Here, from terrific @carlzimmer & his @nytimes team, is a remarkable 3-D interactive that will answer most of your questions about #SARSCoV2 and #DeltaVariant & #Omicron –viewing fun for the whole family.https://t.co/AdTv9wqwy6
— Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) December 5, 2021
Dr. Fauci, to @jaketapper on CNN: “Thus far, though it’s too early to make definitive statements about [omicron], it does not look like there is a great deal of severity to it. Thus far the signals are encouraging on the severity.”
— Josh Kraushaar (@HotlineJosh) December 5, 2021
it's like everyone is scared to embrace good news https://t.co/pFNgBD775E
— Gerry Doyle (@mgerrydoyle) December 6, 2021
The US is poised to soon surpass more than 200M people being fully vaccinated against the coronavirus. CDC reports 198M were fully vaccinated as of Saturday, accounting for ~60% of the population. >45M had also received a booster https://t.co/MQISdABsKF
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) December 5, 2021
The US is averaging more than 100k new Covid cases a day, the highest level in 2 months. The 7-day average of new cases was 121,437 as of Saturday, according to Johns Hopkins Univ. The last time the US topped the 100k-cases-a-day mark was early October https://t.co/nm0IQZUmNa
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) December 6, 2021
Key word is "found" — you can't find what you don't look for, or that for which your search is lame. https://t.co/vunAdhbJ5e
— Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) December 5, 2021
Senator Chuck Schumer urged Americans to seek out free, at-home COVID-19 test kits that are being distributed at community health centers. The Omicron variant of the coronavirus has spread to about one-third of U.S. states, U.S. health officials said https://t.co/WaIWWssaFc pic.twitter.com/KwlYKZs6ah
— Reuters (@Reuters) December 6, 2021
Lots of folks in US aren't sure where/how to get rapid tests. The uncertainty makes everything worse. Similarly, in Paris I could walk into most pharmacies and get a PCR on demand, results within 1-2 hours at most. https://t.co/0MWeXueZfo
— Meghan O'Rourke (@meghanor) December 6, 2021
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Despite #OmnicronVariant's global spread, the WHO says there are no Omicron deaths so far. The agency warns it may take weeks to assess how infectious the variant is, whether it causes more severe illness & how effective antivirals/vaccines are against it https://t.co/NSN6Ysf3gc pic.twitter.com/hSeAzZo8TD
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) December 6, 2021
Nepal detects first two cases of Omicron variant – health ministry https://t.co/zG2tpU2Ibp pic.twitter.com/JjGoSM5ALn
— Reuters (@Reuters) December 6, 2021
S.Korea's COVID-19 rules put some vaccinated foreigners in limbo https://t.co/Y3hZspLtu1 pic.twitter.com/QDlppHfJCv
— Reuters (@Reuters) December 6, 2021
Thailand detects first case of Omicron variant https://t.co/Dyow6YI3KC pic.twitter.com/rhSOXBeyIf
— Reuters (@Reuters) December 6, 2021
the pandemic has brought to the surface a lot of humanity's worst instincts about foreigners imo https://t.co/pKog6kW3hb
— Gerry Doyle (@mgerrydoyle) December 6, 2021
A jump in cases of #OmicronVariant is putting Europe on edge. Dozens of new cases of the Omicron variant were reported in Britain & Denmark Sunday, adding to increases across Europe & fueling fears the new variant has already spread widely https://t.co/IsLZd9AUHQ
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) December 6, 2021
France's Covid-19 incidence rate, the number of infections weekly per 100,000, passed 300 nationwide – 6 x the country's alert level of 50 in October. But that rate is 650 for children aged 6 to 10, their highest since the start of the pandemic. https://t.co/gtXcwOzhp1
— Dan Epstein (@epstein_dan) December 5, 2021
Italy is making life more uncomfortable for unvaccinated people as the holidays draw near. It is excluding them from indoor restaurants, theaters and museums to control the spread of coronavirus and encourage vaccine skeptics to get their shots. https://t.co/BBtcGipUtN
— The Associated Press (@AP) December 6, 2021
Irish primary school mask policy to be revised https://t.co/T41ZDaIaHE
