📍ZERO COVID in Australia in 5 months! And don’t dare say it’s some island like Taiwan—it’s a continent! 🇦🇺 adopted an approach of lockdowns & proactive testing & tracing, & Victoria—90% of #COVID19 deaths—imposed one of the severest stay-at-home rules. bbc.com/news/world-aus…
2) Let this sink in:
Taiwan w/ 23 mil people, has had ZERO #COVID19 cases in 200 days. Zero cases, not just deaths. #ZeroCovid
If Taiwan was a US state, it would be the #3 largest after Texas and larger than Florida. You don’t wanna know how many cases those states have daily.
3) to be clear, the story is about Australia achieving #ZeroCovid for first time in 5 months. A few read it another way.
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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!
⚠️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…
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.
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…
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.
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”
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...
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.