Covidpath

Public health hasn't failed us. Libertarianism, a "you-do-you" ethos, has allowed US life expectancy to plummet, writes @gregggonsalves.

I long this definition of "real liberty" from a Supreme Court justice in 1905...https://t.co/RkfVD7b2NQ pic.twitter.com/CPIkIJ9wOP

— Amy Maxmen, PhD (@amymaxmen) December 1, 2022

Today, FDA is announcing that bebtelovimab is not currently authorized for emergency use in any U.S. region because it is not expected to neutralize Omicron subvariants BQ.1 and BQ.1.1: https://t.co/eBkVVbiuqc pic.twitter.com/oqUEa2QQI4

— FDA Drug Information (@FDA_Drug_Info) November 30, 2022

New @NatureMedicine
There appear to be 4 subtypes of #LongCovid from machine learning analysis of 2 large cohorts https://t.co/Lz4tWRmCYU
@RainuKaushal @WeillCornell and colleagues pic.twitter.com/jsAQ1dYPaS

— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) December 1, 2022

The fundamental importance of basic sciencehttps://t.co/C49sJr59uT
This week's @Nature editorial pic.twitter.com/RiR4rmzKV8

— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) November 30, 2022

"Vaccinating children [and teens, ages 3-17] is an important public health measure that will prevent mortality in this population, especially in periods of high viral circulation.”
Matched analysis of ~140,000 cases and controlshttps://t.co/G3GJyZD17g@bmj_latest @carlavizzotti pic.twitter.com/PGnbUObQgG

— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) December 1, 2022

.@CDCgov and some states/communities are going to start looking for polioviruses in wastewater, a decision that emanates from the #polio case in New York State in the summer. Seek and ye shall find, the saying goes. Then what? https://t.co/y1QUUtAhHF

— Helen Branswell 🇺🇦 (@HelenBranswell) November 30, 2022

NEW: @CDCgov expands wastewater testing for polio to Michigan and Pennsylvania. First places are Detroit suburb that had measles outbreak in 2019 and Philadelphia. My story. https://t.co/4Cn2JXrLQM

— LenaSun (@bylenasun) November 30, 2022

The @WHO Council on the @Economy4Health was mandated by @DrTedros 1 year ago to 'rethink the narrative around #health, not as a cost, but as an #investment in our common future'

Read our 1-year report, which documents our impact so far #economy4health https://t.co/3vWLSuQ0zC

— Mariana Mazzucato (@MazzucatoM) November 30, 2022

These monkeypox researchers warned that the disease would go global. https://t.co/HqN1ydJ1xD

— Dr. Arinjay Banerjee (@sci_questions) November 30, 2022

Why Long Covid could be 'the next public health disaster'. My comments and interview with ⁦@GregIacurci⁩ ⁦@CNBC⁩ https://t.co/Zhvl8rxq1D

— Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD (@PeterHotez) November 30, 2022

See this excellent discussion by @CIDRAP, which highlights many weaknesses of the study. https://t.co/ynhM78cyyk

— Linsey Marr (@linseymarr) December 1, 2022

Great article by @NicolaKSDavis 👏
Absolutely spot-on from Dame Bingham, we have become utterly complacent.
As for "management like other respiratory infections", or "suffering the occasional head cold", I'm left dumfounded by Dr Harries and Prof Bell.https://t.co/nKbJwkz3Kh

— Stephen Griffin (@SGriffin_Lab) December 1, 2022

Brexit added nearly £6bn to UK food bills in two years and disproportionally hit the poor - what a surprise (not) https://t.co/KxI9HFnp3t

— Martin McKee 🇺🇦 (@martinmckee) December 1, 2022

COVID-19 cases stable globally but rise in 2 regions
by @lisaschnirring @CIDRAP https://t.co/Rxett6KQNF

— Chris Hendel (@chrishendel) December 1, 2022

Parents refuse use of 'vaccinated blood' in life-saving surgery on baby. New Zealand’s health services go to court over guardianship of four-month-old boy whose parents won't let heart operation go ahead, by @evacorlett https://t.co/fcdbxbcmFy via @guardian #COVID19 #infodemic

— André Picard (@picardonhealth) November 30, 2022

"More than 10,000 ambulances a week are caught in queues of at least an hour outside accident-and-emergency units in England."

"The total - the highest since records began, in 2010 - means one in eight crews faced delays on this scale by mid-November."https://t.co/1jrWCKmtNa

— Kit Yates (@Kit_Yates_Maths) December 1, 2022

"There have been 1.3 million documented cases of Covid-19 in US #nursinghomes since March 2020 & 160,078 deaths—a case fatality rate of 12%. 1 in 8 #nursinghome residents who have had a documented #Covid19 illness have died because of it."
by @jeremyfaust https://t.co/A1tdCXKNsu

— Chris Hendel (@chrishendel) December 1, 2022

Similar #LongCovid symptoms noted after Omicron, Delta#COVID19 #COVID19Aus @CIDRAP https://t.co/18pyUgtAfg

— APPRISE (@APPRISE_CRE) December 1, 2022

Let me paraphrase:

“We wanted to keep the myth alive, so we fucking went for it. We know the translations are fake and the timelines don’t make any sense, but we’re sticking to it -the experts and Chinese scientists are lying.

