Poul Birch Eriksen

Former radio broadcaster (DR P1) 🎙️; Journalist 🖋️on #GlobalHealth 🌐⚕️/Epi- & Pandemics, past & present /Things-That-Go-Wrong
Nowadays on Bluesky

[Poul Birch Eriksen @pobier]

While #COVID19 seems to take a breather, it may be opportune to take a look at if lessons can be identified - or even learned - from current and past #pandemics
from #HIVAids to #COVID19
https://t.co/mPovzV6Ugm

[Poul Birch Eriksen @pobier]

6. Meanwhile, the latest weekly status of trends in respiratory infections, compiled by Statens Seruminsitut, finds #COVID19 incidence in #Denmark has increased to 123 cases per 100,000 inhabitants in week ending Dec. 4, from 77 in the week before
https://t.co/xGTKOYJNtf

[Poul Birch Eriksen @pobier]

Updated guidelines for handling #COVID19 in #Denmark:
The Danish Health Authority calls for fewer tests and will go forwards with no special recommendations for isolation after a positive #SARSCoV2 test, via @SSTSundhed
#COVID19dk #sundpol
https://t.co/5BsfQrzMRv

[Poul Birch Eriksen @pobier]

5. The Danish Health Authority also reasons that the number of people hospitalized with COVID19 has been stable over the autumn and only a minor increase is expected in the coming time

[Poul Birch Eriksen @pobier]

@JesseBering Canadian Railroad Trilogy - Gordon Lightfoot
One Of Us Cannot Be Wrong - Leonard Cohen
Scorn Not His Simplicity - Luke Kelly
Miss Otis Regrets
The Foggy Foggy Dew

[Poul Birch Eriksen @pobier]

One of the authors @EmilBergholtz finds an eerie similarity between the Swedish #COVID19 strategy and the four-stage strategy described in the 1980s British political satire Yes, Prime Minister
https://t.co/z010J59iLi

[Poul Birch Eriksen @pobier]

Sweden’s Pandemic Experiment - new book out #COVID19 #COVID19se
Trans-disciplinary look at Sweden’s decisions, failures, successes, and the lessons to be learned
Open Access version available at https://t.co/dVwWAw1Zy9
https://t.co/qXerVxJmmR

[Poul Birch Eriksen @pobier]

@kakape @pandemiapodcast Without a bike helmet??

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#China's #COVID19 dilemma
If restrictions continue, demonstrations will go on
If restrictions are eased, an inadequate healthcare system risks succumbing due to, among other things, insufficient vaccine coverage, via @informeren (in Danish)
https://t.co/4sRS22p0Hp

[Poul Birch Eriksen @pobier]

In doing so, #CSLBehring follows trend seen with other new drugs for chronic conditions, whose asking price does not so much reflect the actual costs of development and manufacturing plus a profit, rather an expectation of what governments and insurance companies will pay

[Poul Birch Eriksen @pobier]

The good news is, the FDA has approved #Hemgenix, an apparently effective treatment for #hemophiliaB - which is characterized by a lack of the clotting factor IX
via @guardian
https://t.co/1QXeFVld3v

[Poul Birch Eriksen @pobier]

The not-so-good news is that manufacturer #CSLBehring, after approval, has priced the treatment - a #genetherapy - at $3.5 million a dose, making it the most expensive drug in the world

[Poul Birch Eriksen @pobier]

Low #vitaminD level could pose higher risk of a more severe course of #COVID19, observational study finds, using information from nation-wide health registers in #Denmark
via @NaturePortfolio
#COVID19dk #sundpol
https://t.co/DiIN6Oi4CZ

[Poul Birch Eriksen @pobier]

DANMAP 2021 is a yearly, surveillance report issued by the Danish Technical University and Statens Serum Institut
At hospitals, total consumption of antibiotics remained unchanged during #COVID19dk compared to preceding years

[Poul Birch Eriksen @pobier]

In #Denmark, the amount of #antibiotics prescribed by GPs saw a significant drop, coinciding with #COVID19
At the same time a drop in the level of antibiotic resistance has been observed
These are some of the main findings from DANMAP 2021, via @SSI_dk
https://t.co/3VwGkmgxdt

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Retrospective observational study comparing excess all-cause mortality in USA & Europe during first two years of #COVID19 finds that if USA excess mortality rate had been similar to Europe, USA would have seen 36% fewer excess deaths, via @EuropePMC_news
https://t.co/VS9DvNIsXA

[Poul Birch Eriksen @pobier]

»We were doing something completely different and then we discovered that something strange happened in our chemical reactions«
- So you stumbled upon it and went ahead with it?
»This is how all great discoveries are made«
Morten Meldal, #NobelPrize laureate

[Poul Birch Eriksen @pobier]

The fact that a Dane is among the recipients of this year's #NobelPrize in Chemistry is somewhat drowned out by the news that a general election has been called