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21 Oct, 4 tweets, 1 min read
ERADICATION?—oh hey… Historically low global flu rates during the pandemic may have eradicated one flu type—1 of 4 flu viruses that infect humans each year hasn't been detected anywhere in the world since April 2020➡️ zero worldwide in 18 months! Hopeful.
abc.net.au/news/science/2…
2) Two studies — one published in Nature Reviews Microbiology in September and the other currently under review — show one of four flu viruses that infect humans each year hasn't been detected anywhere in the world since April 2020.

nature.com/articles/s4157…
3) So does that mean it's gone for good? It's still too early to say.
There is a chance this particular virus — the Yamagata virus — might be lurking in a pocket of the world somewhere, according to Ian Barr, deputy director of the World Health Organization's
4) "It may re-emerge, but we haven't had a single detection of that virus in 18 months.

"That's unusual, so it could be gone. We hope it's gone." 🙏

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23 Oct
LAB ERROR TRIGGERS OUTBREAK—False negative lab error results from PCR tests are being blamed for high #COVID19 rates across the West of England🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿—Record highs. Experts suspect people unwittingly infected others when they should have been isolating. 🧵
bbc.com/news/uk-englan… Image
2) 43,000 people were rongly told their Covid-19 test was negative due to errors at a private laboratory.
"The recent laboratory PCR testing issue that gave people false negative PCR test results will have led to people not self-isolating when infectious, which led to spread”
3) a woman and her family of six have all got Covid.
She said she felt let down by the system.
"My twins had positive lateral flow tests, so I took them and my oldest daughter, who was symptomatic, for PCR tests, all of which came back negative," she said.
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23 Oct
Devastating—An unvaccinated mother with #COVID19 delivers her baby on a ventilator—she died never holding her baby. CDC warns complications can be deadly for both mother & baby—expecting mothers who get COVID have 2x ICU admissions & 70% ⬆️risk of dying.🧵
npr.org/2021/10/23/104… Image
2) "The risk of putting your life at risk, your unborn child's life at risk, is not worth it," says Dr. Rebecca Wineland. She is the director of labor and delivery at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston.
3) Wineland says expecting mothers infected with the fast spreading Delta variant are at a greater risk for stillbirths, babies with restricted growth and pre-eclampsia, a leading cause of maternal and infant death worldwide.
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23 Oct
FACEBOOK WAS COMPLICIT—newly leaked Facebook documents reveal how the Stop the Steal movement grew on @Facebook before the Jan 6th. (also sad for me to see my childhood home region Harrisburg folks in it).
@donie @Sarah_Boxer @tarasubramaniam @claresduffy
2) One staffer wrote that, "leadership overrides research based policy decisions to better serve people like the groups inciting violence today. Rank and file workers have done their part to identify changes to improve our platforms but have been actively held back." 👀
3) Internal FB message board by employees show extreme frustration by lack of action of FB leadership. Image
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23 Oct
Brazilian President @jairbolsonaro confirms he will attend the G-20 summit in Rome without being vaccinated, despite Bolsonaro’s delegation previously triggering a small #COVID19 outbreak at UN last month. He is also blamed for mass homicide by 🇧🇷 Senate.
noticias.uol.com.br/colunas/jamil-… Image
2) A Brazilian Senate committee has recommended that President Jair Bolsonaro face multiple charges, including crimes against humanity related to #COVID19. HT @mehdirhasan of @MehdiHasanShow.

3) Bolsonaro delegation is a threat to public health and to the world.
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22 Oct
BREAKING—Kid-size doses of Pfizer’s #COVID19 vaccine appear safe & nearly 91% effective at preventing symptomatic infections in 5-11-year-olds, & their low-dose shots developed antibody levels just as strong as teens and young adults who got full doses.
nbcnews.com/health/kids-he…
2) Furthermore, local reactions in kids 5-11 very low with the 10 mcg dose! Image
3) and systemic reactions also VERY low with 10 mcg dose in kids! Much lower than 30 mcg. This is great news. fda.gov/media/153409/d… Image
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22 Oct
📍BAD SIGN—Something really bad happening in UK 🇬🇧—especially notable in Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿— where hospitalization for #COVID19 resurging—but for first time since vaccine mass rollout—deaths newly spiking now as well ⚠️. Possibly new Delta sub variant. Watching. bbc.com/news/uk-wales-… ImageImageImage
2) in the UK, there has been a sudden rise in a Delta subtype AY.4.2, which some are calling "Delta Plus", contains mutations that might give the virus survival advantages. It’s about 10% now. bbc.com/news/health-58…
3) this new surge seems unique to UK and Eastern Europe at the moment. Russia is now in a one week semi lockdown, as is Latvia. UK may need fast action to avoid that fate.
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