Posted on 07/26/2022 6:41:56 AM PDT by Red Badger
Andy Slavitt is an American businessman and healthcare advisor who served as the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services acting administrator from March 2015 to January 2017 and as a temporary Senior Advisor to the COVID-19 Response Coordinator in the Biden administration.
He was on the pandemic response team, which helps explain the terrible response out of the Biden administration. His judgment hasn’t gotten any better on the monkeypox issue.
Slavitt tweeted, “The myth that sexual activity is the cause of monkeypox and that reducing it is a valid strategy for managing a disease does not, on its face, make any sense.” The former Biden adviser went to the bias issue, “If this isn’t clear, imagine this being said about you.”
What’s clear is he’s 100% wrong.
NBC News, among other news sources, dispels his claim it’s a myth. Most of the afflicted are gay men.
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Andy Slavitt 💙💛
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· Jul 24, 2022
It is long past time for better action on #Monkeypox.
What it will take is people caring more about the damage it causes & understanding the impact of continuing not to address it.
Andy Slavitt 💙💛
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1: The myth that sexual activity is the cause of monkeypox & that reducing it is a valid strategy for managing a disease does not, on its face, make any sense.
If this isn’t clear, imagine this being said about you.
2:52 PM · Jul 24, 2022 from Pasadena, CA
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Researchers examined 528 cases of monkeypox across 16 countries and found 98% of those infected were gay or bisexual. The risk to the general public is very low. 95% of the cases were likely transmitted through sexual close contact. Anal sex itself is the major source of transmission.
Most afflicted are white, 41% have HIV, and the average age is 38 (18-68).
These results are consistent with the study by the British Health Security Agency.
For the new study, a consortium of scores of researchers pooled data on 528 cases of monkeypox that were diagnosed between April 27 and June 24 at 43 sites in 16 countries. These cases included 84 people (16%) in the Americas and 444 (84%) in Europe, Israel, and Australia.
All the cases were among men, including one transgender man, 98% of whom identified as gay or bisexual. This stark demographic finding is in keeping with data on the outbreak from around the world, such as a recent report from the British Health Security Agency finding that of the 699 monkeypox cases for which there was available information, 97% were in gay, bisexual or other men who have sex with men. New York City, the U.S. epicenter, has seen only one woman diagnosed with the virus out of 639 cases confirmed through July 19.
The British Study Was Consistent
Accordingly, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control has characterized the risk of monkeypox to the general public, in particular, those not engaging in sex with multiple partners, as “very low.” In a recent meeting, Dr. Agam Rao, a medical officer in the CDC’s Division of High Consequence Pathogens and Pathology, used the same words to characterize the general public’s risk.
In the new global study, the men had a median age of 38 and ranged between 18 and 68 years old. Three-quarters are white, and 41% have HIV.
Despite some public health officials, including those at the CDC, cautioning the public about the risk of household transmission of monkeypox, just three of the 528 cases, or 0.6%, were believed to have been acquired through such means. And just four, or 0.8%, were considered to have been transmitted through nonsexual close contact.
The study authors reported that 95% of the cases were likely transmitted through sexual close contact. What’s more, their paper offers strong new evidence that anal sex itself, although not necessarily ejaculation, is a major source of transmission.
Nobody cares about your feelings, Andy.
Bidens ex covid ‘expert’s is obviously anti-science
This is why you can’t believe anything from the govt. If 5his guy was still part of the administration this would be Biden’s official position.
Not necessarily. The jabs lead to more shingles, and presumably more still among the already immune compromised.
Then, it has been gay men with theorized “exposure” who are subjecting themselves to a bogus MP PCR test.
Yup. Woke Semantics.
What jabs lead to shingles?
Ummm, not a myth. A couple of studies and reports indicating that the majority of MonkeyPox cases are between gay/homosexual people. But yeah, apparently idiots like to spew lies and propaganda especially this White House. Take for example how they seek to redefine ‘recession,’ genders, who can actually have a baby, etc. Nothing more than more BS lies.
The alleged ‘COVID vaccines’ do.......
What jabs do you think?
I hadn’t heard of shingles from the COVID vaxxes. I’ve tried to keep up on the vax information.
My 28 year old son just came down with a horrible case of shingles, as did my pastor’s wife. She is in her early 30’s. Neither is vaxxed, though. They say she might lose one eye to the shingles.
Just from a quick search, page 1:
I am sorry to hear that.
Just do a quick search on “shingles Covid vaccine”.
Also some suggestion of a regular Covid correlation, but it is of course lowered immunity in general that tends to lead to its expression (which is why the correlation with the “jabs”)—and it has been a greater concern for some time now.
They should have left it as it was: kids get it and recover, and exposure to kids getting it and recovering is a natural immunity reinforcer over time.
Thanks. I’ll add that to my COVID VAX collection.
That says COVID increases likelihood of getting shingles. That may explain what’s going on with my son.
I can’t say I don’t stray off topic sometimes, but how do shingles and the Covid vaccine relate to the spread of monkeypox? The spread of monkeypox is directly related to gay sex among men. The New England Journal of Medicine said ‘abrasive sex’, which would be anal sex.
There are some who want to blame the ‘clot shot’ for every death or illness, but it’s going pretty far afield to try to blame the vaccine for monkeypox, especially when there is clear evidence regarding the gay sex tie in.
Not only COVID has been shown to increase chances of shingles but so has the vaccine itself given it has been proven to lower the immune system
“My 28 year old son just came down with a horrible case of shingles, as did my pastor’s wife. She is in her early 30’s.”
If they had chicken pox as children, then it’s pretty darn rare for them to get shingles so young, unless their immune system is compromised somehow.
Gentlemen (XY): Only ever stick it in your (Female, XX) wife.
Ladies (XX): Only ever spread 'em for your (Male, XY) husband.
Adherence to those two simple suggestions would save a world of hurt.
Corollary:
Married couples (1XY + 1XX): Do it frequently.
Never trust Biden’s “experts” on anything.
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