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Fantastic thread.
TL-DR:
Strong correlation between excess mortality and covid.
Not the same for vaccinations.
Some suggested excess mortality is due to COVID-19 vaccination rollout but forgot to look at C-19 deaths
📈 Plot for each country feature:
🟠 Excess Mortality
🔴 C-19 Deaths
⚪️ Vaccination
COVID-19 deaths correlate much more closely with excess deaths than vaccination
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Hi Mia. You seem to be getting a lot of abuse at the moment.
Please remember that for every 1 person that does this, there are thousands of people such as myself who truly appreciate what you've done to share info and keep us informed.
Thank you for what you do!! 🙏🏻
@miamalan
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@EmbassyofRussia
@mfa_russia
@PMSimferopol
@RusConsCapetown
@mahasharampedi
@SABCNews
@ThabisoLehoko
@MID_Kaliningrad
@RusEmbEthiopia
@georgegalloway
@calebmaupin
Nope. We stand with the Ukraine.
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Genuine question for antivaxxers:
A novel virus causes a pandemic with Ebola level mortality. Will you be anti mRNA based vaccines in this case too?
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Both I and Roger Federer can play tennis.
🤷🏼
Both the vaccinated and unvaccinated can spread the virus.
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I cannot believe how far Tim Noakes has fallen.
Mia has been outstanding at helping to keep us updated on several important topics during this pandemic.
That he would retweet something as deplorable as this by "Guerrilla Media" is shameful and disgusting.
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@naomirwolf
@MeddlinMegs
@djmarley6
@andrewcuomo
Holy shit, Naomi. You have lost the plot completely and are embarrassing yourself. Please consider deleting these tweets or shutting down your account. Seriously.
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Why are anti vaxxers also often racist, climate change denialists, Russia supporters, and fans of Andrew Tate?
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Dear Antivaxxers,
If you have data and evidence to support whatever your claims are, please produce it when asked.
Merely bleating about "corrupt data" or "falsified data" or "made-up data" is a non-argument and WILL NOT be engaged with.
kthanksbye.
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I'm angry with
@Discovery_SA
!
Their website contains podcasts about the Great Barrington Declaration, as well as conversations with Panda members, including Nick Hudson.
These are groups spreading disinformation about Covid, intentionally downplaying the seriousness of it.
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Has anyone else noticed that antivaxxers are generally pro Putin? 🤔
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@DrEliDavid
"A Doctor from XYZ phoned me".
"A whistle blower contacted me".
"Professor of XYZ from a prestigious institution emailed me".
Now:
"Mountains of evidence since...".
You lot never share any evidence. Just your words.
Or as my friend says, it's all fart and no shit with you guys.
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@LeopoldHeinrich
@evanblecher
Sorry Heinrich, but literally everything you've said here is wrong. I live in SA, for what it's worth.
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Discovery medical scheme analysis in South Africa
A thread 🧵
Unvaccinated South Africans have a 5 times higher risk of
COVID-19 infection and 20 times higher risk of dying from
COVID complications than people who are fully vaccinated with the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccination.
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@HealthUncensord
@sjs856
I've been hearing that shit for over 3 years.
Reality: as time goes on, more and more evidence from multiple continents shows the protective effects of vaccination.
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"... effectiveness against infection after seven months remained at 89%, while against hospitalisation and death, this time six months after the second dose, it remained at 96% and 99% respectively."
@sailorrooscout
#GetVaccinatedNow
#VaccineRollOutSA
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You will not find simpler and clearer evidence of the effectiveness of vaccines than this.
Thanks
@Rajeev_The_King
for the share.
#VaccinesSaveLives
#VaccinesWork
#vaccines
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If countries are ostracized for sharing information the way SA has been, we're setting an extremely worrying precedent. You're disincentivising scientists from alerting, sharing and collaborating.
We'll all be flying blind before we know it.
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@BIT_PIP
Viral evolution. It still prevented millions of deaths. There are studies on this if you're interested.
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A common lie perpetuated by antivax cultists is that the covid vaccines cause cancer.
No. They don't.
Don't fall for their BS. Demand data.
"Turbo Cancer" seems to have skipped highly vaccinated Sweden
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@matthewloop
@elonmusk
Absolutely, positively, categorically FALSE.
They do harm by spreading lies and misinformation.
@DrEliDavid
@elonmusk
@RWMaloneMD
@P_McCulloughMD
Absolutely not! Both absolute cranks.
