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22 Jun, 12 tweets, 4 min read

All over the news, all I’m hearing about is the Delta and it’s not the one I want news about! 😡 #Thread 🧵

It’s not this Delta either

It’s about this Delta.

https://twitter.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1407068118254489606

And this Delta 👉

https://twitter.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1407068118254489606

https://twitter.com/drericding/status/1407061226149064706

And this Delta 👉👉

https://twitter.com/drericding/status/1407061226149064706

Ppl are loosing their fucking minds!!!!

What they are not saying this is these key facts:

1: We have data that suggest the AZ vaccine is acceptable at fighting off the #DeltaVariante but you have to get both doses or a second dose of Moderna or Pfizer.

1a: If you’re in Merica, don’t worry about it. No one got AZ.

2: We are waiting on the data about how effective the J&J vaccine is but it’s promising as it has the same spike style as the mRNA vaccines.

3: The mRNA vaccines appear to currently be no less effective at blocking the #DeltaVariante.

4: WE HAVE NO DATA THAT SAYS THE DELTA VARIANT SPREADS BETTER THROUGH VACCINATED PPL.

5: ALL THE DATA ON BREAKTHROUGH INFECTIONS IS INCOMPLETE AND INCONCLUSIVE!

We do not know how vaccinated these ppl were, their age, if they were on immunosuppressants and a fuck ton of other factors. Till we get that, we cannot say the Detla V is any more or less extra.

Not being fully vaccinated might as well be NOT VACCINATED. 30% coverage is meaningless if the Delta V. is ~2x more catchable.

https://twitter.com/drzoehyde/status/1405418023335305216

I told you a while ago that unvaccinated ppl and children were going to have a scary summer welp.

https://twitter.com/drzoehyde/status/1405418023335305216

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Thread Jacking this #Thread to write a #Thread 🧵 because I’m loosing my mind over this “it came form the lab” shit right now.

https://twitter.com/DataDrivenMD/status/1397938645865177091

First off, let’s get a VERY IMPORTANT FACT STRAIGHT. All scientist agree (Read that again), #COVID19 is not a man created bio weapon! forbes.com/sites/coronavi…

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This dropped today and I have some thoughts on it. #Thread 🧵americanoversight.org/document/foia-…

First off, I cannot wait to read my jacket.

@GOP

Beyond that, this is a critical step in seeing how far trump and his Russian admin went in securing his rule.

The @GOP screams #CancelCulture while claiming some authoritarian tactics to protect the US are ok.

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HERD IMMUNITY IS NOT OBTAINABLE!!! The experts are all screaming this but no one is putting it into a context the avg person can grasp so, let’s do that. #Thread 🧵. This article was given to me and I was asked what I think on it. Thanks @PatTheTerrible nature.com/articles/d4158…

Honestly, it’s not the best. It talks about what experts are saying but only provides antidotes but no real source-able facts.

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Afternoon peeps. I was asked by @DataDrivenMD to provide some FDA context to his thread on the #JohnsonandJohnson vaccine pause. #Thread 🧵

https://twitter.com/DataDrivenMD/status/1382008748697219073

I’m going to start this thread by asking you to think back way beyond what you had for breakfast. All the way back to me bitching about low trial size.

My concern then was that we did not have enough ppl enrolled to truly find the weird stuff (J&J had their EUA based on 22k trial participants).

Fast forward to today!

We have finally reached enough ppl in the vaccine trial to find the weird stuff.

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#Thredjacking I hope you don’t mind @KatherineEban.

I am seriously sick of this reactionary well poisoning! #Thread 🧵

https://twitter.com/katherineeban/status/1381974250895126531

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Right here is the stats on the current irrational fear over blood clots. Thank you @angie_rasmussen for this.

For more context:

Being hit by lightening: 1/ 500,000

Being hit by a car 1/ 5,000

You still walk in the rain and drive places.

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@AstraZeneca

It’s Tuesday and that means tacos & talking shit. For today’s #Thread 🧵, I’m going to go full cable show talking head on the @AstraZeneca vaccine. (This is a complete opinion thread but you better bookmark it. I have a feeling I’m spot on in my analysis.)

Yesterday, it was all over the news that #AstraZeneca was going to release its trial data and that it looked “GREAT!”. And by great that meant on a 2 shot vaccine it protected 100% against death and sever hospitalization and had a ~79% efficacy rate (Which is just above J&J).

For contrast the J&J is ~75% effective on one dose with the same 100% prevention of death and hospitalization. On the face of it, you think they are the same.