h13:05
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BrainstormNew from Ars Technica: Science: Rocket Report: SpaceX readies Super Heavy, Russia tests new engine → https://is.gd/WN4BhW13:26
BrainstormNew from r/WorldNews: worldnews: Curfews and quarantines: Europe faces another Easter of Covid restrictions | Europe → https://is.gd/dRlzH513:47
BrainstormNew from r/WorldNews: worldnews: UK reports 25 new cases of blood clots in recipients of AstraZeneca jab → https://is.gd/mWBJjY13:57
BrainstormNew from The Indian Express (Health): Fashion: Fashion retailer sells ‘vaccine-ready’ clothes online; check them out → https://is.gd/O4DN9Q14:08
BrainstormNew from Retraction Watch: 25,000: That’s how many retractions are now in the Retraction Watch Database: We reached two milestones this week at Retraction Watch. Our database — the most comprehensive source for retractions by a wide margin — surpassed 25,000 retractions. And our list of retracted COVID-19 papers, which we’ve maintained for a [... want %more?] → https://is.gd/geBfRK14:19
BrainstormUpdates for Cambodia: +2 deaths (now 16) since 3 hours ago14:36
CoronaBot/r/covid19: Limiting the priming dose of a SARS CoV-2 vaccine improves virus-specific immunity (85 votes) | https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.03.31.437931v1 | https://redd.it/mid1i314:52
CoronaBot/r/coronavirus: In a “strategic move”, Ohio Governor Mike Dewine announces plans to vaccinate all college students before summer break (10039 votes) | https://www.thelantern.com/2021/04/dewine-all-ohio-college-students-will-have-access-to-single-dose-covid-vaccine/ | https://redd.it/mi9ehk15:22
BrainstormNew from StatNews: Pharma: STAT+: Pharmalittle: FDA is probing J&J Covid-19 vaccine blunder; Fauci says U.S. may not need the AstraZeneca shot → https://is.gd/eg9JkA15:22
BrainstormNew from Medical Xpress: Why Johnson & Johnson throwing out 15 million COVID-19 vaccine doses shouldn't scare you: Human errors at a manufacturing plant forced Johnson & Johnson to throw out 15 million doses of its COVID-19 vaccine—enough to vaccinate 7% of the U.S. adult population. → https://is.gd/GeHiqm15:43
CoronaBot/r/covid19: One Million People Fully Vaccinated Against COVID-19 in Tennessee (82 votes) | https://www.tn.gov/health/news/2021/4/1/one-million-people-fully-vaccinated-against-covid-19-in-tennessee.html | https://redd.it/miitij15:46
BrainstormNew from Medical Xpress: Tracking how COVID-19 is changing life expectancy: As a demographer—someone who studies how human populations grow and change—UCLA professor of sociology Patrick Heuveline typically spends time each year traveling around the world, talking to people about their hopes for their families and their dreams for the future. → https://is.gd/nLTvqp16:15
BrainstormNew from WebMD: Faster-Spreading COVID Variant Expanding in U.S.: The faster-spreading COVID-19 variant first detected in the United Kingdom is on its way to becoming the dominant form of the virus in the United States. → https://is.gd/DBTNaU16:25
BrainstormUpdates for Belarus: +1651 cases (now 324694), +10 deaths (now 2267) since 5 hours ago — Netherlands: +1496 cases (now 1.3 million) since 5 hours ago16:46
BrainstormNew from Medical Xpress: When will America's kids get their COVID vaccines?: Kids will be kids, and that's exactly why Holly McDade plans to get her three young children the COVID-19 vaccine as soon as it becomes available to them. → https://is.gd/aif4AX16:46
BrainstormNew from The Indian Express: World: Pakistan, Bangladesh added to UK COVID travel ban list → https://is.gd/phUZDd16:57
BrainstormNew from Medical Xpress: Health and academic professionals with dependents at high risk of quitting after COVID-19: Up to one in five employees at an academic medical institution are considering leaving their professions due to the strains of coping with the pandemic in their own lives, according to a new University of Utah Health study. Individuals [... want %more?] → https://is.gd/DA9V6517:07
BrainstormUpdates for Switzerland: +2250 cases (now 605342) since 5 hours ago — Germany: +2013 cases (now 2.9 million) since 5 hours ago17:10
