MIXING SHOTS—The elephant in the room that FDA/CDC has completely failed to address is mixing boosters—especially for J&J & Moderna recipients who are still waiting—J&J most urgently. Angela Merkel 🇩🇪 had gotten AZ + Moderna. Canada allows mRNA mixing. 🧵 medpagetoday.com/special-report…
2) mixing and matching became something of a necessity in Europe, as vaccine hesitancy with AstraZeneca ran high there following reports of unusual blood clotting. Many European countries moved ahead with mixing and matching AstraZeneca with mRNA vaccines. medpagetoday.com/special-report…
3) Two trials from across the pond -- one in Spain (CombiVacs) and one in England (Com-COV) -- as well as smaller cohort studies, "consistently show that you get a stronger antibody response when you give AstraZeneca followed by one of the mRNA vaccines," Moore said.
4) "Two AstraZeneca shots are weaker than anything containing mRNA," he said. "It's weaker than one AstraZeneca plus an mRNA or two mRNA shots."
5) to be fair— CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), many panelists seemed to be in favor of "heterologous boosting." — but they just pondered it, no action taken yet. Too much talk. Too little action. medpagetoday.com/infectiousdise…

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29 Sep
Ivermectin prescriptions soared 24x—and then FDA received “49 reports of poisoning and other serious reactions linked to human consumption of ivermectin so far this year. Of those 49 cases, 14 resulted in deaths.” #COVID19
ft.com/content/9715bd…
2) As a reminder, maker of human ivermectin Merck has also completely disavowed the drug. @Merck is no saint - and for even them to disavow ivermectin for #COVID19 - let that sink in!!!
3) last month, 70% of calls to Mississippi poison control calls are for ivermectin!
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28 Sep
LEADERSHIP—A major N. Carolina hospital system, overwhelmed by unvaccinated sick, fires 175 unvaccinated employees. 99.5% of @NovantHealth’s ~35,000 staff have #vaccinated. If only @UNC_System mandated too—a dead 20-yr old UNC student’s blood on its hands. washingtonpost.com/health/2021/09…
2) if Novant can mandate vaccinations, so can @UNC_System, unless UNC leadership is complete cowering cowards. @UNC_Basketball @UNCFootball @GoHeels games should have vaccine mandates too.
3) “We stand by our decision to make the vaccine mandatory as we have a responsibility to protect our patients, visitors and team members, regardless of where they are in our health system,” Novant Health said in a statement.
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28 Sep
💡VACCINE MANDATE?—a young 20-year-old UNC student is now brain dead from #COVID19 complications—his mother begged, cajoled, nagged him to #vaccinate—she now begs you. ➡️damning—@UNC_System doesn’t mandate vaccines—he caught COVID 2 days after arriving. 🧵
wbtv.com/2021/09/27/dev… ImageImage
2) Apparently, the @UNC_System is abdicating campaign vaccination with some BS punt to @ncdhhs—UNC knows full well they can also indirectly demand it via requiring it for attending @UNC_Basketball or @UNCFootball or @GoHeels sports games. But they don’t.
carolinatogether.unc.edu/unc-chapel-hil… Image
3) We honestly need to be more creative with getting young people to vaccinate. This @FamilyGuyonFOX video probably has more impact than any CDC or regularly doctor for their audience.
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27 Sep
DISINFECTION—Study found portable air cleaners are highly effective in clearing particles from the air & reducing spread to other areas. ➡️2 small air cleaners in one patient room clears 99% of potentially infectious aerosols within 5.5 minutes! #COVID19🧵
theconversation.com/we-studied-how…
2) “These air cleaners are relatively cheap and commercially available. We believe they could help reduce the risk of health-care workers and other patients acquiring COVID-19 in health care”
3) these portable HEPA filters are really good. But put them centrally in a room optimally.
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27 Sep
DEVASTATING—life expectancy of 2019 to 2020 plummeted in women (red) & men (light blue). US young men lost the most—ONE FULL YEAR among age 0-59. Sweden🇸🇪 lost more than all its Scandinavian neighbors. And we haven’t added 2021 #DeltaVariant yet! #COVID19
academic.oup.com/ije/advance-ar…
2) It’s actually worse… “Males in the USA and Lithuania experienced the largest losses in life expectancy at birth during 2020 (2.2 and 1.7 years, respectively)” — the drop was so high that it was cut off in the graph!!
3) Life expectancy at birth declined from 2019 to 2020 in 27 out of 29 countriesaareductions of more than an entire year were documented in 11 countries for males & 8 among females. Reductions were mostly attributable to increased mortality in 60+ years and to official COVID-19.
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26 Sep
📍687,000+ #COVID19 deceased and still counting. Those who say we should “learn to live with the virus” mean waving the white flag 🏳 to thousands more innocent lives lost. Let fight to save lives, prevent #LongCovid, and protect children. 🙏
2) the white flags are an exhibit of @sbfirstenberg: inAmericaFlags.org
3) the exhibit runs until October 3 at the Washington Monument
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