everyone in virginia should buy this woman a drink https://t.co/WKqtuIuiuH
— GOLIKEHELLMACHINE (@golikehellmachi) February 4, 2022
900,000… pic.twitter.com/oVpxKSMuBp
— Vivian Salama (@vmsalama) February 5, 2022
Breaking News: More than 2,600 people in the U.S. are dying from Covid-19 each day, an alarming death rate that has climbed by 30% in the last two weeks. Across the nation, the pandemic has now claimed about 900,000 lives. https://t.co/LfN3ExdX61
— The New York Times (@nytimes) February 4, 2022
Yesterday another 3,300 American deaths reported.
Now 80% of pandemic peak and still on the rise, 7-day averaging over 2,600 deaths per day pic.twitter.com/RcRcYf0ZI3— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) February 4, 2022
>900,000 dead: Covid deaths are surging in low-vaccination states. 4 of the 5 states w/ the highest shares of population-adjusted deaths over the past month have fully vaccinated <60% of their populations https://t.co/fDmUFYl2G1
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) February 5, 2022
The big news in September was that unvaccinated people were about 11x more likely to die of covid.
Today, with the introduction of boosters, the gap between the unvaccinated and the most protected is even greater — twice as big, and often more.https://t.co/ZeHCfpX5ol
— Aaron Blake (@AaronBlake) February 3, 2022
Going through old photos; I took a picture of the TV on February 27, 2020. pic.twitter.com/bdTC2PlCdV
— Sean Howe (@seanhowe) February 5, 2022
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Increased COVID cases at Beijing Games no reason for concern, organisers say https://t.co/GwIgPEyBDi pic.twitter.com/m2eYxgkd1y
— Reuters (@Reuters) February 5, 2022
Hong Kong reports record daily high of 351 coronavirus cases https://t.co/XcRve84yzO pic.twitter.com/PnHtN4lz7s
— Reuters (@Reuters) February 5, 2022
S.Korea reports record 36,362 new COVID cases -KDCA https://t.co/mChqlPnRdn pic.twitter.com/XBGbFXFnKC
— Reuters (@Reuters) February 5, 2022
Singapore's daily local COVID-19 cases triple to more than 13,000 https://t.co/4eRnrVlf7g pic.twitter.com/omHWvcwVSZ
— Reuters (@Reuters) February 5, 2022
Australia revisited – a country changed by Covid https://t.co/alLmP1rBsP
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) February 3, 2022
… For much of the pandemic, Covid restrictions have turned the lines on the map that divide the states and territories into rigid borders that could only be crossed with the grant of a permit – paperwork that was routinely denied.
Not since the founding of modern Australia, more than a hundred years ago, has the country been more geographically fragmented. Western Australia, whose borders are still shut, feels like it has declared independence. Queensland has also acted at times like a self-governing fiefdom. The premiers of the states have often governed more like prime ministers. Absent throughout has been a sense of Australian nationhood.
As well as witnessing the fragility of Australia’s federation, we have seen the enduring solidity of its Fortress Australia mentality. Early on in Covid, the decision was taken to pull up the drawbridge and shutter the portcullis. The country’s international borders only opened up to non-citizens in the middle of December.
Not only were foreigners kept out. Australians were locked in. Many expatriate Australians also struggled to make it home, because of the difficulty of getting flights and the prohibitive cost of two weeks of mandatory hotel quarantine. Made to feel even more estranged from their distant country, the unofficial expat anthem, the Peter Allen ballad I Still Call Australia Home, no longer rang so true…
New Zealand reports record 243 new COVID cases https://t.co/xgPbz0U2D4 pic.twitter.com/saDrSqw1Zr
— Reuters (@Reuters) February 5, 2022
Russia reported a record 177,282 new coronavirus infections and 714 deaths over the last 24 hourshttps://t.co/pJecNraPTg
— The Moscow Times (@MoscowTimes) February 5, 2022
A piece on record Covid numbers in both Russia and Ukraine potentially complicating the military situation.
https://t.co/p4EyUq99dl— Shaun Walker (@shaunwalker7) February 4, 2022
South African scientists duplicate Moderna’s mRNA vaccine. Their work is part of WHO's technology-transfer hub. The hub is designed to create vaccine manufacturing capacity in countries that have lagged behind the rest of the world in Covid vaccinations ↓ https://t.co/RBkClL92tj
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) February 4, 2022
#BREAKING: GoFundMe has removed its donation page to the Freedom Convoy 2022 after determining it violated its terms of service due to unlawful activity.
