Example of how a pathetic troll attempts to accuse me of being a “fearmonger” actually gets fact-checked & called out (by renowned epidemiologist @dgurdasani1) for spinning & misleading his audience.
📍PEDIATRIC #COVID19 HOSPITALIZATION—Still surging is hospital COVID admissions in England 🏴—another new all time record among kids 6-17. However, there are even more COVID hospital admissions in kids 0-5, despite fewer kids 0-5 than 6-17. Let that sink in!
3) Let this sink in — even South Africa’s latest report is warning about the much much higher case-admission risk of #Omicron in kids age 0-4 vs delta. And such kids have higher case admission than even the elderly! The data doesn’t lie!
⚠️CDC ISSUES WARNING re: monkeys headed for @CDCgov lab—@CDCgov now issues a warning: “If within 5 feet of the crates without respiratory & eye protection, monitor yourself for signs of illness including fever, fatigue, cough, diarrhea, & vomiting." 🧵 hbg100.com/2022/01/24/wit…
2) Also a bystander woman now is sick. “The Danville woman is now experiencing symptoms, believed to be related to her close encounter with wild monkeys, when the trailer they were riding in collided with a dump truck & unloaded their cages all over Route 54 on Friday afternoon.”
3) “The monkeys were destined for an unidentified Centers for Disease Control lab, in the Midwest.)
The following day, Fallon developed a cough and something that resembled “pink-eye.” And, by Sunday, she was visiting the Geisinger Medical Center emergency room”
NEW—3 cases of the new #BA2 subvariant of #Omicron has been found in Texas. But it’s again being stupidly downplayed by @CDCgov saying it’s very low. But it was once low in Denmark 🇩🇰 too! ➡️Today—BA2 is now fully dominant in 🇩🇰—65% of all #COVID19 now! 🧵 washingtonpost.com/health/2022/01…
2) Denmark’s #Omicron was almost all BA1 before. Now it is majority BA2. The coronavirus doesn’t screw around. If a new variant wins over the previous — you know it is more aggressive in some way or another.
3) So let’s think it through — if BA1 #Omicron has infected a huge swath of the population already in many countries (DK being one of them), but now BA2 emerges & quickly growing— it must have some competitive advantage!! There’s almost no other way to explain sudden replacement.
📈RESURGENCE—Worrisome that #Omicron is somehow surging ⬆️ upwards again across Southern England 🏴. London’s case drop has also stalled —now flat. Likely due to dropping #COVID19 mitigations & throwing caution to the wind by @BorisJohnson & @sajidjavid.
2) I’m not sure it’s #BA2 subvariant of Omicron yet. The sequencing of BA2 shows it’s still low in 🇬🇧 but increasing exponentially for sure. Many estimate it will be dominant in mid FEB in England. Someone to keep an eye on.
3) we definitely need to keep an eye on #BA2– the latest models of competitive growth of BA2 vs older vanilla BA1 #Omicron shows a ~2x growth advantage… even higher in England than in Denmark.
3506 Americans died of #COVID19 yesterday—more than 9/11. Yes We all want pandemic over, but we don’t get to arbitrarily decide if COVID is over. Meantime, listen to @mehdirhasan 👇 in his blistering 60 seconds.
2) We don’t get to decide when COVID is over… the virus decides when it has been suppressed enough. But the virus is learning to adapt. The BA2 subvariant of #Omicron is here and taking the world by storm once again… see thread 🧵
⚠️90%-120% FASTER—New model on the new #BA2 subvariant shows a ⬆️90% competitive growth advantage over vanilla BA1 #Omicron in Denmark🇩🇰. Worse, modeling in England🏴 shows ⬆️~120% faster BA2 advantage over BA1. 🧵
HT @JPWeiland (who correctly said Omicron was 5-6x Delta before)
2) #BA2 is now over 50% in Denmark! It only took 1 month to overtake the already super contagious original BA1 #Omicron.
3) in the Netherlands 🇳🇱, #BA2 is also surging and displacing the old BA1 #Omicron.