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Otrosdías @otrosdias.bsky.social · 1h

Have you tried the BCRT pharmacy in Hamburg? bsky.app/profile/drmc...

Dr. McCoy 😷 @drmccoy.info · Aug 19

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Kinderimpfungen nur via Kontaktformular:
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(Weiter in 2/2⤵️)

Otrosdías @otrosdias.bsky.social · 1h

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Otrosdías @otrosdias.bsky.social · 1h

Hi, are you in Germany? In that case there are possibilities. Ask @u12schutz.bsky.social or @bildungabersicher.net for doctors local to you. And do search @noemi70.bsky.social 's time line for a long list of German pharmacies and practices that vaccinate against COVID... Best of luck!

Otrosdías @otrosdias.bsky.social · 1h

Hi, are you in Germany? In that case there are possibilities. Ask @u12schutz.bsky.social or @bildungabersicher.net for doctors local to you. And do search @noemi70.bsky.social 's time line for a long list of German pharmacies and practices that vaccinate against COVID... Best of luck!

Otrosdías @otrosdias.bsky.social · 1h

Actually, yes, that's extremely similar

Otrosdías @otrosdias.bsky.social · 1h

@dvdvmoe.bsky.social @cyclad58.bsky.social Interesting, COVID in Finland now growing again after an earlier fall...

Otrosdías @otrosdias.bsky.social · 6h

This study is also relevant www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-...

Annual COVID Vaccines Save Lives, New Study Shows

A new study shows that receiving an updated COVID vaccine reduced people’s risk of severe disease and death in all age groups, regardless of immunity from prior infection or vaccination

www.scientificamerican.com

Otrosdías @otrosdias.bsky.social · 7h

"The new research also “calls into question the idea that younger individuals and those without risk factors don’t need the vaccine,” Viswanathan says." @javierpadillab.bsky.social @sanderlab.bsky.social @bildungabersicher.net @u12schutz.bsky.social @winslowsp.bsky.social

Otrosdías @otrosdias.bsky.social · 7h

"A new study shows that receiving an updated COVID vaccine reduced people’s risk of severe disease and death in all age groups, regardless of immunity from prior infection or vaccination" www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-...

Annual COVID Vaccines Save Lives, New Study Shows

A new study shows that receiving an updated COVID vaccine reduced people’s risk of severe disease and death in all age groups, regardless of immunity from prior infection or vaccination

www.scientificamerican.com

Otrosdías @otrosdias.bsky.social · 1d

Hi, I would ask @u12schutz.bsky.social or @bildungabersicher.net for practices near you that vaccinate children against COVID. Also look at @noemi70.bsky.social 's timeline, she lists practicesvand pharmacies that vaccinate. All the best!

Otrosdías @otrosdias.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, but recommendations based on cost effectiveness that are only based on the risk of acute COVID and ignore the risk of Long COVID are irrational.

Otrosdías @otrosdias.bsky.social · 1d

... so as to avoid politically problematic newspaper headlines. Wastewater, for examples contributes to the "Respi-radar" system that, if indicators go above certain thresholds would lead to a higher alarm level and therefore to recommendations of masking in hospitals, etc.

Otrosdías @otrosdias.bsky.social · 1d

...because the story they present on wastewater is inconsistent (as you have described very well) and updating chart dimensions in the middle of a wave so that the increase looks slower takes more work than not updating it. So at the moment I think they are carefully managing the numbers...

Otrosdías @otrosdias.bsky.social · 1d

Indeed! With Sciensano my money has typically been on deliberate "stupidity", i.e.: not outright lying, but just treating COVID figures with neglect so that they are not very useful and therefore politically embarrassing. But the recent wastewater changes and now this make me think more of malice...

Otrosdías @otrosdias.bsky.social · 1d

No problem! Isn't it amazing that they changed the scaling from week to week? This suggests careful ongoing management of this publication.

