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30 Mar, 5 tweets, 2 min read
Not sure if wise—German 🇩🇪 Health Minister and 16 state health ministers on Tuesday decided to suspend the routine use of the AstraZeneca #COVID19 vaccine for people agr <60 at an emergency meeting. But allowed <60 under discretion of personal doctors. 🧵
dw.com/en/germany-res…
2) I’m head scratching — if this uncertain clotting thing is real, then why didn’t UK or India (one of the largest maker and user of it) find it in their country? UK has top notch epidemiologists. It’s the same vaccine after all, unless it’s a batch issue?
3) If it’s a batch issue, then that should be able to be traced. But I haven’t seen data it’s a batch issue yet either.

Bold claims needs replication. And this clot thing needs to be replicated in UK and other countries besides 🇩🇪 that uses AstraZeneca. Canada should check too.
4) Like they did a study in Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 among 440,000 people vaccinated there— no blood clot issue. Welch people are not really different from Germans genetically. This is why I’m doubtful the German’s clotting cases is a real effect of the vaccine. bbc.com/news/uk-wales-…
5) apparently, I’m told people from Wales are Welsh, not Welch like the fruit juice company. My apologies to the people of 🐳.

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GUT PUNCH—Michigan & North Dakota #COVID19 cases surged 52% in 1 week.

“It is absolutely alarming,” Emily Toth Martin, an epidemiologist. “Felt like a gut punch. We’re going to have to go through hard work again to get the numbers down.” @juliebosman 🧵
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Ann Hepfer, a health officer for two counties, is racked by worries: about spring break trips that are underway, and about the Easter gatherings that will take place this weekend
3) “It makes me shudder,” she said. “I never thought we would see this at this time. I thought we would be over the hump.”
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Good news—6 months results—Pfizer vaccine remains more than 91% effective against disease with any symptoms for six months. And it appeared to be so far good against the worrying #B1351 variant from South Africa in limited data so far. Thread 🧵 #COVID19
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2) "The vaccine was 100% effective against severe disease as defined by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and 95.3% effective against severe COVID-19 as defined by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)," Pfizer and BioNTech said”
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YOUNG ADULTS MOST AFFECTED—Long-Covid symptoms are affecting about 1.1 million people in the U.K., with about half that number saying the disease is harming their day-to-day lives, government statistics show. Top #LongCovid age group? 25-34! Thread 🧵
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2) “About 196,000 of those people said their ability to undertake regular activities was significantly impacted, the Office for National Statistics said on Thursday. The figures detail those still grappling with the coronavirus after four weeks and were self-reported to doctors.
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“Bloodbath is imminent” if we don’t act—A UN special envoy warned the 15-nation Security Council on Wednesday that "a bloodbath is imminent" in Myanmar if it does not act to curb the violent military crackdown against protesters. #Myanmar (HT @PamelaFalk)
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2) "Looking back ten years from now, how will history judge this inaction?" Special Envoy of the Secretary-General Christine Schraner Burgener asked the diplomats. "I hope you can act while there is still time to avoid the worst outcome by overcoming caution and disagreement."
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31 Mar
This is unfortunate—a Baltimore manufacturer two #COVID19 vaccines accidentally conflated ingredients several weeks ago, ruining about 15 million doses of Johnson & Johnson’s vaccine and forcing regulators to delay authorization of production lines.
nytimes.com/2021/03/31/wor…
2) “The mixup has halted future shipments of Johnson & Johnson doses in the United States while the Food and Drug Administration investigates. Johnson & Johnson has moved to strengthen its control over Emergent BioSolutions’ work to avoid further quality lapses.
3) “The mistake is a major embarrassment for Johnson & Johnson, whose one-dose vaccine has been credited with speeding up the national immunization program.
It does not affect Johnson & Johnson doses that are currently being delivered and used nationwide.
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31 Mar
BREAKING—France 🇫🇷 schools to close for at least 3 weeks (remote) under 3rd lockdown. Cases surging. Variants now dominant, especially #B117 variant that has higher infection in kids versus the old strain (higher %increase than adults vs old common). bbc.co.uk/news/world-eur… Image
2) here is why France went into lockdown again. Cases surging. Image
3) To be clear—it’s all schools—nurseries, schools, colleges and high schools will close for three weeks in France. And nightly curfew and a ban on going more than 10 kilometres from home.

google.com/amp/s/www.euro…
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