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Eric Feigl-Ding

@DrEricDing

24 Jul

@Cleavon_MD

“IRON LUNG 🫁”—before the polio vaccines, the iron lung machines was the mechanical lung needed to keep kids alive. Let’s create a world where **NO CHILD IS EVER PARALYZED BY POLIO** ever again. #VaccinesWork #vaccinate

Thanks Dr @Cleavon_MD -follow him.

https://twitter.com/cleavon_md/status/1418678377133793283

2) 99.9% of all polio is now eliminated. How? we once vaccinated almost a million people in just 2 days in just 1 county. We can do it again if we try.

https://twitter.com/cleavon_md/status/1418678377133793283

https://twitter.com/DLBiller/status/1418398540708159493

3) this is how much excitement others have for vaccines around the world… ⚽️ 🥅

https://twitter.com/DLBiller/status/1418398540708159493

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Eric Feigl-Ding

@DrEricDing

23 Jul

⚠️ANOTHER EFFICACY DROP—Not good—Israel 🇮🇱 Ministry of Health just released another vaccine efficacy update due to #DeltaVariant—only 39% Pfizer VE for #COVID19 infection, 40.5% for symptomatic, 88% for hospitalization, 91% for ICU/low oxygen/ death. More—waning efficacy too—🧵

2) Gets worse, 🇮🇱 report also reveals waning potency, showing just 16% effectiveness against transmission among those 2nd-shot vaccinated in January, 44% VE if vaccinated in February, 67% VE if 2nd shot in March, 75% if vaccinated in April. Partly also age effect—but still bad.

3) I’m trying to find good things in the report—the 88% efficacy against hospitalization and 91% VE for severe #COVID19 death is good. But it is much weaker than the 93% reported 2 weeks ago for hospitalization, and 98% from May.

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Eric Feigl-Ding

@DrEricDing

23 Jul

⚠️10x hospitalization ⬆️ jump—many hospitals in Florida have more #COVID19 patients than ever before—all time pandemic record. At 2 UF hospitals in Jacksonville, the number of patients has risen to over 140, up from just 14 last month. Please #vaccinate
nytimes.com/2021/07/23/us/…

2) in some regions with lagging vaccination rates and rising virus cases — such as Northeast Florida, Southwest Missouri, Southern Nevada — the highly contagious #DeltaVariant has flooded intensive care units and Covid wards that, not long ago, had seen patient counts shrink.

3) At the two hospitals in Jacksonville, the number of Covid-19 patients is higher than last summer, and higher than over the winter. “It’s very frustrating,” said Dr. Leon L. Haley Jr. “Each day we continue to go up. There’s no sense of when things are going to curtail.”

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Eric Feigl-Ding

@DrEricDing

22 Jul

Hospitalized guy refuses to get vaccinated—asked further if he would have wanted to prevent his #COVID19 hospitalization, he still doubles-down saying no. Should we charge higher insurance premiums for unvaccinated, like we do for cigarette smokers?

2) “I would have gone through this (still get hospitalized), don’t shove it down my throat”… 🤦🏻‍♂️

https://twitter.com/christosargyrop/status/1418340919040876549

3) this is how life insurance companies adjust for smoking. 2x to 3x the life insurance premiums. Because actuaries know what cost them money.

https://twitter.com/christosargyrop/status/1418340919040876549

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Eric Feigl-Ding

@DrEricDing

22 Jul

📍A revealing outbreak among gold miners infected with #P1 #GammaVariant in French Guiana—55% of 44 infected—no severe but 87% symptomatic—65% fever, 22% difficultly breathing. Attack rate was 60% in fully Pfizer-vaccinated, 75% in unvaccinated miners.🧵
wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/27…

2) It all likely started with an asymptomatic index case… “Patient 40 could be the index case-patient; he reported visiting his family the previous week and had an asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection with Ct of 33–35.” 👀—a very low viral load index that triggered the cluster!

3) Any vaccine cold chain break? No. “Several BNT162b2 batch numbers were involved. Vaccine temperature had been monitored and electronically recorded by LogTag Analyzer (LogTag Recorders, logtag-recorders.com) without any break in the cold chain.”

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Eric Feigl-Ding

@DrEricDing

22 Jul

@PedroFacon

📍Great airborne policy from Belgium: ➡️‘Fitness centers, dining, health clinics, concert & sports halls are required to install a CO2 meter—if a problem (with high CO2), ventilation & air cleaning systems must be installed.'

HT @PedroFacon @mdc_martinus.
tijd.be/dossiers/coron…

2) VENTILATION is key. Both ventilation and masks needed to reduce risk indoors. But most buildings not ventilated well enough. CO2 meters help provide a proxy for ventilation of fresh air.