BREAKING—With #COVID19 cases and hospitalizations surging, Los Angeles will now *require* indoor mask again, **regardless of vaccination status**. @CountyofLA’s mandate is what needs to be done to slow #DeltaVariant—where is our @CDCgov? @CDCDirector—please rules update ASAP.
2) Los Angeles County's been posting more than 1,000 new cases a day for nearly a week now.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention considers transmission in LA and in Riverside and San Diego counties as "substantial." audacy.com/knx1070/news/l…
3) Statewide in CA, the average percentage of people testing positive has tripled in a little more than three weeks. And increases are speeding up. In LA County, about 61 % of residents 16 and older are fully vaccinated, but millions more have yet to get jabbed.
4) CDC knows how bad #DeltaVariant is becoming. Just 6 weeks ago it was just a trickled in the US. Now it’s a torrential downpour of Delta nationwide.
6) Not just mask & vax, but we also urgently need to shield the elderly and immunocompromised and chronic illness patients— even if they are vaccinated. We have seen too many breakthrough cases in the elderly in UK (the #DeltaVariant 2-dose vaxxed hospitalizations in 🇬🇧 are real)
7) Let’s travel back in time to early June when I was warning #DeltaVariant is going to takeover the US and become dominant. @WHO warned Delta was a VOC in early May! CDC didn’t declare #Delta a ‘variant of concern’ VOC until June 15th—a full week after my US Delta warning.
10) Businesses and local govts need to take action into their own hands if CDC refuses to act in the face of #DeltaVariant surging nationwide (and worldwide). Part 3 of my interview from back in May 2021 when CDC first announce its ghastly “no mask needed” rule.
11) L.A. County Health Officer Dr. Muntu Davis is solid! Worthy to be a CDC Director someday:
“We’re not where we need to be for the millions at risk of infection here in LA County, and waiting to do something will be too late, given what we’re seeing” ktla.com/news/local-new…
12) The county recorded 1,537 new coronavirus cases Thursday — a 83% increase over the last week.
“Masking indoors must again become a normal practice by all, regardless of vaccination status, so they can stop the trends and level of transmission we’re currently seeing,”
13) It’s unclear how long the new mask requirements will remain in effect. “We expect to keep this order in place until we begin to see improvements,” Davis said.
15) folks, even a small India news outlet knew and warned in June that the #DeltaVariant was going to cause a surge in the US July - let that sink in. But here, people acted like no pandemic. google.com/amp/s/odishatv…
16) Dear @lapublichealth - mad respect to your team for your leadership to protect vulnerable people during the #DeltaVariant pandemic surge.
17) Heads up… #DeltaVariant spreading even in states with high vaccination rates - not because vaccines don’t protect, they do— but that Delta is so contagious it will keep spreading through unvaccinated (and some vaccinated) until double vaccinations much much higher. See 🧵
Concerning—CDC now says that 42 states are seeing rising rates of #COVID19 again—with levels high or very high in 35 states (and rising). COVID wastewater levels have already surpassed last summer’s peak and climbing fast. #CovidIsNotOver cdc.gov/forecast-outbr…
2) Substantial 28% increase in one week. Question is how high it will go. It’s a new variant (mostly KP2 and KP3 and JN1), which are evasive against past infection and past vaccines.
A girl using cover name JANE DOE testified under oath at Ghislaine Maxwell’s criminal trial that she was introduced to Trump by Jeffrey Epstein when she was 14 years old. Pass it on.
Trump’s name appears 7 times in Epstein’s latest files. They regularly called each other according to phone logs. Trump says Epstein is a “terrific guy”. And he traveled on flights, according to logs, to Epstein’s island multiple times.
3) THIS STUFF IS NEW—not old Epstein-Trump info. New information regarding Epstein's child trafficking activities was released 7/2/24. Documents from 2016 are now out of date and do not show the depth of Trump's dealings with Epstein... READ MORE:
Reminder—Trump had expressed executing people on many occasions while President, according to his own Attorney General. Now the Supreme Court has green lit any official act with full presidential immunity. Germany did the same in 1933. It turned out great.
2) If we ignore history, we are bound to repeat it. How Germany became Nazi Germany in 1933….
📍 The New York Times Is Failing Its Readers Badly on Covid
📌“Example of ‘science opinion’ run amok in the [NY Times] is a piece… by Zeynep Tufekci, a commentator with no training in biological science or epidemiology… ➡️Tufekci plays into the hands of the anti-science politicians who now seek vengeance on the flimsiest of grounds.”
2) “Tufekci also adds to the ongoing pile-on about whether the directive to maintain a distance of six feet from others was needed. Although the precise distance was indeed somewhat arbitrary, there was no possibility of obtaining hard data in the relevant time frame. The six-foot distance was a reasonable assumption based on public health history, and the practice of social distancing for other respiratory pathogens, particularly those spread by droplets. It was also adopted in multiple other countries, for the same reasons.”
3) “The problem here isn’t that Tufekci is questioning the evidentiary basis of the six-foot rule—science and public health cannot progress if we don’t evaluate the results of our work. But that progress is more effective when grounded in good-faith inquiry, rather than the kinds of attacks Tufekci levels against government scientists for doing their best in desperate circumstances. This only serves to bolster the forces who seek to destroy the US public health infrastructure, not make it better.
Tufekci also leaves the impression that she alone realized SARS-CoV-2 was airborne early on. In fact, the debate about transmission was fast and furious within the scientific community at that time”
⚠️Whooping cough has smashed all records in UK🇬🇧 with barely any serious govt actions. These are NEW CASES PER WEEK, not cumulative. Each week smashing previous. Other countries rising too amid anti-vax. Pertussis is also airborne!
3) Whooping cough is also extremely contagious. For up to 3 weeks. With UK govt advising staying home for 3 full weeks if no antibiotic treatment. How many people being told that and doing that?