BrainstormNew from WebMD: (news): Dog Detector Helps YouTuber Cope With COVID Isolation → https://is.gd/dPM7Jt17:18
BrainstormNew from LitCovid: (news): Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 ORF3a induces the expression of ACE2 in oral and pulmonary epithelial cells and the food supplement Vita Deyun((R)) diminishes this effect. → https://is.gd/BYDpfg17:29
BrainstormNew from ClinicalTrials.gov: (news): Use of Inhaled High-molecular Weight Hyaluronan in Patients With Severe COVID19: Feasibility and Outcomes → https://is.gd/WDx3HT17:50
BrainstormNew from ClinicalTrials.gov: (news): Study to Evaluate Benefits & Safety of Endourage Formula C™ Sublingual Drops in People With Post-Acute COVID-19 Syndrome → https://is.gd/kpxiH118:01
BrainstormNew from ClinicalTrials.gov: (news): Efficacy and Safety of Favipiravir and Ribavirin Formulation for Treatment of COVID-19 → https://is.gd/vqdizW18:12
BrainstormNew from Politico: Coronavirus: The Netherlands suspends use of AstraZeneca vaccine for under-60s → https://is.gd/cShlRp18:22
BrainstormUpdates for Canada: +3 deaths (now 23001) since 7 hours ago18:25
ArsaneritIf Norway reports 1 in 25,000 cases of blood clots after vaccination with Covishield/Vaxzevria/AZD1222 (Oxford–AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine) but the UK rather 1 in 500,000, does that mean the UK reporting system sucks?18:27
ArsaneritOr is that just expected statistical variation?18:28
BrainstormNew from BBC Health: (news): Covid: 30 blood clot cases found in AstraZeneca recipients in the UK → https://is.gd/Qk5y3W19:04
de-factohmm are those groups even comparable? age? sex?19:04
BrainstormNew from WebMD: Cases in Children Helping the Surge of COVID Variants: Experts warn that variants are fueling an increase in COVID-19 cases as children and teens return to classrooms and sports. → https://is.gd/EggrfZ19:15
LjLrebooting rooter, bot will go for a bit19:29
BrainstormUpdates for France: +5455 cases (now 4.7 million), +80 deaths (now 96121) since 8 hours ago19:45
pwr22https://www.politico.eu/article/uk-regulator-flags-blood-clots-linked-to-oxford-astrazeneca-vaccine/amp/19:52
pwr22LjL  this is like a yoyo this stuff19:52
LjLpwr22, only for the regulators. the science is pointing directly at a link, and at a mechanism for that link19:56
LjLi think it should be suspended below 60 years of age19:57
LjL(which some countries have done)19:57
BrainstormUpdates for Italy: +21917 cases (now 3.6 million), +481 deaths (now 110328) since 8 hours ago20:04
sanehatterLjL, what is the mechanism?20:06
BrainstormNew from Scientific American: Rapid COVID Tests Are Coming to Stores Near You: Companies backed by millions in public and private cash are racing to bring the tests to market -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com → https://is.gd/LLNgfA20:08
BrainstormNew from Scientific American: Health: It's Much More Likely the Coronavirus Came from Wildlife, Not a Lab → https://is.gd/oyd5yB20:19
LjLsanehatter, something similar to heparine-induced thrombosis, antibodies being created that shouldn't. i can't pretend to be able to explain it properly, but have this paper:  https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-362354/v1 or the brief https://gth-online.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/GTH-Statement-AstraZeneca_englisch_3-29-2021.pdf20:25
sanehatterLjL, and what's the rationale of giving it to old people? are their bodies less likely to react like that or is it just that the risk of covid is so high that the thrombosis risk becomes more acceptable?20:27
sanehatterand thanks for the links, i'll take a look20:27
LjLsanehatter, well all the cases (last i heard) were in people younger than 60. in particular the thing that tends to happen is this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerebral_venous_sinus_thrombosis#Epidemiology note the statement about women and the pill20:28
