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2 Jan, 6 tweets, 3 min read
BREAKING—Pennsylvania GOP state Rep. Mike Reese, who had tested positive for #COVID19 in December 2020, has died. He was 42. Proximate cause of death was brain aneurysm. RIP. google.com/amp/s/www.penn…
2) Is it Covid? Not enough details, but I’ll leave this @NIH report here. nih.gov/news-events/ne…
3) And I’ll leave these passages of the study here. Yes, #COVID19 causes brain damage and vascular damage.
4) Someone tracked every COVID death among state and federal elected leaders... every instance has been GOP, according to @vermontgmg.
5) Another one announced today, much closer to home.
6) USA TODAY did an analysis of this as well in early December. GOP elected leaders hit the hardest. Much much harder. ~3/4 of US Congress who got infected are GOP. Maybe even worse now. usatoday.com/in-depth/news/…

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Eric Feigl-Ding Profile picture
4 Jan
Rise of #COVID19 in U.K.🇬🇧 children is quite alarming. We know kids transmit, even if usually less susceptible (unsure yet for new B117 and new 🇿🇦 variants). But we know kids transmit often more than adults (see 🧵 below). The higher R means we have little to no “room to give”. Image
2) Here is the U.K. SAGE report on children’s transmission. It’s higher.
3) Here is the other @IndependentSage report— that pandemic is “out of control now” in England.
Read 4 tweets
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4 Jan
BREAKING—UK health minister gives new warning—that the other new South Africa 🇿🇦 #SARSCoV2 strain could be more infectious than even the new UK B117 strain.

🇬🇧 advisor says scientists not fully confident #COVID19 vaccines would work on new 🇿🇦 variant.🧵
aljazeera.com/news/2021/1/4/… Image
2) “I’m incredibly worried about the South African variant, and that’s why we took the action that we did to restrict all flights from South Africa,” Hancock told BBC Radio on Monday.”

“This is a very, very significant problem... it’s even more of a problem than UK new variant.”
3) “ITV network’s political editor, citing an unidentified scientific adviser to the British government, said scientists were not fully confident that COVID-19 vaccines would work on the new South African variant...”
Read 9 tweets
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4 Jan
Concerning—Top pandemic expert group @IndependentSage just came out with chilling stern warning:🧵

📍”It is now clear that new variant is substantially more transmissible than earlier variants, by 40-80%.”

📍”Pandemic is now out of control”. #COVID19 independentsage.org/wp-content/upl… Image
2) “This increases the R number by between 0.4 & 0.8– current Tier 4 restrictions are unable to contain its spread, even w/ closure of schools & universities. The pandemic is now out of control, and the NHS is struggling, with some hospitals having to stop non-COVID activities.”
3) “The NHS is no longer being protected. For these reasons, there is a strong argument for maximising the coverage of the population with at least one dose of vaccine, even though this requires a change to the dosage schedule.”
Read 6 tweets
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4 Jan
🏫SCHOOLS: 2 critical points:

Question: Are primary schools safe?

➡️Dr Gurdansani:

📌No, they contribute significantly to community transmission.

📌Overwhelming evidence that schools do drive community transmission.

📌Cases in schools are woefully underestimated. #COVID19 🧵 ImageImage
2) Why? Here is what UK’s top expert group @IndependentSage says about kids and transmission risk. Click and open the nested thread 🧵 below 👇
3) if you read the thread 🧵above, you would realize the serious evidence that makes UK govt expert panel say this:

➡️ “Increased transmission occur amongst school children when schools are open, particularly in children of secondary school age.”
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4 Jan
NEW YEARS PARTIES—We all all know they broke out, and especially bars and nightclubs in unrestricted states.

➡️This is not going to end well. I’m extremely worried. We know the B117 variant is here in FL.

Let’s take a look at 🇬🇧 & where we are heading. 🧵tampabay.com/news/health/20… Image
2) here are UK cases. It’s almost vertical now. Image
3) here is England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 hospitalizations. Also vertical. Image
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4 Jan
BREAKING—U.S. govt is considering giving some people half-dose of Moderna's #COVID19 vaccine in order to speed vaccinations, says Moncef Slaoui, head of Operation Warp Speed, in talks w/ FDA. Bold, but maybe possible—let’s walkthrough the trial data. 🧵
reuters.com/article/us-hea… Image
2) "We know that for the Moderna vaccine, giving half of the dose to people between the ages of 18 and 55, two doses, half the dose, which means exactly achieving the objective of immunizing double the number of people with the doses we have," Slaoui said.
#COVID19
3) “We know it induces identical immune response” to the full dose, he added.

...well, it is true that the full dose and half doses yielded roughly similar immune responses in Phase 1&2 trial/ of the vaccine. Though there are slight caveats. So let’s walk thru that data...
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