Thank you for joining me yesterday. Here are the topics and the links for the discussions yesterday:
1. COVID cases, hospitalizations, and deaths data review.
2. Latest variants.
3. Vaccine efficacy.
4. Vaccine side effects differences between mRNA, Novavax, and Adenovirus based vaccines.
5. Novavax and myopericarditis.
6. Two confidential topics.
Reference URL list from Thursday, Aug. 31 2023
CDC COVID Data Tracker: Variant Proportions
https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#variant-proportions
CDC COVID Data Tracker: Home
https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#datatracker-home
CDC COVID Data Tracker: Trends by Geographic Area
https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#trends_weeklydeaths_weeklypctdeaths_00
COVID-19 Case Surveillance Public Use Data with Geography | Data | Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
https://data.cdc.gov/Case-Surveillance/COVID-19-Case-Surveillance-Public-Use-Data-with-Ge/n8mc-b4w4
CDC COVID Data Tracker: Variant Proportions
https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#variant-proportions
Early Estimates of Bivalent mRNA Booster Dose Vaccine Effectiveness in Preventing Symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 Infection Attributable to Omicron BA.5– and XBB/XBB.1.5–Related Sublineages Among Immunocompetent Adults — Increasing Community Access to Testing Program, United States, December 2022–January 2023 | MMWR
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/72/wr/mm7205e1.htm?s_cid=mm7205e1_w
Tracking SARS-CoV-2 variants
https://www.who.int/activities/tracking-SARS-CoV-2-variants
Tracking Variants
https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/COVID-19/COVID-Variants.aspx
Myopericarditis Associated with the Novavax COVID-19 Vaccine (NVX-CoV2373): A Retrospective Analysis of Individual Case Safety Reports from VigiBase | Drugs - Real World Outcomes
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40801-023-00355-5#Sec2
Thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome: Findings from the Advisory Committee on Causality Assessment - Canada.ca
https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/immunization/vaccine-safety/advisory-committee-causality-assessment/thrombosis-thrombocytopenia-syndrome-findings.html
2023 ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Code U07.1: COVID-19
https://www.icd10data.com/ICD10CM/Codes/U00-U85/U00-U49/U07-/U07.1
The relationship between COVID-19 vaccines and increased blood pressure: A word of caution - PMC
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9986138/#:~:text=In%20July%202021%2C%20based%20on,)%20were%20hypertension%20%5B10%5D.
Will New COVID Vaccines Work Against EG.5?
https://www.idsociety.org/covid-19-real-time-learning-network/vaccines/will-new-covid-vaccines-work-against-eg.5#/+/0/publishedDate_na_dt/desc/
Dr Mobeen: are you endorsing the new vaccines targeting the most recent variants?