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31 Jan, 7 tweets, 3 min read
DANGEROUS CONSPIRACIES: Wisconsin pharmacist arrested by FBI who sabotaged 570 #COVID19 vaccine doses believes:

📌COVID is fake

📌vaccine is "microchipped" & would “turn off people’s birth control & make others infertile”

📌Bonus: also the 🌍 is flat
google.com/amp/s/news.yah…
2) can’t make this up folks—that guy was just that crazy.

scribd.com/document/49278…
3) Federal authorities accused Brandenburg, 46, of purposely destroying 570 doses of the vaccine by twice removing a box containing the vials from a refrigerator at Advocate Aurora Health Systems in Grafton, WI, where he worked the night shift.
4) Brandenburg knew this could spoil the vaccine, which can only survive for up to 12 hours outside of refrigeration, said prosecutors. The damaged doses that Brandenburg tampered with were subsequently given to at least 57 patients.
5) This guy’s case was first reported before new year. It clear a pharmacy degree doesn’t educate one enough to prevent conspiracy theories. We need to stamp these out.
6) Gets crazier, this conspiracy pharmacist also thinks the sky is actually a 'shield put up by the Government to prevent individuals from seeing God.'

Oh my.

thedailybeast.com/wisconsin-vacc…
7) Meanwhile we are incredibly unequal in vaccine rollout and uptake. Conspiracy theories only fuel hesitancy and hurt the pandemic longer.

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2 Feb
BREAKING—analysis of Russian #SARSCoV2 vaccine’s phase 3 trial with ~ 20,000 participants finds that a 2-dose regimen has an efficacy of 91.6% against symptomatic #COVID19. No serious adverse events were deemed to be associated with vaccination. 100% efficacy for severe illness. Image
2) The benefits of the vaccine diverged from placebo around day ~18 after the first shot.

Estimated vaccine efficacy occurring at any time after dose 1 was 73·1% (95% CI 63·7–80·1). Notably, in vaccine group, most cases of #COVID19 occurred before dose 2
thelancet.com/journals/lance… Image
3) Notably, vaccine efficacy was 91·8% (67·1–98·3) in participants older than 60 years.

There were no cases (vaccine group) and 20 cases (placebo group) of moderate or severe COVID-19 confirmed at least 21 days after dose 1
Read 10 tweets
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2 Feb
Coronavirus analogy for Starcraft...

Remember Terran versus Zerg battles?

Zerg evolve super fast & their swarms are unstoppable once they mutate/evolve and infect widely.

➡️Terrans can win only if stop Zerg early, or tech upgrade fast. Which means lockdown & vaccinate fast.
2) But Zerg always try to counter by exploiting the map by establishing more colonies because they can create hatcheries quickly. Zerg always have expansion advantage over Terran humans. And if Terran try to expand, Zerg simply mutate to more advanced species.
3) Terrans are great at bunkering and using siege tanks + turrets, but this defense strategy never works to win a direct Terran vs Zerg battle. Zerg swarms will simply always outnumber human Terran armies if we sit back complacently. Zergs will always bring Ultralisks.
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2 Feb
BREAKING—CDC released 1st month vaccine report. Just under 13 million vaccinated over 30 days, or just ~431k per day. Relative to US pop, blacks & Latinos are underrepresented, though partly to HCW & elderly.

➡️ We need to do better in month 2. #COVID19 cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/7… Image
2) this disparity is more stark considering who is actually dying of #COVID19
3) look at the vaccine disparity by zip code. We know the zip code disparities are related to income and race.
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1 Feb
NOT GOOD—so it seems 🇬🇧 government researchers have discovered that the already more contagious #B117 has further acquired the other troublesome E484K mutation seen in 🇿🇦#B1351 & 🇧🇷#P1 variants—in 11 patients. E484k is blamed for partial vaccine-evasion.🧵
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/upl… Image
2) Moreover, they believe the 11 samples of #b117 variant that acquired the new E484K acquired them independently of each other (not just one single origin). This suggests convergent evolution taking place—where it evolves to acquire E484K separately—which indicates it is key. Image
3) One expert thinks it’s because the E484K might enhance another mutation seen in #B117, thereby letting the virus “grip” the human ACE2 receptor (targeted entry portal into human cells) stronger in a more stable way.
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1 Feb
📍GRAVE RACIAL INJUSTICE—

Black- & Hispanic-Americans #COVID19 death versus non-Hispanic Whites by age:

📌HISPANICS:

Age 55-64: ~7x more than NHW
Age 45-54: ~10x
Age 35-44: ~11x
Age <35: ~7x

📌BLACK AMERICANS:

Age 55-64: ~5x
Age 45-54: ~6x
Age 35-44: ~8x
Age <35: ~7x

🧵 Image
2) Yes, the data indeed shows that for YOUNG ADULT BLACK- & HISPANIC-AMERICANS—the relative risk of COVID death for:

Black vs Whites—

Hispanics vs Whites—

Shows the disparity is actually ***greater in young adults***

healthdata.org/acting-data/pr… Image
3) Yet at the same time, in NYC, whites have ~ 4.6x the number of vaccinations than blacks in NYC, and 7x among non residents of NYC. Image
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1 Feb
CONSPIRACY RUN AMOK—A nurse who got vaccine on live TV and fainted briefly (and then went back on TV saying she’s okay) has anti-vaxxers and pandemic deniers running amok insisting she is dead. There is no end in sight to the online harassment. #COVID19
thedailybeast.com/anti-vaxxers-w…
2) Here was how all the above sorta started. Someone deceptively edited a video... Image
3) it started in mid Dec but it’s still going. “According to all official sources, she is alive and well and working as a nurse in Chattanooga. Last week, she was pictured on the front of local newspaper caring for a police chief who had been in hospital for nearly 100 days.”
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