Some clarification about this. TL/DR: It's not shocking at all. We expected it. Take-away: Vaccination doesn't give you the right to stop distancing (until everyone is vaccinated and/or the threat of community transmission relents).

A short thread.
bloomberg.com/news/articles/… First, he was not "diagnosed with COVID". He tested positive for SARS-COV-2 infection. He shows no signs of disease - #COVID19 is the disease. And you can test positive with even just small amounts of virus. Many people test positive even when they are not/no longer contagious.

I'm not going to post it, but if you watch the widely circulated #JudyMikovits "documentary", you will hear many many untrue things. Let me point out two of them. (1/n)

tl;dr: If someone is this assertive AND wrong, you have to question the rest of their "knowledge". At 9'50" she asserts that "There is no vaccine currently on the schedule for any RNA virus that works"

Rotavirus and Influenza vaccines both work and are currently on the schedule. Even in years where flu vax "misses", it still typically keep people from dying. (2/n)

Brilliant audio from a #covid19 webinar with ID epidemiologist @DFisman explaining why and how we need to act to avoid following in Italy's footsteps.
register.gotowebinar.com/recording/1670…

Major points:

1. The US will likely be as bad as Iran for exporting cases, at least for Canada 1/n 2. If we do nothing, 70% of people will get it (during the first wave of the epidemic). If we implement moderate social distancing measures, 30% are still likely to get it.

3. With strong social distancing measures (see Singapore & China) the epidemic can be controlled

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