Sweden 🇸🇪 has the highest #COVID19 per capita in Europe for the past week! Its Scandinavian neighbors that didn’t negligently go for natural infection herd... all among the lowest.
Swedish pandemic leadership is an utter failure and likely responsible for pandemicide. 🧵
2) Proof is also in the Swedish excess deaths.... Sweden is the only country in Scandinavia with any.
➡️”🇸🇪 hoped herd immunity would curb #COVID19. Don't do what we did.”
➡️ “🇸🇪 approach to COVID has led to death, grief and suffering. The only example we're setting is how not to deal with a deadly infectious disease” amp.usatoday.com/amp/5472100002
7) Above Swedish natural herd immunity and the denialism figure, in original Swedish.
OUTCOMPETING the faster #B117—despite the contagious 🇬🇧 #B117 variant being >90% of all #COVID19 cases, #P1 🇧🇷 is still surging in underbelly—increasing faster than #B117 in 🇳🇱, displacing wildtype quickly. Same bad signal in BC🇨🇦 too. Need fast action! 🧵 rivm.nl/coronavirus-co…
2) In BC 🇨🇦, in just 4 days #P1 variant from Brazil 🇧🇷 has surged 57%, while #B117 only up 17%. Even on an absolute scale, #P1 is also outpacing B117.
Both signals worrisome. #P1 is speculated to be 2-2.5x faster transmission, while #B117 estimated to be 40-60% faster than wild.
VERY WORRIED—Runaway train #P1 variant still uncontrolled in British Columbia 🇨🇦—surging 57% in just 4 days! In contrast, other contagious 🇬🇧variant #B117 only up 17%. #P1 from🇧🇷 is outcompeting #B117 by absolute increase too! BC must act! #bcpoli#COVID19 ctvnews.ca/health/coronav…
2) #P1 clearly a crisis in BC. But notice it’s relatively new uptick in Ontario and Alberta too. This is a bad sign.
3) it is incumbent on BC Canada 🇨🇦 health leaders (@DrBonnieHenry@adriandix@jjhorgan) to contain #P1 immediately. Or else it endangers not only rest of Canada but also North America and maybe even rest of the world. #P1 is ~2-2.5x more transmissible—the fastest variant to date.
We still don’t know if the 6 CVST clots out of 6.8 million J&J vaccinations in the US are really related. One thing we are more certain? FDA says “no cases of CVST with thrombocytopenia with the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna vaccines”. #COVID19#CovidVaccine boston.com/news/coronavir…
3) Also why did they pause? Here is the rationale. Digest it from the “shark gate” lens if it was found out later and we didn’t do anything before when it was suspicious.
If we spot a shark in the ocean—we don’t know if it’s a:
📌fake shark?
📌just one shark?
📌what kind of shark?
📌how many other sharks are there?
➡️we clear the water first while we investigate for few days. If we don’t, “Shark-gate” coverup & loss of trust will be far worse.🧵
2) And yes I know as an epidemiologist the pandemic is much worse. The overall benefits FAR outweigh the risk. Definitely still vaccinate.
I’m simply explaining the CDC and FDA’s logic today for the brief temporary pause.
3) Just imagine if the CDC or FDA didn’t pause to investigate— the Shark-gate scandal stories would be infinitely worse and cause some degree of loss of trust of everything FDA has approved or emergency authorized, and fuel vaccine skepticism if the scandal gets out of control.
CDC: Airborne #COVID19 transmission is real. Socially distance too.
Movie theater: Okay! See, look how safe we are!
Epidemiologists & aerosol scientists: 🤦🏻♂️
2) How is aerosol different from large droplets? aerosol study indicates that coronavirus is persistent and stable for many hours. Typical air exchange every 20 min to 4 hrs, depending on ventilation. #COVID19
3) VENTILATION is key. Both ventilation and masks needed to reduce risk indoors. But most buildings not ventilated well enough.