libera/##covid-19/ Monday, 2021-04-05

BrainstormNew from r/WorldNews: worldnews: Amid the worst period of Covid-19, a Supreme Court Justice appointed by Bolsonaro prohibits states and cities from forbidding religious services → https://is.gd/AreNvA00:43
BrainstormNew from Virology.ws: Trial By Error: Long COVID, the Long COVID Alliance, and ME International: By David Tuller, DrPH The advent of Long COVID has brought an enormous amount of attention to the illness or cluster of illnesses collectively known these days as ME/CFS. That attention is not always positive, as we saw recently with a Wall Street Journal [... want %more?] → https://is.gd/NAzH2n01:03
BrainstormNew from BBC Health: (news): Vitamin D: The truth about an alleged Covid ‘cover-up’ → https://is.gd/D9T6Xu01:13
BrainstormNew from BBC Health: Coronavirus doctor's diary: How the virus has changed our sleep patterns: Coronavirus is clearly a virus that affects our nervous system - and it appears to have an impact on the brain's sleep patterns. → https://is.gd/egh92801:34
BrainstormUpdates for United Kingdom: +2313 cases (now 4.4 million), +8 deaths (now 126950) since 22 hours ago — Netherlands: +7584 cases (now 1.3 million), +25 deaths (now 16691) since 22 hours ago — Canada: +1178 cases (now 1.0 million), +5 deaths (now 23057) since 7 hours ago02:53
BrainstormNew from BBC Health: Covid: Rapid tests to be offered twice-weekly in England: The tests are being made available to everyone for free, ahead of the next stage of lockdown easing. → https://is.gd/CxUyU303:35
BrainstormNew from r/WorldNews: worldnews: Dr. Homer Tien, president of Ornge, to lead Ontario’s COVID-19 vaccine task force → https://is.gd/y4sTHq04:05
BrainstormUpdates for Suriname: +10 cases (now 9163), +177 deaths (now 177) since a day ago04:32
CoronaBot_/r/covid19: Exhaled aerosol increases with COVID-19 infection, age, and obesity (88 votes) | https://www.pnas.org/content/118/8/e2021830118 | https://redd.it/mk9r2g04:36
CoronaBot_/r/coronavirus: B117 variant spiking in many states, experts believe kids may be spreading it more than other strains (10091 votes) | https://www.kare11.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/b117-variant-spiking-in-many-states/89-a13d3755-561a-4d5e-b6c8-5a696b07a061 | https://redd.it/mjyacn05:00
BrainstormNew from The Indian Express: World: UK PM Boris Johnson to set out travel plans after vaccine programme takes off → https://is.gd/1PXV8v05:16
BrainstormUpdates for Curacao: +255 cases (now 9890), +4 deaths (now 48) since a day ago05:28
BrainstormNew from The Indian Express: World: China reports biggest daily COVID-19 case jump in over 2 months → https://is.gd/R3yzBf06:07
BrainstormNew from r/WorldNews: worldnews: Covid: Tests to be offered twice-weekly to all in England → https://is.gd/tj7J0P06:58
BrainstormUpdates for Belgium: +3522 cases (now 900996), +39 deaths (now 23169) since a day ago07:01
BrainstormNew from The Indian Express: World: US puts J&J in charge of plant that botched Covid-19 vaccine, removes AstraZeneca → https://is.gd/q2aXEa07:18
BrainstormUpdates for France: +16843 cases (now 4.8 million), +37 deaths (now 96697) since 8 hours ago — Bermuda, United Kingdom: +108 cases (now 1400) since 2 days ago — Lombardy, Italy: +3003 cases (now 751043), +74 deaths (now 31130) since a day ago — Netherlands: +6520 cases (now 1.3 million), +27 deaths (now 16701) since 16 hours ago07:57
BrainstormNew from Medical Xpress: India tightens screws as COVID-19 infections hit new record: India's worst-hit state ramped up its coronavirus restrictions as nationwide the daily infections exceeded 100,000 for the first time on Monday. → https://is.gd/3L2Ot009:10
BrainstormNew from Medical Xpress: New study shows how online endorsement could help address COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy: A third of the UK adult population intend to use social media and personal messaging to encourage people to get vaccinated against COVID-19, a new, large scale, multi-university study involving Loughborough researchers has found. → https://is.gd/XfjCf209:39
BrainstormNew from The Indian Express: World: Netherlands temporarily suspends AstraZeneca Covid vaccine → https://is.gd/hDnuvN09:49
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BrainstormNew from r/WorldNews: worldnews: Real-world data shows vaccines kicking butt—including against scary variant → https://is.gd/UNAZSN10:10