They will begin offering people that contributed full refunds as a result.https://t.co/pbOmxOXvev
— CityNews Toronto (@CityNewsTO) February 4, 2022
#BREAKING: Lawsuit filed against convoy organizers, seeking damages on behalf of downtown Ottawa residents https://t.co/7heeMkOrEn pic.twitter.com/LxX58MOdfz
— CTV News (@CTVNews) February 4, 2022
Despite the expectation that they would be greeted as liberators, polling data shows Canadians are unimpressed with the Freedom (From Vaccines) Occupation. It's day six. https://t.co/2Bw5pOLRqo pic.twitter.com/3jFqFi1RFy
— Justin Ling (@Justin_Ling) February 3, 2022
(Reuters) – Delta Air Lines wants the U.S. government to place passengers convicted of on-board disruptions on a national comprehensive unruly passenger "no-fly" list that would bar them from future travel on any commercial airline, according to a letter seen by @Reuters.$DAL
— Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla) February 4, 2022
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U.S. CDC backs full approval of Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine https://t.co/qOfi89bV6c pic.twitter.com/ynFhkaYm3q
— Reuters (@Reuters) February 5, 2022
The paperwork is done:
The director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) signed off on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s full approval of Moderna Inc’s (MRNA.O) COVID-19 vaccine in those aged 18 and over, the agency said on Friday.
The vaccine has been in use under the U.S Food and Drug Administration’s emergency use authorization since December 2020, and is now the second fully approved vaccine for COVID-19 in the United States…
The vaccine will now be sold under the brand name as Spikevax.
The COVID-19 vaccine from Pfizer Inc (PFE.N) and BioNTech SE received full approval for those aged 16 and over in August.
Roughly 75 million people in the United States have been fully-vaccinated with Moderna’s shot.
"We're beginning to see real-world data about the effectiveness of a booster dose, particularly against the omicron variant," said Bill Moss, executive director of @IVACtweets https://t.co/cMuMozZFqw
— Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (@JohnsHopkinsSPH) February 4, 2022
This is why masks are important ? pic.twitter.com/rIR8NSGqd9
— delthia ricks ?? (@DelthiaRicks) February 5, 2022
Does Omicron hit kids harder? Scientists are trying to find out.
Children are now making up a larger proportion of patients hospitalized with Covid than in previous infection waves https://t.co/JTn5YHc6NT— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) February 5, 2022
Covid brain changes show parallels w/ Alzheimer's. New research. Findings may point to potential mechanism for brain fog in #LongCovid. Columbia U study based on 10 autopsies linked the inflammatory response caused by SARS2 to adverse brain manifestations https://t.co/lxMKT3mxOX pic.twitter.com/lUgeUbGvbl
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) February 4, 2022
Older stroke patients w/ a history of Covid were more likely to develop dangerous blood clots in the veins of their legs— & elsewhere—than stroke patients who never had Covid. CDC study. A clot that forms in veins is called a venous thromboembolism or VTE https://t.co/X53DzEcGFn pic.twitter.com/CNx7bBZy3k
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) February 5, 2022
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A group of states is renewing a challenge to President Biden's requirement that millions of healthcare workers be vaccinated.
Here is a rundown of the Biden vaccine mandates that affect the private sector and the status of the legal fights over them. https://t.co/QC4EKEixTg
— The Associated Press (@AP) February 4, 2022
You know who else is under a mandate for vaccines?
Fox News staff. https://t.co/Q6iU0pV6ma
— Matthew Gertz (@MattGertz) February 3, 2022
With all due respect to Jon Stewart, the name I hear most often when a parent or patient tells me where they heard something that makes them not want the Covid vaccine is the Spotify podcaster, so I’m not inclined to contribute to the profits of the company that pays him.
— Daniel Summers, MD (@WFKARS) February 4, 2022
it's been going on for about 700,000 deaths now
— Atrios (@Atrios) February 3, 2022
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