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19 Feb, 5 tweets, 3 min read
I’ve been very worried about Austria 🇦🇹 #B1351 outbreak — the largest pocket of B1351 outside of South Africa 🇿🇦.

If you can read German, my interview with @DiePressecom maybe of interest. #COVID19 #COVID19at
diepresse.com/5940011/der-fo…
2) Earlier this week... outbreak of an unknown strain in Lower Austria.
3) Earlier last week, Austria’s #B1351 outbreak cluster thread 🧵...
4) The #B1351 has the power to partly reignite a new wave if we let it spread out of control due to its potential to infect people with previous immunity.
5) I’m glad to see rapid testing rolled out - 5 free take home tests per person per month is amazing!

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Eric Feigl-Ding Profile picture
21 Feb
Sobering NYT cover tomorrow—almost 500,000 confirmed deaths from #COVID19 in the US.

Excess mortality in the US is even higher.

Don’t look away. Pandemic is not over. Be vigilant. #doublemask Image
2) US total excess mortality from the pandemic is meanwhile approaching almost 600,000 soon... sobering.
3) Meanwhile US has lost a full year of life expectancy in the first half of 2020 alone. 2.7 years of life lost for black Americans. 1.9 years lost for Hispanic Americans. 0.8 lost for whites.

Let that sink in.
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21 Feb
Let this sink in—Congresswoman @AOC from Bronx & Queens raised over $4 million for people suffering in Texas.

While Ted Cruz went to Cancun, Rick Perry & others blamed wind power that’s <12% of actual shortage.

➡️Donate to help Texas—let’s keep it going! secure.actblue.com/donate/aoc-soc…
2) What’s more— @AOC actually personally came to Texas and helped on the front lines, whenever she didn’t have to (she’s not even elected by Texas).
3) And let’s remember the moral rot at the heart of all is is that Texas leader consciously neglected to winterize and purposefully deregulated and avoided federal regulations.
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20 Feb
Sweden 🇸🇪 strategy success??? Compared to its Scandinavian neighbors...

...No! Sweden has a 12% excess mortality above past years, while all its neighbors have none.

Sweden’s unscientific natural infection herd strategy has been an epic fail. #COVID19

github.com/dkobak/excess-…
2) Just how bad is Sweden’s excess mortality last year? An epic 100 year excess mortality high! See thread 🧵 on the data...
3) Chasing natural infection herd was part of Sweden’s strategy from the beginning. And they told themselves sweet little lies from the beginning. Here it is a little annotated history timeline...
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20 Feb
MASK WEARING IN SCHOOLS—New CDC survey of middle & high school students of fellow students mask wearing—

📌60-65% of students reported fellow students wore a mask “all the time” in classrooms, hallways or stairwells.

📌school buses (42%)

📌restrooms (40%)

But... 🧵#COVID19
2) But mask wearing drops a lot when:

📌cafeteria (when not eating) (36%)

📌sports or extracurricular activities (28%)

📌outside on school property (25%)
cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/7…
3) These numbers are quite low. Shockingly low. Granted a lot of these 3,953 middle and high school students with in person classes are schools in states with looser or no mask mandates. But I’m most worried about mask wearing with such mediocre to low prevalence.
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20 Feb
Madness—NCAA will bring fans back to the stadiums for the men’s and women’s NCAA basketball 🏀 tournament—albeit at lower capacity. But having thousands of fans arrive from all over the country creates #COVID19 super-spreader risks—as well as bars/hotels.
nytimes.com/2021/02/19/spo…
2) The 68-team men’s tournament, which begins on March 18, will be played in Indianapolis before crowds of up to 25 percent capacity at sites ranging from the quaint 9,100-seat Hinkle Fieldhouse to Lucas Oil Fieldhouse, which holds up to 70,000 fans.
3) The 64-team women’s tournament, which begins on March 21, will allow up to 17 percent capacity from the regional semifinals through the championship final in San Antonio. Those games will be played at the Alamodome, which has a 31,900-seat capacity for basketball.
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20 Feb
I’m worried about Texas COVID—

“We could all huddle in one house” was Heidi Cruz’s first suggestion to stay warm with her neighbors when power went out. I know shared heat is nice & neighborly, but I think it will likely trigger more #COVID19 outbreaks.
businessinsider.com/heidi-cruz-tex…
2) I tried not to say this quiet thought aloud but I’m seeing and hearing other people worry too. Yes there is a humanitarian crisis and yes hypothermia kills, but we can still be worried about COVID too.
3) I have no pity for Heidi Cruz. But this isn’t about just her. This is about public health.
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