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10 Oct, 8 tweets, 4 min read
This kid teaches you all how to properly wear a KN95* mask. #MaskUp #COVIDisAirborne

*You can now find better kids-sized KF94 masks online. See 🧵 below.
2) My son Sparty wrote the funny script all by himself, without any help or input from me. Swear to god.

➡️ We do really need premium masks for kids— South Korea 🇰🇷 makes lots of kids sized KF94 masks.
3) If an 8 year old knows that #COVIDisAirborne, then so should you.
4) Tighten the mask — it is critical.
5) Kids need to be taught about airborne transmission in schools - maybe it might trickle up to parents via kids. “Until we recognise that #COVIDisAirborne we are setting ourselves up for repeated failure”

6) Here is a good thread on premium filtration KF94 / KN95 grade kids masks for different ages of kids… lots of different kinds for different kids’ faces.
7) Here is an adjustable earloop KF94 S Korean kids mask for 3.5-7 year olds. Age of course is approximate. Currently $1.5 each.

(No commission)
kollecteusa.com/products/bluna…
8) I hate to say it— but also are also lots of “fake masks” worn by anti maskers out there too…. Beware of these used to circumvent mask rules.

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12 Oct
NEW—States with Democratic governors had ~8% lower spread of #COVID19 than Republican-led ones because of stricter public health measures, a new study — researchers underscoring how Covid-restrictions got“politicized”. forbes.com/sites/alisondu…
2) The peer-reviewed study, led by researchers at Binghamton University, determined a Public Health Protective Policy Index (PPI) of “stringency” of states’ public health policies and analyzed in relation to states’ Covid-19 transmission and the governors’ partisan affiliation.
3) The researchers looked at Covid-19 rates and policies between March and November 2020, as well as when specific states’ Covid-19 cases peaked.
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12 Oct
What a headline—Natural infection approach of “Herd immunity ‘group think’ led to ‘public health failure”…. that led a #COVID19 catastrophe that cost lives. 🧵

Bottomline: don’t do mass infection herd. It’s morally empty and “epidemiologically stupid”. amp.ft.com/content/20e6bf…
2) “British government and scientists made a fatalistic decision by backing a strategy that amounted to “herd immunity” in the early stages of the coronavirus pandemic, costing many thousands of lives in “one of the most important public health failures 🇬🇧 has ever experienced”
3) The joint report — agreed unanimously by 22 MPs from Conservative, Labour and Scottish National parties — is the first authoritative investigation of the UK response to the pandemic. committees.parliament.uk/publications/7…
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11 Oct
📌VARIANT update on #MuVariant vs #DeltaVariant— it seems Ecuador #SARSCoV2 sequencing shows Mu variant competing well versus the Delta variant—both displacing all others. Lambda and Iota almost extinct. ➡️#MuVariant hanging on & expanding next to Delta.🧵
nextstrain.org/ncov/gisaid/so…
2) That said, in Colombia, where #MuVariant first emerged & once dominant, #DeltaVariant is outpacing Mu. Interesting Ecuador they are more or less tied, but in Columbia Delta is winning. Maybe because immunity against Mu has been building longer in Colombia—while Delta is new.
3) What about #MuVariant vs #DeltaVariant in the US? It seems Delta is harder to control than Mu. Mu seems to rank second in R(t) — the R at current time — behind Delta. This is I guess good. But as Delta goes away, and we lift restrictions- will R(t) of Mu stay under 1? Dunno.
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10 Oct
Watching—Doctors are warning of possible rise in cases of a debilitating nervous-system disorder—likely associated with #LongCovid. Postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS) affect autonomic nervous system that controls body’s “automatic” functions.
ctvnews.ca/health/coronav…
2) POTS is a form of dysautonomia, an umbrella term for conditions that cause autonomic nervous system to malfunction. The autonomic nervous system controls the body’s “automatic” functions, such as heart rate, blood pressure, digestion, kidney function, and temperature control.
3) In cases of POTS, specifically, patients’ blood flow is affected and they can experience light-headedness, fainting, chest pains, shortness of breath, and an uncomfortable, rapid increase in heartbeat after standing up.
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9 Oct
JUST IN—After seemingly recovering from #COVID19, a 16-year old boy has just died after diagnosed with post-COVID pediatric inflammatory multi-system syndrome (PIMS). Doctors now say “we are seeing a rise in PIMS in recent weeks”. The boy was unvaccinated.
jpost.com/breaking-news/…
2) At another hospital, a six-month-old baby was hospitalized in critical condition from PIMS and connected to an ECMO machine at Sheba Medical Center. The baby's condition deteriorated overnight Friday, and taken into surgery in very serious condition. m.jpost.com/breaking-news/…
3) PIMS is a multi-organ infection. Similar to those of Kawasaki disease – an acute and usually self-limiting vasculitis of the medium caliber vessels, almost exclusively affects children – and toxic shock syndrome – a life-threatening complication of certain bacterial infections
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9 Oct
Now a top trending killer in kids 5-14: #DeltaVariant.

Surging from near 0% in June to now ~8% of deaths in kids 5-14 are #COVID19 in September.

#MaskUp & #vaccinate when kids vaccines come out.

(CDC data—figure by @DrWilliamKu) Image
2) I still cry when I think of those kids who have lost a mother or father or caregiver… may our children forgive us.
3) let’s prevent these damn tragedies. Mass infecting kids is not a valid strategy
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