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Coronavirus Tidbits #178 2/6/22
Quick links News   Diagnostics   Drugs  Devices  Epidemiology/Infection control   Tips   Politics   Feel good du jour   Comic relief   Perspective/Poem   Bits of beauty Announcements: First, there is now a Resources Page here for the most commonly asked questions I’m getting. Happy to continue to answer your questions/concerns as best I can, so don’t be shy about that. New posts: COVID and the Holocaust (sadly, submitted before I heard Rabbi Paskoff’s sermon, below) https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/967498 ~ ~ ~ Mosquito Nets Do Prevent Malaria, Longitudinal Study Confirms https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/967803 News Omicron news: US COVID-19 cases continue steep decline Cases of COVID-19 continue to drop…
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Coronavirus Tidbits #158 9/19/21
Quick links Announcements: First, there is now a Resources Page here for the most commonly asked questions I’m getting. Happy to continue to answer your questions/concerns as best I can, so don’t be shy about that. Betadine Is This Week’s Covid-19 “Cure,” Vying With Ivermectin Pet Store Puppies Linked to Campylobacter Infections C auris Transmission Can be Contained in Postacute Care Settings News ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Forceful vaccine messages backfire with holdouts: How can it be done better? With the FDA approval of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine and the continued surge of the delta variant, governments across the world have renewed…
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Coronavirus Tidbits #132 3/28/21
Quick links News   Diagnostics   Drugs  Devices  Epidemiology/Infection control   Tips   Politics   Feel good du jour   Comic relief   Perspective/Poem   Bits of beauty Announcements: First, there is now a Resources Page here for the most commonly asked questions I’m getting. Happy to continue to answer your questions/concerns as best I can, so don’t be shy about that. News Disturbing level of vaccine hesitation in HCWs About 4 in 10 healthcare workers haven’t gotten a COVID-19 vaccine yet, and more than 1 in 3 say they aren’t confident the vaccines have been thoroughly tested for safety and effectiveness, according to a new poll…
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Coronavirus Tidbits #118 2/3/21
Quick links News   Diagnostics   Drugs  Devices  Epidemiology/Infection control   Tips   Politics   Feel good du jour   Comic relief   Perspective/Poem   Bits of beauty Announcements: First, there is now a Resources Page here for the most commonly asked questions I'm getting. Happy to continue to answer your questions/concerns as best I can, so don't be shy about that. News And now for the bad news. *sigh*It looks like #B117, the more transmissible variant first detected in England, has now picked up the E484K mutation as well. That is the one linked to evading SOME immunity in SAfrica and Brazil.h/t @_b_meyerhttps://t.co/2iQLr8uJx7— Kai…
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Coronavirus Tidbits #112 1/14/20
Quick links News   Diagnostics   Drugs  Devices  Epidemiology/Infection control   Tips   Politics   Feel good du jour   Comic relief   Perspective/Poem   Bits of beauty Announcements: First, there is now a Resources Page here for the most commonly asked questions I’m getting. Happy to continue to answer your questions/concerns as best I can, so don’t be shy about that. News Mutations and vaccine efficacy “The mutation, identified in a variant first seen in South Africa and separately seen in another variant in Brazil, changes a part of the virus that your immune system’s antibodies get trained to recognize after you’ve been infected or vaccinated. Lab…
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Coronavirus Tidbits #100 12-3-20
Quick links News   Diagnostics   Drugs  Devices  Epidemiology/Infection control   Tips   Politics   Feel good du jour   Comic relief   Perspective/Poem   Bits of beauty Announcements: First, there is now a Resources Page here for the most commonly asked questions I’m getting. Happy to continue to answer your questions/concerns as best I can, so don’t be shy about that. News More good news about Moderna’s vaccine. See below in Drugs. ~ ~ ~ Change in recs from CDC CDC is cutting quarantine for potential exposure to 10 or seven days, depending on one’s test results and symptoms. If individuals do not develop…
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Coronavirus Tidbits #87 9/30/20
Quick links News   Diagnostics   Drugs  Devices  Epidemiology/Infection control   Tips   Politics   Feel good du jour   Comic relief   Perspective/Poem   Bits of beauty Announcements: First, there is now a Resources Page here for the most commonly asked questions I'm getting. Happy to continue to answer your questions/concerns as best I can, so don't be shy about that. We're coming up on the anniversary of the birth of my book, Resilience: One Family's Story... I began furiously writing it in 2016 because of the divisiveness and hate-mongering, as a warning to where that would lead...and here we are, with unmistakable parallels to…
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Coronavirus Tidbits #83 9/17/20
Quick links News   Diagnostics   Drugs  Devices  Epidemiology/Infection control   Tips   Politics   Feel good du jour   Comic relief   Perspective/Poem   Bits of beauty Announcements: First, there is now a Resources Page here for the most commonly asked questions I'm getting. Happy to continue to answer your questions/concerns as best I can, so don't be shy about that. ~ ~ ~ We're coming up on the anniversary of the birth of my book, Resilience: One Family's Story... I began furiously writing it in 2016 because of the divisiveness and hate-mongering, as a warning to wear that would lead...and here we are, with…
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Coronavirus Tidbits #80 9/6/20
Quick links News   Diagnostics   Drugs  Devices  Epidemiology/Infection control   Tips   Politics   Feel good du jour   Comic relief   Perspective/Poem   Bits of beauty Announcements: First, there is now a Resources Page here for the most commonly asked questions I’m getting. Happy to continue to answer your questions/concerns as best I can, so don’t be shy about that. News Fauci warns that Labor Day celebrations could drive Covid-19 spikes https://www.statnews.com/2020/09/04/fauci-labor-day-covid-19/ Vaccine makers are planning a public statement to push back on pressure on the FDA: The effort is shaping up as a joint statement from the leading companies developing Covid-19 vaccines,…