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14 Jan, 8 tweets, 6 min read
⛔️FRESH HELL out of CDC—just 2 weeks after @CDCgov warns passengers to “avoid cruise ships”🛳—the CDC will now transition to a **voluntary risk mitigation** program for cruises… all while #COVID19 hospitalizations at record high! Umm, @CDCDirector—WTH?!?!
axios.com/covid-cruise-s…
2) The CDC has notified industry members about the program and expects cruise lines to decide whether to participate or not in the coming week, USA Today reports. CDC will let requirements lapse! usatoday.com/story/travel/c…
3) Of course cruise ship 🛳 industry loves it— “The transition "recognizes the cruise industry’s unwavering commitment to providing some of the highest levels of COVID-19 mitigation found in any industry," the Cruise Lines International Association said” cruising.org/en/news-and-re…
4) This decision comes on the heels of @CDCDirector declining to recommend N95 / KN95 masks for all — not even mandating - just a soft recommendation - and she couldn’t muster even that!
5) The @CDCDirector has been stone cold wrong in the past week. Denying soaring hospitalization is the ultimate gaslighting of the public!! @CDCgov staffers around her should be ashamed of her shoddy leadership and comms.
6) This woefully bad screw up pattern of @CDCDirector is not new — she has made major fumbles and blunders in the past here— here are some more 👇— that’s why on top of all the recent decisions, I no longer have confidence in her.
7) Some of you know I’ve been calling out @CDCDirector for her lackadaisical attitude towards mask guidelines - CDC’s May 2021 fateful decision to drop masks for the vaccinated (which empowered anti maskers of all spectrums) likely exacerbated the summer Delta wave as well. 👇
8) I was so utterly embarrassed last week when @CDCDirector rolled out her no-testing-isolation-early-exit policy, and then even more embarrassed when Taiwan’s govt utterly rebuked her dangerous isolation policy… it’s such a facepalm 🤦🏻‍♂️ to the face of @CDCgov reputation.

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14 Jan
NEW—CDC says N95 masks offer the best protection against #Omicron. Updated guidance stops short of saying people should wear N95/KN95 but offers advice—superior protection offered by N95 masks compared to cloth coverings. Good start albeit 2 years late. 🧵 washingtonpost.com/health/2022/01…
2) But the agency stopped short of recommending that people opt for N95 masks in updating its mask guidance. Officials have always maintained that the best mask is the one that fits well and is worn consistently. 🤦🏻‍♂️
3) But the latest CDC information ranks the different levels of protection afforded by different masks and how they should be used. “Loosely woven cloth coverings” offer the least protection, the updated guidance says.
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14 Jan
Memesday! Time to discuss the power of memes. Share your favorite pandemic meme—🧵

📌They are (usually) funny
📌They make a point without saying it
📌They expose irony or hypocrisy
📌They say what many think but can’t aloud
📌All the above gets memes shared more than dry science Image
2) I could say a breakthrough case is not the same as a unvaccinated cases and explain hospitalization and death rates… or a meme makes almost the same point. 👇 ImageImage
3) I could talk about needing a vaccine passport for flying… or this meme dog could do it better… Image
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14 Jan
KARMA—Djokovic just had his visa revoked for a 2nd time. Australia’s immigration minister said he was canceling Djokovic’s visa after a federal investigation had revealed that Djokovic provided false information to border officials. 🤦🏻‍♂️Just #vaccinate man. nytimes.com/live/2022/01/1…
2) Australia’s immigration minister, Alex Hawke, said in a statement that he was canceling Djokovic’s visa on the grounds of “health and good order,” adding that it was in the public interest to do so.
3) A federal investigation led by Hawke had revealed that Djokovic provided false information on the documents he gave to border officials when he tried to enter the country last week.
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14 Jan
Incredible—The goal post moving of Joe Rogan after getting fact checked live is incredible. ➡️ Fact— there is an 8x higher risk of myocarditis with #COVID19 infection than with the vaccine among young people. Please #vaccinate, don’t risk COVID.
2) Rogan’s sudden questioning of “where are we getting this stuff” after realizing he got fact checked is jaw dropping…

➡️ epidemiologists to be exact. This stuff is literally what we do. I didn’t slave away at a Harvard epidemiology doctorate for nothing.
3) CNN weighs in on the Rogan myocarditis- @brikeilarcnn agrees it was goal post moving too. 250+ scientists have asked @Spotify to reconsider supporting misinformation.
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13 Jan
💡HUGE—We now have evidence that Multiple Sclerosis is likely caused by an infection—notably, the Epstein-Barr virus increased risk of developing MS by a whopping **32-fold***—via Harvard epidemiology team. ➡️ Hopeful because EBV vaccine coming soon. 🧵
statnews.com/2022/01/13/str…
2) “Our data strongly suggest Epstein-Barr virus is the leading cause of multiple sclerosis,” said Kjetil Bjornevik, a research scientist at Harvard and the study’s lead author. “It was a really dramatic increase in risk that would be very hard to explain any other way.”
3) More than a decade ago, his Harvard colleague, epidemiologist Alberto Ascherio (my friend) had a hunch that the answer to what initiates MS might be frozen somewhere on the campus of the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research.
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13 Jan
WATCH📺—Despite 97.5% of all adults in England🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 with antibodies to #COVID19 (via vax/infection)–hospitalizations still surging. Why? Because variants like #Omicron are adapting. Need multivalent vax, plus ➡️N95 & ventilation are agnostic to variants—key!
2) Boosters are critical, yes, but we need a higher sea wall of protection that can handle virus evolution & adaption. That’s why premium masks & ventilation & air disinfection key.

Special thanks to @theosanderson for the animation. Data via 🇬🇧 @ONS.
ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulati…
3) And we need to be honest also that vaccine boosters wane too. This figure in French from UK data shows that even boosters wane against highly evasive #Omicron 10 weeks after a booster shot -VE down to 45% for symptomatic. We need new multivalent vaccines & masks & ventilation.
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