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21 Dec, 5 tweets, 3 min read
📍JUST IN—the extremely contagious Omicron variant is now the dominant version of new coronavirus cases in the United States. #Omicron now accounts for 73% of new cases, according to CDC. Just 2 weeks ago? …1%. A weeks ago? 13%. Worried about Christmas 🎄
nytimes.com/live/2021/12/2…
2) Don’t be like UK… this is what is now happening to children 0-5 in 🇬🇧 — all time record hospitalizations and surging 39% in one week 👇
3) in contrast to Omicron’s 2 week rampage from 1% to 73% dominance ➡️ it took Delta over 7 weeks to go from 1% to just 54%. This is why many estimate Omicron to be 3-6x more transmissible. (Repost, sorry for earlier typo)
4) With runaway #Omicron cases, hospitalizations and deaths were only a matter of time. Especially in the unvaccinated. See thread 🧵 below — convalescent survivors of past infections are not well protected.
5) I also pray and hope we don’t have too many #Omicron and Delta co-infections, or worse, Omicron and Influenza A virus coinfections. Why? Well… IAV kinda exacerbates COVID and makes it more severe in mice studies. 👇

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Eric Feigl-Ding Profile picture
22 Dec
Jeeez— UK’s #Omicron wave is so stratospherically huge… that today’s per capita incidence would be equal to ~515,000 new cases if the size of US! ➡️ more than DOUBLE the all time record ever seen in the Us! #COVID19
2) How bad is UK’s Omicron load? US’s all time high was an daily average of 250k set last winter in early January. UK’s per capita rate today at 515k US-equivalent blows that out of the water! By 2x! Image
3) And yes, hospitalizations rising in England. 6 month high.
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22 Dec
⚠️“MILDER” will not save us from overwhelmed hospitals. NYC #COVID19 🏥admissions up ⬆️4x in a month. ➡️Even if it’s 50% milder, but double cases infected—same hospitalization. 📍What’s then the problem? #Omicron doubles every 1.5-2 days! You wipe out a mild benefit in <2 days!🧵 ImageImage
2) same in London, the earliest #Omicron epicenter in UK… hospitalizations have tripled since a month ago! People who tout the mild while ignoring the total infections have no business in epidemiology. Image
3) Remember runaway infections is what will slam us hard in the end for causing surging hospitalizations and deaths… and 3 billion projected infections from @IHME_UW in 3 months is mind boggling.
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Eric Feigl-Ding Profile picture
22 Dec
UK 🇬🇧 hospitalizations spiking —now the highest in over 6 months. But mild you ask? ➡️Even if it’s 50% milder, but you double the cases infected… you’re at same hospitalization. ⚠️What’s then the problem? #Omicron doubles every 1.5 days! You wipe out a mild benefit in <2 days! Image
2) To be clear the 6 month high stat is for England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Image
3) Global #omicron infections estimated to be 3 BILLION cases in next 3 months says @IHME_UW
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22 Dec
⚠️Global domination of Omicron—This map shows Omicron projection by December 31 (via @IHME_UW), with 3 billion #Omicron infections over next 3 months says @AliHMokdad. ➡️Are you boosted? Do you have N95 respirator or at least KN95/KF94/FFP3 mask? Home/school ventilated? Prepare🧵 Image
2) Watch this video of #Omicron domination streak - please prepare. Chance favors the prepared mind. Precautionary principle saves lives.

Video by @IHME_UW
3) Here are the @IHME_UW projected #COVID19 deaths by March 2022. And additional half a million deaths projected and potentially more.

covid19.healthdata.org/global?view=cu… Image
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22 Dec
NEW—scientists at Walter Reed Army Institute of Research will soon announce that they have developed a vaccine that protects people from COVID-19 and all its variants, even #Omicron, called The ‘Spike Ferritin Nanoparticle COVID-19 vaccine’, or SpFN. 🧵
defenseone.com/technology/202…
2) The achievement is the result of almost two years of work. The lab received its first DNA sequencing of the COVID-19 virus in early 2020. Very early on, Walter Reed decided to focus on making a vaccine that would work against all of its potential variants.
3) Unlike existing vaccines, Walter Reed’s SpFN uses a soccer ball-shaped protein with 24 faces for its vaccine, which allows scientists to attach the spikes of multiple coronavirus strains on different faces of the protein. 👀
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21 Dec
📝A note—Many say racist things to me—& some folks don’t like I share precautionary/doom-y COVID data. Some call me a CCP spy, pharma shill, attention seeking personal brand builder… But I’m none of those. Who I really am:🧵

This from exactly 10-yrs ago—
well.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/08/a-w…
2) I have no publicist, and unlike many “Twitter docs” during the pandemic, I have never paid for one. I have no website, merch store, or YouTube. I only recently started a mini substack—but I barely use it—& I plan to donate any incidental amount I get from it to COVID research.
3) When I tweet—what I think of is all the lives we could save. All the hospitalization suffering. All the PTSD endured by overworked doctors & nurses. All the long COVID sufferers. Sometimes I’m a misunderstood scientist—but that’s okay if it saves lives in a pandemic.
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