Let this sink in—the world’s most 2-dose fully vaccinated country, Israel 🇮🇱, is forced to double-back and reinstate its indoor mask mandate. Why? Several fast outbreaks all triggered by the #DeltaVariant, which spread via “fleeting” exposure. #COVID19
timesofisrael.com/israel-to-rein…
2) “If a child has been abroad and arrives at school the next day, this is wrong. And everyone should say that to him and to his parents,” he said. 👀
3) While a majority of adults in Israel have been vaccinated and the country has one of the highest inoculation rates in the world, Ash said the numbers were still far from the 80% figure he said would mark herd immunity.
4) fleeting exposure transmission established from multiple instances in Australia 🇦🇺 where contact tracing identified exposure of mere seconds - via both camera footage and genomic match. Fleeting exposure is serious. See thread 🧵
5) Fleeting contact wasn’t a one time occurrence. It happened at least 3 times in one outbreak alone.
6) #DeltaVariant is leaps and bounds faster than any other variant known to date. It represents a clear and present danger to the world.
7) if the CDC doesn’t issue new guidelines to stem the growth of #DeltaVariant, which can transmit via merely 5-10 seconds of passive breathing exposure, it will be extremely derelict. Australia 🇦🇺 is re-imposing masks as well as Israel. Australia health leaders are very worried.
8) none of these states have an indoor mask mandate to my knowledge. And they all have 2-3x *lower* fully vaccinated rate than Israel.
9) US will soon join UK, India, and Russia soon with explosive and dominant #DeltaVariant if the CDC doesn’t act soon. WHO needs to act soon too.
10) US has just 1 month to act before US becomes full blown #DeltaVariant dominant. 1 month to slow it down. 1 month to fully vaccinate. Or else. But we likely have even less time than that if CDC doesn’t act soon.
11) Now the crisis—Let this sink in—over 100 US counties right now have <20% of local population vaccinated. That is a “time bomb waiting to happen” says Dr @mtosterholm.

This #DeltaVariant surge will not end well for low vaccinations areas. #COVID19

12) #DeltaVariant is surging 4x in one week in New York City too. And the data is even delayed by over a week. Likely even higher.
13) Israel and now the @WHO are both coming out strong for masks even if fully vaccinated. Israel has 60% 2 dose Pfizer vaccinated yet it know it needs to reinstate masks because of new #DeltaVariant outbreak. WHO is on the right side of the science this time, better than CDC.
14) Don’t act slowly against the #DeltaVariant. Speed matters. You must move quickly or else once Delta hits a critical mass, you will be in trouble and lose control.
15) Please sign this petition to the CDC for reversing it mask rule by @endCOVID19: endcoronavirus.org/blog/cdc-unive…

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Dear governments dealing with #DeltaVariant: Please heed these words by @DrMikeRyan from March 2020. ➡️ "Be fast, have no regrets. If you need to be right before you move, you will never win. the greatest error is not to move" & "speed trumps perfection".
2) With #DeltaVariant that can spread in just 5-10 seconds, can we honestly move slowly? I don’t think so. To twiddle our fingers and indecisively sit is to allow #DeltaVariant to build critical mass in the community. And once critical mass is established, hard to stop.
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abcnews.go.com/Health/pfizer-…
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3) “Given how transmissible the virus is, given extra exposure venues, we know that even the best contact tracers in the world can’t stay a step ahead unless we put this in and we need to do it properly. So there was no point doing 3-5 days because it wouldn’t have done the job.
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Let this sink in—Trump wanted to dump returning US tourists with possible #COVID19 on Guantanamo Bay, same maximum security detention center where US detains suspected terrorists. Trump also thought the US “owned” the island—it’s in Cuba 🇨🇺. Insane. HT @damianpaletta @yabutaleb7
2) Even more sociopathic… he had no empathy for sick #COVID19 patients and risk of Covid once he survived his bout with VIP drugs not available to others. What a tale… read thread 🧵
3) According to the book, Trump also was furious at Azar and CDC for doing testing. Testing! Trump thought not doing testing would allow him a victory.

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By @NafeezAhmed
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