Incredibly detailed contact-tracing anal of #COVID19 spread, early 2020, Hunan, China holds vital info on controlling the #pandemic :
- household contacts pose the highest risk of transmission, followed by extended family, social & community contacts;
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2/ - Healthcare contacts have the lowest risk, suggesting that adequate protective measures were adopted by patients & healthcare staff in Hunan;
- risk of transmission in the household ^s during the lockdown period, likely due to physical confinement;
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3/ - transmission risk decreases for community & social contacts during lockdown, due to prudent behaviors such as mask wearing, hand washing & coughing/sneezing etiquette;
- longer exposures are riskier, w/one additional day of exposure ^ing the transmission risk by 10%.
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4/ "Crucially, and in contrast to SARS-CoV-1, the ability of SARS-CoV-2 to transmit during the host’s pre-symptomatic phase makes it particularly difficult to achieve epidemic control."
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2/ Other diffs w/@pfizer vax -- @Moderna#COVID19#vaccine was tested in >30K volunteers, a booster was required, and they were tested for #SARSCoV2 infection 14dys later (Pfizer was just 7 days).
They rpt more side effects.
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3/ The @moderna_tx press release states: "2% in frequency after the first dose included injection site pain (2.7%), & after the 2nd dose included fatigue (9.7%), myalgia (8.9%), arthralgia (5.2%), headache (4.5%), pain (4.1%) & erythema/redness at the injection site (2.0%)."
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"Be Alarmed.Things are probably going to work out okay. But complacency in the defense of democracy is not a virtue."
by WILLIAM KRISTOL military.com/daily-news/202…
'Not a Damn Thing Anyone Can Do About It" thedailybeast.com/infamous-maga-…
Infamous MAGA Figures Rush Into Purged Pentagon
Biden Cabinet/2
Big #COVID19 understatement:
"Biden’s picks to lead the Dept of Health and Human Services @HHSGov and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention @CDCgov will inherit a massive public health crisis."
No solid CDC names yet, but...
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Biden Cab/3
Most sources agree list-toppers include: @StateDept Sec. - @AmbassadorRice or Tony Blinken @DOJPH Atty-General - #SallyYates or Doug Jones @HHSGov - Vivek Murthy or Michelle Lujan Grisham
White House Chief of Staff - @RonaldKlain
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Here's why: #SteveBannon said on live video that firing Fauci & Wray (FBI Director) wasn’t enough:
“I actually want to go a step farther but..."
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3/ "...the president is a kind-hearted man & a good man. I’d actually like to go back to the old times of Tudor England. I’d put the heads on pikes, right? I’d put them at the 2 corners of the @WhiteHouse as a warning to federal bureaucrats, you either get w/the program..."
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While America's obsessed w/elections, Europe is freaking out about a mutant form of #SARSCoV2 in mink animals & people: Denmark seals off 7 municipalities in north Jutland. Train & bus traffic is discontinued. Reason: first infections of residents w/mutated species of the virus.
I'm going to forward info about the mink/mutant #COVID strain because most of my followers likely missed it, amid the elections tension.
So, this thread will be heavy with links.
Denmark washingtonpost.com/world/mutant-m…
3/ "A Dutch virologist and zoonosis expert, Wim van der Poel, said more research was needed but that even without the mutation, a reservoir of the virus in mink or others of the mustelid family such as badgers and martens was to be avoided."
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ATTN!
While you were sleeping #Trump issued an edict that eliminates job protections for tens of thousands (maybe millions) of federal employees, all involved in policy-making. It paves the way for a mass firing of govt employees.
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2/ The edict "...strips long-held civil service protections from employees whose work involves policymaking, allowing them to be dismissed with little cause or recourse, much like the political appointees who come and go with each administration."
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3/ "Federal scientists, attorneys, regulators, public health experts and many others in senior roles would lose rights to due process and in some cases, union representation, at agencies across the government. The White House declined to say how many jobs..."
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