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  1. Jun 4

    📍Delta variant : 50-70% more transmissible 2.7x more likely to be hospitalized than “Many people could end up in hospital, 🇬🇧 NHS could be thrown into another surge.” Says of .

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  2. Jun 4

    Pfizer vaccine doesn’t work too well against as recipients have lower antibody levels against this variant. It’s the largest study to date investigating vaccine-induced antibody neutralising capacity against the newest variants of concern.

  3. Jun 4

    It is MAJOR NEWS for the UK that Public Health England have upgraded the risk from (aka ) to *red* in terms of higher transmissibility, more risk of hospitalisation and more vaccine escape than previously thought yet hardly any news outlets covering it

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  4. So as I understand it, Public Health England have announced that there is signfiicant vaccine escape for the & it is highly transmissible--it has been give red status--and is being ignored by media. And there's evidence of govt deliberately playing things down.

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  5. “Immune escape” in . That’s the latest finding - that is as bad for antibody neutralization as the Beta variant from South Africa 🇿🇦. 1st dose alone very small effect— 2 doses needed, but weakest against Delta. Let’s walk through evidence 🧵

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  6. Jun 4

    20) We needs to be even more cautious about kids risk now that the is proliferating worldwide. This variant has huge transmission risk in children and likely more severe. See thread.

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  7. Jun 4

    5) How fast is taking over the total number of cases in the UK? Pretty darn fast. It’s now approaching / near 75% of all cases in the UK.

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  8. Jun 4

    UK govt making a big song and dance about moving Portugal from green to amber on their not-fit-for-purpose travel traffic lights system. Meantime PHE report showed ystday (from India) in UK is MORE transmissible, has higher risk of hospitalisation and vaccine escape

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  9. 15 hours ago

    ICYMI released an emergency statement yesterday saying that as things stand with aka in UK, we believe it's difficult to justify moving ahead with 21 June full reopening. We wish to avoid another full lockdown

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  10. Jun 4
  11. Jun 4

    2) Latest UK assessment on : 📌Severity is now RED (previously insufficient info) 📌Vaccines is now RED with high confidence (previously moderate)

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  12. Jun 4

    4) Keep in mind that this ~2.5x higher hospitalization risk for versus is on top of being 64% more severe than the original earlier strain. Thus 1.64*2.5= having *4.1x* the risk of hospitalization vs original! 👀

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  13. 15 hours ago

    The number of aka -related infections in educational settings has been rising rapidly within just a month ending May 30, with 97 confirmed outbreaks in primary and secondary schools – that's about one in 250 schools schools.

  14. Jun 4

    "We've got to get this suppressed, because if we don't then the real risk now is that the NHS will again be overwhelmed, when we look at the figures that is presenting today."

  15. Jun 4

    3) Two separate studies on hospitalization severity—one from England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 and one from Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿— both found Increased severity of ➡️ Risk of hospital admission (Hazard Ratio = 2.61 in England and HR = 2.39 in Scotland) compared to the Kent variant !

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  16. Jun 3

    Evil Bungle, corruption, idiocy and the Delta variant. Oh the “joys” of being British.

  17. The devastating pandemic in is mainly due to or B.1.617.2 strain. has also confirmed it and said that it is highly infectious.

  18. Radio silence from Schools return on Monday with no mitigation against the which was already increasing exponentially in education settings prior to half term. What's the plan 🤔

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  19. Jun 3

    There are numerous reports of school outbreaks linked to (B1617.2 ) *across the country*, but we don't know extent of outbreaks/school disruption because DfE and Public Health England have refused/failed to release the data since beginning of May.

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  20. Great news! Zero deaths in the despite some increase in cases attributed to What better evidence work. Pls amplify🙏 Together V need to address & help prevent a 3rd wave

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