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
11) Sources say the racist comment was not made by the Queen or Philip. But likely either Charles / William / Camilla / or Kate, says ITV royal editor @chrisshipitv.
2) Is this pediatric surge in #COVID19 a statistical fluke? No. If we just look at the change from late Feb to first week of March, we still see this consistent surge in kids.
Also, @DavidSteadson notes, while many schools were open, high school grades 10-12 closed in person.
3) And where is the proof that #B117 is surging fast in Sweden 🇸🇪? Here on Swedish Public Health Authority’s website. Circled is Stockholm’s 53% #B117 proportion found in week 8 of 2021. Another region has 60%.
PFIZER VACCINE & VARIANTS—Pretty good results for virus neutralization. Testing fully Pfizer-vaccinated people’s blood against spike proteins belonging to pseudo virus of variants—solid neutralization results, albeit slightly lower for #B1351 from South Africa 🇿🇦. 🧵#COVID19
2) “All the serum samples efficiently neutralized USA-WA1/2020 and all the viruses with variant spikes. Almost all of them did so at titers higher than 1:40....” nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…
3) “Thus, as compared with neutralization of USA-WA1/2020, neutralization of B.1.1.7-spike and P.1-spike viruses was roughly equivalent, and neutralization of B.1.351-spike virus was robust but lower.”
MASK BATTLE: anti-mask riders versus @Uber driver Subhakar—he picked up 3 women & after asking one to wear a mask was subject to directed coughing & slurs.
Uber has banned one passenger. SF police investigating.
2) Disgusting part is... @Uber only initially offered the driver $20 to clean his car after one girl pepper sprayed it. $120 still not enough to clear his car in San Francisco.
Hunt for a universal #SARSCoV2 vaccine that will work regardless of spike mutations—next holy grail.
Instead of targeting the spike protein, which is prone to mutations, researchers are assessing other parts that are known to be more stable. 🧵#COVID19 cepi.net/news_cepi/goin…
2) “For example, scientists at University of Nottingham in the UK are working alongside pharmaceutical company Scancell and Nottingham Trent University to test its COVID-19 vaccine candidate, SN14, which targets both the spike protein as well as the nucleocapsid, or N-protein.”
3) “By targeting this additional viral structure, which is far less likely to mutate, the vaccine if found safe and effective could work to protect people against COVID-19 irrespective of any mutations to the spike protein and, in theory, could work across other coronaviruses.”
📌Fully vaccinated people can gather together indoors.
📌If grandparents have been vaccinated, they can visit family if they haven’t been vaccinated only if so long as they’re not at risk for severe disease. #COVID19
2) To be clear—vaccinated people can only meet unvaccinated **low risk** people from only 1 family household without masks or distancing.
➡️Don’t try 2nd family household (don’t criss cross bubbles)
➡️Don’t do any unvaccinated family if they are not low risk.
3) again, “But the visit should be limited to one household: If the adult children’s unvaccinated neighbors drop by, the visit should move outdoors and everyone should wear masks and distance.” !!! nytimes.com/2021/03/08/hea…
Schools across England are reopening again *today*. No school mask requirements. No school air quality & ventilation guidelines—it is so dangerous that it is “medieval” says Professor @theAliceRoberts.
God save 🏴 & its children from #B117. #COVID19
2) UK 🇬🇧 was sooooo close to #ZeroCovid - just a few weeks more - but all of that is put into jeopardy by lies by the govt and many of its advisors that misleadingly claim kids don’t/barely transmit. Schools can be safe—but only with airborne precautions and ventilation.
3) French data agrees with the UK data above that children are being afflicted by #B117 than before. This also matches data out of Italy 🇮🇹 and Israel 🇮🇱.