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Don Ford - The People's Strategist - Profile picture
@DonEford
Sep 6 • 18 tweets • 4 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
The Novavax fight is coming to a bit of a culmination.

In a few days, the US gov will decide if you can access Nova after mRNA.

After months of build up this is where the big decision is made.

And public comment closes in 3 days...

We need as many people as we can to comment.
Even if you don't necessarily agree that Novavax is a better vaccine, we all should agree that we need as many tools as possible to fight COVID.

And Novavax is the only non mRNA COVID vaccine available...

That alone should make it something worth fighting for.
The decision on Novavax after mRNA is coming down to the meeting in a few days.

We need as many people as possible to comment...

- Novavax access after mRNA
- Access for all groups
- Every six months
- New primary series
- Streamline under 12 Novavax

regulations.gov/commenton/CDC-…
When the commenting phase is done on Friday...

We are going to prepare a spreadsheet with the personal/work emails of the members of the committee & we are going to spend the weekend finding people to contact them.

Then we rinse & repeat this process until we get what we want.
@DellAnderson The cases during testing are expected and are considered "background" because you expect to find them in any volume of testing groups for other reasons.
@DellAnderson Here
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Don Ford - The People's Strategist - Profile picture
Aug 14
The normal parrots are claiming EG.5 isn't causing more clinical disease...

And this time they are outright lying.

Severity is defined by COVID's ability to make syncytia in the lungs and we are seeing in uptick in hospitalization via lower resp tract.

So, EG.5 is more severe.
Now this is their definition, not mine.

All COVID variants are of equal severity because we are beyond the safe threshold for interaction with the virus.

But in this case, THEIR LANGUAGE defines severity very specifically allowing them to call Omicron mild.

EG.5 is more severe
The good news?

Vaccines will generally protect against the risk of death.

If we can get them out in time... and because we are modeling the flu season market then we are going to miss a very dangerous window that started a few weeks ago.

So, upgrade your mask if you haven't.
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Jul 10
More amazing Novavax news...

"Researchers report that a mixed schedule using a full dose of Pfizer followed by a full dose of Novavax led to fewer break-through infections & generated higher antibody & Tcell responses than two Pfizer"

We need access now
ox.ac.uk/news/2023-07-0…
https://t.co/s9Ag95yYm4journalofinfection.com/article/S0163-…
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Jun 25
Most folks don't understand imprinting as a concept including many of our "leading experts."

The reason we know this is that imprinting is the reason hybrid immunity is not effective, while it does reduce the risk of death during acute...it does nothing for the 200+ LC symptoms.
We look at antibodies in most hybrid immunity studies very broadly as a concept...

When in reality antibodies are very specific to each variant... so while you might have high antibodies to COVID it does not mean it is protective against new variants.

This has been demonstrated
Imprinting is best connected to the immune memory response in concept.... when you have an antigen exposure that creates an imprint that your immune system recognizes and recreates upon reexposure.

After more antigen exposures, either vax or infection, then that rewrites itself.
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Jun 18
A lot of people have been confused about my statements about normally COVID conscious influencers minimzing the risk of Long COVID...

And someone pointed out that maybe we have different definitions of what Long COVID is.

It hit me like a truck, that's the whole issue...
You spend so long in the weeds on a subject that you forget how to communicate things and definitions are everything in this explanation.

Normally, we had established the definition of risk in regards to "damage to quality of life" and that risk was self diagnosed at 30%.
So, early on the questionnaires focused on how you felt different and usually used some type of scale to establish negative effect.

This was a broad and inclusive model that meant your risk hit 30% at 25 days of active infection, most infections are that long symptomatic or not
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Jun 18
If you notice the anti Democratic Party propaganda kicked up super hard at the same time Bidens re-election campaign started…

That’s because they are the same thing, the anti DNC stuff before the primary is to protect the establishment.

It’ll all stop once the primary is over.
Just to be clear, the first voting that happens is the primary and if you want to replace Biden it happens there.

It can be done because we got rid of super delegates, but it cannot happen if we all feed the anti-democratic party trolls.

Neolibs hold control with a tiny group.
They use these trolls to convince you to not even try.

That's how the game is played.

The troll you see might believe what they are saying but the person they got it from is just like one of the anti-vaxxer leaders pushing antivaxxer talking points that mysteriously match ours.
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Jun 16
Emergency call to action...

VRBPAC went well, but were not don

Making changes in vaccines requires two steps...

First the FDA meets for VRBPAC...

Then the CDC meets for ACIP...

This is the June 21-23rd Comments for ACIP close tonight at midnight Est
regulations.gov/commenton/CDC- Image
There are only 167 comments currently.

And it seems like we can do better than that.

If you want Novavax approval to change than this is your portal to create pressure at the next important meeting....

And the door is open for us... but how many are ready to take action?
Obviously that was supposed to be done not don....

but, oh well
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