132-Night World Cruise Sells Out In Less Than 3 Hours : NPR
▻https://www.npr.org/2021/07/16/1016801922/world-cruise-ship-132-nights-sold-out
A 132-night “world cruise” sold out in under three hours, despite pandemic worries that have hobbled the cruise industry and steep prices that start at $73,499 per guest — and range up to $199,999 per person for a master suite.
New Evidence Suggests #COVID-19 Vaccines Remain Effective Against #Variants
▻https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/06/09/1004738276/new-evidence-suggests-covid-19-vaccines-remain-effective-against-variants
“What we showed is that the neutralizing antibodies are reduced about fivefold to the B.1.351 variant,” says Dan Barouch, director of the Center for Virology and Vaccine Research at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. Under the new nomenclature proposed by the World Health Organization, B.1.351 is now called Beta. It first appeared in South Africa.
“That’s very similar to what other investigators have shown with other vaccines,” he says. “But what we also showed is that there’s many other types of immune responses other than neutralizing antibodies, including binding antibodies, FC functional antibodies and T-cell responses.”
And it’s that last immune response, the T-cell response, that Barouch says is critically important. Because T cells, particularly CD8 T cells, play a crucial role in preventing illness.
[…]
“Those are the killer T cells,” Barouch says. “Those are the types of T cells that can basically seek out and destroy cells that are infected and help clear infection directly.”
They don’t prevent infection; they help keep an infection from spreading.
“The T-cell responses actually are not reduced — at all — to the variants,” Barouch says. It’s not just the Beta variant, but also the Alpha and Gamma variants.
That may help explain why the Johnson & Johnson vaccine prevented serious disease when tested in volunteers South Africa, where worrisome variants are circulating.
“The data is very solid,” says Alessandro Sette, an immunologist at the La Jolla Institute for Immunology. “Dan Barouch’s data really show very nicely that there is no appreciable decrease in [CD8 T-cell] reactivity.”
Sette’s lab has had similar results with the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines. So has Marcela Maus at Massachusetts General Hospital. Although it will take studies in people to be certain the vaccines will work against variants, “Anything that generates a T-cell immune response to the #SARS-CoV-2, I would say has promise as being potentially protective,” Maus says.
What’s not clear yet is how long the T-cell response will last, but several labs are working to answer that question.
A Prominent Anti-Vax Group Is Spreading False Vaccine Info To Black Americans : Shots - Health News : NPR
▻https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/06/08/1004214189/anti-vaccine-film-targeted-to-black-americans-spreads-false-information
the anti-vaccine movement — promoting its new film, Medical Racism: The New Apartheid.
The free, online film is the latest effort by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the founder of Children’s Health Defense. (He’s the son of the former U.S. Attorney General Robert “Bobby” Kennedy and nephew of President John F. Kennedy.) With this film, Kennedy and his allies in the anti-vaccine movement resurface and promote disproven claims about the dangers of vaccines, but it’s aimed squarely at a specific demographic: Black Americans.
The film draws a line from the real and disturbing history of racism and atrocities in the medical field — such as the Tuskegee syphilis study — to interviews with anti-vaccine activists who warn communities of color to be suspicious of modern-day vaccines.
L’apartheid c’est aussi ça : cibler expressément les communautés afro-américaines avec de la désinformation anti-vaccinale.
Skepticism Of Science In A Pandemic Isn’t New. It Helped Fuel The AIDS Crisis : NPR
▻https://www.npr.org/2021/05/23/996272737/skepticism-of-science-in-a-pandemic-isnt-new-it-helped-fuel-the-aids-crisis
A New #Coronavirus May Be Making People Sick. And It’s Coming From Dogs : Goats and Soda : NPR
▻https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2021/05/20/996515792/a-newly-identified-coronavirus-is-making-people-sick-and-it-s-coming-from-dogs
Zhang has studied coronaviruses for more than 30 years. He thinks it’s too early to call this new virus a human pathogen. “As the authors are careful to say in their paper, they have not proven what’s called Koch’s postulates,” he says. That is, Vlasova, Gray and colleagues haven’t shown that the new coronavirus causes pneumonia; so far, it has only been associated with the disease.
