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Eric Feigl-Ding Profile picture
@DrEricDing
May 13, 2021 • 14 tweets • 10 min read • Read on X
📍My god… the upgraded warning #B16172 variant (magenta) is surging so fast. Epidemiologists now estimate it is 60% faster than even #B117 UK/Kent variant, which is already 50% faster. If true, it could make it fastest transmission one to be found worldwide. Thread 🧵. #COVID19 Image
2) #B1672 has become quite dominant in India 🇮🇳 sequenced samples in @GISAID data. And it is projected to take over further by June. Figure from @TWenseleers.

Some say it could be due to sampling, but Tom doesn’t think so because #B16171 wouldn’t be selectively withheld. Image
3) @TWenseleers used his methods from earlier paper to estimate the new #B16172 transmission being 60% fast than the U.K. Kent #B117 variant.
4) the Brazilian #P1 variant m, despite being 2x faster than original strain, would be actually slower than the #B16172 if put into head to heads transmission competition.
5) And now #B16172 is surging in the UK too. Someone poke Boris Johnson to wake up.
6) the new UK data on #B16172 surge from @sangerinstitute is reliable because it excludes travel sequenced cases and excludes screening.

UK data even suggested #B16172 could even by 2x faster (not just 60% faster from India 🇮🇳 data above) than the #B117!! Wow. 👀
7) The World Health Organization said that the coronavirus variant first identified in India last year is being classified as a variant of global concern, with some preliminary studies showing that it spreads more easily

8) Its surging across UK. #B16172 is the new variant that we faced with in addition to #P1.
9) #B1617 lineages are surging worldwide.

Nobody is safe until we are all vaccinate.
10) surging even in wealthy Singapore
11) To be clear, we think the #B16172 Indian VOC may be ~2.6x as fast as original strain, and 60% faster than #B117 from UK/Kent. #P1 is thought to be 2-2.5, but we haven’t seen P1 and B16172 sufficiently together in same place yet in a head to head comparison to know for sure.
12) yes the US has more vaccines than India. But we are seeing #B16172 rise even with high vaccinations in the UK. And again, not all vaxxed.

also THINK OF THE KIDS… tens of millions of kids aren’t vaccinated or even eligible yet… cough… #LongCovid @LongCovidKids… cough.
13) India variant #B16172 in the UK. Anything out of the ordinary? No? Move along.

(Ht @Dr_D_Robertson ) Image
14) Bad news from UK 🇬🇧 SAGE govt report on the #B16172. It’s blazing fast. https://t.co/m36AINf9oO

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Feb 1
🛑CANCELLED—“Research on Women’s Health” funding website of the NIH. Image
2) here is the page that is now deleted. Funding opportunities in women’s health research of ORWH site. Didn’t Trump say they at least recognize women as a gender? Weird.

orwh.od.nih.gov/research/funde…
3) It’s a bloodbath today for CDC websites too…
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Feb 1
🪓DELETION UPDATE—More than 1,000 pages are now deleted from websites of CDC, National Institutes of Health, and other sites of the Department of Health and Human Services, according to a new WSJ analysis—including many **vaccine recommendation** scientific pages! Image
2) CDC’s vaccine advisory committee webpage… now ❌ DELETED ❌ Image
3) To be clear, while the main ACIP website is still up (generic committee info), the “VACCINE SPECIFIC RECOMMENDATIONS” website of ACIP has been **deleted**. That key page is the one with the actual public health info for vaccines. Feel free to verify:

cdc.gov/acip-recs/hcp/…Image
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Jan 31
⚠️CDC WEBSITES DELETED—Multiple CDC websites and datasets related to HIV, LGBTQ people, youth health behaviors and more have been removed after the agency was directed to comply with an executive order from President Trump by 5pm deadline. Wildest is taking down even HIV pages! Image
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2) Like, why then hell did the “CAUSES” of HIV even get deleted??? Makes zero sense. Why is Trump WH wanting to block how to stop HIV???
cdc.gov/hiv/causes/ind…Image
3) also deleted: CDC’s Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System, which includes data from a national survey, has disappeared. so have parts of the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry’s Social Vulnerability Index and the Environmental Justice Index.
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Jan 30
⚠️Do you wonder why you haven’t heard much about this massive TB outbreak recently? Cuz the CDC can’t hold any press conferences or issue public statements of any kind.

➡️Most of the world 🌎 has been vaccinated against TB… but the US has not, which is now extra vulnerable. Image
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2) For those asking, the majority of the world has used the BCG vaccine against TB… the BCG vaccine also protects against many other bacterial infections too. Up until now, CDC skipped it because US was low risk, and the BCG vaccine leaves a small scar & BCG messes up TB tests. Image
3) What about drugs for TB? Yes they exist but the problem is that TB often develops drug resistance (the bacteria evolves to evade neutralization). And thus, multi drug resistant TB has become a worldwide issue. That’s why childhood vaccination better.
cdc.gov/tb/about/drug-…Image
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Jan 27
⚠️PFAS IS BACK—recall the EPA plan to ban dangerous forever chemicals from drinking water ➡️Well, Trump WH just cancelled it… once again allowing big corporations to discharge PFAS into rivers. PFAS cause cancers & many diseases. Does this make American healthy again? Image
2) “There really isn’t a system within the human body that isn’t affected by PFAS. They are toxic in many ways, but they’re also very long-lived. They’re designed not to break down in the environment or not to break down to heat and chemical stress.”
michiganpublic.org/politics-gover…
3) CDC also just got banned from seeking any advice or input from the WHO — CDC can’t communicate or even enter any WHO building anymore. Perfect way to politically isolate CDC from outside science.
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Jan 27
NEW—CDC officially ordered by Trump WH to cease working with the @WHO, effective immediately. This is the first time in almost 77 years since WHO’s founding after World War 2. This is a dark day. Image
2) the memo said the stop-work policy applied to “all CDC staff engaging with WHO through technical working groups, coordinating centers, advisory boards, cooperative agreements or other means — in person or virtual.”
3) It also says @CDCgov staff are not allowed to visit @WHO offices.

CDC ordered to stop working with WHO immediately, upending expectations of an extended withdrawal

apnews.com/article/cdc-wh…
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