"Recent studies suggest that neutralizing antibodies could serve as a correlate of protection for vaccines against SARS-CoV-2 in humans."
Nice of @florian_krammer to confirm what I suspected & wrote about on numerous occasions (some shown in tweets below). nature.com/articles/s4159…
What's there to discuss? Anyone can access Israel's data or read my thread and understand what's happening and why the rush. washingtonpost.com/politics/fauci…
You know, it's equally funny & sad to see so many so-called experts, famous scientists & influential decision-makers unable to find the raw data, analyze it by themselves & understand what's going on. Actually, it's frightening; those people lead the fight against #SARS2.
Just one more thing & I'm done.
"This project will gather critical real-world epidemiological information that will enable real-time monitoring of the evolution of the epidemic in Israel and evaluate the potential of a vaccination program using the... usnews.com/news/best-coun…
After seeing this Israel's table, I did my best to verify, retrieve & analyze data. Though some information was omitted, the only misinterpretation I found was Percent of Population Vaccinated referring to those with the 1st dose, not fully vaccinated. 1/
To get the data yourself, first, go to #Israel Ministry of Health dashboard, select 'The world of data', then 'Post-vaccination validation table'. There, you can download everything in .csv format. Israel vaccinates exclusively with #Pfizer mRNA. 2/ datadashboard.health.gov.il/COVID-19/gener…
After you import data from the .csv file into Excel, you'll get this. You can go all the way to the beginnings of the vaccination campaign, separated by age groups and by vaccination status. Impressive. 3/
I've mentioned several times since #DeltaVariant appeared: it seems to burn bright but short, meaning cases suddenly explode near-vertically, but also, without too much effort, collapse as forcefully. Two months up, two down.
Because it binds & replicates faster, #Delta creates a higher viral load which triggers symptoms in a host much faster. I tried to explain that, although scary, it's actually good news for our pandemic fight, if #SARS2 finally reveals itself sooner.
Studies show the average incubation period for #Delta, the time from exposure -> symptoms 1st apparent, decreased 5.2 -> 4.4 days. Depending on the disease, the person may be contagious during the incubation & for #COVID, that period can be unusually long. globaltimes.cn/page/202107/12…
Something for believers in mucosal immunity & nasal spray vaccines, like @jacquesenboit. If I understand correctly, #SARS2-specific dIgA might be the best biomarker of current/recent #SARS2 infection.
I meant, fellow believers. Because, from the start I thought the way to stop a worldwide raging pandemic with a highly infectious airborne respiratory virus is not an intramuscular vaccine (attenuates outcomes) but a nasal spray vaccine (stops the spread).
Ups, weirdly, I just tried to search & find the old tweets I wrote about nasal vaccines to no avail, but most appear deleted (I know cause I copy my tweets, dated, on hard drive)?! Are nasal spray vaccines now a conspiracy theory too, forbidden to mention? frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…
Since the UK decided to experiment with living with #COVID19 by dropping NPIs in the face of an upward wave, it's now more than ever important to look at data. I can't stand the bickering & manipulation by both sides, so I'll try to look at it objectively. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
All numbers used here are from GOV.UK summary & this analysis ends on 29 June, the last day with hospitalization info. Charts are logarithmic, adjusted to match a 100 for both cases & hospitalizations. coronavirus.data.gov.uk
1st, let's compare daily numbers with 7-day averages. Last year, cases bottomed in July & slowly increased to 1000, while at the same time, hospitalizations continued to decrease through the summer, until September. Then, they synchronized again, with a usual hospitalization lag.
Smart little virus Part III.
"This virus has surprised us a lot. It is beyond anything we feared," said Dr Aris Katzourakis... "The fact it has happened twice in 18 months, two lineages (Alpha and then Delta) each 50% more transmissible is a phenomenal... bbc.com/news/health-57…