CDC plans to let people with weakened immune systems get a booster earlier. That means allowing a 4th Pfizer or Moderna mRNA shot at 3 months instead of five https://t.co/eBafo94Ccd
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) February 6, 2022
The good news is that US Covid hospitalizations are declining at a faster rate than any previous wave
Soon will be < 100,000. A long way to get to the nadir of 15,000 last June pic.twitter.com/4Lof51XE6O
— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) February 6, 2022
How to interpret the data? >30% of Covid deaths in America after vaccines made widely available. Literally hundreds of thousands of unvaccinated American lives lost needlessly, victimized by political aggression, far right extremism. I say it like no one else, so they target me https://t.co/dL31vSLAAX
— Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD (@PeterHotez) February 6, 2022
Whereas most European countries kept their hospitalizations and ICU admissions < 50% of pandemic peak during the Omicron wave, the US was 120% and 93%, respectivelyhttps://t.co/nb8UHoSFk9 and @OurWorldInData pic.twitter.com/b2Kg8BeTmS
— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) February 6, 2022
If you added up all the times @ScottGottliebMD has opined on TV that the U.S. #COVID19 epidemic was "almost over" or "coming under control," predicting reopened businesses and life back to normal — well, the list would be far too long to Tweet. https://t.co/vFljKuXI7C
— Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) February 6, 2022
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In just 10 weeks, #Omicron caused Covid to surge globally, according to the WHO. But w/ many countries easing restrictive measures amid public pandemic fatigue, WHO director-general Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyeus cautioned omicron shouldn't be underestimated https://t.co/bSYDQUswAK pic.twitter.com/7aSizeCFq2
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) February 6, 2022
China returned to work after a weeklong Lunar New Year holiday muted by the pandemic for the third year in a row — and even more so for the thousands inside a #Beijing2022 bubble. The government discouraged traveling home to limit the spread of the virus. https://t.co/2y3LmOaclH
— The Associated Press (@AP) February 7, 2022
Easing curbs in 'COVID-zero regions' could cause 2 mln deaths in a year – China study https://t.co/YMKQDS06T2 pic.twitter.com/8FKyjp4pUm
— Reuters (@Reuters) February 7, 2022
“As long as China has no new measures to prevent the imported strains of the coronavirus from triggering large-scale transmission and with no effective way to contain the epidemic, the country will not adjust its dynamic zero-tolerance policy…” https://t.co/6SnQfgG6vE
— Edward Lawrence (@EP_Lawrence) February 6, 2022
And a reminder that mRNA vaccines – which are seemingly much more effective against #omicron still haven’t been approved yet. A domestic mRNA is in clinical trials but Pfizer still waiting (over a year now) for approval.
— Edward Lawrence (@EP_Lawrence) February 6, 2022
Beijing Olympics organiser says 24 new COVID cases amongst games-related personnel on Feb 6 https://t.co/nuGd7PWbBH pic.twitter.com/ZWNVWiVoNe
— Reuters (@Reuters) February 7, 2022
Hong Kong's zero-COVID strategy under pressure as cases soar https://t.co/zRggAJFmag pic.twitter.com/8h2VSdIg9d
— Reuters (@Reuters) February 7, 2022
The tightening comes after Hong Kong has documented a record-breaking number of COVID-19 infection cases 3 days in a row. Local media report the city has recorded 610 new infection cases and 300 preliminarily positive cases on Monday, the highest number ever since the pandemic.
— Ezra Cheung (@ezracheungtoto) February 7, 2022
India's official coronavirus death toll has crossed the 500k mark, although it is probably much higher. Total infections stand at ~41.9M, according to the country's statistics, 2nd only to the United States pic.twitter.com/zhPioikMr7
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) February 6, 2022
corbevax: Government orders 5 crore Corbevax doses, may go to U-15 kids | India News – Times of India https://t.co/nmaonSMy5Y
— Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD (@PeterHotez) February 6, 2022
(crore = 10 million)
Many Asian countries are facing a spike in COVID-19 infections after the widely-celebrated Lunar New Year holidays. Health officials are grappling with the highly-transmissible omicron variant and expectations that numbers will continue to rise. https://t.co/W8QEyO5LHH
— The Associated Press (@AP) February 7, 2022
Japan PM Kishida calls for doubling booster shots to 1 mln a day – NHK https://t.co/YuXuzOAV6K pic.twitter.com/v5HGRTw9Lz
— Reuters (@Reuters) February 7, 2022
South Korea is in the midst of a major Omicron new case surge, with 86% of its population 2-shot vaccinated, 54% boosted, and other mitigation efforts. Their suppression of severe disease outcomes to date is impressive pic.twitter.com/LA5kxJaEzZ
— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) February 7, 2022
Indonesia bans foreign tourist arrivals at Jakarta airport as COVID-19 spikes https://t.co/qZ61kqP6y1 pic.twitter.com/sTlk1TlhAB
— Reuters (@Reuters) February 7, 2022
Thailand to seek travel bubbles with China, Malaysia https://t.co/UFVYE5dBTG pic.twitter.com/390o0FrlzP
— Reuters (@Reuters) February 7, 2022
Australia will fully reopen its borders to all vaccinated visa holders from Feb. 21, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said nearly two years after he shut the border to non-citizens https://t.co/vSlx2oaLVk 1/2 pic.twitter.com/rrZmcnfURE
— Reuters (@Reuters) February 7, 2022
Italy reports 77,029 coronavirus cases on Sunday, 229 deaths https://t.co/n3xvn4goai pic.twitter.com/Twj8DjYuUd
— Reuters (@Reuters) February 6, 2022
Britain reports COVID cases and deaths fell in last week https://t.co/ks2UbbPmyH pic.twitter.com/tXfugYa116
— Reuters (@Reuters) February 6, 2022
Ottawa declares emergency over trucker Covid rules protests https://t.co/eS8iXUtYBm
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) February 7, 2022
Notice how Cruz didn’t put “truck drivers” in quotes? That’s because the mayor didn’t say Vancouver doesn’t want truck drivers there. He said it doesn’t want “the convoy” – made up of a tiny % of truckers in a country where roughly 90% of cross-border truckers are fully vaxxed. https://t.co/9U9mXgrhMT
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) February 6, 2022
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Immunologists have raced to work out how to protect against multiple variants of SARS-CoV-2. Their research has yielded a wealth of insights and a few surprises, according to a report in @Nature. https://t.co/uR7BcwqBQ1
— Nature Portfolio (@NaturePortfolio) February 6, 2022
A very good thread on the new Omicron-specific booster study and the overarching issue by @erlichya https://t.co/a1B2OWWt3P
— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) February 4, 2022
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New York City’s hospitals withstood the #Omicron surge. The highly contagious coronavirus variant stretched the city’s health care system to the breaking point — but not past it https://t.co/I9Xd1UHaaB
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) February 7, 2022
to underline my point, it's not that i think that just getting vaccinated or just voting are *enough*, it's that, if you are unable to strongly demand either of these things from people, you're incapable of making the kinds of decisions that would make a more just society work. https://t.co/oNnL7EJUIp
— GOLIKEHELLMACHINE (@golikehellmachi) January 7, 2022
people really underestimate how much constraint you would have to live with in order to ensure a much more equitable society. lol, even our socialists believe in american exceptionalism.
— GOLIKEHELLMACHINE (@golikehellmachi) January 7, 2022
Exactly they've internalized the right's "you only have to be responsible for yourself" message & decided the opposite is "you don't have to be responsible for anything" when it should actually be "you need to be responsible for yourself AND everyone else".
— Nied (@B_Nied) January 7, 2022
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