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Expert panel recommends against use of race in assessment of kidney function.

24 Sep, 2021 | 09:01h | UTC

Expert panel recommends against use of race in assessment of kidney function – STAT

Original Guidance: A Unifying Approach for GFR Estimation: Recommendations of the NKF-ASN Task Force on Reassessing the Inclusion of Race in Diagnosing Kidney Disease – American Journal of Kidney Diseases

 

Commentary on Twitter

 

‘Not a zero-sum game’: Sharing vaccines is in countries’ best interests.

23 Sep, 2021 | 10:09h | UTC

‘Not a zero-sum game’: Sharing vaccines is in countries’ best interests – YaleNews

Original article: National interest may require distributing COVID-19 vaccines to other countries – Scientific Reports

 

Commentary on Twitter

 

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

23 Sep, 2021 | 10:05h | UTC

News release: New WHO Global Air Quality Guidelines aim to save millions of lives from air pollution – World Health Organization

Original Guideline: WHO global air quality guidelines: particulate matter (‎PM2.5 and PM10)‎, ozone, nitrogen dioxide, sulfur dioxide and carbon monoxide

Executive Summary: WHO global air quality guidelines: particulate matter (‎PM2.5 and PM10)‎, ozone, nitrogen dioxide, sulfur dioxide and carbon monoxide

Commentaries:

Millions of deaths could be avoided under new air quality guidelines, WHO says – CNN

Combatting an invisible killer: New WHO air pollution guidelines recommend sharply lower limits – The Conversation

WHO slashes guideline limits on air pollution from fossil fuels – The Guardian

 

Perspective | Sorry, a Coronavirus Infection Might Not Be Enough to Protect You – “Anyone who’d rather have COVID-19 than get vaccinated is taking two gambles: that immunity will stick around, and that symptoms won’t”.

22 Sep, 2021 | 10:23h | UTC

Sorry, a Coronavirus Infection Might Not Be Enough to Protect You – The Atlantic

 

[Press release – not published yet] J&J says booster shot at two months provided 75% protection against moderate to severe COVID-19 globally and 94% of such cases in the U.S.

22 Sep, 2021 | 10:26h | UTC

Press release: Johnson & Johnson Announces Real-World Evidence and Phase 3 Data Confirming Strong and Long-Lasting Protection of Single-Shot COVID-19 Vaccine in the U.S.

Commentaries:

Johnson & Johnson says additional dose boosts Covid vaccine efficacy – STAT

J&J booster 94% effective against severe COVID, company says – CIDRAP

Two dose version of Johnson & Johnson shot 94% effective against Covid-19, study finds – CNN

 

Commentaries on Twitter

(thread – click for more)

(thread – click for more)

https://twitter.com/hildabast/status/1440363761299124229

 

[Press release – not published yet] Pfizer announces COVID-19 vaccine in children 5 to 11 years produced strong neutralizing antibody responses.

21 Sep, 2021 | 09:57h | UTC

Pfizer and BioNTech Announce Positive Topline Results From Pivotal Trial of COVID-19 Vaccine in Children 5 to 11 Years – Pfizer and BioNTech

Commentaries:

Covid-19 vaccine for 5- to 11-year-olds is safe and shows ‘robust’ antibody response, Pfizer says – CNN

Pfizer says COVID-19 vaccine safe, effective in younger children – CIDRAP

Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine generates robust antibody response in children, without serious safety issues, company says – STAT

Expert reaction to press release giving topline results from Pfizer and BioNTech from their phase 2/3 trial looking at safety and antibody responses from their COVID-19 vaccine in children aged 5 to 11 – Science Media Centre

 

Commentaries on Twitter

(thread – click for more)

(thread – click for more)

https://twitter.com/hildabast/status/1439976038964940803

 

Uncoupling vaccination from politics: a call to action.

21 Sep, 2021 | 09:56h | UTC

Uncoupling vaccination from politics: a call to action – The Lancet

 

Six rules that will define our second pandemic winter

21 Sep, 2021 | 09:47h | UTC

Six Rules That Will Define Our Second Pandemic Winter – The Atlantic

 

Editorial: Authorship and Publication Matters: Credit and Credibility.

