Infectious Disease Ethics
@ID_ethics
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Bioethicist | Doctor | Own views, with data | Personal account @_euzebiusz_
Melbourne, Victoria
Joined May 2016
What are your favourite papers / trials on duration of antibiotics in febrile neutropaenia?. (For a talk about the ethics of shorter courses of antibiotics for this patient group - thanks in advance!). @VPrasadMDMPH @Timothee_MD @Eddie_Cliff @ABsteward @BradSpellberg.
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RT @drtessjohnson: New paper out! Raising ethical questions with uses of metagenomics for diagnosis. @ID_ethics @Ethox_Centre @PSIOxford R….
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RT @equal_ibrium: @ID_ethics and I on herd immunity to endemic diseases like covid-19:. ". a large number of infectious diseases continue t….
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Background “Herd immunity” became a contested term during the COVID-19 pandemic. Although the term “herd immunity” is often used to refer to thresholds at which some diseases can be eliminated...
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RT @awgaffney: Notable development on the Long Covid front: consistent with previous studies, a randomized trial in @bmj_latest found tha….
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Objective To evaluate whether a structured online supervised group physical and mental health rehabilitation programme can improve health related quality of life compared with usual care in adults...
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RT @anitaleirfall: Hawking was wrong: Philosophy is not dead, and it has kept up with modern science | By @danwilliamsphil. Some recommen….
www.conspicuouscognition.com
Some recommendations for those interested in learning about the philosophy of science
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Two false dogmas of clinical infectious diseases:. "1⃣traditional durations of antimicrobial therapy and .2⃣the necessity of intravenous (IV) antibiotics. These dogmas based on uncontrolled case series from >50 years ago, amplified by the opinions of eminent experts".
What a gem .
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😷🏥What is the effect of stopping hospital mask mandates?. "Using a robust quasi-experimental approach, we found no evidence that removal of a staff/visitor mask-wearing policy had a significant effect on the rate of hospital-acquired SARS-CoV-2".
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Candida auris: a high risk fungal pathogen . This genomic study (pre-print) tracks introduction & spread of C. auris in & between UK hospitals. ➡️# on arrows = between hospital transmissions.⏹️# in squares = in-hospital transmissions.
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RT @CollignonPeter: Many people still think that children and schools are the major factor in the spread of Covid. This is from Victoria He….
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RT @drdavideyre: Has performance of COVID lateral flow tests changed over time, variants & vaccination roll-out? Short answer: they consist….
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Scientists took one of my favourite videos of all time, featuring Kurt Vonnegut explore "the shapes of stories", . and turned it into a paper analysing the shape of >1000 stories.
In 2016, researchers at the University of Adelaide tested Kurt Vonnegut's theory that, "There’s no reason why the simple shapes of stories can’t be fed into computers.". They took the emotional arcs of 1300+ novels from Project Gutenberg, turned that into data, used modern tech
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Some immunosuppressed patients with COVID19 can shed infectious virus for weeks or months. Especially patients with:.🔴Haematologic malignancy or Transplant (S-HT).🟢Autoimmunity or B cell deficiency. Often➡️difficult ethical questions re: isolation.
Have you been perplexed about why some immunocompromised (IC) patients recover from COVID-19 quickly while others can be infected for months? We uncovered some clues in a paper just published in @ScienceTM. Read on to see what we found: 1/
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RT @j_g_allen: A thread from @TheLancet @CovidCommission on school closures:. --> 195 countries closed schools during the pandemic, affecti….
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"While HEPA filters can reduce viral load in the air, this does not lead to reduced COVID19 prevalence".
This quasi-experimental study in Germany of HEPA filters in kindergartens vs usual IPC found no benefit of HEPA in ⬇️ covid infections in staff or children. Rates/1000 children higher in HEPA gp. Control: 186 (137.8-238.9) . Intervention: 372 (226.6-517.6)
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Are you an early career (postdoc) researcher & would you like to be a visiting scholar @Ethox_Centre?. 📰Apply below. Broad topics of work can include:.- global health ethics.- clinical ethics.- public health ethics.- research ethics. Closes 21/April/24.
www.ethox.ox.ac.uk
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Preventing RSV spread in hospitals (1980s):. "specially designed eye-nose goggles for staff reduced infection [but] the goggles were not well accepted by staff and eventually were abandoned.". Discussion:. Original study:.
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Photo from the classic "all night poker game" studies of the transmission of the common cold.
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RT @Fiona_M_Russell: “Lack of research on how Paxlovid affects outcomes beyond severe Covid — such as duration of illness, how the drug aff….
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"Most respiratory viruses produce reinfection after re-exposure. Subsequent infections with the same or similar agents are generally more mild and last shorter periods".
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The common cold has intrigued physicians and the general public for centuries. It has been defined as an acute epidemic respiratory disease characterized by mild coryzal symptoms of rhinorrhea, nasal...
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UK winter peak prevalence of covid19. In mid-late December, up to ~5%, or 1 in 20 people were infected at any one time. Would be interesting to know how this correlates with sick leave / work absence data.
NEW: Winter Coronavirus (COVID-19) Infection Study: 11 Jan 2024 . @UKHSA Prevalence (estimated proportion of the population infected with SARS-CoV-2) has shown early signs of decreasing, down to 3.1%, up to 3 Jan 2024, in England and Scotland. 🧵👇.
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