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“Endemic” Covid? The pandemic will only be over when the world is jabbed. (2022, January 15). Inews.Co.Uk. https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/endemic-covid-the-pandemic-will-only-be-over-when-the-world-is-jabbed-1402691

Reuters. (2022, January 25). Israel mulls offering 4th COVID vaccine dose to all adults. Reuters. https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/israel-mulls-offering-4th-covid-vaccine-dose-all-adults-2022-01-25/

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Dr. Cecília Tomori. (2022, January 25). Maryland 24,183 new cases South Korea 8,571 new cases Maryland population 6.2 million South Korea population 51.82 million Perspective, even w SK sharply rising & MD headed down (hope it continues). [Tweet]. @DrTomori. https://twitter.com/DrTomori/status/1485792047252520962

Dave McNally. (2022, January 23). For the BA.2 watchers, looks like it doubling roughly every 4 days in the UK at the moment. Would make it the dominant strain around about February 14th. Maybe it is time to move away from the Greek alphabet and move onto their Gods instead. Eros variant? Https://t.co/G6mR5DUkz8 [Tweet]. @OliasDave. https://twitter.com/OliasDave/status/1485048710623076355

(((Howard Forman))). (2022, January 24). NYC update Positive rate 6.6%. Cases fewest since 12/13. Hospital census lowest since 1/1/2022. Hospital admits lowest since 12/22/2021. All indicators (except deaths) declining rapidly, but still well above pre-Omicron levels. Expect more swift progress this week. Https://t.co/IhKlwEEkXp [Tweet]. @thehowie. https://twitter.com/thehowie/status/1485719209359421452

Dr. Melvin Sanicas, #GetVaccinated. (2022, January 24). Smart people change their minds. They reconsider things they thought they’d already figure out when offered compelling data contradicting their previous understanding. Last week we saw the Swiss data. This is from #USA. #scicomm #dataviz #VaccinesSaveLives (h/t @OurWorldInData) https://t.co/Z5ONLNXr2u [Tweet]. @Vaccinologist. https://twitter.com/Vaccinologist/status/1485704680550412303

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Angel, D. M., Gao, D., DeLay, K., Lin, E. Z., Eldred, J., Arnold, W., Santiago, R., Redlich, C., Martinello, R. A., Sherman, J. D., Peccia, J., & Godri Pollitt, K. J. (2022). Development and Application of a Polydimethylsiloxane-Based Passive Air Sampler to Assess Personal Exposure to SARS-CoV-2. Environmental Science & Technology Letters. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.estlett.1c00877

casey briggs. (2022, January 22). Both Victoria and New South Wales are seeing continued improvement in COVID-19 hospitalisation https://t.co/O9rB6rqeIV [Tweet]. @CaseyBriggs. https://twitter.com/CaseyBriggs/status/1485013320336052227

Health Nerd. (2021, August 8). A story told in three parts https://t.co/7glwHKA45d [Tweet]. @GidMK. https://twitter.com/GidMK/status/1424492557698928640

James 💙 Neill - 😷 🇪🇺🇮🇪🇬🇧🔶. (2022, January 23). Of 51,141 deaths due to ischaemic heart diseases 32,872 (64.3%) had pre-existing conditions.💔 Do those 33k heart disease deaths not count? Or is an absence of pre-existing conditions only required for Covid deaths...😡⁉️ Source: ONS England 2019 [Tweet]. @jneill. https://twitter.com/jneill/status/1485327886164844546

Duncan, S., Bodurtha, P., & Naqvi, S. (2021). The protective performance of reusable cloth face masks, disposable procedure masks, KN95 masks and N95 respirators: Filtration and total inward leakage. PLOS ONE, 16(10), e0258191. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0258191

Bartlett, T. (2021, August 12). The Vaccine Scientist Spreading Vaccine Misinformation. The Atlantic. https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/08/robert-malone-vaccine-inventor-vaccine-skeptic/619734/

Defeat The Mandates: Green Our Vaccines reconstituted for COVID-19. (2022, January 21). RESPECTFUL INSOLENCE. https://respectfulinsolence.com/2022/01/21/defeat-the-mandates-green-our-vaccines-reconstituted-for-covid-19/

Mike Cameron 🖋. (2022, January 21). So this is political vetting of public health decisions. By an education Secretary. Https://t.co/RR98moo1rr [Tweet]. @mikercameron. https://twitter.com/mikercameron/status/1484615848388087813

Crane, M., & University, T. O. S. (n.d.). Vaccine hesitance dropped faster among Blacks, study finds. Retrieved January 24, 2022, from https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-01-vaccine-hesitance-faster-blacks.html

Elliott, L., & editor, L. E. E. (2022, January 24). Omicron pushes UK business growth to 11-month low. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/jan/24/uk-business-growth-omicron-covid-variant-january

Karam Bales🐝🚫🐄. (2022, January 23). Gov: Its all about managing personal risk, No not that like that Right, ill have to ban you then https://t.co/mrFBxdYOyJ [Tweet]. @karamballes. https://twitter.com/karamballes/status/1485327422912356360

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Eric Feigl-Ding. (2022, January 5). 2) Florida governor’s new anti-COVID testing surgeon general doesn’t seem well either… https://t.co/evPT0RbWcU [Tweet]. @DrEricDing. https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1478829782926307341

