📍Video—You don’t need to speak French🇫🇷 to understand the coronavirus is airborne. For family & friend gatherings—please take #COVIDisAirborne precautions:
📌Ventilate
📌Disinfect the air
📌Gather outside
📌Monitor CO2 levels
📌Vaccinate
📌Test
Merci🙏
2) Remember that the coronavirus spreads “like smoke”—but just invisible and odorless. Please ventilate. #COVIDisAirborne
3) Some governments are finally waking up that the #COVIDisAirborne. Ventilate the coronavirus particles. It’s airborne. #COVID19
4) We need to VERY vigilant about the coronavirus even if we don’t see anyone in our immediate vicinity. #COVIDisAirborne means the coronavirus can still be in the air! See this detailed 🧵 below 👇
5) Do you want to goto this holiday party 🎈 without safety measures? aerosol study indicates that coronavirus is persistent and stable for many hours. Typical air exchange every 20 min to 4 hrs, depending on ventilation. #COVID19#COVIDisAirborne
6) VENTILATION is key. Both ventilation and masks needed to reduce risk indoors. But most buildings not ventilated well enough. #COVIDisAirborne
7) “Until we recognise that #COVIDisAirborne we are setting ourselves up for repeated failure”
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WORRISOME IF ENDEMIC—As more become immune (good)—#SARSCoV2 will shift in evolutionary pressure towards ⬆️ **immune escape**, especially if endemic—it will undergo **continual antigenic drift**—that is—more continual mutations. ➡️hence why #COVID19 elimination is likely better.🧵
2) Think of the virus & human immunity as an evolutionary arms race — each fighting for dominance. With growing immunity, the virus will be pressured more to be more evasive. Basically like when the walls are closing in—**pole vaulting** over walls get more important than speed.
3) This is also why letting the virus rip with mass infection also stupid. “Learn to live with the virus” is code for this. It is code for let it rip and citing “endemic” as if it’s a good outcome. It’s NOT!
HOPEFUL—the NIH launches a large, long-term study of the impacts of COVID-19–it will track up to 1,000 children & young adults who previously tested positive for COVID-19 and evaluate the impact of #COVID19 on their physical and mental health over 3 years. nih.gov/news-events/ne…
2) The study is expected to yield a detailed picture of COVID-19’s effects on the overall health of children, their development and immune responses to infection, and their overall quality of life in the years following infection.
3) Early data suggested that children were less likely to suffer from severe cases of COVID-19 than older people. However, among the 6 million reported pediatric COVID-19 cases the US, many children have experienced significant acute and long-term effects of the disease.
📝Dear @WHO—If the WHO can choose to delete its bad diabetes tweet, ➡️then it can delete its infamously bad “COVID is not airborne” misinformation tweet from March 2020. It’s time. Fix the error—let’s save more lives now! #COVIDisAirborne
2) There are moments in history we all wish we could time travel back to fix. @WHO has let this inaccurate post stay online still. It’s time to correct the record and fix it for posterity & history.
Welp—China is killing the pets of #COVID19 patients without their consent. Patients reported coming home to find their pets have been killed while the pet owners were in quarantine or being treated.
2) “If I happen to catch Covid-19, what if my cat starves to death or gets killed while I’m in quarantine?” There is a spate of recent incidents in 🇨🇳 where the pets of coronavirus patients were forcefully killed by local governments as part of their prevention measures.
3) But the same time - we need to read the tea leaves 🍃 a little here… this is not a crackdown against political dissent in anyway. This was done apolitically - yet China still did it—why? This is a bad sign - that China had to resort to this.
Heartbreaking—3 snow leopards have died of #COVID19 at Lincoln Children’s Zoo in Nebraska (my childhood zoo growing up!!!). It follows the death of another snow leopard (a vulnerable species) at a South Dakota zoo last month. 😢 This is humanity’s fault. bnonews.com/index.php/2021…
2) I’m so gosh darn upset right now. Growing up in Lincoln Nebraska as a young child, I loved @LincolnZoo!!! Can’t believe COVID just killed 3 vulnerable animals there. lincolnzoo.org
3) Holy crap, 8 other snow leopards have also tested #COVID19 positive at St Louis zoo. This is getting out of control. stltoday.com/news/local/met…