1/ Incentives galore to help get more kids vaccinated ahead of the winter COVID wave:

$100 Visa gift cards in
Louisiana
ldh.la.gov/news/6393
& Chicago
chicago.gov/city/en/sites/…
2/
$100 debit card OR
Tix to @NYCFC, Brooklyn @BKCyclones, @StatueEllisNPS of Liberty, @NYCferry OR
Membership to @PublicTheaterNY, @CitiBikeNYC, or @SnugHarborCCBG
& more
www1.nyc.gov/site/coronavir…
3/
$100 gift card to @HEB grocery store chain
in San Antonio
sanantonio.gov/Health/News/Ne…
4/
Chance to win a full scholarship to a SUNY or CUNY school
in NYS
governor.ny.gov/programs/vacci…
There will be a total of 50 winners.
5/
150 scholarships to Ohio colleges worth $10,000 each, as well as five $100,000 scholarships
ohiovax2school.com
in Ohio
6/
$200 Visa gift card
AND enter a series of drawings for one of five $100,000 Minnesota college scholarships
mn.gov/covid19/vaccin…
in Minnesota
7/
Chance to win educational savings funds.
One school will receive $100,000 and a holiday party featuring Gov. Jim Justice & Babydog, his English bulldog.
One hundred lifetime hunting & fishing licenses are also up for grabs.
doitforbabydog.wv.gov
in West Virginia
8/
Video contest for kids:
emphasis on “original music or humor,” information on the vaccines’ safety and efficacy, and the dangers of being unvaccinated
maine.gov/covid19/vaccin…
Winners' schools to receive: first place $50K, second place $25K, third place $10K
in Maine

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More from @celinegounder

15 Nov
1/ Why is there so much confusion about boosters?

Let's start with who would CLEARLY benefit from an additional dose of vaccine NOW:
- Elderly
- Nursing home & long-term care facility residents
- Immunocompromised persons
- People who got a single J&J vaccination
2/ @MSNBC's @SRuhle is right: what do we mean by "indicated"?

This is what's driving much of the disagreement among scientists on whether additional doses of vaccine are needed.
3/ Are we trying to prevent severe disease, hospitalization, & death?

Are we ALSO trying to prevent ALL infections & transmission?

We have yet to agree on this, but we need to have a frank conversation about what we're trying to achieve.
Read 6 tweets
15 Nov
1/ I joined @MSNBC's @SRuhle & @ddiamond today to discuss his important reporting on gov't interference with @CDCgov science & messaging:

washingtonpost.com/health/2021/11…
2/ Almost 760K Americans have died from COVID to date.

If the risks of COVID had been clearly communicated early in the pandemic, there would certainly have been less resistance to mitigation measures like masking.
3/ People make decisions weighing risk and benefit.

But when they are misinformed about the risks, they can't make good decisions.
Read 8 tweets
15 Nov
2/ It seems to me, whether you "believe" you have long COVID depends on whether you think you had COVID &/or whether you have an explanation for your symptoms or not.
3/ Reasons you might "believe" you had COVID include:
- symptoms consistent with COVID
- being exposed to someone with COVID
- living in an area going through a big COVID surge
- lab/radiology tests consistent with COVID
- PCR/antigen/serology test confirming SARS-CoV-2 infection
Read 9 tweets
14 Nov
1/ We're at the beginning of another COVID surge:


What should we be doing STAT?

with @MSNBC's @AlexWitt
2/ First, who's ending up in the hospital?

The VAST MAJORITY are UNVACCINATED.

We've got to find a way to vaccinate the unvaccinated.

covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tra…
3/ Most of the rest are elderly &/or immunocompromised persons who have "breakthrough" infections after vaccination.



We've got to give booster shots to the elderly, immunocompromised, & residents of long-term care facilities & staff) NOW.
Read 5 tweets
14 Nov
1/ Almost 910K kids between the ages of 5 & 11 have gotten a dose of COVID vaccine so far. There are 28M kids in that age group. That's just over 3% of kids 5-11.

with @MSNBC's @AlexWitt
2/
Less than ½ of 12-15 year-olds in the U.S. are fully vaccinated.
Just over ½ of 16-18 year-olds in the U.S. are fully vaccinated.
3/ The #1 predictor of a child being vaccinated is their parents' vaccination status.

But even some vaccinated parents are hesitant to get their kids vaccinated:

kff.org/coronavirus-co…
Read 7 tweets
14 Nov
1/ I concur with my colleagues @angie_rasmussen @awgaffney @uche_blackstock @darakass & others.

Some thoughts:

1. Anyone who says "COVID is over" (as some began telling me in June) is BY DEFINITION privileged.
2/

2. Cherry-picking data is a common tactic used by disinformation-ists & science denial-ists.
crankyuncle.com/a-history-of-f…
3/

3. Motivated reasoning is not good journalism. Picking experts (who, BTW, are almost all old white men)to support your preconceived notions is not good journalism.
Read 5 tweets

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