⚠️Global case decline has reversed—#COVID19 is once again surging overall worldwide / no longer dropping. Especially in Europe where the more contagious #B117 variant is driving faster spread & helping launch another wave (as I’ve been shouting at the rooftops for last month). 🧵
2) Denmark is the perfect example — they knew it was coming with the #B117 dominance. They knew it was inevitable but nobody listened.
2) The steady inevitable March of #B117 replacing the old strain is as constant as time. B117 will replace older less contagious common strains - and it certainly has. Denmark 🇩🇰 Data is best because they now genetically sequence 100% of all cases!!!
3) Denmark cases surge is now very different than before - a lot more reports of children not seen before. Here is an outbreak of #B117.
What the hell is going on in Canada 🇨🇦 health chiefs these days?! First, a mask-dismissing Dr Henry who downplays kids in BC, & now Ontario 🇨🇦 health chief Dr Williams didn’t recognize asymptomatic transmission for half year?!
Even Trump’s CDC knew that in Feb 2020! 🤦🏻♂️ #COVID19
I want to puke—BC🇨🇦 health chief doesn’t want school kids masking. “Asked if she’s revisit policy of no masks in elementary schools, Dr Henry replied: "Not at all—There's no evidence that a young child having to wear a mask all day long is going to make a difference."” #COVID19
TEXAS WANTS ANOTHER DISASTER— @GovAbbott@GregAbbott_TX said that Texas is planning to soon lift all statewide orders (including masks, dining, and distancing rules) related to #COVID19 pandemic; announcement is forthcoming. Horrid. Only 5% vaccinated. texastribune.org/2021/02/25/gre…
2) “In addition to the mask mandate, statewide orders in effect include a policy that rolls back business reopenings in a hospital region if its COVID-19 patients exceed 15% of hospital capacity for seven days. Abbott put that policy in place in last fall.
3) Experts say Texas is a long way from reaching herd immunity through the vaccines. Hitting the 70% to 80% level that many estimate is needed would mean vaccinating some 22 million people, or nearly 100% of adults in the state, according to census numbers.
BREAKING—FDA declares that frozen vials of the Pfizer #COVID19 vaccine can now be transported & stored at conventional freezer temperatures for up to 2 weeks, instead of the ultra cold storage required previously. This will hugely improve rollout! 🧵 fda.gov/news-events/pr…
2) ““Pfizer submitted data to FDA to support alternative temperature for transportation and storage. This alternative temperature for transportation and storage of the undiluted vials is significant & allows the vials to be transported and stored under more flexible conditions.”
3) “The alternative temperature for transportation and storage will help ease the burden of procuring ultra-low cold storage equipment for vaccination sites and should help to get vaccine to more sites,” said Peter Marks, M.D., Ph.D., director of FDA CBER.