BrainstormNew from StatNews: Opinion: ‘Authorization’ status is a red herring when it comes to mandating Covid-19 vaccination: Without clear indications that requiring Covid-19 vaccination is legally forbidden, employers and universities should be allowed to do that — which isn't to say a vaccine mandate is the right… → https://is.gd/SzTqZO10:50
BrainstormNew from The Indian Express: World: Bangladesh imposes 7-day nationwide lockdown amidst spike in Covid-19 cases → https://is.gd/vDj7pt11:00
BrainstormNew from ProPublica: I Received Tips to Look Into How a Hospital Treated Premature Babies. Getting Data Was Nearly Impossible.: by Bryant Furlow , New Mexico In Depth ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. It’s not unusual for health care reporters [... want %more?] → https://is.gd/iNUTAs11:32
BrainstormNew from ScienceNews: Newly made laser-cooled antimatter could test foundations of modern physics: Physicists have finally used laser cooling to tame unruly antimatter atoms. That could allow new tests of symmetry and Einstein’s theory of gravity. → https://is.gd/PA9LoY12:02
BrainstormNew from r/WorldNews: worldnews: 50 million pilgrims are expected to congregate for the Hindu festival Mahakumbh as India registers 100,000 daily covid cases → https://is.gd/pAsHjh13:03
BrainstormNew from Reddit (test): CoronavirusUK: Announcement: A slight change change to how we moderate controversial topics → https://is.gd/ZlLy7k13:55
BrainstormUpdates for Blekinge, Sweden: +116 deaths (now 120) since 2 days ago — Germany: +5969 cases (now 2.9 million) since 23 hours ago14:08
BrainstormUpdates for OEstergoetland, Sweden: +577 deaths (now 585) since a day ago — OErebro, Sweden: +301 deaths (now 302) since a day ago14:33
BrainstormNew from NPR: India Breaks Its Single-Day Case Record With More than 100,000 New Infections: India is the world's biggest vaccine producer. But it's also where the virus is now spreading fastest. Infections are surging across South Asia. → https://is.gd/xQAWUs15:20
BrainstormNew from StatNews: Pharma: STAT+: Pharmalittle: U.S. puts J&J in charge of plant that botched Covid-19 vaccines; pharmacies offering Covid shots raise privacy concerns → https://is.gd/ASLw8i15:30
BrainstormNew from Derek Lowe: @antonioregalado: RT by @Dereklowe: In a discussion of the covid-19 lab theory, Tucker Carlson showed my picture and described me as "another scientist, Antonio Regaldo of MIT."I am not a scientist, my name is Regalado, and I am a journalist at MIT Technology Review. He did get the quote right. → https://is.gd/8AGVRH16:33
BrainstormNew from Medical Xpress: UK eyes mass testing as it takes next steps out of lockdown: All adults and children in England will be able to have routine coronavirus tests twice a week as a way to stamp out new outbreaks, the British government said Monday as it prepared to announce the next steps in lifting the nation's months-long lockdown. → https://is.gd/GUdGbq16:44
BrainstormNew from Medical Xpress: A year after pandemic hit, Haiti awaits vaccines amid apathy: Haiti does not have a single vaccine to offer its more than 11 million people over a year after the pandemic began, raising concerns among health experts that the well-being of Haitians is being pushed aside as violence and political instability across the country deepen. → https://is.gd/9cSQmp16:55
BrainstormNew from ClinicalTrials.gov: (news): Behavior Change in Context to Contain the Spread of COVID-19 → https://is.gd/5TS03h17:06
CoronaBot_/r/coronavirus: Pfizer halts corona vaccine shipments to Israel after country fails to pay (10180 votes) | https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/banana-republic-pfizer-outraged-israel-failed-to-pay-for-covid-vaccines-664140 | https://redd.it/mkgwit17:17
BrainstormNew from ClinicalTrials.gov: (news): A Phase 1/2 Safety and Immunogenicity Trial of COVID-19 Vaccine COVIVAC → https://is.gd/yPJjPJ17:37
BrainstormUpdates for Canada: +8 deaths (now 23060) since 22 hours ago17:39
BrainstormNew from ClinicalTrials.gov: (news): Longitudinal Follow-up of Patients With Chronic Inflammatory Rheumatisms (CIRs) Vaccinated Against COVID-19 Compared to Patients Refusing Vaccination → https://is.gd/1fZ9Ab17:48
BrainstormNew from r/WorldNews: worldnews: COVID-19 is rising fastest in India, averaging more than 73,000 cases daily → https://is.gd/KoZI2a18:19
BrainstormNew from r/WorldNews: worldnews: Pfizer suspends Covid-19 vaccine shipments after 'banana republic' Israel fails to pay → https://is.gd/EV6dc718:30
LjL...18:31
LjLah well, it's from a paper called "The New Arab", so i'm not sure i would take it at face value18:32
