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Feb 2 • 5 tweets • 4 min read
👀Watching—New 🇬🇧data show the Omicron subvariant BA.2 has a ~30% higher ⬆️attack rate of #BA2 in households than old Omicron. BA2’s growth rate is also quite fast ⬆️125% per week! It will overtake old BA1 Omicron & become dominant soon. Stay vigilant.🧵 assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/upl…
2) #BA2 is also rivaling BA1 in the initial upswing in England. BA2 will overtake BA1 for certain given what we have seen in Denmark and South Africa. The question is when.
3) So far, the good news for #BA2 is that it seems to respond to boosters similarly well as BA1 — around 70% booster efficacy after 2 weeks against symptomatic infection.
4) that said, it seems #Omicron already carries reinfection potential by another future variant. Thus don’t rely on Omicron-induced immunity. See 🧵below.
5) not good—“immunity based on #Omicron infection is weak for (another) Omicron reinfection” ⚠️

Don’t risk #Omicron

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Feb 3
🏫Big mask lawsuit—a group of parents of students with disabilities filed a lawsuit against VA Governor @GlennYoungkin, alleging his executive order allowing masks to be optional for schoolchildren violates the Americans With Disabilities Act & other law🧵
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2) The children of the plaintiffs in the lawsuit have such illnesses as cancer, cystic fibrosis, asthma, Down syndrome, lung conditions and weakened immune systems that make COVID-19 more dangerous for them.
3) Because of that, the parents allege that Youngkin, Attorney General Jason Miyares and other officials are excluding their children from access to a public education. The lawsuit is the third filed against Youngkin & state officials since he issued the executive order.
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Feb 2
BLOODY HELL—UK 🇬🇧 is proposing to **cease publishing daily #COVID19 death toll** by April under @BorisJohnson’s plan to 'live with Covid'. This is how he and @sajidjavid plan to cover up their pandemic incompetence… scientists are very upset 🧵
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2) “a senior Whitehall source familiar: “The PM has pencilled in Easter as the latest date by which the daily Covid statistics will be published in their current form. In an ideal situation he will bring an end to them sooner if the current downward trend in deaths continues.”
3) “If Covid infections continue to fall this month, Boris Johnson could order changes to the UKHSA’s coronavirus dashboard within weeks, and is understood to have set Easter in mid-April as the deadline to stop the publication of infections, hospital admissions and death data.”
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Jan 30
⚠️REINFECTION RISK—Omicron doesn’t protect from future infection much—2 studies “taken together, ➡️ our results suggest that #Omicron-induced immunity may not be sufficient to prevent infection from another, more pathogenic variant, should it emerge in the future” 👀 #COVID19
2) “immunity based on #Omicron infection is weak for (another) Omicron reinfection” ⚠️

Don’t risk #Omicron!!!
3) That said, #Deltavariant infection seemed to protect more. But Delta is risky too. So unless you had a severe infection of either (don’t risk it), your mild case of #Omicron isn’t a good guarantee of high protection. You may have some, but not a guarantee.
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Jan 29
📍My deepest fear is not just COVID—it’s the Russian🇷🇺 invasion of Ukraine🇺🇦—➡️it’s now very clear a full-scale invasion of eastern 🇺🇦 is likely imminent. Putin wants a major conflict—& based on @DAlperovitch’s A+ layout of 🇷🇺’s likely war plans—many innocent lives will be lost🧵
2) Russia will likely have complete air dominance over Ukraine very quickly — if US or NATO doesn’t act quickly. Ukraine by herself can’t possible stop Russian air superiority by itself. And slower NATO allied action, the faster eastern Ukraine will fall. Time is of the essence.
3) Russian air dominance using UAVs and electronic warfare will also be quite extensive. It may well be a 21st century’s first electronic blitzkrieg.
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Jan 28
📌Not a good signal—somehow in the original 🇿🇦 epicenter of #Omicron, #BA2 subvariant has suddenly become dominant ~58% now, displacing old BA1 strain. Same thing happened in Denmark 🇩🇰 where BA2 is now over 65% dominant.

HT @JosetteSchoenma #COVID19
2) Recently, @JPWeiland used Danish public data and UK data to estimate that #BA2 is about 2x faster than #BA1– the original #Omicron, which was 4-6x faster than Delta, which was 2x faster than Wuhan. So yeah, BA1 is pretty fast and/or immunity evasive.
3) Virus researcher & chief physician of Danish public health authority @ssi_dk says you can get infected with #BA2 subvariant of #Omicron after being infected with Omicron BA.1. ➡️ This is why we shouldn’t risk COVID or chase mass infection. nyheder.tv2.dk/2022-01-21-ny-…
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Jan 27
I’m deleting @Spotify. You should too. Vaccine disinformation is not cool.

#DeleteSpotify #Spotifydeleted
2) have you deleted @Spotify yet? #DeleteSpotify #Spotifydeleted Image
3) BLOOD 🩸 MONEY = @Spotify

Are you okay with pandemic blood money @SpotifyUSA? Yes, we (@kurtbardella and I) are talking to you.

#DeleteSpotify #Spotifydeleted
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