Nuclear weapons should not exist. At the very least, we must dismantle ~99% of the existing stockpile. Why do we have ~5500 nuclear weapons? A handful would suffice for deterrence, and every one is an accident waiting to happen. 1/8
Too few people know that the only thing that saved North Carolina from becoming a radioactive wasteland carpeted in corpses was a single light switch which, by chance, was not flipped during the spiraling, out-of-control descent of the B52 it was in. 2/8
"Even the man responsible for the safety of our nuclear weapons wasn't being told about accidents involving those weapons."

"When I was director of weapon development, I was unaware of a large # of accidents because I had no access to the information" 3/8
"People don't even think about all the nuclear weapons we have. They think that's all in the past, & the reality is...they're all over the place." 4/8
"Nuclear weapons will always have a chance of an accidental detonation. It will happen. It may be tomorrow or it may be a million years from now. But it will happen." 5/8
All clips are from Command & Control, the PBS documentary version of the excellent, excellent book of the same name by Eric Schlosser. 6/8 penguinrandomhouse.com/books/303337/c…
h/t to @sanghyuk_shin for sharing the following tweet about "the black heroes who fought against nuclear weapons," which inspired this thread. 7/8
One of the most important movements today is the movement to outlaw and abolish nuclear weapons, being led by @nuclearban. We should all support this critical mission. icanw.org 8/8

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Feb 3
There is no greater or more prescient authority when it comes to SARS-CoV-2 variants than @GuptaR_lab. We must heed his warning here and prepare. We got lucky with Omicron's lower severity; it's not likely to happen again. 1/8
Gupta was one of the few prominent scientists to boldly predict a "super variant" w/large mutational differences with Delta would inevitably emerge. He's been warning of the danger of variants emerging from chronic infections for longer than anyone. 2/8
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We now have a third study looking at Omicron-neutralizing antibodies after Omicron infection. This one includes 4 categories of immunity: Vaxed w/Prior Infection, Vaxed w/o Prior Infection, Unvaxed w/Prior Infection, and Unvaxed w/o Prior Infection. Main figure below. 1/5
No actual nAb numbers are included in this 4-page study—not even in the supplementary info—so it's hard to compare the 4 categories. But if you painstakingly take screenshots & are careful to make all 4 graphs identical, then overlay lines accurate down to the pixel level.... 2/5
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This sort of intimidation is appalling. Read the thread to see why Crown Point admin is demanding school staff unfollow @MicahPollak. He shares publicly available info from their Covid dashboard & points out that official district policy violates state health guidelines. 1/4
For those that aren't aware, @MicahPollak (along with @gbosslet) has been the best source of Indiana Covid information and statistics, bar none. He's been (deservedly) nominated for a Data Hero award. 2/4 dataheroawards.org/2021/03/03/mic…
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A thread of BA.2 updates.

BA.2 continues to do its thing in Denmark. The two most recent days of sequencing (January 20 & 21) recorded 74.2% BA.2 (285 of 384 cases). 1/9
The exponential increase in the proportion of BA.2 cases continues in the UK.

The apparent slowdown in growth in the past several days is entirely due to 0 of 8 sequences being BA.2 over the past four days & should therefore be ignored. 2/9
Similar exponential increase in the percentage of BA.2 cases in the US.

Again, the illusory plunge over the last five days is entirely due to a very small number of sequences and should be ignored. 3/9
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After posting this, I realized that BA.2 has a ways to go before it reaches the transmissibility of foot and mouth disease, an airborne livestock illness. How contagious is foot and mouth disease? Well... 1/4
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In the US, she would have been back at work/school and infecting others for four days now. 1/5
This woman was triple-vaccinated, by the way. As with Delta, people with breakthrough Omicron infections are approximately as infectious as unvaccinated cases and can be superspreaders. 2/5
Reminder that the CDC decision to shorten the isolation period was exactly backward: the peak infectious period with Omicron is several days later relative to symptom onset than with previous variants. 3/5
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