Discovery medical scheme analysis in South Africa

A thread 🧵

Unvaccinated South Africans have a 5 times higher risk of
COVID-19 infection and 20 times higher risk of dying from
COVID complications than people who are fully vaccinated with the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccination. People who had received 2 shots of the Pfizer vaccine had a 92% lower risk of hospitalisation and 94% lower risk of death from COVID than those who had not been vaccinated. This was up to 3 months after the two shots.

STUDY: Remdesivir (DisCoVeRy trial)

Does Remdesivir treatment significantly affect mortality, clinical outcomes, or time to improvement in patients hospitalised with severe COVID-19?

Summary: No, it does not.

A short 🧵 "Remdesivir treatment did not significantly affect mortality, clinical outcomes, or time to improvement in patients hospitalised with severe COVID-19, found a study in The Lancet Infectious Diseases."

STUDY:
Published in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR ), the CDC's weekly journal.

Do masks help limit SARS-COV-2 transmission?

Answer: Yes they do.

A short 🧵 "Masking, along with fewer exposure encounters, helped significantly to cut the incidence of COVID-19 infection among largely unvaccinated US university students"

Can the government constitutionally require that everyone be vaccinated against Covid-19?

"The simple answer is it can.

That it hasn’t is because it decided as a matter of policy not to do so."

"The WHO’s Expanded Programme of Immunisation targets six vaccine preventable.. ...diseases: polio, diphtheria, TB, whooping cough, measles and tetanus. In 1974 only about 5% of the world’s children were protected from these diseases; today, 83% are. South Africa participates in this programme and over the past 20 years, immunisation has saved millions"