BREAKING—Oxford-AstraZeneca not only protects people from serious illness and death but also substantially slows the transmission of #SARSCoV2, finding thr #COVID19 vaccine cuts transmission by nearly 2/3rds (pre print). It means it can slow the pandemic.🧵nytimes.com/2021/02/02/us/…

MUCH SHORTER EXPOSURE— #B117 is so infectious—very short exposure can lead to #COVID19. Many infected via just a few minutes inside a store. 🇨🇦 local health dept has shortened the exposure time to as little as ***1 second if not wearing face masks**. 🧵 theglobeandmail.com/canada/article…

⚠️SURGING #B117 WITHIN US—growing 7% per day, doubling every 9.8 days nationally, & expected to become dominant by March 23rd. It is surging fastest in Florida—doubling every 9.1 days. Scientists are extremely worried: 35-45% more transmissible.🧵#COVID19 washingtonpost.com/health/ukvaria…

Cleavon MD 💉 💉 💉 o l i v i a Cops released him. Said it wasn't a hate crime. He's back on the street. No consequences for his actions. yahoo.com/news/man-shove…

NEW—CDC warns #COVID19 is "on the cusp" of potential resurgence, with cases & deaths rising. Highly-transmissible #B117 variant can "hijack our successes", as fatigue leads precautions being "flagrantly ignored". Been warning for over a month. So tired.

VACCINE ESCAPE OF VARIANTS vs Pfizer-BioNTech & NIH-Moderna: Troubling new peer-reviewed paper shows even 2-dose recipients have serious trouble neutralizing the #B1351 🇿🇦 variant—as little as vs old SARS & bat coronavirus. #P1 is poor too. 1-dose worse. Lots of graphs🧵 #COVID19

Of the 3,800 reported racist incidents against Asians in the US this last year, almost 70% of victims were Asian women, a new report says. from Kimmy nbcnews.com/news/asian-ame…

don’t just check on your AAPI friends. read up on the Chinese Exclusion Act, US occupation of the Philippines, Japanese internment camps. listen to AAPI women when they talk about the racist, sexualized messages they’ve heard all their lives. we’re all tired and it’s just not new

The New York Times This is such an irresponsible soft-racist headline. Hamster ovary cell lines are how labs all over the world make proteins. I repeat: they are universally used. They were developed in a Boston lab in 1957. Please STOP implying that the Chinese do weird things with animals

When people talk about Asian sex work in tones that suggest that the victims of Robert Aaron along were somehow “asking for it” because they were engaged in an illicit activity, they speak volumes about their own ignorance on why America has an Asian sex work trade to begin with.

@rantonstupidity Sheena Yap Chan Lance2100 Dennis O'Donnell CBS News Bay Area Are you kidding me?! Yes. Bias was indeed a factor. Wtf.

the fetishization of Asian women, and a corresponding emasculation of Asian men, have long histories shaped by the US law and policy. #StopAsianHateCrimes #StopAsianHate nytimes.com/2021/03/18/us/…

My 5 yr old boy came home and asked me why bigger kid kept calling him Chinese Boy. My son, confused, told the boy I’m a New Jersey Boy. He laughed it off but my eyes welled up. 50 yrs ago my parents immigrated here but we cannot shake shadow of foreignness. #StopAsianHate THREAD

NYPD says 65-year-old Asian American woman was walking to church this morning when suspect assaulted her and said “f*** you, you don’t belong here.” Happened in front of 360 W. 43rd St. 11:40am. Sources say building security guard not only failed to render her aid... 1/2

Texas high school student Paxton Smith secretly swapped out her approved valedictorian speech for a new one – in protest of the state’s abortion law

This is Brodie. He's always dreamed of visiting a children's hospital to cheer up the small humans. Finally got his wish. 14/10