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Jun 20, 2021 17 tweets 10 min read Read on X
New outbreak in 44 kids at a middle school in Israel 🇮🇱 with #DeltaVariant, the second such outbreak at a school this week—both Delta. Several fully vaccinated adults also infected at school. 🇮🇱 also recently stop requiring #COVID19 tests upon arrival. 🧵
timesofisrael.com/in-2nd-israeli… Image
2) Israel just approved vaccines for kids 12-15 in early June so kids under 16 haven’t been fully vaccinated yet. But even if fully vaccinated, while lower risk, #DeltaVariant is still problematic.
3) for those who try to say / claim that kids don’t get sick… 1% hospitalization among kids in UK during #DeltaVariant era is too damn high. Would you roll the dice with 1% hospitalization risk for your kids?
4) Majority of cases in a large outbreak in an Ontario 🇨🇦 First Nation tribe also in kids. A child is also hospitalized.
5) Even Joe Biden is warning about the #DeltaVariant and kids. A presidential speech on the topic means it’s a global priority.
6) do kids transmit? Oh yes. And they have led the infection frontlines in terms of spreading to other age groups.
7) Take it from Fauci too. Kids transmit and get #LongCovid too. #LongCovidKids
8) Let’s see what UK’s CDC-equivalent PHE found for transmission source during the new surge of #DeltaVariant cases…. Schools. By leaps and bounds. Image
9) How the hell did we screw up this pediatric Covid thing so badly? Because we didn’t test kids much last year. And variants are much different than old strain. And hence we assumed nothing changed and got complacent.
10) Delta definitely affects kids a lot. Scores of reports from India as well. See this full video on the #DeltaVariant situation in UK. Part 1 of 3. Other videos in thread 🧵 below.
11) we should heed what Indian doctors are warning about #DeltaVariant and kids.
12) Singapore 🇸🇬 Ministry of Health is also warning about #DeltaVariant and kids as well. We need to learn from other countries so that we don’t repeat it ourselves.
13) More data about #DeltaVariant transmission via schools from recent report on transmission incidents (99% #DeltaVariant in 🇬🇧) in “Educational Settings”. Yes elderly more protected than children, true, but we see a rise in the parent generation of school kids too. Image
14) this thread 🧵 explains just how fast #DeltaVariant spreads in the real world. Fleeting exposure of mere seconds is all it needs according to very detailed contact tracing in Australia 🇦🇺… and fleeting exposure infection happened twice by one man alone. ⬇️
15) they have the actual security camera footage of this encounter and infection event. They never actually touched - it was the 2nd fleeting encounter infection from same outbreak. #DeltaVariant is damn infectious.
16) please sign this petition to CDC for urgent #DeltaVariant action. It is by @endCOVID19 & @CovidActionGrp and a “coalition of scientists, public health officials, epidemiologists, health care workers, educators, advocates, parents, & concerned citizens: change.org/p/centers-for-…
17) Reminder - #LongCovid in kids is real. 1 in 12 kids will develop #LongCovidKids according to UK 🇬🇧 data. Don’t trivialize pediatric cases.

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⚠️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.”
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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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Jan 22
🛑JUST CANCELLED—Trump HHS has just cancelled key meetings of the Presidential Advisory Council on Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria (PACCARB) & CDC’s Environmental Public Health Threats meeting—➡️all because of Trump WH’s new blackout of all HHS external comms. My god. Image
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2) Trump WH is literally blocking all of this… including all CDC science reports and all FDA public alerts!
3) CDC’s bird flu tracker now frozen / muzzled today too. Worst possible timing.
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Jan 22
NEW—Trump WH has blocked all CDC science reports (eg MMWR) & suspended all CDC / FDA / NIH external communications of all HHS agencies until further notice... including all FDA & CDC Health Alert warnings & all social media. Public health be damned.

Gift 🎁 link below. Image
2) Gift 🎁 link:
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3) These horrid action endangers not only the public health in US, but Trump’s actions withdrawing from the WHO also endangers the whole world.
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Dear Hispanic-Americans who voted for Trump…
3) Dear Congress- don’t let a dictator usurp you…
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⚠️BREAKING—ICU Hospitalized human bird flu case in Canada now officially confirmed as H5N1. Worse, it is the same 2.3.4.4b virus clade (variant group) as the one found in BC🇨🇦 poultry and in Washington state🇺🇸! The hospitalized teenager (with no pre existing conditions) had no animal contact, does not live on farm, had “deterioration quite rapid” and now critical in ICU with ARDS. Canada officials says infectious period is 2 days **prior to symptoms** (ie asymptomatic transmission) and infectious up to 10 days.Image
2) Public Health Agency of Canada's National Microbiology Laboratory (NML) in Winnipeg confirmed that the individual has avian influenza H5N1
canada.ca/en/public-heal…
3) details…

⚠️BAD UPDATE—BIRD FLU HOSPITALIZATION IN CANADIAN TEEN

Summary 🧵 of the live press conference with Canada’s British Columbia health officer.

📌The teen is in intensive care.
📌Condition is ARDS
📌Teen was healthy prior; no underlying conditions

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