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/…
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...
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%.
5) this 3.3% is a soberingly sad amount of vaccines for all these low and middle income countries. The vaccine shortage crisis is looming worldwide.
6) We know vaccines save lives. It’s so sad COVAX doesn’t have more money from donations to allocate more then merely 3% by end of Q2. Hopefully more by Q3 and Q4 but im worried it won’t increase that much.
Israel 🇮🇱 is seeing a sharp rise in the number of children and teens getting #COVID19.
>50,000 children & teens have been diagnosed with coronavirus since the start of the month, many more than Israel saw in any month during the first or second waves. 🧵 jpost.com/health-science…
2) “We got a letter from the Israeli Association of Pediatrics that says they are very worried about the rate of disease in younger students,” Health Minister Yuli Edelstein told The Jerusalem Post. “This is something we did not witness in previous waves of corona.”
2) Although the exact strain in these Israel 🇮🇱 pediatric cases are unclear, there is another similar pediatric outbreak in a village in Italy 🇮🇹. 10% of the town is infected and mostly children.
Holy cow: 10% of the village of Corzano 🇮🇹 has the #B117 variant—10% of all residents! 60% of cases are kids from kindergarten and primary school, other 40% are their parents, says the mayor. Schools in the village now closed. ansa.it/amp/lombardia/…
2) Israel is seeing a sharp rise in the number of children and teens getting infected with coronavirus, according to 🇮🇱 Health Ministry.
“This is something we did not witness in previous waves of coronavirus,” Health Minister Yuli Edelstein said.#COVID19 m.jpost.com/health-science…
3) forgot to mention, the mayor of the village in Italy 🇮🇹 is also #COVID19 positive.
⚠️TWO DIFFERENT #COVID19 PANDEMICS—Many think with cases dropping that pandemic is nearly over. But truth is, there are now 2 different #SARSCoV2 pandemics diverging—old strain is waning, while the more contagious #B117 strain is dominating. We will be soon slammed very hard. 🧵
2) Here is what is really going to happen... most countries are having a gentle case decline with R(e) currently around 0.9. But this is deceiving. The #B117 is still relatively rare so far, so the R is being influenced mostly by the old common variant. But not for long...
3) Here is what is going to happen... currently R is ~0.9 in many places, but with the more infectious #B117, the R will jump 50% approximately. And it is inevitable (all CDC and Danish models say this) that B117 will take over as the reigning dominant variant soon...
2) If anyone knows me personally, I’m actually not a loud or dramatic person. I’m quite low key in person. And I never cared to really use Twitter in the decade that I’ve had an account. I’ve only begun using during the pandemic because of the lack of urgency for public health.
3) when I shouted aloud in Jan 2020, i only had 2000 or so followers collected over 10 years. It didn’t define my life or career. But I see the power in which we can mobilize action if we join together to warn others. And that is my only goal. nymag.com/intelligencer/…
Fauci: “We have to be concerned about the mutants” 👀
He’s right on the concern for the #B117, #B1351, #P1. Plus the B117+E484K mutant combination is worrisome. #COVID19
2) Here are the mutations within each of the 3 standard variants. But the #B117 has also acquired the bad E484K mutation found in the SA and Brazil variants in a new B117 sublineage in Wales 🏴 and England. E484K is the bad one.
3) here is the detailed thread 🧵 of the new sublineage of B117 + E484K