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26 Jul, 13 tweets, 5 min read
🔥WOW—Anna Kiesenhofer, the amateur mathematician rider, rode off with an improbable Olympic gold medal. Why? She has a PhD in math, never won a major 🚴 event, manages own training, teaches university, 🇦🇹team=herself, doesn’t have coach or pro contract! washingtonpost.com/sports/olympic…
2) incredible — “Kiesenhofer switched to cycling in 2014 after injuries kept her from running in triathlons and duathlons. She rode for a Catalan amateur team and won the Spanish National Cup overall title in 2016 as her academic career was flourishing.”
3) Kiesenhofer’s university in Lausanne Switzerland 🇨🇭 gives her a shoutout.
4) Her story is sooooo damn incredible.

In an extraordinary comeback story, she left the sport at the end of 2017 when she found herself out of contract. She came into Tokyo without a pro team and left as Olympic Champion. 
cyclingnews.com/features/anna-…
5) “Off the bike, she has a PhD in mathematics. She attended Technical University of Vienna, Cambridge University before completing her doctorate in Catalonia in 2016 alongside her racing career. She currently works at the University of Lausanne, combining research with teaching.
6) “Kiesenhofer’s specialism in time trialling coupled with her mathematics expertise make it all the more fitting that the Austrian won by solo breakaway and after a calculation error from the rest of the peloton.
7) “Before the race, @AnnaKiesenhofer had also been using her studies to prepare for the Games: earlier this month, she Tweeted a graph demonstrating her meticulous heat acclimation process in preparation for the temperatures in Tokyo.
8) seriously, the Dutch team was blindsided by her win. “Van der Breggen didn't have the Austrian on her list of breakaway riders who could potentially pose a danger.
"I don't think anyone had written her on the list. Neither had I—I don't really know her. We underestimated her."
9) “What everyone in the Dutch camp could agree on, however, was that they had underestimated Anna Kiesenhofer, who snatched the title they have held for almost a decade.”

cyclingnews.com/news/dutch-div…
10) The @Olympics even forgot to tag her on Twitter - so I will again— Herzliche Glückwünsche @AnnaKiesenhofer!
11) “greatest moment in Olympic cycling”. watch the final few moments of this historic race from the ecstatic announcer. Congrats again @AnnaKiesenhofer

12) This @AnnaKiesenhofer underdog story is “stuff than dreams are made of”.
13) I love how down to earth @AnnaKiesenhofer is. “May I call you Dr?” … “you could but it would feel unnatural for me”

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📈NEW RULES—@CDCDirector Walensky announces new mask guidance, regardless of #COVID19 vaccination, due to surging #DeltaVariant:

📌Wear masks indoors, in public areas with ‘high transmission’ (why not all?)

📌All K-12 schools wear a mask indoors. More—🧵
2) “some vaccinated people infected with the #DeltaVariant after vaccination may be contagious and spread the virus to others.”

We have known this for MONTHS. A little late but better than never.
3) @CDCDirector: “the big concern is that the next variant that might emerge, just a few mutations potentially away, could eventually evade our vaccine… for hospitalization & death.”

note: breakthrough mild infections allows transmission too. #Maskup
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BREAKING—CDC reverses course—CDC is expected to recommend on Tuesday that people vaccinated for the coronavirus resume wearing masks indoors. The change follows reports of rising breakthrough infections with the #Deltavariant. ➡️ ABOUT DAMN TIME! #COVID19 nytimes.com/2021/07/27/hea…
2) the new guidance would mark a sharp turnabout from the agency’s position since May that vaccinated people do not need to wear masks in most indoor spaces.
3) As recently as last week, an agency spokesman said that C.D.C. had no plans to change its guidance, unless there were a significant change in the science. Federal officials met on Sunday night to review new evidence that may have prompted the reversal. cnn.com/2021/07/27/pol…
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Damnit - there are again ZERO ICU beds available in the state of Arkansas (one of the lowest vaccinated states in the US). This means many others beside #COVID19 patients in the hospital awaiting beds may die. #vaccinate please for the love of god.

2) Anyone else see a vicious cycles happening if we know Covid infection and hospitalization also leads to IQ drop?
3) what’s worse is when we no longer have hospitals beds for kids. Pediatric hospitalizations soaring in multiple countries with #DeltaVariant
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⚠️“SUBSTANTIAL DROP” in intelligence—#COVID19 survivors suffer severe cognitive deficit. Patients hospitalised on ventilators saw the biggest drop in on intelligence tests—equal to a **7-point drop in IQ**!
Larger than suffering stroke or lead poisoning!🧵news.sky.com/story/covid-19…
2) researchers found those who had contracted COVID saw the greatest underperformance on tasks requiring reasoning, planning and problem-solving compared to those who had not had the virus. ➡️ but they found a significant (starred) drop **even in mild patients too**! #LongCovid
3) "These results accord with reports of long-COVID, where 'brain fog', trouble concentrating and difficulty finding the correct words are common." the authors report.

Link to study… peer reviewed. thelancet.com/action/showPdf…
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27 Jul
Vaccine trials for kids 5-11 expanded—possibly delayed. F.D.A. has asked the companies to include 3,000 children in the 5-to-11-year-old group, roughly double the original number of study participants. Unclear if EUA approval will be delayed or not. 🧵
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2) Pfizer is on a faster timetable than Moderna, and may be able to meet F.D.A.’s expectations on a bigger trial size and still file a request to expand emergency authorization by the end of September. Reviewing all the safety and efficacy data will likely take FDA a few weeks.
3) Pfizer has previously said it expects to have results for the 5-to-11-year-old group in September, with results for children aged 2 to 5 shortly after that. A spokeswoman said Monday that the company had no updates on its timetable.
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27 Jul
“The [nuclear missile] silo construction at Yumen and Hami constitutes the most significant expansion of the Chinese nuclear arsenal ever,” says ⁦@mattkorda⁩ of ⁦@FAScientists, author of the ☢️ silo satellite analysis⁩. This is worrisome. nytimes.com/2021/07/26/us/…
2) Satellite images reveal that China is building a second nuclear missile silo field. The discovery follows the report earlier this month that China appears to be constructing 120 missile silos, says @mattkorda @nukestrat

fas.org/blogs/security…
3) People’s Liberation Army Rocket Force (PLARF) appears to have approximately 250 silos under construction – **more than 10 times the number of ICBM silos** in operation today.

Seriously. This is not normal! Ht @mattkorda who spotted it first. Project of @FAScientists
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