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Eric Feigl-Ding Profile picture
@DrEricDing
Jul 23, 2022 • 25 tweets • 16 min read • Read on X
⚠️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…
4) “We have an outbreak that has spread around the world rapidly through new modes of transmission, about which we understand too little, and which meets the criteria” for a public health emergency, Dr. Tedros told reporters.

nytimes.com/2022/07/23/hea…
5) “The committee’s inability to come a consensus also highlights the need for a better process to decide which events represent public health emergencies. It is apparently the first time that the director general has overruled his advisers to declare a public health emergency.”
6) No longer contained to a single continent or found only among travelers, #monkeypox is undergoing community transmission in dozens of countries worldwide and spreading unchecked at an alarming rate.

Our oped 2 weeks ago:
@kavitapmd @yaneerbaryam
washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/…
7) Nota bene— @CDCgov warns: “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… Image
8) Community & household transmission —just yesterday, CDC reports 2 kids now have #monkeypox. CDC notes again that kids <8 years old are at "especially increased risk" for severe disease. axios.com/2022/07/22/mon…
9) One month ago, my team at @TheWHN declared #monkeypox a *pandemic* emergency. While the @WHO has now agreed it’s an emergency, the WHO has not said it’s a pandemic yet. They still need to. In 2020, WHO only declared COVID a pandemic when it was too late in March 2020.
10) a month ago, many attacked @TheWHN for “fear mongering”. The lesson is that the arc of the moral universe is long—but precautionary is good.

Here is the full speech by @DrTedros outlining the reasons and next steps after #monkeypox PHEIC declaration

who.int/director-gener… Image
11) Everything is NOT fine with the #monkeypox global emergency. It’s going to get worse soon.
ourworldindata.org/monkeypox Image
12) A new study also suggests that the virus might be mutating 12 times faster than expected, and could lead to 60,000 new cases per day in the U.K. alone by the end of 2022.
13) How do you spot a #monkeypox rash? Here is how. See YouTube video explainer by Drs. @KashPrime and @lisa_iannattone
14) Even more worrisome is that the steepness of the #monkeypox epidemic curve is now worse for the US than many other countries of the world. Image
15) If our models (HT @JPWeiland) are right, we can easily see 100,000 cases by end of August and perhaps even higher soon in Sept. we have to slow #monkeypox ASAP!
16) Given #monkeypox cases rising faster in the US than most of the rest of the world, we need urgent US emergency declaration from Biden WH too. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
17) We can either act fast and prevent enormous suffering, or we can let history repeat… let’s not please 🙏
18) there are those who can see a train wreck incoming… and those who cannot. Don’t be the latter. And demand better leaders - who have the courage to warn and to do the right thing for the greater good even when it’s unpopular. #monkeypox Image
19) A new @WHO reports finds that **72 children** have now gotten #monkeypox, despite limited testing.

Rash and fever are the most common symptoms. worldhealthorg.shinyapps.io/mpx_global/ Image
20) Where did #monkeypox come from? How was it discovered? It all dates back to 1958… fascinating historical thread 🧵.
21) are there non-MSM #monkeypox cases? Yes, some — but more in actuality due to surveillance bias in many countries that did not prioritize testing non-MSM folks until recently. But among that @WHO has tabulated… interesting. Note many unknown. Need more widespread testing. Image
22) America is winning!!! Not… #monkeypox
23) several weeks ago, I tried to warn everywhere I could that #monkeypox was coming — yet our complacent global leadership allowed this emergency to happen.
24) I have no words that can capture my fuming anger at this shit… new single day all time record high!!! #monkeypox
25) This is the ugly state of #monkeypox right now. And it’s only going to get worse until it gets better (with fast action). A US public health emergency declaration can do a lot to unlock and move resources.

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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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Aug 30
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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Aug 14
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.
3) THIS STUFF IS NEW—not old Epstein-Trump info. New information regarding Epstein's child trafficking activities was released 7/2/24. Documents from 2016 are now out of date and do not show the depth of Trump's dealings with Epstein... READ MORE:

nymag.com/intelligencer/…
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