Thread by @MonicaGandhi9

Appreciate Healio covering this message with @AmeshAA that our vaccine roll-out messaging should emphasize that vaccines will change your life to decrease vaccine hesitancy (and also appreciate them using the term vaccines are "defanging" the virus):
healio.com/news/infectiou…

Let me show you what is happening in the US which is that ER visits are decreasing for COVID which is sign of defanging but, now, cases are decreasing too (inflection point). 7-day ave
Cases: 4/23/21: 59.9k vs. 70.1k (4/16/21) or -14.6%
4/22/21: 61.8k vs. 70.5k (4/15/21), -12.4%

4/21/21: 63.0k vs. 71.5k (4/14/21) or -11.9%
4/20/21: 64.8k vs. 71.1k (4/13/21) or -8.9%
4/19/21: 67.2k vs. 68.9k (4/12/21) or -2.4%
4/18/21: 67.5k vs. 68.0k (4/11/21) or -0.7%
4/17/21: 68.4k vs. 68.0k (4/10/21) or +0.6%
4/16/21: 70.1k vs. 67.9k (4/9/21) or +3.2%

@EricTopol MI, NJ, NY shows cases below. And defanging? ER visits for COVID-19 decreasing (also specifically decreasing in MI & hotspots), marker of less severe disease. ER visits:
4/20/21: 2.0% (Day) & 2.4% (7 Day Average) compared to 2.5% (Day) & 2.7% (7 day ave) on 4/13/21.