Thread by @AGHamilton29

For the 100th time, Alex Berenson is anti-vaxxer idiot that consistently lies to his followers because he assumes they will never check his claims.

https://twitter.com/BadCOVID19Takes/status/1373452262652178432

Berenson: Cases are starting to rise with vaccinations, just like in Israel.

Reality: Cases have crashed overall in Israel and the US. And far more so among the elderly, which are the population that have been vaccinated. Small inc are among unvaccinated groups due to variants.

Israel went from almost 10K new cases per day in late January to 1-2K per day over the last week. From~70 deaths per day to less than 10 in the same period. You have to be a complete idiot or intentionally dishonest to not recognize what vaccines have done.

Oh and worth noting that Israel's cases and deaths have crashed as they have completely reopened. Israel is basically going back to normal because of vaccines. That's what Berenson is raging against and trying to convince people is bad.

I guess lockdowns got him his audience.

Again, intentionally deceiving.

1) 1st dose does not fully take effect until 2 weeks after t1st shot. He's citing alleged spikes in that period.

2) He's citing spikes in the general population, not those that have been vaccinated.

2) mRNA vaccines cannot give someone Covid.

Median time from someone w Covid-19 showing symptoms to death is ~18.5. So pointing to someone that dies from Covid days after they get 1st shot and implying it is related to the shot is dishonest. Pointing to random spikes from people that likely didn't even get a shot is worse.

Most countries, inc Israel, started their vaccination campaigns while they were still in the midst of a major Covid wave so a lot of ppl were still dying early in those campaigns. But all the countries that have vaccinated large segments of their elderly have seen deaths plummet.

I'll add one more. Not only was there not a surge in deaths after vaccinations started as Alex is suggesting, but the exact opposite happened. The slopes diverged as nursing homes received vaccinations and those outside LTC facilities did not at first.