Otrosdías @otrosdias.bsky.social · 1d

..to track what is happening week after week, even if one assumes that these are changes made without ill will. Of course, this is Sciensano, the same organisation that keeps making weird and intransparent weekly changes to its wastewater data reporting bsky.app/profile/dvdv...

dvdvmoe @dvdvmoe.bsky.social · 3d

ME ist sciensano nicht in der Lage, plausible Daten zu 'schätzen'.
Im Bericht KW39 als falsch erkannte, nämlich 'underestimated' also zu niedrig geschätzte Daten werden jetzt noch niedriger (!) behauptet.

Otrosdías @otrosdias.bsky.social · 1d

...looking more closely at the graphs, I saw that in the latest one (week 40, right) the y axis had been truncated to cover a smaller period, which had the result of making the increase seem slower than it did last week (week 39, left). This continuous tinkering with formats means it's difficult..

Otrosdías @otrosdias.bsky.social · 1d

We have already discussed Belgian wastewater data, but when looking at this week's infectious disease monitor I noticed that the charts on patients that go to their GP for COVID suspicion and GP patients who test positive were still increasing but were actually a lot flatter than I remembered them..

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TRAstonDrs @castltrastondrs.bsky.social · 1d

#Medsky🧪 #IDsky #opthsky #virolsky #publichealth This 2025 cohort study analyzed data from over 150,000 patients using a large, de-identified electronic health records database. The analysis provides population-level risk estimates for a range of ocular conditions related to #COVID

Dr David Joffe MB BS(Hons), PhD, FRACP @davidjoffe64.bsky.social · 1d

More Opthalmic complications of Cøvid. Vaccinations reduce the risk.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Ophthalmic complications associated with COVID-19: a large US national database analysis - Eye

Eye - Ophthalmic complications associated with COVID-19: a large US national database analysis

Otrosdías @otrosdias.bsky.social · 2d

Very concerning, thanks for the update! I'm waiting for the new Belgian respiratory infections bulletin, due out today.

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Megaholt 𓅃 @megaholt.medsky.social · 2d

That’s…not good.

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40813533/

SARS-CoV-2 infection heightens the risk of developing HPV-related carcinoma in situ and cancer - PubMed

SARS-CoV-2 infection is associated with elevated risks of HPV-related carcinoma in situ and cancer, irrespective of age or race. The findings underscore the importance of understanding the interplay b...

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Otrosdías @otrosdias.bsky.social · 2d

Flashback to the Cancer Drugs Fund www.bbc.com/news/health-...

Cancer Drugs Fund 'huge waste of money'

Politicians and experts are criticised over the fund, which cost £1.27bn and may have harmed patients.

Otrosdías @otrosdias.bsky.social · 2d

I wonder if Rachel Reeves has an assessment of the fiscal impact of such a measure and Wes Streeting of the impact on drug access equity due to potential increased co-payments.

Otrosdías @otrosdias.bsky.social · 2d

This trend towards more bespoke and intransparent agreements with pharma has been apparent for a while (remember David Cameron's fund for cancer drugs outside of the control of NICE). But the significant novelty here is that the negotiation is to significantly increase rather than decrease prices.

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Airspot Health @airspothealth.bsky.social · 2d

@longcovidkids.bsky.social & The Voice of Early Childhood:

Podcast
www.youtube.com/watch?v=h70o...

Clean Air Guide
thevoiceofearlychildhood.com/a-breath-of-...

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A breath of fresh air: Reducing illness in early years settings by improving indoor air quality

YouTube video by The Voice of Early Childhood

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Pflegeherz @pflegeherz.bsky.social · 3d

Anhaltende neuromuskuläre Erkrankungen im Zusammenhang mit Veränderungen der Muskelarchitektur des Musculus tibialis anterior und des Musculus gastrocnemius lateralis bei Long-Covid: eine beobachtende Längsschnittstudie:

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Persistent neuromuscular disorders associated with changes in tibialis anterior and gastrocnemius lateralis muscle architecture in long-covid: an observational longitudinal study - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - Persistent neuromuscular disorders associated with changes in tibialis anterior and gastrocnemius lateralis muscle architecture in long-covid: an observational longitudinal study