BrainstormNew from Virological.org: Latest posts: @anekrut Anton Nekrutenko: Global framework for SARS-CoV-2 data analysis: Application to intrahost variation | Part 2 → https://is.gd/qxp6q720:29
LjLsanehatter, also, France, Finland and Germany have already decided to give it only to people over between 55 and 65, so it's not just my own conjecture20:29
sanehattersure, there's probably a good reason for it. i was just wondering what it was20:31
sanehatteryep, the links seem to confirm that it's a real thing in the young (women). but i don't understand enough about medicine to know why it affects specifically the young, but no doubt sooner or later some expert will write about it for the laymen20:36
BrainstormNew from Virological.org: Latest posts: Ready-to-use global platform for variant detection in SARS-CoV-2: Wolfgang Maier 1 , Simon Bray 1 , Marius van den Beek 2 , Dave Bouvier 2 , Nathaniel Coraor 2 , Milad Miladi 1 , Babita Singh 3 , Jordi Rambla De Argila 3 , Dannon Baker 4 , Nathan Roach 5 , Simon Gladman 6 , Frederik Coppens 7,8 , Darren P Martin [... want %more?] → https://is.gd/E2NMMe20:50
BrainstormNew from Scientific American: Coronavirus News Roundup, March 27–April 2: Pandemic highlights for the week -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com → https://is.gd/Jluh9221:11
BrainstormUpdates for Canada: +45 cases (now 990591) since 9 hours ago21:12
BrainstormNew from Medical Xpress: Mortality, readmission low with COVID-19 discharge on home oxygen: (HealthDay)—For patients with COVID-19 pneumonia, rates of mortality and 30-day readmission are low with discharge on home oxygen, according to a study published online April 1 in JAMA Network Open. → https://is.gd/eEme4B21:22
BrainstormUpdates for Costa Rica: +2957 deaths (now 2957) since 2 days ago21:30
BrainstormNew from The Atlantic: The Pandemic’s Tornado Phase: After more than a year of pandemic, after months of an aggressive vaccination campaign, the United States should finally be better positioned to protect itself against the coronavirus. Nearly all of our long-term-care residents are vaccinated . Tens of millions of other people have been vaccinated, [... want %more?] → https://is.gd/pJ4y9q21:53
rpifanIN THEORY21:56
CoronaBot/r/coronavirus: Dr. Anthony Fauci Does Not Expect A 4th Coronavirus Wave To Hit The U.S. (10106 votes) | https://www.npr.org/2021/04/02/983742160/dr-fauci-gives-updates-on-the-state-of-the-pandemic-in-the-u-s | https://redd.it/mikbdd22:07
CoronaBot/r/covid19: Side effect worry grows for AstraZeneca vaccine (80 votes) | https://science.sciencemag.org/content/372/6537/14.full | https://redd.it/mijrma22:13
BrainstormNew from Medical Xpress: Study identifies possible COVID-19 drugs—including several that are FDA-approved: A team led by scientists in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania has identified nine potential new COVID-19 treatments, including three that are already approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for treating [... want %more?] → https://is.gd/oT4zpJ22:13
de-factoi wish vaccine delivery would only be allowed to regions with a weekly incidence below 35/100k22:24
de-factoespecially federal states that ignore the agreed upon emergency break at weekly 100/100k should just not get any vaccines or financial help in any form.22:25
BrainstormNew from COVID19 Vaccine Tracker: Shannon McKearnan: Altimmune Inc: AdCOVID → https://is.gd/bnKPpU22:33
LjLde-facto, that doesn't seem like a very bright idea aside from petty revenge tbh... do you want them to bring about *more* covid?22:42
de-factono it would put pressure on the politicians to stick to their agreed goals, because people probably would not like if no vaccines or financial helps are available to them22:53
de-factohence: less covid, less mutant breeding22:54
BrainstormNew from r/WorldNews: worldnews: Seven people have died from unusual blood clots after getting the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine in the UK, the medicines regulator has confirmed to the BBC. → https://is.gd/yBK22N22:55
de-factoincidence must be brought down via NPIs and not with vaccinations, so politicians must be forced to do their job and act in the interest of the people22:55
