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