@Leggomyfuego1
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🧵 #NoPlaceLikeHome
There's No Place Like Home - Covid Update
for Feb 15, 2022
A thread of Hope, Knowledge, Compassion and Courage
during Covid
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🇺🇸CDC TOTALS
77.6M🇺🇸🦠Cases
4.4M🇺🇸🏥Hosp
917K🇺🇸👼Deaths🕯️
🔗covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tra…
🌐WHO TOTALS
410.6M🌎🦠Cases 🚨1.7M last 24hrs🚨
5.8M🌍👼Deaths🕯️
🔗 covid19.who.int
Our World in Data -🇺🇸🇨🇦etc.(👼🕯️by country)
🔗ourworldindata.org/covid-deaths - to select country
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🇺🇸 American Academy of Pediatrics 👧👦
Report - Feb 10, 2022:
Week:
298,931 👶 cases (⬇️ fr prior wk of 632K)
21.9% of ALL cases (⬇️fr prior wk of 25.0%)
Cumulative:
12,341,801 TOTAL 👶 cases
18.9% of ALL cases (equals prior wk of 18.9%)
1K 👼🕯️
🔗aap.org/en/pages/2019-…
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🔴=High🟠=Substantial🟡=Moderate🔵=Low
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STEP 1⃣
Check your county's community transmission level
here👉🔗covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tra…
STEP 2⃣
Find your county's color in the guidance chart below👇
🔗yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/riding-the-w…
🚨Note vaccines💉wane‼️🚨🔗cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/7…
STEP 3⃣
Wince 😬 and Repeat (tomorrow)
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LIONS 🦁 and TIGERS 🐯 and BEARS🐻, OH MY!
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LIONS 🦁 and TIGERS 🐯 and BEARS🐻, OH MY!
LAYERS of SWISS CHEESE 🧀we SHARE, OH MY!
🧀🧀🧀 Pandemic PROTECTIONS 🧀🧀🧀
More 🧀 layers = greater👍✅ PROTECTION*
*protection is not a restriction, it is a PROtection
@kprather88
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LIONS 🦁 and TIGERS 🐯 and BEARS🐻, OH MY!
🦠VIRUSES 🦠STAY in the AIR, OH MY!
@denise_dewald PSA:🚨DO NOT TAKE YOUR MASK OFF INDOORS, even if there is no one else around.🚨
The virus persists in the air for HOURS because #CovidIsAirborne
@krupali👀how medical conf.🧀🧀🧀👇
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🧀 VENTILATE the AIR 🧀
Schools🏫(1918)THEN:
✅Classes outside
✅Classrm windows open, cloaks on kids
Schools🏫NOW
✅MA:Boston Public installed air quality sensors in ea classrm w/ real time online dashboard 🔗bostonpublicschools.org/Page/8810
✅MD:🏫Board following science,😷stay on
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🧀FILTER THE AIR 🧀
DIY Corsi-Rosenthal box #CorsiRosenthalBox
All info (pics 📸&📽️)
🔗cleanaircrew.org/box-fan-filter…
(Filters' airflow arrows point to the➡️inside⬅️of the box. Include a shroud.)
Kids video (how to make for your classroom) 🔗 via @YouTube
🌐World Health Organization (WHO) @who
Feb 13
Why does WHO consider #airpollution a public health emergency? If you live in highly polluted areas does #COVID19 affect you differently? WHO’s @DrMariaNeira explains in #ScienceIn5 ⬇️
via @YouTube
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🧀MASKS 🧀
(WHN)🌏World Health Network -😷 & more
(WHN)🌍Mask Ranking Pyramid (See PDF for more info) 🔗static1.squarespace.com/static/60d24e6…
(WHN) 🌎Vent/Filtrate/Mask, School 🏫info & more:
🔗worldhealthnetwork.global/resources/#ven…
(WHN)👦👧Kids mask 😷Data (age, size, etc): 🔗docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…
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🧀MASKS 🧀
Performing a Seal Check When Donning an N95 Mask - How To video🔗 via @YouTube
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🧀VACCINES🧀
[ drops the mic🎤 ]
🛑Can't drop the🎤
VACCINES💉protect against HOSPITALIZATION🏫🪦
MASKS😷protect against INFECTION🦠+ Long Covid
Mutating 🧙♀️🦠+ 💉wane*🚨
Q. What doesn't wane?
A. MASKS! 😷
🔔Remember👉🧀👈? Yes 🧀 layers
*🚨See 6th tweet & next tweet
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🧀VACCINES🧀cont.
RESULTS
💉Vaccines that do not prevent infection (& hence transmission) allow extensive endemic SARS-CoV-2 spread
💉A vaccine that only reduces symptomatic COVID-19 or mortality is a limited solution
LAYERS of SWISS🧀we SHARE, OH MY!
medrxiv.org/content/10.110…
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🧀Layers
WHO Dr @mvankerkhove 08 Feb, 2022
Omicron Sub-lineages
🚨WATCH 7:36-13:04🚨
7:36 Since Omicron 1/2M🪦🕯️
8:57 Still middle pandemic
9:02 Deaths increased 5th wk in a row
9:57 Sub-lineages: BA.1, BA.1.1, BA.2 & BA.3
12:00 Long Covid
12:35😷
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🌪️We're not in Kansas anymore 🌪️
🧙♀️Meet the Omicron Family🦠🦠🦠🦠
"This is the first in a series on the Omicron variant, specifically discussing its derivative lineages: BA.1, BA.2, and BA.3." by William Haseltine @WmHaseltine
🔗forbes.com/sites/williamh…
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ℹ️ FYI
nextstrain.org is one of the websites referenced in the article of the previous tweet.
You can select different viruses 🦠 to track (Covid, Zika, TB) in real time. You can filter by location, strain, etc.
🔗nextstrain.org/ncov/gisaid/gl…
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🤒LONG COVID🛌
There are many Long Covid Kids Twitter accts, such as @LongCovidKids
@lckwales displays a video of symptoms parents can watch out for #SpotCovid.
See it here: 🔗
100 possible symptoms have been identified.
@DonEford (See next tweet)
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🤒LONG COVID🛌
This is a recent compilation of LC information from various sources. The article takes time to read and digest and is written by someone who knows LC first hand. (At the end he addresses schools.)
@DonEford
🔗donford.substack.com/p/riskoflongco…
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Knowledge, Compassion and Courage are our greatest strengths.
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