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28 Mar, 6 tweets, 3 min read
Trump’s #COVID19 Task Force coordinator Dr Birx: "There were about 100,000 deaths that came from that original surge. All of the rest of them... could have been mitigated."

100k of 500k was my benchmark too. But I didn’t work in the Trump WH, she did. 🧵
2) Study: Trump govt: “squandered both money and lives in its response to the coronavirus pandemic, and it could have avoided nearly 400,000 deaths with a more effective health strategy”

Where have I heard that 400k number before? #COVID19 mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/id…
3) Dr Birx swallowed her pride and stayed silent when the world needed her the most to speak up.
4) Trump WH #COVID19 coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx on Trump’s “inject bleach” comment: “I still think about it every day.”

Maybe the “I’m just following orders of commander” excuse wasn’t the best when people were dying.

5) Here was Birx defending Trump at the infamous “inject disinfectant” press conference

6) For those who don’t know — this Trump speech was what launched @sarahcpr into worldwide stardom.

History will remember this moment. And Dr Birx.

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29 Mar
BREAKING—The giant ship blocking the Suez Canal has been freed by salvage crews. Yet unclear how soon the Suez Canal will be open for traffic. #EVERGIVEN

bloomberg.com/news/articles/… Image
2) “Salvage teams freed the Ever Given in the Suez Canal, according to maritime services provider Inchcape, almost a week after the giant vessel ran aground in one of the world’s most important trade paths.”
3) “While the ship is floating again, it wasn’t immediately clear how soon the waterway would be open to traffic, or how long it will take to clear the logjam of more than 450 ships stuck, waiting and en route to the Suez that have identified it as their next destination.
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28 Mar
💡ANTIBODIES FOR NEWBORNS—Pfizer & Moderna #COVID19 vaccines are effective in pregnant and lactating women, who can pass protective antibodies to newborns.

Huge—The antibody levels were "strikingly higher" than from natural infection during pregnancy.🧵
amp.cnn.com/cnn/2021/03/25…
2) Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham and Women's Hospital and the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard looked at 131 women who received either the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine. Among the participants, 84 were pregnant, 31 were lactating & 16 were not pregnant
3) The vaccine-induced antibody levels were equivalent in pregnant and lactating women, compared to non-pregnant women. The antibody levels were "strikingly higher" than those resulting from coronavirus infection during pregnancy, the team noted.
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28 Mar
BREAKING—Mexico's 🇲🇽 government is acknowledging in a quietly released report that the country's true death toll from the coronavirus pandemic now stands above 321,000. That is almost 60% more than Mexico’s official test-confirmed number #COVID19 cases.🧵

apnews.com/article/corona…
2) Mexico does little testing, and because hospitals were overwhelmed, many Mexicans died at home without getting a test. The only way to get a clear picture is to review “excess deaths” and review death certificates.
3) “The higher toll would rival that of Brazil, which currently has the world’s second-highest number of deaths after the United States. But Mexico’s population of 126 million is far smaller than either of those countries.”
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28 Mar
When I grew up in America as an immigrant child, I felt a lot of pain. The ugliest comments:

📌Do you eat dog?

📌Shut up, pan/moon face.

📌Go do some math, chink.

📌The worst: “I can’t goto the movies with you, because you’re going to burn in hell”

#StopAsianHate @AndyKimNJ
2) And of course I got the “do you know Kung fu” question. The even more ignorant ones asked “karate”. It’s harmless at first, but it gets tricky once older because then some playground bully then wants to play tough guy and fight you for sport.
3) I ignored most of it, but it also hurt that we were poor, and they teased me about my awkward clothes that we bought from Goodwill and Salvation Army thrift stores.
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28 Mar
Heartbreaking—younger Brazilians are now dying from #COVID19 more than last year–likely due to #P1.

➡️Age 30-59 saw deaths jump from Jan-mid March by 317%, versus 223% for 🇧🇷 overall.

➡️Young adult Brazilians also dying per capita much more than UK🇬🇧—see🧵

HT chart @sinichol
2) “In the state’s capital, more and more people between 20 and 54 are getting infected, the city’s health secretary, Edson Aparecido, told GloboNews TV on Friday. Younger patients wait longer to seek health care and are sicker when they arrive”.

bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
3) “Before, the risk factor to dying from Covid-19 was being older, having some co-morbidity,” said Domingos Alves, a professor of medicine who’s part of the national monitoring group. “Now, the risk is being Brazilian.”
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28 Mar
COOL—CDC has released data on #COVID19 vaccination data by individual US counties.

LESS COOL—No data from CDC for 11 states.

NOT COOL—African-American & Hispanic dominated counties lagging behind in vaccinations. 🧵

2) Note the critical disparities —Predominantly Black countries lagging national average. Same for predominantly Hispanics counties.

washingtonpost.com/graphics/2021/… Image
3) Contrast that with predominantly White counties - slightly ahead national average. Image
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