Tagged “covid”

twitter thread on a reddit thread on foods being tasteless now

not great news

this seems like something you do not want

one of the best MR comments sections I have seen

Adapting to solitude, and downsides of getting stuck there

not particularly

The results demonstrate a statistically significant depletion of CGM volume in 24 COVID-19 infected patients.

These seems to underplay the fact that it was reduced in all of them.

Very unfortunate

Invention is overrated, implementation underrated. Both in difficulty, and importance.

I know many of you like to say "No worse than the common cold!" Well, the thing is…the common cold imposes considerable costs on the world. Imagine a new common cold, which you catch a few times a year, with some sliver of the population getting some form of Long Covid.

ongoing scary stuff. Read the same day as "the gut makes your serotonin"

Filed under "moderately concerning". Still waiting on those variant-based boosters.

A study funded by #Pfizer shows that, within months, third shot of their vaccine now only cuts your risk of being hospitalized for Covid-19 by about half.

https://thelancet.com/journals/lanres/article/PIIS2213-2600(22)00101-1/fulltext

More depressing covid takes. The final paragraph:

The countries that have stopped the virus, that is, cannot keep stopping the virus, because the experts say there is already too much of the virus circulating. China is a pandemic waiting to happen because the United States is wholeheartedly committed to being a pandemic. The American program, they say, will be the program for the entire world.

Depressing read. In part because much of it won't happen and we'll keep flailing and yoyoing

My (non-expert) opinion is still in favor of fractional dosing. Really needed more non-industry research on it though.

Aiming for 60% global vaccination rate by next March. Some interesting facts and notes around which countries produce/export vaccines.

Pending peer review, but apparently large benefit in waiting 12 weeks rather than three.

In donors without evidence of previous infection the peak antibody response was 3.5-fold higher in donors who had undergone delayed interval vaccination. Cellular immune responses were 3.6-fold lower.

Some loose-ish estimates, but some staggering figures in there.

16% of the world bought 70% of the vaccines. What force on earth could stop them? None, so we needed the massive supply increases, which were effectively banned.

What fraction of all vaccines were wasted?

• by excessive dosing. No sign of the dosing regimes changing despite strong evidence. 50-75%?**
• by bad needle design. 10-30% more.

Also includes some good links and references. And honest disclaimer from the author:

Note: I'm not a engineer, I'm not an economist, I'm not a pharmacologist, I'm not an epidemiologist. There will be something wrong with the above, no doubt in misunderstanding the nature of vaccine engineering bottlenecks.

Maybe unsurprising, still disappointing

Article raises a lot of the things I don't like about tourism: locals being priced out, areas being ruined and overrun by visitors, and useful stores being replaced by junkshops selling shitty trinkets.