it’s a statement of fact, dummy https://t.co/77UMwgVQq6
— World Famous Art Thief (@CalmSporting) December 20, 2021
I usually admire Nuzzi’s skills, but as a professional assassin, she should be better at recognizing a warning shot!
This is a note attached to the arrow that just thunked into the miscreants’ front door — GET SMARTER OR FACE THE CONSEQUENCES…
This is the most important chart in the country right now, out of New York City, and I'm going to keep posting it until people get what it's saying. https://t.co/ZWsA4zc38v pic.twitter.com/ve8m9XnmoD
— Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec) December 19, 2021
Yes, we're hitting record numbers here, but it's all highly concentrated among the remaining unvaccinated.
— Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec) December 19, 2021
Surging Covid cases are bringing a 2020 feel to the end of 2021. US health officials have intensified calls for the unvaccinated to get inoculated in the face of a new variant that has contributed to a record number of infections in New York & beyond https://t.co/ufg4GayCBa pic.twitter.com/SQLUkusWw2
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) December 19, 2021
On a flight now to Bay Area and it is one-hundred percent batty that the unvaccinated are allowed to fly. It’s unsafe in the cabin and we are transporting the virus. Requiring the vaccine to fly is the LEAST we can do to stop the spread.
— Rep. Eric Swalwell (@RepSwalwell) December 20, 2021
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Covid-19: Can freebies tempt Indians to get vaccinated? https://t.co/uaTw495XRl
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) December 20, 2021
… In the western state of Gujarat, a municipal corporation offered a litre of cooking oil to vaccine takers and found that it worked well, especially among the less well-off.
In the capital, Delhi, having vaccinated parents could boost a child’s chance to get into a good pre-school, a notoriously difficult task…
On 23 November, a local official in the central state of Madhya Pradesh announced a 10% discount on alcohol for people who had received both vaccine doses.
A day later, the order was withdrawn after a lawmaker from the governing Bharatiya Janata Party pointed out it could encourage alcohol consumption…
S.Korea's Moon urges more beds for coronavirus patients in a serious state https://t.co/TVus0oDmft pic.twitter.com/ZViUhOGaAE
— Reuters (@Reuters) December 20, 2021
… As the medical system is strained by a surge in new daily infections and serious cases, authorities restored tougher social distancing rules this week, just 1-1/2 months after having relaxed them in a policy of ‘living with COVID-19’.
“Over the past year, we have prepared for an increase in patients by nearly doubling the number of coronavirus treatment beds and expanding home treatment, but it was not enough,” Moon’s spokesperson, Park Kyung-mee, quoted him as saying.
Over the weekend, the occupancy rate of beds in intensive care for COVID-19 patients stood at nearly 88% in Seoul, and more than 79% for the country as a whole, the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) said…
The KDCA reported 5,318 infections and 54 deaths by midnight on Sunday, for a total of 570,414 cases and 4,776 deaths since the beginning of the pandemic.
The tally of serious cases stood at 997, just off Sunday’s all-time high of 1,025.
