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Feb 17 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Many thanks ⁦@wolfblitzer⁩ for hosting me ⁦@CNNSitRoom⁩ as the number of new cases begins to go below 10 new cases per 100,000 and we can begin considering what I call a national “reset”. The key is to balance common sense loosening of restrictions with likelihood…
…that this is not our last variant of concern. Among them: We could still be hit by BA.2; another variant across Texas and Southern states like we’ve seen both in 2020 and 2021; and possibly annual winter peak as predicted by @mlipsitch back in 2020. So anticipatory guidance key
I wouldn’t mind seeing a color coding scheme to alert local populations about a returning wave almost like a tsunami warning. And one more thing..
We’re not giving adequate advice and recommendations to help those who are immunocompromised. They’re appropriately concerned or worried and we need to really address this

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Feb 17
RT = Russian state agent. They're a leading source of antivaccine disinformation in the US, the third hub of antiscience aggression along with the "disinfo dozen" and far right political extremism, including FoxNews.

Bottom line, don't believe a word of their tweet below.
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Feb 12
Whenever I post something about longCovid it’s usually the most RT. My sense is that the human suffering from the Covid pandemic due to longCovid especially in the US is enormous and we’ve only begun to unravel this. Asking @AliHMokdad @IHME_UW on some longCovid DALY estimates
DALYs = disability-adjusted life years, roughly years lost due to premature deaths or disabilities. I use @IHME_UW DALY estimates to help policymakers understand the debilitating effects of parasitic infections/NTDs, but this also could be a powerful advocacy tool for longCovid
Also the underlying molecular and immunological mechanisms for longCovid are fascinating but chilling. Some really interesting things, autoantibodies, microglial activation, some of this work by @VirusesImmunity
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Feb 12
Among reasons I advocate for Americans to vaccinate: to prevent longCovid. Recent ⁦@CDCMMWR⁩ shows vaccination/boosting 3.6x reduction in infection. Vaccine refusal causes 23x increase in hospitalization but also longCovid consequences r devastating nytimes.com/2022/02/12/wel…
gpb.org/news/2022/02/1…
I think this article from @UniofOxford @medrxivpreprint is among the more important longCovid articles and a reason I push hard to max out vaccinations and boosters to halt infection medrxiv.org/content/10.110…
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Feb 12
Many thanks ⁦@ErinBurnett⁩ for hosting me ⁦@OutFrontCNN⁩ on two important pieces of information related to 1) pediatric vaccinations for under 5 and 2) waning effectiveness for boosters
Regarding under 5 vaccinations we’ve known at the 3 microgram dose would require 3 doses in the 2-4 yo age group. The question is was there enough effectiveness with 2 doses to move forward now with expectation it would improve following the 3rd, especially bc of omicron storm
But @washingtonpost reported today that new data coming in last night gave the regulators pause on the effectiveness of 2 doses + omicron wave decelerating as fast as it went up, hence perhaps less urgency and therefore just wait for 3rd dose data in April
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Feb 9
1/4 Many thanks ⁦@ChrisJansing⁩ for hosting me on ⁦@RuhleOnMSNBC⁩ my rationale for holding off another 2 weeks on lifting mask restrictions is as follows. We’ll know by then where we’re heading with Covid. Two different scenarios and we might know by then…
2/4 Scenario 1: covid continues its steep declines or deceleration and we reach a nadir, that’s a best case scenario and masks restrictions can probably lift
3/4 Scenario 2: Following BA.2 sub variant which is 30-50% more transmissible than original omicron variant if you can believe that. Now 3.6% of the US virus isolates are BA.2, it’s crunch time and we’ll know in 2 weeks if we have another tiger by the tail
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Feb 8
We have just reached 80,000 COVID-19 deaths in the state of Texas: My graphic interpretation of the COVID-19 deaths before vaccines were widely available ("the virus") vs deaths after May 1 resulting from vaccine refusal and defiance ("anti-science")
The trajectory of the deaths is from NY Times COVID-19 tracker for State of Texas, also here's a background article from @TexasTribune based on data from @TexasDSHS texastribune.org/2021/11/08/tex…
Detailed discussion and my comments @HoustonChron ICUs still full as Houston COVID-19 cases continue to plummet houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-t…
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