Sesame Street's Elmo had a mental health check-in with social media this weekend, and it backfired when everyone began trauma dumping on our favourite furry friend.
The responses to Elmo's check-in post underscore a growing mental health crisis across the U.S. and a national spike in anxiety and depression, with young people driving a rise in mental health spending in recent years. https://t.co/epQyjKzBAt
Hey @elmo! Thanks for checking in! It's great to see you caring about everyone's well-being. Speaking of well-being, mental health is a topic close to many hearts. Here's a link for those who would like additional resources: https://t.co/vjFYgqBLZAhttps://t.co/xnMyf8RuWe
The Pelosi “go back to China” vid making the rounds is disinformation. It’s an old clip of Code Pink protesters, an org with real money ties to China as reported by @newlinesmag and NYT. 🌏 A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes.
Prof Jeffrey S Morris is George S. Pepper Professor of Public Health & Preventive Medicine; Biostats, Stats & Data Science, UPenn
His conclusion:
So this paper confirms what many other studies have found — anaphylaxis and myocarditis are both rare but serious adverse events linked to mRNA vaccines, with incidence similar to what has been found in existing literature,
But it found no evidence that the other serious adverse events they considered occurred after vaccination any more often than the baseline rate in the population, including myocardial infarction, stroke, pulmonary embolism, deep vein thrombosis, thrombosis/thrombocytopenia, Guillain-Barre Syndrome, Bell’s Palsy, and others, which again agrees with most of the current studies.
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An Epoch Times article discusses a recent paper by FDA researchers assessing safety of Pfizer and Moderna bivalent boosters given to 8,638,661 and 5,240,178 individuals, respectively, comparing incidence rate of 18 different serious adverse events of special interest (including…
An Epoch Times article discusses a recent paper by FDA researchers assessing safety of Pfizer and Moderna bivalent boosters given to 8,638,661 and 5,240,178 individuals, respectively, comparing incidence rate of 18 different serious adverse events of special interest (including various cardiovascular events) in data bases from Carelon Research, CVS Health, and Optum.
Out of all 18 events, they only identified safety signals for: 1. anaphylaxis for both vaccines 18-64yr in 1 out of the 3 data bases (but not the other 2), and 2. myocarditis/pericarditis for 18-35yr for Pfizer vaccine in 1 out of the 3 data bases (but not the other 2) They concluded results were consistent with previous studies and supporting the safety profile for these vaccines
However, the Epoch Times article highlights the following numbers, suggesting they are from this paper: 1. anaphylaxis rate was 74.5 cases per 100k person-years following Pfizer vaccination 2. anaphylaxis rate was 109.4 cases per 100k person-years following Moderna vaccination 3. myo/pericarditis rate was 131.4 cases per 100k person-years These figures to a novice reader might make one think that the rate of anaphylaxis per person is 1 per 1342 (100,000/74.5) after Pfizer, 1 per 914 (100,000/109.4) after Moderna, and the rate of myo/pericarditis is 1 per 761 (100,000/131.4) after Pfizer, which would seem alarmingly high, seemingly contradicting the conclusions of the paper. However, this is completely false.
As I will show in this thread, these figures: 1. were not even reported in the paper, but computed for the Epoch Times article from Table 3. 2. were actually mis-computed from Table 3 in the paper 3. based on rate per person-year is not the most useful summary for incidence after vaccination given the time frame for these events varies from 2 days (anaphylaxis) to 28 or 42 days after vaccination, and easily misconstrued/misinterpreted.
Looking at the paper, what they actually found for incidence was: 1. anaphylaxis from d0-d1 after bivalent vaccine booster occurred at rate between 1/4.3m and 1/430k for Pfizer, and between 1/2.6m and 1/260k for Moderna 2. myo/peri-carditis from d0-d21 after bivalent vaccine booster occurred at rate of 1/27k for Pfizer and 1/29k for Moderna 3. For 5-17yr olds, the myo/peri-carditis rate from d0-d21 after bivalent vaccine booster occured at rate between 1/535k and 1/54k for Pfizer, and <1/50k for Moderna 4. For 18-64yr olds, the myo/peri-carditis rates from d0-d21 after bivalent boosters was 1/53k for Pfizer and 1/55k for Moderna
These are in line with previous literature, and not alarming — the calculation and inclusion of the rates per person-year in the Epoch article appear to be trying to exaggerate the risk I’ll transparently explain where I get these numbers from in this thread…
To compute the incidence per person, we need to consider the number of individuals given each vaccine in each age group, which was given in Table 2 in the paper: pic.twitter.com/lkUUURfgXH
Those receiving Moderna bivalent booster had anaphylaxis rates of between 7.0 and 70.3 events per 100k person years. This is far below the 109.4 reported by Epoch for these figures.
But this corresponds to an incidence of anaphylaxis at d0-d1 after Moderna bivalent booster of… pic.twitter.com/YZUqyXExeH
BTW, here is the link to the actual paper by FDA researchers that is referenced in the Epoch Times article, and from which I got the data from the tables for this thread:https://t.co/2dOAXXZpMG
So this paper confirms what many other studies have found — anaphylaxis and myocarditis are both rare but serious adverse events linked to mRNA vaccines, with incidence similar to what has been found in existing literature,
But it found no evidence that the other serious adverse events they considered occurred after vaccination any more often than the baseline rate in the population, including myocardial infarction, stroke, pulmonary embolism, deep vein thrombosis, thrombosis/thrombocytopenia, Guillain-Barre Syndrome, Bell’s Palsy, and others, which again agrees with most of the current studies.
Seorang lelaki warga Indonesia yang juga suspek kes pembunuhan kejam maut ditembak di sebuah flat di kawasan Bukit Subang, Shah Alam ketika cuba menyerang anggota polis menggunakan parang.
Indonesian tried to kill police shot dead An Indonesian man who is also a suspect in a case of brutal murder was shot dead in a flat in the Bukit Subang area, Shah Alam when he tried to attack a policeman using a machete. Selangor Police Chief Datuk Hussein Omar Khan said the man in his 20s is a suspect in the murder case of an Indonesian woman who was killed with eight stab wounds at Sungai Way in Petaling Jaya, last Monday.
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Lelaki dipercayai warga asing ditembak mati selepas serang polis dengan parang.
Kejadian berlaku apabila sepasukan polis serbu rumah suspek di flat di Bukit Subang, Selangor.
Suspek dipercayai terlibat kes bunuh wanita di Desa Mentari pagi kelmarin
A man believed to be a foreigner was shot dead after attacking the police with a machete. The incident happened when a police team raided the suspect’s house in a flat in Bukit Subang, Selangor. The suspect is believed to be involved in the murder of a woman in Mentari Village yesterday morning
#shahalam Polis menembak mati seorang lelaki yang juga suspek kes bunuh dalam serbuan di Blok 15, Pangsapuri Melati, Bukit Subang di sini, hari ini.https://t.co/GSBYF8DVqO
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