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

Depressing study (american) that 1 in 5 diagnosed with covid were later diagnosed with a mental illness. www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpsy/article/PIIS2215-0366(20)30462-4/fulltext

One to quote to those thinking lockdown causes more mental illness.

The Cummings study Psychological entitlement predicts noncompliance with the health guidelines of the COVID-19 pandemic (and the entitled are more likely to get Covid)

www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191886920306826

American study of movement data links infection to restaurants, gyms, hotels - although hotels used for spring breaks. www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-11-10/covid-superspreader-risk-is-linked-to-restaurants-gyms-hotels

Covid affects the testes and male fertility.

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onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jum.15558

organ damage in long covid in 70% of young people www.bmj.com/content/371/bmj.m4470

Possible treatment for cytokine storms, uses existing drugs

www.stjude.org/inspire/news/st-jude-scientists-make-advance-in-covid-19.html?linkId=104985052&fbclid=IwAR0kl3XnkECMnHn-EtKHQjEx-gGBwelb7wmyBhkRk_k02sQ1tjG14HLzy9c

Indian vitamin D study with a focus on how long it takes to get a negative test. So not the most interesting study - but suggests vitamin D reduces fibrinogen (important for blood clotting)

pmj.bmj.com/content/early/2020/11/12/postgradmedj-2020-139065

Breast milk from mothers recovered from covid may contain antibodies to the virus

www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/11/breast-milk-contains-coronavirus-antibodies-study-suggests

Report from Iceland interesting for the 20% of tourists testing negative on arrival but positive 5 days later. www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-03284-3

Seasonal coronaviruses (colds to you and me) not protective against covid www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.11.06.20227215v1

Brazilian study where vitamin D supplementation didnt help - given as a single dose on average 10 days after the start of symtoms www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.11.16.20232397v1

Asymptomatic people had higher viral loads in this Turkish study - explains why the virus can spread so easily link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s15010-020-01548-8

Drug treatment for mild and moderate cases www.expresspharma.in/covid19-updates/favipiravir-shows-significant-improvement-in-time-to-clinical-cure-for-mild-to-moderate-covid-19/

Half of US students experience symptoms and complications more than 28 days later and 30% experienced these symptoms for 50 days or longer. (small study)

medicalxpress.com/news/2020-12-young-adults-lingering-covid-symptoms.html

Most alcohol free hand sanitisers kill covid too www.psychnewsdaily.com/new-study-finds-alcohol-free-hand-sanitizer-stops-covid-19-just-as-well/

@BigChocFrenzy German study showing mandatory masks reduced new infections by 45% www.pnas.org/content/early/2020/12/02/2015954117

Infection at further than 2 metres and less than 15 minutes www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-12-09/five-minutes-from-20-feet-away-south-korean-study-shows-perils-of-indoor-dining-for-covid-19

Wow thanks @alreadytaken , you're a one-woman-band! Had forgotten this thread.

Pity no-one else is posting but I park them here so I can find them later.

Solid sewage beats waste water www.medscape.com/viewarticle/942412?src=wnl_edit_tpal&uac=134545FJ&impID=2733508&faf=1

Deaths higher in American college towns www.nytimes.com/2020/12/12/us/covid-colleges-nursing-homes.html

And for the "but Sweden" people - their health care staff are so exhausted they are resigning www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-12/swedish-covid-workers-are-quitting-leaving-icus-short-staffed

(dont share this with children) a care home volunteer was a superspreader www.vrt.be/vrtnws/en/2020/12/12/saint-nicholas-a-super-spreader-45-care-home-residents-infected/

Children may be more affected than we realise - thrombotic microangiopathy observed even in even in children with few symptoms, although these were children in hospital ashpublications.org/bloodadvances/article/4/23/6051/474421/Evidence-of-thrombotic-microangiopathy-in-children

Antibodies lasting 8 months so far medicalxpress.com/news/2020-12-covid-immunity-months-reveals.html

Hello, not been keeping up with this thread and not sure anyone's reading - just wondered if anyone knew anything about ivermectin? Apparently it's been going round the black market in South Africa and there's a small research group set up. WHO meta-analysis due soon but possibly more trials needed to come to any conclusion.
Cheap, and licensed for use in animals but not humans. I hadn't heard of it until today.
More info
www.sahpra.org.za/news-and-updates/sahpras-guidance-on-the-use-of-ivermectin-in-the-prophylaxis-or-treatment-of-covid-19/