REINFECTION? Fauci battled with Senator @RandPaul who insists there’s no reinfection.
Actually—big study on this exact topic just yesterday in **4 million** Danish people found—prior #COVID19 infection only protected 80%, & even lower 47% in age >=65! 🧵
2) Hell yes there is a study just yesterday. And hell yes it was done in over 4,000,000 with 10 mil tests—basically everybody in Denmark! Like the entire country.
3) The paper specifically says: “Through analysis of Danish population-level surveillance data with more than 10 million person-identifiable PCR test results in 2020, we estimated protective immunity to be approximately 80–83% in people younger than 65 years.”
BREAKING—White House plans to send 2.5 million doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca #covid19 vaccine to Mexico and 1.5 million to Canada. 30 mil doses sit in warehouses.
This comes just as US quietly pressing Mexico to curb migrants coming to the border. nytimes.com/2021/03/18/wor…
2) Tens of millions of doses of the vaccine have been sitting in American manufacturing sites. But while their use has already been authorized in dozens of countries, the vaccine has not yet been approved by American regulators. Hence the unused stockpile building.
3) The reason it has not been approved is that it had not be formally submitted to the FDA yet. AstraZeneca has focused on Europe more. US already has 3 approved vaccines.
3) the rest of the world cannot ignore the crisis in Brazil any longer. Brazil’s hospital system is being completely crushed. It needs international aid, or else #P1 will trigger another pandemic if it proliferates around the world—because it is even more contagious than 🇬🇧#B117.
Tragedy in a part of Brazil 🇧🇷—soaring #COVID19 hospitalizations and mortality one of the wealthiest states with the best hospitals (exceeding that of most in the US). Imagine the rest of Brazil.
Brazil needs help—their #P1 variant is more contagious than any studied so far. 🧵
2) No need to imagine... because here is the stark worrisome data. Hospitals are so overload that accessing ICU beds is now virtually impossible.
3) There is now sobering reports that more and more young adults are dying of #COVID19 in Brazil. I wouldn’t be surprised if forthcoming studies on #P1 variant shows it maybe also more severe.
Brazil's latest #COVID19 wave is becoming tragic beyond measure. 🇧🇷 has “plunged into crisis”. Patients are dying waiting for ICU beds. #P1 variant is 2-2.5x faster transmission. More younger 20-30s patients now dying, unlike before.🧵
DEAR GOD—“The largest public health & hospital collapse in the history of Brazil 🇧🇷”—wow.
➡️ 25 of 27 Brazilian state capitals have ICUs capacities between or above 80%, 19 are higher than 90% capacity. #P1 variant is 2-2.5x more contagious. 🧵#COVID19 agencia.fiocruz.br/observatorio-c…
2) This is the humanitarian crises that is unfolding in Brazil. The deaths are mounting with no end in sight as well. #P1 variant is just that brutal.
3) Fiocruz (Brazilian CDC): “the largest health and hospital collapse in the history of Brazil”. Almost 3K dead today. The southernmost state of Rio Grande do Sul notified 502 dead, a massive new state record by a large margin.