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Andy Slavitt 🇺🇸💉

9 Jul, 11 tweets, 2 min read

COVID Update: I deeply regret that we live in a world where I have to respond to Marjorie Taylor Greene.

But alas… 1/

@HolocaustMuseum

Greene is now comparing Biden’s vaccination program to her new favorite topic: yes, Naziism.

The latest chapter in her Holocaust education fetish is not encouraging.

Cc: @HolocaustMuseum 2/

No one is in danger of asking Greene to teach a history class (or a public health class) (with the exception of Texas) anytime soon.

But she did learn one lesson well from the Nazis: dangerous propoganda. 3/

This bromide that anything the government does is by definition fascism is the 2020s rallying cry of Trump/Greene.

In this case it’s a lethal blow to people in the path of a storm. After all, the government is more of a threat than COVID plays well. 4/

The latest outrage is Biden daring to suggest that people go door-to-door to talk to one another about getting vaccinated.

The hardly left wing Daily Caller described what this brown shirt campaign is. Ministers and neighbors sharing their stories. 5/

dailycaller.com/2021/07/07/joe…

Yes, Biden was encouraging Americans to (gulp) talk to each other about getting vaccinated. If this isn’t fascism, what is? What next? They will come for our guns. 6/

If someone looking out for you & listening & talking to you about you about getting vaccinated is a blow to your liberty when a powerful variant is sweeping through your unvaccinated area, it’s time to re-examine what liberty means. 7/

We all have our narrative on what this country means to us. Some of us came here on a boat. Some in chains. In my own narrative of this country, the liberty I enjoy wasn’t handed to me as a right, it was fought for & needs to continue to be in our commitment to a common aim. 8/

To make it personal, my grandmother came to the country as an 8 year old alone with a 14 year old uncle to Ellis Island. 7 siblings didn’t make it. She lived through world wars & a 10 year Depression. 9/

She didn’t come here to escape people knocking on her door to talk about vaccination. There were people who came to kill everyone in her village.

Oh and she had small pox & was left to die when her parents escaped. 10/

So Congresswoman Greene, spare us the imagined treachery of someone coming to snatch your liberty. Our liberty is earned. The burden of enjoying our freedoms is to contribute to the ideals of a country we can be worthy of.

And Congresswoman Greene, you’re not. /end

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Andy Slavitt 🇺🇸💉

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10 Jul

COVID Update July 10, 2021: 2021 will be the year of the Unvaccinated Pandemic.

Vaccinated or not, there are implications for all of us. 1/

The most tragic toll will be in the countries that have not done mass vaccinations yet.

India, Australia, Bangladesh, E Asia, Africa— places that dodged COVID in 2020 and either couldn’t afford or didn’t make an effort to procure vaccines will pay the highest toll. 2/

In the US, we were racing against Alpha & largely beat it. But imagine if we had not. A new study from Yale points to 100s of thousands of lives saved & millions of hospitalizations by having vaccines beat alpha. 3/

google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.…

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Andy Slavitt 🇺🇸💉

@ASlavitt

9 Jul

NEW: The CDC issues guidance on masking in K-12 schools for the Fall.

Vaccinated children do not need to wear masks; unvaccinated kids should per the guidance.

I know this raises questions & is a hot topic so I will hit a few points. 1/

It helps to begin with what CDC guidance is and what it isn’t. It provides the best recommendation based on the science but allows states, schools & individuals in some cases to weigh other factors. 2/

For example, CDC doesn’t set out to address the question of how to tell who’s vaccinated & who isn’t. Or other factors like school ventilation & desk configuration— all of which the speak about as “layers” of protection. 3/

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Andy Slavitt 🇺🇸💉

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8 Jul

NEWS: Pfizer to submit application for COVID specific booster to FDA. More here shortly.

Follow here if interested.

Having had a few conversations with the company and others about this, here is what I know. 2/

The first question is whether a booster will be needed and Pfizer believes that there is a significant boast in immunity if a third shot is given after 6 months.

This may be particularly useful among older people who are immunity wane faster. 3/

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Andy Slavitt 🇺🇸💉

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6 Jul

COVID Update: A strategy I deploy & recommend when there’s a new study, particularly with explosive headlines about COVID.

It’s the same strategy I deployed last year when reading about how promising the vaccine trials were.

Wait it out a bit. 1/

We are all subject to that sinking feeling of seeing the headline:

“Study shows variant gains strength”
“Do the vaccines work against Lambda?”
“Breakthrough cases increase.”

Makes your ❤️ drop. None of us wants to relive the last year & that often flashes through our minds. 2/

There’s no doubt that these can be upsetting to see. In our minds, we want to compartmentalize COVID as either a threat or not a threat & it’s confusing to feel in between. 3/

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Andy Slavitt 🇺🇸💉

@ASlavitt

6 Jul

COVID Update: There is potentially news out of Israel worth paying attention to.

One implication is when it makes sense to boost again in the US. 1/

Some very preliminary data shows a reduction in vaccine efficacy to mild disease— potentially somewhere between 60-80% (still >90% vs serious). 2/

Does this mean Delta is evading vaccines more than we thought? Data on the vaccines v Delta is still quite solid & this could be an outlier.

But if the data hold, the most likely conclusion is not that Delta is escaping the vaccine. It’s closer to the opposite. 3/

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Andy Slavitt 🇺🇸💉

@ASlavitt

4 Jul

COVID Update 7/4/21: Today is the day early in the Biden Administration where the president hoped Americans would be able to gather in small groups again after 18 months.

The odds did not seem good back then & many were skeptical but we were motivated by what we couldn’t see. 1/

It’s almost hard to remember what a shit show (sorry) it was 6 months ago. No vaccines in inventory, no appointments, bizarre rules to qualify, not enough places or vaccinators. And only 40% said they would take a shot if they could get one. 2/

When we got there, the public had been told 100 million would be vaccinated by the end of January. No one trusted a thing they heard.

I was asked to speak to the public on a regular basis. Biden had one expectation. Tell people the truth, whether the news was good or bad. 3/

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