⚠️ANOTHER EFFICACY DROP—Not good—Israel 🇮🇱 Ministry of Health just released another vaccine efficacy update due to #DeltaVariant—only 39% Pfizer VE for #COVID19 infection, 40.5% for symptomatic, 88% for hospitalization, 91% for ICU/low oxygen/ death. More—waning efficacy too—🧵 pic.twitter.com/UuVbVGC1Hp
— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) July 23, 2021
We need to be looking at France & Italy as examples of how to increase vaccination rates and protect the vulnerable from #covid19. Stay unvaccinated if you want, but if you wish to be around others who you could infect, you need to show proof of vaccination (or test negative). pic.twitter.com/j3Yva5oyg3
— Leana Wen, M.D. (@DrLeanaWen) July 23, 2021
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We can’t vaccinate our way out of the pandemic.
— Malgorzata (Gosia) Gasperowicz (@GosiaGasperoPhD) July 23, 2021
We need both: Vaccines AND Public Health (PH) measures.
It was barely possible w/ original variant (A). W/ Delta, both PH measures and vaccines became less effective (B). But combined – they may still work.
Theoretical model:
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It's absolutely nuts that you can get on a plane in this country without being vaccinated.
— Mark D. Levine (@MarkLevineNYC) July 23, 2021
The Tennessee state government will resume all forms of vaccine outreach, after recently stopping in response to conservative political pressure.
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) July 23, 2021
Health Commissioner Dr. Lisa Piercey says the agency will resume outreach recommending vaccines for children. https://t.co/d9ytnGTPpd
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I laid out some of my thinking process for masking again indoors, in the age of Delta. This is my own personal risk calculation, but I hope it's helpful for some other folks who are puzzling this over. 2/
— Katherine J. Wu, Ph.D. (@KatherineJWu) July 22, 2021
He’s right https://t.co/zoDeDpkDFR
— Josh Mankiewicz (@JoshMankiewicz) July 23, 2021
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