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Mar 4 • 12 tweets • 6 min read
BREAKING: This webcam, geolocated to the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, main gate appears to show combat vehicles engaged in active fighting around the plant. (H/T @GeorgeWHerbert)
@GeorgeWHerbert Can anybody identify these vehicles? Look like APC/IFVs of some kind?
The @iaeaorg has also put out a statement that a large number of Russian armor and troops have broken through a barricade near the plant. The plants operators describe the situation as critical:
iaea.org/newscenter/pre…
Statement from Ukraine's foreign minister.
According to the plant's website, it was operating normally earlier today (16:00, presumably Ukrainian time).

It was also under guard from a unit of the Ukrainian military (3042, according to google translate?). This are likely some of the combatants involved.
The fire appears to be in an administrative building at the plant's main entrance. The reactor buildings are behind the camera (in fact the camera may be on top of the Reactor 1 building).
The live feed has gone dead, but these are some of the last shots (borrowed from a sister feed). The fire looks serious.

The flashing lights are car alarms set off by concussive explosions. Likely either heavy weapons fire or explosives.
There are reports that this fire was in a training building... This is good news, but this building is only half a kilometer from the reactors. I would not call this great news.
IAEA confirms fire and says that essential personnel are taking "mitagory" actions...
And for anyone who needs help pronouncing "Zaporizhzhia", @Oriana0214 very kindly did this pronouncer for me earlier in the week.

soundcloud.com/h9ka214/how-to…
@Oriana0214 Really important info here from @scottdetrow:

✅ Sensors report no change in radiation levels.

✅ 3 of 6 reactors operating at time of attack.

Also from Secretary of Energy, the reactors "are being shut down."

1000 MW reactors do not turn off on a dime. Waste heat must be managed for days or even weeks after shutdown. On site power will be critical to safe shut down.

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Mar 4
NEW: This video shows clear damage from heavy weapons on the elevated walkways between the reactor buildings at Zaporizhzhya NPP. This is well inside the plant perimeter.
It appears to have been shot at approximately [47°30'35.50"N, 34°35'13.34"E]. Image
And an undated on-the-ground photo showing the walkway system. Image
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Mar 4
Good morning! I think? I haven't slept much.

Here's the latest on what's happening at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine, with some observations.

First a recap: overnight, Russian troops engaged Ukrainian security forces at the plant.
An administrative building used for training caught fire during the fighting. The building [47°30'17.52"N 34°35'19.25"] is approximately half a kilometer from the unit one reactor.

That fire is now out according to both Ukrainian authorities and the @iaeaorg. ImageImageImage
@iaeaorg According to @iaeaorg radiation levels remain normal and critical safety systems are in operation at the plant.
However, a statement from Ukraine's regulator says that the plant's Unit 1 reactor, which was closest to the fighting, did sustain some battle damage. Image
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Mar 1
NEW: Could the war in Ukraine turn into a nuclear conflict? Probably not, but it's not as implausible as you think. Here's why.

npr.org/2022/03/01/108…
First, Putin has brought nuclear weapons into the conversation multiple times. Once at the start of the conflict, he made veiled mention of them and again on Sunday, when he ordered his nuclear forces into a “special mode of combat duty.”
What’s a special mode of combat duty? Probably not a higher alert level. @russianforces suggests it may be an order to activate the Russian command and control system, which can’t be used to launch weapons in peacetime. Or it may just be a matter of adding more personnel.
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Feb 9
I'm actually really glad you've brought this up, because it wasn't covered in my story out earlier today:
npr.org/sections/healt…

But I do think it's important to talk about some of the potentially troubling impacts of these prescriptions... (another 🧵)
Ben Bergquam gave a pretty full account of what happened to him in his facebook video. He became sick before Christmas and started taking alternative therapies including hydroxychloroquine, zinc, vitamin D, and other unspecified treatments (possibly ivermectin).
But according to his own account they didn't work. His fever spiked at 105, and he had serious trouble breathing.

He then went in on Day 8 to seek monoclonal antibody treatment (a proven therapy) and antibiotics for COVID-induced bilateral pneumonia. Also proven...
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Feb 9
NEW: When conservative media figure Ben Bergquam become seriously ill with COVID-19 earlier this year, he video blogged about his experience.

In doing so, he provided a rare look at a shadowy world of COVID telemedicine. Here's what we found 🧵

npr.org/sections/healt…
A little background on what's going on. For much of the pandemic, ati-vaccine groups have been pushing alternative therapies for COVID-19. These groups claim vaccines are dangerous, and that drugs like ivermectin can cure COVID.

They also sell prescriptions for 💵💵💵.
These unproven therapies are promoted by conservative media figures, including Steve Bannon (for whom Bergquam has worked).

CDC data shows ivermectin prescriptions have surged in the pandemic.

Most doctors won't prescribe it, so where are these prescriptions coming from?
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Dec 7, 2021
Short 🧵

Over the past few months @DanielPWWood and I have been looking at the connection between COVID deaths, vaccinations and election results. We found counties that went heavily Trump in 2020 had higher death rates. And lower vaccination rates.

npr.org/sections/healt…
@DanielPWWood To me, this correlation is b-a-n-a-n-a-s. There is NO reason election results and deaths from a disease should have ANYTHING to do with each other. For example, state flu deaths don't appear to match the election map. Why would they?

(NB, I'm not being rigorous here)
@DanielPWWood And yet there it is. An apparently massive connection between how a county voted and how many people are dying from COVID-19. How can this be? After a lot of research, I've concluded it comes down to basically two things:

✅Vaccination

✅Misinformation about vaccines.
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