CONSPIRACY RUN AMOK—A nurse who got vaccine on live TV and fainted briefly (and then went back on TV saying she’s okay) has anti-vaxxers and pandemic deniers running amok insisting she is dead. There is no end in sight to the online harassment. #COVID19
thedailybeast.com/anti-vaxxers-w…
2) Here was how all the above sorta started. Someone deceptively edited a video...
3) it started in mid Dec but it’s still going. “According to all official sources, she is alive and well and working as a nurse in Chattanooga. Last week, she was pictured on the front of local newspaper caring for a police chief who had been in hospital for nearly 100 days.”
4) Minutes later (after fainting), Dover is back on her feet, telling television cameras that she suffers from a medical condition that makes her prone to fainting. “I have a history of having an overactive vagal response, and so with that if I have pain from anything—...”
5) ...”hangnail or if I stub my toe—I can just pass out,” she said.
It was a dramatic moment with a simple explanation: a common and largely benign medical condition that affects some 20% of pop. But for vaccine skeptics, it was all they needed to construct a vast conspiracy”
6) These conspiracy theories have real world dangers... like in LA vaccination site protests yesterday.

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3 Feb
"None of us were able to predict" #COVID19 would mutate or variants would emerge, says Dido Harding, head of 🇬🇧 National Institute for Health Protection

➡️ Except every epidemiologist and immunologist expert!! 🤦🏻‍♂️ Image
3) Yes, and also every evolutionary biologist, virologist, geneticist, infectious disease physician, pathologist.... hell, I’ll even throw in X-men movie fans.
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3 Feb
OUTRIGHT FALSE—Gov Kristi Noem claims her “unique approach” helped South Dakota get through #COVID19 better than “virtually every other state”.

Data doesn’t lie—SD has had one of the highest cumulative incidence per capita and deaths per capita.
2) Here is high sky high S Dakota cumulative cases per capita is compared to other states. 12 out of every 100 people have been infected — that’s just the diagnosed count. Image
3) Here is the cumulative deaths per capita. 1 out of every 500 residents statewide in S Dakota has died of #COVID19 @KristiNoem. Let that sink in @govkristinoem. Image
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3 Feb
GOOD & BAD news for global COVAX vaccine allocations per nation. 336 mil doses to be distributed, but instead of 20%, countries can only expect to receive #COVID19 vaccine to cover on average **3.3%** of their population by Q2 2021. How many per country?🧵
gavi.org/sites/default/… Image
2) Most vaccines allocated will be the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine - 240 mil. 96 mil will be the Pfizer / BioNTech vaccine. Here is the allocation for all countries alphabetically from A to Maldives... ImageImageImageImage
4) Here are the allocations for alphabetical countries Mali thru Z.

Keep in mind these are doses. And 2 doses needed for Oxford/AZ and Pfizer vaccines. Many countries getting tiny single % of what they need. This is a huge cut from 20%. ImageImageImage
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3 Feb
MUCH SHORTER EXPOSURE— #B117 is so infectious—very short exposure can lead to #COVID19. Many infected via just a few minutes inside a store. 🇨🇦 local health dept has shortened the exposure time to as little as ***1 second if not wearing face masks**. 🧵
theglobeandmail.com/canada/article… Image
2) spokeswoman for Ontario Health Minister Christine Elliott said on Sunday that the government has provided interim guidance to the province’s public-health units for screening and tracing contacts of cases associated with COVID-19 variants of concern.
3) “This guidance does include a lower threshold for classifying contacts as high risk of exposure and requiring quarantine,”
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3 Feb
BREAKING—Oxford-AstraZeneca not only protects people from serious illness and death but also substantially slows the transmission of #SARSCoV2, finding thr #COVID19 vaccine cuts transmission by nearly 2/3rds (pre print). It means it can slow the pandemic.🧵nytimes.com/2021/02/02/us/… Image
2) also, analyses reveal that a **single standard dose** efficacy from day 22 to day 90 post vaccination of 76% with protection not falling in this three-month period for symptomatic #COVID19 Image
3) After the second dose vaccine efficacy from two standard doses is 82.4% with the 3-month interval being used in the UK. (82.4% effective, with a 95% confidence interval of 62.7% - 91.7% at 12+ weeks) Image
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England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 now has near total #B117 variant domination. It is now fully 97% of all #COVID19 cases in London. Total cases are down but B117 still up. Denmark 🇩🇰 also saw B117 fraction surge 70% increase per week after week even despite lockdown, total 🇩🇰 domination by end of Feb. Image
2) Denmark #B117. Total domination expected by Danish CDC by end of Feb.
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