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⚠️”In last 10 days alone, before school has even opened, 4 school-aged children have been admitted to hospitals.” ~a Florida school superintendent begs @GovRonDeSantis for temporary mask mandate in schools. This FL kid was in pediatric ICU for 3 days⬇️ 🧵
2) Leon County School District Superintendent Rocky Hanna is calling on @GovRonDeSantis to give school districts "flexibility and autonomy" to act to protect students amid a surge in COVID cases that has taxed hospitals locally & statewide. @RonDeSantisFL
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3) Hanna on Wednesday morning specifically said he wants to temporarily mandate masks in schools for teachers and students pre-K through 8th grade "who are not eligible to receive a vaccine."
4) "It's never too late to do the right thing," Hanna said at a press conference surrounded by masked school employees. 
In a letter to Gov. Ron DeSantis, Hanna made a personal appeal saying we "not allow pride or politics to cloud our better judgement."
5) “Over the last 60 days, I have stood firm in my belief that a mask mandate was the wrong course of action," he wrote. "With that said, I believe that new data and information as well as student instructional models compels us to rethink mask protocols.”
6) “School-wide mask wearing is a proven, mitigating strategy to reduce the spread of COVID-19."

The move comes after Alachua and Duval counties amended their mask policies in defiance of Gov. Ron DeSantis' executive order to make masks optional in schools.
7) Executive order 21-175 (Ensuring Parents’ Freedom to Choose – Masks in Schools) also allows the state to withhold funds if a district does not fall in line with the policy. flgov.com/wp-content/upl…
8) Florida has the most children hospitalized for COVID-19, according to reporting by the Tampa Bay Times. Between July 24 and 30, the state saw 32 child hospitalizations per day. tampabay.com/news/health/20…
9) On June 11, Hanna supported the optional mask rule when the positivity rate in Leon County was 2%. The positivity rate in Leon County on Monday was nearing 16%, according to the Centers for Disease Control. 

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10) Many other school districts in FL have had to rescind their mask mandates or else get their funding cut off by @GovRonDeSantis
11) When hospitals are full… we all suffer. Especially the children.
12) ICU doctor @WesElyMD explains the video… “in Covid pneumonia you can build up the same levels of phlegm that you do in cystic fibrosis.” — so yes, #COVID19 pneumonia in kids can be like this damnit. #DeltaVariant
13) I don’t post this for some “fear porn”. This video is personal to me - as a child I had open-chest surgery in which I was intubated & even lost part of my right lung🫁. I was catheterized too, plus had 2 drainage tubes in my chest to drain excess fluid buildup. But this kid…
14) 📍Kids and COVID—Dr Mark Kline at Children's Hospital New Orleans: "#DeltaVariant is every infectious disease specialist's worst nightmare. There was a myth—that children were somehow immune—It has become very clear that children are heavily impacted"
15) The IQ drop of ~7 points from ICU ventilated #COVID19 is astronomical. This study is prefer reviewed too - and comes from recent national UK 🇬🇧 testing data of COVID and no-Covid people. Even 2 point drop is huge—that’s ~lead poisoning IQ drop. And we see that in mild cases.
16) In case anyone thinks I sensationalized that… I did NOT. Just read the lay Sky News article yourself. The study wasn’t small - it was 81,000 people who were assessed cognitive decline, 13,000 who had COVID. news.sky.com/story/covid-19…
17) Covid’s long term effects on “brain fog” is notorious. Lots of data on this even last year, including increased risk of mental illness diagnoses. See detailed thread 🧵 below.
18) Why didn’t CDC or other govts warn us about brain damage and IQ declines??? I honestly don’t know. But we epidemiologists have known and highlighted this for 9 months! 👇
19 Please read this intelligence decline study yourself. It is incredibly sobering. Again, it’s *peer reviewed* and funded by UK’s leading dementia research institute, @wellcometrust and UK 🇬🇧 govt grants. #LongCovid brain damage is real. Please #vaccinate thelancet.com/action/showPdf… Image
20) Kids transmit too damnit. All those who said— “Kids are practically immune; Kids are “already basically a vaccinated adult”—are dead wrong.

Kids are just as likely to transmit as adults and daycare staff, even youngest kids, with #B117 variant—Pretty solid study . #COVID19
21) let this sink in — 1% of all #COVID19 confirmed cases in kids lead to hospitalization.

