Thread by @DrEricDing

Incredibly sad—material to make 5 million N95 respirators are going to be just thrown away. All because the public now misled that the “pandemic is over”. Wait until the winter surge comes—we will regret this. #CovidIsNotOver #MaskUp

Thanks for sharing @larmbrust

https://twitter.com/larmbrust/status/1572735123660890118

2) And hell no, the pandemic is definitely not over whenever it’s killing this many people per week… ranked as #2 killer as of early September.

https://twitter.com/drericding/status/1572370874728329217

3) unless we change course, we will be on this high death rate plateau for quite a long time. And winter will inevitable bring a bigger surge.

https://twitter.com/drericding/status/1571667019572838400

4) Also, there is a new detailed study that shows 60% of excess deaths in Singapore were directly from #COVID19 while the majority of the remaining 40% “non-COVID” deaths were deaths within 90 days of COVID infection. Without COVID, no excess death seen!👀 moh.gov.sg/docs/libraries…

5) this was such an unnecessary unforced error by Biden. Granted mask demand was on decline before - misled by CDC relaxing mask rules - but this was so unnecessary. And his words now being used by right wing politicians to stop pandemic measures. Ugh.

https://twitter.com/drericding/status/1571656466657935363

6) this is now our response to COVID sadly. We just bury our heads in the sand and pretend nothing happening at all.

https://twitter.com/drericding/status/1571673165356584960

7) there are still many hospitals needing #N95 respirators. This hospital in Chicago for example switched back to mandatory N95 for all staff due to #COVID19. Hope there will be enough in winter when factories close.

https://twitter.com/_eric_reinhart/status/1572977345019154433