Context: The answer is that vaccinating the 20% of the population that's least mobile would not necessarily have as dramatic effect on cases. And in fact, it seems to be working well for the >60 year-old population that's now mostly vaccinated.
Alex responded to this by disregarding it; complaining that the overall rates don't drop as fast.
But the fact that those getting vaccinated are less sick is evidence they have effect. In the last 3 weeks >60 have fewer cases, while cases among the unvaccinated rise. Suggestive.
For someone who has grifted hundreds of thousands of pamphlets denying lockdowns work, it's a weird flex to complain the lockdown hasn't been more effective.
Answer is this strain is more infectious, and Israel has not been as infected as England has. More potential victims.
h/t @AndreasShrugged, who notes serious cases are down even more than cases.
Everyone in Israel belongs to one of four HMOs, and Maccabi is the second-largest. The study covers 50,777 members who got the vaccine among 480k age 60+. It's not a "small HMO"; the sample is huge and robust.
The problem for this theory is not a problem at all.
In most states, cases are down, hospitalizations are improving. These places are removing restrictions (that they previously removed and only re-imposed when cases shot up in November).
Context: There’s nothing suspicious about an 86 year-old man dying in his sleep. We knew garbage like this was coming. Antivaxxers always seize unrelated events that inevitably occur when large numbers of vaccines are administered.
For example, here’s Alex Berenson spreading panic porn that 148 people have been reported to have died sometime after taking one of the vaccines. Doesn’t mean vaccines had any role. As of last week 11.3 million doses had been administered!
I wrote an article about this. The WHO didn't say anything about false positives, doesn't suggest cycles be reduced, and not much changed from old guidance.
Context: Bizarre that so many folks are misrepresenting such a milquetoast document to mean something sinister. It doesn’t say anything like this. Just read damn thing!
It's not even new. The prior version of the document already said “patients with high levels of circulating virus (viral load), relatively few cycles will be needed to detect virus and so the Ct value will be low.” archive.is/FkKlq