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2 Mar, 6 tweets, 4 min read
Worrisome—Half of patients hospitalized with severe #COVID19 have damage to their hearts: inflammation of the heart muscle (myocarditis), scarring or death of heart tissue (infarction), restricted blood supply to the heart (ischaemia)—many with all 3. 🧵 imperial.ac.uk/news/216033/he…
2) published in the European Heart Journal, involves 148 patients from six hospitals in London. The team carried out MRI scans on patients who had been admitted to hospital and had elevation of a protein in the blood called troponin (heart damage signal).

50% is so damn high.
3) this follow other UK data that say 1 in 3 who are hospitalized are readmitted after discharge. That is so huge. #COVID19 #LongCovid
4) How common is #LongCovid overall? UK estimates 1 in 5 at 5 weeks and 1 in 10 have symptoms have even 12 weeks after initial #COVID19 diagnosis
5) Damage to the lungs can also be extremely severe. Sometimes worse than smoking. See 🧵 below.
6) let’s not forget the major cognitive impairment often seen with #LongCovid

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4 Mar
NEW—CDC warns #COVID19 is "on the cusp" of potential resurgence, with cases & deaths rising. Highly-transmissible #B117 variant can "hijack our successes", as fatigue leads precautions being "flagrantly ignored".

Been warning for over a month. So tired.
2) The #B117 is serious. It is not only 40-60% more contagious, but also more severe. And it also might be causing kids outbreaks worldwide. Italy 🇮🇹 is just one. Israel too.
3) If you think #B117 is bad—wait until the #P1 variant from Brazil 🇧🇷 infects the world. We have to stop this cycle of surges and mutations.
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4 Mar
Vaccine & #LongCovid benefit?

“I started getting texts/calls: hey, are patients with long COVID reporting that they’re feeling better after the vaccine’? When he started talking with patients: “It’s not 100%, but it does seem like to be ~1/3”. 🧵#COVID19 theverge.com/2021/3/2/22308… Image
2) “Early reports hint that people with persistent symptoms may improve after getting vaccinated. Information is still limited & largely anecdotal — but if pattern holds, it could help understand more about why symptoms of #COVID19 persist in some people, & offer path to relief.”
3) “Many of Griffin’s patients who improved had significant side effects after their first shot of either the Moderna or Pfizer vaccine. That’s common in people who’ve had COVID-19 before—they already have some level of antibodies, so the 1st shot acts more like a 2nd booster.”
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3 Mar
⚠️BRAZIL COVID EMERGENCY—Entire 🇧🇷 is now “Manaus”. 1700+ deaths in 24 hours, ICUs critical.

📌#P1 🇧🇷 variant is ~2x-2.5x more transmissible, says @obscovid19br

📌17 state capitals ICUs >80% full

📌”Exponential #COVID19 growth unlike any other that we have seen” @bollemdb 🧵 Image
2) Brazil is becoming an enormous Manaus" - @MiguelNicolelis
3) One group puts #P1 at an astoundingly high 2x more transmissibility.

Experiences from Manaus - the Amazonian city hit hard by the P.1 variant - suggest it could be up to twice as transmissible as earlier Covid there, the first detailed study suggests.
bbc.com/news/amp/healt…
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3 Mar
If kids under age 6 can wear masks 102 years ago in the last great pandemic, then kids today can too.

PASS IT ON. #COVID19 #MaskUp #schoolmasks
2) We now have major outbreaks in kids worldwide from #B117. See thread 🧵
3) This is the best example of what happens when kids don’t mask in schools....
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3 Mar
KIDS EPIDEMIC in Italy 🇮🇹—#B117 variant among Italy's infected schoolchildren and is helping to fuel a “robust” uptick in the curve of #COVID19–with higher transmission rates "among the youngest age group” of the population.
finance.yahoo.com/news/virus-var…
2) In recent weeks, Italy’s incidence of new cases among young people has now eclipsed incidence among the older population, a reversal of how COVID-19 afflicted residents in the first months of the pandemic.
3) Speranza announced stricter directives, contained in the first anti-pandemic decree of new Italian Premier Mario Draghi, aimed at trying to “govern this curve of contagion,” especially among school-age children.
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2 Mar
🇸🇪EXPERT HID SCHOOL OUTBREAKS & EXCESS DEATHS IN KIDS, emails reveal—A Swedish proponent of pro-natural-infection-herd who advised Tegnell was caught deliberately omitting data on school outbreaks & excess deaths, as new whistleblower emails shed light.🧵
sciencemag.org/news/2021/03/c…
2) “Ludvigsson was one of 47 original signers of Great Barrington Declaration, a controversial document published in Oct 2020 that argued that pandemic policies should focus on protecting the vulnerable while rest of the population builds up immunity through natural infection.”
3) “Ludvigsson’s research seemed to support those ideas. In a review about children’s role in the pandemic, published in Acta Paediatrica in May 2020, he reported there had been “no major school outbreaks in Sweden,” which he attributed to “personal communication” from Tegnell.
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