Infectious Disease Ethics @ID_ethics
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Notable development on the Long Covid front: consistent with previous studies, a randomized trial in @bmj_latest found that an exercise-based physical & mental health rehabilitation program improved outcomes for those with Long COVID. bmj.com/content/384/bm…
Hawking was wrong: Philosophy is not dead, and it has kept up with modern science | By @danwilliamsphil Some recommendations for those interested in learning about the philosophy of science. conspicuouscognition.com/p/hawking-was-…
Two false dogmas of clinical infectious diseases: "1⃣traditional durations of antimicrobial therapy and 2⃣the necessity of intravenous (IV) antibiotics These dogmas based on uncontrolled case series from >50 years ago, amplified by the opinions of eminent experts"
Two false dogmas of clinical infectious diseases: "1⃣traditional durations of antimicrobial therapy and 2⃣the necessity of intravenous (IV) antibiotics These dogmas based on uncontrolled case series from >50 years ago, amplified by the opinions of eminent experts"
😷🏥What is the effect of stopping hospital mask mandates? "Using a robust quasi-experimental approach, we found no evidence that removal of a staff/visitor mask-wearing policy had a significant effect on the rate of hospital-acquired SARS-CoV-2" journalofhospitalinfection.com/article/S0195-…
Candida auris: a high risk fungal pathogen This genomic study (pre-print) tracks introduction & spread of C. auris in & between UK hospitals ➡️# on arrows = between hospital transmissions ⏹️# in squares = in-hospital transmissions biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
Many people still think that children and schools are the major factor in the spread of Covid. This is from Victoria Health, showing deaths (and the effect of Covid waves there). What you can’t see is any obvious relationship to children returning to school after holiday breaks.
Has performance of COVID lateral flow tests changed over time, variants & vaccination roll-out? Short answer: they consistently pick up most infections, particularly those that transmit, but work best in people with symptoms & higher amounts of virus, see medrxiv.org/content/10.110…
Scientists took one of my favourite videos of all time, featuring Kurt Vonnegut explore "the shapes of stories", and turned it into a paper analysing the shape of >1000 stories youtube.com/watch?v=oP3c1h…
Scientists took one of my favourite videos of all time, featuring Kurt Vonnegut explore "the shapes of stories", and turned it into a paper analysing the shape of >1000 stories youtube.com/watch?v=oP3c1h… https://t.co/sx3OoZk1Aw
Some immunosuppressed patients with COVID19 can shed infectious virus for weeks or months Especially patients with: 🔴Haematologic malignancy or Transplant (S-HT) 🟢Autoimmunity or B cell deficiency Often➡️difficult ethical questions re: isolation science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…
Some immunosuppressed patients with COVID19 can shed infectious virus for weeks or months Especially patients with: 🔴Haematologic malignancy or Transplant (S-HT) 🟢Autoimmunity or B cell deficiency Often➡️difficult ethical questions re: isolation science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… https://t.co/NP3ZAqgsyp
A thread from @TheLancet @covidcommission on school closures: --> 195 countries closed schools during the pandemic, affecting more than 1·5 billion children and young people and posing enormous long-term and unrecoverable costs to them, their parents, and the economy. 🧵1/n
"While HEPA filters can reduce viral load in the air, this does not lead to reduced COVID19 prevalence"
"While HEPA filters can reduce viral load in the air, this does not lead to reduced COVID19 prevalence"
Are you an early career (postdoc) researcher & would you like to be a visiting scholar @Ethox_Centre? 📰Apply below Broad topics of work can include: - global health ethics - clinical ethics - public health ethics - research ethics Closes 21/April/24 ethox.ox.ac.uk/opportunities/…
Preventing RSV spread in hospitals (1980s): "specially designed eye-nose goggles for staff reduced infection [but] the goggles were not well accepted by staff and eventually were abandoned." Discussion: wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/7/… Original study: jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…
Photo from the classic "all night poker game" studies of the transmission of the common cold academic.oup.com/jid/article-ab…
