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31 Oct, 6 tweets, 3 min read
📍HUGE—Kids spread the virus as much as adults. CDC study of households #COVID19 transmission very common. 53% overall.

BOTTOMLINE: there is no safe age group that does not transmit virus. Kids and adults similar risk of secondary transmission. #MaskUp
2) Findings from a prospective household study with intensive daily observation for ≥7 consecutive days indicate that transmission of SARS-CoV-2 among household members was frequent from either children or adults.
3) What are the implications for public health practice?

➡️ Household transmission of SARS-CoV-2 is common and occurs early after illness onset. Persons should self-isolate immediately at the onset of COVID-like symptoms, at the time of testing...
3) ... or at time of a positive test result, whichever comes first. All household members, including the index case, should wear masks within shared spaces in the household.
4) Link to CDC studyh

Transmission of SARS-COV-2 Infections in Households — Tennessee and Wisconsin, April–September 2020

cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/6…
5) Buttressed by another Princeton study—“children and young adults are potentially much more important to transmitting the virus”—largest #COVID19 contact tracing study to date of half mil people finds children key to spread, evidence of superspreaders.

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2 Nov
DISGUSTING—Trump fuels his MAGA rally to chant “Fire Fauci!”

...to which Trump replies—“Let me wait until a little after the election”. 🔥🔥🔥

What sick grotesque country do we live under? #COVID19
2) All the while Trump has censored Fauci countless times.
3) But here is the thing—Trump actually can’t directly fire Dr Fauci, who is head of NIAID, which is a division of NIH. Only NIH Director Francis Collins is likely the only one who can fire Fauci—but they are decades old best friends. And Collins says he would not!
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⚠️BOTS DRIVING HERD TOPIC ON TWITTER—Scott Atlas promoting Trump’s herd immunity for #COVID19 on Russia Today TV maybe not an accident. Our team as FAS found striking evidence **HALF** of all pro-herd accounts are likely bots part of disinfo campaign. 🧵fas.org/blogs/fas/2020… Image
2) Approximately half of the profiles pushing the case for herd immunity are artificial accounts. These bot or bot-like accounts are generally characterized as engaging in abnormally high levels of retweets and low content diversity.
3) The high level of bot-like behavior attributed to support for the Great Barrington Declaration on social media indicates the conversation is manipulated and inorganic in comparison to the scientific consensus-based conversation opposing herd immunity theories.
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1 Nov
BREAKING—Tracing WH #COVID19: WH blocked tracing but 2 journalists donated samples to 🧬epidemiologists. “These mutations [in] these viruses are quite rare in US,” Bedford said. “I am highly convinced that these come from the same outbreak or cluster.” 🧵
nytimes.com/2020/11/01/sci… Image
2) “The viral genomes of the two journalists shared the same distinct pattern of mutations, the research found. Along with their exposure history, the findings suggest that they were infected as part of the broader White House outbreak, said Trevor Bedford @trvrb. Image
3) “The genomes believed to be connected to White House outbreak do not identify a recent geographic source, in part because they are unusual (5 mutations). The ancestors of those viruses spread to US from Europe and were circulating widely across the country in April and May” Image
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31 Oct
FOR F*CK SAKE!!! Trump just picked the wrong goddamn fight trying to blame doctors for “phony” #COVID19 diagnoses and deaths. Here are over 20+ doctors who have **DIED ON THE FRONTLINES** among almost 2000 healthcare workers who have died.

Trump—you can goto hell after we #VOTE
2) In fact more than 1 in 17 hospitalized #COVID19 patients in a national study were health care workers!!!
3) It gets worse, despite being healthcare workers themselves, of these hospitalized #COVID19 HCWs:

📌Approximately 28% of these patients were admitted to an intensive care unit

📌16% required invasive mechanical ventilation

📌4% died
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31 Oct
SOBERING: U.S. reports over 100,000 coronavirus cases in 24 hours for the first time ever. Smashes all time record.

We have basically lost this battle. Not sure if Christmas is even saveable unless we do something drastic fast! 🔥 #COVID19
2) But we can still save ourselves from becoming Belgium, France, and Netherlands. #COVID19
3) And we aren’t sure we can handle the continued increase if hospitals are soon overwhelmed again, like they were in NYC in the spring, or like Wisconsin or El Paso is currently. This is not going well at all. #COVID19
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31 Oct
⚠️HOLY SHIT—1 in 4 medical staff in Belgian city of Liège are sick w/ #COVID19. Now doctors asked to keep working *even if sick* no symptoms. The head of Belgian medical union says ***they had no choice to prevent hospital system collapsing within days***.
bbc.com/news/world-eur…
2) One in 3 people tested are coming back positive. Hospitals are transferring patients elsewhere & cancelling non-urgent surgeries, days after Health Minister warned the country was close to a "tsunami" of infections where authorities "no longer control what is happening". 🔥🔥
3) Anyone finding this familiar? Because this was exactly what was happening with Lombardy Italy 🇮🇹 early in the spring. History repeating itself.

BBC: Belgium facing 'tsunami' of new infections bbc.co.uk/news/world-eur…
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