1/6 Havent written a Covid update in a bit. This thread is from the same people who I’ve been getting my info since last March 2020. If you’ve followed me you know their info has been spot freaking on and not politicized in any way. Here is their latest:
2/6 On Delta from my scientists and doctor connections…Biggest top-line conclusion: vaccines have turned this into essentially a “common cold.” There is a “wave” of new/Delta cases, but hospitalizations and especially deaths (total number and relative to number infected)
3/6 are significantly lower than seen in the previous waves; by a lot. Daily reported deaths in US attributed to COVID is 310; too many of course but not far from daily auto deaths (about 100) and daily OD deaths (also about 100)
4/6 seeing more (unvaccinated) young people coming in (bad) but mostly recovering (good). Also…all would like to see actual data on “long COVID” that people talk about; sounds similar to untreated Lime disease, not necessarily deadly but potentially debilitating.
5/6 Is long COVID real, prevalence, duration, potentially effective therapeutics? We need to understand it better. Up through June/July, we have only seen <1% of vaccinated people have breakthrough cases and most of them have mild cases.
6/6 At this point this is not the spike we saw during the winter and with the strong vaccination effectiveness, nobody is recommending any boosters yet, for any of the vaccines, and overall they all agree and think that is the correct recommendation so far.
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