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Ich trage immer noch eine #Maske.
In der Arbeit.
Im ÖV.
Beim Einkaufen.
Bei gesellschaftlichen Anlässen ausser in gut belüfteten hohen Räumen mit wenig Leuten.
Für mich ist das Risiko ohne zu hoch, weil ich #SARSCoV2 immer noch als sehr gefährlich einschätze. #Maskebleibtauf 1/6
Das Risiko, trotz 1x #BA2-Infektion und bivalentem #Booster einen schwereren Verlauf zu haben.
Das Risiko für #LongCovid.
Das Risiko von Langzeitfolgen für Gefässe, Gehirn und Immunsystem.
#Politik und die meisten Medien haben mit der #Pandemie abgeschlossen.
#SchwereSchuld 2/6
#SARSCoV2 ist aber mit uns noch lange nicht fertig.
#XBB15 ist Paradebeispiel für dessen rasante Evolution.
Die Übersterblichkeit, der schlechte Gesundheitszustand der Bevölkerung und die rezenten Infektionswellen der #Kinder sollten Warnung genug sein.
#CovidIsNotOver 3/6
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🧵Today marks 1 year since the WHO designated #Omicron a Variant of Concern. This most infectious and immune-resistant variant was seized upon to scrap all remaining mitigation measures and normalize the pandemic globally. #CovidIsntOver #BringBackMasks 1/ wsws.org/en/articles/20…
Over the past year, billions of people have been infected globally. Officially, 1.4 million people have been killed by #Omicron, but excess death estimates place the real global death toll over the past year at 5.2 million, or 1/4 of all #COVID deaths. 2/ economist.com/graphic-detail…
Excess deaths are now elevated everywhere, a reflection of the horrific toll of #LongCovid and the reverberations of the mass infection policies implemented by nearly every capitalist government in response to Omicron. 3/
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1/4 - Quels scénarios #COVID19 pour les prochains mois?
(Rappelons que nous ne savons pas le prédire, c’est donc pure conjecture).
1. Les observations:
Les 3 dernières vagues #Omicron respectivement #BA1, #BA2, #BA5 ont déferlé avec une intensité très voisine (selon positivité)
2/4 - Les observations (suite)
7 vagues consécutives en 2 ans et demi, les plus hautes avec les sous-variants d’#Omicron, la plus longue avec Delta (deux vagues). Pas d’immunité collective pour bloquer la transmission, forte couverture vaccinale réduisant formes graves et décès.
3/4 -
2. Les scénarios pour la fin 2022:
A. Pas de nouvelle vague: scénario plausible au vu de l’absence de propagation d’un nouveau variant ou sous-variant début août en Europe.
B. Nouvelle vague BA.4/BA.5 à la faveur de la saison froide: scénario de type Delta en 2021.
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📆#LatestCOVID @PMPmagToday
#Zoe COVID Study estimates 345,865 cases (+1.9% in a week)
▫7-day estimate: 2,427,165 cases in a week (+8.5%)
▫On average, at least 346,738 people are still infected by #COVID19 every day in the UK

🙈🙊🙉#CovidIsNotOver

pmp-magazine.com/2022/07/15/lat…
📆#LatestCOVID @PMPmagToday

#Zoe Estimate (15-Jul)

𝗦𝘆𝗺𝗽𝘁𝗼𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗖𝗮𝘀𝗲𝘀
24h—345,865 (+1.9%)
7d—2,427,165 ↗️
28d—8,063,909 ↗️

𝗗𝗮𝗶𝗹𝘆 𝗔𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗴𝗲
346,738 ↗️

𝗖𝘂𝗿𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗦𝘆𝗺𝗽𝘁𝗼𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗰
4,556,818 ↗️

🙈🙊🙉#CovidIsNotOver

pmp-magazine.com/2022/07/15/lat…
📆#LatestCOVID @PMPmagToday

@ONS Estimate (as of 7-Jul)

