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18 Mar, 4 tweets, 3 min read
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.
4) #P1 is not only more infectious - 2-2.5x but it also has reinfect risk. Anywhere from 6% reinfection (in the 2.5x faster transmission study) to even maybe 25-60% reinfection risk in another 2x faster transmission study.

Both likely worse than other variants.

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20 Mar
B117 variant is now *dominant* in the US. I’m 99% certain that another surge is on the way in April or May. Why? The more contagious #B117 is surging—now crossed the 50% threshold of all cases, in addition to pockets of others variants. 🧵 #COVID19
washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/… Image
2) Just Wednesday, #B117 has hit 50% of all cases in the @my_helix database nationwide. It’s been exponentially surging for weeks. Image
3) @ashishkjha is right- “No matter where you live, it is too early to relax restrictions that continue to have a critical role in controlling this pandemic. From CA to ME, FL to Seattle, the #COVID19 winter is not yet done—highly infectious variants are threatening new storms.”
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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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