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Ashish K. Jha
@ashishkjha
Physician, scientist, biosecurity expert. Co-founder, BioRadar. Because an ounce of data is worth a thousand pounds of opinion.
Massachusetts, USA
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    Ashish K. Jha
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    Aug 10, 2021
    Today, the 5 most vaccinated states (14M people) had 580 people in hospital, 12 deaths In the 5 least vaccinated states (16M people)? 6,600 hospitalized, 104 deaths Per capita , least vaccinated states have 10X hospitalizations and 7X deaths So yeah, vaccines are working
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    Ashish K. Jha
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    Apr 22, 2021
    India is in the throes of a horrendous COVID surge Horrendous They are struggling to get more people vaccinated We are sitting on 35-40 million doses of Astra Zeneca vaccine Americans will never use Can we please give or lend them to India? Like may be now? It'll help. A lot
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    Ashish K. Jha
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    Sep 23, 2021
    The world has administered 6 billion doses of COVID vaccines to 3.4 Billion people For people waiting for more data before getting the shot The data is in We've vaccinated nearly half of all humanity The vaccines are safe
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    Ashish K. Jha
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    Nov 8, 2021
    There is a viral disease Where most infections are mild, asymptomatic With a very low fatality rate And large age gradient: kids are even lower risk than adults And less than 1% of kids have any serious complications at all Yup Polio And we vaccinate against it
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    Ashish K. Jha
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    Jan 4, 2022
    The primary purpose of vaccines is to prevent serious illness and death To that end, vaccines are working remarkably well
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    Ashish K. Jha
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    Oct 17, 2021
    When folks think about highly vaccinated places in America They think Vermont or CT or MA Those places are good But not the most vaccinated place in America So who's #1? Puerto Rico! But PR has gotten way too little attention Its worth reflecting on how they did it Thread
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    Ashish K. Jha
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    Jan 29, 2021
    Heard of SARS-CoV2 variant from Japan? No? How about one from South Korea? No? Surely variants from New Zealand & Vietnam? Of course not Because these places haven't given rise to scary variants But what places have.....has big implications for ending the pandemic Thread
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    Ashish K. Jha
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    Nov 26, 2021
    Today, I'm thankful for the South African scientists Who are working on the Nu variant with great expertise, speed, and transparency Their openness makes the world safer Thank you 🇿🇦
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    Ashish K. Jha
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    Aug 28, 2025
    I'm sorry but what? Our Health Secretary says that he sees kids at airports and can tell by their faces that they have mitochondrial challenges This is wacky, flat-earth, voodoo stuff people This is not normal
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    Acyn
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    Aug 27, 2025
    RFK JR: I’m looking at kids as I walk through the airports today...and I see these kids that are just overburdened with mitochondrial challenges, inflammation—you can tell from their faces, movements, and lack of social connection
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    Ashish K. Jha
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    Dec 29, 2020
    So a lot of chatter happening on the slow vaccine roll out Personally, I'm incredibly frustrated. Did we not know that vaccines were coming? Is vaccine administration a surprise? Several complex issues so lets break things down a bit Warning, this is a bit of a rant Thread
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    Ashish K. Jha
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    Jan 11, 2021
    That's also how many Americans we have lost in the last few days -- in no short part because of the misinformation and bad policies you championed.
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    Ashish K. Jha
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    Oct 4, 2021
    Its time for vaccine mandate for air travel Lack of one is becoming an issue So here's my story from last night that confirmed why we need it Basically, we can't expect mitigation measures to be enforced well enough to prevent transmission on airplanes forever Short thread
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    Ashish K. Jha
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    Jan 30, 2021
    For those of you keeping score at home 26 million Americans are known to have had COVID 420K of them died from COVID 29 million Americans have gotten COVID vaccines 0 have died from COVID vaccines When it comes to generating immunity vaccine > infection Easier, way way safer
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    Ashish K. Jha
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    Aug 5, 2020
    I often tweet about states struggling so now, a wonderful success story: New York Doing 67,000 tests a day Finding 670 cases a day 1% test positivity This is South Korea level. And its awesome Transmission levels so low NY can, with proper precautions, open schools safely