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@DrEricDing
Mar 9, 2021 • 18 tweets • 10 min read • Read on X
⚠️HUGE INCREASE IN KIDS—New Swedish 🇸🇪 data showing a sudden dramatic surge in pediatric #COVID19 cases across Sweden since Jan.

Kids age 0-9: Up ⬆️ 123%
Kids age 10-19: Up ⬆️ 72%

Likely due to surging #B117 variant, where it’s now 50% in Stockholm.🧵

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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. Image
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%.

This #B117 surge is a real concern.

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4) This matches data in UK... where #B117 is near complete dominant, and where kids now hold the highest positivity of all age groups in Feb, which was not previously the case.
5) This also matches the data and warnings coming from Italy 🇮🇹 health officials also concerned about the new sudden pediatric surge.
6) We had hints of this unusual pediatric trend long ago. Such as this #B117 outbreak in one village in Italy.
7) This also matches the newest French national data showing kids 0-9 having the highest % of #B117 of any age group.
8) A few of us first noticed some usual trends in late December / early January in the prelim U.K. data. But it was not fully conclusive back then. But it hinted something...
9) Which then was further corroborated in a few days later January 8th. Notably there was a somewhat larger relative % increase in attack rates in kids 0-9 compared to the older wild type (common) variants, than % increase in those older.
10) Kids transmission was long ago pointed out by UK’s leading SAGE expert group. But it has been further heightened in reality since...
11) There was a serious problem also with under diagnosis in kids too. This has exacerbated tracking kids transmission last year (hence a lot of early studies found “no effect of schools last year”). But they where wrong, says @dgurdasani1 —which the latest data now proves more.
12) Indeed, studies after studies show kids are well known drivers of transmission. And hence kids all need to mask in school (even if most teachers are soon vaccinated in the US).
13) And kids being the virus home to adults in the house. How do we know? A 3 million person study in Denmark via data from Danish CDC.
14) And then there is the hard to dispute clear cut data from Quebec which shows cases in students and teachers rising faster than general population... and then plummeting over winter holidays, then resurging once reopened again.
15) I’ll leave this figure here on relative change in #COVID19 cases in Quebec since mid January. One age group clearly stands out. Image
16) many reports of surges in pediatric cases in Israel 🇮🇱 despite many vaccinated. “Infection in children & school reopenings are a central concern—Children represent a larger proportion of infections than earlier in the pandemic” presumably due to #B117 google.com/amp/s/www.time…
17) To be clear, I’m pro *safe* school reopenings. And it is possible with good ventilation and air exchange. Here are the latest CDC school air quality guidance for #COVID19 risk.
18) And now Netherlands 🇳🇱 pediatric #COVID19 increase emerging too...

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⚠️BREAKING—ICU Hospitalized human bird flu case in Canada now officially confirmed as H5N1. Worse, it is the same 2.3.4.4b virus clade (variant group) as the one found in BC🇨🇦 poultry and in Washington state🇺🇸! The hospitalized teenager (with no pre existing conditions) had no animal contact, does not live on farm, had “deterioration quite rapid” and now critical in ICU with ARDS. Canada officials says infectious period is 2 days **prior to symptoms** (ie asymptomatic transmission) and infectious up to 10 days.Image
2) Public Health Agency of Canada's National Microbiology Laboratory (NML) in Winnipeg confirmed that the individual has avian influenza H5N1
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⚠️BAD UPDATE—BIRD FLU HOSPITALIZATION IN CANADIAN TEEN

Summary 🧵 of the live press conference with Canada’s British Columbia health officer.

📌The teen is in intensive care.
📌Condition is ARDS
📌Teen was healthy prior; no underlying conditions

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Trump’s incoming SECRETARY OF DEFENSE who doesn’t wash his hands and doesn’t believe in germs. Image
2) Trump’s new SECDEF is also in favor of committing war crimes. businessinsider.com/pete-hegseth-a…
3) Trump’s SECDEF pick is a wild character. And loves hawking merch.
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My god—Google Search for “what is a tariff” sudden spikes the DAY AFTER ELECTION DAY. 🤦🏻‍♂️ Image
2) many folks simply don’t understand what a tariff is — unless you explain it several times to them with analogies. Even then, it’s hard for many to grasp. Eg 👇
3) Ah shit… it’s now gotten worse. Why do so many people do their hw late??,
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📍HARRIS IS STILL AHEAD IN PA—in terms of votes yet to be counted. She’s still +2 of what is needed to win PA, given the outstanding votes still remaining in PA cities, according to @CBSNews @NorahODonnell Image
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Harris has enough remaining in PA Philly suburbs to still win. Image
3) folks. The NYT needle is not reliable.
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Oct 31
Plastic cookware should not be used. Period. Especially BLACK PLASTIC cookware, that often mixes in toxic recycled electronic waste materials. DISPOSE OF ALL PLASTIC COOKWARE, especially if black colored plastic ones. Pass it on to your family.

Gift🎁🔗
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2) Because optical sensors in recycling facilities can’t detect them, black-colored plastics are largely rejected from domestic-waste streams, resulting in a shortage of black base material for recycled plastic. So the demand for black plastic appears to be met “in no insignificant part” via recycled e-waste, according to Turner’s research. TV and computer casings, like the majority of the world’s plastic waste, tend to be recycled in informal waste economies with few regulations and end up remolded into consumer products, including ones, such as spatulas and slotted spoons, that come into contact with food.
3) You simply do not want flame retardants anywhere near your stir-fry. Flame retardants are typically not bound to the polymers to which they are added, making them a particular flight risk: They dislodge easily and make their way into the surrounding environment. And, indeed, another paper from 2018 found that flame retardants in black kitchen utensils readily migrate into hot cooking oil. The health concerns associated with those chemicals are well established: Some flame retardants are endocrine disruptors, which can interfere with the body’s hormonal system, and scientific literature suggests that they may be associated with a range of ailments, including thyroid disease, diabetes, and cancer. People with the highest blood levels of PBDEs, a class of flame retardants found in black plastic, had about a 300 percent increase in their risk of dying from cancer compared with people who had the lowest levels, according to a study released this year. In a separate study, published in a peer-reviewed journal this month, researchers from the advocacy group Toxic-Free Future and from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam found that, out of all of the consumer products they tested, kitchen utensils had some of the highest levels of flame retardants.
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⚠️MASK MANDATE RETURNING TO ALL NIH PATIENT CLINICS—Effective November 4, 2024, masking will be required in all patient care & waiting rooms. Furthermore, testing for COVID, flu A, flu B, and RSV will be required for all inpatients & rooming-in visitors.
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2) This means wearing a mask will be REQUIRED in all patient care areas, including waiting rooms. ➡️This change is due to an anticipated increase in COVID-19 and other respiratory virus activity in the community. 😷
3) I think people should stock up on COVID tests again. The Cheapest COVID test on the U.S. market is now as low as $1.50 with special promo code “COV20”… expiring Jan or March 2025.

store.pharmalynk.com/products/advin…Image
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