💡BREAKING—CDC study confirms the NIH-Moderna #COVID19 vaccine is more effective against #DeltaVariant hospitalizations than Pfizer-BioNTech or Johnson & Johnson. Vaccine efficacy for Delta🏥—Moderna 95%, Pfizer 80%, J&J 60%. VE also higher in age <74!🧵 cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/7…
2) “Overall, VE against COVID-19 hospital- ization was 86%. VE was significantly lower among adults aged ≥75 years (76%) than among those aged 18–74 years (89%) (Table). The difference in VE point estimates between age groups was similar for Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines”
3) “Across all ages, VE was significantly higher among Moderna vaccine recipients (95%) than among Pfizer-BioNTech (80%) or Janssen (60%) vaccine recipients.”
4) Is this difference also true for ER visits too? Yes. For ER—“VE was highest among Moderna vaccine recipients (92%), followed by Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine recipients (77%), and was lowest (65%) for Janssen vaccine recipients (Table).”
5) What about all breakthrough infections? Well, CDC itself doesn’t track all cases nationwide. But luckily, Oklahoma tracks breakthroughs by vaccine type - and in this other report, Moderna also had the lowest vaccine breakthrough rates for total infections!
6) Show more proof? Moderna also produced 2.6x more antibodies against the #SARSCoV2 virus than Pfizer in another Belgian study! We think this is because Moderna’s standard dose is 100 microgram while Pfizer’s is 30 mcg. Many scientists acknowledge this + Moderna longer time gap.
7) Another study from Minnesota found an even bigger difference between Moderna and Pfizer… for breakthroughs, ➡️ Moderna had HALF as many breakthrough infections as Pfizer! Look at the graph!
8) Let’s still remember unvaccinated are still 11x more likely to die of #COVID19. Thus, any vaccine is still leaps and bounds better than no vaccine. washingtonpost.com/health/2021/09…
9) Moderna is also developing 4 variant adapted variant-specific spike vaccines! One for #DeltaVariant, one for #BetaVariant, one for Beta+Delta, and one for Beta+original!
10) Where else have we seen fewer breakthroughs with Moderna? DC health department also noticed it a month ago… much much lower than J&J, and somewhat lower than Pfizer.
It’s been an active debate for a while—but the clue were all there for us epidemiologists watching closely.
11) Moderna 3rd shot booster’s EUA is obviously coming soon. But there is a bug debate whether to EUA authorize it as a full standard 100 mcg dose or to cut it to 50 mcg dose for the booster. I hope 100 mcg! google.com/amp/s/www.wsj.…
12) excited for the new booster data from Israel. See thread 🧵 below 👇
Concerning—CDC now says that 42 states are seeing rising rates of #COVID19 again—with levels high or very high in 35 states (and rising). COVID wastewater levels have already surpassed last summer’s peak and climbing fast. #CovidIsNotOver cdc.gov/forecast-outbr…
2) Substantial 28% increase in one week. Question is how high it will go. It’s a new variant (mostly KP2 and KP3 and JN1), which are evasive against past infection and past vaccines.
A girl using cover name JANE DOE testified under oath at Ghislaine Maxwell’s criminal trial that she was introduced to Trump by Jeffrey Epstein when she was 14 years old. Pass it on.
Trump’s name appears 7 times in Epstein’s latest files. They regularly called each other according to phone logs. Trump says Epstein is a “terrific guy”. And he traveled on flights, according to logs, to Epstein’s island multiple times.
3) THIS STUFF IS NEW—not old Epstein-Trump info. New information regarding Epstein's child trafficking activities was released 7/2/24. Documents from 2016 are now out of date and do not show the depth of Trump's dealings with Epstein... READ MORE:
Reminder—Trump had expressed executing people on many occasions while President, according to his own Attorney General. Now the Supreme Court has green lit any official act with full presidential immunity. Germany did the same in 1933. It turned out great.
2) If we ignore history, we are bound to repeat it. How Germany became Nazi Germany in 1933….
📍 The New York Times Is Failing Its Readers Badly on Covid
📌“Example of ‘science opinion’ run amok in the [NY Times] is a piece… by Zeynep Tufekci, a commentator with no training in biological science or epidemiology… ➡️Tufekci plays into the hands of the anti-science politicians who now seek vengeance on the flimsiest of grounds.”
2) “Tufekci also adds to the ongoing pile-on about whether the directive to maintain a distance of six feet from others was needed. Although the precise distance was indeed somewhat arbitrary, there was no possibility of obtaining hard data in the relevant time frame. The six-foot distance was a reasonable assumption based on public health history, and the practice of social distancing for other respiratory pathogens, particularly those spread by droplets. It was also adopted in multiple other countries, for the same reasons.”
3) “The problem here isn’t that Tufekci is questioning the evidentiary basis of the six-foot rule—science and public health cannot progress if we don’t evaluate the results of our work. But that progress is more effective when grounded in good-faith inquiry, rather than the kinds of attacks Tufekci levels against government scientists for doing their best in desperate circumstances. This only serves to bolster the forces who seek to destroy the US public health infrastructure, not make it better.
Tufekci also leaves the impression that she alone realized SARS-CoV-2 was airborne early on. In fact, the debate about transmission was fast and furious within the scientific community at that time”
⚠️Whooping cough has smashed all records in UK🇬🇧 with barely any serious govt actions. These are NEW CASES PER WEEK, not cumulative. Each week smashing previous. Other countries rising too amid anti-vax. Pertussis is also airborne!
3) Whooping cough is also extremely contagious. For up to 3 weeks. With UK govt advising staying home for 3 full weeks if no antibiotic treatment. How many people being told that and doing that?