Studies corner

[Branster]

There are so many snippets of information regarding small tests, case studies and even research from all over the world, some interesting, some surprising, some hopeful. Too many and too small or sometimes obscure to make the main news

If you’d like to share you are welcome to join the thread.

I’ll make a start with these findings from Canada about a potential inhibitor drug

www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/04/200402144526.htm

swedish virologist says the Swedish approach has failed www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-monday-edition-1.5767947/swedish-virologist-says-her-country-s-covid-19-strategy-has-failed-but-nobody-will-admit-it-1.5767967

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Infection spread from the young (university outbreak) to a care home. American study. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.10.12.20210294v1

Suggestion that the Kawasaki like syndrome in children and long covid in adults may be due to it's persistence in the gut www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2020/10/super-antigen-tied-multisystem-inflammatory-syndrome-children-long-covid/

Masks and face coverings for the lay public: A narrative update
pre print
osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/wuk6a?fbclid=IwAR2p3DlVB1nrJZTeC_T2iAhdn8ul16W6sSoq9p7u5jfmt_nkeJVhCpVTLoc

Japanese study showing masks work but are not total protection, uses dummy heads in.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-japan-masks-idINKBN2770DX

Israeli children are more likely to catch covid than adults www.timesofisrael.com/health-ministry-report-finds-kids-more-likely-to-catch-virus-than-adults/

Israel study on schools suggested children positivity rate of 8% and adults 6%. Interesting range of studies thanks @alreadytaken

Businesses were not closed - but the economy still suffered as people stayed away (Iowa) www.nytimes.com/2020/10/22/business/economy/economy-coronavirus-lockdown-iowa.html

Downs syndrome is a risk factor for covid www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M20-4986

Scottish waste water data informatics.sepa.org.uk/RNAmonitoring/

In India convalescent plasma has made little difference www.bmj.com/content/371/bmj.m3939

preprint suggesting covid may be becoming less virulent - NB NOT peer reviewed www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.10.20.347021v1

Vitamin D levels were not associated with lower mortality in this uk study - but treatment with vitamin D was, regardless of the initial vitamin D status. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3690902

Italian study suggesting flu vaccine may also affect severity of covid infection www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/research/coronavirus/publication/32947988

Anxiety, depression and symptoms of PTSD in Norweigan health service staff, higher in those working directly with covid patients. journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0241032

Kansas study showing counties that wore masks halved virus cases www2.ljworld.com/news/ku/2020/oct/23/covid-19-spreading-half-as-quickly-in-counties-with-mask-mandates-ku-research-shows/

This is not a study - this is Poland having patients in their ambulance bays for lack of beds. tvn24.pl/poznan/gorzow-wlkp-pacjenci-z-koronawirusem-w-hali-wjazdowej-dla-karetek-4731027

Why you may want to take aspirin if you have covid symptoms journals.lww.com/anesthesia-analgesia/Abstract/9000/Aspirin_Use_is_Associated_with_Decreased.95423.aspx

Patient facing health care staff have higher risks medicalxpress.com/news/2020-10-health-workers-families-account-hospital.html

And for those claiming that precautions do "fuck all" this is an American study showing infections 50% lower where masks are worn www2.ljworld.com/news/ku/2020/oct/23/covid-19-spreading-half-as-quickly-in-counties-with-mask-mandates-ku-research-shows/

sorry wrong thread

it truly was eat out to spread the virus warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/economics/research/centres/cage/manage/publications/wp.517.2020.pdf

covid and neurological damage pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33053430/

This is fascinating - how close will we get to herd immunity assuming varying different levels of vaccine efficacy and uptake?

www.mckinsey.com/featured-insights/coronavirus-leading-through-the-crisis/charting-the-path-to-the-next-normal/coronavirus-vaccines-are-coming-but-how-effective-will-they-be-and-how-widely-adopted?cid=other-soc-twi-mip-mck-oth---&sid=4052930233&linkId=103446954#

You need to click through four charts using the arrows in top right.