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20 Nov, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Some people have have high ACE2 expression, and some have “almost none”

For the life of me, I can’t figure out why so few have engaged with this research that’s been out as preprint from @celldeathlab for over a year…

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4 Nov
Jan 2020: rapid tests (@RanuDhillon; @sri_srikrishna)
Feb 2020: ventilation; filtration; portable air cleaners (me)
Mar 2020: airborne (@linseymarr)
Mar 2020: masks (@zeynep)

We knew what it was, how it spread, how to test, and how to stay safe before vaccines *very* early on
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Jan 2020: rapid tests (@RanuDhillon; @sri_srikrishna)

hbr.org/2020/01/what-w…
Feb 2020: ventilation; filtration; portable air cleaners (me)

ft.com/content/5083fd…
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22 Oct
Here are 4 things we should do to prioritize the health of children:

1⃣ Mandate vaccines for all adults in schools
2⃣ Host at-school vax clinics in every school
3⃣ Expand use of rapid antigen tests
4⃣ Improve ventilation and filtration

Details in thread
washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…
1⃣ "Mandate vaccines for all adults in schools, as Los Angeles and New York City have done. We know this causes vaccinate rates to rise sharply. New York City’s Department of Education saw its rate spike from around 50 percent in early August to 95 percent."
2⃣ "Host at-school vaccination clinics in every school in the country. Any family that wants their child vaccinated should have that opportunity as soon as vaccines are available. No more crossing our fingers and hoping that people will find a local clinic or CVS to go to."
Read 6 tweets
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22 Oct
Many masking policies rely on these two CDC metrics. They’re deeply flawed. How has this escaped scrutiny?

“CDC primarily uses two metrics: seven-day-average case numbers per 100k people and the rate of tests that come back positive. Both have problems.”

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…
“The first metric might seem reasonable, until one recognizes that there are vast differences in risk by vaccination status and by age. Vaccinated people are 29 times less likely to be hospitalized than the unvaccinated, and children are hospitalized at low rates, too.” 2/
“Despite this, the CDC’s metric is being uniformly applied across the country. Case numbers were once a reliable indicator of population risk, accurately foreshadowing hospitalizations and deaths, but this is changing as more of the country attains some level of immunity.” 3/
Read 8 tweets
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16 Oct
This backlash was predicted. We shouldn’t extend controls beyond what’s necessary, or else we lose trust. The pushback is not coming from hoaxers or anti-maskers or anti-vaxxers - and it’s not limited to this campus. The window is closing on rational people accepting this…
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13 Oct
F.D.A. Authorizes E-Cigarettes to Stay on U.S. Market for the First Time

This line from the FDA. Ugh. EVERYTHING is safer than cigarettes:

“The authorized products’ aerosols are significantly less toxic than combusted cigarettes based on available data,”

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Just wait til people start waking up to methylglyoxal that can be generated by ecigs, let alone the flavoring chemicals that workers are warned about wrt inhalation risks, but ecig users are not…
“We have been warning workers about inhaling these chemicals... (“Handling of this flavor that results in inhalation of fumes, especially if the flavor is heated, may cause severe adverse health effects.”) E-cigs should be sold with similar warnings.”

nytimes.com/2018/04/04/opi…
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13 Oct
Terrific article by @HelenBranswell on mixing and matching boosters. Two things caught my eye, in particular:

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statnews.com/2021/10/12/a-p…
She writes: “A number of countries — the United States among them — do not consider people who received two different brands of vaccines fully vaccinated”

This silly practice needs to stop. Why? Check out this sentence later in the piece:
“A number of small studies done in Europe have shown that following up AstraZeneca’s adenovirus-vectored vaccine with a Pfizer or a Moderna mRNA booster elicits a greater immune response than what is seen from two doses of the AstraZeneca alone.”
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