Imagine if we listened to arrogant jerks like this dude @reluctantlyjoe & ignored pandemic until there’s irrefutable 100% proof about dangers of #SARSCoV2 before we took precautions—all while being this rude—we would be in 10x worse pandemic.

P.s. I was quoting WebMD verbatim.
2) Quoted verbatim. webmd.com/lung/news/2021…
3) More verbatim quoting @reluctantlyjoe.
4) And most of the alarming quotes were from the research Mukesh Kumar.

Even if it’s mice study, our most key findings in science and medicine first comes from mice.

And we need to take precautionary principle. Let’s not endanger people’s lives needlessly @reluctantlyjoe.
5) Oh hey look, a HUMAN study @reluctantlyjoe. But only human studies are worthy of any precautionary worry? 🤷🏻‍♂️ most studies are in animal or lab, but hey, it’s not like there is a pandemic to worry about if wrong that it’s dangerous.

Don’t downplay risks like Scott Atlas.

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29 Jan
BREAKING—Single-shot Johnson & Johnson vaccine was 72 % effective at protecting against moderate to severe illness in US, 66 % effective in Latin America & 57 % effective in South Africa. It was 85 % effective overall at preventing severe disease. #COVID19 washingtonpost.com/health/2021/01…
2) Johnson & Johnson is expected to apply for emergency use authorization from the Food and Drug Administration next week. If the review follows the path of two earlier vaccine candidates, the shot could be authorized and available to the public by late February or early March.
3) it is 66% effective overall, which looks lower than the 95% for Pfizer and Moderna—but keep in mind those were done before the emergence of the new variants. We know South Africa variant have a lot of problems with potential vaccine escape. And Brazil variant likely too.
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Scoop:💡NEW VACCINE APPOINTMENT SEARCH ENGINE💡

Vaccines save lives, but process of booking a Walgreens slot online is a “hellish experience”.

Wasted slots = longer #COVID19 pandemic.

➡️ Solution: Hackivists created a fast & easy live search engine!!!🧵
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2) Nationwide, Walgreens & Duane Reed vaccine booking system sucks, says @erick_hietamaki.

On Walgreen’s sucky website, you have to pick an exact Walgreens (and only one at a time), and then pick exact date (only that date) and then a time window (only that window!!!)—ugly. Image
3) And if searching different SPECIFIC time window or date or store, you have to start all over again on Walgreens—most cumbersome site ever! if you’re not tech savvy, forget it!

Also, what if you want to check last minute openings & want to quick check for new slots?! Tough... Image
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BREAKING—Novavax says its #COVID19 vaccine is 90% effective, but likely only 50% against the #B1351 variant found in South Africa.

50% better than 0%, but clearly we have challenges with the #B1351 mutation. UPDATES COMING.
nytimes.com/2021/01/28/hea…
2) SURPRISING—“Participants were infected with the variant even after they had already had Covid.” This aligns with what South Africa CDC warned last week
3) “we are the first to conduct an efficacy trial — in the face of a changing virus,” said Stanley Erck, CEO of Novavax. He said that researchers expected variants could change the trial results, but “the amount of change has been a bit of a surprise to everyone.”
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BREAKING—First two community transmission cases of the worrisome #SARSCoV2 strain #B1351 first seen in South Africa 🇿🇦 have been detected in South Carolina. No travel history in either cases. #B1352 is the one seen to evade antibodies. #COVID19
cnn.com/2021/01/28/hea…
2) The variant -- also known as B.1.351 -- has raised concerns over being more transmissible than other versions of the virus, and potentially evading the immune protection offered by antibodies. Experts say they believe vaccines will still be effective against the variant.
3) "The arrival of the SARS-CoV-2 variant in our state is an important reminder to all South Carolinians that the fight against this deadly virus is far from over," Dr. Brannon Traxler, the health department's interim public health director, said in a statement Thursday.
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My god—frontline immigrant healthcare workers in hospitals in U.K. who don’t have an NHS health number are being DENIED #COVID19 vaccines by 🇬🇧 government. They treat COVID patients daily!!!

Boris Johnson is like the Donald Trump of the U.K.
2) yes they are similar. newstatesman.com/politics/uk/20…
3) 'They call him Britain Trump' bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-…
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Does neuroinvasion of the brain by #SARSCoV2 happen? Not just in mice, but in *humans*? The clear answer in this study is yes — both demonstrated with human brain cells and brain 🧠 inspection of deceased #COVID19 patients. 🧵 from a peer reviewed paper.
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P… Image
2) Let’s first read the abstract:

📌”using human brain organoids... clear evidence of infection”

📌”neuroinvasion can be blocked”

📌”in autopsies of patients who died of COVID19... we detect #SARSCoV2 in neurons”

📌”neuroinvasive capacity of #SARSCoV2Image
3) Conclusions from main discussion summary:

📌”results suggest that neurological symptoms associated with COVID-19 may be related to consequences of direct viral invasion of the central nervous system”

📌”brain is a site for high replicative potential for SARS-CoV-2.” Image
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