A 40-min read outlining major arguments of the lab leak hypothesis of #COVID19 origin - The case against the lab leak theory by . #CoronavirusUpdates
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“If we want people to not be vaccine-hesitant, we need to be honest about the risks, and also open to helping them when something does go wrong.” — on the new study showing increased risk of #POTS autonomic disorder following #CovidVaccine.
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After seeing Kanye praise Hitler i’m 100% certain he’s seen this at least once and I can’t stop laughing
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After a year of grappling with antivaxxers online I realised that Australia is the perfect country to use to compare mortality statistics before and after vaccination as we had so few deaths from COVID. The results are clear and reassuring. Here are weekly deaths 2015-Nov2021
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“The red lines are the thresholds that CellTrend calls abnormal. 50% or more of the healthy patients are above those levels. So, you can’t use the test to say whether any one person is healthy or sick.” — #LongCovid #VaccineSideEffects #Covid
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Once Twitter announces more details, it should be easy to filter out the paid accounts and put the verified accounts back in.
If anyone's interested, I could also try making a version that just removes the blue check icons, or one that gives everyone blue checks.
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I'm as worried as everyone else what will happen when Twitter scraps account verification and anyone can buy a blue check.
So I made a chrome extension to remove all blue check accounts from my Twitter feed. It also removes ads and promoted tweets.
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This is reported widely: bivalent shots not working as well as hoped. Immune imprinting
Some things underappreciated: catching BA.5 after 3 shots gives immunity. Monovalent BA.5 vax should work
Also, covid keeps mutating. BA.2.75.2 will reinfect those immune to BA.5, regardless
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“I think there are 2 main reasons why things went wrong.” — @tgof137
#BoosterShots #Bivalent #COVID19 #OmicronVariant
link.medium.com/wOJp93BVqub
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“the rate that myocarditis showed up is actually higher for Novavax than Pfizer.” —
#VaccineSideEffects #novavax #science #COVID19
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So if we match May 2021 vaccination rates for reproductive age women to Feb 2022 changes in births, what do we get?
There's no (or even a slight positive!) correlation between higher vaccination rates and birth changes.
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NEW: the collapse of emergency healthcare in England may be costing 500 lives every week, a close match for non-Covid excess deaths
Let’s look at how we reach that conclusion, by taking a deep-dive into non-Covid excess mortality and its possible causes
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Figure S2A on Metformin vs. reducing ER visits, hospitalization, or death.
While subgroup analyses are prone to over interpretatoin some possible take aways: possible benefit was larger in vaccinated and during Omicron; better when started earlier.
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The reason nobody buys the myocarditis line anymore is because we have actual data on myocarditis deaths over time. Here's what it looks like:
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This article covers symptoms, diagnosis, precautions, and treatment suggestions for those with LC and v-injuries and can be used as a handy reference guide. Consult your own health care team before trying new treatments.
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Shopping for greeting cards feels a lot like browsing Pornhub.
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Bullshit! The data on lipid nanoparticles going to the ovaries was based on a study in rats, where they gave the rats a dose 20 times higher than people get
50% of it stayed in the arm where it was injected. Only 0.1% of it ended up in the rat's ovaries:
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Antivaxxers don’t even bother to look at the links they cite. No, it’s not HUMAN ovaries, this was a RAT study! And less that 0.1% of the dose went there! 50% never even made it to tissues, 50% was at injection site, and then metabolized by liver. Brain peak was 0.02% (1/5000) twitter.com/erin_bsn/statu…
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89:55 Malone says 11% of the spike protein goes to the ovaries.
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87:20 Joe says some vaccinated women go into menopause very young. He knows one woman that had that happen at 36.
88:00 The spike protein goes to your ovaries.
I don't have ovaries. Vaxxed ladies, feel free to chime in.
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One took ivermectin. It was still bad, same symptoms, fatigue for a month, he still doesn't have his sense of smell.
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I have friends that didn't get vaxxed and caught covid. It was bad for most of them. One took hydroxychloroquine. It was still bad, 2 weeks of cough and body aches and fatigue.
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I want to know who I can listen to, to get good advice.
You can tell me that the vaccine is somewhat dangerous because it makes spike protein, and you might even be right. But what am I supposed to do, instead? Catch covid and take Pepcid?
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In the end, I don't know what motivates Malone. I'm listening because I want to know if there's anything true here. I need to make these decisions for myself and my family. Do we get vaccinated? Do we get boosted? If we get covid, what do we treat it with?
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Being one of many people who helped develop mRNA vaccine technology doesn't feel special.
Being the one rogue scientist that knows the truth about vaccines is a huge boost to a person's ego. Especially if you get to tell Joe Rogan's millions of viewers.
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Even some well credentialed scientists get caught in this trap.
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David Hundsness made some great videos explaining why people get attached to conspiracy theories.
It boosts your ego to feel like you know secret truths:
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I see a few possibilities:
1. He's right about all of this stuff and I'm an awful fact checker.
2. He's right about some things and has a poor filter for the rest. Hence I'm able to find all these flaws.
3. He's lying for attention, money, fame, or political motivations.
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84:30 Malone addresses why he's a vaccine skeptic. He questions the funding of the Atlantic article written about him.
85:30 he says he's saying this stuff because it's the right thing to do.
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Maybe the Novavax vaccine will prove to be safer for everyone, since it just injects the spike protein, not some technology to create the spike protein.
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We could control the virus until we know more, but no one in America seems interested in controlling the virus anymore.
There might be a better solution, like giving teenagers a smaller dose of the vaccine, or only 1 dose instead of 2. Maybe the JnJ vaccine is safer than Pfizer.
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Every choice we make with the pandemic has risk. If we just let every kid get covid, 1 in 2,000 will get MIS-C or myocarditis.
If we give everyone the vaccine, some of the teens will get myocarditis.
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Will covid survivors have problems, 5 years later? 20 years later?
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People who got chickenpox tend to get shingles, decades later:
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No one knows the long term effects of getting covid.
About 30% of polio survivors got post-polio syndrome, decades later:
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84:00 Malone says there's no data on long term outcomes for vaccine induced myocarditis. That's right, there isn't. You'd expect it to be less bad, based on the data above, but we don't know.
There also isn't any long term data for covid / MIS-C myocarditis.
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That paper also looks at myocarditis in kids with MIS-C. That damage appears to be worse than vaccine myocarditis but better than classic viral myocarditis.
So, hopefully those 6,000 kids who got MIS-C aren't going to die in 5 years either.
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All of the vaccine myocarditis cases in that study had recovered normal heart function within 4 days. The classic viral myocarditis cases all still had damaged hearts for a month. So it's reasonable to think that the long term outcomes will be different for the 2 groups.
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Malone says there's a 27% chance that these kids with myocarditis will die, a few years down the line.
I'm not sure where he's getting that number from.
Vaccine myocarditis is not as bad as classic viral myocarditis, here's one paper comparing them.
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Teens can also get myocarditis from covid, this paper claims the odds are about 1 in 2,200, worse than getting the vaccine:
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83:30 Malone says the risk of myocarditis is 1 in 2,700 for teenage boys.
That's higher than the CDC says, they say it's 1 in 14,000. I don't know who is correct.
cdc.gov/vaccines/acip/
The data does show that Pfizer is safer than Moderna, and 1st doses are safer than 2nd.
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