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This is absolutely tragic but wholly predictable!

Public health messaging has been/remains woeful.

Group singing must be one of the highest risk activities & performing an entire concert w/ an audience of 300 was a recipe for disaster.

@UKHSA @SMHopkins @GOVUK @DHSCgovuk
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Whilst this may be the fault of @UKHSA (formerly PHE), the PM & many MPs have repeatedly endorsed the incorrect view that we can safely mix indoors without wearing a mask.

#COVIDisAirborne #MasksSaveLives #VentilationMatters

@10DowningStreet @BorisJohnson @Conservatives
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You could be forgiven for thinking this is safe👇🏼because you’d assume the PM would follow the rules?

But @BorisJohnson & his motley crew don’t want to invest in improving ventilation, & they certainly don’t want to do anything to protect others or to ⬇️ pressure on the #NHS.
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Here is some of the @CDC data that was looked at and published by @washingtonpost to make the recommendations to re-implement #masks earlier this week

Note that the #DeltaVariant is MORE transmissible than
- MERS & SARS
- Ebola
- Seasonal Flu and the Flu of 1918
- Smallpox
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#DeltaVariant associated with lower Ct value in breakthrough cases, longer duration of Ct < 30, and higher risk of re-infecton
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Breakthrough cases of #DeltaVariant have ~ 10 fold increase in viral load compared to alpha or other lineages
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#COVID-19 in #Tennessee: TN leads the U.S. in cases reported per population this week. This is very serious but raises an important question: How should we interpret the latest numbers? A thread … 1/ nytimes.com/live/2020/12/2…
Let’s be clear on 1 thing: @TNDeptofHealth is correct that hospitals are beyond their “bend” point and quickly heading to their breaking point. We’re at 2,900 hospitalized and rising. A continued surge following the holidays will create a truly dire situation. 2/
But what about those case numbers? We’ve had several days of 11k+ reported in a single day…

Q: Are we really seeing daily case numbers that high?
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Not sure about everyone else, but I can feel the case counts rising all around me. Many more people I know are being exposed to #COVID19 or are testing positive themselves. This is probably in part due to changes in the weather in the Northern Hemisphere. This means that if (1/n)
you thought that your actions were keeping you safe before, you have to do more to keep yourself safe now. The case counts are indeed rising, which means that every single interaction that you have now is riskier than it was just a few weeks ago. The pandemic is worse now. (2/n)
Thanks to "Changing Baselines Syndrome" (@voxdotcom: vox.com/energy-and-env…), we aren't noticing how horrific our situation in the United States is becoming. Everyone is distracted by the presidential transition, the advent of new vaccines, and, just the holiday season. (3/n)
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Day 106

- new hospitalisations are from a few days ago.
- a lot of tests.
- Only new cases in the areas where the virus was active. indicating that the other area's are (almost) virus free. ImageImageImage
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