⚠️RE-INFECTION CAN HAPPEN TO ANYONE: 26-year old world class cyclist 🚴♀️ Gaviria caught #COVID19 in Feb—hospitalized for 2 weeks. Prevailing wisdom suggested he’d at least be immune for foreseeable future. He was wrong. Reinfected 8 months later. Worrisome. wsj.com/articles/the-p…
2) “We don’t know how long [immunity] lasts... I wouldn’t be surprised that the COVID immunity also doesn’t last very long when acquired from natural infections” says @VirusesImmunity.
3) That said, others point out that vaccines might offer better stronger immunity than natural infection.
BREAKING: Johns Hopkins reports 2,658 new US deaths today from #COVID19 — all time biggest single day death toll ever. 🧵
2) Positivity now increasing again- 10.16% nationwide.
3) Let this sink in, even Trump’s WH coronavirus task force is sounding the alarms to states (in a private report naturally). This was leaked to the press today.
⚠️HOLY SMOKES. Sen Perdue’s broker bought Pfizer stock in Feb even when Pfizer warned of *bad outlook*. Then he bought more. Perdue basically traded OPPOSITE of Pfizer public warnings!
2) “Perdue made an investment in a company that manufactures personal protective equipment on the same day Perdue attended his first classified pandemic briefing.”
“In a series of transactions in late Feb, Perdue also invested up to $245,000 in the pharmaceutical giant Pfizer.”
3) “Though the Pfizer purchase reported previously, the events surrounding it have not:
➡️ One week after those stock purchases, the company publicly announced it would be developing a coronavirus vaccine.”
BEST ECONOMIC STIMULUS? Pay every American $1500 for vaccination—especially for vaccines that need 2 doses. Remember, vaccination programs is what will save lives & economy. $7 Trillion global economic boost if we roll out faster.🧵 @JohnDelaney#COVID19washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/…
2) “there’s a historical level of distrust” regarding a covid-19 vaccine among the communities that have been hit hardest by the pandemic.”
The $1500 can be a double win. Stimulus check + helping hard hit communities, altogether.
3) “Money would go into Americans’ pockets just when the U.S. economy can begin fully reopening with a vaccinated population that can go about their daily lives without fear of catching the disease or infecting others.”
@GeorgeTakei also proposed $1000 for vaccination. I agree.
CDC: Quarantines to cut from 14 to 10 or 7 days. I’m happy in some ways, but worried in others. Discontinuing quarantine after 7 days (w/ neg test), the “residual post-quarantine transmission risk” is about 5%, dropping to 1% for quarantine for 10 days. 🧵 washingtonpost.com/health/cdc-qua…
2) There is currently a large psychological toil to quarantine of course, and a huge problem w/ contact tracing given the strong disincentive to comply with tracers. Shorter quarantine lowers barriers for tracing compliance of course, which will help. But #COVID19 risk trade off.
3) To be clear, The 14-day quarantine recommendation from CDC remains in effect, but the revised guidance offers 2 ways for people to shorten the period. If a community has adequate testing resources, quarantine can end after just 7 days if a person tests negative in final 2 days
DEAR REPORTERS—When Donald Trump inevitably brags about the Pfizer #COVID19 vaccine again, remind him it was developed first in Germany 🇩🇪 by scientists of Turkish 🇹🇷 ethnic descent.
2) Turkey 🇹🇷 is a 99% Muslim country, and while Turkey wasn’t part of the blacklisted nationalities, Trump’s ban affected tons of people living in Turkey, and widely condemned. google.com/amp/s/www.al-m…
3) Who is the Turkish scientist behind BioNTech? 🇹🇷 born immigrant named Ugur Sahin and his wife Özlem Türeci.
A native of Turkey, Ugur Sahin moved to Germany after his father got a job at a Ford factory in Cologne. statnews.com/2020/11/10/the…