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) December 6, 2021
'Extreme' vaccine discrimination risks leaving Africa behind – report https://t.co/Ryto4DCkAj pic.twitter.com/6fa4PsFZFM
— Reuters (@Reuters) December 6, 2021
COVID shots are finally arriving, but Africa can't get them all into arms https://t.co/c82exsyKKf pic.twitter.com/g1mNGfFzGJ
— Reuters (@Reuters) December 6, 2021
Covid in Uganda: The man whose children may never return to school https://t.co/512fUVUPdN
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) December 6, 2021
10 #COVID19 cases detected on cruise ship? arriving in New Orleans. All 3,200 passengers will be tested before being allowed to disembark https://t.co/JK48CPXMqo via @NOLAnews
— André Picard (@picardonhealth) December 5, 2021
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The pandemic could end as a result of vaccine development, contact tracing, genomic analysis, containment measures & international cooperation. The world has a toolkit to bring an end to the pandemic
The problem? Those tools are not being put to best usehttps://t.co/qpn7MEESBX
— MicrobesInfect (@MicrobesInfect) December 5, 2021
New genome samples submitted @GISAID show the world is still in a 95%+ #DeltaVariant #pandemic — except #Africa the picture is much more diverse, with nearly 6% of new infections being #Omicron pic.twitter.com/s11pJ8p5Og
— Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) December 5, 2021
What still needs to be worked out as the U.S. ramps up sequencing? Illumina $ILMN CEO @fdesouza tells @margbrennan that logistics are key. pic.twitter.com/LEk3qGa3jo
— Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) December 5, 2021
“We can see studies that show the virus can actually remain inside of a human body constantly mutating and adapting to that human body” @Laurie_Garrett on Omicron being particularly dangerous to the immunocompromised. #Velshi pic.twitter.com/QgmZg1SWoe
— Ali Velshi (@AliVelshi) December 5, 2021
'Next pandemic could be more lethal than Covid' https://t.co/gRnkQLQQgM
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) December 6, 2021
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Even among vaccinated adults, a partisan gap in who’s receiving #COVID 19 booster shots has emerged.
32% of Democrats say they already got a booster, almost double the number of Republicans (18%), according to our new Vaccine Monitor report. https://t.co/Ti4oavzAyh pic.twitter.com/92M4PwP7Wx
— KFF (Kaiser Family Foundation) (@KFF) December 5, 2021
Meet the Press routinely extends invitations to anti-vaxxers who pushed the Big Lie and nobody is holding @chucktodd accountable for it https://t.co/cYZcR4FkD0
— Matt Negrin, HOST OF HARDBALL AT 7PM ON MSNBC (@MattNegrin) December 5, 2021
Cutting down greatly the amount of hospitalized and dying among those vaccinated I'd call successful. But I came into this subject without my mind made up ahead of time. https://t.co/wdaprNZFCJ
— Dave Meltzer (@davemeltzerWON) December 2, 2021
Up among the unvaccinated, yes, greatly in fact. You would think that would be evidence vaccines work, but if you have an agenda, you just state deaths are up to prove they didn't work. https://t.co/j13C1SO9SS
— Dave Meltzer (@davemeltzerWON) December 2, 2021
All these GOP leaders and talking heads have been vaccinated. They’re safe from this all, but they’ll happily march their fans into the grave because it’s politically useful, it makes them money, or both. It’s just grim as shit to see how bad this is.
— Jean-Michel Connard ?? (@torriangray) December 3, 2021
No matter how I feel about some of these people and their execrable politics they simply do not deserve to die. They’ve been betrayed by a series of con artists and political opportunists. It sucks.
— Jean-Michel Connard ?? (@torriangray) December 3, 2021
This tweet from a guy who calls covid a "fake pandemic" has 11,000 retweets and 26,000 likes. It is false. Israel's health ministry did not approve a 4th vaccine shot. It said it would *meet* to *consider* such a shot for only *immunocompromised* patients. https://t.co/WSpVVLh5oc pic.twitter.com/gEnsy0gJji
— Yair Rosenberg (@Yair_Rosenberg) December 6, 2021
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