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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)

 

WHO/ILO: Almost 2 million people die from work-related causes each year.

19 Sep, 2021 | 23:39h | UTC

News release: WHO/ILO: Almost 2 million people die from work-related causes each year – World Health Organization

Report: WHO/ILO joint estimates of the work-related burden of disease and injury, 2000-2016: global monitoring report – World Health Organization

 

Commentary on Twitter

 

Editorial: Brain health and its social determinants.

19 Sep, 2021 | 23:28h | UTC

Brain health and its social determinants – The Lancet

 

Commentary on Twitter

 

CDC Report: SARS-CoV-2 transmission to masked and unmasked close contacts of university students with COVID-19.

17 Sep, 2021 | 10:17h | UTC

SARS-CoV-2 Transmission to Masked and Unmasked Close Contacts of University Students with COVID-19 — St. Louis, Missouri, January–May 2021 – CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report

 

Commentary on Twitter

https://twitter.com/eliowa/status/1436017429927370758

 

Choosing Wisely: Five things clinicians and patients should question in rural medicine.

19 Sep, 2021 | 23:26h | UTC

Choosing Wisely Canada: Rural medicine list of recommendations – Canadian Journal of Rural Medicine

See complete lists of low-value practices: Choosing Wisely U.S. / Choosing Wisely UK / Choosing Wisely Australia AND Choosing Wisely Canada

 

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

17 Sep, 2021 | 10:15h | UTC

Using Wastewater Surveillance Data to Support the COVID-19 Response — United States, 2020–2021 – CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report

Related:

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.

 

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

 

RCT: The addition of telemedicine to improve standard care for medically complex children was associated with improved clinical outcomes and reduced costs.

17 Sep, 2021 | 10:00h | UTC

Telemedicine for Children With Medical Complexity: A Randomized Clinical Trial – Pediatrics

 

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

 

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

16 Sep, 2021 | 10:11h | UTC

Third shot: UK to offer COVID booster jabs to over 50s – Associated Press

 

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.

 

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

16 Sep, 2021 | 10:13h | UTC

Protection of BNT162b2 Vaccine Booster against Covid-19 in Israel – New England Journal of Medicine

 

Perspective | Schools have begun mass testing for COVID-19. But hurdles and uncertainties remain.

16 Sep, 2021 | 10:06h | UTC

Schools have begun mass testing for COVID-19. But hurdles and uncertainties remain – Science

Related: Cluster RCT: Daily contact testing of school-based contacts was non-inferior to self-isolation for control of COVID-19 transmission.

 

Global COVID-19 cases show substantial drop.

16 Sep, 2021 | 10:08h | UTC

Global COVID-19 cases show substantial drop – CIDRAP

 

Perspective | Can ‘zero COVID’ countries continue to keep the virus at bay once they reopen?

16 Sep, 2021 | 10:04h | UTC

Can ‘zero COVID’ countries continue to keep the virus at bay once they reopen? – Science

 

Editorial | Insulin for all: a hope yet to be realized.

16 Sep, 2021 | 09:59h | UTC

Insulin for all: a hope yet to be realized – The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology

Related: One hundred years of insulin therapy.

 

Commentary on Twitter

 

Systematic Review: Can electronic cigarettes help people stop smoking, and do they have any unwanted effects when used for this purpose?

16 Sep, 2021 | 09:55h | UTC

Summary: Can electronic cigarettes help people stop smoking, and do they have any unwanted effects when used for this purpose? – Cochrane Library

Original Study: Electronic cigarettes for smoking cessation – Cochrane Library

 

Commentary on Twitter

 

Cluster RCT: Daily contact testing of school-based contacts was non-inferior to self-isolation for control of COVID-19 transmission.

15 Sep, 2021 | 10:01h | UTC

Daily testing for contacts of individuals with SARS-CoV-2 infection and attendance and SARS-CoV-2 transmission in English secondary schools and colleges: an open-label, cluster-randomised trial – The Lancet

Invited commentary: Daily antigen testing to reduce disruption when schools return – The Lancet

 

Review | Prevention of host-to-host transmission by SARS-CoV-2 vaccines.

15 Sep, 2021 | 09:16h | UTC

Prevention of host-to-host transmission by SARS-CoV-2 vaccines – The Lancet Infectious Diseases

Related:

Study ties COVID vaccines to lower transmission rates.

Effect of Vaccination on Household Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in England – “the likelihood of household transmission was approximately 40 to 50% lower in households of index patients who had been vaccinated 21 days or more before testing positive than in households of unvaccinated index patients”.

Study in England showed one dose of COVID-19 vaccine can cut household transmission by up to half – This protection is on top of the reduced risk of a vaccinated person developing symptomatic infection, which is around 60 to 65% after the first dose

Covid-19 vaccination prevents transmission from vaccinated to unvaccinated household members.

 

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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