Interesse Geral

Perspectiva | Potenciais cenários de fim da COVID-19: erradicação, eliminação, coabitação ou conflagração?

21 Jul, 2021 | 09:59h

Potential COVID-19 Endgame Scenarios: Eradication, Elimination, Cohabitation, or Conflagration? – JAMA

A cura é, de fato, pior do que a doença? Os impactos dos “lockdowns” sobre a saúde durante a COVID-19 – “Enquanto se esperam certos danos oriundos das intervenções contra a COVID-19 – afinal, toda decisão tem um custo –, a possibilidade de uma epidemia não mitigada torna estas restrições menos danosas do que qualquer outra sugestão.”

21 Jul, 2021 | 09:56h

Is the cure really worse than the disease? The health impacts of lockdowns during COVID-19 – BMJ Global Health

Comentários: Expert reaction to a narrative review looking at the health impacts of lockdowns – Science Media Centre E Lockdowns do not harm health more than Covid, say researchers – The Guardian

Comentário no Twitter (fio – clique para saber mais)

The smiley faces, cherry blossoms, Great Barrington Declaration fans, "natural herd immunity" enthusiasts & anti-maskers do not approve of our new @GlobalHealthBMJ analysis on lockdowns 😉

So, here's a long-ish thread on what we did & did not find 1/nhttps://t.co/CFtT9j44vo

— Prof. Gavin Yamey MD MPH (@GYamey) July 20, 2021

Estratégia Alimentar Nacional do Reino Unido | Relatório recomenda taxar sal e açúcar e prescrever vegetais.

21 Jul, 2021 | 09:47h

National Food Strategy: Tax sugar and salt and prescribe veg, report says – BBC

Relatório: National Food Strategy Independent Review

Relacionado: Fiscal policies for diet and the prevention of noncommunicable diseases – World Health Organization (gratuito) E The Lancet taskforce on NCDs and economics (séries e comentários gratuitos) To improve global health, tax the things that are killing us – Financial Times (políticas, artigos e comentários gratuitos) E Reducing cardiovascular disease burden through targeted dietary policies (estudos e comentários gratuitos) E Fiscal policies for the prevention of diseases (estudo e comentário gratuito) E The potential impact of food taxes and subsidies on cardiovascular disease and diabetes burden and disparities (gratuito)

OMS e Unicef alertam para o declínio nas vacinações durante a pandemia de COVID-19.

20 Jul, 2021 | 10:57h

WHO and UNICEF warn of a decline in vaccinations during COVID-19 – World Health Organization

Ver também: COVID-19 pandemic leads to major backsliding on childhood vaccinations, new WHO, UNICEF data shows – World Health Organization

Relacionado: Millions of children worldwide missed routine vaccinations during the pandemic, study suggests.

O que as pessoas vacinadas devem saber sobre exposição à Covid-19, testes e mais.

20 Jul, 2021 | 10:53h

What vaccinated people should know about Covid-19 exposure, tests and more – CNN

Resposta da ALA/ATS para a compra da produtora britânica de tratamentos respiratórios pela Philip Morris International’s (PMI) – “A notícia de que a PMI pretende adquirir uma companhia de medicamentos inalatórios é o que há de mais repreensível vindo de uma empresa que enriqueceu viciando as pessoas em seus produtos mortais.”

20 Jul, 2021 | 10:50h

American Lung Association and the American Thoracic Society Response to Philip Morris International’s Purchase of British Producer of Respiratory Treatments – American Thoracic Society

Estudo | Consumo de café não tem relação com o aumento da incidência de taquiarritmias.

20 Jul, 2021 | 10:41h

Coffee Consumption and Incident Tachyarrhythmias: Reported Behavior, Mendelian Randomization, and Their Interactions – JAMA Internal Medicine

Comentário convidado: Another Cup of Coffee Without an Arrhythmia, Please

Entrevista com o autor: Coffee Consumption and Incident Tachyarrhythmias

Comentário no Twitter

Good news for coffee drinkers ☕️☕️
Debunking the dogma that coffee increases the risk of heart rhythm disturbances, from >386,000 people, 4.5 year follow-up, including putative genomic risk variants@JAMAInternalMed https://t.co/9bBihDfB3A @uk_biobank pic.twitter.com/V6yGeNg7Fp

— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) July 19, 2021

Fauci afirma que a teoria da origem natural do coronavírus ainda é a mais provável.

19 Jul, 2021 | 10:01h

Fauci says natural origins theory of coronavirus is still the most likely – CNN

Artigo relacionado (preprint): The Origins of SARS-CoV-2: A Critical Review – Zenodo

Ver também: A Group of Scientists Presses a Case Against the Lab Leak Theory of Covid – The New York Times (poucos artigos gratuitos por mês) E Leading scientists push back against Wuhan lab leak theory – The Age

Relacionado: Opinion | The Covid-19 lab leak theory is a tale of weaponized uncertainty.

Por que um grande estudo sobre ivermectina para Covid-19 foi excluído da revista onde foi publicado?

16 Jul, 2021 | 10:01h

Why Was a Major Study on Ivermectin for COVID-19 Just Retracted? – Grifter Analysis and Review

Ver também: Huge study supporting ivermectin as Covid treatment withdrawn over ethical concerns – The Guardian E Some problems in the dataset of a large study of Ivermectin for the treatment of Covid-19 – Nick Brown’s Blog E Is Ivermectin for Covid-19 Based on Fraudulent Research? – Gideon M-K; Health Nerd

Comentário no Twitter (fio – clique para saber mais)

So, one of the biggest studies to date on ivermectin for COVID-19 has issues significant enough that, if not fraud, are so serious that it invalidates the study without further explanation

I promised a thread

Here we go 1/n https://t.co/L9QOChmGtA

— Health Nerd (@GidMK) July 16, 2021

Perspectiva | Como evitar uma futura injustiça de vacinas.

16 Jul, 2021 | 09:59h

Averting Future Vaccine Injustice – New England Journal of Medicine