For the rest of the US, there are only 18 Covid hospitalizations per 100k.
More than half of all US Covid hospitalizations are in eight states: Florida (16,280), Texas (12,199), Georgia (4,811), Alabama (2,702), Louisiana (2,671), Mississippi (1,647), South Carolina (1,542) and Arkansas (1,421).
20% of all US Covid hospitalizations are in Florida.
20% of all US daily reported Covid deaths are also in Florida.
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A friend of mine sent me this tweet and asked "why is this wrong?".
This NY Mag article blew me away when it came out. It's fantastic. But I don't have the same conclusion as BDW re: inevitability of Covid infection or the essential meh-ness of vaccines.
With a virus as infectious as Delta, we need 90% of the population with effective antibody protection to gain herd immunity.
Herd immunity isn't something that makes the virus disappear. It makes the R0 well below 1 so that it doesn't spread uncontrollably.
Can we get to 90% effective antibody protection in a way that doesn't just mean giving up and taking a 60 bps IFR (infection fatality rate)? I think we can, and the key is vax.
This is the latest FUD being promoted by the know-nothing anti-vax crew, based on this horseshit paper - mdpi.com/2076-393X/9/7/… - which takes this perfectly fine paper (large vaccine effectiveness study in Israel) - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P… - and completely abuses the data.
Over the duration of this large (>500k) Israeli vaccine efficacy study, guess how many people died of Covid 7+ days post-second vax dose? Zero. ZERO.
But that divides the NNTV (number needed to vaccinate) calc by zero, so the authors of the anti-vax horseshit paper ignore it.
Instead, these 3 cranks "calculate" (based on pre-2nd vax data) that it requires 9,000 to 50,000 vaccines to prevent one death. But not one death, period. One death over the study follow-up period, which is FIFTEEN DAYS.
It's just insane that this bullshit is taken seriously.
Excuse me, @LHSummers, but as best I can tell, you have never been asked to describe your relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. I realize Twitter is a terrible venue for this sort of discussion, but can you point me to a public statement you’ve made on this issue?
From its founding to, say 2000, Israel was clearly the winner in any narrative war. It's only in the past 20 years that this position has deteriorated, and I don't think any faction in the Israeli gov't realizes how much the narrative losses have accelerated over the past week.