💡We need to consider this vaccine—a whole virus traditional one that may add more protection versus variants (watch the🎥 why) & mRNA-vaccine-hesitant folks can be comfortable with. ➡️The FDA should honestly authorize #COVAXIN—EUA app submitted & waiting.
2) Notably, unlike a single target spike protein vaccine line mRNA ones or the adenovirus (J&J and AstraZeneca) ones, an inactivated whole virus traditional vaccine has multiple protein targets for which the body can “learn” to build recognition and immunity if spike is mutated.
3) P.s. I own **zero** stocks in COVAXIN makers. I’ve never traded their stock.
4) there’s also really great or proven efficacy, and the only one with proven efficacy against Delta in a phase 3 trial (none of the other US vaccines have Delta efficacy from a trial—only non-randomized real world data).

📍Also key — **zero** myocarditis reported in trials!
5) 3 months storage at **room temperature** and 2 years in a basic refrigerator. I don’t think any other current FDA approved vaccine can come anywhere near matching that stability.
6) COVAXIN has been patiently waiting since November 5th for its EUA to be approved. FDA is just sitting on it for 2.5 months. It’s getting disgusting the @US_FDA foot dragging now.

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Jan 22
⚠️SWAB THROAT + NOSE TOGETHER—“Compared to PCR testing, nasal-only & throat-only swabs each detected 64.5% of cases. By combining both the **nose & throat swab** in 1 test—the swabs were able to detect 88.7% of cases.” ➡️Where is the FDA?🧵
HT @legalnomads cbc.ca/news/canada/no… Image
2) I’ve been advocating for *both* throat combined with nose swab for weeks. Both the science and lots of anecdotes supports it. Many countries do it too.
3) This story was a good real life example how a nasal test came up short but combining with throat it was able to detect it 👇
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Jan 21
📍NEW “BA2” SUB-VARIANT—@UKHSA has designated a #Omicron sub-lineage, known as BA.2, as a new “variant under investigation”. 53 in 🇬🇧 but 2,093 sequences of BA.2 recorded from 22 countries. Unclear yet—but “possibility it could be more transmissible.” 🧵
news.sky.com/story/amp/omic…
2) “Initial studies from Denmark - where it's quickly taken hold and now makes up around half of Omicron cases - show no difference in hospitalisations between 'original' Omicron and BA.2. Vaccines also expected to be effective against BA.2 in fighting severe illness, says 🇩🇰
3) “However, more data is needed to test whether it could be even more transmissible.
The UKHSA's incident director, Dr Meera Chand, said the altered form of Omicron was not unexpected as it is "the nature of viruses to evolve and mutate".
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Jan 20
REMINDER—when a #COVID19 wave 🌊 crests— we are only 50% through the wave… the other **half of all cases occur on the way down**. ➡️Thus, keep in mind— hitting peak means we are only halfway through a marathon. Many places have not peaked yet. Stay vigilant. 🙏

Figure @trvrb
2) here are more US states. It hasn’t peaked yet in half the states overall. Again, 50% of the cases and hospitalizations are after the peak.
3) We are a whole month into #Omicron wave and only now are people waking up that Omicron is not so “mild” as propaganda machines have foretold it to be. Only a bit milder intrinsically— but exponential math swamps any intrinsic mildness.
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Jan 19
📍NOTA BENE—I hope the free rapid antigen #COVID19 tests mailed out by the US Postal Service are mailed when it is at least 36 degrees F (2 C )**— or else freezing temperatures can ruin the RAT kits. Make sure your test’s “control” line still works. globalnews.ca/news/8493030/c…
2) It’s not just where the kit is delivered - it’s also where the tests kits are stored during distribution. Many mail sorting centers leave mail in unheated areas - and in trucks for the morning mail run overnight. All these could break the temperature chain.
3) But sending it out is still fastest method of delivery. Please sign up today… takes 30 seconds.
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Jan 19
FIRST ever case of a man who suffered agonizing penis pain due to a “mild” #COVID19 infection 3 weeks earlier that caused a blood clot of his penis vein—mid-erection. It took 2 months of blood thinner treatment before he regained normal function. Mild? 🧵 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/cc…
2) The deep dorsal penis vein runs the whole length of the penis and is involved in supply of oxygenated blood to the organ.

An ultrasound showed “no [blood] flow in the vein” due to a clot around half way along the penis.

nypost.com/2022/01/18/man…
3) The unnamed male had suffered penile pain for three days before being seen by a urologist in Iran, who referred him for tests.
The discomfort began following an erection while having sex, the 41-year-old married man told doctors.
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Jan 18
🧪NEW—all households in the U.S. can order one set of 4 free at-home tests from the US Postal Service.
•Limit of one order per address
•One order includes 4 individual rapid antigen #COVID19 tests
•Ships starting in late January

ORDER FREE 👇
special.usps.com/testkits
2) the free rapid antigen home test ordering process is extremely simple. You can order more if you have more than one address it seems. There isn’t any fine print that says limit one per household. Just one per *residential address*.
special.usps.com/testkits
3) However, USPS website does validate if the address has had an order placed already before. Thus, please don’t order for a friend’s address without their okay. And it seems **different APARTMENTS are okay** if the address is recognized by USPS to be a known apt building.
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