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Unless there are major developments in how new variants behave I think it highly unlikely that there will be any change to the COVID vaccine priorities in the next two years. Priority is established on the basis of known mortality as per section 14a of the COVID Green Book (Table 1) PwME who are...

US suicide rates are not exceptionally high by international standards, although they double that of the UK (List of countries by suicide rate) however a key feature of the US data is the gender differential with regard to the use of firearms as method: Adjusted Suicide Rates - given that...

"Its unrelentingness means suicide is the leading cause of death." - I'd like to see the data on which that claim is made.

Why would health and benefits be anything other than politics ? Isn't saying it's politics just the same labelling exercise as using "neoliberal" a form of 'othering', distancing the thing we don't like from us, from our group, belief system, country etc ? It's easy (I'd say facile) to...

Hardly garners confidence when the first reference: "The latest data highlight that vaccines only offer a 15% reduction against developing long COVID and a 34% reduction in the risk of mortality [1]." = SARS-CoV-2 Vaccines is from February 2021. Multiple papers since provide a very difference...

Yes it's not 'doctors' is it, it's "Reddit users engaging in medic related communication on a platform that predominantly appeals to males under 30". Also no acknowledgement of compartmentalism - we all use language differently depending on context - obscenities that are a source of humour...

As with UK Biobank the objective is not to look at (necessarily) currently ill people but to track health over time, so the key thing is to recruit and process as many people as possible within the allocated resources.

@cassava7 Do these French BPS proponents publish - or just propound from positions of authority ? I'd be interested in names/papers.

https://ourfuturehealth.org.uk/millions-of-invitations-go-out-this-autumn-for-uks-largest-health-research-programme/ Our Future Health | 24.10.22 Over three million letters are being sent out this autumn inviting members of the public to join Our Future Health, a major new health research...

Yes - though best to avoid labelling a committee as a pro psych when it's said nothing of the sort. France is a unique case, no other Country has made intellectualism such a major part of its National identity and nowhere else has 'psychologie' been part of intellectualism. Psychoanalysis...

I see the UK story in fairly simple terms. The Labour Government came in in 1997. In need of a new structural model for health and social care Engel's model (at that stage void of neoliberal taint) and promoted by Mansel Aylward a doctor and medical academic with philosophical roots that had...

https://solidarites-sante.gouv.fr/spip.php?page=recherche&recherche=des+syndromes+des+post-infectieux pdf: https://solidarites-sante.gouv.fr/IMG/pdf/avis_du_covars_du_20.10.2022_sur_le_covid-19.pdf Google translate of relevant section: D. Clinical impact of the current epidemic The epidemic...

Even noting that Nacul and Bansal were turned down, I still find the approach a bit of head twister - WT is a relatively open organisation offering £16bn in grants over the next decade with a nominal £1bn per defined scheme: Find a scheme with at least one scheme a reasonable fit for ME/CFS...

Venue hire - the fact an event happened doesn't necessarily mean that there was organisation wide approval. Welcome is like any massive research body, there's vast numbers of professional interactions with other institutions and academics, so booking a room or getting an official invite or any...

Thanks. I find it a bit puzzling though - has any quality ME/CFS grant request ever been submitted to WT ? Seems a bit odd to complain about the org not doing anything if the usual process of asking for support hasn't been explored.

I can't access the BMJ article so I'm not clear what the relevance of the Welcome Trust is to the protest but as far as I recall the only involvement of WT in ME/CFS research related to XMRV https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/1742-4690-7-10 Acknowledgements This work was supported by the...

Worth noting that the median age of the patient cohort is 65 (58 - 73) - see row three, Table 1. Confirming that COVID19 is a cause of significant morbidity in older people, but doesn't necessarily tell us anything about COVID19 infection in younger people.

Not un-alloyed joy from inside the NHS. Barclay formerly at the Treasury with Sunak, concern budget reduction will be the focus.

The Pandemic Uncovered Ways to Speed Up Science The pandemic highlighted broad problems in research: that many studies were hyped, error-ridden, or even fraudulent, and that misinformation could spread rapidly. But it also demonstrated what was possible. While it usually takes years to test...

Try installing No Script or some other script blocker - works on a lot single article subscriber material https://noscript.net/ Book discussed here: https://www.s4me.info/threads/book-long-covid-handbook-published-oct-2022.30095/#post-442973