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- Corona Calls for 06.05.2023 – Cryptic Lineages
Discussed in this episode:
- What it means when “cryptic lineages” turn up in wastewater samples, like here
- The CDC’s latest survey of blood donor samples shows 96.4% have antibodies from COVID, vaccination, or both.
Podcast music credit: Now Son by Podington Bear, licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 International License.
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37 min - Corona Calls for 05.30.2023 – New Long COVID Papers
Discussed in this episode:
- New York Times reporting on a COVID wave(let) in China
- New work trying to refine symptom clusters that can be used to define Long Covid for the purpose of studying it, and to discern sub-types:
Thaweethai T, Jolley SE, Karlson EW, et al. Development of a Definition of Postacute Sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 Infection. JAMA. Published online May 25, 2023.- Accumulations of COVID spike protein found in the autopsied brains of people who’d recovered from COVID:
[Preprint] Zhouyi Rong et al. SARS-CoV-2 Spike Protein Accumulation in the Skull-Meninges-Brain Axis: Potential Implications for Long-Term Neurological Complications in post-COVID-19.- Imaging study finds inflammatory markers in the brain 10 months after mild to moderate cases of COVID in unvaccinated people:
Marvin Petersen et al. Brain imaging and neuropsychological assessment of individuals recovered from a mild to moderate SARS-CoV-2 infection. PNAS. Published online May 23, 2023Podcast music credit: Now Son by Podington Bear, licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 International License.
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36 min - Corona Calls for 05.22.2023: Is Mpox making a comeback?
- The CDC is warning that a new cluster of cases of Mpox (formerly known as Monkeypox) in Chicago may foretell a wider outbreak; some local public health authorities are starting a new vaccination push ahead of Pride Month activities.
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28 min - Corona Calls for 05.15.2023: new CDC guidelines on air and masking
- Three and a half years into the pandemic, the Centers for Disease Control has issued updated guidelines on air exchange and filtration for indoor spaces: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/community/ventilation.html
- The CDC has also issued updated masking guidelines:
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/prevent-getting-sick/about-face-coverings.htmlNB: these recommendations are now tied to COVID-19 hospitalization levels, rather than levels of community spread (which the CDC is no longer charting).Podcast music credit: Now Son by Podington Bear, licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 International License.
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26 min - Corona Calls for 05.08.2023: The emergency is over?
- The WHO has declared an end to the Sars-COV2 Global Public Health Emergency. That doesn’t end the pandemic, but it does end much international coordination of the response to it.
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35 min - Corona Calls for 05.01.2023: Where are we?
Discussed in this episode:
- The CDC dashboard charting COVID hospitalizations and deaths, as well as the California dashboard showing COVID levels in sewage suggest we’re in a relatively good place right now
- If you’re in California, and eligible for the latest round of boosters, you can look up where they’re available via https://myturn.ca.gov/
Podcast music credit: Now Son by Podington Bear, licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 International License.
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38 min - Corona Calls for 04.24.2023: XBB.1.16 (Arcturus)
Discussed in this episode:
- The CDC has started reporting US prevalence of XBB.1.16, colloquially known as “Arcturus.” It’s a more-transmissible subvariant of Omicron the CDC currently estimates to comprise roughly 10% of COVID cases in the US
Podcast music credit: Now Son by Podington Bear, licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 International License.
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38 min - Corona Calls for 04.17.2023: Biden’s plan for longer-lasting vaccines; Plus, covid cautions for pregnancy
Discussed in this episode:
White House to invest $5 billion in next-generation COVID vaccines. Here’s why we need new ones: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2023/04/10/project-next-generation-coronavirus-vaccines-biden-administration/11636925002/
COVID caused brain damage in 2 infants infected during pregnancy: https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/covid-caused-brain-damage-2-infants-infected-during-pregnancy-us-study-2023-04-06/
Podcast music credit: Now Son by Podington Bear, licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 International License.
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32 min - Corona Calls for 04.10.2023: Another booster may be on the way
Discussed in this episode:
PREPRINT: Bramante, Buse, et al. “Outpatient Treatment of COVID-19 and the Development of Long COVID Over 10 Months: A Multi-Center, Quadruple-Blind, Parallel Group Randomized Phase 3 Trial” https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4375620
Xie, Choi, et al. “Association of Treatment With Nirmatrelvir and the Risk of Post–COVID-19 Condition” JAMA Intern Med. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/2802878
Podcast music credit: Now Son by Podington Bear, licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 International License.
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27 min - Corona Calls for 03.26.2023 : Does COVID damage the immune system?
Discussed in this episode:
Gao, Fei, et al. “Robust T Cell Responses to Pfizer/BioNTech Vaccine Compared to Infection and Evidence of Attenuated Peripheral CD8+ T Cell Responses Due to Covid-19.” Immunity, 2023, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.immuni.2023.03.005
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About KPFA - Corona Calls
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A weekly update on new research and developments concerning COVID-19 (and occasionally other infectious diseases that hit the news).
We take questions via call-in during the live broadcast, Mondays at 7:33am Pacific, streaming via kpfa.org. Podcasts with show notes go up later the same day. Between live shows, we take questions via email at [email protected] .
Our guest most weeks is Dr. John Swartzberg, clinical professor emeritus of infectious diseases at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health. Our question-wrangler most weeks is Brian Edwards-Tiekert, host of KPFA’s morning public affairs program, UpFront.
Music: Now Son by Podington Bear, licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 International License.