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M-A: Global prevalence of meeting screen time guidelines among children 5 years and younger.

16 Feb, 2022 | 08:40h | UTC

Global Prevalence of Meeting Screen Time Guidelines Among Children 5 Years and Younger: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis – JAMA Pediatrics

Commentary: Kids using screens more than recommended, new study finds – ABC News

Related Guidelines:

Media and Young Minds – American Academy of Pediatrics

Guidelines on Screen Time and Digital Wellness in Infants, Children and Adolescents – “children below 2 years age should not be exposed to any type of screen, whereas exposure should be limited to a maximum of one hour of supervised screen time per day for children 24-59 months age, and less than two hours per day for children 5-10 years age”.

 

Commentary on Twitter

 

Why don’t most people with COVID need to test for another 30 days, even if they’re re-exposed?

15 Feb, 2022 | 10:14h | UTC

Why don’t most people with COVID need to test for another 30 days, even if they’re re-exposed? – The Conversation

 

Scientists deliberately gave people COVID — here’s what they learnt.

15 Feb, 2022 | 10:06h | UTC

Scientists deliberately gave people COVID — here’s what they learnt – Nature

Original Study: [Preprint] Results from the first Covid-19 human challenge study (deliberately infecting individuals in a controlled environment).

Related:

Perspective | SARS-CoV-2 human challenge studies — establishing the model during an evolving pandemic.

World’s first coronavirus “Human Challenge” study receives ethics approval in the UK  (several texts on the subject)

Are SARS-CoV-2 Human Challenge Trials Ethical? – “A clinical trial is underway in the UK in which young, healthy participants are exposed deliberately to SARS-CoV-2 to assess the viral inoculum needed to produce an infection and to test vaccine efficacy”.

 

Data Review: How many people die from air pollution?

15 Feb, 2022 | 08:37h | UTC

Data Review: How many people die from air pollution? – Our World in Data

Related:

New WHO Global Air Quality Guidelines aim to save millions of lives from air pollution.

Short-term exposure to ambient air pollution is associated with increased risk of myocardial infarction mortality

1.8 million excess deaths attributable to urban air pollution in 2019, modelling study suggests.

Internalising health-economic impacts of air pollution into climate policy: a global modelling study – The Lancet Planetary Health

Air Pollution Associated with New Causes of Hospital Admissions

Ambient Particulate Air Pollution and Daily Mortality in 652 Cities

Air Pollution and Estimated Life Expectancy Loss

 

AHA Scientific Statement | How does cannabis use affect brain health? Caution advised, more research needed.

11 Feb, 2022 | 08:53h | UTC

News Release: How does cannabis use affect brain health? Caution advised, more research needed – American Heart Association

Original Statement: Use of Marijuana: Effect on Brain Health: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association – Stroke

Related: AHA Scientific statement: Medical marijuana, recreational cannabis, and cardiovascular health

 

Commentary on Twitter

 

Babies born during pandemic’s first year score slightly lower on a developmental screening test.

11 Feb, 2022 | 08:46h | UTC

News Release: Babies born during pandemic’s first year score slightly lower on a developmental screening test – Columbia University Irving Medical Center

Original Study: Association of Birth During the COVID-19 Pandemic With Neurodevelopmental Status at 6 Months in Infants With and Without In Utero Exposure to Maternal SARS-CoV-2 Infection – JAMA Pediatrics

Editorial: Understanding the Effects of the Pandemic on Infant Development—The Preterm Problem

Commentaries:

Covid-19: Babies born during the pandemic show slight development delays – The BMJ

Pandemic birth tied to poor development – CIDRAP

 

M-A: The prevalence of loneliness across 113 countries.

10 Feb, 2022 | 10:08h | UTC

The prevalence of loneliness across 113 countries: systematic review and meta-analysis – The BMJ

Editorial: We need a public health approach to loneliness

News Release: Problematic levels of loneliness widespread in many countries – BMJ

 

Commentary on Twitter

https://twitter.com/robert_eres/status/1491663838013702144

 

Sweden ends COVID-19 testing as pandemic restrictions lifted – “only health care and elderly care workers and the most vulnerable will be entitled to free PCR testing if they are symptomatic, while the rest of the population will simply be asked to stay home if they show symptoms that could be COVID-19”.

10 Feb, 2022 | 10:07h | UTC

Sweden ends COVID-19 testing as pandemic restrictions lifted – Associated Press

Related:

How Denmark Decided COVID Isn’t a Critical Threat to Society – “The country became the first in the EU to lift all COVID restrictions despite leading the world in per capita infections”.

Covid: Europe set for ‘long period of tranquillity’ in pandemic, says WHO.

As Denmark scraps COVID restrictions, WHO urges caution.

Despite the ongoing spread of Omicron, some European countries have decided to lift Covid-19 restrictions.

 

WHO: Two years into COVID pandemic, most countries still face significant health service disruptions.