PS. the debate has gotten really toxic”. Go figure. pic.twitter.com/zZt0tkrO1r

— Kristian G. Andersen (@K_G_Andersen) December 1, 2022

It’s #WorldAIDSDay

Here are 4 things you need to know about #HIV ⬇️

— World Health Organization (WHO) (@WHO) December 1, 2022

Today we may have learned something new about SARS-CoV-2. Contrary to established 'COVID dogma', it looks like Omicron emerged largely gradually and that a diversity of Omicron BA.1 strains were already in circulation in August-September 2021 in Western and Eastern Africa.
1/ https://t.co/i5T1InmQfL

— Prof Francois Balloux (@BallouxFrancois) December 1, 2022

1. A short 🧵 about a report of 5 severe #mpox infections among vaccinated men vaccinated in Belgium published today in @Eurosurveillanc.
This was not an RCT. The Belgium vaccination program didn't try to study efficacy of the vax in recipients. I get why, but ... it's a shame. pic.twitter.com/fCji9fTAwD

— Helen Branswell 🇺🇦 (@HelenBranswell) December 1, 2022

🚨Across the US, health insurers and health care systems are breaking disability rights laws by sending inaccessible medical bills and notices, our @KHNews investigation found

It effectively creates a disability tax on time and finances

W/ @hannah_recht https://t.co/Y9X0Z7ylYd

— Lauren Weber (@LaurenWeberHP) December 1, 2022

I passed my viva with no corrections!!! DrPH-DONE!!

So many amazing people to thank for being with me on this journey, including @harlingg @Shelleylees @luisaenria @MaserayFofanah @Sara__Nam @no_palindrome @ombaggio and so so many others!!@MARCH_LSHTM @LSHTM_Crises @lshtm pic.twitter.com/iCM2GltBho

— Gillian McKay (@gillianleemckay) December 1, 2022

If you take nothing else from this #worldaidsday, let it be this:
Stigma kills.
Structural barriers to health care kill.
And that's why fighting stigma and removing structural barriers is a crucial part of fighting HIV/AIDS and other infectious diseases. https://t.co/1ELEyaZtyR

— Kai Kupferschmidt (@kakape) December 1, 2022

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"data revealed genetically diverse Omicron ancestors already existed across Africa by August 2021. Mutations, altering viral tropism, replication and immune escape, gradually accumulated in the spike gene.”

Definitely a must-read!https://t.co/3PXwv5QePN

— Kristian G. Andersen (@K_G_Andersen) December 1, 2022

If current trends hold, more than twice as many ppl in the U.S. will die of Covid (120,000) in the next year than died of AIDS in its deadliest year (55,000 in 1995).

Why is there so little anger about this? So little urgency? Are those dying of Covid acceptably "disposable"?

— Dr. Thrasher (@thrasherxy) December 1, 2022

TIL there are 87 live bird markets in New York and 36 in NJ, totaling a half million birds per week. Markets in Asia and wild game in Africa have drawn scrutiny as sources of zoonotic disease, but animal-human interaction is common across the world https://t.co/auMfXRk42n

— Caitlin Rivers, PhD (@cmyeaton) December 1, 2022

The debate on plaque lowering mABs has clearly switched from “is plaque clearance doing anything at all, clinically?”to “is the juice worth the squeeze?” at CTAD. May seem subtle but I think that is actually a big difference.

— Brian Skorney (@BrianSkorney) December 1, 2022

COVID hospitalization data on @CDCgov's tracker posted overnight shows admissions now climbing in wake of Thanksgiving across the country

Among seniors 70+ years old, the rate thru Nov 28 is now up 19.6% relative to the week priorhttps://t.co/cHTC0LjqLP pic.twitter.com/4KWQmxxjHU

— Alexander Tin (@Alexander_Tin) December 1, 2022

Next week all eyes will look towards Geneva.

Member states will meet at WHO to discuss a “conceptual draft zero” of a new #PandemicAccord.

The need to include language on independent monitoring of state compliance is evidence-based and non-negotiable.

🧵 pic.twitter.com/g7Z5q5pgsZ

— Nina Schwalbe (Mastadon @[email protected]) (@nschwalbe) December 1, 2022

Our work on Omicron BA.1 viral loads, rebounds and the impact of immune history on viral load is now published in eLife: https://t.co/0pfpvLpKs0

The main change since the preprint is the addition of stratification by age, which explains some but not all of the variation in Cts

— James Hay (@jameshay218) December 1, 2022

Wow: DC plans to make all buses operating within the District FREE to all riders, starting in summer 2023. We'll be the first major U.S. city to have free bus service. Also adding overnight service for 12 bus lines and giving all DC residents a $100 monthly subsidy for bus/metro. pic.twitter.com/nfwjvIhJnY

— Mark Joseph Stern (@mjs_DC) December 1, 2022

Just learned about 2 young kids killed in ATL over the weekend from my sister.

One of them had been in kindergarten with my nephew years ago. #ThisIsOurLanehttps://t.co/g5KxC6fHXI pic.twitter.com/kVVwjIi9UY

— Cedric Dark, MD, MPH, FACEP (@RealCedricDark) December 1, 2022

The UK CMOs and GCSA have published a technical report for our successors on some of the scientific and public health aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic.https://t.co/bxa5RM5eId

— Professor Chris Whitty (@CMO_England) December 1, 2022

Tbh, I’m shocked that this tweet hasn’t been deleted yet. Reading it felt like a gut punch. A complete whitewashing of a horrific history that compromised the lives of 623 Black men, their partners, and children. (Yes, some of their babies were born with congenital syphilis.) https://t.co/ozmklUM0Ki

— uché blackstock, md (@uche_blackstock) December 1, 2022

The University of Washington infectious diseases program still has 2 slots available, to join our class of 6 incoming fellows! if you are interested in a career in this exciting field, in the amazing city of Seattle, with incredible and friendly colleagues, please contact us.😀

— UW Infectious Disease Fellowship Program (@UWIDFellowship) December 1, 2022

3 years ago today: A man in Wuhan, China starts feeling ill and later becomes the first confirmed case of COVID-19. More than 6.6 million people have since died.

— BNO News (@BNOFeed) November 30, 2022