Let this sink in—“The republicans who said ‘my body my choice over the COVID vaccine’ now say I have no control over my body (to not be forced to give birth to baby of a rapist)”. Let that hypocrisy sink in.
NEW—FDA has issued remarks about Paxlovid and the recurrence / rebound 🏀 of positive #COVID19 after a negative. FDA admits it definitely happens but claims it’s only 1-2% with rebound in the trials, & no clinical guidance change. But I count more than 1%. fda.gov/drugs/news-eve…
2) Based on lay reports Im hearing everywhere, it’s seems way more than 1-2% having a rebound positive after taking Paxlovid. A lot more.
3) Im originally trained as a clinical epidemiologist, and evaluating clinical data. And the sheer volume of reports Im seeing, it can’t possibly by just 1-2% rebound. Just eyeballing the figure from this Pfizer charge shows way more than 1-2% with a rebound of viral load.
2) What is excess deaths? It’s the excess above the average per capita mortality rate across 2015-2019. It’s how many more people have died above historical rates. It captures COVID and indirectly those who also died because they couldn’t reach the hospital in time.
3) most of the excess deaths are #COVID19. And the CDC acknowledges others are due to people delaying their care because of COVID’s hospital surge and crush on the healthcare system. That’s equally tragic, and indirectly also COVID caused.
BREAKING—US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has just tested positive for #COVID19. He recently attended the @whca dinner event with 2600+ people, where reporters from many media outlets have also now tested positive. ➡️ This Vf headline was on point. #WHCD#COVIDisAirborne
2) We epidemiologists and aerosol scientists have warned about the poor ventilation and high density being a bad setup for almost guaranteed transmission at @whca dinner if anyone in the audience had subclinical (undetected) virus. And indeed the superspreading event happened.
Story from a Paxlovid user—@RossR8 was positive to til 6, tested negative days 7-12. Doctor said he’s not contagious anymore—he didn’t buy that because of Paxlovid rebound🏀 risk. He tests positive again on day 13 & symptomatic—thankfully protects his pregnant wife from #COVID19!
2) We have known about Paxlovid rebound risk for a while. I warned about it before. I took Paxlovid too after my April COVID had suffered a 1-day symptomatic rebound myself. Pfizer data submitted to the FDA quietly warned about it too on days 10-14!
3) I specifically warned about rebound not because it is severe (it’s likely not because Paxlovid is a really good 90% hospitalization risk reduction drug), but because rebound could trigger another outbreak once someone is complacent.
📍BREAKING—here it comes—Jonathan Karl tests positive for #COVID19 on Monday after attending the @WHCA’s dinner—sitting next to Kim Kardashian and talking one on one with Biden at #WHCD—yes that dinner we epidemiologists all warned about.
2) We epidemiologists and aerosol scientists have warned about the poor ventilation and high density being a bad setup for almost guaranteed transmission at @WHCA dinner if anyone in the audience had subclinical (undetected) virus. Welp and it happened.
Damn you @Delta—5 million honeybees 🐝 bound for Alaska perished from heat & starvation after Delta re-routed the flight✈️ to Atlanta—left 🐝s to die on the hot tarmac. (Then again heartless Delta CHO @henrytingmd doesn’t care about human pax lives either) nowthisnews.com/news/nearly-5-…
3) in case you all want to know why I loathe Delta’s @henrytingmd — he has been dismissive of COVID for a long time. This is what disinfo Delta put out last month. Shame. ajc.com/news/atlanta-a…