@elonmusk
, if you care about harmful messaging on this platform, you'll leave them suspended.
P.S. Malone says he 'invented mRNA vaccines'. He lied. And he's as much a co-inventor as the other 50+ people that invented the vaccines.
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Didn't take long for the ghouls to come out. I'm truly ashamed that we have Doctors in South Africa that do this sort of thing. Disgusted, too.
Shame on you, Nathi.
Was he a known epileptic? Epilepsy doesn’t just manifest for the first time at this age and kills you “suddenly”! We know what does kill suddenly though, but we can’t say it!
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@AdvDali_Mpofu
Shouldn't you be practicing and studying law? You seem to lose a LOT of cases these days. 🤷🏽♂️
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All I can say is, at last.
The conspiracies, lies and grifting eventually caught up.
Hopefully it's permanent.
👋🏼 Nick!!
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As much as people will disagree with it, throw fits about it & maybe even protest about it, I honestly don't see a way forward for South Africa that doesn't include vaccine mandates. There are just too many compounding negative variables right now. Mayhem is around the corner.
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@timfinally
I mean, you're wrong about the "poison", but that aside....even for a virus killing 50% of the people it infects?
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So many people believe that Twitter represents reality.
Over 5.5 billion people have been vaccinated against covid. Your 'room' is full of denialists and antivaxxers but the rest of the house, & the overwhelming majority of people, do the right thing and get vaccinated.
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I don't understand why
@eNCA
is providing a platform to known grifters and purveyors of misinformation.
This is the LAST thing South Africa needs given our low vaccine uptake and the huge toll covid has had on our people and economy.
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Here are some old tweets from Nick Hudson, head Panda.
- There would be no 2nd wave.
- PCR false +s meant SA's "covid season is over".
- Prof Karim was "lying through his teeth" because covid is seasonal & endemic.
Do yourselves a favor & never believe a word him or Panda say.
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They also actively tell people not to wear masks (which is illegal) & they spread anti vaccine information.
They do damage!
Why would Discovery publish this content?!
Discovery, you should be ashamed. You need to apologise and delete this page.
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@SecBlinken
@DIRCO_ZA
And then you banned the country, knowing full well that this variant quite possibly originated in a different country to the one that alerted the world about it? Shameful.
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Is it ironic that antivaxxers have created a situation where vax mandates are now a necessity?
#Omicron
#VaccineRollOutSA
#VaccinateToSaveSouthAfrica
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And here in SA, many people are complaining about having to wear a mask at the local Spar.
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@elonmusk
@ZubyMusic
This is irresponsible, Elon. And rubbish. How can you support this view?
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@keri_stroebel
@SimonPGrindrod
I disagree too. Our approach to this pandemic has been lauded by many.
He has several advisors and advisory groups and he doesn't make this stuff up himself.
I don't quite know why you have this view, Simon. What exactly are you expecting?
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Look at that! This misleading warning is good. Well done
@Twitter
@TwitterSupport
👏🏼
Now perhaps suspend the clowns running the
@A_C_D_P
account. Even better.
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@zoeharcombe
Thats an extremely misleading message.
Future waves are dependent on herd immunity & NPIs. An aspect of herd immunity is the vaccines. Another one is level of natural immunity from prior infections - which itself is mediated by several factors.
Why choose to ignore these nuances?
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@beverleyturner
@VikiLovesFACS
Bev, give it up. You have zero evidence and data to back up your claims. Viki has corrected you countless times. It's actually a bit odd and slightly embarrassing that you continue like this. Time to reflect.
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The good charlatan, Nick Hudson, is confused. Again.
He says the 10k deaths prediction wasn't far off. We've had 300k+ excess deaths. +-85% covid. For an actuary, he's very bad at Maths.
Secondly, he declared covid endemic in November; 9 months after our 1st confirmed case.
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@AdvBMkhwebane
@Enghumbhini
@MzwaneleManyi
@Taki7705
@SABCNews
I'm losing hope here, fast. Why the ffffflip is the Public Protector giving people medical advice?!?! 😡
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@judysimpson222
I realize that the decisions made by hardcore antivaxxers transcend data and facts, but I had suspected that given a real threat to their lives, they might make a different choice.
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@bmj_latest
This is very sloppy, BMJ.
Assuming the allegations are true, this involved 2.2% of the trial participants and 1.96% of the sites. Do better. You're creating unnecessary fear.
