Trial By Error: Update on Professor Crawley ’ s Uncorrected Ethics Statements
By David Tuller, DrPH *October is crowdfunding month at UC Berkeley. If you like my work, consider making a tax-deductible donation to Berkeley’s School of Public Health to support the Trial By Error: project: https://crowdfund.berkeley.edu/project/33528 In August, I alerted both the University of Bristol and the UK’s Health Research Authority about a problem. In a joint […] (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - October 6, 2022 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: David Tuller Uncategorized Bristol Crawley Health research authority Source Type: blogs
Why do Some People Develop Long COVID?
by Gertrud U. Rey Long COVID is a chronic manifestation of SARS-CoV-2 infection, and it is most commonly characterized by lingering fatigue, brain fog, memory impairment, and confusion. Although it is unclear how the viral infection leads to long COVID, experts speculate that one or more of the following factors may contribute: an inability to […] (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - October 6, 2022 Category: Virology Authors: Gertrud U. Rey Tags: Basic virology Gertrud Rey Akiko Iwasaki autoimmune disease autoimmunity biomarker chronic fatigue syndrome cortisol COVD-19 cytotoxic T cells diagnostic test EBV Epstein-Barr virus exhausted T cells inflammation latent Lon Source Type: blogs
Trial By Error: Mt Sinai ’ s David Putrino on Long Covid, Post-Exertional Malaise, and Lazy Doctors – Text Version!
By David Tuller, DrPH David Putrino is a neuroscientist and physical therapist at Mt Sinai Hospital in New York. He runs a research lab and rehabilitation center that became a magnet for people grappling with what became known as long Covid–or what the US National Institutes of Health called post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 (PASC). A […] (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - October 5, 2022 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Trial By Error: Berkeley ’ s October Crowdfunding Campaign
By David Tuller, DrPH As in previous years, October is crowdfunding month at the University of California, Berkeley, and I am once again seeking funds to continue my work on ME, ME/CFS, “medically unexplained symptoms,” and now long Covid. These tax-deductible donations to Berkeley will support my academic position as senior fellow in public health […] (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - October 5, 2022 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Trial By Error: What I ’ ve Read Recently – Yong, Jason, Prior & Lowenstein, & Eliot Smith
By David Tuller, DrPH *October is crowdfunding month at UC Berkeley. If you like my work, consider making a tax-deductible donation to Berkeley’s School of Public Health to support the Trial By Error: project: https://crowdfund.berkeley.edu/project/33528 Almost seven years ago—in October, 2015–Virology Blog published my 15,000-word investigation of the PACE trial. (Thanks, Professor Racaniello!). At the time, […] (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - October 3, 2022 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized prior Yong Source Type: blogs
TWiV 932: Omicron boosters with Paul Offit
Paul Offit returns to TWiV for a discussion of SARS-CoV-2 bivalent boosters containing ancestral and Omicron spike mRNAs, including their composition, why they are being recommended by CDC, and who would benefit the most from them. (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - October 2, 2022 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: This Week in Virology bivalent booster coronavirus COVID-19 Omicron pandemic SARS-CoV-2 vaccine viral viruses Source Type: blogs
TWiV 931: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In his weekly clinical update Dr. Griffin discusses increased acute respiratory illnesses among children and adolescents, estimates of monkeypox incubation period, generation time, and reproduction number, rapid increase in suspected SARS-CoV-2 reinfections, interim infection prevention and control recommendations for healthcare personnel during COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2 secondary attack rates in vaccinated and unvaccinated household contacts during replacement of delta with omicron variant, breakthrough infection by SARS-CoV-2 delta and omicron variants elicited immune response comparable to mRNA booster vaccination, inter...
