An island on fire. Hundreds watch their home island burn as they are evacuated via a ferry boat as fires rages across the Greek 🇬🇷 Evia Island. Footage from Friday August 6th.
2) this above video is not CGI, it is real.
3) Here is another video of the evacuation of Evia Island.
4) “I believe this image conveys the unspeakable sorrow of residents on Evia island. The lady is 81 years old and her home is burning down. All of us in Greece are devastated”, says @PatSakellari.
Image: @tsakalidis_k
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Sobering video—“We never saw this last year”—of numerous children and young adults hospitalized who were completely healthy, but now stricken with severe #DeltaVariant. ➡️best 3 minutes you’ll watch all day. Thanks to Dr. Catherine O’Neal of @LSU. #COVID19
2) Louisiana is the only state with higher #COVID19 rates than even Florida. All of the Deep South are now in full blown #DeltaVariant driven surge.
3) tons of kids now in pediatric ICUs. Pediatric ICUs now maxed out in many southern states. Don’t let kids be a statistic. Everyone in an ICU is fighting for their life like this boy. We must not stand for this in our society.
📍The 5 of top 10 worst hotspots for #DeltaVariant are pictured in this photo. Hospital ICU beds, particularly pediatric ICUs, are completely full/near full in hotspot states. #COVID19
P.s. Florida also outlaws mask mandates in schools—and suspends salaries of teachers who try.
2) Florida residents are completely dejected at the abominable pandemic response to all the sick and hospitalized kids.
📍Florida is one of the top 5 worst epicenters of #COVID19 in the entire 🌎. @GovRonDeSantis has gone mad. @RonDeSantisFL literally won’t do anything & refuses to allow schools to mandate masks—even suspend salaries of school leaders who try. #DeltaVariant is dangerous to kids.
❗️HARD FACT—vaccines *do not* turn you into zombies. The zombie apocalypse movie “I am Legend” has spawned a #COVID19 vaccine conspiracy. The movie’s screenwriter @AkivaGoldsman even weighs in. Let’s rethink future Hollywood zombie movie plots? Thanks from this epidemiologist. 🙏
2) Yes, it’s damn sad I had to tweet that above^. Don’t believe it’s a real internet conspiracy thing? Well, careful while you step into the twilight zone.
3) this shit is real. The “I am legend” zombie movie conspiracy pops up in many focus groups too. Documented even in this earlier May 2021 WaPost piece.
Take this seriously—“There is growing evidence that—for whatever reason (higher viral loads, etc)—children infected by #DeltaVariant may develop a more severe form of the disease compared to illness caused by other forms of the virus.”—it’s true. #COVID19 cnn.com/2021/08/02/opi…
2) we have been seeing pediatric ICUs filling up more than ever before during the pandemic.
📍The good news is vaccines work—lower mortality of an 80-year-old down to ➡️unvaxxed 50-year-old; a vaxxed 50 -year-old➡️unvaxxed 30-year-old. This has prevented scores of deaths & hospitalizations.📍But the bad news—vaccines vs #DeltaVariant are leaky.🧵 ft.com/content/0f11b2…
2) “Leaky vaccines probably put herd immunity out of reach, especially when faced with [the] Delta [#DeltaVariant],” Kit Yates said.
3) “some now think that imperfect protection offered by the vaccine against infection meant herd immunity could be “impossible” without vaccine uptake of above 90%—of all people including kids, not just of the eligible. google.com/amp/s/amp.ft.c…