21 Sep, 2021 | 08:54h | UTC

Authorship and Publication Matters: Credit and Credibility – Anesthesiology

Related: When is ‘self-plagiarism’ OK? New guidelines offer researchers rules for recycling text – Science

 

Commentary on Twitter

 

5000 alcohol-related cancer deaths could be prevented every year by doubling alcohol taxes in the European Region, says WHO/Europe.

21 Sep, 2021 | 08:52h | UTC

5000 alcohol-related cancer deaths could be prevented every year by doubling alcohol taxes in the European Region, says WHO/Europe – World Health Organization

Original study: Modelling the impact of increased alcohol taxation on alcohol-attributable cancers in the WHO European Region – The Lancet Regional Health – Europe

Related:

Fiscal policies for diet and the prevention of noncommunicable diseases – World Health Organization

The Lancet taskforce on NCDs and economics

To improve global health, tax the things that are killing us – Financial Times

Reducing cardiovascular disease burden through targeted dietary policies

Fiscal policies for the prevention of diseases

 

CDC Report: Moderna’s vaccine associated with greater effectiveness (93%) against Covid-19 hospitalization compared to Pfizer (88%) and J&J (71%) vaccines.

19 Sep, 2021 | 23:48h | UTC

Comparative Effectiveness of Moderna, Pfizer-BioNTech, and Janssen (Johnson & Johnson) Vaccines in Preventing COVID-19 Hospitalizations Among Adults Without Immunocompromising Conditions — United States, March–August 2021 – CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report

Commentaries:

Moderna’s vaccine is the most effective, but Pfizer and J&J also protect well, CDC-led study says – CNN

CDC: Moderna COVID vaccine most protective against hospital cases – CIDRAP

CDC data: Moderna vaccine has edge in preventing COVID-19 hospitalizations – UPI

 

Commentary on Twitter

 

Does everybody need a booster shot? – “Why some people might need Covid-19 booster shots — and some might not”.

19 Sep, 2021 | 23:43h | UTC

Does everybody need a booster shot? – Vox

 

An FDA panel says only high-risk Americans and those 65+ should get covid boosters.

19 Sep, 2021 | 23:45h | UTC

An FDA Panel Says Only High-Risk Americans And Those 65+ Should Get COVID Boosters – NPR

See also:

FDA advisory panel recommends booster doses of Covid-19 vaccine only for older and high-risk Americans – STAT

5 reasons why FDA advisers did not recommend Covid-19 booster shots for everyone – CNN

Top doctors say not so fast to Biden’s boosters-for-all plan – Associated Press

Related:

An observational study in Israel suggests additional protection from a 3rd dose of the Pfizer vaccine in individuals 60 years of age or older.

Third shot: UK to offer COVID booster jabs to over 50s.

COVID-19 vaccine efficacy does not support boosters for general population, review concludes.

COVID vaccine effects wane over time but still prevent death and severe illness.

What’s the evidence for COVID-19 booster shots?

WHO appeals for countries to postpone COVID-19 vaccine boosters until 2022 to prioritize vaccinating the most at-risk people around the world who are yet to receive their first dose.

AstraZeneca bosses warn against rush for boosters – “giving the most vulnerable, who may not have built up a full immune response from the first two, a third, top-up dose is “sensible”. But any decision to give a third, booster jab “to large swathes of the population”, to extend their protection from the first two, must be based on clinical data”.

 

COVID vaccine immunity is waning — how much does that matter? – “As debates about booster shots heat up, what’s known about the duration of vaccine-based immunity is still evolving”.

19 Sep, 2021 | 23:40h | UTC

COVID vaccine immunity is waning — how much does that matter? – Nature

 

Opinion | Vaccinate the World before Starting COVID Booster Shots – “Fewer than 0.5 percent of vaccine doses have been distributed to people living in low-income countries”.

19 Sep, 2021 | 23:41h | UTC

Vaccinate the World before Starting COVID Booster Shots – Scientific American

Related: WHO appeals for countries to postpone COVID-19 vaccine boosters until 2022 to prioritize vaccinating the most at-risk people around the world who are yet to receive their first dose.

 

Review: Long COVID symptoms in children rarely persist beyond three months.

