Elders with weaker immune systems + congregate settings that increase the intensity of exposure = greater likelihood of breakthrough infections...
nytimes.com/2021/04/21/hea…
Alternatively, one could lead with:

"Most of those who were infected with the coronavirus despite being vaccinated did not develop symptoms or require hospitalization"

...aka despite the breakthrough infections, the vaccines appear to be working.
nytimes.com/2021/04/21/hea…
Less than a week later, I'm already re-upping this:
Wouldn't you know? "The vaccine worked as expected" is literally the main takeaway at the top of the underlying CDC report.

::rubs temples and shuts laptop::
cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/7…

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2 Apr
Just learned that the @CDCDirector mentioned me by name at today's White House briefing.

YouTube's auto-captions are riding the struggle bus on the spelling though...
Recap: On Wed., I asked Dr. Walensky why the New York variant still hasn’t received the CDC’s highest threat-level designation: variant of concern.

You can see the director's first answer at the top of this great story by @sydneyp1234 v @wnyc/@Gothamist
gothamist.com/news/how-coron…
Why we asked: The NY variant (B.1.526) is considered one of "interest" (technically, a level below "concern")

But the NY variant makes up a larger portion of current U.S. cases than the S. Africa (B.1.351) and Brazil (P.1) variants, combined.
cdc.gov/coronavirus/20…
Read 5 tweets
21 Mar
Another Sunday, another questionable take about NYC's COVID Data.

NYC DOH says some data from the past week will be lower than expected, due to delays in receiving data from New York State...
www1.nyc.gov/site/doh/covid… Image
One of those metrics in question: The number of tests

March 17 is the latest day in the current collection. Its number of PCR tests is 1,362.

Sounds low? It is.

On March 10, the last day in the city's vetted data archive, the number of PCR tests is ***73,302.*** ImageImage
Something tells me that the number of PCR COVID tests in New York City didn't actually drop from more than 73,000 to under 1,400 in 7 days. 🧐🧐🧐

Given that the test number is the denominator in positivity, the data lag would falsely make it seem that the positivity is high...
Read 6 tweets
16 Mar
@angie_rasmussen @zeynep @kakape @apoorva_nyc @JInterlandi @jbkrell @gregggonsalves @peterstaley @TAGTeam_Tweets @_HassanF @CarlosdelRio7 @MMKavanagh To echo others on this thread: Just here to remind that smallpox was eliminated in N. America and Europe more than a decade before the rest of the world...
@angie_rasmussen @zeynep @kakape @apoorva_nyc @JInterlandi @jbkrell @gregggonsalves @peterstaley @TAGTeam_Tweets @_HassanF @CarlosdelRio7 @MMKavanagh ...and outside of a handful of small outbreaks, those developed nations remained protected. (Our World In Data has a nice slider map). ourworldindata.org/smallpox#numbe…
@angie_rasmussen @zeynep @kakape @apoorva_nyc @JInterlandi @jbkrell @gregggonsalves @peterstaley @TAGTeam_Tweets @_HassanF @CarlosdelRio7 @MMKavanagh ...and given the COVID-19 vaccine procurement at the moment, history seems destined to repeat itself with curbing the coronavirus?
launchandscalefaster.org/COVID-19#Timel…
Read 4 tweets
14 Mar
People are justifiably concerned about the NY variant, but the overall case/hospitalization trends in the city are actually looking pretty good.

Here’s a list of positive signs

1) NYC case and hospitalizations continue to decline gothamist.com/news/coronavir…
2) The NYC metro area’s infection rate ranks 64th among the 100 largest urban center in the country, behind Raleigh and ahead of Kokomo, Indiana.

covidactnow.org/share/28854/?r…
3) An infection rate above 1.00 means an outbreak is growing. Below 1.00 means it’s shrinking.

NYC counties are basically holding steady. covidactnow.org/us/metro/new-y…
Read 8 tweets
8 Mar
BREAKING: CDC Issues First Set of Guidelines on How Fully Vaccinated People Can Visit Safely with Others cdc.gov/coronavirus/20…
Indoor visits between fully vaccinated people and unvaccinated people who do not wear masks or physically distance from one another are likely *low risk for the vaccinated people.*

Therefore, precautions taken should be determined by the characteristics of the unvaccinated...
"If the unvaccinated people are from a single household that does not have individuals at risk of severe COVID-19, they can visit with fully vaccinated people indoors, without anyone wearing masks"

🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌
cdc.gov/coronavirus/20…
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