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An inhaled Covid vaccine booster was more than 5-fold effective for inducing neutralizing antibodies at 28-days, and more durable at 1-year, than shots, vs Omicron BA.5 in a randomized trial thelancet.com/journals/lanin… @TheLancetInfDis

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Residents who wish to become pregnant often face limited options for adjusting their schedules without interrupting their careers. This status quo reflects a need for structural and cultural change. nej.md/3mFaqZS

Some positive news on Covid erictopol.substack.com/p/a-break-from…

The future of Covid vaccines that we need now, a new feature @Nature by @ewencallaway, including nasal, for mucosal immunity, and universal, more durable, variant-proof ones with less side effects nature.com/articles/d4158…

Trying to stay organized while aggregating data for a systematic review? Ask TEAM Trial Investigators @Michelle_Monash and @chodgsonANZICRC how they approached the process: twitter.com/i/spaces/1vOxw…

NEW Opinion: "COVID-19 clearly demonstrated that public health capacity alone is not a guarantor of a robust crisis response, and that governance has been a key determinant of an effective pandemic response" plos.io/3XMtliM

À quelques jours des Fêtes, continuons de nous protéger. Portons le masque et isolons-nous lorsque des symptômes se présentent. Plus d’infos: lapresse.ca/actualites/cov…

Vigorous intermittent lifestyle physical activity (VILPA), 3-4 minute bursts per day, associated with ~40% reduction of all-cause mortality, cancer and cardiovascular mortality nature.com/articles/s4159… @NatureMedicine @ma_hamer @M_Stamatakis

Today is the day! The @Nature #COVIDconsensus paper is now live at go.nature.com/3NtcfCM. All of our recommendations are 100% within human control and we need your help to spread the message to end #COVID19 as a #publichealth threat! #CovidTwitter

A new #LongCovid nationwide study from Scotland w/ matched controls, 6-18 months follow up, showed 6% no recovery, 42% had only partial recovery, with "poorer quality of life and wide-ranging impairment of their daily activities which could not be explained by confounding"

After 30 years @IHME_UW Global Burden of Disease extraordinary efforts, 180 risk factors for disease assessed w/ new parameter—burden of disease risk function (BPRF)—and a 5-star system 10 new papers @NatureMedicine nature.com/articles/s4159… nature.com/collections/be…

“The message is clear: the greater the inequality in income or in access to high-quality care within a country, the greater were excess deaths during the first 2 years of the pandemic” 📣 New Editorial on equity & pandemic preparedness ➡️ gh.bmj.com/content/7/9/e0…

Check out this brand new article out now in Big Data & Society by Anthony Amicelle from @CEDurkheim on "Big data surveillance across fields: Algorithmic governance for policing & regulation"! buff.ly/3SAvYC4

"We show how this [science-guided] battle got lost on Facebook very early during the COVID-19 pandemic and why the mainstream majority, including many parenting communities, had already moved closer to more extreme communities by the time vaccines arrived" science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

I don't think so: "In a not-too-distant future, your Prime membership may include a free annual checkup." wsj.com/articles/dr-am… by @david_wainer

How nasal-spray vaccines could change the pandemic nature.com/articles/d4158…

How we classify countries and people— and why it matters @Themrise @SeyeAbimbola @CKyobutungi @Paimadhu BMJ Glob Health gh.bmj.com/content/bmjgh/…

An indefatigable force throughout the pandemic, @trishgreenhalgh goes deep to understand the big miss—that #COVIDisAirborne bmj.com/content/378/bm… @BMJ_latest w/ @DRTomlinsonEP and Mustafa Ozbilgin

Relevant to new BA.5 boosters for people with recent infection < 2 months "B-cell responses to booster vaccines are impeded by recent infection" medrxiv.org/content/10.110…