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1 Jun, 3 tweets, 3 min read
Caution: Uruguay is 1/3 fully vaccinated & >50% 1-shot. Yet, it still has among the highest per capita #COVID19 mortality. Why? “If you do not limit mobility, do not do more PCR tests & do not track contacts, vaccine alone” not enough! #P1 variant bad too.
nbcnews.com/news/latino/ur…
2) Here is Uruguay 🇺🇾’s sky high mortality. It exceeds Brazil 🇧🇷 per capita, and was once tied with UK 🇬🇧. It’s still 40% higher than US’s earlier winter peak. That’s also with testing limitations.
3) Which vaccine does Uruguay mostly use? CoronaVac (by SinoVac), same one used by neighbors Chile 🇨🇱 and Brazil 🇧🇷

CoronaVac vaccine reduces coronavirus mortality by 97% and reduced infection with #COVID19 by 57%

channelnewsasia.com/news/business/…

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2 Jun
📍STUNNING-Brazil’s @jairbolsonaro apparently intended to lead 🇧🇷 to herd immunity by natural infection, **whatever the consequences**. That means (w/ 1% IFR, 70% herd threshold) by definition he planned for >1.4 mil deaths!

That was the plan!🧵 #COVID19
nytimes.com/2021/05/27/opi… Image
2) “Here is one example. In March 2020, a social media campaign called “Brazil Can’t Stop” was launched by [Bolsonaro’s] communications unit. Urging people not to change their routines, the campaign claimed “coronavirus deaths among adults & young people are rare.”
3) “The heavily criticized campaign was eventually banned by a federal judge and largely forgotten.
Then the plot thickened. Brazil’s former communications director, Fabio Wajngarten, told the inquiry that he didn’t know “for sure” who had been responsible for the campaign…
Read 23 tweets
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2 Jun
BREAKING—Victoria🇦🇺 extends lockdown. Worse, Chief health officer Brett Sutton says cases now infected in ways “not seen before”. 📌One person infected at an indoor space “2 hours after infectious case had left” &📌another case in outdoor dining.🧵#COVID19
news.com.au/national/victo… Image
2) “(It) was therefore a substantial period of time but they had left two hours before the next exposed individual came in who has become a case.”
“That’s in the kind of measles category of infectiousness.” ⚠️
3) “It may be on surfaces but it could absolutely be through airborne transmission as well because of that indoor setting.”
Read 15 tweets
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1 Jun
Agonizing decisions for pregnant moms Brazil 🇧🇷 maternity wards as #COVID19 is killing hundreds of moms and babies—no exaggeration. “Remove baby too early and you risk them dying outside the womb, remove them too late & they die from a lack of oxygen.”😢🧵
wsj.com/articles/covid… Image
2) “doctors forced to deliver her baby son who was pressing up against her disease-ridden lungs.
It was too late. Ms. Souza, an otherwise healthy 30-year-old, died three weeks after the caesarean section.”
3) “She didn’t get to hold her newborn, who was whisked away for fear she would infect him, or say goodbye to her 4-year-old son.
“She was so young, I can’t make sense of it,” said her husband. “Our sons will have to grow up without the affection and protection of a mother.”
Read 10 tweets
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31 May
KIDS TRANSMIT, damnit.

All those who said— “Kids are practically immune; Kids are “already basically a vaccinated adult”—are dead wrong.

Kids are just as likely to transmit as adults and daycare staff, even the youngest kids, with #B117 variant. Pretty solid study ⬇️. #COVID19
2) Another strong study of 3 million people in Denmark found that the more kids in a household, the higher the risk of #COVID19 in adults. And the trend seems clearly a linear trend for more kids, more risk. Another study supporting kids transmission.
3) And like the study described above by @DrZoeHyde, the Danish study found both older kids and young kids increasing risks similarly.
Read 4 tweets
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31 May
💡8 BILLION DOSES IN ONE YEAR—it is possible! Here is how to globally produce over 8 billion mRNA #COVID19 vaccine doses by May 2022–enough to cover 80% of 🌍—for $36.6 billion.

➡️8 bil doses for just $4.58 per dose 👀

@Maybarduk @ZoltanKis85 @zainrizvi citizen.org/article/how-to…
2) “First, we describe the production process for mRNA vaccines, noting in particular the significant advantages of cell-free production. Crucially, mRNA production facilities can be smaller, cheaper, and faster to establish….”
3) “Many more manufacturing facilities can also be retrofitted to produce mRNA vaccines, compared to other kinds of vaccines, given both the small scale and “closed” nature of the process.
Read 6 tweets
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31 May
📍3rd WAVE “HAS BEGUN”—UK 🇬🇧 might scrap lifting #COVID19 restrictions for June, as a senior government adviser said the country was in the early stages of a third wave amid “exponential growth” in #B16172 variant accounting for 3/4 of cases.
theguardian.com/world/2021/may…
2) “Prof Ravi Gupta, a member of the New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (Nervtag), told BBC Radio 4’s Today there had been “exponential growth” in #B16172.

Asked if the third wave had begun, Gupta replied: “Yes.”
3) “He added: “Of course, the numbers of cases are relatively low at the moment – all waves start with low numbers of cases that grumble in the background and then become explosive – so the key here is that what we are seeing here is the signs of an early wave.
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