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If COVID-19 Wasn't Bad Enough, It's Also a Sexist Disease health.usnews.com/health-car… My new article on how the pandemic has affected women’s health. Thank you @USNewsHealth & @Christinesthebe #pandemic #healthequity #mentalhealth #depression #pregnancy #doctor
Data shows Delta is NOT causing a significant increase in hospitalizations and death. #VaccinesWork #pandemic #COVID19
Moving in the right direction!
Down, down, down. 👍👍
Test positivity 2.8% (7-day avg)
3% drop in hospitalizations (>1000) since yesterday, below 29,000, lowest in over 8 months
newsnodes.com/us
Carol DerSarkissian, MD retweeted
An Outlook I wrote for the @washingtonpost on the new CDC guidance: "Do not be afraid to follow the science on the CDC’s current mask guidance as you followed the science before vaccines: embrace their effectiveness" Fall school is in the balance. washingtonpost.com/outlook/2…
Vaccinations = getting back to normal
UPDATE: If you are fully vaccinated against #COVID19, you can resume activities without wearing a mask or staying 6 feet apart, except where required by federal, state, local, tribal or territorial laws, incl. local business and workplace guidance. More: bit.ly/3btJaFU
Carol DerSarkissian, MD retweeted
U.S. cases dropping like a rock! ⬇️42% in 11 days (wkday numb-not wkend reporting bias). Yet govt doctors cont negativity, issuing stern warnings, pushing bad policy & dangling variant fears. ZERO of the hundreds of variants to date worldw have evaded vax ability to prevent death
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New @NEJM: mRNA vaccine (@BioNTech_Group/Pfizer) holds up very well in lab studies for immune response against B.1. 526 (New York), B.1.429 (California), B.1.1.7(UK)+ E484K variants 👍
nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NE…
Good summary @NatureNews status of B.1.617/ B.1.617.2 (India) variant. Recent upgrade to a variant of concern (VOC).
✓ Transmissibility increase is the major issue
✓ Immune evasion/vaccine resistance is *not* a prominent feature or concern
nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
by @gayathriv
Carol DerSarkissian, MD retweeted
3. Herd immunity does not eradicate the virus
4. Some places in the US have high degree of immunity and likely will hit herd immunity with more vaccinations. Others won't
So here's the bottom line:
This pandemic will end here in the US even if the virus isn't gone
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Carol DerSarkissian, MD retweeted
How can pandemic end if virus still around?
Pandemics end when risk they pose and strategies needed to mitigate that risk, fade into background and become part of normal life
As saying goes, pandemics end with a whimper, not with a bang
This one, too, will end
With a whimper
Containment of the virus is good. Having the pandemic fade into the background is also good!
Will we reach herd immunity?
We might. In some places. For periods of time
And not sure it matters that much
Experience from UK, Israel clear
Get enough folks vaccinated, pandemic fades into the background
My latest in @PostOpinions
washingtonpost.com/outlook/2…
Carol DerSarkissian, MD retweeted
Vaccines don't just work. They work across all the variants, providing protection from illness, hospitalizations, and deaths.
Summary including today's multiple updates.
(and we're damn lucky)
Carol DerSarkissian, MD retweeted
Here's data on Pfizer vax12-15 years: looked safe and efficacious. But trial small: 1131 got vax (1129 placebo). Same dose as adults (30 mcg). Likely every parent will decide; vax usually mandated when causes severe disease in kids; measles, mumps, diphtheria, rubella, pertussis
As of March 31, 2021, more than 265,000 people in Qatar had received both doses of the BNT162b2 vaccine. Vaccine effectiveness was 89.5% against the B.1.1.7 variant and 75.0% against the B.1.351 variant. Effectiveness against severe, critical, or fatal disease was 97.4%. #COVID19