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 bombshell article by @writingblock challenges claims by activists that the science supporting the treatment of gender dysphoria in minors is "settled" and that the use of puberty blockers and hormones in transgender kids is "evidence based." 🧵⬇️ press.psprings.co.uk/bmj/february/t…
Many argue that giving puberty blockers and hormones to trans minors is uncontroversial & backed by high-quality science. Block's reporting disputes this. Swedish health authorities, for example, say the risks "currently outweigh the possible benefits". 2/ press.psprings.co.uk/bmj/february/t…
@glaad, in its recent protest before the @nytimes building, echoed a common refrain: that "the science is settled" regarding giving puberty blockers and hormones to trans-identifying minors. @writingblock's peer-reviewed reporting challenges this claim. 3/ press.psprings.co.uk/bmj/february/t…
@rkfmiller of @UCSDHealth @ #CROI2023 looked at elementary school wastewater & observed masking of kids at pickup, found: for each 10% incr in proportion of masking, chance of 1 Covid case on campus in next 5 days ⬇️ by 50%.
Rebecca Fielding-Miller @rkfmiller of @UCSDHealth on masking kids: She worries about #longCovid in kids, and each Covid case in kids means parent can't go to work for 5-10 days. “It’s just better for kids to be less sick so parents can have the money to take care of their kids.”
Meanwhile, the #CROI2023 organizers are not messing around with their Covid masking policy.
JK Rowling cozies up to Matt Walsh, saying she liked his film about transgender identity. Walsh has leveraged violent, incendiary rhetoric to excoriate those who treat gender dysphoria in minors. Rowling has infuriated activists with her trans-exclusionary radical feminism.
Here is my report for @NBCNews@NBCOUT on how Matt Walsh's attacks on Vanderbilt's treatment of gender dysphoria in minors teed up Gov @BillLeeTN's rejection of $8.3 million in annual CDC funding for HIV in Tennessee. nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-ou…
@MattWalshBlog is furious that right wingers and others he thinks would normally be sympathetic to his cause, and to his diatribes, have been criticizing him for his abject cruelty toward trans people, in particular his video excoriating Dylan Mulvaney.
Matt Walsh employs violent, incendiary rhetoric to stir up moral panic against transgender people as he proclaims he’d rather die than have a trans child.