Yes I’m aware it should be spelled #Zelenskyy. But maybe @TrueFactsStated can add another sub sign under it — if Russian security doesn’t remove it, haha.
4) The Russian Embassy’s compound sits just west of the US Naval Observatory (VP’s residence). It doesn’t get much real traffic. However, the Russian Ambassador’s residence sits on 16th Street just north of the WH. @MayorBowser should officially change street name! Do it please!
5) the part of 16th street was renamed BLACK LIVES MATTER Plaza in 2020. Thus, if that’s possible, then the section of 16th St that Russian Ambassador’s Residence is on can be renamed too—‘Ukraine Freedom Plaza’? Calling @MayorBowser. nbcwashington.com/news/local/dc-…
6) Even Yo-Yo Ma joined in on the DC Russian Embassy front gate demonstrations!!
⚠️UPDATE—#BA2 is now 11.6% in US, up from 8.3% last week. It’s definitely increasing, as warned. #COVID19 still dropping, but BA2 is growing in underbelly—it’s a matter of when (not ‘if’) case drop plateaus, then reverses. Likely late April, early May.🧵 covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tra…
2) Where is #BA2 highest? In New England (HHS region 1), where BA2 is already 24% of all cases. It’s definitely outcompeting the old original #Omicron which is fading away.
3) #BA2 is not mild among unvaccinated and under-vaccinated populations. In Hong Kong 🇭🇰 where BA2 is very dominant, hospitals and morgues are overflowing. Hong Kong has never had a surge of this kind before - not until BA2 showed up.
📍Not good—the #BA2 subvariant is doubling and tripling very quickly. New York State is reporting 7.7% BA2, up from 2.3% two weeks prior. Regionally, NY/NJ/PR/VI up to 12.4% BA2. And these data are 2 weeks behind! Epidemiologists regard this as Omicron 2.0 coronavirus.health.ny.gov/covid-19-varia…
2) Nationally, #Ba2 is now 8.3%. But this data is from the final week of February— the CDC doesn’t release numbers every week — often when they just feel like it. This graph is log-scale ➡️ which means #BA2’s linear surge is exponential.
3) Is there any place seeing recent new #BA2 dominance and hospitalization increase? Oh yes—England 🏴 is seeing a brand new increase of hospitalizations across all age groups, especially kids. The national data in all age groups doesn’t lie 👇
SURGING 🏥—Hospitalizations for #COVID19 is surging sharply ⬆️ 15.6% in England🏴 again—across **ALL AGE GROUPS**, elderly to kids. Notably, hospitalizations up ⬆️ 26% in kids 6-17 in just 1 week. This is #BA2 subvariant + no mitigations that we warned about.
3) we already have lab evidence that old Omicron BA1 may not protect that much against future variants, especially if unvaccinated or under-vaccinated. Two lab studies showed this in January. We knew it was coming. Many thought it would be April or maybe even May for uptick. 🤔
📍HUGE—Covid may cause greater loss of gray matter and tissue damage in the brain 🧠 than naturally occurs in people who have not been infected with the virus, a new study finds—the first study with both brain scans before and after #COVID19 infection. 🧵 nytimes.com/2022/03/07/hea…
2) The study, involving people aged 51 to 81, found shrinkage and tissue damage primarily in brain areas related to sense of smell; some of those areas are also involved in other brain functions, the researchers said.
3) “To me, this is pretty convincing evidence that something changes in brains of this overall group of people with Covid,” said Dr. Serena Spudich, chief of neurological infections and global neurology at the Yale School of Medicine,
I have a few thoughts about selfishness, COVID, bullying, and life…
(Note—not an “expert” in life—just as a fellow human)🧵
2) First of all, #CovidIsNotOver — not by a long shot. #BA2 is still creeping up slowly (or quickly) in most of the world. I’ll do a #BA2 update soon, but you only have to look at HK to see how bad it can get. Their hospitals are low on oxygen too. But I’m not here about COVID.
3) I’m here to talk about empathy… or the relative lack thereof. People are often too selfish. They think just because THEY are low risk / don’t have vulnerable family, that thus others are too. And thus, ‘why should I do XYZ to reduce transmission if I’m healthy’—it’s selfish.
Not smart—Russian forces have fired rockets at a physics institute in Kharkiv 🇺🇦 which hold 37 nuclear ☢️ fuel cells & a nuclear reactor. Ukraine says it risks a “large-scale ecological disaster”. Please, for the love of god, stop this. #UkraineRussiaWar independent.co.uk/news/world/eur…
Meanwhile, Russian military have retaken control of the largest nuclear power plant in Europe, at #Zaporizhzhya, according to @iaeaorg
UPDATE— Head of the International Atomic Energy Agency says he is “extremely concerned” because Russian forces have restricted 🚫 communications with the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plants nytimes.com/live/2022/03/0…