More than 6.8 million Americans have tested positive for coronavirus. 200,000 are dead.
They aren’t “nobody.”https://t.co/UpMA3Ad0uQ— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) September 22, 2020
200,000 dead.
Here's our latest with Fauci.
Re: summer surge–
"People went to the bars. They got infected. Then they went back into the community and transmitted it to vulnerable people. That's the reason why we saw the sharp increase in … deaths."https://t.co/dnY8yWfjUX
— Erin Banco (@ErinBanco) September 22, 2020
Is the US doing a good job fighting Covid? pic.twitter.com/6Sd58D3uzg
— Erik Brynjolfsson (@erikbryn) September 23, 2020
Key change: "to discuss, in general, the development, authorization and/or licensure of #vaccines to prevent #COVID19. No specific application will be discussed at this meeting."
This means the Oct 22 meeting will NOT approve a specific vaccine for use in USA b4 Nov 3 election.— Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) September 22, 2020
U.S. FDA to tighten coronavirus vaccine authorization standards ahead of election – paper https://t.co/uaWMHvmjG7 pic.twitter.com/1B0Ja5Flb7
— Reuters (@Reuters) September 23, 2020
Independent government watchdog GAO says the U.S. still faces PPE and testing supply shortages, and HHS and FEMA have not taken sufficient action to mitigate supply gaps for pandemic response.https://t.co/iv3J0ABmon
— Josh Michaud (@joshmich) September 22, 2020
The real toll of Covid-19 is even higher than 200,000. Between mid-March and late August, 259,000 more Americans have died than would in a normal year. https://t.co/el2F4irjhD @DeniseDSLu @jshkatz pic.twitter.com/63CA1cd7bt
— Margot Sanger-Katz (@sangerkatz) September 22, 2020
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COVID-19 infections are still rising in 71 countries.
See where infections are trending ⬆️ or ⬇️ relative to the size of the outbreak in each country https://t.co/q6tx5LV8Aw pic.twitter.com/l8gpd4Gm5Z
— Reuters (@Reuters) September 23, 2020
New cases in US, EU now getting closer. Though EU has a more people and an older population…should be other way around. pic.twitter.com/grxAggakxw
— ian bremmer (@ianbremmer) September 22, 2020
Virus contact tracing apps were meant to be a part of Europe's pandemic response. As virus cases spike again, only a few countries have embraced them while adoption lags in others due to privacy concerns and lack of interest, @chanman reports https://t.co/zSGapU8ihk
— AP Business News (@APBusiness) September 22, 2020
Prime Minister Boris Johnson told the British people to work from home where possible and ordered restaurants and bars to close early to tackle a fast-spreading second wave of COVID-19 https://t.co/0EMJiDy4qV pic.twitter.com/E3NMKvQT7R
— Reuters (@Reuters) September 23, 2020
Covid: Sturgeon announces Scotland-wide ban on household visits https://t.co/2Twru4ju1o
— Guardian World (@guardianworld) September 22, 2020
India has reported more than 83,000 new coronavirus cases, showing some decline after reaching a record a week earlier. The country has now confirmed more than 5.6 million cases. It also reported 1,085 new deaths, raising the tally to over 90,000. https://t.co/x6Au4RumrW
— The Associated Press (@AP) September 23, 2020
Japan to further ease COVID-19 entry curbs but not for tourists: Asahi https://t.co/MWbFhtIwB2 pic.twitter.com/MDpJAu5NQQ
— Reuters (@Reuters) September 23, 2020
Australia’s coronavirus hot spot of Victoria is considering easing curbs sooner than previously flagged, the state’s premier said, as the two-week average of new infections in the city of Melbourne dropped below 30 https://t.co/SQcjYDwwE3
— Reuters (@Reuters) September 23, 2020
As the US struggles, Africa's collective response to the COVID-19 pandemic is being praised. https://t.co/RiWRhxKbac
— AP Africa (@AP_Africa) September 22, 2020
My latest.
As America hits 200,000 deaths from coronavirus, Africa has managed to avoid the human catastrophe that everyone predicted.
Yet the media continues to overlook the continent's successes with the virus. https://t.co/sPbmuFivPJ
— Karen Attiah (@KarenAttiah) September 22, 2020
Just yesterday I heard a report on @NPR about how "no scientist knows why the pandemic has been so mild in Africa".
Despite the fact that countries that had Ebola/AIDS response infrastructure in place were just better prepared for a pandemic. https://t.co/SImMw3ODKH
— Karen Attiah (@KarenAttiah) September 22, 2020
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Attempting to achieve herd immunity to COVID19 though natural infection is an impractical public health strategy & dangerous, according to a new model developed by the Univ of Georgia. Results reported in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences https://t.co/EVwZrsbAwr
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) September 22, 2020
SARSCoV2 infection can block pain, opening an unexpected avenue of #coronavirus research. The flu & other viral infections trigger aches/pains. But SARS2 blunts pain & this may help explain how people spread it far & wide without realizing they're infected https://t.co/BDUYryObCe
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) September 22, 2020
NEW article from me: People in non-Western countries might fare worse with Covid-19 vaccines because of how they are made https://t.co/X9rX96Mzfl
— Roxanne Khamsi (@rkhamsi) September 22, 2020
The key to a successful Covid-19 vaccine will be twofold. First, it’s gotta work, and not hurt people in the process. But the second thing may be just as important—you need a communications strategy that explains what the drug does and how it does it https://t.co/fRN3Rnr7yg
— WIRED (@WIRED) September 22, 2020
A Covid19 vaccine for children may not arrive before Fall of 2021 https://t.co/kjXqXVb7Z0
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) September 22, 2020
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“All the world’s leaders took the same test, and some have succeeded and some have failed,” said @RealCedricDark, an emergency physician at @bcmhouston who has seen death firsthand. “In the case of our country, we failed miserably.”https://t.co/GWE2Zeezvb
— Seth Trueger (@MDaware) September 22, 2020
We’re happy to have helped source information for the @nytimes! Their article highlights the seriousness of the pandemic within the first few weeks of schools being open by meticulously analyzing the data.https://t.co/CZ196AfFSD
— The COVID Monitor (@thecovidmonitor) September 22, 2020
By not collecting data, we missed the opportunity to learn from the daycares open to essential workers in the spring. Are we are now missing the opportunity to learn from K12 reopening? Great new project by NYT. https://t.co/W9PBStcKoE pic.twitter.com/QW6Wv7saz4
— Caitlin Rivers, PhD (@cmyeaton) September 22, 2020
Colleges reopenings in-person likely added 3,000 U.S. COVID-19 cases per day: study https://t.co/6lf8W6648L pic.twitter.com/o2HjajsvDg
— Reuters (@Reuters) September 23, 2020
NEW: Fauci says students sick with COVID19 should not return home and should instead remain quarantined in a separate dormitory. If schools don't do this, they are in big trouble, Fauci sayshttps://t.co/ft0tTRe8XQ
— Erin Banco (@ErinBanco) September 22, 2020
New York City officials are concerned about a new cluster of COVID-19 cases in a southern part of Brooklyn with a 4.71% rate of positive test results. The city is also concerned about the Williamsburg neighborhood, which has a 2% positive rate https://t.co/3IHpvL65Aj pic.twitter.com/PQOepw0kon
— Reuters (@Reuters) September 23, 2020
Louisiana court keeps mask-free pastor out of his hearing for defying pandemic safeguards https://t.co/iKPS5Ptyhe pic.twitter.com/tXNBRJ3Mc5
— Reuters (@Reuters) September 22, 2020
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