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5 Mar, 6 tweets, 4 min read
📍SCHOOL OUTBREAK OF #B117 in JAPAN 🇯🇵—Eleven people north of Tokyo have been infected with a new B117 #COVID19–none have any UK travel history. 6 cases were kids under 10. Ten of the infected all linked to a school for kids age <10. Matches kids trend. 🧵
mainichi.jp/english/articl…
2) This matches the latest UK 🇬🇧 data showing kids age 5-12 have the highest positivity of #COVID19. And in England, the #B117 is nearly 95-99% dominant variant.
3) Meanwhile, here is latest French data. Kids 0-9 have now the highest % of #B117 of any age group. And very sharp trend towards more B117 the younger one is.
4) Meanwhile, in Italy... the country’s leaders are sounding their alarm on the very fast surging pediatric #COVID19 cases there, linked to B117.
5) We need to SAFELY REOPEN SCHOOLS. And to do that - we need not just masks - but also VENTILATION AND AIR DISINFECTION. See new CDC guidance released last week. Read thread 🧵
6) And yes, #B117 is not only more contagious, but also more severe - in increasing hospitalization risks. See thread 🧵

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7 Mar
VARIANTS IN TEXAS—An awful lot of dangerous variants in the Houston metro area. We have the more contagious & severe 🇬🇧#B117, more reinfection prone 🇿🇦#B1351, super contagious 🇧🇷#P1 & worrisome #P2, plus 2 types of CA #B1429 & #1427. #COVID19

@GovAbbott?
medrxiv.org/content/10.110… ImageImage
2) Here is where the variants are scattered near Houston.

(HT @drswlong). Image
3) We don’t wanna make Texas like Brazil do we?
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6 Mar
Mask burning is our new book burning.

Parents teaching their kids to burn masks in Idaho is peak 2021 right now... SMH 🤦🏻‍♂️

#COVID19 #MaskUp
2) Mask burning is the last thing we should be doing now just before the 4th surge that is coming for us soon...
3) we know what is coming too us soon...

Mask denial is related to vaccine denial is related to coat denial. It’s interwoven.
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6 Mar
⚠️VERY WORRIED FOR FLORIDA/US—More contagious #B117 is rising quickly, & exponentially replacing the old dying #SARSCoV2 common strain. B117 affects kids, & 64% more severe. B117 now over 40%—dominant in days. A new surge is coming. Florida inaction= Florida ➡️ US surge. #COVID19 Image
2) Been watching this B117 situation for 2 months. We already saw very worrisome signs in Miami Dade this week.
3) CDC director was warning about US surge looming because of #B117 too.
Read 14 tweets
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6 Mar
HORRIFYING #COVID19 death curve in one of wealthiest cities in Brazil— Porto Alegre is capital of Rio Grande do Sul— with many top-notch hospitals with better rating than most US🏥. And their health system still collapsed under #P1.

Imagine now rest of 🇧🇷.

(HT @alexaguiarpoa) Image
2) No need to imagine.. here is what is now going on. 17 capital cities now at 100% icu capacity. Image
3) Brazil has been now inundated by #P1 which now dominates #COVID19 in the country. It is possibly the most infectious variant seen to date.
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6 Mar
CATACLYSMIC—Hospitals at 100% ICU capacity in 17 cities in Brazil.

“They are very traumatized."

“Very serious”

Brazil 🇧🇷 hits a daily record for #COVID19 deaths as hospitals verge on near collapse under new wave, as more contagious #P1 variant spreads.
2) I cannot emphasize enough how horrible the situation is in Brazil. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
3) The situation is so dire in Brazil now. And the #P1 variant may just be the most contagion variant seen to date. See thread 🧵
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5 Mar
📍STARK WARNING—“Whatever #SARSCoV2 variants summit that peak could be a considerably bigger problem than any variants that we know”—with “any combinations of increased transmissibility, altered virulence and/or ⬆️ capacity to escape population immunity.”
medrxiv.org/content/10.110…
2) “The emergence & rapid rise in prevalence of three independent #SARSCoV2 '501Y lineages' #B117 #B1351 #P1 has prompted renewed concerns about the evolutionarily capacity to adapt to both rising population immunity and public health interventions such as vaccines & distancing.”
3) “Viruses giving rise to 501Y lineages have, presumably under intense natural selection following a shift in host environment, independently acquired multiple unique & convergent mutations. As a consequence all have gained properties that likely complicate control of #COVID19.”
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