Thread by @DrEricDing

⚠️Bad trend—Netherlands reports a near vertical >800% increase in new #COVID19 cases in 1 week. Greece 🇬🇷 and Spain 🇪🇸 nearly matching that surge. @WHO now reports over 2 dozen countries with “near vertical” sharp rises in cases—mostly #DeltaVariant. Pandemic “Act 2” has begun.🧵

2) Listen to Dr @mvankerkhove talk about the sharp global rise in cases. “2 dozen” countries with **near vertical rise** in #COVID19 cases. Let that sink in. #DeltaVariant is damn serious.

3) How does Netherlands, Greece, Spain compare in vaccinated %? All 3 countries ~ 40% fully vaccinated. Not that low relative to the world or rest of Europe. UK is 50% vaccinated and it’s still seeing hospitalizations & deaths rise. Keep vaccinating—#DeltaVariant coming.

4) yet there are morally empty world leaders who basically want to let the virus burn through the population via mass infection. I’m not joking. Neither is @DrMikeRyan — he is not mincing words. Remember them (cough, @BorisJohnson @CMO_England @sajidjavid @jairbolsonaro)

5) We know Boris won’t resign, and @sajidjavid loves Ayn Rand too much to back down, but I hope @CMO_England Chris Witty will find the empathy in his heart to oppose the sadistic Boris’s 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 strategy of mass infection that is = “Epidemiological stupidity”, or resign in principle.

6) Govt forcing people “to accept a level of mortality and disability” will not be forgiven by history. Thank you @richardhorton1

7) coincidence that almost al of the world is seeing surges? No. Even the previously most successful countries like Australia is having a crisis with #DeltaVariant. Also, a small Easter 🐣 egg in this thread 🧵 below…

8) Is it just cases surging? Absolutely not.

As reminder, all critical measures of hospitalizations, ICU mechanical ventilation beds, and deaths all rising in England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿!!!

Yet UK health secretary @sajidjavid and @BorisJohnson want to let virus spread and “live with the virus”

9) Cases surging again in New York City where previously many elite bubbled pundits thought this day would never come. What are those dismissive downplaying “armchair (fakes#) epidemiologists” to say now?

(For record: @MarkLevineNYC has been great leader throughout the pandemic)

10) every #DeltaVariant surging country (over 100+ now) should do this immediately regardless of vaccine status. Add mask and ventilation on top even better. But 65+ year olds and other sick patients should avoid indoor public spaces.

11) Gee… nobody could have predicted this… except us hair-pulling epidemiologists.

12) Netherlands has now backtracked on nightclubs. Their Prime Minister has apologized. But will @BorisJohnson and @sajidjavid learn from NL before it’s too late for England?