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Jan 17,, 5 tweets, 3 min read
📍NEW—1 in 10 people with #COVID19 still could be infectious beyond 10 days, and some could remain so for as long as 2 months, a new study suggests, and pose risk of onward transmission. Plus, “we wouldn't be able to predict who they are” says author.
upi.com/Health_News/20…
2) This is why the safest thing is to TEST out of isolation, rather than using a specific fixed time or based on symptoms—because asymptomatic transmission is also really common.
3) We haven’t gotten really careless in this pandemic lately. hospital-acquired infections of #COVID19 has also surged in many places according to places that collect it. 👇
4) TRANSMISSION MATTERS— “the sheer numbers being infected will mean children being hospitalized,” adding that the current spiraling numbers bring back vivid memories of the first wave in early 2020.
timesofisrael.com/1st-kids-omicr…
5) Meanwhile— 🇬🇧 is lifting all isolation rules!!! Scientists are so angry—“I feel like I’m in living in a country where its leaders have gone completely mad”, says @Kit_Yates_Maths — we are all dismayed at UK’s new “let it rip” approach. telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/01/1…

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Jan 19,
FIRST ever case of a man who suffered agonizing penis pain due to a “mild” #COVID19 infection 3 weeks earlier that caused a blood clot of his penis vein—mid-erection. It took 2 months of blood thinner treatment before he regained normal function. Mild? 🧵 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/cc… Image
2) The deep dorsal penis vein runs the whole length of the penis and is involved in supply of oxygenated blood to the organ.

An ultrasound showed “no [blood] flow in the vein” due to a clot around half way along the penis.

nypost.com/2022/01/18/man…
3) The unnamed male had suffered penile pain for three days before being seen by a urologist in Iran, who referred him for tests.
The discomfort began following an erection while having sex, the 41-year-old married man told doctors.
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Jan 18,
🧪NEW—all households in the U.S. can order one set of 4 free at-home tests from the US Postal Service.
•Limit of one order per address
•One order includes 4 individual rapid antigen #COVID19 tests
•Ships starting in late January

ORDER FREE 👇
special.usps.com/testkits Image
2) the free rapid antigen home test ordering process is extremely simple. You can order more if you have more than one address it seems. There isn’t any fine print that says limit one per household. Just one per *residential address*.
special.usps.com/testkits
3) However, USPS website does validate if the address has had an order placed already before. Thus, please don’t order for a friend’s address without their okay. And it seems **different APARTMENTS are okay** if the address is recognized by USPS to be a known apt building.
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Jan 18,
BREAKING—Hong Kong suspects hamsters in the first animal-to-human transmission in 🇭🇰—will now cull 2,000 hamsters. Pet shops & owners ordered to hand over all hamsters bought since Dec 22 out of concern a pet shop employee was infected with Delta variant. scmp.com/news/hong-kong…
2) Officials made the order on Tuesday after 11 samples taken from hamsters came back positive and two more human infections emerged linked to a pet store. A shopkeeper was earlier diagnosed as the city’s first untraceable Delta infection in more than three months.
3) The animals would be tested before euthanisation, authorities said.
Director of Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Dr Leung Siu-fai announced that all owners who had bought hamsters since December 22 would have to turn over the animals.
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Jan 17,
OMG - this little girl is the best. She just told you off @BorisJohnson, you naughty boy. #COVID19
Her “But!” 🤷🏻‍♂️ was so priceless.
And her forceful “In lockdown” was just incredible! Her dismay is all of us.
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Jan 17,
⚠️Listen up—Top 🇬🇧 scientists warns that “In the last week—there’s now evidence that T-cells…get damaged the same way that HIV and other RNA-virus damage T-cell immunity”. ➡️Prof Costello (@globalhlthtwit) raises serious concerns on #COVID19 & the 🧠—a🧵:
2) “My biggest worry all along has been the long term effects particularly on the brain. We know that people who get brain fog who get fatigue, cognitive problems, & smell and taste is very common—and that means the virus is affecting the brain 🧠”
3) “We know the virus can get intro the brain. We know the virus affects cells around blood vessels. I’m beginning to think—‘how long is this going to last’—because we have allowed millions of children to become infected with the virus.”
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Jan 16,
📍Really interesting that SA deaths are increasing a lot, more than a month after the peak in cases. #Omicron is not following the usual 14-21 day lag seen for other waves. Also, there is large >30% excess deaths above historical average—3000 excess/week.

Figure by @rid1tweets.
2) As pointed out, excess deaths are running 130% of normal—ie 30% excess above normal. Notice how few of all deaths are officially diagnosed as #COVID19 (red) versus total excess (blue). This excess of 3000/week is huge—if SA➡️US population it would be over 16000 deaths/week.
3) Furthermore, the excess deaths in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa during #Omicron wave has actually now exceeded their Delta wave—and **holding onto this excess for 2 straight weeks** above Delta wave peak. samrc.ac.za/reports/report…
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