⚠️BREAKING—Florida sets a new ALL TIME RECORD for #COVID19 deaths in 1 week—reporting an astounding 1,486 new additional deaths this week. @GovRonDeSantis — this is on you.
5) 1486 deaths in a week is a sharp 38.7% spike in one week! Also, the weekly first-time daily positivity rate surged to 19.8% one week, including 24.8% among those 12-19 and 23% in kids under 12–the **highest positivity l of the categories***!! wptv.com/coronavirus/fl…
6) Kids TRANSMIT and young kids under 8 especially TRANSMIT more than thought… and this data from Canada predates #DeltaVariant — which is more infectious and faster transmission than any other strain.
7) Kids who can barely breathe… this 3 year old was hospitalized and even needs to go on a BIPAP breathing assistance pump machine to survive… kids are at risk damnit—don’t trust anyone who have said kids are “practically immune”.
9) #DeltaVariant truly is the scourge that we epidemiologists have feared all pandemic… it’s now a 2.0 pandemic. But DeSantis just chooses to ignore it.
10) Look at the positivity data — which age groups have the 3 highest positivity? Kids kids and kids!!! Here is the link —note the URL is named “covid19_data_latest.pdf”—but every week Florida CHANGES file location, so this link won’t work later—beware!
11) Florida Supreme Court really needs to step in to stop DeSantis. Texas Supreme Court has now overruled its dystopian Governor @GregAbbott_TX on his ban of mask mandates.
12) To be clear, Florida’s new weekly deaths is an all time record under the original reporting method of net new deaths, but not a record under their new skewed reporting system that takes advantage of delayed reporting (which is highly controversial and much criticized).
2) BUT—“It’s hard to assess the current toll of the virus on people living and working inside long-term care facilities, as Florida stopped sharing this data with the public in May.” ⚠️
3) “Federal data used in the AARP report lags by about two weeks, and does not include information about the situation inside Florida’s assisted living facilities, which are not required to report to the national government.”
💡AMAZING BOOSTER DATA—New study shows 3rd shot has 91% efficacy (11x ⬇️lower risk) against #DeltaVariant infection versus 2 shots (>=5 months earlier) among age 60+. Plus, 3rd shot has ~95% efficacy (19.5x ⬇️lower risk) against severe disease!🧵 #COVID19nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…
2) moreover. The enhanced booster effects begin being apparent after day 12, increasing higher effects starting even day 10 after the shot perhaps.
3) most were not that elderly either 60-69. I’m also glad to see they enrolled 14% Arab population. The bulk were vaccinated in early February. Thinking of all the people who got vaccines before March that could benefit from this.
📍NOT ENOUGH TO STOP VARIANTS—U.S. population immunity against #COVID19 still insufficient to resume pre-pandemic social behavior—still not enough #vaccination / natural immunity—need more masks & ventilation on top to prevent additional waves of variants. acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M2…
2) “The mean overall population immunity was 62.0% (CrI, 58.4% to 66.4%). Adults aged 65 years or older were estimated to have the highest immunity level (77.2% [CrI, 76.2% to 78.6%])…”
3) HOWEVER- “children younger than 12 years had the lowest immunity level (17.9% [CrI, 14.4% to 21.9%])” acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M2…
2) More than 200,000 children under 18 have tested positive in Israel, with about half of them asymptomatic, the survey said.
“The meaning of this is that there are currently thousands of children in Israel suffering from long-term effects,” the statement said.
3) “these findings are in themselves distressing and call for further investigations into the effects of the coronavirus period on the cognitive/mental health situation of children in Israel,” the study said.
📌Fake #COVID19 tests likely used by over 150 people to board flights home after a pilgrimage—Israeli police investigating.
Offenders could be charged with fraud, forgery and spreading disease—criminal offenses that can lead to 5 year prison sentences.🧵 nytimes.com/2021/09/12/wor…
2) About 25,000 to 30,000 Israelis, most of them male Hasidic Jews, traveled to celebrate the Jewish New Year. Israel’s Health Ministry found that dozens of them had arrived back in 🇮🇱 infected with the virus despite carrying documents indicating that they had tested negative.
3) Prime Minister Naftali Bennett’s office said in a statement that it “views with utmost gravity” the entry of people with forged documents, “willfully spreading a disease,” adding that severe action would be taken against offenders.
Heartbreaking—5 kids are now orphaned after both mom+dad (age 37/39) dies of #COVID19 weeks apart. The baby was born by C-section while mom was on a ventilator, doesn’t even have a name yet.😢 Grandparents haven’t told the kids parents died yet. #vaccinatelatimes.com/california/sto…
2) this story truly truly broke me. “The couple and their four children all contracted the coronavirus after a trip to Big Sur in July, which included a stop on the way back at an indoor water park in Orange County, Serey said. Davy was seven months pregnant when she got sick.”
3) Ironically sad— “Davy was a labor and **delivery nurse** at Kaiser Permanente Fontana Medical Center. Daniel taught **math** at Jehue Middle School in the Rialto Unified School District.”