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15 May, 7 tweets, 3 min read
BREAKING—Taipei, Taiwan 🇹🇼 has raised its local #COVID19 crisis rating to Level 3 alert for the first time, after 180 domestic transmission cases. Masks will now be required indoors & outdoors. 🇹🇼 has 23 mil people—first time exceeding single digit average daily cases in a year.
2) Under the CECC's four-tier alert system, a Level 3 alert means people are now required to wear masks at all times when they leave their homes, indoor gatherings of more than five people are not allowed, and outdoor gatherings are limited to 10 people.

focustaiwan.tw/society/202105…
3) A Level 3 alert, which has been in imposed in Taiwan for the first time, stops short of a lockdown and goes into effect when more than three community clusters are confirmed in a week or over 10 domestic cases of unknown origin are reported in a single day.
4) Taiwan 🇹🇼 vaccinations are extremely behind. Only 0.64 doses given out of 100 people. One of the lowest in the world — though it’s because it’s bad almost no cases. It’s been a #ZeroCovid mostly. But clearly border controls insufficient.
5) this follows also outbreaks in Singapore, especially at its airport which found many #B16172 India origins variants.
6) Singapore and Taiwan often trend together… Covid is no exception it seems.
7) We will need a whole lot of both vaccines and masking and other mitigation measures to stop the pandemic— especially variants.

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17 May
#B1617 ARRIVAL—we just now learn that the #B1617 Indian variants first arrived in NYC in April 5-11th, but retroactively reported now. It has grown in NYC, just as #P1 from Brazil 🇧🇷 also increases in %.

HT to shrewd eyes @perdidostschool @maslowsneeds
www1.nyc.gov/site/doh/covid… Image
2) there is a ton of concern about the specific #B16172 sub lineage of #B1617, because it is even faster transmission than the already faster #B117. This was a warning this week from the U.K. 🇬🇧 govt report.
3) To be clear, if that is true, it could mean #B16172 is one of the fastest if not fastest variants identified to date… 2.4x faster than original.
Read 4 tweets
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15 May
Doctors treating patients in India 🇮🇳 have marked a distinct trend during the 2nd wave—#COVID19 now appears to be impacting children more severely. Children and adolescents are now showing more obvious symptoms such as prolonged fever and gastroenteritis.🧵hindustantimes.com/india-news/in-… Image
2) During the first wave, most children remained asymptomatic, and a large number of them went untested because of that,” said paediatrician Dr. Bakul Parekh. “We tested children only when someone in the family had a history of Covid-19.”
3) Over the last fortnight, Parekh, who runs a children’s hospital in Ghatkopar, has admitted six children between 1 and 7 years old to the hospital -- three with severe gastrointestinal infections and fever, and others with breathlessness and fever.
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15 May
HEALTHIER THAN EVEREST CLIMBER? Mount Everest 🏔 base camp outbreak—expedition cancelled after climbers sickened by #COVID19—An American climber & 3 Sherpa guides from a 51-person expedition were evacuated from base camp & hospitalized in Kathmandu Nepal🇳🇵
nytimes.com/2021/05/15/wor… Image
2) “A second wave of the coronavirus is ravaging Nepal, overwhelming its feeble health care system. On Saturday, the authorities reported 8,167 new cases and 187 deaths.
On the peaks, the spread of the virus is unclear, but signs of trouble are growing…”
3) “Starting this month, hundreds of foreign climbers, Sherpas and other support staff have lived at Everest’s high-altitude base camp, preparing for an ascent to the world’s tallest peak.
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15 May
⚠️FASTER TRANSMISSION warning from UK🇬🇧 govt of #B16172 variant—“confident that B16172 is more transmissible than #B117, & realistic possibility that #B16172 could be 50% more transmissible & would lead to a substantial resurgence of hospitalisations.”🧵
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/upl…
2) the SAGE report also warns: “In the areas where numbers of infections are increasing rapidly under the measures currently in place, an even faster increase can be expected if measures are relaxed (high confidence)”
3) “There are local areas where new infections is increasing. Some local areas have had continued rapid growth in variants—particular concern is B.1.617.2 variant (first identified in India, now widespread). There are now multiple fast-growing clusters of this variant in the UK.
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14 May
KEEP WEARING THE MASK—We card-carrying epidemiologists (with formal doctorate in epidemiology) know what we are talking about. Vast majority of 700+ epidemiologists surveyed says we would keep wearing masks for 1 year or longer. #COVID19 #MaskUp

nytimes.com/2021/05/13/ups…
2) “When federal health officials said on Thursday that fully vaccinated Americans no longer needed to wear masks in most places, it came as a surprise to many people in public health. It also was a stark contrast with the views of a large majority of epidemiologists surveyed.
3) “In the informal survey (of professional epidemiologists), 80 percent said they thought Americans would need to wear masks in public indoor places for at least another year. Just 5 percent said people would no longer need to wear masks indoors by this summer.
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14 May
96% of critical care beds in Osaka Japan 🇯🇵 are full. Hospitals “overwhelmed”.

Olympics in 70 days? 🤷🏻‍♂️ #COVID19

theguardian.com/world/2021/may…
2) Osaka, along with Tokyo and two other prefectures, will remain under a state of emergency called in late April until at least the end of this month, and another three regions are due to join them from Sunday, Japanese media reported on Friday.

3) the vaccine rollout for older people and other at-risk groups is only just picking up speed. About 3% of the population of 126 million have been inoculated so far, amid reports of problems with the vaccination booking system, queue-jumping by local politicians & businesspeople
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