LjLbut still: https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/banana-republic-pfizer-outraged-israel-failed-to-pay-for-covid-vaccines-66414018:38
BrainstormNew from WebMD: Blood Type Doesn't Affect Your COVID Risk: Your blood type has nothing to do with your risk of contracting severe COVID-19, a new study concludes. → https://is.gd/mnL1LH18:40
LjLtoo bad, i have the "right" blood18:45
LjLit says SOURCES: Amesh Adalja, MD, senior scholar, Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, Baltimore; Aaron Glatt, MD, chairman, department of medicine, and hospital epidemiologist, Mount Sinai South Nassau, Oceanside, N.Y.; JAMA Network Open, April 5, 202118:49
LjLbut i am not finding this on JAMA Network Open18:49
LjLi am finding https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2778155 but that looks like different authors18:49
LjLwell it's probably that one anyway18:50
LjLbut really no18:51
LjLconfusing18:51
LjLi don't see a single author match, but it must be the one, it says 108k people in the webmd article, and it's 107k+ in the study, so it must be the one18:51
LjLAmong individuals with COVID-19, hospitalization was associated with male sex (1165 men [50.1%] hospitalized vs 1871 men [20.5%] not hospitalized) and age (mean [SD] age among hospitalized patients, 57.0 [18.1] years vs 41.4 [14.9] years among nonhospitalized individuals).18:52
LjLthat's a ridiculously high hospitalization rate, if they're just taking "people who tested positive"18:52
-RSSBot[LjLmatrix- Recent Commits to links:master: Add paper showing NO association of blood type with COVID ( https://github.com/ljl-covid/links/commit/d32995faa56214bd7f65c4310240be2219828b43 )18:59
CoronaBot_/r/covid19: Twice weekly rapid testing to be available to everyone in England (81 votes) | https://www.gov.uk/government/news/twice-weekly-rapid-testing-to-be-available-to-everyone-in-england | https://redd.it/mkfqgy19:06
BrainstormUpdates for Italy: +10680 cases (now 3.7 million), +296 deaths (now 111326) since 23 hours ago — Timor-Leste: +52 cases (now 766) since 2 days ago19:06
stupidfox%cases USA19:32
Brainstormstupidfox: In United States, there have been 31.0 million confirmed cases (9.4% of the population) and 561494 deaths (1.8% of cases) as of 25 minutes ago. 409.4 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.19:32
BrainstormNew from In The Pipeline: Watching mRNA Do Its Thing, In Living Cells: This is a nice chemical biology paper that hits on a hot topic of the day: the uptake and function of mRNA when administered to cells. You can always look for downstream effects to show that you achieved both those goals, but it would be very useful to get images of this process in [... want %more?] → https://is.gd/VJqFuu19:34
BrainstormUpdates for Spain: +263 cases (now 3.3 million) since a day ago — France: +65 deaths (now 96725) since 20 hours ago20:27
BrainstormNew from The Atlantic: The Urgency of Vaccinating Kids: Kim Hagood hates needles. But as a middle-aged adult with chronic conditions, she got vaccinated against COVID-19 without delay. “I never thought I’d be so excited to get a shot,” she told me, giddily, hours before her appointment. A single mother in Trussville, Alabama, Hagood is less [... want %more?] → https://is.gd/Eq96sZ20:37
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BrainstormNew from COVID19 Vaccine Tracker: Shannon McKearnan: Aivita Biomedical Inc: AV-COVID-19 → https://is.gd/qrWy9m20:59
CoronaBot_/r/covid19: Clinical Evidence for Improved Outcomes with Histamine Antagonists and Aspirin in 22,560 COVID-19 Patients (83 votes) | https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.03.29.21253914v1 | https://redd.it/mkl97l21:07
BrainstormNew from Medical Xpress: Study refutes theory that blood type affects COVID risk: A or B, AB or O, it doesn't matter—your blood type has nothing to do with your risk of contracting severe COVID-19, a new study concludes. → https://is.gd/9vMcNI21:40
BrainstormNew from r/WorldNews: worldnews: Pfizer halts corona vaccine shipments to Israel after failure to pay → https://is.gd/qZeARZ21:50
BrainstormUpdates for Spain: +10097 cases (now 3.3 million), +85 deaths (now 75783) since 2 hours ago22:31
BrainstormNew from NPR: England To Offer Free Twice-A-Week COVID-19 Tests: The test roll-out is intended to ease the reopening of England's economy. But the move was met with critics who say rapid testing is a waste of money because it could result in many false positives. → https://is.gd/xBzKok22:52

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