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15 Apr, 4 tweets, 1 min read
MIXING SUBSTITUTE VACCINE—Germany 🇩🇪 has just approved a new move to give people aged <60 who have been given a first dose of the Oxford-AstraZeneca #COVID19 vaccine a different jab for their 2nd dose— approving Pfizer & Moderna for 2nd dose as substitute.
france24.com/en/europe/2021…
2) Germany announced on March 30 that it would no longer offer the two-dose AstraZeneca vaccine to people aged under 60 due to concerns over a possible link to rare cases of blood clots.
3) DPA news agency said ministers agreed at a meeting that people in the younger age group who received a first AstraZeneca dose before the March 30 announcement will be offered either the BioNTech-Pfizer jab for their second dose, or the Moderna vaccine.
4) "The solution that has been found will offer a good level of protection," Bavarian Health Minister said.
The new policy is in line with recommendations released last week, which also recommended the second injection be given 12 weeks after the initial AstraZeneca dose.

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17 Apr
CONFIRMED—the very infectious #P1 variant is cause of @Canucks outbreak, team’s general manager confirmed. He also said P1 variant is why its hockey players were hit harder than other NHL—the virus “buckled” & sickened many of the players #COVID19. 🧵 cbc.ca/news/canada/br… Image
2) “What was different with our situation is with the regular COVID it seemed that after 10 days players were ready to get back on the ice and start working out and performing," he said. "But we had players that when they did that, they still had symptoms."
3) Benning said the virus "buckled" some of the players, and that three or four regulars likely won't be ready when games resume.

Head coach Travis Green, who also contracted COVID-19, has yet to return to practices.
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17 Apr
HOTEL ROOM CROSS-INFECTION: Australia 🇦🇺 hotel outbreak suggests #COVID19 jumped between hotel rooms—7 returned travellers cases arriving from different countries at different times have same genetic sequence—likely jumped between neighboring hotel rooms.
theguardian.com/world/2021/apr… Image
2) “The seven cases came from two family groups who arrived from different countries on different days. They stayed in adjacent rooms on the 12th floor of the Adina Apartments Hotel at Sydney’s Town Hall.
3) “Staff who worked on the floor when the original case was believed to have been infectious – between 8 and 11 April – are self-isolating.”

It’s possible it was either transmitted via hotel staff or via the air.
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17 Apr
LEAKY BORDER—Despite pandemic “closing” the US/Canada border, 30,000 truck drivers continue to travel between 🇺🇸 & 🇨🇦 daily—and with **no mandatory #COVID19 testing** and **no quarantine requirements**. Let that sink in—30,000 truckers per day! Not safe.🧵 vpr.org/post/most-us-c… Image
2) On an average day, about 30,000 trucks roll across the U.S.-Canada border, carrying more than $1 billion in trade.

Truckers are exempt from any COVID testing rules. And the industry’s trucking association opposes any mandatory COVID test restrictions.🔥google.com/amp/s/cdllife.…
3) If we know air travelers brings #COVID19 cases between countries, why don’t truck drivers?!?! It makes no sense.

I get they are essential, but cmon, allowing 30,000 truckers to cross 🇺🇸 & 🇨🇦 border unfettered by no mandatory testing or quarantine is BEGGING FOR OUTBREAKS!
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16 Apr
Oh boy. “some scientists are increasingly concerned that, because of a quirk of our own biology, future iterations of vaccines might not always be quite as effective as they are today”—due to **imprinting**. And maybe worse if you had natural infection. 🧵
statnews.com/2021/04/16/nex…
2) “The concerns stem from a phenomenon that is known as imprinting, sometimes called original antigenic sin, which is believed to affect how we respond to some pathogens.”
3) “In short, when your body is introduced to a particular threat for the first time — either through infection or a vaccine — that encounter sets your immune system’s definition of that virus and what immune weapons it needs to detect and protect against it in the future.”
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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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