Show and Tell: Coronavirus Edition 6/22/21

“…so many ppl seem to be living their public lives entirely behind masks. you can’t see ppl’s smiles, conversation is heavily restricted.”

I am *begging* you to get some friends so you’ll take this burden off of strangers in public trying to protect themselves from DEATH…

— 🆃🆁🆄🅳🆈 (@thetrudz) June 19, 2021

THREAD: How the Delta variant could create "two Americas" of #COVID19 based on vaccine rollout.
1/ It's early days but this fast-spreading variant is expected to become the dominant coronavirus in the US within a matter of weekshttps://t.co/jzL6kUR8uW pic.twitter.com/04khIKdvbz

— Peter Aldhous (@paldhous) June 18, 2021

I cry for South America—Paraguay, Suriname, Argentina, Uruguay, Colombia, Brazil & Peru are suffering a silent decimation by #COVID19 unlike anywhere else. Even in 7th-placed Peru, deaths per million is 9.12–more than 3x India. Countless families lost. 😢 https://t.co/hQcU2U46in pic.twitter.com/tSijo1tQOM

— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) June 18, 2021

Important study out of UK

Worth your time

Researchers examined brain MRIs of people before and after they got COVID, matched with controls

What did they find?

Substantial loss of grey matter in those who had gotten but recovered from COVID

Threadhttps://t.co/o8OACSCl5Q

— Ashish K. Jha, MD, MPH (@ashishkjha) June 18, 2021

Thread:

1. LONG THREAD (25+ tweets sorry) of my somewhat depairing musings on Covid.

Where we are, how we got here, why I'm sad about it.

— Prof. Christina Pagel (@chrischirp) June 21, 2021

2) This follows the other shopping mall case in which the index case passed within 60 centimeters of another man for mere “seconds”. This is the #DeltaVariant that is dominating UK 🇬🇧, ravaged India 🇮🇳, and surging across Europe and US right now. https://t.co/wJPUMHtWiN

— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) June 21, 2021

45% of all #DeltaVariant deaths in England🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 in the past 1 week (June 8-14th) where among those fully vaccinated with 2 doses & post +14 days. Total Delta #COVID19 deaths up +31 in one week—of 31, 14 deaths in fully vaxxed. #Delta breakthrough concerning🧵https://t.co/u7AqK0dOZN pic.twitter.com/rzIoiymJJ0

— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) June 21, 2021