“To do that, strictly, they need to inject the virus into humans and see if it reproduces the disease,” he says. “Of course [for ethical reasons], we cannot do that.”
Instead, Zhang says, they can look to see how common the virus is in pneumonia patients around the world — and they can test to see whether it makes mice or another animal sick.
Two more coronaviruses may infect people | Science
▻https://science.sciencemag.org/content/372/6545/893.full
Vaccine Disparity Hits Home For Many Foreign-Born Doctors : NPR
▻https://www.npr.org/2021/03/04/973791968/vaccine-disparity-hits-home-for-many-foreign-born-doctors
Many U.S. doctors have received their COVID-19 vaccines, but nearly a third are foreign-born with family in countries facing no access to it — a disparity that troubles many as they fight the virus.
50 Years Ago, Sugar Industry Quietly Paid Scientists To Point Blame...
▻https://diasp.eu/p/12460403
50 Years Ago, Sugar Industry Quietly Paid Scientists To Point Blame At Fat | #sugar #fat #diet
La base des données pour cet article est une étude (#paywall), qui se trouve résumé ici :
▻https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/09/13/493739074/50-years-ago-sugar-industry-quietly-paid-scientists-to-point-blame-at-fat
Le covid à Manaus
▻https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1355812836946173953.html
J’ai décidé de faire un long thread sur Manaus. Pourquoi ? Parce que Manaus a suivi exactement les préconisations des anti-tout. Alors on va voir ce que ça donne.
Petite présentation démographique : Manaus est une ville brésilienne, avé une population très jeune.
▻https://www.citypopulation.de/en/brazil/amazonas/manaus/130260305__manaus
3/ L’année dernière, Manaus a laissé filer l’épidémie. Il y a eu deux résultats :
–Des cimetières trop petits.
▻http://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/30/brazil-manaus-coronavirus-mass-graves
4/ Et l’atteinte, semble-t-il, de l’immunité collective (avec entre 60 et 75% des habitants contaminés). Manaus s avait souffert, mais été censée être tranquille.
►https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02948-4
5/ Sauf que, stupeur, en fin d’année, les cas remontent à Manaus. Sauf qu’ils sont censés avoir l’immunité collective !
▻https://www.economist.com/the-americas/2021/01/23/a-brazilian-city-thought-it-had-herd-immunity-it-was-wrong
6/ Et en plus, ils ont les fameux kits covid traitements précoces!
▻https://www.correiobraziliense.com.br/brasil/2021/01/4898757-kit-precoce-ou-fechamento-como-as-capitais-enfrentam-
7/ petite parenthèse : au Brésil, là où ces kits sont utilisés, la mortalité est supérieure (9 municipalités sur 10).
▻https://br.noticias.yahoo.com/de-10-municipios-que-adotam-kit-covid-9-tiveram-taxa-de-mortalida
8/ Autre petite parenthèse : le créateur du kit covid est mort du covid.
▻https://saude.ig.com.br/2020-09-04/criador-do-kit-covid-medico-morre-da-doenca-apos-45-na-uti.html
9/ Bref tout devrait bien aller avec le « petit covid ». Et pourtant : hôpitaux saturés, même plus d’oxygène.
▻https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-55670318
10/ Le système hospitalier s’effondre.
▻https://www.msf.org/coronavirus-covid-19-collapses-health-system-manaus-brazil
11/ Pourtant ils avaient le kit covid, et l’immunité de groupe !
▻https://twitter.com/Ba_Serrano/status/1354363631723573256
12/ Rebelotte pour les cimetières.
▻https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20210127-as-covid-death-rate-soars-race-to-dig-graves-in-brazil-s-manaus
13/ Il s’est passé quoi ? Le virus a muté, selon toute vraisemblance les gens sont re infectés, et les « traitements précoces » ne servent à rien ou pas grand chose .
▻https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2021/01/21/958953434/reinfections-more-likely-with-new-coronavirus-variants-evidence-suggests
L’émergence de variants est fréquente dans les endroits où les virus circulent beaucoup : beaucoup plus de possibilités de muter, pression de sélection. Ils semblerait que certains de ces variants, dont le brésilien, soient plus contagieux voir plus dangereux. Ils échappent
15/ Aux anticorps produits par une infection précédente, et certains peuvent poser problème avec le vaccin.
