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30 Dec 20, 11 tweets, 3 min read
BREAKING—the new more contagious U.K. 🇬🇧 #SARSCoV2 variant B.1.1.7 has been identified in California. More details to follow.

This confirms the previous California mutation identification chatter I mentioned the other day. #COVID19
2) More specifically, Gavin Newsom says the UK 🇬🇧 variant been found in SoCal.
3) Dr Fauci says, “I don't think Californians should feel this is something odd -- this is something expected."
4) Fauci: "It appears that this particularly mutation does in fact make the virus [better] at transmitting from one person to another."
5) This follows Colorado’s first ever identification of the UK variant.
6) Though there are some signs this strain is able to more easily spread, “there’s no indication at all that it increases the virulence … the ability to make you sick or kill you. It doesn’t seem to make it more strong in that regard,” Dr. Anthony Fauci.
7) Fauci also said the variant doesn’t seem to render vaccines against the coronavirus ineffective. latimes.com/california/sto…
8) Earlier- epidemiologists believe it is 56% more contagious.
9) But UK researchers don’t think it’s more severe. But more contagious in a way is worse because of exponential growth.
10) new details— San Diego man with no travel history
11) I softly reported on the California finding of the new variant the other day. And I asked people their opinion on if they should have be told right away earlier. 79% said they wanted to know right away.

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1 Jan
BREAKING—33 countries now have identified the new B117 more contagious #SARSCov2 variant—including Turkey 🇹🇷 which found 15 people w/ new B117, all recent travelers from UK 🇬🇧. 40 countries now have UK travel limits. Worry is maybe too late. #COVID19
nytimes.com/2021/01/01/wor…
2) US, UK, Turkey, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Lebanon, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Pakistan, Portugal, Singapore, S Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, & UAE.
3) First case of B117 was in Colorado, which now has 2 cases of it.
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1 Jan
PANDEMIC CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY by @thermofisher—who is withholding the genetic formula to a critical PCR test probe that can be a lifesaving key **shortcut** test for new contagious #SARSCoV2 B117 variant w/out 🧬 sequencing. Faster test can save lives. Scientists are begging—🧵
2) Background— gene sequencing for finding the mutated virus is much slower and more expensive. But we need to test likely hundreds of thousands or millions to track down the new B117 variant. UK 🇬🇧 stumbled upon a short cut when it realized a special PCR can find mutated signal!
3) This special shortcut PCR test is called the Taqpath- and made by @thermofisher. They refuse to release the primer probe sequence to this shortcut test that can quickly find the 69-70 deletion of new B117 variant with the “S gene dropout” signal. @JoeBiden should invoke DPA.
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1 Jan
BREAKING—Wisconsin pharmacist who intentionally ruined 500 doses of #COVID19 vaccine has now been arrested. Detectives believe he knew spoiled doses would be useless.

➡️Even worse, clinic unknowingly gave out 57 shots w/ deliberately ruined vaccine! 🔥 🧵
chicagotribune.com/coronavirus/ct… Image
2) “arrested on suspicion of reckless endangerment, adulterating a prescription drug and criminal damage to property, all felonies. The pharmacist has been fired and police said in a news release that he was in jail.”
3) “His motive remains unclear. Police said that detectives believe he knew the spoiled doses would be useless and people who received them would mistakenly think they’d been vaccinated when they hadn’t.”
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31 Dec 20
OMG. We epidemiologists just want to scream:

~20%-40% of Los Angeles County front-line workers declined #COVID19 vaccine.

So many in Riverside County refused that officials now strategizing how to distribute unused doses.

TAKE THE VACCINE FOLKS! Please.
latimes.com/california/sto… Image
2) Folks - both the Moderna and Pfizer vaccine are safe. Here is my summary of the Pfizer / BioNTech vaccine.
3) Here I walk folks thru the Moderna vaccine data. Also safe.
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31 Dec 20
Analogy: “Drunk driving car accidents don’t kill people—metal and concrete kills people, & maybe their internal bleeding”

Wanna know what causes heart attacks in a 41 year old Congressman-elect w/ no risk factors? #COVID19 blood clots & #COVID19 oxygen deprivation. (HT @atrupar)
2) 40% of all COVID related deaths are due to Covid heart complications and direct heart damage.

American Heart Association: heart.org/en/news/2020/0…
3) To be clear, causation is multi factorial, but there is often an underlying key cause. That’s why death certificates can have UNDERLYING CAUSE OF DEATH codes and MULTIPLE CAUSE OF DEATH codes per deceased. COVID is often the underlying cause. Nosology is a whole field itself.
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31 Dec 20
⚠️NEXT LEVEL BAD—this radical change in ambulance 🚑 rules means if an EMT paramedic cannot resuscitate a heart beat, a patient will not be transported to any hospital in Los Angeles.

➡️This is worse than rationing 🏥 care. We have reached this. #COVID19
2) “These poor patients will be pronounced dead at the scene.”

Sobering. 😢
3) And even if you do get an ambulance 🚑, you may be turned away from the hospital in LA. Some hospitals now at 140% of capacity. It’s just that bad now. stay safe everyone. latimes.com/california/sto…
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