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Jul 23 • 3 tweets • 2 min read
BREAKING—WHO committee has voted 6 “Yes” and 8 “No” for declaring #monkeypox a global public health emergency. But WHO Director Tedros might declare PHEIC anyway—he has the final say. Please do the right thing @DrTedros!
Let’s act to declare #monkeypox a global emergency now @DrTedros! Thank you. #PHEIC
3) UPDATE: Sources inside the WHO say that YES votes for a PHEIC were mostly by those with expertise in #monkeypox, LGBT health, and those voting NO against by non-monkeypox expert members of the committee. 🤦🏻‍♂️

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Jul 23
⚠️BREAKING: at last—@WHO has finally declared the #monkeypox global outbreak a PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCY OF INTERNATIONAL CONCERN. The WHO leadership has overruled the committee that had voted 6-8. Thank you @DrTedros!
2) Sources inside the WHO say that YES votes for a PHEIC were mostly by those with expertise in #monkeypox, LGBT health, while those voting NO were by non-monkeypox-expert members of the committee. Thank god someone overruled that nonsense.🤦🏻‍♂️
3) My @TheWHN team has been advocating for an emergency declaration for #monkeypox for weeks. We were especially infuriated when WHO didn’t declare it last month. Our oped in the Washington Post…
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Jul 23
Mark my words—People will suddenly care about #monkeypox when a photo/video trends of a small kid with boils over their body/face.

➡️CDC reports 2 kids now have monkeypox. CDC says kid <8 years old are at "especially increased risk" for severe monkeypox👀 axios.com/2022/07/22/mon…
2) The @CDCgov says: “Young children (<8 years of age), individuals who are pregnant or immunocompromised, and individuals with history of atopic dermatitis or eczema may be at especially increased risk for severe outcomes from #monkeypox disease.” cdc.gov/poxvirus/monke…
3) maybe I should backtrack a little — I think people will only care a little *more* when they see a photo of a sick child with #monkeypox boils over their body. Many still won’t care until it affects someone they know. That’s how low-empathy many people are.
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Jul 22
Let this sink in—We could have prevented 98% of all the millions of lives lost and prevented hundreds of millions of #LongCovid if only we had acted earlier & with swifter urgency against #COVID19–➡️This is the toll of failed leadership & attacking whistleblowers. #CovidIsNotOver
2) But now “The US is experiencing a 9/11-equivalent Covid death toll *every week* & yet people - ordinary people, egged on by people in positions of power & influence - don’t seem to care & continue to act as if the pandemic is over.” — well said @mehdirhasan
3) At minimum, had we recognized that #COVIDisAirborne… millions of lives and hospitalizations could also have been saved or prevented. And if we only mass produced N95 grade masks or elastomeric respirators…
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Jul 20
Is it getting hotter? You be the judge. ➡️ Global heat records in June continually being broken across the world as the global average temperature rises.

#ClimateEmergency #ClimateCrisis
2) the hottest Junes on record were in the last 8 years.
3) But hey, everything is fine.

HT @ScottDuncanWX via NASA dataset

data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/faq/ Image
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Jul 19
Help us out—what would be a fun way to name future #coronavirus variants?

(assuming you know ‘who’ doesn’t act, which, let’s be honest, has sorta given up naming highly contagious variants now)
2) Some of us were also thinking Star Wars and Star Trek and Marvel characters, but not sure @Disney or @ParamountPics and @Marvel would allow us. But here you can vote anyway for variant names.
3) Some noted WHO already said they would use constellations after they run out of Greek letters but that’s why moons and planets could be good since they don’t overlap with star constellations. And at the pace WHO is moving - we aren’t getting new names for #BA5 or #BA275 soon.
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Jul 18
⚠️Exponential surge to almost 13,000 #monkeypox cases globally—with no signs of slowing—on track to hit 100,000 in August 👀(per earlier forecast). The next @WHO meeting to discuss making a public health emergency declaration is… in 4 days on July 21. Pandemic yet? Heck yeah. 🧵
2) meanwhile, #monkeypox response in many countries like the US has been vastly inadequate. Testing had been slow— and with it—slow mitigations and vaccination rollout.
3) there are those who can see a train wreck incoming… and those who cannot. Don’t be the latter.
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