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17 Mar, 13 tweets, 8 min read
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.🧵

Thx @MattRiversCNN
2) Brazil is facing the largest health crisis in its history. the world needs to wake up and step up now!
3) “Access to ICU facilities is nearly impossible” says @MattRiversCNN
4) another record day of cases— 90,000 new cases and climbing fast.
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
5) I’ve been following #COVID19 for a long time.

If you somehow still don’t believe Brazil’s #P1 surge is a serious threat to the world, please unfollow me.
6) Because P1 is potentially 2-2.5x faster transmission (more contagious) than the old common strains. That means it is also faster than #B117 sweeping the world.

#P1 now popping up worldwide. We need to get serious about Brazil situation ASAP.
7) Fmr. 🇧🇷 President @LulaOficial tells @camanpour he is urging President @JoeBiden to call a G20 meeting to ensure global vaccine distribution: “Vaccine, vaccine, vaccine!”

US needs to release surplus stockpiles now. We have over >30 mil in storage.
8) There is some hope- Biden will soon release some excess vaccine supplies to the world. Announcement pending cbc.ca/news/world/bid…
9) Behold the horrible situation unfolding in Brazil. If this is happening is the wealthiest part of Brazil, Rio Grande do Sul, the rest of Brazil is much much worse.
10) LET THIS SINK IN—

Hospitals in Brazil are so overtaxed & depleted, hospitals are now running out of critical medicines needed to sedate patients for intubation!!! They are now begging veterinary clinics for sedatives and medicines.

gauchazh.clicrbs.com.br/colunistas/ros…
11) The title is self explanatory. Pray for Brazil.

Please send vaccine aid and medical aid to Brazil @aslavitt46 @JeffZients @WHCOS.

Help the people of Brazil as @LulaOficial has begged.
12) And yes #P1 is already in the United States—27 cases so far detected—but with low sequencing rates to be able to detect them. Likely many more. cdc.gov/coronavirus/20…
13) Brazil hospitals are running out of supplies. Mortality will only surge faster in coming weeks. We need to send aid and support.

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19 Mar
Let this sink in—

A national leader who was a #COVID19 denier who was also dangerously anti-mask, anti-vax, refused to report cases/deaths to the WHO, and pushed unproven therapies, including just praying it away—

...has just died [of likely COVID].

True story. #JohnMagufuli
2) Magufuli was one of Africa's most prominent Covid skeptics. Magufuli dismissed the seriousness of #COVID19 in Tanzania, urging citizens to "pray coronavirus away," believing the "satanic virus can't live in the body of Jesus Christ,"
google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.…
3) “he claimed his country had eradicated coronavirus "by the grace of God," questioned the safety of foreign Covid-19 vaccines and made no plan to procure any shots for his country, instead pushing for the use of herbal medicine & steam treatments.”

(Sound familiar? Bleach?)
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19 Mar
BREAKING—A “bearded white male” who was “belligerent” about not wearing a mask— stabbed a restaurant manager several times after he was asked to wear a mask. The incident occurred at a Jack in the Box in League City, Texas. 

This shit gotta stop. #MaskUp
cbsnews.com/news/jack-in-t…
2) The suspect confronted employees before attacking the restaurant manager. Police believe the suspect tackled the manager, then used a pocketknife to stab the manager three times in the arm and upper torso.
3) In other words—another white male who just “had a bad day and this was just what he did”
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19 Mar
3x risk: ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TEACHERS in BC🇨🇦 are contracting 3x more #COVID19 than secondary schools teachers. Why? "The discrepancy in infection rates underscores importance of mask-wearing in classrooms” ~ Teri Mooring, @bctf president.

➡️Mask kids. 🧵
bc.ctvnews.ca/elementary-sch…
2) “Elementary schools aren’t subject to any mask mandates for students, unlike our secondary schools. The lack of transparent data about transmission in schools means we can only guess that the lack of masks is leading to more infections among elementary teachers."
3) “The @bctf says 89 per cent of teachers' COVID-19 claims have been approved by WorkSafe, which happens when there is enough evidence to show the person not only has COVID-19, but when their exposure risk in the workplace was higher than normal.L
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19 Mar
CDC Says Schools Can Now Space Students 3 Feet Apart, Rather Than 6.

➡️I’m not a fan of 3 feet given airborne—but what I care more is if classrooms are inadequately air refreshed w/ <5 air exchange per hour (ventilation or air disinfection). #COVID19 🧵

npr.org/2021/03/19/978…
2) also— “The new guidelines still call for 6 feet of distance between adults and students, as well as in common areas, such as auditoriums, & when masks are off, such as while eating. 6-foot distancing rule still applies for general public in settings such as grocery stores.”
3) The solution to indoor air pollution is ventilation...
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19 Mar
Sobering for Brazil 🇧🇷—a very high 8 out of 10 #COVID19 patients who were intubated died in Feb-Dec 2020 (world average is 50%). Mortality % did not improve during 2020, which shows “Brazil did not effectively apply the lessons learned on treatment”. 🧵 bbc.com/portuguese/bra…
2) “according to the researchers involved in this study, preliminary data from 2021 show that the Brazilian mortality rate is expected to worsen.
3) “The data on death by intubation in 2021 are not consolidated, but the information available on hospital death points to a significant increase in mortality," Fiocruz researcher Fernando Bozza, head of the Clinical Research Laboratory in Intensive Care Medicine, told BBC News
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18 Mar
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.

So hell yes it is the most comprehensive study in the whole world on #COVID19 reinfection.
thelancet.com/action/showPdf… Image
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.”
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