📍UNVAXXED vs 2x SHOTS vs BOOSTED—recent hospital admission in Miami-Dade, Florida… ➡️highest in unvaccinated (green)—2 shots do work (yellow) but booster works even better (10x fewer). Note—data are counts, not rates. But it’s clear boosted folks have very low hospitalizations.
2) Switzerland also showing huge disparity in those vaccinated vs unvaccinated and #COVID19 death rates.
4) let’s not forget another main driver is unfettered transmission — exponential rise of #Omicron is what will find more vulnerable people and drive more cases into the hospitals.
6. We need vaccine passports (with boosters) preferably- for both indoor activities and large gatherings.
7. Domestic air travel requires vaccine or minimum negative test 24 hours before ✈️.
8. international ✈️arrival testing!
3) This is a good point — we didn’t solve the unhygienic water by just making the world boil water. We solved it by making the water cleaner in our pipes. Hence we need to make the air more hygienic in schools and workplaces with better indoor air infrastructure!
This is misinformation—Dr Henry (BC🇨🇦 health chief) believes infection on top of 2 shots gives “longer/stronger” protection—NOT TRUE vs boosters. She also callously forgets possible side effects of hospitalization, infecting others, & #LongCovid. #bcpoli
2) Dr Bonnie Henry also denies the critical nature of airborne transmission and denies N95 mask utility. She has been dangerous individual for a long time that threatens the welfare of not just BC residents but all of Canada that listens to her.
3) For those who don’t know just how dangerous Dr Bonnie Henry is— just listen to her dismissiveness against masks, against airborne spread, against school safety measures—and just horrible misinformation spreader as BC 🇨🇦 health chief.
HT @frozen
⚠️HOSPITALIZED **FOR** COVID—the majority (57%) of all recent #COVID19 hospital admissions in New York are admitted **for** COVID—not just ‘incidental’ COVID. Matches 🇬🇧 where 63% admitted for COVID. Thus➡️most #Omicron-wave 🏥 all-time COVID record-high admissions are damn real!
2) The NY stats matches closely 🇬🇧 numbers in England where 63% of recent hospitalizations are **for** #COVID19 as the **primary diagnosis**— not just incidentally ‘with’ COVID. That independent confirmation—better believe these stats! HT @IndependentSage
3) and it’s not just hospitalizations— ICUs are at or very near record highs from last winter (red) throughout the Northeast. 👇 we need to take #Omicron seriously!
⚠️ICU RECORDS—COVID minimizers claim that hospitalizations are “decoupled” from #Omicron cases. Not true➡️New Jersey, Maryland & DC have hit an all-time high hospitalizations, with Maryland & DC both at **all time record #COVID19 ICU high** too. Ergo, not “mild”
2) Moreover, US hospitalizations and ICUs are nearing record highs too. #Omicron is not “mild” if you factor in exponential growth and adjust for vaccines and reinfections.
3) How does it happen even #Omicron is less severe supposedly? Well it’s all in the nature of exponential math — when exponential math explodes the number of cases, hospitalizations will naturally surge behind it.
Let this sink in—If a quarterback fumbles the 🏈 3 different times in 3 huge pandemic blunders—should he/she still be the captain of the CDC? Because that’s what @CDCDirector Walensky has done this year—to the great embarrassment of the @CDCgov and the 🌎. nytimes.com/live/2022/01/0…
2) This statement by @CDCDirector that “there isn’t massive increases in hospitalizations” is a *complete & utter lie*. I know the data. She knows the data. Her @CDCgov knows the data —and the data all says the US is already at last year’s record #COVID19 hospitalization peak! 👇
3) US now at **record high #COVID19 hospitalizations** — exceeding last year’s peak!!! What the heck is @CDCDirector smoking? And why is @CDCgov scientists not in uproar not calling out this massive lie?!
“Mild”? It is downright shameful & scandalous that #LongCovidKids has doubled in 3 months & tripled in 6 months in kids 2-16 in 🇬🇧. Kids suffering for 12+ months has also doubled! There is no universe where kids #COVID19 debilitated as such is “mild”!
2) this is all before even before #Omicron was dominant— before the recent exponential wave. 1.3 million in UK 🇬🇧 living with #LongCovid is a huge number - especially since UK uses a stricter standard than many other countries