2) Yes, #COVID-minimizing anti-mask 🇧🇷 President @Jairbolsonaro, who downplayed vaccines, who broke NYC laws and caused an outbreak at the UN, has somehow blocked this epidemiologist on Twitter.
3) here is a graph of cases and deaths in Brazil 🇧🇷 for the past year. #Omicron doesn’t care who you believe or block on Twitter @jairbolsonaro. Focus on saving your people, not saving your face.
4) Let’s not forget that time @Jairbolsonaro’s delegation to the UN endangered others and violated NYC law.
5) here is Brazilian Health Minister @mqueiroga2 seen giving the middle finger to protesters in NYC! He tested positive for #COVID19. Classy guy you hired @jairbolsonaro.
6) Even @USAmbUN warned that unvaxxed @jairbolsonaro likely triggering an outbreak. Turns out that Bolsonaro is exactly the public endangerment we all know him to be.
Judge temporarily halts @GlennYoungkin’s executive order forcing schools to make masks optional in Virginia schools after lawsuit from school boards—a major victory for the 7 school boards that sued to stop the order & a sharp rebuke for the new governor. washingtonpost.com/education/2022…
2) Youngkin (R) issued his executive order making masks optional for students in schools, subject to the choices of parents, on his first day in office. It took effect Jan. 24, but the majority of Virginia school districts — at least 70 out of 131 total — are defying the order.
3) The order has earned multiple legal challenges. A group of parents sued three days after Youngkin announced the mask-optional order, and seven school boards — including Fairfax County Public Schools, largest & most prominent district — sued over the order two days after that.
⚠️Worrisome—the aggressive #BA2 subvariant of #Omicron has more than **doubled** this week since last UK report—now across all regions. BA2 has been dominant in 🇩🇰 already—prolonging their wave. Other countries be cautious—could make #COVID19 resurge.🧵 gov.uk/government/pub…
2) Here was how #BA2 surged from last week’s report to this week’s cumulative 3832 cases. It’s clearly spreading fast and across all regions of 🇬🇧
3) even in South Africa 🇿🇦- #BA2 has been surging too and replacing the original Omicron. This is not a fluke.
🏫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🧵 richmond.com/news/state-and…
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.
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 🧵 msn.com/en-gb/news/wor…
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.”
👀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.
⚠️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
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.