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About 58% of people over 35 have been vaccinated in SA.
I'm grateful that we're nearing 70% of people 60+ and over 60% for 50 to 59. They need the most protection.
We're nearing 50% of people 18+ too, which will be a good milestone.
#SouthAfrica
#VaccinesWork
#VaccineRollOutSA
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@jacquelinestan3
@DrAseemMalhotra
@RishiSunak
It's because it's all bollocks. Did you see how many people were left int he chambers during this speech? Were there 4? 5?
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@Jon_M_Berger
The Charlatans.
The Quackery.
The White Cranks.
.....with their hit songs The Data Hates Me and I'm So Desperate It Hurts.
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@rid1tweets
Ridhwaan, I've loved your contributions. A lot of us looked at your data daily and it helped immensely!!
Lately though, you seem to be tinkering with subject matter you don't understand which unfortunately is fueling antivax/conspiracy groups. Please consider this, is all I ask.
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@BIT_PIP
Not true. The flu vaccines have been around for years.
Where is the evidence of bogus studies? And what about the studies from different countries and continents showing the vaccines saved lives?
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@DrAseemMalhotra
90% of your followers are anti vaxxers. This is a completely biased poll, no matter the outcome.
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Twitter is doing this annoying thing where it refreshes my timeline automatically. I'll be scrolling through, see a tweet I want to read, but then it disappears after this annoying mini refresh.
Is this happening to anyone else? I'm using the Twitter app on Android.
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@DrAseemMalhotra
You're never going to win, Aseem. 13 billion doses and 5 billion people over 3 years is a LOT of data, and sorry, but the data does not agree with you.
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250k covid deaths in South Africa would mean that circa 0.43% of the entire population is dead.
That's 1 in 232 people.
Let that sink in for a moment.
Get vaccinated.
#COVID19
#VaccineRollOutSA
#VaccinateToSaveSouthAfrica
#VaccineReadySA
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@DrAseemMalhotra
My goodness Aseem. You are now scraping the barrel of conspiracy theories. What happened to you?!
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@DrAseemMalhotra
The paper with HART data (known covid minimizers), peer reviewed by your friends and published in the Insulin Resistance journal you're a Director of - that paper?
Yeah, I see no problem here at all. 🤔
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100% the right call.
"Why SA's drug regulator cannot recommend ivermectin to treat Covid-19"
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@LayahHeilpern
There's a reason we don't die in our 30s like we did 200 years ago. And the answer is not food, gym and sunlight.
If a medicine that I need to extend my life is trialed and is efficacious and safe, I will take it.
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Fakedemic? Nathi, WTF?! We have had over 300,000 excess deaths in this country, you asshole.
Why has
@SAHPRA1
done nothing about this person? A Senior Medical Professional, treating patients, with these views is utterly reprehensible.
I’ve kept out of discussions on “long COVID” deliberately to let it runs its course as a manipulated entity. In the early stages of the fakedemic - you could get it without being symptomatic and having had a short course of mild disease! Spike protein induced apparently 🤷🏾♂️
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@News24
I don't blame him! There is NO logical reason to not get vaccinated. Unvaccinated people in hospitals are costing a lot of time and resources that are best spent on other patients.
Also, let's get our lives back!
#VaccineRollOutSA
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To South Africans,
This virus will never disappear. We're all at risk, especially our elderly parents, aunts, uncles & grandparents that we love SO much. Even if you don't want to protect yourself, the least you can do for them is to get vaccinated. Think about it. Please do it.
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@SoloMano7
@ShabirMadh
You asked the Prof if your interpretation was correct. He said no and pointed out why. And your secondary response is that you "missed nothing".
Stop being disingenuous and waisting everyone's time. Move along and take your antiscience with you.
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My parents have been vaccinated!
I got quite teared up seeing the photos. Such a big moment for them & us as a family.
So grateful to all the scientists & other people who've worked incredibly hard to get here since early last year. 🙏🏻
🇿🇦
#VaccinesSaveLives
#VaccineRolloutSA
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Honestly, PanData retweeting this tells us plenty about this fringe group of charlatans.
They, and Nick Hudson, have completely lost the plot.
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@PeterSweden7
It's scary considering the amount of misinformation you share. How do you sleep at night knowing that you harm innocent people?
