LA's COVID numbers are almost unfathomable. more than 700 people are being newly admitted to the hospital EACH DAY because they are too sick with COVID to be at home. this is why we hear sirens so often in LA now, this is why hospitals are being stretched so thin

— Soumya (@skarlamangla) January 4, 2021

hospitals just can't keep up. they're discharging between 500 and 700 COVID patients each day, but getting more admissions than that. I'd guess they'd be getting even more admissions if hospitals weren't so crowded already

— Soumya (@skarlamangla) January 4, 2021

two months ago, about 250 COVID patients were being admitted to LA County hospitals each day. one month ago, 450. given where our case numbers suggest we're headed, I'm worried about what we'll see one month from now

— Soumya (@skarlamangla) January 4, 2021

the 700+ admissions is a slightly slowed pace that we're seeing as we leave the worst of the Thanksgiving surge. earlier this month, there was a single day when nearly 1,000 people were newly admitted to LA County hospitals with COVID

— Soumya (@skarlamangla) January 4, 2021

but if we enter into a post-Christmas surge while already admitting 700 COVID patients a day from the tail end of the Thanksgiving surge, we're going to be in really, really bad shape. and it seems like that's where things are going

— Soumya (@skarlamangla) January 4, 2021

on New Year's Eve, there were only 23 staffed ICU beds left in LA County. what happens when we're admitting 1,500 COVID patients every day?

— Soumya (@skarlamangla) January 4, 2021

if the hospitalization admissions we're seeing now are from people who tested positive two weeks ago, they correspond with when we were logging about 13k new cases a day

— Soumya (@skarlamangla) January 4, 2021

but we're currently logging around 14k, in what is likely a combo of the continuing effects of Thanksgiving and perhaps the beginning of the Christmas surge. but that's only the beginning! we're *starting off* our next surge at this dangerously high level

— Soumya (@skarlamangla) January 4, 2021

Listening to commentators on French radio: outrage, scorn and ridicule for the government’s vaccination strategy — obsession with precaution, infantilisation of the population, corporatist reflexes, national champion fixation on Sanofi, political gadgetry, institutional inaction.

— Matthew Fraser (@frasermatthew) January 4, 2021

Children & #COVID19—UK SAGE expert report speaks for itself.

Kids more likely to bring the virus into household than aged 17+

Young people 2-16 more likely to be first case in household—age 12-16 are 7x more likely.

2-16 year olds more >2x as likely to pass on virus. https://t.co/V33QYBUX3J pic.twitter.com/6GejDq9LfA

— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) January 3, 2021

1/Another report on #airborne super-spreading event from earlier on in China. Interviews, video footage uncovered that out of 43 infections associated with a department store, 12 were infected at distances beyond reach of droplets, making aerosol transmission highly likely pic.twitter.com/gMmdLSasfG

— Dr. Ali Nouri (@AliNouriPhD) January 4, 2021

2/The department store lacked proper ventilation with no/little fresh air coming in, providing a suitable condition for aerosol transmission of #SARSCoV2. This was early on during pandemic when mask wearing was uncommon.
Report: https://t.co/ks2cbHgoa7 pic.twitter.com/TG80JqsiJJ

— Dr. Ali Nouri (@AliNouriPhD) January 4, 2021

Governments have been super slow on ventilation guidance even though huge amounts of evidence suggesting it can slow spread of the virus.

— Shuhel (@shuhel) January 4, 2021

USA, UK and others have been slow. Japan & more recently Germany has made huge efforts to improve ventilation. Some are stuck in their exceptionalism!

— Raul Williems (@RaulWilliems) January 4, 2021

erhh... well, Germany not so much, our ventilation in schools is opening windows every 20 minutes

— Sichere Bildung Hamburg (@BildungSicherHH) January 5, 2021

Well, #ventilation was one of the main issues in Japan at least since March... #covid19Japan https://t.co/G1HKEzxJ8a

— Michele Capobianco (@Capobianco2005C) January 4, 2021

Some eight million people live in the Bay Area; just more than 2,600 have died of COVID-19. Roughly the same number of people live in New York City, where there have been more than 25,000 deaths. What lessons can we learn from the region’s response? https://t.co/ysiBPZoERa

— The New Yorker (@NewYorker) January 4, 2021

Spent much of the pandemic trying to figure out the Bay Area’s COVID response and how luck, history, and infrastructure factor in. Took me to one of the country’s largest nursing homes in SF, which, by historical accident, is run by the county govt. https://t.co/dfUG6jvidC

— kang (@jaycaspiankang) January 4, 2021

A shortfall of clinicians is becoming an insurmountable barrier in the fight against COVID-19, @DhruvKhullar writes. https://t.co/vAef7EmKBk

— The New Yorker (@NewYorker) January 3, 2021

The new variant is believed to be 70 percent more contagious. https://t.co/2scbnLNs2r

— RobbReport (@RobbReport) January 5, 2021

The United States reported 3,775 new Covid-19 deaths on Tuesday -- a record-high since the pandemic began, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.

— David P Gelles (@gelles) January 6, 2021