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8 Jun, 4 tweets, 4 min read
Why did we not realize kids transmitted #SARSCoV2 last year?

Because with the original strain, #COVID19 was milder & more asymptomatic—hence we **didn’t test or measure** kids much.

But #B117 (Alpha) and #B16172 (#DeltaVariant) are different—more severe. 🧵

HT @sketchplanator
2) Yes damnit, kids transmit, get #LongCovidKids, and can get hospitalized.
3) How is the #DeltaVariant different? Please read this thread 🧵 below….
4) Damnit, kids transmit, especially with the #DeltaVariant #B16172. Even Singapore MOH says so.

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Eric Feigl-Ding Profile picture
9 Jun
HUGE!!! The Biden administration to buy 500 million doses of Pfizer #COVID19 vaccine to donate to the world, as US dramatically increases its efforts to help vaccinate the globe. Biden is slated to announce the plan at the Group of Seven meeting this week.
washingtonpost.com/politics/biden… Image
2) The Biden administration previously announced it would share at least 80 million vaccine doses with the world by the end of June.
3) Last week, the White House detailed plans for how it would allocate 25 million doses, with about 19 million of them being shared with Covax to distribute doses around the globe. Roughly 6 million shots would be shared directly with countries experiencing severe outbreaks.
Read 8 tweets
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9 Jun
📍Wasted $750 million on #COVID19 plexiglass instead of air quality. ➡️ “We spent a lot of time & money focused on hygiene theater. Danger is we didn’t address the real threat—airborne transmission—real $, time & attention.” @j_g_allen. #COVIDisAirborne
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
2) Not a single study has shown that the clear plastic barriers actually control the virus, said Joseph Allen of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
3) For the first months of Covid-19, top health authorities pointed to larger droplets as the key transmission culprits, despite a chorus of protests from researchers. Tinier floating droplets can also spread the virus, they warned, meaning plastic shields can’t stop them.
Read 13 tweets
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8 Jun
Mark your calendar for September! The #COVID19 vaccines may be available in the fall for U.S. children as young as 6 months. Pfizer and Moderna are testing their vaccines in children <12 years—results expected in hand for children aged 5-11 by September.🤞🏼
nytimes.com/2021/06/08/hea…
2) But nearly four million children in the United States have tested positive for the virus since the start of the pandemic, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics.
3) Doctors continue to see rare cases of multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children, a condition linked to Covid-19 that can affect multiple organs.

Vaccinating children should further contribute to containment of the virus by decreasing its spread in communities.
Read 9 tweets
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8 Jun
📍Facebook allowed misinformation on masks & #COVID19 to go unchecked via automated software.

The % of posts linking to DANMASK-19 that claimed that masks harmed the wearer was 2.3 times higher in Facebook groups that were most affected by automation.🧵
jamanetwork.com/journals/jamai… ImageImage
2) “conspiratorial claims (prevalence ratio, 2.5; 95% CI, 1.5-4.5) were also higher in Facebook groups that were most affected by automation”
3) “In contrast, among posts made to groups least affected by automation, 8.5% (95% CI, 1.7%-15.2%) claimed masks harmed the wearer, 20.3% (95% CI, 10.2%-30.5%) made conspiratorial claims about the trial, and 72.9% (95% CI, 59.3%-81.4%) made neither claim.”
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8 Jun
Troubling—the worst variant to date, the #DeltaVariant is now the new fastest growing variant in US. This is the so-called “Indian” variant #B16172 that is ravaging UK 🇬🇧 despite high vaccinations because it has immune evasion properties. Here is why it’s trouble—🧵. #COVID19 Image
2) We are expecting the #DeltaVariant to continue growing in the US, outpacing all other variants just like it has in India 🇮🇳 and UK 🇬🇧, and become dominant in US by end of July, if not earlier.

Here is the prediction track - via @TWenseleers from @GISAID data. Image
3) here was how it overtook everything in the UK 🇬🇧— it will happen soon in the US as well.
Read 20 tweets
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7 Jun
Worse than a lab leak? ➡️A microscopic creature revived to life after 24,000 years in Arctic permafrost—“Our report is the hardest proof that animals could withstand tens of thousands of years in cryptobiosis (state of almost complete frozen metabolism)”😳
cnn.com/2021/06/07/eur…
2) “In a new study, the Russian researchers used radiocarbon dating to determine that the critters they recovered from the permafrost -- ground that is frozen year-round, apart from a thin layer near the surface -- were about 24,000 years old.
3) “Stems of Antarctic moss were successfully regrown from a 1,000-year-old sample covered by ice for about 400 years, and a living campion flower was regenerated from seed tissue, likely stored by an Arctic squirrel, that had been preserved in 32,000-year-old permafrost.
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