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
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.
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.
Once upon a time, kids were allowed to smoke 🚬 . We stopped exposing kids to cigarettes when we learned it was bad. ➡️We now know #COVID harms kids’ brains & health. Yet we somehow keep letting kids get exposed to the harmful virus & #LongCovid. Find some humanity. Protect kids.
This is chart showing pediatric hospitalization for #COVID19 surging 45% in just 2 weeks in England. No, the kids are not alright. Stop this madness of infecting kids. Protect them damnit.
📍This is bad—Putin just made “some not so oblique nuclear threats” ☢️ in his speech and has mobilized more forces, says security expert Dmitri Alperovitch. See full speech translation below 👇
2) the translation thread 🧵 got broken. Here is the bottom of the split translation thread. Bottomline - Putin made some major mobilization and “not so oblique nuclear threats”.
📍CONFIRMED—White House COVID rules require that @WhiteHouse reporters meeting with the @POTUS are still required to get a same day negative PCR test, per @ddiamond. Doesn’t sound like pandemic is over. #CovidIsNotOver
2) Also the estimated deaths in mid Sept also clearly don’t support pandemic being over either. #covidisnotover
3) COVID is clearly not over. Besides bad comms, I worry about all the vulnerable people who are immunocompromised or have risk factors out there—which is a LOT of Americans. #CovidIsntOver
2) 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 “non-COVID” deaths were deaths within 90 days of COVID infection. So indirectly still COVID. 👀
3) And yes, 3000-4000 is the ballpark since we do see 400-500 direct COVID deaths a day regularly lately. That’s not even counting COVID-exacerbated illnesses.
The @US_FDA is warning against a social media challenge which involves people coating their poultry in NyQuil—the “NyQuil Chicken Challenge”, warning it could have very dangerous outcomes — not just if ingested but from cooking process.
3) Boiling a medication can make it much more concentrated and change its properties in other ways. Even if you don’t eat the chicken, inhaling the medication’s vapors while cooking could cause high levels of the drugs to enter your body. It could also hurt your lungs.
📍Don’t let infamous COVID minimizers like Dr M Gandhi try to gaslight you that COVID is the flu, nor let them move the goal 🥅 post on what constitutes a pandemic. She’s also once said India was at herd immunity in early 2021–and then 4-5 million people died when Delta wave hit.
2) Monica also infamously mocked and downplayed variants as “schmariants”. What a disgusting statement.
3) In case you want to know how HORRIBLY wrong Monica has been on COVID pandemic since the beginning… I present to you this epic classic video clip from @mehdirhasan@MehdiHasanShow —