Source: virology blog - October 1, 2022 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: This Week in Virology antiviral coronavirus COVID-19 delta inflammation influenza Long Covid marburg virus monkeypox monoclonal antibody Omicron pandemic poliovirus SARS-CoV-2 vaccine vaccine booster variant of concern Source Type: blogs
Trial By Error: Research From GET/CBT Ideological Brigades Shows No Improvements in Work Status
By David Tuller, DrPH Last year, Mark Vink, a Dutch physician with ME/CFS, and Friso Vink-Niese, an independent researcher, published a review of occupational outcomes among ME/CFS patients after treatment with either graded exercise therapy (GET) and cognitive behavior therapy (CBT). The results were not pretty. When viewed specifically through the perspective of employment status, […] (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - September 30, 2022 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized CBT employment GET occupational status PACE Source Type: blogs
TWiV 940: Eddie Holmes in on viral origins
Eddie Holmes joins TWiV to discuss his role in the first release of the SARS-CoV-2 genome sequence, what really happened during the infamous Fauci teleconference, and evidence that the virus came from Nature and not from a lab. (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - September 28, 2022 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: This Week in Virology coronavirus COVID-19 furin cleavage site pandemic RaTG13 SARS-CoV-2 spillover viral viruses Wuhan Institute of Virology Source Type: blogs
TWiV 939: From lizards to Lassa with Tom Monath
Tom Monath joins TWiV to discuss his wide-ranging career that includes medicine, field work and vaccine development while working for the US government, the US military, and multiple biotechnology companies. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, and Rich Condit Guest: Tom Monath Click arrow to playDownload TWiV 939 (73 MB .mp3, 121 min)Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, RSS, email […] (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - September 25, 2022 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: This Week in Virology Acambis COVID-19 dengue vaccine ebola virus Lassa virus NewLink Genetics vaccine platform viral viruses yellow fever virus Source Type: blogs
Trial By Error: Brain Publishes Letter About Flawed Study from NYU on ‘ Psychogenic POTS ’
By David Tuller, DrPH When I have previously written about functional neurological disorder, or FND, I have gotten flack from FND patients. I understand from these exchanges that some have taken what I have written as criticizing patients with these diagnoses or dismissing their suffering. That is certainly not my intention. I know these conditions […] (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - September 24, 2022 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: David Tuller Uncategorized brain FND Letter to the editor POTS Source Type: blogs
TWiV 938: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In his weekly clinical update Dr. Griffin reviews the public health response to poliovirus in New York, impact of mandatory influenza vaccination, monkeypox in a young infant, health care worker exposure to monkeypox virus, monkeypox testing delays, transmission potential of monkeypox virus, TPOXX trial for monkeypox, detection of SARS-CoV-2 subgenomic mRNA, mucosal IgA against SARS-CoV-2, BNT262b2 against Omicron, awareness and use of SARS-CoV-2 antivirals, comparable outcomes for Bebtelovimab and Nirmatrelvir, and COVID-19 and Alzheimer's disease. (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - September 24, 2022 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: This Week in Virology antiviral coronavirus COVID-19 delta inflammation influenza Long Covid marburg virus monkeypox monoclonal antibody Omicron pandemic poliovirus SARS-CoV-2 vaccine vaccine booster variant of concern Source Type: blogs
TWiV 937: Pediatric hepatitis with Emma Thomson
From the European Society for Clinical Virology 2022 Conference in Manchester UK, Vincent speaks with Emma Thomson about the recent outbreak of pediatric hepatitis of unknown etiology and the finding that it is linked to infection by adenovirus-associated virus 2. (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - September 18, 2022 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: This Week in Virology adenovirus adenovirus-associated virus 2 herpesvirus HHV6 HLA allele non A-E hepatitis pediatric hepatitis viral Source Type: blogs
TWiV 936: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In his weekly clinical update Dr. Griffin discusses detection of a highly divergent type 3 vaccine-derived poliovirus in a child with a severe primary immunodeficiency disorder, severe respiratory illnesses associated with rhinoviruses and/or enteroviruses including EV-D68, effects of vaccination and previous infection on Omicron infections in children, COVID-19-associated hospitalizations among vaccinated and unvaccinated adults 18 years or older in 13 US states, effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines over time prior to Omicron emergence in Ontario, Canada, nasal IgA wanes 9 months after hospitalization with COVID-19 an...
Source: virology blog - September 17, 2022 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: This Week in Virology antiviral coronavirus COVID-19 delta inflammation influenza Long Covid marburg virus monkeypox monoclonal antibody Omicron pandemic poliovirus SARS-CoV-2 vaccine vaccine booster variant of concern Source Type: blogs
Trial By Error: Psychological Medicine Rejects Letter About Chalder ’ s Bogus Review of CBT/GET Studies
By David Tuller, DrPH Professor Trudie Chalder recently published a systematic review of CBT and GET studies for “chronic fatigue syndrome” in the journal Psychological Medicine, which seems to publish anything from the CBT/GET ideological brigades, no matter how poorly conducted or reported. Not surprisingly, given its provenance, the review was a piece of crap, […] (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - September 16, 2022 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