𝗖𝗮𝘀𝗲𝘀
7d—3,498,700 (+28.9%) ↗️
28d—11,662,600 ↗️

𝗗𝗮𝗶𝗹𝘆 𝗔𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗴𝗲
499,8148 ↗️

🙈🙉🙊 #CovidIsNotOver

pmp-magazine.com/2022/07/15/lat…
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1/4 - “On peut raisonnablement penser que le pic de la vague de contaminations est passé en France et passe actuellement sur une grande partie de l’Europe. L’expérience portugaise nous permet d’appuyer cette analyse.” leparisien.fr/societe/sante/…
2/4 - Si la France suit la dynamique portugaise de sa récente vague #BA5, alors le pic de mortalité pourrait être quinze jours après celui des contaminations, soit en France début juillet, avec un pic d’hospitalisations le précédant de quelques jours.
3/4 - Au Portugal, la mortalité #COVID19 enregistrée sur quatre mois, début avril - fin juillet, devrait être de 3000 décès. Si l’on poursuit l’analogie, en France, entre mi-mai et mi-septembre, on pourrait enregistrer 20’000 décès #COVID19.
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A short thread on:

🦠 Covid transmission
😷 How best to protect yourself
💉 Vaccine limitations
⚠️ Warning on infection harms

🧵
(A) Covid is airborne 🦠 This means, infectious particles are carried in the air we breathe.

Please take time to watch the short (1 min) video below 👇🏼
(B) Although hand washing helps spread infection and is a good thing to do, it does not clean the air.

Given #COVIDisAirborne, the best way to protect yourself from (re)infection is to wear a good-fitting, high-grade #FFP2, or preferably #FFP3, mask 😷
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1/9 - “Hospital admissions are rising across Europe and the US as highly transmissible #COVID19 variants drive infections, but the resulting illness is less likely to be severe or cause death than in previous waves, according to the FT and health experts.”
ft.com/content/f4794a…
2/9 - “The number of new #COVID19 admissions has grown by 40 per cent in the last week in France, 34 per cent in England and more than 20 per cent in several other European countries. The wave has been fuelled by the #BA5 #Omicron sub-variant.”
3/9 - “The rate of increased hospital admissions in the US is currently slower than in Europe at 6%. This reflects the decline of the #BA2 variant in the US. But as the #BA5 variant becomes dominant, the overall rate of growth is likely to accelerate.”
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📍NEW DOMINANCE of “ESCAPE ARTIST” Variants #BA5 & #BA4–together topping 52% of all strains in the US, all while #BA2 family going extinct. ➡️BA5&4 are highly evasive against past immunity—matches rise in #COVID19 hospitalization in US & many countries.🧵 covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tra…
2) this is why FDA has recommended for updates booster shots— The panel’s vote paves the way for F.D.A. to push manufacturers to make reformulated boosters in time for Biden WH to offer them later this year, before an expected winter surge of the virus.
nytimes.com/2022/06/28/us/…
3) #BA5 has begun causing havoc in hospitalizations worldwide in many countries. Especially recently in Portugal that had a wave of hospitalization that neared it’s winter peak. UK is now being squeezed by BA5/4 too. 👇
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📆#LatestCOVID 🦠 @PMPmagToday
#UKHSA Report (as of 28-Jun)

🧪#COVID CASES
▫7d—119,919 ↗️

🏥ADMISSIONS
▫7d—8,158 ↗️

🏥PATIENTS
▫24h—8,332 ↗️

🛌ICU
▫7d—1,295 ↗️

🕯️DEATHS
▫7d—410 ↗️

🤕#LONGCOVID
▫2 million people 🚨

🙈🙊🙉 #CovidIsNotOver

pmp-magazine.com/2022/06/28/lat…
📆#LatestCOVID @PMPmagToday
#Zoe Estimate (as of 26-Jun)

𝗦𝘆𝗺𝗽𝘁𝗼𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗖𝗮𝘀𝗲𝘀
24h—275,706 ↗️
7d—1,762,508 ↗️
28d—4,843,850 ↗️

