I think people are calling this all variant and reinfection not the issues with systemic spread and inequities Case and point South Africa with likely higher immune escapepic.twitter.com/FSzfJbLgqZ
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I think people are calling this all variant and reinfection not the issues with systemic spread and inequities Case and point South Africa with likely higher immune escapepic.twitter.com/FSzfJbLgqZ
Exactly! We’re focused on things that sounds scary to us (what if it comes here), rather than appear to me to be the bigger drivers. I’m not against identifying variant threats (B.1.1.7!) but the evidence base here is relatively weak also, by itself, would be less catastrophic.
There's some bitter feeling when your (excellent) coverage of the pandemic hits my home country :( If u ever need more info on what's going on over here feel free to @ me I can point to reliable sources on our data spread, vaccination, hospital collapse, and (great) researchers
I think there's a lot of great knowledge in Brazil that hasn't made it to English speaking scientists outside your country.
As badly as Brazil is doing at 13.1 deaths per million yesterday alone, it's nothing compared to Hungary which experienced 27.8 deaths per million yesterday. To put that in perspective, that's a population-adjusted 9,452 deaths/day in the U.S. Unmitigated spread is a disaster.
Time and again I find people think they've seen the virus's worst already - their scale stops at however many thousands of infections a day they've seen so far. I'm not sure I understand how it's not getting through. Without that they can't conceive of the risks.
Yes! The idea that Brazil’s nightmare lays solely at the feet of P1 is absurd.
Besides a lot of people getting covid, those that might be saved die when health system truly overloaded. This is where 'impending doom' becomes 'doom'.
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