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Latest comic: What did we learn from Covid?
#covid #COVID19 #coronavirus #cartoon #health #healthcare #pandemic #comic
Studying breakdowns in sci/tech institutions during #covid19 ? or how about systematic undermining of scientific institutions as democracies veer to extremes? We want to know what you're finding!
@zephoria and I are excited to host a wider conversation about institutional breakdown, organizational failure, crisis and collapse and implications for Science & Technology.
#sts #orgs & #scitech scholars warmly welcome! Check out P358 on this page of awesome panels:
🇫🇮 Finland: Air purifiers used at daycare centres cut kids' sick days by a third
"It would be a big savings if we could get rid of 30% of sick days spread by children, as well as the illnesses that go home to parents," Dr Sanmark said.
#COVID19 #Finalnd #AirPurifiers #CleanAir @auscovid19
Source: https://yle.fi/a/74-20062381
Study: Air purifier use at daycare centres cut kids' sick days by a third
The results of the study at two Helsinki daycare centres are still preliminary but promising, a researcher says.Yle News
Repeated Omicron exposures override ancestral SARS-CoV-2 immune imprinting - Nature
Exposure to early variants of SARS-CoV-2 results in immune imprinting in mouse models and in humans, reducing neutralizing antibody titres against Omicron variants, which could be mitigated with multiple updated boosters.Nature
A woman. An immigrant. A scientist.
A Nobel Prize winner. And thanks to her pioneering research, a #COVID19 vaccine.
Dr. Katalin Karikó. https://www.statnews.com/2020/11/10/the-story-of-mrna-how-a-once-dismissed-idea-became-a-leading-technology-in-the-covid-vaccine-race/ #HistoryRemix #science #history
The story of mRNA: From a loose idea to a tool that may help curb Covid
Scientists have dreamed about the possibilities of custom-made messenger RNA. The pandemic may turn those possibilities into realilty.Jonathan Saltzman — Boston Globe (STAT)
The Economist used global excess deaths to arrive at the true death toll from the pandemic with a 95% confidence interval.
"Although the official number of deaths caused by #COVID19 is now 7m, our single best estimate is that the actual toll is 27.5m people. We find that there is a 95% chance that the true value lies between 17.8m and 30.8m additional deaths."
#Covid #SarsCov2 #GlobalExcessDeaths
https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/coronavirus-excess-deaths-estimates
> Both SARS-CoV-2 and non-COVID-19 acute respiratory infections are associated with a wide range of symptoms more than 4 weeks after the acute infection<
In other words, long Covid is a thing, but is not completely unique to Covid.
"Long-term symptom profiles after COVID-19 vs other acute respiratory infections: an analysis of data from the COVIDENCE UK study"
#COVID19 #longCOVID #influenza #URTI #infectiousdiseases #IDMastodon
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5370(23)00428-5/fulltext?dgcid=raven_jbs_aip_email#%20
https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/programs/bridge/index.html
Get vaccinated.
City of Hope in Duarte, California, has maintained masking requirements, and this has prevented hospital-acquired #COVID19 there entirely, according to Vijay Trisal, MD, chief medical officer at City of Hope.
“Our policies enabled us to achieve zero nosocomial infections, zero outbreaks.”
Mask Mandates Have Kept One Cancer Center Free From COVID-19. Others Have Lifted Masking Requirements Despite Patient Concerns - Cancer Therapy Advisor
Some cancer centers have lifted mask mandates that were intended to protect patients from COVID-19, despite patient concerns.Victoria Forster, PhD (Cancer Therapy Advisor)
A new 🧵 on the #COVID19 situation:
I am getting more cautious about #COVID19 again. I believe you should, too. New data:
- COVID in US wastewater has doubled in the past five weeks and is still rising (https://biobot.io/data/).
- US COVID hospitalizations are up 40% in a month and still rising (https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#trends_weeklyhospitaladmissions_select_00).
- COVID positive rate has risen over 150% in two months. It's now matched our highest positive rate in the last winter surge, and it's still rising (https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#trends_select_testpositivity_00)
Data on Covid-19 and Mpox Wastewater Monitoring | Biobot Analytics
Our wastewater intelligence platform monitors the SARS-CoV-2 and MPXV virus concentrations present in wastewater from across the U.S. Click here to take a look.Biobot Analytics
#Heatwaves are sending people to #airconditioned indoor spaces, where Covid transmits more easily compared with outside. Summer travel alsos plays a role, as people crowd into #airports and bring germs along with them crisscrossing world. #Covid19 hospitalizations as of July 15 are up 10.3% from previous week, according to #CDC. Emergency department visits are up 7% and test positivity rose to 6.3% from 5.8%.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/covid-19-rates-rising-summer-780ab1d7
An Unwelcome Visitor Returns This Summer. Hint: It’s Covid.
