6) This Brazil surge is due to the rise of #P1.. here is sequencing fraction of variants found in one region. And the resulting rise in hospitalizations and deaths.
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Dear 🌎 friends and the people of Brazil 🇧🇷—the world is watching the horrible #COVID19 crisis—we know you are suffering, under a leader that ignores/muzzles you. We hear your cries.
Brazil may be soon facing an epic humanitarian crisis if we don’t act.
2) After I posted what was happening in Brazil, I received a chilling email—
“Dear Eric:
I’m a professor at University of XXX, in Brazil. I’m writing privately because academics are being chased here. It’s not a matter of poor leadership but of an ongoing extermination project.”
3) “Bolsonaro is a psychopath. All his actions are surgically planned, with harmful consequences for all planetary health. You do not need to take my opinion into account; just take a look at the headlines of the articles printed in the most credible newspapers around the world.”
2) Reuters: - MEGHAN SAYS: ROYALS DIDN'T WANT TO MAKE ARCHIE A PRINCE BECAUSE THERE WERE 'CONCERNS AND CONVERSATIONS ABOUT HOW DARK HIS SKIN MIGHT BE WHEN HE WAS BORN' @Rover829
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
⚠️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
2) Been watching this B117 situation for 2 months. We already saw very worrisome signs in Miami Dade this week.
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.