NEW VARIANT—New California variant CAL20C has recently found in over **half** of all samples in Los Angeles #COVID19 cases, & ~20-30% across CA. “I’m decently confident that this is a more infectious strain of the virus”, says expert from Cedar-Sinai. https://t.co/1XVtMOe0Pu pic.twitter.com/wSGfHGx7iO

— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) February 10, 2021

Reckless endangerment, @KristiNoem. Exhibit 597. When the #B117 variant sneaks up on South Dakota in March/April, don’t say you weren’t warned.

Concerned,

A former South Dakota childhood resident who grew up to become an epidemiologist. https://t.co/QUuFjhaYfg

— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) February 10, 2021

A Pakistani-American doctor was fired *and is being prosecuted* because he gave an opened vaccine to anyone he could find rather than letting it go to waste.

Apparently, it would have been more "equitable" to throw the vaccine out.

This is madness.https://t.co/nLVlpKIt7H

— Yascha Mounk (@Yascha_Mounk) February 11, 2021

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— Yascha Mounk (@Yascha_Mounk) February 11, 2021

"Too many Indian names."

Is this the society we are trying to build?

Will this sort of logic help us build a fair and tolerant society?

If you think the answer to that is "yes," I just really don't know what to tell you.

— Yascha Mounk (@Yascha_Mounk) February 11, 2021

There are literally 30 million N95 masks sitting in Miami factories that the company can't figure out how to sell despite a desperate national shortage. This story is wild. https://t.co/LYV3J97N5T

— McKay Coppins (@mckaycoppins) February 11, 2021

Europe has really, really screwed up with their vaccination programs so far. Moving at a snail's pace, and thousands of people will needlessly die because of it. Via @OurWorldInData. pic.twitter.com/kmUqJREC3m

— Brian Klaas (@brianklaas) February 11, 2021

New York City authorities raided a warehouse that they said held 1.7 million counterfeit N95 masks, marking one of the biggest single seizures of personal protective equipment since the pandemic began https://t.co/F7Jfag1tgj

— The Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) February 12, 2021

"They're going to be chasing variants around the globe for the foreseeable future, and have made a death pact for endemic spread—it's never going to go away." says @gregggonsalves, in a great podcast with @jameshamblin and @maevehiggins. (1/x) https://t.co/T9TmlmcAsv

— David Wallace-Wells (@dwallacewells) February 12, 2021

"We're now in a path where we're going to have these cycles of coronavirus outbreaks as there are gaps in vaccination across the U.S. and across the world, and as new variants emerge that might be less susceptible to vaccines that we put out into the field."

— David Wallace-Wells (@dwallacewells) February 12, 2021

"We could be lucky. Maybe these variants don't emerge that escape the ability to be neutralized by the antibodies raised by these vaccines, but, you know, we have hundreds of millions of people infected, and while this virus isn't as great a mutation generator as HIV, but..."

— David Wallace-Wells (@dwallacewells) February 12, 2021

"...the sheer number of infections that are occurring are a recipe for viral variation emerging over the course of the next few months are years..."

— David Wallace-Wells (@dwallacewells) February 12, 2021

"...and as we put things in its way that are not good enough to stop it in its track, it starts to push it down an evolutionary pathway to resist these half-measures." (x/x)

— David Wallace-Wells (@dwallacewells) February 12, 2021