16/ Voici la triste histoire de Manaus. Qui a pourtant appliqué tout ce qui est préconisé par les anti-tout : laisser circuler le virus dans une population jeune pour construire l’immunité de groupe et « soigner » avec les « traitements précoces ».
18/ Au Brésil la colère monte. Ils paient cher le choix de cette stratégie.
▻https://www.rtbf.be/info/monde/detail_coronavirus-au-bresil-des-milliers-de-manifestants-contre-bolsonaro?id=1
Fauci Predicts U.S. Could See Signs Of Herd Immunity By Late March Or Early April : Coronavirus Updates : NPR
▻https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/12/15/946714505/fauci-predicts-u-s-could-see-signs-of-herd-immunity-by-late-march-or-early-apri
Grâce aux vaccins; avec un grand « si » cependant,
Marc Lipsitch sur Twitter : “There is a big if to this. Works if the vaccines strongly block infection/infectiousness/transmission like measles and mumps vaccines. Won’t work if vax effects mainly on illness, with more modest effects on transmission, like pneumococcal and acellular pertussis vaccines.” / Twitter
▻https://twitter.com/mlipsitch/status/1338921331564351489
Google Employees Say Scientist’s Ouster Was ’Unprecedented Research Censorship’
▻https://www.npr.org/2020/12/03/942417780/google-employees-say-scientists-ouster-was-unprecedented-research-censorship?t=
Hundreds of Google employees have published an open letter following the firing of a colleague who is an accomplished scientist known for her research into the ethics of artificial intelligence and her work showing racial bias in facial recognition technology. That scientist, Timnit Gebru, helped lead Google’s Ethical Artificial Intelligence team until Tuesday. She says she was forced out of the company following a dispute over a research paper and an email she subsequently sent to peers (...)
#Google #algorithme #biométrie #éthique #racisme #facial #reconnaissance #sexisme #biais (...)
#COVID-19 Death Rates Are Going Down, And Not Just Among The Young And Healthy : Shots - Health News : NPR
▻https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/10/20/925441975/studies-point-to-big-drop-in-covid-19-death-rates
Et pas seulement parce que la population atteinte est plus jeune en moyenne,
Two new peer-reviewed studies are showing a sharp drop in mortality among hospitalized COVID-19 patients. The drop is seen in all groups, including older patients and those with underlying conditions , suggesting that physicians are getting better at helping patients survive their illness.
“We find that the death rate has gone down substantially,” says Leora Horwitz, a doctor who studies population health at New York University’s Grossman School of Medicine and an author on one of the studies, which looked at thousands of patients from March to August.
The study, which was of a single health system, finds that mortality has dropped among hospitalized patients by 18 percentage points since the pandemic began. Patients in the study had a 25.6% chance of dying at the start of the pandemic; they now have a 7.6% chance.
That’s a big improvement, but 7.6% is still a high risk compared with other diseases, and Horwitz and other researchers caution that COVID-19 remains dangerous.
The death rate “is still higher than many infectious diseases, including the flu,” Horwitz says. And those who recover can suffer complications for months or even longer. “It still has the potential to be very harmful in terms of long-term consequences for many people.”
Improving Survival of Critical CarePatients With Coronavirus Disease 2019 in England
A National Cohort Study, March to June 2020
▻https://journals.lww.com/ccmjournal/Abstract/9000/Improving_Survival_of_Critical_Care_Patients_With.95449.aspx
There has been a substantial improvement in survival amongst people admitted to critical care with coronavirus disease 2019 in England, with markedly higher survival rates in people admitted in May and June compared with those admitted in March and April. Our analysis suggests this improvement is not due to temporal changes in the age, sex, ethnicity, or major comorbidity burden of admitted patients .
#COVID-19 : Les taux de mortalité [en unité de reanimation] ont baissé de moitié en Angleterre | santé log
▻https://www.santelog.com/actualites/covid-19-les-taux-de-mortalite-ont-baisse-de-moitie-en-angleterre
Et si l’étude apporte l’espoir de pouvoir limiter le nombre de décès durant cette deuxième vague épidémique, elle rappelle néanmoins un taux de mortalité « seuil » qui tout de même élevé en USI soit… 1 patient sur 5.
