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⚠️Very worried about #BA5 causing #COVID19 hospitalization surges everywhere it goes—bad it’s very past-immunity-evasive. Portugal hit 80-90% of its old hospitalization peak recently. UK hospitals strained to the brink now too. Bad trends many in places.🧵

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2) based on models, #BA5 and it’s close cousin #BA4, also past-immunity evasive, is surging so fast, it will likely be 50% of all #SARSCoV2 strains in the Us this week—and soon displacing all other past strains.

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3) Why do we need to look at Portugal? It’s a highly vaccinated country, yet #BA5 has completely overwhelmed it. Vaccines work overall, but if a virus spreads unchecked without OTHER MITIGATIONS, vaccines not enough alone. We need vaccines+ PLUS other mitigations.
4) I want folks to understand that vaccines are incredible inventions & have saved MILLIONS of lives. But our old Wuhan-1.0 era vaccines need to be updated. Hospitalizations for #COVID19 in England soaring across all age groups. But Boris does nothing—need vaccines+PLUS. Image
5) why are some countries just only starting to see #COVID19 hospitalizations climb? Well #Ba5 & #BA4 have only just begun to arrive in various countries. Look at the central EU countries like France, Italy, Germany— #Ba5 is only on the upswing recently… it has room to surge. Image
6) “the new wave is starting”. And #BA5 and #BA4 are closer to old Alpha and Delta that infect the lungs more, leading to more serious respiratory illnesses. independent.co.uk/news/health/co…
7) Warning— do no rely on past infections to protect you from more severe #COVID19. New research shows that REINFECTIONS can be often times worse and have increased risks for hospitalization and deaths and #longCOVID. Don’t mess around with COVID.
8) to be absolutely clear—vaccines averted 14 million #COVID19 deaths to 20 million excess deaths during the pandemic. Don’t spin anything anti-vaccine please. Vaccines save lives. But now we need updates vaccines to save more lives against #BA4 & #BA5.
thelancet.com/journals/lanin… Image
9) Hospitalizations for #COVID19 worsening even further in England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿— among not just elderly but young adults and children too. Worse yet is that 🇬🇧 is no longer doing mitigations and no longer offering free testing to stop and slow transmission. This will get worse. Image
10) The deep concerns about #BA5 & Ba4 are shared by many experts & supported by many studies that show much lower levels of protection from past infections to BA4/5. In some ways, it’s more evasive than old Omicron & likely more severe than BA1 Omicron.
cnn.com/2022/06/22/hea…
11) Let’s not forget the #COVID19 risk to kids. Besides record pediatric hospitalizations recently, #LongCovid in kids is found in 1 in 4 infections!
12) if you care about kids, you would protect them from #COVID19 hospitalizations that are again strongly rising nationwide and worldwide.

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⚠️ZERO ANIMAL CONTACT HOSPITALIZATION for H5 Bird Flu—the CDC has now confirmed the first ever U.S. human case “without a known occupational exposure to sick or infected animals”—which make this Missouri case very worrisome. Maybe community transmission.
cdc.gov/media/releases…
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2) H5 outbreaks in cattle have not been reported in Missouri, but outbreaks of H5 have been reported in commercial and backyard poultry flocks in 2024.

—>>so it doesn’t seem to have come from cows in the state. So maybe from birds?
3) So if rarely test, how did we even find it?

“While other novel flu cases have been detected through the country's national flu surveillance system, this is the first time that system has detected a case of H5. Targeted H5-outbreak specific surveillance has been conducted as part of ongoing animal outbreaks and has identified all the other cases. In this case, the specimen from the patient originally tested positive for flu A, but negative for seasonal flu A virus subtypes. That finding triggers additional testing.”
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BREAKING—the FDA has just authorized the new Novavax vaccine, tailored to JN1 related variants. Anyone age 12 and over are eligible. You may receive it 2 months after a prior version of COVID-19 shot (and prior infection, though FDA memo didn’t specify).
fda.gov/news-events/pr…
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2) Also, the FDA has further authorized a 2nd shot of the new 2024-2025 formulated Novavax shot for people who are immunocompromised, at the doctor’s discretion. (Bullet point #4 below) Image
3) NAMING—Do not just refer to the shot as “2024” Keep the nomenclature of the new COVID shot straight - the newest one adapted for JN1-related variants is called the “2024-2025 formula”, while the old one was called the “2023-2024 formula”. The old one is no longer authorized. Image
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Aug 29
Scientists have discovered more than 1,700 ancient viruses deep inside a Tibetan glacier. Most of them are completely new to science. These ancient viruses are now being thawed out from glaciers and Siberian tundras.
e360.yale.edu/digest/ancient…
2) This is no joke.

Arctic zombie viruses in Siberia could spark terrifying new pandemic, scientists warn

Threat of outbreak from microbes trapped in permafrost for millennia raised by increased Siberian activity

theguardian.com/society/2024/j…
3) The reason permafrost is a good storage medium isn’t just because it’s cold; it’s an oxygen-free environment that light doesn’t penetrate. But current Arctic temperatures are warming up to 4x faster than rest of 🌏, weakening the top layer of permafrost
cnn.com/2023/03/08/wor…
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JUST IN— W.H.O. Declares Global Emergency Over New Mpox Outbreak. The threat this time is deadlier. Since the beginning of this year, the Democratic Republic of Congo alone has reported more than 14,000 mpox cases and 524 deaths. Those most at risk include women and children under 15. The outbreak has spread through 13 countries in Africa, including a few that had never reported mpox cases before.

(Gift 🎁 link)
nytimes.com/2024/08/14/hea…Image
2) public health emergency of international concern— Also known as PHEIC, this is a status given by WHO to “extraordinary events” that pose a public health risk to other countries through the international spread of disease.

cnn.com/2024/08/14/hea…
3) The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention declared the outbreak a public health emergency of continental security the day before — the first such declaration by the agency since its inception in 2017.
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Jul 19
Concerning—CDC now says that 42 states are seeing rising rates of #COVID19 again—with levels high or very high in 35 states (and rising). COVID wastewater levels have already surpassed last summer’s peak and climbing fast. #CovidIsNotOver
cdc.gov/forecast-outbr…


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2) Substantial 28% increase in one week. Question is how high it will go. It’s a new variant (mostly KP2 and KP3 and JN1), which are evasive against past infection and past vaccines.
3) COVID is surging in many countries worldwide. Eg in Italy where deaths are also climbing once again. New variants, new surges.
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A girl using cover name JANE DOE testified under oath at Ghislaine Maxwell’s criminal trial that she was introduced to Trump by Jeffrey Epstein when she was 14 years old. Pass it on.
Trump’s name appears 7 times in Epstein’s latest files. They regularly called each other according to phone logs. Trump says Epstein is a “terrific guy”. And he traveled on flights, according to logs, to Epstein’s island multiple times.
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nymag.com/intelligencer/…
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