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23 Mar, 10 tweets, 6 min read
Devastating record of 3251 new #COVID19 deaths in a single 24 hours were recorded in Brazil 🇧🇷 today. This spike is 40% higher than recent 7 day average. Hospitals overwhelmed. Bolsonaro today also quietly installed his 4th health minister in a year. 🧵 cnnbrasil.com.br/saude/2021/03/…
2) Brazil’s population is roughly 2/3 of the US. Thus, if adjusting Brazil’s 3251 deaths today to a US sized population, this would be equivalent to ~4800 deaths if Brazil had US pop.

The state of São Paulo 🇧🇷 also recorded over 1000 deaths today alone. mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/id…
3) Don’t look away. The world needs to face the reality of the crisis facing the people of Brazil, and the crushing effects of the #P1 variant, which is also now circulating worldwide as well as neighboring countries. This could all be us if we don’t collectively act.
4) Where is #P1 variant outside of Brazil? Many countries. See updated tally here.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lineage_P…

cov-lineages.org/global_report_…
5) And Brazil is critically short of vaccines. There is also very little to be had that people stand in lines all day only to be told there is no more.

Thx for reporting @MattRiversCNN.
6) And the estimated delivery of most of its vaccines on order will not come until June. Much much too late. Brazil didn’t even order 138 million doses until last week when hospital ICUs at 90-95% full.
7) Rio de Janeiro suspended its vaccination because it had run out of vaccine supplies.

"This is a disaster, a total disaster," a woman told CNN after being denied her vaccine. "Who is to blame for all this? I think our leaders, our politicians suck."
cnn.com/2021/03/20/ame…
8) Brazil’s situation is sustainable. Hospitals are in “collapse” now. We must send medical aid ASAP. 3200 deaths a day will soon be 5000+ a day very soon for Brazil.

@WHCOS @aslavitt46 @ASlavitt
9) Let this sink in— 60% of all ICU patients in São Paulo 🇧🇷 are now between the ages of 30-50 years old, reports @MattRiversCNN.
10) Here is where the 60% ICU age 30-50 statistic came from:

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25 Mar
More and more young people. Analysis of data from Brazil found “people aged 30-59 represented about 27% of #COVID19 deaths over the past 3 months or so—7% increase from pre-December numbers.” This matches the trend of many younger adults in ICUs in 🇧🇷. 🧵
cnn.com/2021/03/24/ame…
2) “And amid that (Brazil) surge, a worrying pattern has emerged—more young people seem to be getting severely ill and dying from Covid-19, doctors tell CNN.”
3) Across the country, intensive care physicians keep saying the same thing: In this latest wave, their patients are younger than ever.
"We have otherwise healthy patients that are between 30 and 50-years-old and that is the profile for the majority of patients,"
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24 Mar
Brazil🇧🇷 #P1 variant surging in British Columbia 🇨🇦. How much?

📍92% (140/152) of all #P1 in 🇨🇦 are in BC.

📍BC 🇨🇦 has over 2x the number of #P1 than entire USA 🇺🇸 combined (61).

📍BC 🇨🇦 found more new #P1 (+30) yesterday **in 1 day than Florida has entire pandemic**. #COVID19 ImageImage
2) Is there a bad #P1 trend in BC 🇨🇦? Yes...

Keep in mind Florida (the US state with most #P1) has only had 23 cumulative cases in all. BC has had more than that for each of the last 2 days alone. Image
3) There is debate how fast transmission of #P1 variant is. But several groups estimated it is 2-2.5x more transmissible. The 2.5x estimate is from Brazil research group @obscovid19br....
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24 Mar
BREAKING—due to surging #COVID19 cases, India 🇮🇳 has frozen all major exports of AstraZeneca #COVIDVaccine made by Serum Institute of India, world’s biggest vaccine-maker, to meet domestic demand as infections rise. This will also delay supplies to COVAX.
reuters.com/article/health…
2) “COVAX has so far received 17.7 million AstraZeneca doses from the SII, of the 60.5 million doses India has shipped in total, and many countries are relying on the programme to immunise their citizens. There have been no vaccine exports from India since Thursday.”
3) “Everything else has taken a backseat, for the time being at least,” said one of the sources. Both sources had direct knowledge of the matter, but declined to be named as the discussions are not public.
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24 Mar
First study focused on long-term neurological symptoms in people not sick enough from #COVID19 to need hospitalization: found many visiting neuro clinic had >=4 neurological issues like brain fog, headaches, tingling, muscle pain & dizziness. Avg age 43.🧵 nytimes.com/2021/03/23/hea… Image
2) “We are seeing people who are really highly, highly functional individuals, used to multitasking all the time and being on top of their game, but, all of a sudden, it’s really a struggle for them,” said Dr. Igor J. Koralnik, chief of neuro-ID and global neurology. #LongCovid
3) “In the study, many experienced symptoms that fluctuated or persisted for months. Most improved over time, but there was wide variation. “Some people after 2 months are 95 percent recovered, while some people after 9 months are only 10 percent recovered,” said Dr. Koralnik.
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24 Mar
WOW—25 new cases of #P1 variant suddenly appeared in British Columbia Canada 🇨🇦!! This is the variant from Brazil 🇧🇷 that is utterly decimating the country right now—and had ransacked Manaus 🇧🇷 despite high antibodies levels previously before it hit.

BC 🇨🇦 needs to act fast!!!
2) This is #P1 in Brazil.
3) this is also #P1 in Brazil. Got it @DrBonnieHenry? Please stop #P1 in BC 🇨🇦 ASAP. Image
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24 Mar
Let that sink in:

60% of all ICU patients in São Paulo, Brazil 🇧🇷 are now between the ages of 30-50 years old, reports @MattRiversCNN.

Bolsonaro is actively killing the next generation by destroying families. 🧵

Time to call it—“pandemicide”. #COVID19
2) Sobering day - did you know - 1 in 3 deaths from #COVID19 worldwide today—was in Brazil? It’s true.
3) We cannot turn our backs to Brazil. If we lose control of #P1, it will endanger the world. If we let Brazil collapse, it will endanger the world.

The world must act decisively to aid Brazil.
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