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14 Apr, 5 tweets, 5 min read
Whoa—🇧🇷 #P1 is now also surging in UK, despite #B117 (already 40-60% faster than old strain) being the 95-99% dominant variant. Newest data shows #P1 is now the *fastest* surging variant in UK—and making strong headway into UK against headwinds of #B117.🧵
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/upl…
2) #P1 growth rate is the fastest in the UK according to latest variant technical report.
3) #P1 is also competing strongly and faster than #B117 in the Netherlands against #b117 headwind too.
4) In BC 🇨🇦, in just 4 days #P1 variant from Brazil 🇧🇷 has surged 57%, while #B117 only up 17%. Even on absolute # cases, #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.
5) The BC situation is getting exponentially worse. P1 is surging the most.

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16 Apr
Did you know... of the survivors of the Titanic, 6 were Chinese. What happened when ship survivors arrived in New York? The 6 were deported ASAP under Chinese Exclusion Act. Then UK🇬🇧 deported again even after marrying Englishwomen—forcibly removed from the kids. Racism’s legacy. Image
2) In NYC, The Brooklyn Daily Eagle called the Chinese survivors "creatures" who had sprung into the lifeboats "at the first sign of danger" and concealed themselves beneath the seats.
But the documentary team's research showed this claim was untrue.
bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-…
3) They built a replica of the Titanic's lifeboat and found that it would have been impossible for the Chinese men to hide unseen. "I think we see the same thing today. We find immigrants [were] scapegoated by the press," Mr Jones says.
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16 Apr
At a school board meeting in Michigan, with worst US #COVID19 rate, maskless parents protests at a school meeting to demand no mask reqs.

Meanwhile, BC🇨🇦 leaders refuse to have mask rules for K-3rd grade students either—& now has the worst #P1 outbreak.
2) Meanwhile just over the Michigan border to Ontario... a humanitarian crisis is looming.
3) The new theory is that Michigan surge is due to Ontario. “Where do we have big surges? We have big surges in Michigan & in Minnesota, and also kind of around Buffalo, New York State. Alright, so what (do) those 3 have in common? They all touch Ontario”
nationalpost.com/news/world/mic…
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15 Apr
Higher blood clot risk due to COVID—People who have recovered from #COVID19, regardless of the severity of their disease, may be at risk of developing blood clots due to an overactive immune system. Thread 🧵
straitstimes.com/singapore/heal… Image
2) “Blood samples from 30 patients who had recovered from mild, moderate and severe Covid-19 were collected a month after they had been discharged from the hospital.
3) “All of them were found to have blood vessel damage, possibly arising from a lingering immune response, which could trigger the formation of blood clots.
Around half of the patients had pre-existing cardiovascular risks, such as diabetes and hypertension.
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15 Apr
Brazilian 🇧🇷 children—even babies—are dying of #COVID19. Comparing excess of deaths by unspecified ARS during pandemic, & found 10x more deaths than past years—estimates that #SARSCoV2 in fact killed 2,060 🇧🇷 children <9 years old, including 1,302 babies. bbc.com/news/world-lat…
2) Many kids develop a “condition called multi-system inflammatory syndrome (MIS).
This is an extreme immune response to the virus, which can cause inflammation of vital organs.
3) Experts say the syndrome, which affects children up to six weeks after they are infected with coronavirus, is rare, but leading epidemiologist Dr Fatima Marinho from the University of São Paolo, says that, during the pandemic, she is seeing more cases of MIS than ever before
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15 Apr
💡GOOD NEWS—Moderna expects to have a #COVID19 vaccine booster shot available by the fall adapted for likely the #B1351 🇿🇦 variant. For the past month, NIH has been testing 3rd vaccine doses to enhance Moderna’s efficacy against emerging variants. 🧵 cnbc.com/2021/04/14/cov…
2) Experts hope the new booster shots will help protect against B.1.351, which has been shown to reduce the efficacy of vaccines. Moderna anticipates that annual COVID booster shots will become commonplace, and develop a combination flu and COVID vaccine in the future.
3) The Massachusetts-based biotech firm expects to submit booster shot data to U.S. regulators within a few months, Bancel told CNBC on Wednesday
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15 Apr
INTUBATION WITHOUT SEDATIVES—Hospitals in Rio has run out of intubation sedatives. Patients now get intubated with diluted or no sedatives at all—being mechanically tied to their beds wide awake as they get tubed. ICU doctors admit it is form of “torture”. g1.globo.com/rj/rio-de-jane… ImageImage
2) TRANSLATED: A nurse at the Albert Schweitzer Municipal Hospital in Realengo, in Rio's West Zone, says that patients with the most severe form of the disease are intubated, wokenand tied to beds due to the absence of medications.
3) Without the medication, the teams unfold looking for alternatives.
According to intensivist physicians, mechanical restraint can be used, but the patient needs to be medicated with at least a mild sedation.
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