9 Feb, 2022 | 10:13h | UTC

Two Years into COVID Pandemic, Most Countries Still Face Significant Health Service Disruptions – Health Policy Watch

Original Report: Third round of the global pulse survey on continuity of essential health services during the COVID-19 pandemic – World Health Organization

 

Opinion: Wastewater analysis can be a powerful public health tool—if it’s done sensibly.

8 Feb, 2022 | 10:08h | UTC

Opinion: Wastewater analysis can be a powerful public health tool—if it’s done sensibly – Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Commentary: Wastewater monitoring for public health – University of California

Related:

CDC unveils its latest weapon in Covid-19 detection: wastewater.

CDC Report: Using Wastewater Surveillance Data to Support the COVID-19 Response — United States, 2020–2021.

Rapid, large-scale wastewater surveillance and automated reporting system enabled early detection of nearly 85% of COVID-19 cases on a University campus.

[Preprint] Wastewater genomic testing can effectively track COVID-19 variants of concern.

Human Waste Could Be The Next Big Weapon in Controlling COVID-19 – TIME

Next steps for wastewater testing to help end this pandemic — and prevent the next one – STAT

Sewage sleuths helped an Arizona town beat back Covid-19. For wastewater epidemiology, that’s just the start – STAT

The myriad ways sewage surveillance is helping fight COVID around the world – Nature

Testing sewage can give school districts, campuses and businesses a heads-up on the spread of COVID-19 – The Conversation

It’s time to begin a national wastewater testing program for Covid-19 – STAT

Coronavirus: Testing sewage an ‘easy win’ – BBC

Development of wastewater pooled surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 from congregate living settings – high sensitivity, but unable to distinguish new infectious cases from persistent convalescent shedding.

 

Fresh research says Omicron lasts much longer on surfaces than other variants – but disinfecting still works.

8 Feb, 2022 | 10:05h | UTC

Fresh research says Omicron lasts much longer on surfaces than other variants – but disinfecting still works – The Conversation

 

Sudden rise of more transmissible form of Omicron catches scientists by surprise.

8 Feb, 2022 | 10:06h | UTC

Sudden rise of more transmissible form of Omicron catches scientists by surprise – Science

Related:

Omicron’s sister variant spreads faster. So why did the one we call Omicron hit first?

[Preprint] Study suggests SARS-CoV-2 Omicron subvariants BA.2 is even more transmissible than the original variant.

BA.2 is like Omicron’s sister. Here’s what we know about it so far – The Conversation

 

Where did Omicron come from? Three key theories.

8 Feb, 2022 | 10:04h | UTC

Where did Omicron come from? Three key theories – Nature

 

Editorial: “Excess deaths” is the best metric for tracking the pandemic.

7 Feb, 2022 | 08:54h | UTC

“Excess deaths” is the best metric for tracking the pandemic – The BMJ

Related:

The pandemic’s true death toll: millions more than official counts.

We can be confident there have been far more than 5 million global Covid deaths – “Estimating ‘excess’ fatalities, a more robust analysis method, puts the pandemic’s grim toll between 10m and 19m people”.

Global Covid-19 deaths surpass five million.

Effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on life expectancy and premature mortality in 2020 – this time series analysis showed there were more than 28 million excess years of life lost in 2020 in 31 countries.

Under-reporting of deaths limits our understanding of true burden of covid-19.

Study shows COVID-19 has caused the biggest decrease in life expectancy since World War II.

Just how do deaths due to COVID-19 stack up?

Tracking excess mortality across countries during the COVID-19 pandemic with the World Mortality Dataset.

Exploring the gap between excess mortality and COVID-19 deaths in 67 countries.

Report: Three new estimates of India’s all-cause excess mortality during the COVID-19 Pandemic – pandemic death toll estimated to be between 3.4 million and 4.9 million excess deaths.

COVID-19 has caused 6.9 million deaths globally, more than double what official reports show

 

Commentaries on Twitter

 

CDC unveils its latest weapon in Covid-19 detection: wastewater.

7 Feb, 2022 | 08:49h | UTC

CDC unveils its latest weapon in Covid-19 detection: wastewater – CNN

CDC Website: National Wastewater Surveillance System (NWSS): A new public health tool to understand COVID-19’s spread in a community – Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Related:

CDC Report: Using Wastewater Surveillance Data to Support the COVID-19 Response — United States, 2020–2021.

Rapid, large-scale wastewater surveillance and automated reporting system enabled early detection of nearly 85% of COVID-19 cases on a University campus.

[Preprint] Wastewater genomic testing can effectively track COVID-19 variants of concern.

