How the US is handling COVID
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— Tall Eddy, MD (@TallDoctorEddy) January 4, 2022
U.S. President Joe Biden sought to reassure Americans amid a record rise in cases of the Omicron variant of the novel coronavirus https://t.co/Hh5FhvGLGS pic.twitter.com/JafO9sA99R
— Reuters (@Reuters) January 5, 2022
Quoting the @Bloomberg story :
"More than 1 million people in the US were diagnosed with #Covid19 on Monday as a tsunami of #Omicron swamps every aspect of daily American life…cases [reached] the most that any country has ever reported."https://t.co/PsOkBwYkG6— Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) January 4, 2022
The explosive increase in U.S. coronavirus case counts is raising alarm, but some experts believe the focus should instead be on COVID-19 hospital admissions. And those aren’t climbing as fast. https://t.co/jsrxzs9vuB
— The Associated Press (@AP) January 4, 2022
The US gov't is doubling its order for Pfizer's Covid antiviral pills. The order will eventually provide enough pills for 10M people, bringing the total to 20M treatment courses. Only 35k of those courses will be delivered in January; 50k in February https://t.co/yBi1wEpIv9
— delthia ricks
(@DelthiaRicks) January 4, 2022
In other words, if you're fully vaccinated and have done everything right, this is not the time to get hit by a car.
— Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec) January 5, 2022
I just can't get over the argument — from a U.S. senator! — that instead of getting a vaccine to keep from getting sick, you should get sick to keep from getting sick. https://t.co/7dXZPgQaSx
— Philip Bump (@pbump) January 5, 2022
Actual doctors are reporting Ron Johnson’s tweets for misinformation. I like this analogy:
There are two ways you can learn that sticking your head in a campfire will hurt you. One is that you can be told that doing so will, at a minimum, catch your hair on fire and, more likely, cause extensive burns that will almost certainly demand medical attention. The other way you can learn this is by sticking your head in a campfire.
In both cases, you get to the same point: You have learned that this is a bad idea. You have been immunized against sticking your head into fires in the future, if you will — your body will now be resistant to doing so. But you got to that point through two very, very different paths. Perhaps in one you simply got part of your hair scorched off. Isn’t it still the case that simply having someone explain the dangers to you would have been better than taking that risk at all?..
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China reported a major drop in local COVID-19 infections in the northern city of Xi’an, which has been under a tight lockdown for the past two weeks. With the Beijing Olympics looming, China is doubling down on measures to prevent any sort of an outbreak. https://t.co/7apqndnTDO
— The Associated Press (@AP) January 5, 2022
China's Henan hit by COVID curbs after sporadic cases https://t.co/OhvXc0hj89 pic.twitter.com/LS0t6Nkaj1
— Reuters (@Reuters) January 5, 2022
Hong Kong leader announces new COVID measures, including flight bans https://t.co/S9Lq5gwk91 pic.twitter.com/Yqa2Mh3uK5
— Reuters (@Reuters) January 5, 2022
Thousands of passengers are being held on a cruise ship in Hong Kong for coronavirus testing after health authorities said nine passengers were linked to a recent omicron cluster and ordered the ship to turn back. https://t.co/OsA4XLkyqK
— The Associated Press (@AP) January 5, 2022
India reported 58,097 new COVID-19 cases, twice the number seen only four days ago, according to health ministry data, taking the total to more than 35 million https://t.co/CWUzDwwJwE pic.twitter.com/iToXQeGp0c
— Reuters (@Reuters) January 5, 2022
Curfew in Delhi as India Covid cases surge https://t.co/OGm8lOBs7b
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) January 5, 2022
S.Korea to appeal court order exempting private schools from vaccine passes https://t.co/v2gmUtUylN pic.twitter.com/Qi49SHG89c
— Reuters (@Reuters) January 5, 2022
Japan's Okinawa region appeared to be the epicenter of a new coronavirus surge with cases more than doubling from the previous day, as officials considered imposing emergency steps to contain it https://t.co/J2IkD4Bznz pic.twitter.com/IMdnmXCcZs
— Reuters (@Reuters) January 5, 2022
Philippines reports highest daily rise in COVID-19 cases in nearly 3 months https://t.co/CphmbSx0bO pic.twitter.com/oGwMtliF7B
— Reuters (@Reuters) January 5, 2022
Australia's daily COVID-19 cases hit a record high for the third consecutive day, further straining hospital resources and testing facilities as public anger grows over the handling of the fast-moving Omicron outbreak https://t.co/XmhfHKAZAx pic.twitter.com/G9MrZ5GFbF
— Reuters (@Reuters) January 5, 2022
Even in Israel, an early global leader against the coronavirus, the omicron variant is outpacing the government's ability to make and execute clear pandemic public policy, now a zigzag of rules that seem to change every few days. By @APLaurieKellman https://t.co/dNaBTyUfcP
— AP Middle East (@APMiddleEast) January 5, 2022
Russia on Wednesday confirmed 15,772 Covid-19 infections and 828 deathshttps://t.co/d2OZIKrKXI
— The Moscow Times (@MoscowTimes) January 5, 2022
An unprecedented number of coronavirus infections is once again exposing the underfunding and shortcomings of public health care systems, even in developed parts of Europe. By @aritzparra https://t.co/fP3cf2wdBa
— AP Europe (@AP_Europe) January 5, 2022
Germany needs 15 million additional boosters to slow Omicron https://t.co/ZE5Hcz2NEl pic.twitter.com/GllUHeeDyv
— Reuters (@Reuters) January 5, 2022
Germany considers more contact limits as infections jump https://t.co/fX3mRGpcrY pic.twitter.com/8XrVqZxrar
— Reuters (@Reuters) January 5, 2022
Police in Spain seize 300,000 unauthorized Covid tests on the outskirts of Madrid. Near Barcelona, 208,000 antigen tests were stolen from a warehouse on New Year’s Eve https://t.co/y3kfbIvfF4
— delthia ricks
(@DelthiaRicks) January 4, 2022
Macron's 'piss off' comments trigger new COVID law debate suspension-media https://t.co/p3p9A2snTI pic.twitter.com/3nbdOleyRZ
— Reuters (@Reuters) January 5, 2022
What’s the correct French for ‘snowflake’?
