A 🧵of clips from our recent video, “What must be done to end the pandemic.”
1st, on the surge of #BA5: “If the pandemic is over, why are millions of people being infected and thousands continuing to die and be debilitated worldwide every week?” #CovidIsNotOver 1/
On excess deaths: “A more accurate picture of the reality of the pandemic can be seen by looking at excess mortality, which is an estimate of how many people would still be alive today if it weren’t for the pandemic.” #COVID19#EndCovid@UpupaEp55949188@CyFi10@MeetJess 2/
On #LongCOVID: “The full magnitude of this tragedy finds expression not only in the level of death, but in the far greater number of people who have been infected and now suffer from long-lasting symptoms known as Long COVID.” @LauraMiers@loscharlos@ahandvanish@patientled 3/
On masks & #COVIDisAirborne: “They don’t want people to wear masks because these are a daily reminder of how severe this virus is. You can’t live with COVID. You can die of COVID and you can be debilitated. But COVID isn’t… something we can or should tolerate as a society.” 4/
On the #ZeroCovid global elimination strategy: “If these measures were put into place on a world scale, combined with the improvement of filtration & ventilation systems in all indoor spaces… the pandemic could be ended globally in a matter of months.” @GosiaGasperoPhD 5/
Please watch & share these clips widely. The pandemic can be stopped, but it requires a mass movement from below, uniting the working class with principled scientists internationally. Fill out the form at wsws.org/endcovid to get involved. 7/
The full video can be seen here with subtitles in German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Turkish, Tamil, Sinhala, Russian, Polish & Italian. Ending the pandemic requires the international unity of the working class, which the WSWS & ICFI fight for daily. 8/8 wsws.org/en/articles/20…
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The #COVID19 pandemic is once again spiraling out of control, driven by the highly contagious and immune-evading Omicron #BA4 & #BA5 subvariants. North America, Europe, Brazil & Australia are at the epicenter of the latest global surge. #CovidIsNotOver 1/ wsws.org/en/articles/20…
The global 7-day average of daily new cases now stands at 661,420, a 42% increase since the trough in late May! Official new infections are rising despite the dismantling of surveillance and reporting, with test positivity rates rising in each of these countries and regions. 2/
Wastewater in Spain is at record levels! This key metric is rising rapidly in many countries. The sudden rise in test positivity rates means that unreported infections are occurring faster than those being documented by public health departments. 3/
The 6th #COVID19 surge in the US is deepening each day, driven by the highly infectious Omicron #BA2 & #BA2121 subvariants, and the Biden administration has made clear that it will no nothing to slow or stop the spread. #CovidIsNotOver A🧵1/ wsws.org/en/articles/20…
On Wednesday the US recorded nearly 190,000 new cases, pushing the 7-day average of daily new cases to well over 100,000. According to the New York Times, hospitalizations now stand at 22,875, a 27 percent increase over the last 14 days. 2/
These figures are known to be significant undercounts due to the bipartisan undermining of testing & data reporting at the federal & state levels since January 2022. Only 4 states now report #COVID data daily, while 13 states report once/week or less. 3/
The lifting of the public transit mask mandate is a turning point in the deliberate destruction of public health in the United States. 1/
It is the culmination of a months-long, bipartisan campaign to proclaim the pandemic over and normalize mass death and debilitation. The Socialist Equality Party (SEP) is the only political tendency in the US which has opposed this campaign. 2/ wsws.org/en/articles/20…
Affiliated with the International Committee of the Fourth International, which publishers @WSWS_Updates, we have consistently advocated for a strategy of global elimination to stop the pandemic and save millions of lives. 3/ wsws.org/endcovid
Instead of alerting American society to the dangers posed by the deepening surge of #BA2 and the disastrous state of #COVID19 surveillance in the US, every effort is being made to conceal this reality from the public. #CovidIsNotOver 1/ wsws.org/en/articles/20…
The official 7-day average of daily new cases was 37,810 on Saturday, an increase of 38% over the past two weeks. According to @IHME, the likely real number of daily new infections in the US is far higher at roughly 270,000 per day. 2/ covid19.healthdata.org/united-states-…
32 states have seen an increase in daily new cases over the past 2 weeks. The Northeast has been hardest hit so far, as BA.2 first became dominant in that region of the US, with New York and other states now seeing a growth in COVID-19 hospitalizations. 3/ nytimes.com/interactive/20…
#COVID19 testing remains inadequate throughout the world. These data show test positivity rates for 7/10 countries with the most daily new cases, per @Worldometers. All 7 have been >10% for the past month, with Germany >30% since Jan. 23 & South Kores >50% since Mar. 18. 1/
From the start, @WHO has stressed the need for robust testing, combined with contact tracing, isolation & quarantine, to identify and cut off all chains of transmission. This article from May 2020 summarized the importance of low test positivity rates. 2/ globalhealth.harvard.edu/evidence-round…
Nearly every country outside China has abandoned TTIQ, the cornerstone of a scientific response to the pandemic. The #Omicron surge was used to scrap all mitigation measures, with #HerdImmunity adopted worldwide. But #CovidIsNotOver! 3/ wsws.org/en/articles/20…