CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky: "This is becoming a pandemic of the unvaccinated." #GetVaccinated
However, the pandemic of the unvaccinated is affecting the vaccinated b/c vaccine breakthrough requiring hospitalization is occurring in fully vaccinated people near the age of 65. For this reason states such as Mississippi are recommending this group avoid all indoor gatherings.
There are going to be a lot of disruptions in children's education AGAIN if public health measures such as masking are not implemented nationwide. Exposures in classrooms will require all unvaccinated children to quarantine for 10 days.
It's important to stay in-the-know about your child's COVID exposure protocols at school, because states such as #Arizona are trying to STOP schools from implementing quarantine policies. In addition to banning schools from mandating masks.
Schools need to have COVID policies to protect children. People infected with the #DeltaVariant had about 1,000 times more copies of the virus in their respiratory tracts than those infected with the original strain of the coronavirus. npr.org/sections/goats…
COVID-19 Guidance for Safe Schools from the American Academy of Pediatrics
Schools must continue to take a multi-pronged, layered approach to protect students & staff:
- universal mask use
- distancing
- testing
- quarantine
- cleaning
- ventilation services.aap.org/en/pages/2019-…
Lastly, covid exposure policy has remained the same throughout the pandemic for unvaccinated people.
Parents... these are the guidelines to safe school openings by the American Academy of Pediatrics. Call your children's school, use the guidelines as a reference and advocate for your children. 🙏🏽🙏🏽
🧵This is a very important video about the pandemic. Dr. Richard Horton is Editor-in-Chief of The Lancet , a United Kingdom–based medical journal. He's an honorary professor at the London School of Tropical Med, Univ. College London & University of Oslo
"The word 'experiment' that's been used is a very interesting word because the word experiment starts off from assuming a position of uncertainty. You do something in order to make a discovery or test a hypothesis, but that's not what we're doing here."
"We know exactly what is going to happen, by taking the course that the government has committed to. We know there will be an increase in infections. That's not an experimental hypothesis to test."
Biz Markie, the charismatic rapper whose infectious 1989 single "Just a Friend" became a pop culture classic passed away at the age of 57. Rest in Power 🎤
One of the all-time great storytelling hip-hop songs! I still know all the lyrics till this day.
At the beginning of the month, I amplified a story that I came across on Twitter. While this woman's father (vaccinated with J&J) was intubated from COVID, some were very skeptical of the story. I'm so happy that multiple news organizations picked up the story🙏🏽
Listen to Dr. Catherine O’Neal describe the #DeltaVariant at the Louisiana Presser.
"The Delta Variant is coming for us, it's a BEAST. It's different!..We’re either going to get vaccinated & end pandemic or we’re going to accept DEATH and A LOT of it"
Dr. Catherine O’Neal gave a stark account of the dangers of the #DeltaVariant circulating through #Louisiana, saying it's causing children to lose their parents, pregnant women to lose babies & choosing vaccination is the only option to avoid more deaths. theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/ne…
Beginning May 1, 2021, CDC transitioned from monitoring ALL reported COVID-19 vaccine breakthrough infections to investigating ONLY those among patients who are HOSPITALIZED or DIE, thereby focusing on the cases of highest clinical and public health significance.