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    A surge involving the rapidly-transmitting Delta variant in heavily vaccinated countries has led to much hand-wringing that the vaccines are not effective against Delta, or vaccine effectivenss wanes after 4-6 months. This has fueled anti-vaccine sentiment suggesting the vaccines are not working, and causing much stress in vaccinated people that they are not as protected as they thought they…

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    • Of course this is starting with a low risk of severe infection compared to the astronomical rates of severe infection in the unvaccinated (unvaccinated >65y, had 75-500 severe cases/100,000 in Delta, as seen in this VE explainer https://t.co/FTjIqQYF69) 10/

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    Is watching the 1984 Ghostbusters movie killing people? English adults under 60 who have watched the 1984 Ghostbusters movie are dying at twice the rate of people who have watched the 2021 Ghostbusters move the same age. And have been for six months. The chart may seem unbelievable or impossible but it is correct, based on weekly data from the British government. The brown line represents weekly…

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    • Fortunately I'm not English otherwise I'd be very worried. Still -- hope someone is working on doing a global analysis to see if these highly concerning data are confirmed elsewhere https://t.co/5KYZtkC9uG

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    Is watching the 1984 Ghostbusters movie killing people? English adults under 60 who have watched the 1984 Ghostbusters movie are dying at twice the rate of people who have watched the 2021 Ghostbusters move the same age. And have been for six months. The chart may seem unbelievable or impossible but it is correct, based on weekly data from the British government. The brown line represents weekly…

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    • RT @jsm2334: Here is a blog post presenting this parody with the luxury of escaping the 280 character limit: https://t.co/A72Gepzc2M

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    A surge involving the rapidly-transmitting Delta variant in heavily vaccinated countries has led to much hand-wringing that the vaccines are not effective against Delta, or vaccine efficacy wanes after 4-6 months. This has fueled anti-vaccine sentiment suggesting the vaccines are not working, and causing much stress in vaccinated people that they are not as protected as they thought they would…

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    • Do as you wish, but the data is quite strong in favor of vaccination. A great analysis of Israel. https://t.co/Nycyi5WCK8

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    A surge involving the rapidly-transmitting Delta variant in heavily vaccinated countries has led to much hand-wringing that the vaccines are not effective against Delta, or vaccine efficacy wanes after 4-6 months. This has fueled anti-vaccine sentiment suggesting the vaccines are not working, and causing much stress in vaccinated people that they are not as protected as they thought they would…

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    • Great example of why messaging re covid is confusing. We have seen reports: Pfizer vax in Israel only 67% effective re DELTA... This isnt true! Must understand statistics to interpret obs data! Vax works. Really well. Regardless of strain. https://t.co/hjn9zrxbqL

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    A surge involving the rapidly-transmitting Delta variant in heavily vaccinated countries has led to much hand-wringing that the vaccines are not effective against Delta, or vaccine efficacy wanes after 4-6 months. This has fueled anti-vaccine sentiment suggesting the vaccines are not working, and causing much stress in vaccinated people that they are not as protected as they thought they would…

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    • Israeli data: How can efficacy vs. severe disease be strong when 60% of hospitalized are vaccinated? #kahnchronicle https://t.co/IF38lozyCK

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    A surge involving the rapidly-transmitting Delta variant in heavily vaccinated countries has led to much hand-wringing that the vaccines are not effective against Delta, or vaccine efficacy wanes after 4-6 months. This has fueled anti-vaccine sentiment suggesting the vaccines are not working, and causing much stress in vaccinated people that they are not as protected as they thought they would…

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    • Wow…take time to re-visit Simpson’s paradox w this excellent explainer on Israeli data on PFE #COVD19 vaccine. (It’s great news BTW) Understanding statistical principles makes me feel almost as good as an uptempo bike ride. https://t.co/1EPtbN9p82 H/t @venkmurthy

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    A surge involving the rapidly-transmitting Delta variant in heavily vaccinated countries has led to much hand-wringing that the vaccines are not effective against Delta, or vaccine efficacy wanes after 4-6 months. This has fueled anti-vaccine sentiment suggesting the vaccines are not working, and causing much stress in vaccinated people that they are not as protected as they thought they would…

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    • Must read article teaches us about: * How Pfizer vax still likely very effective against severe disease even in Israeli data * Concept of Simpson's paradox * General principle of how confounding can mislead in observational data of therapies https://t.co/AuRKNVH900