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20 Jan, 11 tweets, 4 min read
SOBERING—Pediatric #COVID19 hospital admissions in Arizona has risen a lot — January so far is already 5x October.

📌Kids are immune? No.

📌Kids less susceptible? Slightly, but...

📌Kids more exposure than elderly? Yes.

📌Kids more likely to transmit? Yes, maybe.
2) Arizona’s @BannerHealth already seeing kids on ventilators and hooked up to ECMO machines.
3) Here is UK govt Sage (COVID Expert) report on kids.... report says it all.
4) here is another way to view “transmissibility” vs “susceptibility”. Don’t be confused or misled. Transmission is the main problem.
5) World expert on pediatric transmission of #COVID19, Dr @dgurdasani1 comments on schools...
6) Here is the summary conclusion statement on schools and children.

Secondary schools greatest risk.

From page 1: assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/upl…
7) More data on schools and transmission. This one a big paper in SCIENCE. School closures reduce the R by 38%.
8) to be clear, I’m not anti school reopening. They just need to SAFELY reopen. I am a dad myself, and keeping kids home long term not good for them. But we need HEPA filters, better ventilation, possibly safe germicidal UV if schools can afford it, and outdoor school cafeterias.
9) Outdoor school cafeterias can be done in lunch tents.

We used to have outdoor classrooms during flu pandemics before, let’s not forget.
10) Don’t say it’s impossible. If it’s for our kids, it’s possible.
11) Never say never. If we love our kids, we can find a way.

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Eric Feigl-Ding Profile picture
22 Jan
💡OMG—Biden WH just created a new *National Center for Epidemic Forecasting & Outbreak Analytics*.

Just like a national weather center or NASA’s asteroid detection center (CNEOS), this will be a pandemic warning center!

This will help prevent pandemics!
whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/… ImageImage
2) this was proposed a while ago and critically needed to safeguard us from future pandemic — or future variants of concern. We could have used this in 2019!!! But better late than never.

foreignaffairs.com/articles/unite…
3) Rewind to 1900–we did not have a national hurricane center... 8000 died in Galveston because we had no warning system.

We are now suffering a 400,000 death Galveston-type pandemic... it’s high time we have a pandemic forecasting center.

This is Biden @POTUS WH. Thx @WHCOS. Image
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21 Jan
FAUCI ON TRUMP INTIMIDATION—“I take no pleasure at all... of contradicting the President (Trump), so it was something you didn’t feel that you could actually say something & there wouldn’t be any repercussions about it”.

...that was an abusive workplace.
2) “...the idea you can get up her and talk about what you know, what the evidence is, what the science is, and know that’s it, let the science speak, it is somewhat of a liberating feeing.”

Wow. 🔥

Fauci so happy he is free at last!
3) I love this. He is smiling!!
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21 Jan
NEW GOLDEN RULE—“One of the new things in this administration is that if you don’t know the answer, don’t guess. Just say you don’t know the answer.”

Wow, Fauci is one fire... in throwing shade on Trump WH. #COVID19 #Fauci

2) transparency. Honesty. Truth.
3) Joe Biden sure told the truth— He has freed the Fauci!
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21 Jan
SCIENCE IS BACK! And not muzzled anymore!

“That’s why you’re going to be hearing a lot more from Dr. Fauci again,” @JoeBiden says.

#COVID19
2) And 100 mil vaccines in first 100 days baby...
3) We also need to emphasize the virus is airborne more; and that we need to ventilate more. We cannot neglect this. #COVIDisAirborne #ventilation #MaskUp
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21 Jan
Biden’s #COVID19 plan also proposes $11 billion for international health & humanitarian response, though he hasn't provided a full breakdown yet.

➡️ “We need to fund vaccines but also cannot forget funding global chronic diseases too” says @andreafeigl1🧵
politico.com/newsletters/gl… Image
2) Did you know? Chronic diseases are relegated to just 0.5% of US funding to the WHO—a mere $3 million.  It is pathetically low given 70% of diseases are mental health, diabetes, cancer, lung, and heart diseases.
3) “NCDs are the leading cause of death worldwide & account >70% of all global deaths. Efforts to combat these chronic diseases are chronically underfunded; just two percent of development assistance funding for health goes to NCDs”, says @andreafeigl1

salzburgglobal.org/news/latest-ne… Image
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21 Jan
FUND CHRONIC DISEASES TOO—

Experts warn that we need to also fund what's killing & affecting more people: chronic diseases—mental health, diabetes, cancer, lung & heart disease—the 'other global pandemic’.

(By @erin_gregor & @andreafeigl1)
salzburgglobal.org/news/latest-ne… Image
2) What's more, NCDs are the leading cause of death worldwide and account for over 70% of all global deaths each year. Efforts to combat these chronic diseases are chronically underfunded; just two percent of development assistance funding for health goes to NCDs.
3) Therefore, as the incoming administration renews the US' commitment to the WHO and the global community at large, it should consider renewing and improving the country's commitment to fighting noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) as well.
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