Is that really an “acceptable” level of kids morbidity that we will allow in society? Listen to Fauci here…
22) COVID has sextupled in 1 month in the US. Here is how it’s going…
23) Oh what the hell… @GovRonDeSantis is leaning into pretending not vaccinating is okay. What about the thousands hospitalized? Should Florida pay the hospital bills then? Should you be liable @RonDeSantisFL ?
24) Honestly I think DeSantis is too far gone— sociopathic moral emptiness.
25) while 11,000+ Floridians are hospitalized, Florida’s Governor goes out of state for fundraiser parties. All while ICUs are nearly full. Record surge. Complete moral emptiness. amp.detroitnews.com/amp/5481453001…
26) let’s check in how Florida is doing since the #DeltaVariant surge began….

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Feb 7
BAM—called it again—there is clear proof of cat-human household transmission of bird flu. CDC scientists posted the data—but suddenly deleted soon afterwards. CDC is being blatantly muzzled. Image
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2) C.D.C. Posts, Then Deletes, Data on Bird Flu Spread Between Cats and People

The data, which appeared fleetingly online on Wednesday, confirmed transmission in two households. Scientists called on the agency to release the full report.

Gift 🎁 link

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3) I’ve been reading the tea leaves 🍃 lately— it’s quite clear they know there is household transmission of bird flu. Hence the final alert issued by CDC before Trump took over was to get national testing of Flu A to see if bird flu in hospitals nationwide. See important 🧵
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⚠️CDC & NY State is now recommending the IMMEDIATE testing & subtyping of all hospitalized flu A cases & unknown/suspected flu cases—in order to identify human bird flu. ➡️This implies CDC believes avian flu has now crossed into wide community transmission
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2) Testing is good. But the widespread testing shows urgency.

“CDC is now recommending ordering subtyping for all influenza A-positive specimens collected from hospitalized individuals within 24 hours of hospital admission” Image
3) And the memo says start testing with ANY SUSPECTED hospitalized cases of seasonal influenza as well. That’s quite broad.

The memo also doesn’t say NY residency required - thus are they implying anyone outside NYC (out-of-state too?) can also send specimens in to their lab. Image
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Feb 4
Trump WH has ordered CDC scientists to retract all papers under submission to medical journals containing banned terms— must be scrubbed from manuscripts, including even basic words like “gender”. Retraction even applies to accepted papers in press for imminent publication. Image
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2) The CDC has instructed its scientists to retract or pause the publication of any research manuscript being considered by any medical or scientific journal, not merely its own internal periodicals

@jeremyfaust

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@jeremyfaust 3) it’s wild that even the terms “gender” and “pregnant person / people” must be scrubbed as well. Kinda wild honestly. Image
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Feb 1
🛑CANCELLED—“Research on Women’s Health” funding website of the NIH. Image
2) here is the page that is now deleted. Funding opportunities in women’s health research of ORWH site. Didn’t Trump say they at least recognize women as a gender? Weird.

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3) It’s a bloodbath today for CDC websites too…
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Feb 1
🪓DELETION UPDATE—More than 1,000 pages are now deleted from websites of CDC, National Institutes of Health, and other sites of the Department of Health and Human Services, according to a new WSJ analysis—including many **vaccine recommendation** scientific pages! Image
2) CDC’s vaccine advisory committee webpage… now ❌ DELETED ❌ Image
3) To be clear, while the main ACIP website is still up (generic committee info), the “VACCINE SPECIFIC RECOMMENDATIONS” website of ACIP has been **deleted**. That key page is the one with the actual public health info for vaccines. Feel free to verify:

cdc.gov/acip-recs/hcp/…Image
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Jan 31
⚠️CDC WEBSITES DELETED—Multiple CDC websites and datasets related to HIV, LGBTQ people, youth health behaviors and more have been removed after the agency was directed to comply with an executive order from President Trump by 5pm deadline. Wildest is taking down even HIV pages! Image
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2) Like, why then hell did the “CAUSES” of HIV even get deleted??? Makes zero sense. Why is Trump WH wanting to block how to stop HIV???
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3) also deleted: CDC’s Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System, which includes data from a national survey, has disappeared. so have parts of the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry’s Social Vulnerability Index and the Environmental Justice Index.
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