𝗗𝗮𝗶𝗹𝘆 𝗔𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗴𝗲
251,787 ↗️

𝗖𝘂𝗿𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗦𝘆𝗺𝗽𝘁𝗼𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗰
3,057,628 ↗️

🙈🙊🙉#CovidIsNotOver

pmp-magazine.com/2022/06/28/lat…
📆#LatestCOVID @PMPmagToday
#ONS Estimate (as of 18-Jun)

𝗖𝗮𝘀𝗲𝘀
7d—1,739,100 ↗️
28d—5,098,400 ↗️

𝗗𝗮𝗶𝗹𝘆 𝗔𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗴𝗲
248,443 ↗️

🙈🙉🙊 #CovidIsNotOver

pmp-magazine.com/2022/06/28/lat…
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📆#LatestCOVID 🦠 @PMPmagToday
#UKHSA Report (as of 27-Jun)

🧪#COVID CASES
▫7d—114,936 ↗️

🏥ADMISSIONS
▫7d—7,809 ↗️

🏥PATIENTS
▫24h—7,822 ↗️

🛌ICU
▫7d—1,215 ↗️

🕯️DEATHS
▫7d—398 ↗️

🤕#LONGCOVID
▫2 million people 🚨

🙈🙊🙉 #CovidIsNotOver

pmp-magazine.com/2022/06/27/lat…
📆#LatestCOVID @PMPmagToday
#Zoe Estimate (as of 25-Jun)

𝗦𝘆𝗺𝗽𝘁𝗼𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗖𝗮𝘀𝗲𝘀
24h—270,864 ↗️
7d—1,686,923 ↗️
28d—4,682,174 ↗️

𝗗𝗮𝗶𝗹𝘆 𝗔𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗴𝗲
240,989 ↗️

𝗖𝘂𝗿𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗦𝘆𝗺𝗽𝘁𝗼𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗰
2,960,484 ↗️

🙈🙊🙉#CovidIsNotOver

pmp-magazine.com/2022/06/27/lat…
📆#LatestCOVID @PMPmagToday
#ONS Estimate (as of 18-Jun)

