📍MISSING IN ACTION—It’s beginning to be suspicious how Florida’s governor has not been seen for 12 straight days—all while #COVID19 cases spiked 1000% (all time high) & hospitalizations surged & MAb drugs short—need leadership.
HT @thereidout@therecount
2) Florida’s leadership relying on mass-infection-herd strategy has been an abysmal failure. After every wave, they thought they were at herd. But new variants that evade past infection immunity has blown that strategy up. I worry hospitalizations will soon soar even more. 😢
3) Hence this is all the more strange that absolutely “NOBODY KNOWS WHERE THE GOVERNOR HAS GONE” says Florida journalist @grantstern. #WhereIsRonDesantis
4) Florida hospitalizations are still early — UK is far ahead in the #Omicron surge. Furthermore, 🇬🇧 data says hospitalization are running ahead of forecasted projections. I fear Florida might become even worse given that UK has stricter isolation rules and more booster rollout
5) Actual airplane ✈️ flown sign… “Florida is on fire and Ron is missing”. This is what the 3rd largest state in the US has come to during a record pandemic.
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“Mild” but hospitals overloaded.
“Mild” but healthcare workers burnt out.
“Mild” but thousands of flights cancelled.
“Mild” but no booster shots for kids in under-ventilated schools.
“Mild” brain damage.
“Mild” collapse of society.
3) I love how those who dismiss COVID as mild always eventually fall back to arguing what they really care about… the $$$… #DontLookUp is the most brilliant movie 🍿 of our times.
⚠️CDC MADE IT WORSE—The @CDCgov is so out of whack right now—@CDCDirector quietly **without any notice** revised the unscientific 5-day isolation press release from just “asymptomatic” to “or symptoms are resolving”. ➡️Plus “resolving” is even more useless & dangerously vague—🧵
3) Yesterday I warned that this vague language will definitely enable if not encourage people to skirt the isolation rules. This will only cause more infections!
Let this sink in—@Delta Airlines first lobbied @CDCgov to change #COVID19 isolation rules—got its way a few days later. Then Delta proceeds to further dilute the new lax CDC rules. And then Delta slashes sick leave for workers. ➡️ Delta Airlines wants to make COVID great again.
2) You almost can’t make up a more heinous story than this. @Delta will only offer 5 days of paid sick leave for #COVID19 — if you are still sick and need to isolate longer, tough shit, says Delta—no paid sick leave longer. nytimes.com/2021/12/29/bus…
3) CDC is at fault too—
“It sounds like this decision had just as much to do with business as it did the science." @kaitlancollins
➡️@CDCDirector: "It really had a lot to do with what we thought people would be able to tolerate."
FLORIDA—Surpassing all-time #COVID19 high with hospitalizations surging like clockwork behind the case rise. Some claimed Florida was as “herd” and #Omicon protected because of recent July-September #DeltaVariant wave. This looks unlikely.
⚠️FASTER THAN FORECAST—Surging 🏥 hospital admissions—England🏴 now suddenly reporting a ⬆️54% increase in hospitalizations in one week… This is extra concerning because it is now notably **ahead** of @LSHTM#Omicron hospitalization forecast!
3) The surge in #COVID19 hospitalizations is happening across England 🏴- but especially the fastest in the earliest #Omicron hotspot of London. But all areas of England has hospital admissions clearly rising.
Dear @CDCgov—is this woman safe to stop isolating on day 5? She’s got asymptomatic #COVID19 too—her test is so positive that her test is immediately positive under 30 seconds. But @CDCDirector says it’s okay? Countless epidemiologists are upset.
2) Other countries require at least 2 negative tests taken 24 hours apart before they can exit isolation. Self reported honor system is not used. And asymptomatic #COVID19 is still contagious— have we learned nothing??? See 👇 thread 🧵
3) the CDC has a lot of explaining to do! Their new 5 day isolation exit policy without any testing is not science based. It’s business and convenience-based! @CDCDirector said it herself…. 👇