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Sep 1 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
💡2x BOOSTER SAVES LIVES—New CDC data shown today shows that 2 booster shots ⬇️lowered #COVID19 death rates by 📌14x (purple line) vs unvaccinated—plus amazingly, 2 boosters ⬇️deaths 📌3x vs 1 booster alone (blue). CDC soon to approve #BA5/4 booster software update—get it please!
2) What shocks me is how people just hand wave “oh I don’t need 3x lower risk of dying with another shot” as if it’s nothing. Jeez people. Also vaccines lower risk of seeing #LongCovid too. Don’t be so stubborn.
3) New #BA5 and #BA4-targeting coronavirus booster shots has now gotten EUA from the FDA for all age 12+… thus second boosters now eligible for those 12-49 finally! CDC advisors voting soon. Rollout imminent within days. Please get boosted. Hope it’ll get EUA for kids <12 soon.
4) To be clear—FDA’s EUA for the new #BA5/4 variant adapted booster is authorized for use after 2 months following previous monovalent shot, whether primary series or old monovalent booster. So it can be your first or your second booster.

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Sep 1
⚠️UNKNOWN PNEUMONIA—Very worrisome—3 people have died, 9 people infected, of which 8 medical workers, are in hospital after developing a “pneumonia of unknown origin”—Argentinian authorities announced. Not COVID or flu. #ArgentinaPneumonia

By @sneweyy
telegraph.co.uk/global-health/… Image
2) Three people have died and five are in hospital after developing a “pneumonia of unknown origin”, Argentinian health authorities have announced.
According to the Ministry of Health in Tucumán – 9 people in the sameprivate clinic unit have contracted mystery pneumonia.
3) Authorities are concerned about the deadly outbreak because the usual suspects – including Covid, influenza and hantavirus – have been ruled out. 5 of the 6 affected, and both of those who so far died, are also health care workers, suggesting an infectious agent 👀
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Sep 1
HOLY COW—At 49, May Peltola (D) will become the first Alaska Native to serve in Congress and the first woman to hold the Alaska House seat, defeating former Governor Sarah Palin! nytimes.com/live/2022/08/3…
Take a look at this… in first round, if you add Palin and Nick Begich together, there should be 58%. But even when the other R (Nick) was eliminated, Palin couldn’t go over 50% in second round. Basically 10% in first round who voted R defected to D in second round to avoid Palin
Really apologize for the typo - @MaryPeltola!!!
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Aug 31
📍N95 MASKS WORK—"We found combination of a #N95 mask that passed a quantitative fit-test & portable #HEPA filter **provided near complete protection** against high viral aerosol loads at close range for prolonged periods of time"—while surgical did not. academic.oup.com/jid/article/22…
2) Damning—“Critically, surgical masks provided inadequate protection against skin and upper airway contamination, even when combined with HEPA filtration and at distances of 2.70 m."

Lesson—use #N95 masks, not just flimsy surgical masks. @projectn95
3) Please remember that #COVIDisAirborne — very much so. Which means faceshields and plexiglass are minimal benefit — and hence any health leader who still tells you to use them or tells you to not get N95 or KN95 or KF94– needs to get dismissed.
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Aug 30
Mikhail Gorbachev’s legendary @pizzahut commercial after the fall of the Soviet Union is still one of the most epic.

But 32 years later, Pizza Hut closed all of its stores after Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.
P.s. you don’t have to like Gorbachev. And I’m not taking a side in this debate. I’m simply notice the iconic Pizza Hut commercial—which you think about it, is quite something in history—an American pizza chain and former Soviet President.
3) “According to Gorbachev, the Chernobyl explosion was a “turning point” that “opened the possibility of much greater freedom of expression, to the point that the system as we knew it could no longer continue.”

slate.com/technology/201…
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Aug 30
Incoming—CDC vaccine advisers expected to vote Thursday on updated #BA5 variant boosters. New shots likely available within days. This is the booster I’m waiting for.
P.s. This updated booster is basically the same as the original just slightly modified spike configuration for BA5. I don’t need to see a new Phase 3 trial of 30,000 people for small software updates. Hence lab studies showing superiority over the old 1.0 version is okay. Get it.
3) to be clear— this variant update lab method is what we do with influenza vaccines yearly (instead of launching major new flu trials yearly). And I’m confident it will be similar with this BA5 mRNA vaccine update from the Wuhan 1.0.
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Aug 30
📍New CA law approves bill to designate spreading false or misleading medical information as “unprofessional conduct,” subject to punishment by Medical Board of California that could include suspending or revoking a doctor’s license to practice medicine.
nytimes.com/2022/08/29/tec…
2) Aimed at doctors who spread false information about Covid-19 vaccinations and treatments, the legislation, if signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom, would make the state the first to try to legislate a remedy to a problem that medical groups and experts, says has worsened the pandemic
3) the bill’s sponsors said the extensive harm caused by false information required holding incompetent or ill-intentioned doctors accountable. “In order for a patient to give informed consent, they have to be well informed,” said State Senator Richard Pan.
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