The CDC's #ACIP meeting on #mpox/#monkeypox is going on. Some interesting stats! Cases have remained overwhelmingly among men who have sex with men. Cases in kids have been extremely rare. Vaccine uptake has been racially inequitable. 🧵⬇️
The CDC estimates the Jynneos mpox vaccine efficacy based on 9,544 mpox cases among men 18-49 from July 31-Oct 1. Mpox rates were 7.4 times higher than those with 1 dose of the vax and 9.6 times higher than those with 2 doses. No difference based on subdermal vs intradermal. 2/
More mpox stats: 3/
An Israeli study estimated that the Jynneos mpox vaccine reduced the risk of the virus by 86%. 4/
Another study estimated that the Jynneos vaccine was 66% for those fully vaccinated, including 76% of those with no immunocompromising conditions. 5/
Yet another study found the #mpox vaccine was 90% effective among those without immunocompromising conditions. 6/
A New York City study of the #mpox vaccine found it was 66% to 83% effective. 7/
The mpox vaccine is safe according to multiple means of monitoring safety, per the CDC #ACIP meeting.
BREAKING: French researchers estimate the Jynneos #mpox vaccine is 99% effective. Per #CROI2023: of 472 participants in HIV PrEP study, 77 got mpox. Before and after mpox outbreak and July 2022 vaccination campaign, the only factor tied to reduced mpox risk was vaccination. 1/2
The French researchers found that after the mpox outbreak started, the only significant shift in sexual behavior change in the 472 men who have sex with men on HIV PrEP was a reduction in the proportion reporting >10 sexual partners during previous 3 months (45% to 35%). 2/2
@Boghuma analyzed data on military vets and service members, many of whom received the smallpox vaccine between 2002 and 2017. 1,007 were tested for suspected #mpox, 298 tested positive. In this group, vaccination, typically 13 years before, lowered risk 66% to 72%. #CROI2023
A lot of people are portraying USAID as some sort of bastion of looney DEI excesses. Let’s take a look at what the sudden arresting of their operation is doing to global health. Please read the thread (my thread, not Ryan James’):
NEWS: The following words are officially cause for a federal grant to be rejected, according to @DarbySaxbe, a professor at @USC, who learned this from a program officer at the National Science Foundation.
“This is a crisis for academic freedom & science,” said Dr. Saxbe.
Here is a decision tree of what happens if a grant proposal has any of these words:
Prof. @DarbySaxbe on how much of a crisis this is for science:
The pediatric gender clinic in Rhode Island run by Jason Rafferty has scrubbed its web presence. Rafferty is the sole author of the American Academy of Pediatrics’ policy statement on the gender-affirming care method and has been sued along with the AAP by a detransitioner. He published the statement when he was still a resident.
The AAP Files: Inside Feud Within American Academy of Pediatrics, Torn Over Transgender Issues, About Group’s Decision To Hold Meeting in ‘Anti-LGBTQ’ Florida of Ron DeSantis
NEWS: New Research Raises More Doubts About Safety and Benefits of Gender Transition Treatments for Minors
🧵👇I report: The most rigorous academic analysis to date of the research backing puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones as treatments for gender-related distress in young people has found it has produced ‘very uncertain’ evidence. —@NewYorkSun
LINK: New Research Raises More Doubts About Safety and Benefits of Gender Transition Treatments for Minors, I report for The @NewYorkSun. nysun.com/article/new-re…
🧵A pair of major new analyses of research into providing gender-transition drugs to adolescents and young adults have indicated that a prevailing orthodoxy in the U.S. medical community — that such treatments are safe and effective for gender-distressed minors — is largely based on “very uncertain” scientific evidence.
The most rigorous such analyses of their kind to date, these new academic papers are the latest reports to cast doubt on the transgender movement’s battle, now on the defensive, to protect minors’ access to ultimately irreversible gender-transition treatments. The new analyses reach the damning conclusion that almost all the research assessing such treatments is decidedly unreliable at anticipating risks and benefits alike, thanks to consistently weak study designs that leave the door wide open for biased and unreliable results. nysun.com/article/new-re…
NEWS: Trump Signs Executive Order “Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to Federal Government”
🧵👇I report: The sweeping order, which defines sex as binary and fixed and seeks to exclude biological males from women's prisons and rape shelters, will inevitably be challenged by multiple lawsuits.
LINK: Trump Signs Executive Order “Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to Federal Government”
The sweeping order, which defines sex as binary and fixed and seeks to exclude biological males from women's prisons and rape shelters, will inevitably be challenged by multiple lawsuits.benryan.substack.com/p/trump-signs-…
What is in Trump's executive order about "gender ideology"?
This Trump executive order essentially erases the concept that there is such a thing as being transgender from the federal bureaucracy and replaces it with a strict binary of two sexes: male and female.benryan.substack.com/p/trump-signs-…
Trump says: “This week, I will also end the government policy of trying to social engineer race and gender into every aspect of public and private life.”
And: “As of today, it will henceforth be the official policy of the United States government that there are only two genders: male and female.”
There was enthusiastic applause in the rotunda.
In short, Trump has taken aim at DEI.
Trump says he wants to be a “peacemaker and a unifier.”