de-factoso instead of competing for creative ways to avoid containment (hence act in an asocial, reckless way sabotaging the success of those that stick to the rules) they must be held accountable for the result, and i bet if people dont get vaccinations because their leaders act against their common interest to get rid of the virus those politicians pretty soon would be in big trouble22:58
de-factobtw what is going on in India? they have a steep rise in incidence, is it the UK variant or something else?23:18
Jigsy%cases UK23:20
BrainstormUpdates for Netherlands: +1515 cases (now 1.3 million) since 12 hours ago23:20
BrainstormJigsy: In United Kingdom, there have been 4.4 million confirmed cases (6.6% of the population) and 126885 deaths (2.9% of cases) as of 12 hours ago. 127.5 million tests were performed (3.4% positive). See https://offloop.net/covid19/?default=United%20Kingdom for time series data.23:20
BrainstormNew from Ars Technica: Science: Real-world data shows vaccines kicking butt—including against scary variant → https://is.gd/O9SfYL23:26
LjLouch that doesn't look good at all23:33
LjLde-facto, clearly Indians aren't doing enough NPIs, so let's not give them vaccines23:33
LjL(nevermind the fact they're the ones making the vaccines)23:33
de-factoi was talking about german federal states, sorry, never mind my frustration with current politics here23:35
de-factoits kind of worrying that india sees such a incidence explosion there, i hope they can somehow contain it23:36
LjL<CarlSagan> [Ars Technica - Science] Real-world data shows vaccines kicking butt—including against scary variant https://arstechnica.com/?p=1754230 2021-04-02T21:15:5223:39
LjLde-facto, i guess it's a good thing they have a strong national production of vaccines, otherwise they may be kind of far down the list of "developing countries" that will only eventually get it23:40
BrainstormUpdates for Basel-Town, Switzerland: +10 deaths (now 55) since 7 months ago23:40
de-factopharmaceutical sector is huge in India23:41
de-factobut it cant break this current wave they are seeing there, nor would 1 in 20 people having a vaccination23:43
de-factoi wonder, is it some kind of mutation or such?23:43
de-factoE484Q and L452R23:45
gigasu_shidais pfizerbiontech kicking butt the most?23:45
de-factointeresting, the same locations as California and South African variant23:46
de-facto.title https://pib.gov.in/PressReleaseIframePage.aspx?PRID=170717723:47
Brainstormde-facto: From pib.gov.in: document without title23:47
de-factoi would guess that such a peak would have to contain a mutant with N501Y23:49
de-factoso maybe B.1.1.7 alike?23:49
LjL452 is Californian?23:51
de-factoi think so (iirc)23:52
de-factohttps://www.covid19india.org/23:52
de-facto.title23:52
Brainstormde-facto: From www.covid19india.org: Coronavirus Outbreak in India - covid19india.org23:52
de-factoso most cases in Maharashtra23:52
de-facto"The analysis of samples from Maharashtra has revealed that compared to December 2020, there has been an increase in the fraction of samples with the E484Q and L452R mutations.  Such mutations confer immune escape and increased infectivity. These mutations have been found in about 15-20% of samples and do not match any previously catalogued VOCs."23:53
de-factohmm :/23:53
LjLhmm Maharastra looks very bad but apparently only because it's very populated, other states are actually worse23:54
LjLnamely Kerala, Puducherry, and the Delhi district23:54
LjLPuducherry doesn't mean much as it's a collection of territorires23:55
LjLoh and Ladakh? that's kind of in a different place23:56
BrainstormNew from FDA Press Releases: FDA: Coronavirus (COVID-19) Update: April 2, 2021 → https://is.gd/4nB7xV23:56
de-factobtw that means no export of vaccines from India23:57
de-factojust saying...23:57
de-factoSerum Institute of India (SII) is the biggest vaccine production capacity for vector vaccines in the world afaik23:58
de-factoso even less AZ for COVAX23:59

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