𝗖𝗮𝘀𝗲𝘀
7d—1,739,100 ↗️
28d—5,098,400 ↗️

𝗗𝗮𝗶𝗹𝘆 𝗔𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗴𝗲
248,443 ↗️

🙈🙉🙊 #CovidIsNotOver

pmp-magazine.com/2022/06/27/lat…
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1/8 - “#COVID19 infections continue to surge across the UK, with the number of people in England estimated to have the virus jumping 20 per cent to 1.3mn in the past week, according to the latest official survey.”
ft.com/content/825af0…
2/8 - “The latest Covid wave has hit Scotland hardest. About one in 20 people or 4.76 per cent of the population in Scotland had #COVID19 — up 40 per cent on the previous week.”
3/8 - “These increases are largely driven by the #Omicron #BA4 and #BA5 variants . . . In England, infections increased across all age groups, with the lowest level of infection seen in school aged children.[…] #BA4 accounts for 22% and #BA5 for 39% of new cases.”
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1/9 - “Figures from ONS, based on swabs collected from randomly selected households, reveal that in the week ending 18 June an estimated 1/40 people in England are thought to have had #COVID19, 1.36 mn people, up from 1/50, or 1.13 mn the week before.”
theguardian.com/world/2022/jun…
2/9 - “The estimated number of people testing positive for #COVID19 also rose in Scotland and Northern Ireland and, to a lesser extent in Wales, with levels highest in Scotland where around 1/20 people, or 4.76% of the pop are thought to have had Covid in the week ending 17 Jun.”
3/9 - “In England, infections increased across all age groups, with the lowest level of infection seen in school-aged children. These increases are largely driven by the #Omicron #BA4 and #BA5 variants.”
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1/9 - “European countries are experiencing a surge in #COVID19 hospital admissions driven by sub-variants of the highly infectious Omicron strain, threatening a fresh global wave of the disease as immunity levels wane and pandemic restrictions are lifted.”
ft.com/content/8c8715…
2/9 - “Admissions have risen in several countries (FR,UK). The #BA5 sub-variant of #Omicron now accounts for >80% of new infections in PT. In DE,where admissions have been rising for over a week, the share of #COVID19 infections ascribed to #BA5 doubled at the end of last month.”
3/9 - “Experts warn that the widespread scaling back of testing and surv may be compromising the ability of countries to spot new mutations and react quickly. They fear this could lead to waves later in the year that will put pressure on health syst and prove harder to contain.”
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⚠️My god — #COVID19 hospitalizations up ⬆️ 33% in just 1 week in England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿!📌Plus COVID deaths rose ⬆️ 8% in a week too! #BA5 and #BA4 are surging like mad in England - not even dominant yet - and it’s already bad. 📌Hospitalizations in young kids up 30% too! #CovidIsNotOver 🧵
2) Look at the COVID hospitalization turnaround - it’s quite sharp!! Across all ages!
3) Hospital admissions in England🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 among 0-5 years olds! Look at that swing — it’s over 36% jump in a week!
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The 6th #COVID19 surge in the US is deepening each day, driven by the highly infectious Omicron #BA2 & #BA2121 subvariants, and the Biden administration has made clear that it will no nothing to slow or stop the spread. #CovidIsNotOver A🧵1/
wsws.org/en/articles/20…
On Wednesday the US recorded nearly 190,000 new cases, pushing the 7-day average of daily new cases to well over 100,000. According to the New York Times, hospitalizations now stand at 22,875, a 27 percent increase over the last 14 days. 2/
These figures are known to be significant undercounts due to the bipartisan undermining of testing & data reporting at the federal & state levels since January 2022. Only 4 states now report #COVID data daily, while 13 states report once/week or less. 3/
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1/ As we observe this new #BA2 fueled wave pick up real steam, I have my doubts about the signal value of wastewater as an early indicator for rising transmission rates compared to testing.

Some data points below from Silicon Valley. 🧵
2/ In Santa Clara county in California, COVID cases are now well past the height of the Delta surge and will likely approach the peak of the first Omicron wave.

paloaltoonline.com/news/2022/05/1…
3/ Based on wastewater sampling in the area, you might have “called” the rise in late April/early May but there are some puzzling head fakes of plateaus and declines in the last week.

The data is far too noisy to understand what is happening real-time or to make predictions. Image
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VARIANT UPDATE—#BA2 subvariant family continues to grow to now 96.8% with the more aggressive sub-subvariant BA.2.12.1 now at 28.7% and surging quickly. Old #Ba1 Omicron nearly extinct. Be cautious folks. #CovidIsNotOver