Human Waste Could Be The Next Big Weapon in Controlling COVID-19 – TIME

Next steps for wastewater testing to help end this pandemic — and prevent the next one – STAT

Sewage sleuths helped an Arizona town beat back Covid-19. For wastewater epidemiology, that’s just the start – STAT

The myriad ways sewage surveillance is helping fight COVID around the world – Nature

Testing sewage can give school districts, campuses and businesses a heads-up on the spread of COVID-19 – The Conversation

It’s time to begin a national wastewater testing program for Covid-19 – STAT

Coronavirus: Testing sewage an ‘easy win’ – BBC

Development of wastewater pooled surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 from congregate living settings – high sensitivity, but unable to distinguish new infectious cases from persistent convalescent shedding.

 

How Denmark Decided COVID Isn’t a Critical Threat to Society – “The country became the first in the EU to lift all COVID restrictions despite leading the world in per capita infections”.

7 Feb, 2022 | 08:48h | UTC

How Denmark Decided COVID Isn’t a Critical Threat to Society – The Atlantic

Related:

Covid: Europe set for ‘long period of tranquillity’ in pandemic, says WHO.

As Denmark scraps COVID restrictions, WHO urges caution.

Despite the ongoing spread of Omicron, some European countries have decided to lift Covid-19 restrictions.

 

Scientists admit their Covid mistakes – “Being proved wrong lies at the heart of scientific progress. Here, experts reveal what they got wrong during the pandemic”.

7 Feb, 2022 | 08:46h | UTC

‘The case for masks became hugely stronger’: scientists admit their Covid mistakes – The Guardian

 

Expert reaction to a preprint looking at the impact of lockdowns, as posted on the John Hopkins Krieger School of Arts and Sciences website.

4 Feb, 2022 | 10:03h | UTC

Expert reaction to a preprint looking at the impact of lockdowns, as posted on the John Hopkins Krieger School of Arts and Sciences website – Science Media Centre

Original Article: a Literature Review And Meta-Analysis Of The Effects Of Lockdowns On Covid-19 Mortality – John Hopkins Krieger School of Arts and Sciences

Related:

M-A: Effectiveness of public health measures in reducing the incidence of covid-19, SARS-CoV-2 transmission, and covid-19 mortality.

Is the cure really worse than the disease? The health impacts of lockdowns during COVID-19 – “While there are certainly costs to be expected from intervening against COVID-19—every decision has a cost, after all—the counterfactual of an unmitigated epidemic makes these restrictions far less damaging than some have suggested”.

 

Covid: Europe set for ‘long period of tranquillity’ in pandemic, says WHO.

4 Feb, 2022 | 09:54h | UTC

Covid: Europe set for ‘long period of tranquillity’ in pandemic, says WHO – The Guardian

See also: In Europe, leaders are starting to turn the page on the pandemic. It’s a different story in the US – CNN

 

Experts question unusual authorization plan for Covid vaccine for kids under 5.

4 Feb, 2022 | 09:57h | UTC

Experts question unusual authorization plan for Covid vaccine for kids under 5 – STAT

Related:

Pfizer and BioNTech seeking emergency use authorization from FDA for Covid-19 vaccine for children younger than 5 – CNN

Pfizer asks FDA to allow COVID-19 vaccine for kids under 5 – Associated Press

Pfizer Asks FDA to Approve Its Vaccine for the Youngest Children – HealthDay

 

Viewpoint: social media and the transformation of the physician-patient relationship.

4 Feb, 2022 | 08:28h | UTC

Social Media and the Transformation of the Physician-Patient Relationship: Viewpoint – Journal of Medical Internet Research

 

Perspective: The origins, development, and context of the Lancet Commission on the Value of Death – “Death has turned from being a family, social, and cultural event to primarily a medical event”.

3 Feb, 2022 | 08:51h | UTC

The origins, development, and context of the Lancet Commission on the Value of Death – The BMJ

Related: The Lancet Commission: Experts warn of the increasing overmedicalization of death, call for radical rethink of how society cares for dying people.

 

Cross-sectional analysis: increased visceral adipose tissue in adults linked to reduced cognitive scores.

3 Feb, 2022 | 08:41h | UTC

Evaluation of Adiposity and Cognitive Function in Adults – JAMA Network Open

Commentaries:

Excess Body Fat Tied to Lower Cognitive Scores in Adults – HealthDay

Expert reaction to study looking at the association between body fat and cognition in adults – Science Media Centre

 

Commentary on Twitter

 

WHO Report: Global analysis of health care waste in the context of COVID-19.

2 Feb, 2022 | 08:54h | UTC

Global analysis of health care waste in the context of COVID-19 – World Health Organization

News Release: Tonnes of COVID-19 health care waste expose urgent need to improve waste management systems – World Health Organization

Commentaries:

Covid-19: Pandemic waste threatens human and environmental health, says WHO – The BMJ

Amid Mountains of COVID Waste, WHO Urges Sustainable Solutions – Health Policy Watch

 

Commentary on Twitter (thread – click for more)

 

Ten billion COVID vaccinations: world hits new milestone.

2 Feb, 2022 | 08:48h | UTC

Ten billion COVID vaccinations: world hits new milestone – Nature

 

Commentary on Twitter

 

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