1/ Did you know that you can use your genetic raw data file from #23andMe or #AncestryDNA to learn more about your health?

A thread on using your data to optimize health and prevent chronic disease 🧵 2/ When getting started learning about how your #genes impact susceptibility to chronic disease, it can be overwhelming.

It isn't like high school science when you learned you inherited the 'brown eye gene' or the 'short gene'.

1/ Columbia University researcher on estimated vaccine-related deaths in the US. The average vaccine-induced fatality rate is estimated at 0.04%. (Holy cow!! That's higher than the IFR for most people. )

Full study (preprint)
researchgate.net/publication/35… 2/ "Vaccination correlated negatively with mortality 6-20 weeks post-injection, while vaccination predicted all-cause mortality 0-5 weeks post-injection in almost all age groups and with an age-related temporal pattern consistent with the US vaccine rollout."

CDC has now released data from 13 jurisdictions showing the difference in cases, hospitalizations and deaths for people who are fully vaccinated (14 days after the second jab) with the delta variant. cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/7…

It leaves me scratching my head, wondering... I've combined the table header with the data so that it is easier to read.
For these 13 jurisdictions (some are full states, some are large metro areas like NYC), below is the data from June 20 - July 17th.

Here's what I don't understand:

Study from the University of Waterloo, Fluid Mechanics Research Lab:
"The study showed that most common masks, primarily due to problems with fit, filter about 10 per cent of exhaled aerosol droplets. The remaining aerosols are redirected, mostly out the top of the mask where... ...it fits over the nose, and escape into the ambient air unfiltered.

By contrast, higher-quality, more expensive N95 and KN95 masks filtered more than 50 per cent of the exhaled aerosols that can accumulate indoors and spread the COVID-19 virus when inhaled by other people."

1/4 Study out of Wisconsin showing that vaccinated and unvaccinated people who test positive for SARS-CoV-2 have same viral load. PCR threshold (Ct) shows high viral load in both vaccinated and unvaccinated alike.

medrxiv.org/content/10.110… 2/4. "we show that individuals in Wisconsin, USA had similar viral loads in nasal swabs, irrespective of vaccine status, during a time of high and increasing prevalence of the Delta variant. Infectious SARS-CoV-2 was isolated from 51 of 55 specimens (93%) with Ct <25 from .."