📍Holy cow—the insane “logic that more people infected is better is **MORAL EMPTINESS and EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUPIDITY**” is the best critique of @sajidjavid & @BorisJohnson’s “living with the virus” 🏴 mass infection strategy. Thank you @DrMikeRyan. #COVID19
2) Reminder— Pandemicidal policies of encouraging mass infection is complete and utter lunacy. @CMO_England should also be ashamed of himself for going along with it.
3) @BorisJohnson’s govt advisors have seriously gone ridiculously mad and / or lost all moral compass. @CMO_England needs to resign if he truly feels morally uncomfortable with this.
8) Our global #COVID19 crisis is not over. #DeltaVariant is causing surges all over the world. Dozens of countries have “near vertical” epidemic curves. This is the new challenge we face. Mass infection is not the answer!
⚠️Bad trend—Netherlands reports a near vertical >800% increase in new #COVID19 cases in 1 week. Greece 🇬🇷 and Spain 🇪🇸 nearly matching that surge. @WHO now reports over 2 dozen countries with “near vertical” sharp rises in cases—mostly #DeltaVariant. Pandemic “Act 2” has begun.🧵
2) Listen to Dr @mvankerkhove talk about the sharp global rise in cases. “2 dozen” countries with **near vertical rise** in #COVID19 cases. Let that sink in. #DeltaVariant is damn serious.
3) How does Netherlands, Greece, Spain compare in vaccinated %? All 3 countries ~ 40% fully vaccinated. Not that low relative to the world or rest of Europe. UK is 50% vaccinated and it’s still seeing hospitalizations & deaths rise. Keep vaccinating—#DeltaVariant coming.
Sobering—The most vulnerable folks may have no choice but to restart shielding (ie stay at home) after remaining England 🏴 #COVID19 mitigation rules are removed on 19 July, Sarah Gilbert warns. Who is she?—the chief creator of Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine. inews.co.uk/news/politics/…
2) “The Government has not yet issued updated guidance for how 3.8 million people classed as clinically extremely vulnerable should protect themselves from Covid-19 as social distancing and compulsory mask wearing comes to an end.
3) “Dame Sarah Gilbert, who led the Oxford vaccine team: “In people who have been vaccinated and have had the two doses, they will be well protected against disease that is severe enough to put them in hospital, and death. But that’s only about half have had their two doses.
Florida #COVID19 cases and hospitalizations both rising. 5,790 new coronavirus cases today, the biggest one-day increase since April. I’m going to wager it’s mostly likely the #DeltaVariant. HT @BNODesk.
2) Reminder @RonDeSantisFL, mass infection approach like UK should never be an option! Please do something
If CDC says we parents and teachers are on our own for schools, then we need to start getting creative with our own air disinfection devices… the Jerry-rigged air cleaning device below tapes together several MERV13 filters into a cube called a “Corsi Box” (named after @CorsIAQ).
Schools without rules for masks? Without fresh air ventilation / disinfection / air exchange minimum? Without testing? With vaccination for teachers? While #DeltaVariant soaring? ➡️ CDC is making another grave mistake. Kids need safe schools! #COVID19 🧵 amp.cnn.com/cnn/2021/07/09…
2) I need a few hours to mull and fume over all this. Meantime, please add VENTILATION and AIR DISINFECTION for the love of god!!! #COVID19
📍Think of the children—Canadian govt’s most representative study investigating how many have #SARSCoV2 antibodies says—kids had highest infection rates of all age groups. Why is this key? Kids are our future. 1 in 12 kids getting #LongCovid too risky. 🧵 covid19immunitytaskforce.ca/study-reveals-…
2) “One of the most interesting findings is the fact that seniors – those not in long-term care – were not the ones to have had the most SARS-CoV-2 infections in Canada,” says Dr. Catherine Hankins.
3) “Younger age groups – and especially children and adolescents – had higher rates of antibodies in their blood suggesting a past SARS-CoV-2 infection.”