Ginsburg Vigil Draws Tears, Protests Against McConnell (►https://www...
▻https://diasp.eu/p/11677028
Ginsburg Vigil Draws Tears, Protests Against McConnell
Sen. Elizabeth Warren forcefully condemned the Senate Majority leader at the vigil: “What Mitch McConnell does not understand is this fight has just begun.”
#news #npr #publicradio #usa posted by pod_feeder_v2
Is Plastic Recycling A Lie? Oil Companies Touted Recycling To Sell More Plastic : NPR
▻https://www.npr.org/2020/09/11/897692090/how-big-oil-misled-the-public-into-believing-plastic-would-be-recycled
... the industry spent millions telling people to recycle, because, as one former top industry insider told NPR, selling recycling sold plastic, even if it wasn’t true.
“If the public thinks that recycling is working, then they are not going to be as concerned about the environment,” Larry Thomas, former president of the Society of the Plastics Industry, known today as the Plastics Industry Association and one of the industry’s most powerful trade groups in Washington, D.C., told NPR.
Yep, Masks And Protective Gear Are Still Hard To Get — Especially For Small Buyers : NPR
▻https://www.npr.org/2020/08/19/903612006/yep-masks-and-protective-gear-are-still-hard-get-especially-for-small-buyers
The administration insists that continued complaints about shortages are exaggerated. White House senior adviser Jared Kushner, in an interview with CNBC this week, called reports about doctors on the front lines not being able to get masks “hysterical.”
#crétin_abyssal #états-unis #sans_vergogne #incurie #criminelle #criminels #criminel #santé #covid-19 #sars_cov2
As Georgia Reopened, Officials Knew of Severe Shortage of PPE for Health Workers | Best States | US News
▻https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/articles/2020-08-20/as-georgia-reopened-officials-knew-of-severe-shortage-of-ppe-for-health-work
COVID-19 Lockdown At Refugee Camp In Jordan Is Tough On Young Syrians - NPR
Teens in an isolated refugee camp for 80,000 Syrians have trouble with remote classes and finding something to do during the coronavirus lockdowns
▻https://www.npr.org/2020/08/18/903433811/covid-19-lockdown-at-refugee-camp-in-jordan-is-tough-on-young-syrians
#Covid-19#Jordanie#UE#Réfugiés#santé#éducation#Camp#Aide#Économie#migrant#migration
Ga. School District Quarantines Hundreds Of Students Over Fears Of COVID-19 Exposure : Coronavirus Live Updates : NPR
▻https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/08/11/901362653/georgia-schools-quarantine-hundreds-of-students-after-possible-coronavirus-expo
Barely a week after Georgia reopened its public schools amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, a school district north of Atlanta has ordered 925 students, teachers and staff to self-quarantine after dozens tested positive for the coronavirus. The district also announced the temporary closing of one of its hardest-hit high schools.
Cherokee County School District Superintendent Brian Hightower said in a statement Tuesday that there had been 59 positive COVID-19 tests among students and staff since the Aug. 3 reopening.
“We are not hesitating to quarantine students and staff who have had possible exposure – even if the positive test was prompted by possible exposure rather than symptoms, as all positive cases can lead to the infection of others,” Hightower said.
He said Etowah High School would be closed to in-person learning effective at the end of classes on Tuesday. At the end of Monday, about 300 of the school’s 2,400 students, or 12.5%, were under quarantine, according to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
#PHOTOS: India’s Ancient Root Bridges Hold Lessons For The Modern World : Goats and Soda : NPR
▻https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/08/01/892983791/photos-living-tree-bridges-in-a-land-of-clouds
The more I learned, the more I realized how conventional vocabulary related to building and construction simply did not seem adequate to describe this process. As I walked across my first jing kieng jri, my mind darted this way and that, trying to find a comparable experience. No, it did not feel like crossing a concrete bridge. No, it did not feel like climbing a tree. Instead, it felt like a fairy tale come to life. And perhaps, in a way, that’s what it is.
The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia : Short Wave : NPR
▻https://www.npr.org/2020/07/20/893006538/fat-phobia-and-its-racist-past-and-present
Where does our preference for thinness really come from?
