⚠️Scoop—MOTHER OF GOD—Just got this leak from CDC-insider source—it seems #COVID variants worse than CDC has been admitting. The new highly evasive #BQ1 & #BQ11 sub variants are surging over 11%—but CDC has not shared it yet! Here is what will be posted soon (left) 🆚 current. 🧵

Unvaccinated women who got COVID-19 during pregnancy were at higher risk of stillbirth. Pharmaceutical companies & gov't excluded pregnant people from vaccine trials. At the same time, people spread false info about the vaccine's safety in pregnancy. propublica.org/article/covid-…

Hey #Arizona friends, as #Flu, #RSV, & #COVID are circulating at ⬆️ rates in our communities, how can Right2SafeSchoolsAZ support you in keeping kids & school staff healthy & in school this fall/winter? Anything you’d like added to the toolkit on the website? Other?

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Thoughts on this Tyler Black, MD?

Mehdi Hasan Thanks! I did a deep dive in these statistics (they have been available since February 2022), in what I still believe is Twitter's first ever scientific publication :) the link for the whole (47 TWEET!) thread is here: x.com/tylerblack32/s… But the highlights are: /1

Mehdi Hasan HIGHLIGHT 1: The sadness item tilted up in 2017 and increased sharply in 2019 too, and 2021 continued that trend. Certainly a record. The other statistics (suicide thinking, plans, and attempts) are well within the previous years of the survey. /2

Mehdi Hasan HIGHLIGHT 2: I did factor analysis to see which of the survey's associations were most strongly linked to sadness, and I found that by far the most significant were: abuse in the home being female being LGBQ+ sleeping poorly and enduring racial mistreatment /2

Mehdi Hasan HIGHLIGHT 3: In the dataset itself, we can create a model for "mode of instruction for school" and I was able to demonstrate that being *in person* was associated with a 1.5x likelihood of being sad, vs being remote. /3

Mehdi Hasan and finally (outside of that review), HIGHLIGHT 4: the WaPo article links to data but they are late to the knowledge: suicide rates have not increased in the pediatric population during the pandemic. x.com/tylerblack32/s…

U.S. households can order four free at-home COVID tests from the government website COVIDTests.gov beginning on Thursday as part of the Biden administration's efforts to tackle coronavirus infections over the winter reut.rs/3HEIMF0

Biden administration offers U.S. households more free COVID-19 tests for winter reut.rs/3uRkT5l

Arizona has surpassed Mississippi to become the state with the highest per capita death toll from COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic, according to the CDC. bit.ly/3PRkR7l

Pretty strong evidence Get the shot!

🧵 Ive written SARS-CoV-2 is a “textbook virus” • Textbook does NOT mean mild • Textbook viruses kill people • Textbook viruses harm long-term immunity • Textbook viruses cause dizzying amounts of poorly understood debilitating problems I explain w examples here! 1/40

This week's #SneakyStriker award goes to Hoffman for his striker on #HB2545 limiting public health emergencies to just 7 days w/ 1 week extensions only after supermajority legislative approval 🙄 azleg.gov/legtext/56leg/…

No increase in death in young people following mRNA vaccines compared to increased cardiac and all cause mortality following positive Covid test. nature.com/articles/s4146…

COVID-19 is airborne

To reduce the spread of #COVID19 in schools, ensure good ventilation by opening windows and doors when possible and safe, or providing adequate mechanical ventilation. Wear masks if unsure about ventilation, and encourage outdoor activities when feasible. bit.ly/3sJmisd