neovim prints garbage in beginning of top run when launched from terminal running 'screen'

[puterboy]

I have had no problem running vi for years with the Advanced SSH app until the latest 24.0.x upgrade that introduced neovim.
Now if I run vi/neovim in a shell running screen, then I get garbage text +q4D73 at the top left of the screen overlaying the file itself. I can clear it with ctl-L. (It works fine if screen is not running in the terminal)

Also, if I invoke using nvim -u NONE -i NONE then it works.

It appears that neovim under normal startup is emitting some terminal control sequences that confuses the screen program.

The problem persist whether TERM is set to screen, screen-256color or even xterm