NEW—The @CDCgov just recommended that pregnant women be vaccinated against the coronavirus, updating its advice after it found **no increased risk of miscarriage among those who have been immunized**. #vaccinate#COVID19washingtonpost.com/health/2021/08…
2) Until now, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has said the vaccine could be offered during pregnancy; the recent update in guidance strengthens the official advice, urging pregnant people to be immunized.
3) “The new guidance brings the C.D.C. in line with recommendations made by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and other medical specialty groups, which strongly recommend vaccination.
4) “At this time, the benefits of vaccination, and the known risks of Covid during pregnancy and the high rates of transmission right now, outweigh any theoretical risks of the vaccine,” Sascha R. Ellington, of the division of reproductive health at the C.D.C.
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2) “In contrast, the two states with the greatest burdens of cases, hospitalizations, and deaths currently — Florida and Texas — had fully vaccinated only 59.3 percent and 55.6 percent of their adult residents, respectively.”
3) “We calculated the number of deaths, hospitalizations, and cases that could have been averted if Florida & Texas had reached vaccination coverage of 74%. We found that by doing so, the two states could have averted >70,000 hospitalizations and 4,700 deaths by the end of July.
WHO scientist said Chinese researchers had pushed back against linking #SARSCoV2 origins to Wuhan institute. “In the beginning, they didn’t want anything about the lab [in the report], because it was impossible, so there was no need to waste time on that”. washingtonpost.com/world/2021/08/…
2) In its report released earlier this year, the WHO-China team said it was “very unlikely” that the virus, officially named SARS-CoV-2, could have accidentally leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology or another facility in the Chinese city where infections were first found.
3) A discussion of whether to include the lab-leak theory at all lasted until 48 hours before the conclusion of the mission, Ben Embarek told the Danish reporters.
🔥4 teachers in one Florida school district passed away in just 1 day. Broward County had tried to instate a school mask mandate—but @GovRonDeSantis blocked it and ordered withholding of state $ funds from the school district if it did not comply. ➡️This could be any school next.
2) “The vicious virus, in less than one day this week, between Tuesday and Wednesday, claimed the lives of three Broward County school teachers and one of its assistant teachers. miami.cbslocal.com/2021/08/12/bro…
3) Broward Teachers Union President Anna Fusco said, “Within a 24-hour span, we had an assistant teacher pass away, a teacher at her school pass away, an elementary teacher pass away and another teacher at a high school.”
Breakthrough #COVID19 infections happen, but anti-vaxxers who invoke it as excuse not to vaccinate have no idea / ignore their own damn risk if they don’t. That said, armor can slowly corrode—hence booster can be needed. The armor still helps. #VaccinesWork
3) A reminder - the #DeltaVariant can spread via FLEETING exposure of just seconds! That is why it has so much breakthroughs - because it is much faster transmission than before that our immune system doesn’t always immediately stop it from making an initial “beachhead” landing.
2) ➡️The US government should begin rolling out COVID-19 booster shots for:
▪️people who are immunocompromised
▪️adults aged 60 and older
▪️racial and ethnic minority groups
▪️health care workers
▪️other essential workers
▪️people experiencing homelessness
▪️incarcerated people
3) the best way to help developing world is to NOT waste any doses!
⚠️Even youths with *mild or asymptomatic* initial #COVID19 infections may experience #LongCovid—affecting schooling, sleep: 11-15% of infected youths might “end up with this long-term consequence—pretty devastating for school performance” says NIH chief🧵 nytimes.com/2021/08/08/hea…
2) “Will Grogan stared blankly at his ninth-grade biology classwork. It was material he had mastered the day before, but it looked utterly unfamiliar.
3) “I don’t know what you’re talking about,” he blurted. His teacher and classmates reminded him how adeptly he’d answered questions about the topic during the previous class. “I’ve never seen this before,” he insisted, becoming so distressed that the teacher excused him