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📍BOOM—Dr Fauci torpedoes Trump & says that chasing herd immunity (sans vaccine) is “not a fundamental strategy,” & “certainly not my approach. It’s certainly not Dr. Birx’s approach or any of other people that I know of on that task force.” #COVID19

Ps. Fauci is back on cable!
2) Here is exact quote from Trump: “once you get to a certain number, it’s going to go away so you it doesn’t have to be...”

Sounds like he’s still using the “it’s all all gonna go away” mantra from March/April. Ugh. 🤦🏻‍♂️
3) Longer thread 🧵 explaining and debunking why herd immunity is so dangerous.
4) Best quote: 21 Swedish 🇸🇪 experts denounced “herd” policy: “The strategy has led to death, grief, & suffering—no indications that the Swedish economy has fared better. We have set example for 🌍 how not to deal w/ a deadly infectious disease.” #COVID19 fortune.com/2020/07/27/her…
5) Another 25 leading Swedish scientists:

”🇸🇪 hoped herd immunity would curb #COVID19. Don't do what we did.”

“🇸🇪 approach to COVID has led to death, grief and suffering. The only example we're setting is how not to deal with a deadly infectious disease”amp.usatoday.com/amp/5472100002…
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👇This is Sergeant Major Payne. He is confirmed to be soon awarded the MEDAL OF HONOR for his heroism in rescuing 70 Kurdish hostages from imminent execution by ISIS captors. His selfless heroic story is worth a full thread 🧵, & everything Trump is not. military.com/daily-news/202… Image
2) Sgt. Maj. Thomas “Patrick” Payne, a Ranger assigned to the U.S. Army's Special Operations Command
was involved in a daring predawn raid on Oct. 22, 2015. Seeking to rescue 70 hostages, American and Kurdish commandos flew in CH-47 Chinook helicopters to a town in Northern Iraq.
3) The Kurdish Regional Government, the autonomous body that governs the Kurdish region of northern Iraq, had received a tip that the 70 prisoners, including peshmerga fighters, as the Kurdish forces are known, would soon be massacred by Islamic State militants.
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Wow. 30 to 35% of #COVID19 infected athlete’s heart muscles are inflamed w/ myocarditis, says Penn State physician of Big Ten sport league.

If even young athletes in their prime come down with heart damage—there IS NO SAFE HERD (w/out vaccine) to be had.
centredaily.com/sports/college…
2) Sebastianelli said that cardiac MRI scans revealed that approximately a third of Big Ten athletes who tested positive for COVID-19 appeared to have myocarditis, an inflammation of the heart muscle that can be fatal if left unchecked.
3) “When we looked at our COVID-positive athletes, whether they were symptomatic or not, 30 to roughly 35 percent of their heart muscles (are) inflamed,” Sebastianelli said. “And we really just don’t know what to do with it right now.“
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📍Don’t let Trump FDA move goalpost! @ASlavitt

Not only do need a minimum 50% efficacy vaccine, but epidemiologists say we must ensure its not too low!

Meaning what? ➡️ Not only does average have to hit >=50%, but the 95% confidence interval’s lower range must also EXCLUDE 30%.
2) Here is what experts say:

“successful vaccines should show an estimated risk reduction of at least one-half, with sufficient precision to conclude that the true vaccine efficacy is greater than 30%. This means that the 95% CI for trial result should exclude efficacy <30%.”
3) “Deployment of a weakly effective vaccine could actually worsen the COVID-19 pandemic if authorities wrongly assume it causes a substantial reduction in risk, or if vaccinated individuals wrongly believe they are immune, hence reducing compliance with, other control measures.”
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