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Jan 25 • 9 tweets • 6 min read
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.
4) Thus, how much faster is #BA2 than BA1? Our newest modeling (by @JPWeilan) says it is approximately ~2x faster than vanilla BA Omicron, which was 4-6x faster than Delta, which is 2x faster than Wuhan.

Thus, 2*5*2= up to 20x faster than Wuhan? Maybe, maybe not. But worrisome.
5) Some scientists have dubbed BA. 2 the “stealth omicron” because it has genetic traits that make it more difficult to identify the omicron form of the virus on PCR tests.
6) A French epidemiologist told Agence France-Presse that “what surprised us is the rapidity with which this sub-variant, which has been circulating to a great extent in Asia, has taken hold in Denmark.” timesofisrael.com/omicron-sub-va…
7) Folks — there is worry of reinfection with #BA2 even after you recently had BA1 vanilla #Omicron. Denmark 🇩🇰’s CDC scientist warns specifically about this risk. ➡️ This is why mass infection herd strategy is extremely poor choice. And why stopping transmission critical!
8) Several #BA2 Omicron subvariant cases found in Washington state— it’s definitely everywhere now. king5.com/article/news/h…
9) there is a rebounding of cases in several countries. UK 🇬🇧 and Greece 🇬🇷 nothing seeing a new upward trend while the US has flattened and maybe shifting. Not sure if it’s BA2 - likely too early, but worrisome it’s stopped falling.

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Jan 26
💡REVOLUTIONARY—I cannot stress how epic @costplusdrugs is—there are now >100 generic 💊 sold for often ~90% off list price (sometimes 140x lower) because @mcuban’s company has cut out profiteering big pharma + pharmacy middlemen. Generics sold at cost +15%. HUGE!

Ht @VincentRK
2) Example— @costplusdrugs’s imatinib is offered for $200 a year. Which is what it currently costs in India 🇮🇳. However big Pharma charges $120,000 a year, and even with Good Rx coupons is still ~ $2000 a year minimum. @mcuban has cut that down again to just holy effing $200!
3) that said, it seems @costplusdrugs can only do that for standard chemical based drugs— which you can easily make exact copies via standard chemistry. And he is just buying and selling authorized generics already approved for sale in USA. But not all drugs available this way.
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Jan 26
I hate how leaders are ignoring RECORD HIGH ⬆️ PEDIATRIC #COVID19 HOSPITALIZATIONS. This is not just happening in England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 but also in France 🇫🇷, Spain 🇪🇸, US 🇺🇸 and more. Yet some dismissive soulless ghouls still try to claim kids are “practically immune” or kids 🏥 overblown! ImageImage
2) In England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿, where there is no mask mandate, cases among kids are soaring like bonkers. @nadhimzahawi - show some moral backbone and concern for kids. Show some actual leadership. Image
3) This neglect of kids & #COVID19 has done irreparable harm to kids. The soaring absences from schools in England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 doesn’t lie @nadhimzahawi. Image
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Jan 25
📍CDC warns re close contact with @CDCgov lab monkeys—“If within 5 feet of the 🙊crates without respiratory & eye protection, monitor yourself for signs of illness including fever, fatigue, cough, diarrhea, & vomiting." ➡️Monkeys were not CDC quarantined. A bystander also sick🧵 ImageImage
2) apparently the 100 monkeys headed to the CDC lab were from Africa and **were not quarantined**! What kind of animal import protocol is this? ➡️ plus, the woman stepped in the monkey feces. pahomepage.com/news/danville-…
3) “Since the monkeys were not quarantined and monitored, the CDC told Fallon she needs to take precautions because she was in close contact. 
According to the CDC, this species commonly spreads herpes virus B through saliva, feces or urine.
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Jan 25
📍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!

HT @Antonio_Caramia
2) do we see this pediatric #COVID19 hospitalization surge elsewhere? Yes. Same pattern of kids in hospitals for COVID - especially youngest kids.
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!
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Jan 24
📈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.

Figure by @DrWilliamKu.
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.
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Jan 24
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 🧵
3) we have a new reigning variant in Denmark 🇩🇰— it’s #BA2 #Omicron sublineage. And it is now over 50% and dominant!
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