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[Mike Hoerger, PhD MSCR MBA @michael_hoerger]

🧵1 of 8 | PMC Dashboard, April 21, 2025 (U.S.)

🌤️Only 1 in 5 days of the pandemic have seen transmission as low as today
🌤️1 in 196 actively infectious
⚡️BUT still 1.7 million weekly infections, resulting in >85,000 LC cases and up to 1,000 deaths

I'll walk you through it...

[Mike Hoerger, PhD MSCR MBA @michael_hoerger]

PMC COVID-19 Forecasting Model, August 19, 2024

We're at 1.3 million infections/day in the U.S. This is the highest known transmission during back-to-school season all-time. An estimated 1 in 24 people in the West region are actively infectious.

[Eric Feigl-Ding @DrEricDing]

⚠️Damnit folks--📌DEATHS DOUBLED, 📌HOSPITAL TRIPLED, 📌EMERGENCY ROOM VISITS QUADRUPLED--we are in a sharp surge in ER visits (4x), hospital admissions (3x), and even deaths (2x) due to #COVID19. It's in the damn published data--but NOBODY in the media is talking about this numbers! Why?!?! This data is over 12 days old too--no excuse. We still have super dense folks quibbling if this is a 'surge' or not, and quibbling if we should even test anymore. A sharp 2x rise in deaths, and 4x rise in ER visits nothing to worry about? Don't be a ghoul. Think of others too--have empathy for your family members, friends, and neighbors, and think of their #LongCovid risk too. Each re-infection adds to the cumulative risk of LC, which CDC says LC can last months and even YEARS!

➡️Oh, and @CDCgov, try to put PREVENTION first, not just hand wave about 'having the tools' and merely cheap talk about 'handwashing' @CDCDirector Cohen! Like many other parents, my child also caught COVID early last week, and so I am a very pissed off parent. Stop putzing around--the Biden WH, CDC, states, cities, workplaces and schools all need to take this seriously. And for the love of God--use N95 masks in all hospitals/doctors offices, plus clean indoor air is not political--get HEPA filters & cheap Corsi Boxes in all schools and workplaces. I beg you. #COVIDisNotOver #MaskUp #CleanAirForAll
https://t.co/thpghhgRCs

[Putrino Lab @PutrinoLab]

It’s 2023. That means my clinic is now seeing a new generation of #LongCovid patients who say “I didn’t think this would happen to me, I got through the last *n* infections just fine”. Be careful out there: viruses don’t care about the pet theories you tell yourself to feel safe

[AJ Leonardi, MBBS, PhD, MPH @fitterhappierAJ]

A while back many people who did not know what they were talking about spoke out of turn and claimed Covid did not increase susceptibility to fungal infection from immune harm

The CDC now disagrees with them https://t.co/Ta0G6FaCmc

[ABBY 🇵🇸 @abbymachines]

i have to say, demanding that hospitals adopt better hygiene practices to prevent hospital-acquired infections has me feeling like i’m living in the 1800s

[TODAY @TODAYshow]

Doctors and researchers are beginning to see connection between COVID surges and heart attacks. @ErinNBCNews and Senior Medical Correspondent for @NBCNews @DrJohnTorres share more.

[GuyReadingNews @GuyReadingNews]

A doctor "who has spent the last two decades studying HIV" and is now leading an NIH-funded long covid research project "found that COVID is extremely similar to HIV." From section: "Eerily similar to HIV."

HT @JonathanCOnP https://t.co/PAyJQvESgD

[Eric Feigl-Ding @DrEricDing]

Bernie Sanders is the only person wearing a KN95 mask at the #StateOfTheUnionAddress. Respect that man - @SenSanders thank you. 🙏