📌Fully vaccinated people can gather together indoors.
📌If grandparents have been vaccinated, they can visit family if they haven’t been vaccinated only if so long as they’re not at risk for severe disease. #COVID19
2) To be clear—vaccinated people can only meet unvaccinated **low risk** people from only 1 family household without masks or distancing.
➡️Don’t try 2nd family household (don’t criss cross bubbles)
➡️Don’t do any unvaccinated family if they are not low risk.
3) again, “But the visit should be limited to one household: If the adult children’s unvaccinated neighbors drop by, the visit should move outdoors and everyone should wear masks and distance.” !!! nytimes.com/2021/03/08/hea…
4) I kinda 2/3rd agree, but I feel people will fudge what they think is low risk and high risk. A lot of people will think they are low risk even if they are not truly.
And it depends if there are more bad variants like #B1351 or #P1 are around.
5) Also in guidelines is that fully vaccinated won’t need to quarantine either if exposed to something with positive.
7) My worry—the CDC relies too much on the honor system of 1 family only & self assessment of “low risk”. Most people are not equipped or knowledgeable of epidemiology risk factors to know that.
In principle I agree, but breakdown will be at comms. We need a better way for this.
8) Why do I worry? Because 1 in 3 can’t even get basic facts straight on the vaccine.
Neil deGrasse Tyson points out that some states removing mandatory mask mandates is like “having a peeing section of a swimming pool”.... “that’s bad”. #MaskUp#COVID19
2) Here is a mask and airborne science compilation video
Increased mortality for #B117—New study in 🇬🇧 finds 64% higher risk of mortality for #B117 versus previously circulating variants (95% confidence interval 1.32–2.04) in ~55,000 people who tested #COVID19 positive in community. Risks grew after >12 days. 🧵 bmj.com/content/372/bm…
2) In this population, “this represents an increase in deaths from 2.5 to 4.1 per 1000 detected cases.”
3) “The matched cohort design controls for most potential biases, including variations in hospital capacity, as it pairs patients by personal characteristics, geography, and time of testing.” It also adjusted for age.
Engineer Allan J. McDonald, who in 1986 tried to stop the launch of the Challenger space shuttle, citing the effect of the cold on booster rockets, and who, after it broke apart on liftoff, blew the whistle when officials tried to cover, has died at 83. 🙏 nytimes.com/2021/03/09/us/…
2) “During the hearing, Ms. Ride asked Lawrence B. Mulloy, who oversaw the booster rockets for NASA, about rumors of a dissent by Morton Thiokol engineers. Mr. Mulloy conceded that there had been a discussion, but said that the company had ultimately agreed to go ahead....
3) “At that point Mr. McDonald, sitting in the back of the room, stood up. His hands shaking, he told the panel that Mr. Mulloy was not giving them the whole story; the engineers, he said, had been pressured and overruled.
Mr. Rogers immediately asked for the room to be emptied
💡AWESOME FOR BABIES—Experts & new studies suggest pregnant women who recovered from #COVID19 or vaccinated are likely to pass on protective antibodies to fetuses in their womb & to babies via breastfeeding—protects babies both during & after pregnancy.🧵 jpost.com/health-science…
2) “Researchers in Oregon recently analyzed milk samples from a group of six mothers, half of whom received the Moderna vaccine and the other half who received the Pfizer version.
The milk tested negative for antibodies before the mothers were vaccinated, and spiked afterward.”
3) “Breast milk samples were collected pre-vaccination and at 11 additional time-points, with the last sample taken 14 days after the second vaccine dose. No adverse effects were discovered among the babies.”
The pandemic is devastating the world economy—however, good news is US’s Biden stimulus of $1.9 trillion will not only help save US but also help the world. And vaccine rollout is critical.
2) but one major country will likely re-emerge by the end of 2021 back to 2019 GDP growth levels... because of the Biden’s $1.9 trillion stimulus... and if we keep up the pace of vaccinations.
3) Here is the huge impact of the Biden COVID stimulus. The worry is that Euro zone and Japan might fall behind.
2) Is this pediatric surge in #COVID19 a statistical fluke? No. If we just look at the change from late Feb to first week of March, we still see this consistent surge in kids.
Also, @DavidSteadson notes, while many schools were open, high school grades 10-12 closed in person.
3) And where is the proof that #B117 is surging fast in Sweden 🇸🇪? Here on Swedish Public Health Authority’s website. Circled is Stockholm’s 53% #B117 proportion found in week 8 of 2021. Another region has 60%.