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6 Sep, 4 tweets, 5 min read
ICYMI 3 excellent graphics from @TheEconomist comparing immune responses with & w/out #vaccines to alpha vs #DeltaVariant #SARSCoV2.
First, efficacy dropped in UK for both @AstraZeneca & @pfizer vaxes against Delta, once it took over the #COVID19 landscape.
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2/ When the UK switched from alpha #SARSCoV2 to the #DeltaVariant dominating the #COVID19 landscape, the key change was in the ability of @AstraZeneca or @pfizer vaccines to prevent infection.
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3/ Curiously, in the UK when UNvaccinated folks got re-infected with alpha #SARSCoV2 they mustered weak antibody responses, despite prior exposure. But with #DeltaVariant a 2nd infection in unvax'ed people elicited a BIG antibody response. Why? Who knows? Merits study.
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4/ Many thanks to the terrific @TheEconomist graphics department, which has, throughout the #pandemic produced outstanding charts and graphs elucidating trends in our often mysterious #COVID19 crisis. economist.com/graphic-detail…

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6 Sep
OK, ENOUGH ALREADY.
Here's the #Ivermectin saga, people.
1.) In the 1960s Japan's Satoshi Omura did chemistry work, trying to find a medicine to kill helminth worms in livestock.
2.) In the '70s he joined forces with Max Tischler at Wesleyan in USA.
3.) They brought...
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...@Merck & @Kitasato pharma companies on board.
4.) Omura discovered a bacterium that emitted a powerful anti-helminth chemical.
5.) William Campbell @Merck tested it. Using synthetic chemistry, they made "ivermectin" -- 25Xs stronger than the bacterial chemical.
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5.) The @Merck & Kitasato companies were thrilled to discover it cured a long list of livestock worm & parasitic diseases & a huge veterinary market opened.
6.) In 1981 Bangladeshi Mohamad Aziz showed that #Ivermectin could cure River Blindness, a terrible disease...
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27 Aug
Many #COVID19 #vaccine refusers say there's "something" in there -- a transmitter @BillGates uses to monitor us, magnets, 5G signalers.
Let's take a look:
1.) Whatever "it" is must be small enough to pass thru a 0.152 mm (aka 0.0035 inch) wide hole at the tip of vax needle.
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2.) It must be powered somehow.
3.) and it should last a long time to be worth the cost & trouble.
So, how does that stack up with reality?
World's smallest battery is 150 nanometers, but doesn't last long -- minutes. Tiny 3.5 mm lithium batteries work, but that FAR too big.
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World's smallest transmitter is 5 by 9 by 4.8 mm in size, transmits up to 120 meters, requires a 1.5V battery.
Too big.
Smallest Bluetooth transmitter runs on 0.6 milliwatt battery but needs a 14 mm antenna.
Too big.
And any transmitter needs a microphone --
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26 Aug
Folks @TheEconomist reckon failure to make #COVID19 #vaccines available to the whole world will cost the global economy more than $2 Trillion.
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2/ The financial pain of delayed global distribution of #COVID19 #vaccines will be unequal, will hurt GDP growth, and will persist out to 2025, says @TheEconomist Intelligence Unit.
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3/ As with every other calamity on Earth, the poorest countries will pay the highest costs, in terms of their economies, for delays in #COVID19 #vaccine rollouts --- because the rich countries are hording vaccines. From @TheEconomist Intelligence Unit.
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18 Aug
Don't like the use of past tense references to #COVID19, but conclusions seem right:
"COVID-19 was not a black swan event. It may also constitute a dress rehearsal for a far worse #pandemic, which could come at any time."
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pandemic-financing.org/report/forewor…
2/
 "We must prepare for a world where pandemics are..."
more frequent & increasingly dangerous. Preventing
them & never again allowing the human costs & economic damage that we have seen in the current
crisis, must be a central obligation of national and global governance."
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3/
 "It fundamentally requires thinking internationally & not just domestically. We cannot prevent or quickly contain the next #pandemic thru domestic measures alone.
"In a historically unprecedented way, security for people around the world depends on global
cooperation."
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16 Aug
Nailing this down. About 2000 children are hospitalized with #COVID19 now - small % of them are in ICUs. Pediatric ICU nationally is 5115 beds. Overall pediatric beds = 23,085, per Boston Children's Hosp.
The % -use of Ped ICU varies widely by State.
washingtonpost.com/health/2021/08…
2/ Among the hardest hit are Texas hospitals.
"On Thursday, the DFW Hospital Council announced that there are no available pediatric ICU beds in North Texas."
nbcdfw.com/news/coronavir…
3/ The Amer Acad of Pediatrics reported a 7X increase in child cases just in the 1st week of August, w/abt 2% of them in hospitals.
seattletimes.com/nation-world/t…
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30 Jul
What has hair on fire in Atlanta HQ @CDCgov ?
Excerpts (thread) cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/7…
"In July 2021, following multiple large public events in a Barnstable County, Mass., 469 #COVID19 cases were id'ed among Massachusetts residents who had traveled to the town during..."
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2/
 "...July 3–17; 346 (74%) occurred in fully vaccinated persons. Testing identified the #DeltaVariant in 90% of specimens from 133 patients. Cycle threshold values were similar among specimens from patients who were fully vaccinated and those who were not."
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3/ "Vaccine prods rec'ed by persons experiencing breakthrough infections were Pfizer-BioNTech (46%), Moderna (38%), & Janssen (16%)...
"79% reported signs or symptoms, w/the most common being cough, headache, sore throat, myalgia & fever."
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