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Feb 21 19 tweets 8 min read
“Seriously bad” — BA.2 variant: New study suggests Omicron variant worse than BA.1 news.com.au/world/coronavi…
2) Don’t tell me everything is fine when you look at this chart… where #Ba2 is now 90% dominant.
3) and what is happening in Denmark 🇩🇰 with their mortality and 90% BA2? Surging excess deaths ago.
4) BA2 is seriously bad news. It’s both faster transmission than BA2 and if it’s truly more severe and as evasive against prior immunity including BA1 old #Omicron immunity— then it’d be the worse of 4 worlds. 👀
5) @SystemsVirology wrote in their study:

The viral RNA load in the lung periphery and histopathological disorders of BA.2 were more severe than those of BA.1 and even B.1.1”

biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
6) ““Together with a higher effective reproduction number and pronounced immune resistance of BA.2, it is evident that the spread of BA.2 can be a serious issue for global health in the near future.”
7) ““In summary, our data suggests the possibility that BA.2 would be the most concerning variant to global health.”
7) More resistance to past immunity? Check. #Ba2.
9) Need more proof that #BA2 is more transmissible than old Omicron BA1? UK 🇬🇧 govt report shows 126% increase in one week in early February.
10) here is the full recent thread 🧵 on #Ba2 that I’m extremely worried about again. I’ve been worried before and this is our 4th or 5th rodeo with variants. Will we ever learn???
11) we epidemiologists have been warning about #Ba2 for a while. I expect BA2 to be doubling by next CDC report — which the @CDCgov is behind and overdue!
12) we have known BA2 was a trouble maker for quite some time. It is much faster than BA1. It’s about double. Hard to imagine something faster than old Omicron yet here we are.
13) tired of this stupid treadmill? Me too. We haven’t learned our lesson. Every strain and every opportunity we give it is more chance for more cycles of suffering.
14) there are politicians who often downplay everything pretending they have control. And there are precautionary scientists who scream often into the void. Listen to the latter not the former.
15) Who is old enough to remember those touting #Omicron is mild??? Meanwhile— in reality with exponential cases—“The death toll during the Omicron wave is about 17 percent higher so far than the death toll in the Delta wave.”
16) reinfection risk is real. Some will downplay it. But you shouldn’t. See thread 🧵 below 👇
17) Also data shows that while Delta had good protection against another Delta itself, Omicron has much less protection against another Omicron, relatively. This is concerning.
18) Side note- there is another new new new sub sub sub variant of BA2 Omicron. It’s now quickly up to 10% in 🇩🇰. This is diff from the other BA2.H87Y subvariant that is the largest sub in Denmark.

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Feb 22
📌Wow—cleaver sleuths uncovered that Putin actually signed the agreement to recognize the “independent” breakaway regions HOURS BEFORE (~10:15am) the Russian security council meeting was later held around noon to discuss the independence request for recognition! 🔥
2) the watches of the Russian Security Council members tell a story that the meeting was done post hoc to the actual signing!
3) I’m willing to bet Putin bans wrist watches ⌚️ at his next public meeting.
Read 5 tweets
Feb 22
Let me get this straight—so the @WSJ encourages its employees to work from home—but publishes COVID-is-over pieces telling you it’s safe to goto work & send kids without masks, ventilation or HEPA filters. Got it.

The irony is rich—and dangerous. #CovidIsNotOver
To be fair, WSJ does publish a few good pieces on COVID risk. But the @WSJopinion section tends to publish more much “COVID is not a big deal” pieces by 10:1 ratio or more. wsj.com/articles/one-m…
Also @WSJopinion is still WSJ dot com website & carries weight of WSJ editors who commission them and approve them. To the lay public they are one and the same just like how prime time Fox News pundits = Fox News. Plus, sources that WSJ reporters quote also define a story angle.
Read 4 tweets
Feb 22
Should Russia give back its land to Mongolia 🇲🇳? Because, Moscow and most of Russia were once Mongol Empire. No? Then sit down and shut up with the Russia-once-owned-Ukraine nonsense. Image
While you’re here… give this post by @USEmbassyKyiv some love…
Raising the alarm is always hard. But @DAlperovitch @AVindman and I keep doing it anyway.
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Feb 22
Epidemiologists who warned about a looming COVID invasion in early 2020 is ~akin to security experts (@DAlperovitch @AVindman) who tried to warn about a Russia invasion for last 2 months! Alarmists were right again. To deniers who said this day would never come—go eat your shoe👞
2) @DAlperovitch did warn quite profusely. He is my #1 follow for all things Ukrainian invasion right now. Trolls came out for me when I shared my concerns last month. The haters can go home.
3) warning and sounding the alarm hard. Damn hard. nymag.com/intelligencer/…
Read 4 tweets
Feb 21
What a horrible day:

Putin to invade Ukraine 🇺🇦

Boris lets COVID re-invade UK 🇬🇧

Omicron ravaging Hong Kong

BA2 surging & displacing BA1

Danish CDC gaslights about COVID deaths

We just lost Paul Farmer

… Can it get any worse? 😢
Sometimes we need to laugh to keep from crying. This is the video we need today. Thx @supertanskiii.
3) this is a very sobering read on #LongCovid and the looming crisis it pretends.
Read 4 tweets
Feb 21
📍Millions of people continue to suffer from exhaustion, cognitive problems and other long-lasting symptoms of #LongCovid. New research offers clues, of the toll the illness takes on the body and why it can be so debilitating. 👇 #COVID19 #CovidIsNotOver
nytimes.com/interactive/20…
2) “Long Covid is different: A chronic illness with a wide variety of symptoms, many of which are not explainable using conventional lab tests. Difficulties in detecting the illness have led some doctors to dismiss patients, or to misdiagnose their symptoms as psychosomatic.”
3) “But researchers looking more deeply at long Covid patients have found visible dysfunction throughout the body.
Studies estimate that perhaps 10 to 30 percent of people infected with the coronavirus may develop long-term symptoms.”
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