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@kamjila_x
@OldManZack
@AmandaRinquest
@Gary22k
That's good Sinda. You continue practicing your home isolation while the rest of us get back to normal. Thanks for being so thoughtful.
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49.54% of adults in South Africa have had at least 1 covid vaccine dose.
Without a crap vaccine rollout & lots of disinformation, this would be much higher.
The next time an antivaxxer tries to tell you that only 20-30% are willing to get vaccinated, throw that back at them.
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Covid got us.
I've been expecting, and dreading, this day for almost 3 years. Done everything we can to avoid it but it was inevitable.
My daughter tested + tonight after complaining of a sore throat. She has a fever of 38.4 to 38.6 degrees C.
Wife and I are asymptomatic.
Day 1.
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This is heart-breaking to read. Imagine what it feels like to be Prof van Zyl-Smit or one of his completely exhausted colleagues.
The way out is right in front of us and it takes 1 or 2 injections and a tiny fraction of time.
#VaccineRollOutSA
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Bye bye Novak.
Hopefully this makes you realise you're a tennis player. You're not special or above a law.
Well done Australia 👍🏻
#NOVAKDJOKOVIC
#NovakOut
BREAKING: The Federal Court of Australia rules against Novak Djokovic and upholds the Immigration Minister's cancellation of the tennis champion's visa
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@liedsuddenly
@Johnincarlisle
@YouTube
Sadly he couldn't care less. Acknowledging this would go against his multi million dollar grift.
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"I can tell you for sure that during the last few weeks… [in] my Covid high care ward, I have not seen a single person there who has been vaccinated. Sadly, the same cannot be said for patients who had been taking Ivermectin."
#VaccineRollOutSA
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Coming under fire from the HCQ and Ivermectin zealots is always fun.
Person: Ivermectin works!
Me: Please show me a few published RCTs.
Person: Here's a YouTube video & a Twitter account.
Me: That's not evidence.
Person: Can't you do your own research?!
FML.
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This is SO well deserved. Well done
@VikiLovesFACS
- even us South Africans appreciate your work 😃
Huge congratulations to MDR's Dr Viki Male (
@VikiLovesFACS
) on being named British Society for Immunology's "Outstanding Ambassador for Immunology", for using her network, influence to champion and significantly raise the profile of the immunology sector in the UK.
@britsocimm
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@PLMyburgh
@dailymaverick
Thanks heavens for our investigative journalists. Bravo on the job you're doing to uncover corruption in SA. 👏🏼
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@IOL
Absolutely the right thing to do across the country. If you've been offered a vaccine & don't take it, then you must live with the consequences.
Same with yellow fever & travel to some countries. Same for Pediatricians to practice. Kids to go to school. Nothing new here folks.
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@AlastairMcA30
Arguing with a covid denialist is like playing chess with a pigeon. It'll just knock over all the pieces, shit on the board, and strut about like it's won anyway.
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@SAChrstnPatriot
@DrZweliMkhize
My friend, you are literally spouting out misinformation that could get people killed.
Please don't do this.
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A question to my followers:
How many of you had, or know of people who had, serious adverse events from their vaccines**?
I'll start. I know of none.
**Caveat: Difficultly in attributing causation aside.
@MarkDavidsonAfr
@drnathimdladla
Then you don't form part of "most people". I know of 21 people in my close social circle that suffered severe side effects or death.
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Given that this new variant sounds like a Decepticon, any chance we can refer to our 3rd doses as Optimus Boosts?
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@buddyfollmer1
That's not the point of the question.
Think of the scenario; virus spreading with a 50% mortality rate.
A vaccine goes through phase 3 trials using +-45000 people and it does a really good job at preventing severe disease and death.
Do you get vaccinated or not?
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@21WIRE
This is what the data actually tells us;
USA cardiac deaths in 18-39yo spiked sharply during the pre-vaccination pandemic.
Vaccination correlates with a reversal of this trend.
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@MagnusHeystek
"This modifiedRNA genocide"
Utter garbage. Magnus, stop spreading misinformation!
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@MartinKulldorff
@Twitter
@RWMaloneMD
@GETTRofficial
@joerogan
My only gripe is that Malone wasn't suspended sooner. Done SO much harm.
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@naomirwolf
@AgainstKookery
@realstewpeters
Vaers has also shown increases in penis length and spontaneous orgasms after covid vaccination.
You know it cannot be used to draw conclusions, but you don't care because..........GRIFTER!
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