Coronavirus cluster linked to U.S. base in Japan grows to at least 180 https://t.co/kJMQrzD9bJ pic.twitter.com/ylbkMbSAJW
— Reuters (@Reuters) December 20, 2021
Thailand reports first local Omicron case, eyes reinstating quarantine https://t.co/1qeeuHRxNI pic.twitter.com/ZDahSXBSL1
— Reuters (@Reuters) December 20, 2021
Sydney shrugs off COVID-19 spike, resists calls to restore tough curbs https://t.co/wmuEz4RDig pic.twitter.com/4VlI0dxHhH
— Reuters (@Reuters) December 20, 2021
BREAKING: Israeli ministers have agreed to ban travel to the United States, Canada and eight other countries amid the rapid, global spread of the omicron variant. The rare decision to red-list the U.S. comes amid rising coronavirus infections in Israel. https://t.co/KSSaSbCO4a
— The Associated Press (@AP) December 20, 2021
The Netherlands went into lockdown and the possibility of more COVID-19 restrictions being imposed ahead of the Christmas and New Year holidays loomed over several European countries as the Omicron variant spreads rapidly https://t.co/t24gohXfXV
— Reuters (@Reuters) December 20, 2021
Why Denmark's omicron surge predicts harsh winter ahead. Many more tests than U.S., labs identify positives w/in 24 hrs, and by next day, they know which variant is responsible for every case. @chicoharlan https://t.co/UiJhz1VOUs
— LenaSun (@bylenasun) December 18, 2021
Of the 4 countries with highest documented Omicron case burden, Denmark looks like the outlier. But if you consider their current testing levels, they're pretty similar @OurWorldInData pic.twitter.com/SCzIMBkrFd
— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) December 19, 2021
AP takes a rare look inside a German military hospital that was one of the first to treat COVID, and is still managing well as the country prepares for a tough Christmas. By @wirereporter https://t.co/bRHJfCHVgf
— AP Europe (@AP_Europe) December 20, 2021
Italy's government is considering new measures to avoid a surge in COVID-19 infections during the holiday period, local newspapers reported, amid worries over the spread of the highly contagious Omicron coronavirus variant https://t.co/NRemr8Vlyo
— Reuters (@Reuters) December 20, 2021
UK says 12 deaths and 104 people hospitalised by Omicron https://t.co/Zf25yyrQUO pic.twitter.com/8yqkz5eRSk
— Reuters (@Reuters) December 20, 2021
Covid-19: Omicron is now dominant variant in Ireland https://t.co/Scxj7iqKXn
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) December 19, 2021
Enhanced COVID-19 Surveillance at the Community Level in Africa – Africa CDC https://t.co/AB6lawTbnP
— John Nkengasong (@JNkengasong) December 19, 2021
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Moderna has paused its application for a patent for the mRNA sequence of its #Covid vaccine, saying it is doing so to provide additional time to work out its dispute with the NIH about who should be credited on the patent, @pharmalot reports. ? https://t.co/tnqrBzWV7j
— Helen Branswell (@HelenBranswell) December 19, 2021
Deadly 'black fungus' infection that affected Covid patients in India earlier this year now spotted in US Covid patients. The Arkansas Health Dept has been notified about multiple cases of mucormycosis—black fungus—which strikes during or soon after Covid https://t.co/f2wajAo6dp pic.twitter.com/bDghcqJiN2
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) December 19, 2021
Sinopharm COVID-19 booster weaker against Omicron – study https://t.co/zs5SkCCCf8 pic.twitter.com/SjaBjvauWe
— Reuters (@Reuters) December 20, 2021
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Well-stated risk assessment for #Omicron #COVID19 in New York https://t.co/XnTMyEnJw1
— Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) December 19, 2021
In-person attendance at houses of worship across the U.S. has slowly risen from dramatically low levels when COVID-19 took hold in the spring of 2020. But in many cases, attendance is still not back to pre-pandemic levels. https://t.co/GwuGCw9I6i
— The Associated Press (@AP) December 19, 2021
tl/dr – Extremists flood the phone system at a small hospital, creating a TDoS (telephony denial of service). https://t.co/C7MbVIRxdR
— plum (@chrisplummer) December 20, 2021
This is the only 24h ED in that part of New Hampshire. Faced with incredible disruption on top of you know what.
— plum (@chrisplummer) December 20, 2021
sometimes people end up getting exactly what they ask for. https://t.co/rbh8sydRNS
— ?? JINGLEBELLSMACHINE ?? (@golikehellmachi) December 19, 2021
if you spent the last year talking about “the radical left wants to shut down schools again” and biden says “we’re absolutely not shutting down schools again, also it’s gonna suck if you aren’t vaccinated”, maybe don’t tell on yourself over getting what you said you want
— kilgore trout, tucker carlson’s mailman (@KT_So_It_Goes) December 20, 2021
(here’s my half baked attempt at unpacking this crossover universe, the MAGA pundits are pissed off biden isn’t gonna set himself on fire endorsing school shutdowns, and they need to reframe the subject around nonsensical unvaccinated victimization)
— kilgore trout, tucker carlson’s mailman (@KT_So_It_Goes) December 20, 2021
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