⚠️Sperm levels—So let this sink in guys—the concentration of #COVID-infected men’s sperm is **53% LOWER** than sperm of men who were not COVID infected, even 3 months later. Plus, don’t forget the bonus erectile dysfunction. Maybe now #BringBackMasks? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jm…
2) Two groups were selected (100 men had and recovered from COVID, and 100 men never had COVID) spermiograms from both groups were analyzed w/ WHO standards. **The sperm concentration of COVID-19 negative group was significantly higher than those in the COVID-19 positive group**
3) “It was observed that men with COVID-19 had decreased sperm concentrations suggesting that COVID-19 may have a negative effect on male fertility.”
4) It’s known that “spermatogenesis may be impaired when COVID-19 causes fever.
5) “In our study, when the spermiogram results were evaluated, 4 out of 100 men in the COVID-19-positive group were observed to be azoospermia. In contrast, azoospermia was not observed in any of the men in the COVID-19 negative control group.”
6) Furthermore— Long COVID could be leading to a wave of erectile dysfunction as the pandemic invades our sex lives.
7) Notably a large 230,000 person study: “We found the risk of getting diagnosed with erectile dysfunction was about 20% higher in men who had #COVID versus those who did not after we balanced out for several of the comorbidities”.
Bad news—it seems @Twitter just updated its misleading info policy that #COVID19 misinformation will no longer be enforced. The 11k accounts that were suspended under the old policy will soon be restored. ➡️Stay folks—do NOT cede the town square to them! blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/c…
Welp—this tweet didn’t age well for COVID misinfo I guess
3) Twitter's data shows 11,000 accounts were suspended under the #COVID misinformation policy— with almost 100,000 pieces of content were removed since 2020.
⚠️OUTDOOR TRANSMISSION—Jogger infects dozens in a park—via surveillance videos, investigators identified 256 people who passed within 1 meter of Patient ZERO as he jogged without a mask—13 (5%) infected, plus 20 more park visitors. 85% perfect #COVID19 variant match to Patient 0!
2) 38 of the 39 infected park visitors were unmasked. Also while 85% had perfect genome match of their strain to Patient Zero, the other 15% (5 of 34) were just 1 single mutation different—hence likely still caught from patient zero.
3) Not gonna lie— that fact that China could identify all 256 people who were within 1 meter of the jogger (out of 20,000+ visitors to the park)… is crazy as hell. But hot damn on the contract tracing!!
CDC director sucks.
CDC scientists save lives.
Elon Musk is half-ruining Twitter.
Tesla makes good cars.
EVs can catch fire—but less than ICE cars.
SpaceX saved taxpayers $40 bil via 🚀costs -85%.
SpaceX’s Dragon saves us from begging Putin.
2) I know these statements above are not always popular to say. But they are essentially true. I know Twitter can be a partisan place, but I want to be fair and correct some of the many things I hear from both sides. Yes there are more nuances, but we should be honest too.
3) Again folks, i know many people don’t like to admit Tesla makes good cars because they hate Elon Musk. And they highlight EV fire stories that are rare compared to ICE fires that almost never make the news. Teslas also are much safer than other cars:
📍Time to debunk #monkeypox misinformation—some had claimed it’s only an MSM disease via sex—INCORRECT. New study finds, in cisgender women—only 61% of cases could be connected to sexual contact—nearly one-quarter infected **without sexual interaction**! nytimes.com/2022/11/21/hea…
2) The women were thought to have been infected through exposure at their jobs or homes or through other types of close contact.
“The lesson here is that everybody needs to know about this,” Dr. Orkin said. “it’s important to recognize this is not the only group.”
3) In the new study, Dr. Orkin and her colleagues found genetic material from the monkeypox virus in all 14 of the vaginal swabs they tested, suggesting that the virus can be transmitted through genital secretions. Studies in men have similarly found the virus in seminal fluid.
📍Horrifying—80% LAYOFF—3200 of 4,000 highly skilled epidemiologists, communication specialists, and public health nurses—hired by CDC’s @CDCFound to plug the holes at battered public health departments on the front lines—set to be laid off next month! 🤦🏻♂️ cnn.com/2022/11/14/hea…
2) “the majority of the CDC Foundation’s contracts for those public health workers at local and state departments have ended as the group has spent nearly all of its almost $289 million in covid relief funding.
3) “The CDC Foundation, an independent nonprofit that supports the CDC’s work, anticipates that no more than about 800 of its 4,000 hires will ultimately staff those jurisdictions, spokesperson Pierce Nelson said.
HELL YES—Eli Lilly CEO now admit the #insulin tweet flap “probably” signals they need to bring down cost. Twitter trolling is working. As I reported—@LillyPad execs went into full raging panic when the “free insulin” fake tweet went out. Keep pressure on! arstechnica.com/science/2022/1…
If only to keep pushing for lower insulin prices… it’s worth staying on Twitter. Cuz we need to hit @LillyPad at every turn, as well as pressure @sanofi@Diabetes_Sanofi and @novonordisk to stop price gouging insulin.