geoffrey modest medical blogs

  Well, seems like SARS-CoV-2 is not the only morphing virus: a very virulent HIV virus variant (alliteratively speaking) has been circulating in the Netherlands (see   hiv variant netherlands science2022   in dropbox, or doi/10.1126/science.abk1688). so, just when we thought we were getting a covid breather…. Details: --109 individuals in the Netherlands were identified with a subtype-B HIV-1 variant (VB cohort) and compared to 6600 for individuals with other subtype-B strains (non-VB cohort), from the ATHENA study (A dherence Through Home Education and Nursing Assessment), an individual-level intervention for HIV-positive patients getting up to 24 adherence-related home visits: see  https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/pdf/research/interventionresearch/compendium/ma/cdc-hiv-athena_ma_good.pdf     -- these individuals with VB were similar to those with non-VB: mostly men who have sex with men, similar age, though more were from Western Europe Results: --comparing indiv...

  A detailed article from Qatar found a significantly decreased SARS-CoV-2 viral load in those with either vaccine-associated breakthrough infections or subsequent Covid reinfections in unvaccinated people (see   covid breakthru dec viral load NatComm2022   in dropbox, or  https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-28199-7 )   Details:  -- the databases for the study included:      -- the national cohort of all 384,452 quantitative PCR values for confirmed primary infections since the epidemic began in February 2020 until the end of the study July 11, 2021      -- the national cohort of all 1695 quantitative PCR values for confirmed SARS-CoV-2 reinfections       -- the national cohort of all 898,648 vaccinated with the Pfizer vaccine since the first recorded vaccine December 16, 2020      -- the national court of all 468,872 vaccinated with the Moderna vaccine during this same p...