Day 676: Where in the World is Gavin Newsom Again?

Steve Kirsch remains hot on the trail of the elusive Gavin Newsom, who's apparently still been scarce since the wedding sighting. While the story has fallen off the news/debunking cycle, Steve Kirsch maintains that (after stem cell therapy in Mexico disguised as yet more family time) the governor is still AWOL:

He’s occasionally surfaced since his disappearance, but has never (AFAIK) been seen in public where he’s walking around, shaking hands, etc.

In other underappreciated weeks-old stories, eugyppius reiterates that testing in Israel proves the vaccines are doing nothing to stop transmission:

The more you control for different rates of testing, the harder it gets to find vaccine effectiveness against transmission, and the more you start stumbling over evidence of negative efficacy. This is why we find evidence of negative efficacy in the UK data but not (for example) in the German data. In the UK, unlike in Germany, the unvaccinated are not subject to constant testing rules. In Israel, all national airport arrivals are tested regardless of vaccination status. These numbers, widely discussed a few weeks ago, show far lower third-dose efficacy than claimed, and also indicate negative efficacy among the double vaccinated for the month of August. Because unvaccinated arrivals to Israel are quarantined and subject to additional testing, however, even these numbers are imperfect.

When you test everyone all the time regardless of vaccination status, a very different picture emerges.

P.S. Massachusetts cases were up almost half a percentage point today.