19 Sep, 2021 | 23:47h | UTC

News release: Long COVID symptoms in children rarely persist beyond three months –  Murdoch Children’s Research Institute

Original study: How Common Is Long COVID in Children and Adolescents? – The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal

Commentary: Long Covid in children and adolescents is less common than previously feared – The Guardian

Related:

Cohort study: long term follow-up showed most patients with post–COVID-19 Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children had good outcomes with no significant medium- or long-term sequelae.

Long COVID: the physical and mental health of children and non-hospitalized young people after SARS-CoV-2 infection – one in seven children may still have symptoms 15 weeks after infection.

Do kids get long COVID? And how often? A pediatrician looks at the data – Children also get Long Covid, but much less often than adults.

Illness duration and symptom profile in symptomatic school-aged children tested for SARS-CoV-2 – “Only 25 (1.8%) of 1379 children experienced symptoms for at least 56 days.”

Long-term Symptoms After SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Children and Adolescents – “This study found a low prevalence of symptoms compatible with long COVID in a randomly selected cohort of children assessed 6 months after serologic testing”.

Study shows low incidence of post-acute COVID-19 symptoms (“Long Covid”) in children after mild disease

Cohort study: Risk factors for long covid in previously hospitalized children.

M-A: More than 50 long-term effects of COVID-19.

 

Commentary on Twitter (thread – click for more)

 

Editorial: Brain health and its social determinants.

19 Sep, 2021 | 23:28h | UTC

Brain health and its social determinants – The Lancet

 

Commentary on Twitter

 

Vaccine passports are coming. But are they ethical?

17 Sep, 2021 | 10:10h | UTC

Vaccine passports are coming. But are they ethical? – The Conversation

Related:

Infographic: Vaccine passports around the world.

WHO panel comes out against requiring vaccination proof for travel

Opinion | How to lose friends and alienate people? On the problems of vaccine passports (several texts on the subject)

 

How the Delta variant’s remarkable ability to replicate threw new twists into the Covid-19 pandemic.

17 Sep, 2021 | 10:09h | UTC

How the Delta variant’s remarkable ability to replicate threw new twists into the Covid-19 pandemic – STAT

 

AAN Position Statement: Ethical Considerations in Dementia Diagnosis and Care.

17 Sep, 2021 | 10:04h | UTC

Ethical Considerations in Dementia Diagnosis and Care: AAN Position Statement – Neurology

 

Review | Prevention of unintentional injuries in children under five years.

17 Sep, 2021 | 09:58h | UTC

Prevention of unintentional injuries in children under five years – BMC Pediatrics

 

COVID vaccine effects wane over time but still prevent death and severe illness.

16 Sep, 2021 | 10:10h | UTC

COVID vaccine effects wane over time but still prevent death and severe illness – The Conversation

Related:

Perspective | What we actually know about waning immunity.

Another study shows Pfizer mRNA vaccine immunity is reduced over time.

[Press release – not published yet] Study shows vaccine protection wanes over time, but vaccines still offer good protection against severe disease.

Studies: COVID vaccine protection waning against infection but not hospitalization.

Pfizer says it’s time for a Covid booster; FDA and CDC say not so fast.

 

Editorial: Striving for diversity in research studies.

16 Sep, 2021 | 10:02h | UTC

Striving for Diversity in Research Studies – New England Journal of Medicine

 

Ivermectin: Cochrane’s most talked about review so far, ever. Why?

15 Sep, 2021 | 09:07h | UTC

Ivermectin: Cochrane’s most talked about review so far, ever. Why? – Cochrane Library

Original review: Systematic review: no evidence to support the use of Ivermectin for treating or preventing COVID-19.

 

Commentary on Twitter

 

CDC report finds unvaccinated people are 11 times more likely to die of COVID-19.

15 Sep, 2021 | 09:09h | UTC

Unvaccinated People Are 11 Times More Likely To Die Of COVID-19, New Research Finds – NPR

Original study: Monitoring Incidence of COVID-19 Cases, Hospitalizations, and Deaths, by Vaccination Status — 13 U.S. Jurisdictions, April 4–July 17, 2021 – CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report

 

Commentary on Twitter

 

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