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Dr. Thrasher wrote a book! (2022, January 8). My cousin wanted to get tested. She waited in an auto testing line for 6.5 hours, and stayed in it bc she was traveling to bury her Daddy. How many people give up in such long lines? How many cases upwards of a million are we losing bc Biden et all failed on home tests? Https://t.co/Q7WVy5qD4v [Tweet]. @thrasherxy. https://twitter.com/thrasherxy/status/1479826389142491146

ReconfigBehSci. (2022, January 9). Just a thought on this and the general vaccine mandate debate. As a behavioural scientist currently stuck in Germany where this is a live debate, it strikes me that the thoughts below address only part of the population: Those not currently vaccinated. But what about ... 1/2 [Tweet]. @SciBeh. https://twitter.com/SciBeh/status/1480213148032450565

ReconfigBehSci. (2022, January 9). There are many things I would not have believed about the pandemic pre 2020, but top of them is the fact that Western nations would completely ignore 24 months worth of actually implemented policies that were vastly more successful [Tweet]. @SciBeh. https://twitter.com/SciBeh/status/1480162136240398339

Dr Satoshi Akima. (2022, January 8). I’ve had people mention rising case numbers in Japan and South Korea. But let’s really put that rise into perspective. Nations that have early accepted that #COVIDisAirborne simply fair better https://t.co/KaoE26gQ0N [Tweet]. @ToshiAkima. https://twitter.com/ToshiAkima/status/1479724180840988673

Prof. Gavin Yamey MD MPH. (2022, January 10). Yes, Neoliberal John Snow wins the Internet today 👏 H/T @gregggonsalves Reminds me of this…. Https://t.co/zt9tINBxal [Tweet]. @GYamey. https://twitter.com/GYamey/status/1480527550531186696

Blackwell, T. (2022, January 17). Vaccine mandates increased uptake of COVID shots by almost 70%, Canadian study finds. National Post. https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/vaccine-mandates-increased-uptake-of-covid-shots-by-almost-70-canadian-study-finds

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Mrigank Shail, MD. (2022, January 11). Update on Omicron by Dr @mvankerkhove from @WHO’s Q&A https://t.co/NqCOvs59Tl [Tweet]. @mrigankshail. https://twitter.com/mrigankshail/status/1481006646826577925

Prof. Jose-Luis Jimenez. (2022, January 14). The rise of Omicron Translated from @numeroteca https://t.co/S7HYcEnuQn [Tweet]. @jljcolorado. https://twitter.com/jljcolorado/status/1481799620502061056

Faheem Younus, MD. (2022, January 15). Impact of social distancing OVER a month. 15 vs 406 infections. See below and avoid gatherings https://t.co/Bc9yCNPjNs [Tweet]. @FaheemYounus. https://twitter.com/FaheemYounus/status/1482217293899874307

Health Nerd. (2022, January 15). It was always likely that immunity to COVID-19 would wane, and we now know the median time to waning is around 1.5-2 years post infection for most people, sometimes less 😕 [Tweet]. @GidMK. https://twitter.com/GidMK/status/1482188340091060229

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Kit Yates. (2022, January 21). And the ones who did die? Well we don’t hear so much from them. Https://t.co/YVjZJRncWE [Tweet]. @Kit_Yates_Maths. https://twitter.com/Kit_Yates_Maths/status/1484443147576954881

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Dr Miller - vax kids asap. (2022, January 19). That whole opening up going well for Australian inbound tourism then. Https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/notices/covid-4/coronavirus-australia https://t.co/1nkLPhuZxw [Tweet]. @drajm. https://twitter.com/drajm/status/1483775564410667011

Tom Peacock. (2022, January 19). As its been getting increasing attention recently, I’m going to write a short thread on what we currently know about BA.2. -What is BA.2? -What is BA.2 doing currently? -Should we be concerned about it? [Tweet]. @PeacockFlu. https://twitter.com/PeacockFlu/status/1483768659420094464

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Prof. Christina Pagel. (2022, January 19). This makes it so clear that the release of all measures right now (esp masks, esp schools) is only to protect himself & his job. Boris has zero interest in protecting others from getting sick, needing hospital or dying. Or protecting businesses, schools, NHS from disruption. [Tweet]. @chrischirp. https://twitter.com/chrischirp/status/1483884632651313152

Cornelius Roemer. (2021, December 22). @mccarthy_kr I took a look at all these NY sequences. I don’t think these point mutations S:681H are real. Why? Because they appear all over the Omicron diversity. Some sequences have S:346K, some S:701V, most miss S679K, a few have it. That’s the signature of contamination/co-infection. Https://t.co/DcJD4q44EM [Tweet]. @CorneliusRoemer. https://twitter.com/CorneliusRoemer/status/1473507369455923203

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Prof. Christina Pagel. (2022, January 20). This would be an astonishing percentage if @trvrb is right that only 1 in 4 or so cases detected in US. https://t.co/nyZuveidr5 [Tweet]. @chrischirp. https://twitter.com/chrischirp/status/1484119391453204484

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the prasad, myocarditis up-player. (2022, January 18). No RCTs necessary to slay all you myocarditis downplayers https://t.co/tmGE6GwwJU [Tweet]. @VpwndF. https://twitter.com/VpwndF/status/1483514263750729733

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Stefan Schubert. (2022, January 16). Pretty big difference US vs UK in this wave. Vaccination differences likely a big part of it. Https://t.co/qnHvRRb0rE [Tweet]. @StefanFSchubert. https://twitter.com/StefanFSchubert/status/1482728763779686405

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