Thread by @neoavatara

So..#COVIDupdate...

As predicted months ago, the Fall is bringing another wave. We are in the VERY early stages of this, actually.

And the wave is the same story: hitting seasonally, especially in Northeast and Midwest; and hitting unvaccinated predominantly.

Its funny (re: biased) how the media portrays this.

Michigan, for example, now has disease rates SIMILAR TO THE SOUTH IN THE MIDDLE OF SUMMER.

Strangely, I don't hear a lot of attacks on Whitmer the way I heard on DeSantis...this is why many don't trust the media at all.

By the way, in that above chart...that first black wave in March/April?

WAS ALSO MICHIGAN.

Michigan frankly has been one of the worst states on COVID from day 1.

Again, the unvaccinated are bearing the brunt of the pandemic.

GET VAXXED FOR GOD'S SAKE PLEASE.

The Northeast and Mountain states are getting hit hard right now.

The South...is doing the best.

So what we are seeing is very high case numbers in the Northern Midwest and Northeast.

However hospitalizations and deaths are being seen more in states with lower vaccination rates.

Here is Michigan.

Anyone that attacked Florida during the summer, and isn't now attacking Michigan, is being utterly dishonest, and not really follow the science. Michigan has had three distinct terrible waves, and this FOURTH one is going to be bad as well.

Here are deaths. Again, there is a surge coming, but it is blunted by vaccinations, which is what we expect.

Other states seeing similar trends scatter the country: MN, NM, VT, CO just as examples.

I think NY vs PR is interesting. Between high vax rates, and high endemic disease exposure, NY should be among the highest antibody titer rates in the world...and the charts seem to show that. PR is highly vaccinated, but didn't have severe disease...they are still having waves.

So take home point?

1. GET VAXXED.
2. GET VAXXED.
3. The summer wave in FL, etc was neither unexpected or surprising. And it wasn't controllable. Neither is this wave.