40% of staff in nursing homes and long-term care facilities are unvaccinated. They can transmit to the elderly, whose immune systems are less robust even if vaccinated. Children under 12 cannot be vaccinated. The immunocompromised aren't as well protected.https://twitter.com/loganerik/status/1418974631889981442 …
-
Show this thread
-
Vaccine mandates are already used. We have an ongoing pandemic and many vulnerable populations who cannot fully protect themselves via vaccination. People have a right to refuse vaccination, but not a right to infect the elderly or the immunocompromised. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/24/opinion/coronavius-vaccine-masks.html …pic.twitter.com/HoaI2BQBZL
17 replies 91 retweets 386 likesShow this thread -
zeynep tufekci Retweeted Lizard of Science with highly educated T cells 🧬 🦎
The "labor shortage" can be solved by offering higher-wages and better working conditions. Most nursing homes are for-profit and receive substantial amounts of of taxpayer money, but many fail their residents and underpay their staff. This isn't working.https://twitter.com/sciliz/status/1418978414598529025 …
zeynep tufekci added,
Lizard of Science with highly educated T cells 🧬 🦎 @scilizIts "obvious" to me long term care workers should be vaccinated. It wasn't obvious to me before, but I now recognize that the labor shortage has got to make it extremely challenging to mandate them. https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1418976566839812105 …Show this thread10 replies 69 retweets 425 likesShow this thread -
Also, we really cannot, should not, expect parents of children under 12, who are not be able to vaccinate their children, to start the *third* school year of the pandemic with this much confusion. Parents need concrete information, not broad statistics. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/24/opinion/coronavius-vaccine-masks.html …pic.twitter.com/1fNfTC7o9m
14 replies 178 retweets 543 likesShow this thread -
zeynep tufekci Retweeted Victor Narro
This is a good article. The unvaccinated in the United States are not a monolith. We can, and we should try, to get our numbers much higher. The hard-core “never” numbers aren’t as high as it sometimes seems. A lot of in-between.https://twitter.com/NarroVictor/status/1418980260951912463 …
zeynep tufekci added,
Victor Narro @NarroVictorExcellent@latimes story by@brittny_mejia. It lifts up community voices on why it's taken so long to get vaccinated. It's not always about ideology or politics. Why haven't you been vaccinated? With COVID-19 raging, people explain what took so long https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-07-24/ready-for-their-shot-as-the-delta-variant-surges-vaccine-procrastinators-answer-the-question-why-the-long-wait …3 replies 66 retweets 300 likesShow this thread -
zeynep tufekci Retweeted Meaghan Kall
Evidence is strong that the vaccines remain highly-effective against Delta, but there’s no contradiction between that and saying a surge like the one in the US still requires a collective response, and vaccines aren’t 100% especially for the elderly or the immunocompromised.https://twitter.com/kallmemeg/status/1419027634835578880 …
zeynep tufekci added,
Meaghan Kall @kallmemegSo dad asked how can this be? I said - it means the UK vax programme is amazing. He said whaaa
So I said first - a given:
The vaccine isn’t 100% effective
It’s pretty amazing, like 91-98% effective against hospitalisation. But not *perfect*. So you must accept that fact pic.twitter.com/O69ZzYbmdaShow this thread11 replies 57 retweets 219 likesShow this thread -
zeynep tufekci Retweeted Vincent Rajkumar
This is a good question. Many nursing homes mandate the flu vaccine. Covid is not less of a risk.https://twitter.com/VincentRK/status/1418648145328852995 …
zeynep tufekci added,
Vincent RajkumarVerified account @VincentRKImportant: 40% of healthcare workers taking care of the elderly in the US in nursing homes and long term care centers remain unvaccinated. What can be done? Will an approval help with mandates? Who is looking out for these elderly people?@propublica https://www.propublica.org/article/dont-you-work-with-old-people-many-elder-care-workers-still-refuse-to-get-covid-19-vaccine …Show this thread16 replies 45 retweets 317 likesShow this thread -
zeynep tufekci Retweeted Bob Wachter
zeynep tufekci added,
Bob WachterVerified account @Bob_WachterI don’t have the vaccinated/unvaxxed breakdown for today's census, but it’s been running >90% unvaxxed in recent wks. When we do see vaccinated patients in the hospital, many are immunocompromised (a group in which vaccine’s effect is attenuated – we need a new approach). (6/20)Show this thread4 replies 12 retweets 94 likesShow this thread -
zeynep tufekci Retweeted zeynep tufekci
Earlier thread as reminder: "herd immunity" is neither something easy to calculate (we rarely have random serosurveys), nor a single number that works like a switch (networks are heterogeneous, people's response to an outbreak changes transmission etc...)https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1380146862607511555 …
zeynep tufekci added,
zeynep tufekciVerified account @zeynepShort thread. I keep seeing claims on how some places may have reached herd immunity & calculations on whether a variant is more virulent or disporportionately affects the young etc. These are not easy things to discern so let’s not do confident back-of-the-envelope calculations.Show this thread5 replies 11 retweets 73 likesShow this thread -
zeynep tufekci Retweeted Emily Hoeven
A few states are moving to vaccination or regular testing.https://twitter.com/emily_hoeven/status/1419714899660328970 …
zeynep tufekci added,
3 replies 25 retweets 155 likesShow this thread
zeynep tufekci Retweeted Jonathan Lemire
zeynep tufekci added,
-
-
zeynep tufekci Retweeted Ashish K. Jha, MD, MPH
Some more context. VA is the first federal agency to mandate this vaccine for healthcare workers. (Many hospital systems already mandate influenza vaccines for their staff—hospital employees, necessarily, interact with vulnerable population).https://twitter.com/ashishkjha/status/1419733427247620107 …
zeynep tufekci added,
Ashish K. Jha, MD, MPHVerified account @ashishkjhaI spent the morning at the Providence VA seeing patients Some of them were quite sick and several were immunocompromised To safeguard the health of all our veterans, this move is absolutely essential VA to mandate vaccinations for healthcare workers https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/26/us/politics/veterans-affairs-coronavirus-covid-19.html?smid=tw-share …3 replies 11 retweets 74 likesShow this threadThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.