I wanted to vomit when he got to “crack smoking demon possessed leftist”… and that’s after he already told everyone not to mask or vaccinate. But I guess we epidemiologists are just demon-possessed crackheads. 🤦🏻♂️ Why are churches still tax exempt again?
2) I’m not saying churches don’t do great charitable things (think Mother Teresa). But I don’t know why the crazy pastor / preacher’s insane church still gets tax exemption. You can’t be endangering public health & support election misinfo and still be tax free.
3) Okay, I just learned some new stuff about Mother Teresa today. Thx for teaching me Twitter friends! I guess we should change the phrase “X is a saint like mother Teresa”
4) Don’t let #COVID19 do this to you. See thread 🧵 on cognitive declines.
Watching—@WHO says #LambdaVariant has the potential for increased transmissibility & may have increased resistance to neutralizing antibodies, both characteristics associated with Delta. But no direct efficacy so far, Lambda still too rare. #COVID19 newsweek.com/lambda-vs-delt…
2) “Like the Delta variant, Lambda is highly infectious and thought to be more resistant to vaccines than the original version of the virus. Though much remains unknown about the strain, there have been some alarming characteristics detected by researchers.
3) “At the moment, the Lambda variant has been mainly spreading through South America after first being identified in Peru in August 2020, but cases have been seen in Texas and South Carolina.
BREAKING—Florida shatters its all time high daily record with 11,515 hospitalizations—the highest admissions per hospital bed in the US. FL’s 2020 year record was 10,170. Louisiana surging as well as rest of the South and part of the Southwest. 🧵 #COVID19
2) Not only are hospital beds filling up… “Hospitals around the state report having to put emergency room visitors in beds in hallways and others document a noticeable drop in the age of patients.” ⚠️
💡UPGRADE TO PREMIUM MASKS—"We need to talk about #BetterMasking. We need to talk #N95 Respirators—would do a lot for both people who are not yet vaccinated & protect others who might become infected." ➡️ WE NEED KN95/N95/ELASTOMERIC for #DeltaVariant.🧵
2) 7 months ago, I called on everyone to switch to premium masks when the #B117#AlphaVariant was surging. Since then FFP2 and KN95 masks have become super cheap and common. Even N95 respirator has now become more common as well. And Elastomeric respirators are more common too.
3) Lots of studies show that the respirator-grade premium masks are what we truly need. The leaky partial protection of cloth and flimsy unfitted surgical alone just not enough.
BREAKING—San Francisco plus 7 additional Silicon Valley area counties now instating a mandatory indoor masks 😷 regardless of vaccination status given the highly transmissible #DeltaVariant. Great start. And also preferably premium masks / respirators too. sf.gov/sites/default/…
2) Why is this needed? Because vaccinated people can still get breakthrough infections, even if 2-3x lower risk of infection, and then transmit onward to others. That said, breakthroughs are much more protected against severe disease, but BEWARE THE FIRDT 6 DAYS—viral load equal.
BOOSTERS—Germany 🇩🇪 plans to start offering #COVID19 booster shots to the elderly & high-risk starting September 1, according to draft documents, as concerns grow about the spread of the #DeltaVariant. Details to be announced tomorrow (Monday). sg.style.yahoo.com/germany-plans-…
2) The plan also recommends promoting vaccination for those aged 12-17, which would go further than earlier guidance.
Health Minister Jens Spahn and Germany's 16 regional health ministers are expected to finalise the plans, drawn up by ministry officials, in a meeting Monday.
3) “Mobile vaccination teams will be sent into care and nursing homes to offer Pfizer/BioNTech or Moderna booster shots to residents, regardless of which vaccine they had originally, says the document.” ➡️ MIXING vaccine types seems now okay.
Oh deer 🦌 … US Dept of Agriculture reports half of all wild deers in Michigan have gotten #SARSCov2 infection. Worrisome. “a human disease cannot be eradicated when it is in animal reservoirs” ~ @larrybrilliant—he led the global eradication of smallpox. arstechnica.com/science/2021/0…
2) “Why check deer in the first place? The USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service is studying a variety of species "to identify species that may serve as reservoirs or hosts for the virus, as well as understand the origin of the virus…
3) “and predict its impacts on wildlife and the risks of cross-species transmission." This is the same group that identified the spread of the virus to a wild mink in 2020. arstechnica.com/science/2020/1…