Figure Ht @DrWilliamKu
2) Are there more potentially dangerous variants out there? Oh yes, #BA4 is really worrisome for example. It’s not in the US yet but it is growing in South Africa.
3) this surge in deaths is almost all #BA2 wave deaths in the UK 🇬🇧— it’s sad people ignore it and don’t care about others dying anymore.
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📍“IT SPARES NO ONE”—new @JohnsHopkins evidence has revealed that anyone infected with COVID is at higher risk for heart issues—clots, inflammation, arrhythmias—a risk that **persists even in relatively healthy people** long after the illness has passed 🧵
publichealth.jhu.edu/2022/covid-and… ImageImage
2) “The major finding was that people with COVID-19 have a higher risk of all sorts of heart problems at one year. That included arrhythmias (irregular heart beats or the heart beating too fast or too slow) and atrial fibrillation (a fast heart rhythm in a particular pattern).
3) “We found evidence of an increased risk of stroke, of blood clots in the legs and the lungs, and of heart failure and heart attacks. The increased risk of a broad spectrum of heart problems was evident.
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Unklare #Hepatitis-Fälle bei #Kindern - eine Einordnung meinerseits. Seit einigen Wochen werden vermehrt Hepatitis-Fälle bei Kindern unter 10 Jahren (Gipfel 2-5) gemeldet, bislang aus UK, Dänemark, Niederlande, Spanien, Israel und nun auch USA, mit Beginn wohl schon in 2021
Aktuelle Daten findet man hier (ECDC) ecdc.europa.eu/en/news-events… und auch hier promedmail.org (PromedMail), bei letzterem allerdings auch ungeprüfte Quellen. Vorläufige Falldefinition & erste Publikation aus Schottland hier: eurosurveillance.org/content/10.280…
Vorab sei gesagt, dass es noch sehr früh ist & man wirklich noch nichts genaues weiß. Es ist im Moment wichtig, nicht zu schnelle/voreilige Schlüsse zu ziehen. Man kann auch alle nur darum bitten, Thema nicht für eigene Agenda zu missbrauchen & Fehlinformationen zu verbreiten.
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Ich hatte gestern auf der Konferenz hier in Turin ein fast 60min-Gespräch 1:1 mit einem Mediziner zu #COVID19-#Reinfektion & #PostCovid-Sport und er hat meine Perspektive vom Kopf auf die Füße gestellt.
Jetzt frage ich mich: War ich vielleicht in einer Bubble?
Oder...
#HFESE2022
... war ich gestern einfach zu offen & gierig auf eine andere Perspektive zu meinem persönlichen Risiko, die ich nur allzu gern so hören, verstehen & in meine eigene Handlungsregulation übernehmen wollte/will.
Also, liebe Menschen, die ihr euch mit Corona beschäftigt habt ...
Was würdet IHR mir raten?
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NEW KID ON THE BLOCK—#BA2’s new spin off #BA2121 sub-subvariant is now surging exponentially—so infectious that it is outpacing even #Ba2 and completely displacing #Omicron, which is now near extinct. Together #BA2 and #BA2121 are now 94% of all strains in US.

HT @DrWilliamKu
2) Hospitalizations are surging. We can debate new variants if more dangerous or not— but more infection, even if mild, means more problems. And don’t forget #LongCovid that doesn’t show up in hospitalizations.
2) I’m very worried about the sudden rise of the new #BA2121 sub subvariant. These are log linear which means they are exponential increase. Figure by @trvrb

*earlier above I meant old classic #Omicron is extinct.
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First sequence of BA.2.12.1, the #BA2 #Subvariant with #Spike #L452Q mutation is uploaded in @gisaid from #Arkasnas

This #Omicron #Sublineage has significant growth advantage over BA.2 and BA.1.1

Please get #Boosted!

Get #tested if you have any #COVID19 symptoms
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Instead of alerting American society to the dangers posed by the deepening surge of #BA2 and the disastrous state of #COVID19 surveillance in the US, every effort is being made to conceal this reality from the public. #CovidIsNotOver 1/
wsws.org/en/articles/20…
The official 7-day average of daily new cases was 37,810 on Saturday, an increase of 38% over the past two weeks. According to @IHME, the likely real number of daily new infections in the US is far higher at roughly 270,000 per day. 2/ covid19.healthdata.org/united-states-…
32 states have seen an increase in daily new cases over the past 2 weeks. The Northeast has been hardest hit so far, as BA.2 first became dominant in that region of the US, with New York and other states now seeing a growth in COVID-19 hospitalizations. 3/
nytimes.com/interactive/20…
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⚠️“HIGHLY CONTAGIOUS NEW VARIANTS”—New York State Dept of Health announced the emergence of 2 new Omicron subvariants, BA.2.12 & BA.2.12.1—estimated to have 23%-27% growth advantage above #BA2. ➡️NYS says “highly contagious new variants are likely contributing to rising cases”🧵
2) Department's Wadsworth Center Identifies Two Sub-lineages of BA.2—BA.2.12 and BA.2.12.1—Potentially Contributing to Increased Transmission Reported in Central New York and Surrounding Regions.

health.ny.gov/press/releases…
3) “Both variants are sub-lineages of BA.2, which now accounts for 80.6% of COVID-19 infections in New York. The subvariants have been estimated to have a 23% – 27% growth advantage above the original BA.2 variant.”
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