“Lack of research on how Paxlovid affects outcomes beyond severe Covid — such as duration of illness, how the drug affects transmission, and whether it prevents long Covid”
"Most respiratory viruses produce reinfection after re-exposure. Subsequent infections with the same or similar agents are generally more mild and last shorter periods" ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…
UK winter peak prevalence of covid19 In mid-late December, up to ~5%, or 1 in 20 people were infected at any one time Would be interesting to know how this correlates with sick leave / work absence data
UK winter peak prevalence of covid19 In mid-late December, up to ~5%, or 1 in 20 people were infected at any one time Would be interesting to know how this correlates with sick leave / work absence data
We often assume that we know who infected us with a virus But even in households, 1 in 40 presumed secondary cases (2.5%) came from other sources (see below) People who say they know they caught a virus from a person outside their household are likely wrong (much) more often
We often assume that we know who infected us with a virus But even in households, 1 in 40 presumed secondary cases (2.5%) came from other sources (see below) People who say they know they caught a virus from a person outside their household are likely wrong (much) more often
Immediate global effort and investment are needed to improve patient care and develop an effective treatment for #Nipah virus. A new proposal from @drzakiul @ElsTorreele @PeterHorby @ACheyne33 @ISARIC1 @icddr_b & more in @TheLancetInfDis Full story 👇🏽 psi.ox.ac.uk/news/researche…
Work in hospital? Want to predict which patients will go home in the next 24h, or how many will leave hospital in total? We do this with only 3-5% error using data from 150k admissions: medrxiv.org/content/10.110… Could AI transform how your hospital runs? @bdi_oxford @ModMedMicro
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WikiGuidelines for infective endocarditis. 17 questions posed. Only ONE with high level evidence to guide recommendations. However, this is the ONE which has been difficult to convince colleagues to change practice – oral switch therapy. jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman…
At #ASID2024. Plenary Talk by @DrToddLee on dogma in ID. Thread below on: Aminoglycosides for enterococcal endocarditis WikiGuidelines for IE Example of opiates for acute pain and addiction
Vaccine mandates have been ruled unlawful. It’s been a long time coming but today a little bit of justice has finally been served. Congratulations to brave police officers and paramedics who stood up to the tyranny of the State government and their minions who violated people’s…
How did we lose our tail? A simple question.. but it wasn't really asked before! We discovered a plausible scenario for the genetic mechanism that led to tail loss. Amazing that such a big change may have been caused by such a small genetic event. nature.com/articles/s4158… @BoXia7
The evidence is clear: authoritarian restrictions did not save more lives Countries that imposed more lockdown measures did not experience lower excess death rates spiked-online.com/2024/02/29/how…
🔥 “school settings do not substantially contribute to community incidence, hospitalisations, or mortality” Given what we knew about impacts of school closures on students’ mental, physical and social health and wellbeing… It’s remarkable there is no global recovery strategy
What is the specific role of schools and daycares in #COVID19 transmission? Evidence suggests when infection prevention and control measures were in place, secondary transmission within schools and daycares was low. bit.ly/4bFpsDR
When asked how Fascism starts, Bertrand Russell once said: "First, they fascinate the fools. Then, they muzzle the intelligent."
“The danger of school closures, which we always knew, was that it was going to accentuate disadvantage,” said Shergold. “After the closures in early 2020, we made the wrong policy decisions about closing school systems.”smh.com.au/national/nsw/w…
New study @PNASNews: US Covid vaccine mandates DID NOT increase vax rates but REDUCED flu vaccine & C19 booster uptake Lost trust, Ineffective; legally, socially, & ethically=wrong approach Mandates have unintended consequences gh.bmj.com/content/7/5/e0… pnas.org/doi/epdf/10.10…
Child development & education experts on NSW school closures: “unnecessary & led to a cascade of social & educational problems that threaten a generation of..children” “ignored the needs of children, but demonised them as “germy super-spreaders” smh.com.au/national/nsw/w…