French parliament suspended debate on a new COVID-19 law early on Wednesday as opposition lawmakers demanded explanations from President Emmanuel Macron about comments in which he said he wanted to “piss off” unvaccinated people.
With a presidential election looming in April, in which he is expected to run, Macron may have calculated that enough people are now vaccinated – and upset with those who have not been vaccinated – for his comments to go down well with voters…
The draft bill will make it mandatory for people to show proof of vaccination to enter a restaurant, cinema, or take the train.
In the interview, Macron also said unvaccinated people were “irresponsible” and that he planned to make their lives so complicated that they would end up having a vaccine.
“Irresponsible people are no longer citizens,” he said, in another comment criticised by the opposition…
France has historically had more vaccine sceptics than many of its neighbours, and pandemic restrictions have triggered many street protests, but it now has one of the highest COVID-19 vaccination rates in the European Union. Nearly 90% of French aged 12 and over have been vaccinated…
The “piss off” comments – “emmerder” is a slang verb that can also be translated as “annoy” – was made in response to one of these readers, a nurse, who asked him about surgeries postponed for some vaccinated people because hospitals are busy treating non-vaccinated sick with COVID-19.
For months, people have had to show either proof of vaccination or a negative COVID-19 test at many public venues. But as infections with the Delta and Omicron variants surge, the government has decided to drop the test option in the new bill.
Well worth clicking over to read John Burn-Murdoch’s long, data-intensive thread:
Excellent data-rich thread on Omicron mostly reporting on UK picture. Headline: less pressure on ICUs than this time last year, but far higher pressure on overall health sector due to COVID-caused staff shortages
https://t.co/eIfSp7qMkP
— Theo Farrell (@WarProf) January 5, 2022
COVID-19 testing rules in UK to be relaxed to reduce staff shortages -The Telegraph https://t.co/G3s2fOfg9z pic.twitter.com/NlQngduMT8
— Reuters (@Reuters) January 5, 2022
Rio cancels Carnival street parades due to rising COVID-19 cases, Omicron threat https://t.co/AaEOJQT5PN pic.twitter.com/cur5tyFQfP
— Reuters (@Reuters) January 5, 2022
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Thank @EricTopol for summarizing evidence that #Omicron is less virulent in lungs compared to #Delta & other #SARSCoV2 variants.
Still unclear is how much of lower hospitalization rates in current surge are due to viral factors vs to population immunity (vax + prior infections). https://t.co/iy8vZfeD9O— Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) January 4, 2022
A persistent decline in lung function has been detected in individuals with Covid, who didn't require hospitalization. New research published in the Journal of Infectious Diseases https://t.co/SlQWZU8UzB
— delthia ricks
(@DelthiaRicks) January 5, 2022
Study suggests that #COVID19 mRNA vaccination was associated with a lower incidence of multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) in adolescents https://t.co/C3fhBYEBmb
— JAMA (@JAMA_current) December 20, 2021
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"NY #COVID Hospitalizations Top 2021 Surge Levels The risk of breakthrough infections >5X'ed in December, risk of hospitalizations nearly doubled; unvaccinated NYers are getting infected at >6x the rate of vax'ed ones & hospitalized at 14x the rate".https://t.co/iZFkMGBbmy
— Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) January 4, 2022
NJ covid cases way up….among the unvaccinated.
for those fully vaccinated, 1.5% got Covid. less than 1% hospitalized. pic.twitter.com/9Y0LIEgXQO
— Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) January 5, 2022
Massachusetts enters the new year with more than 2,000 hospitalized Covid-19 patients; we haven't seen today's death number since May, 2020 https://t.co/BYob8FB8YD pic.twitter.com/grbcC8pX9v
— Adam Gaffin (@universalhub) January 5, 2022
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