Hearing about a smattering of Covid cases again? There’s a reasonSumathi Reddy (The Wall Street Journal)
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fimmu.2023.1195871/full?utm_source=S-TWT&utm_medium=SNET&utm_campaign=ECO_FIMMU_XXXXXXXX_auto-dlvrit
SARS-CoV-2 and the host-immune response
The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic and the COVID-19 disease have affected everyone globally, leading to one of recorded history’s most significant research surges. As our knowledge evolves, our approaches to the virus and treatments must also evolve.Frontiers
#COVID19 🦠 continues to surge in #Taiwan 🇹🇼.
I encourage everyone to take precautions like mask wearing and hand sanitization. If someone has cold symptoms, walk away.
This is not a pleasant illness and infecting the wrong person could kill them.
(h/t Dr. Herschel Krustofsky)
https://focustaiwan.tw/society/202305300011
Taiwan's 4th Omicron wave likely to peak in late June, early July: CDC - Focus Taiwan
Taipei, May 30 (CNA) Taiwan's fourth wave of COVID-19 infections fueled by lineages of the Omicron variant is likely to peak in late June or early July, with around 80 percent of cases involving people contracting the disease for the first time, the …Focus Taiwan - CNA English News
The CDC held a maskless conference of epidemic intelligence service officers — the disease detectives who identify and fight outbreaks. 2,000 people attended, and now the agency is warning people of confirmed #COVID19 cases at its own conference. These are the people tasked with protecting you. And people wonder why I remain so cautious.
A little damage to your brain and immune system is certainly worth a couple of maskless days in conference rooms, right?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2023/04/28/covid-cases-cdc-conference/
CDC meeting, intended to mark covid progress, sees virus cases of its own
The conference for disease detectives hadn’t been held in person for several years because of the pandemic.Dan Diamond (The Washington Post)
Study: SARS-CoV-2, the virus causing COVID-19, can alter genome structure of our cells - Anesthesiology, Critical Care and Pain Medicine
People infected with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, may experience genome structure changes that not only may explain our immunological symptoms after infection, but also potentially link to long COVID, according to a new study by resear…jburch (Anesthesiology, Critical Care and Pain Medicine)
“Growing evidence supports the involvement of other viral infections in the development of arrhythmia.”
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10840-023-01525-9
Cardiac arrhythmias in viral infections - Journal of Interventional Cardiac Electrophysiology
Background The current COVID-19 pandemic has led to many studies examining its arrhythmogenic effects. However, there are many other viruses that are capable of inducing arrhythmias that have not received as much attention.SpringerLink
This paper outlines an approach ranging from population genetics to functional #genomics in which the researchers identified four important #alleles and their likely #regulatory function.
Title: "Regulatory dissection of the severe #COVID-19 risk locus introgressed by #Neanderthals" (Jagoda et al. 2023)
Link: https://elifesciences.org/articles/71235
Regulatory dissection of the severe COVID-19 risk locus introgressed by Neanderthals
Key functional variants, discovered using Massively Parallel Reporter Assay (MPRA) and reporter assays in the context of SARS-CoV-2 infection, support the importance of two critical chemokine receptor genes CCR1 and CCR5 in severe Covid-19 illness.Evelyn Jagoda (eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd)
This fascinating new #metagenomics research in mBio explores a potentially important and intriguing link between the presence and relative abundance of different functional guilds present in the human gut #microbiome (including short chain fatty acid biosynthesis and virulence functions) and disease severity and outcomes resulting from the virus. Clearly a subject for future extended studies to explore potential increases in severity due to infection and exacerbated or mitigated by differences in gut microbiomes.
Explore the research on:
https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mbio.03519-22
#microbiology
Visualising SARS-CoV-2 transmission routes and mitigations
Harry Rutter and colleagues reflect on the challenges of conveying uncertain estimates for viral transmission in a complex system Scientific understanding about the epidemiology, genetics, and continuing evolution of covid-19 has been transformed si…The BMJ
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