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This is a “snownado”. This is in Texas—where it’s getting dumped with another snow storms, with frigid temps that it’s causing rolling blackouts because gas pipelines have frozen up &

4 million without power—Texas could have invested in at least 3 things for its frozen wind turbines:water resistant coating on bladesmore de-icing dronesupgrades in heating packagesIf they can work atop

Up to 70% deadlier—UK govt advisors now says the #B117 variant might be 30-70% more severe/deadlier than old strains. The lower female risk also eroding—hospitalization now ~50:50 male-to-female ratio

Reopening indoor dining after #COVID19 cases dropped during lockdown & hoping no outbreaks... is like switching back to eating bacon after dropping your cholesterol from eating vegetarian for 1

“There’s clearly something going on with this mutation”: 7 striking new converging variants with same #677 mutations suddenly found. Experts across US independently found them & are worried—all 7 changed

This hunch over why CDC didn’t include much on ventilation—out of fear of HVAC insufficiency in holding up reopening—is what I suspect too. @apoorva_nyc’s school is excellent. We don’t

Rise in pediatric proportion of Israel #COVID19 cases over 2020. Shows the fall/winter trend toward much more cases relatively in children. This data continues into January too. Many reports

“False sense of security”—high tech gathering of 49 tech thinkers was held in 4 day “bubble” without mask mandate after arrival+daily testing. Result? ~43% (21 of 49) of tech attendees

REINFECTION WARNING from the WHO. “We are now getting reports of people getting reinfected with a new variant—from (#B1351)—suggesting people who’ve had prior infection could get infected again.” says

What is missing from this CDC school reopening priority list? Airborne virus guidance! Like almost nothing in 33 page document on ventilation except 1 paragraph on open the windows, but

Worrisome—UK data shows suddenly higher #COVID19 positivity % in England (where #B117 highly dominant) in children ages 5-9, in both boys and girls, sustained each week over 4

Holy cow: 10% of the village of Corzano has the #B117 variant—10% of all residents! 60% of cases are kids from kindergarten and primary school, other 40% are their

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