Warning: Upcoming Weekend Hiatus
I’ve been doing these aggregations every single night since late January — I don’t think any of us expected it to go on being necessary for so long. And I wouldn’t keep spending a couple of hours on it every day if I didn’t find it personally fulfilling, but I think we’re at a point where we could all use a break. So, barring some major change… since reporting tends to fall off over holiday weekends anyway, I’m planning to skip the Update this Saturday / Sunday / Monday. Just so y’all don’t have to think about firing up your news screens first thing in the morning, for a brief respite.
(I reserve the right to do a prime-time ‘longer read’ post or two, if I get the impulse to sort through some of the 85% of the material I’ve saved but never had the chance to share… )
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Trump is preventing the US from gaining access to promising vaccines developed abroad because he wants to scapegoat WHO for his own coronavirus failures. Hard to imagine a more reckless decision. https://t.co/mGxUjvg8mc
— Max Boot (@MaxBoot) September 2, 2020
Or, since Russia is recklessly pushing its own vaccine, good chance it’s because Putin told him to. https://t.co/H5afIQB40l
— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) September 2, 2020
The U.S. has crossed the 6M #Covid19 infections mark. More than 183,600 people have died. @CDCgov is projecting that by Sept. 19, the death toll will be between 196,000 and 207,000.
Those numbers will soar if the US adopts a "let it burn" approach. https://t.co/PzGqMOx3EB pic.twitter.com/6pPvybzdgJ— Helen Branswell (@HelenBranswell) September 1, 2020
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