As Sabrina Strings explains in her book, Fearing the Black Body, the answer is much more complicated than health or aesthetics. She argues that the origins of modern-day fat phobia can be traced all the way back to slavery and that Black people are still dealing with the consequences.
Follow Sabrina on Twitter @SaStrings and read her op-ed discussed in the interview here.
Supreme Court Rules That About Half Of Oklahoma Is Native American Land : NPR
▻https://www.npr.org/2020/07/09/889562040/supreme-court-rules-that-about-half-of-oklahoma-is-indian-land
going forward, certain major crimes committed within the boundaries of reservations must be prosecuted in federal court rather than state court, if a Native American is involved. So if a Native American is accused of a major crime in downtown Tulsa, the federal government rather than the state government will prosecute it. Less serious crimes involving Native Americans on American Indian land will be handled in tribal courts. This arrangement is already common in Western states like Arizona, New Mexico and Montana, said Washburn. (...)
The ruling will affect lands of the Muscogee and four other Oklahoma tribes with identical treaties. Civil court issues are also affected.
It’s important to note that the case concerned jurisdiction, not land ownership.
en détail :
▻https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justice/2018/0910/Indian-territory-again-An-old-Oklahoma-murder-case-spotlights-tribal-sove
avec la carte :
Back in the 1980s, Howard University psychology professor Jules Harrell took racism to the lab to see how witnessing acts of racism affects blood pressure and cardiovascular events. He found that Black people may even carry the stress of racism in their sleep, NBC reports.
That research focused on the “meanness and inconvenience” of racism—but it couldn’t compare to the blatant brutality soon to be revealed in the beating of Rodney King—and now the homicide of George Floyd.
The rise of social media means that high-profile killings of Black people replay on a loop, disseminating waves of secondary trauma.
Psychologist Gail Parker’s advice: don’t watch. “It’s about self-protection. Secondary trauma is just as lethal to Black people as secondhand smoke.”
Proper mental health care is also key. But frequent misdiagnosis by non-Black doctors and a dearth of Black mental health professionals are yet another health disparity that needs addressing, NPR reports.
Black Americans experience deadly stress as a pandemic and violent racism collide, experts say
▻https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/black-americans-experience-deadly-stress-pandemic-violent-racism-collide-ex
Burke Harris, the mother of twin sons age 17 and sons 8 and 4, told NBC News that her entire medical training and career have been devoted to reducing health disparity.
“The way chronic stress and trauma gets under our skin and affects our biology was not being addressed. That’s why it felt important to me not only to elevate the issue, but also to elevate the science,” she said. “The science has been around for decades.”
Research has long shown a disparity between the health of Blacks and whites. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that there is an overrepresentation of Blacks hospitalized and dying of COVID-19. Overall in the U.S., Black people are more likely to die at early ages from all causes of illnesses.
Local governments, including those of Charlotte, North Carolina; Denver; Indianapolis; and Dallas, have recently declared racism a public health crisis. Now advocates wait to see what solutions they will implement.
Burke Harris said: “We have to help health care providers understand how trauma affects people’s health. It is just like lead poisoning. Doctors can do medical treatment to help reduce the impact of lead on someone’s health. But the real answer is to get lead out of the paint.”
Black Americans Face Higher Barriers To Getting Good Mental Health Support : Shots - Health News : NPR
▻https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/06/25/877549715/bear-our-pain-the-plea-for-more-black-mental-health-workers
Two decades of life experience made a mental-health activist of Kai Koerber. When he was 16 and a student at a Parkland, Fla., high school, a gunman killed 17 people, including one his friends.
“I really did suffer a domestic terrorist attack, and that’s not something that happens to you every day,” Koerber says.
But as a young Black man growing up in the South, Koerber had already faced threats of racial and police violence routinely, and those experiences, too, shaped his relationship with the world. He’s coped with that stress, he says, through a lifelong practice of meditation. And after the school massacre, Koerber also sought emotional support from a therapist with a deep empathy for his personal traumas.
“Finding a Black therapist really saved me some time, and there was more connection, in terms of the kinds of struggles that I might feel or the the kinds of ways I might think about certain scenarios,” Koerber says.
Now a rising sophomore at the University of California, Berkeley, Koerber says having access to good mental health care is critical to both preventing and dealing with the after-effects of violence.