Show and Tell: Coronavirus Edition 5/10/21

📍Let this sink in—India is likely seeing 25,000-50,000 excess deaths/day.

“You can ignore, fail to test, or undercount whatever disease you want—but you can't ignore the dead”

And in India 🇮🇳, the official @narendramodi govt statistics are dead wrong. @drharshvardhan #COVID19 https://t.co/O5HS00JlbA pic.twitter.com/E1xQmHVWvT

— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) May 9, 2021

Wrote about why India likely has 25K+ deaths daily

Pushback: we lack hard data on crematoriums so we can't be sure

True

But we get 25K+ deaths no matter how you look

Another approach:

400,000 cases, 22% test positivity

Likely means we're missing 90% of infections

Thread

— Ashish K. Jha, MD, MPH (@ashishkjha) May 9, 2021

7-day average Coronavirus deaths:

Hawaii: 0
Massachusetts: 5
Vermont: 0 https://t.co/dxoHQFZHd4

— Jesse Lee (@JesseCharlesLee) May 8, 2021

DEBUNK—Medical experts and the CDC said it’s not biologically possible for the COVID-19 vaccine to “shed” or affect unvaccinated people, despite what anti-vaccine activists claim. Thread 🧵 #COVID19
https://t.co/GvkUZKlQb6 pic.twitter.com/nP8YNktvmR

— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) May 8, 2021

I cannot believe this headline is from May 7, 2021. pic.twitter.com/isBBPR9Im2

— Joseph Allen (@j_g_allen) May 7, 2021

⚠️AIRBORNE >6 FEET / 2 METERS! The CDC finally acknowledged #SARSCoV2 has major transmission via airborne aerosols beyond 6 feet / 2 meters, not just close contact. The CDC/WHO & airborne deniers are a year late—and negligently endangered many. #COVID19 🧵https://t.co/1YMqDGbD0v pic.twitter.com/DUm5FA3V90

— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) May 8, 2021

⚠️AIRBORNE >6 FEET / 2 METERS! The CDC finally acknowledged #SARSCoV2 has major transmission via airborne aerosols beyond 6 feet / 2 meters, not just close contact. The CDC/WHO & airborne deniers are a year late—and negligently endangered many. #COVID19 🧵https://t.co/1YMqDGbD0v pic.twitter.com/DUm5FA3V90

— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) May 8, 2021

Got vaccinated today. Convinced the uber driver to park the car and line up with me. Took less than an hour from the line to the jab.

There are a lot of lessons from today, but the important one is to bring someone along when you know there are extra vaccines being handed out. pic.twitter.com/mlQAH5I5CH

— shahad (@shahadrashidd) May 7, 2021