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Sep 14 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Toxic male minimizer docs have taken @dgurdasani1's personal message about being medically vulnerable as an opportunity to ridicule and bully her.

1. Show her some support.
2. Do NOT stay silent about this.

#EnoughIsEnough
Vinay Prasad Sai MediBrent A. Williams
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Sep 15
Thinking about nicknames for variants worth watching. A short 🧵

(I have no formal role in any of this, and I am tagging active variant trackers like @Mike_Honey_, @LongDesertTrain, @DGBassani, @EllingUlrich, @CorneliusRoemer, @RajlabN)
There's nothing wrong with the technical labels from Pango or Nextstrain/CoVariants, but it can get unwieldy and confusing in broader discussions. I've suggested maybe going alphabetically through Greek mythological creatures, but that's just an idea.
As has been noted, some of those mythological names are themselves too cumbersome. So I am thinking maybe we shorten them when necessary and have names "inspired by" mythological creature names. For example, Alcyoneus --> Alcyon.
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Sep 15
We see lower ICU occupancy, fewer patients on ventilators, and a lower number of deaths on a per infection basis now than we have previously. All of this is good news, but does it mean the pandemic is finally coming to an end as we all want it to?🧵
It is tempting to assume that the virus itself has evolved to do less damage to us as its hosts. However, that is unlikely to be the case. If one of the Omicron variants had been the one that first spread in immunologically naïve populations in 2020, it may have been far worse.
The lower severe acute impacts are better explained by the fact that we're no longer immunologically naïve thanks to vaccination and/or because of prior infection. This doesn't prevent infection but it does provide decent protection against severe acute symptoms.
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Sep 13
Here is a list of 100 "COVID-19 Wonder Women". They are superheroes and champions for public health.

(If you're on this list, it's because you are having a very positive impact. THANK YOU for all that you do. If you wish to be removed, please DM me.)

twitter.com/i/lists/156967…
Thank you to everyone who made so many excellent suggestions! If there are others who should be added please comment.
(I hope you don't mind the use of your iconic likeness in such a context, @RealLyndaCarter!)
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Sep 13
Videos of little Black girls reacting with joy to seeing an Ariel who looks like them has made my day. Much more of this in the world, please. ❤️
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Sep 13
This is great. Anyone with skillz want to turn the threads about Canada into an info poster people can put up? Links below.
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Sep 13
I believe that everyone should have access to information about the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Many governments and public health officials are closing down the sharing of data, but there are still excellent independent sources. Here are some recommendations. 🧵
First, a note about variant names. Things like "BA.2.75.2" are Pango lineages, whereas Nextstrain and CoVariants use a different naming system (like "22C"). These are separate from the Greek letter system used by the @WHO (e.g., everything since BA.1 being "Omicron"). Evolutionary tree of SARS-CoV-2 variants. Summary of different variant naming systems.
Some folks on Twitter have begun assigning nicknames to "Omicron" variants of interest. For example, BA.2.75 became known as "Centaurus".

(I've suggested that nicknames be based alphabetically after Greek mythological creatures, but that's just me.)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_G…
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