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4 Jul, 12 tweets, 6 min read
📍Bathroom airborne transmission confirmed. Whether breathing, toilet🚽 plume, or fecal aerosols doesn’t matter—it stayed in air for 40 minutes before infecting next person. @AliNouriPhD & I have been warning about fecal, bathroom, & septic ventilation for long time. #COVID19 🧵
2) Many past examples of fecal aerosol transmission of the #SARSCoV2 virus - such as in large high rise buildings that share toilet drainage pipes between different apartments / condo units. Yes the graphic is quite graphic, but that’s why photos worth 1000 words…
3) We also know feces can carry active coronavirus that causes #COVID19. Fauci says so, as well as pediatric studies that show the virus living in intestines of children for over a month. Often without symptoms.
4) Some of the risk in high rise buildings stems from U traps (that normally block septic gas entry) drying out, thereby allowing fecal aerosol entry into another unit of same building. This has happened many times from Hong Kong to other places.
5) different families that were complete strangers to each other and had no contract, but lived vertically of each other sharing same sewer pipe have cross infected each other with #COVID19 this way
6) “In the bathroom, patients usually did not wear masks; therefore, airborne SARS-CoV-2 may come from patients' breath or the aerosolization of the virus-laden aerosol from feces” says this new study. icjournal.org/DOIx.php?id=10…
7) just like during the old SARS high rise outbreak in HK in 2003, this fecal aerosol outbreak AGAIN happened in Feb 2020 during Hong Kong’s first wave, in another HK high rise. History repeats. We don’t learn most of the time until shit hits the high rise septic pipe fan.
8) I’ve been warning about sewage septic transmission since Feb 2020. Long damn time. Many made fun of this fecal airborne topic and dismissed the risks. History will judge those out there who downplayed this. History remembers who you are.
9) heck, Fauci has recognized fecal transmission along with airborne for 10 months. Still there were naysayers on this topic for long time. Fecal aerosols for #COVID19 is damn real.
10) Please remember to regularly run the water in all your water basins and bathtubs and floor drains - especially if you don’t use them often.
11) VENTILATION is key. Both ventilation and masks needed to reduce risk indoors. But most buildings not ventilated well enough.

12) “Until we recognise that #COVID19 is airborne we are setting ourselves up for repeated failure”

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5 Jul
⚠️England🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 plans to end mandates for masks & social distancing on July 19, says Boris Johnson (who was #COVID19 hospitalized). Now UK callously tells citizens to "learn to live with the virus." ➡️Meanwhile #DeltaVariant hospitalizations ⬆️47% in 1 week.🧵washingtonpost.com/world/europe/b… Image
2) This is a horrible terrible no good very bad idea. UK is much less vaccinated than Israel and with much less Pfizer. Yet Israel seeing cases rise, and hospitalizations still increasing. And the vaccine much weaker against #DeltaVariant
3) Hospitalizations up everywhere throughout England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿!!! All #DeltaVariant
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EFFICACY DROP—New Israel 🇮🇱 Health Ministry data show that 2-doses Pfizer vaccine against #DeltaVariant over the past month is now just 64% effective in preventing #COVID19 infection. In constrast in May, before #DeltaVariant prevalent, vaccine was 94%. 🧵
timesofisrael.com/ministry-data-…
2) Meanwhile, another study from researchers at the Hebrew University and Hadassah University Medical Center indicated that the Pfizer vaccine is 60-80% effective against infection from the #DeltaVariant.
3) The Delta variant, which is believed to be twice as contagious as the original strain of COVID-19, is thought to be responsible for 90% of new cases in Israel over the past two weeks.
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Florida cases have risen ~50% in 2 weeks. Florida is one of the states with least #COVID19 safety measures. Maybe banning mask rules and banning vaccination verification was a bad idea. 🤷🏻‍♂️ #DeltaVariant doesn’t care it’s summer.
2) Countless people are not taking the #DeltaVariant seriously. But Delta is damn serious.
3) this is very prevalent in Florida and parts of the Deep South unfortunately
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4 Jul
What the hell are these people thinking? #DeltaVariant is damn serious: faster, more severe, more problematic for partially vaccinated, and transmits via fleeting exposure. 6 in 10 people don’t what the hell they are facing. Stay safe folks. #COVID19

washingtonpost.com/politics/post-…
2) the stats are sobering.
3) Asked about the accuracy of these warnings about the delta variant, 45 percent say they believe U.S. officials are accurately describing the risk while 35 percent say the warnings are exaggerated. Nearly 1 in 5 express no opinion.
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4 Jul
📊Worrisome—3 in 10 (29%) Americans say they are not likely to get vaccinated, including 20% saying they will definitely not do so. 86% of Democrats got at least one shot of a vaccine, versus 45% of Republicans. ➡️But #DeltaVariant does not care. #COVID19 washingtonpost.com/politics/post-…
2) But while 6 percent of Democrats say they aren’t likely to get vaccinated, 47 percent of Republicans fall into that camp, with 38 percent of Republicans overall saying they will definitely not get shots against the virus.
3) Most independents (54 percent) say they have received at least one shot and another 11 percent say they are likely to do so. Among independents, 22 percent say they will definitely not get vaccinated.
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📍3rd shot considered—Israel Health Ministry is meeting to debate offering 3rd Pfizer vaccine doses to people with weakened immune systems. Some health officials see enough data to do so. #DeltaVariant rising in 🇮🇱. 🇬🇧 starts 3rd shot to age50+ in Sept.🧵
timesofisrael.com/health-officia…
2) “They are concerned by data that shows the vaccine has been less efficient in protecting immunocompromised people”.

Immunocompromised individuals include organ transplant recipients and cancer patients, among others.
3) “officials will also discuss booster shots for the elderly, though medical history rather than age is expected to be the most influential factor for the time being.”
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