57 percent of Republicans think 176,000 coronavirus deaths (and counting) is acceptable. Holy shit. pic.twitter.com/dd737aoOmj
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 23, 2020
175,000 Americans could not be reached for comment https://t.co/ejv8U70XkJ
— Michael Cohen (@speechboy71) August 24, 2020
"I don't blame [Trump] for the COVID crisis. I blame him for walking away and not dealing with the solutions. The idea of saying that this is gonna go away, this miracle's gonna happen." https://t.co/tVZdNz3u0Y
— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) August 24, 2020
Dr. Anthony Fauci warned against the notion of early emergency use authorization for a potential coronavirus vaccine, explaining that such a step could damage efforts to develop other vaccines https://t.co/cjig6lTJ8B
— CNN International (@cnni) August 25, 2020
They announced the pandemic to be over 2 or 3 times now, it won't go away, just because it went away for a newscycle.
Not to speak of the fact, that when you promise something, you need to deliver it and they never have.
— staying home stan account (@Convolutedname) August 23, 2020
SCOOP: Trump administration conditioned billions of $$ in coronavirus relief aid for hospitals this spring on reporting to a private vendor, TeleTracking, that bypassed CDC.
Hospitals balked. Leaked emails show one HHS official said: “What a mess.” https://t.co/p6qnUryLzq
— Sheryl Gay Stolberg (@SherylNYT) August 23, 2020
The U.S. is still averaging about 45K new cases per day of Covid, with about 40,000 people hospitalized. But the contribution of new cases is shifting – away from the initial epidemic centers in the NYC region and the second epidemic center in the sunbelt; and to Midwest and West pic.twitter.com/SNsKfy1Kaj
— Scott Gottlieb, MD (@ScottGottliebMD) August 23, 2020
APRIL 2020: Trump administration tells 3M it cannot export PPE to Canada, threatening to cut Canada off from a key supplier of N95 masks.
AUGUST 2020: Canadian government subsidizes 3M investment at an Ontario plant.
FUTURE: US exports to Canada fall. 1/https://t.co/hD8J6VtRNg
— Chad P. Bown (@ChadBown) August 24, 2020
This story is well done — and damning. https://t.co/AbBWxHXzWV
— Bill Grueskin (@BGrueskin) August 25, 2020
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It’s increasingly clear that only a minority of the global population — likely only a very tiny sliver — will be able to obtain a coronavirus vaccine in the near term.
The implications of vaccine nationalism may be devastating.
By @DavidLawler10
https://t.co/qJWRa244Tj— Chad P. Bown (@ChadBown) August 25, 2020
Urgent, broadscale commitment & investment from countries is?to achieve the goal of COVAX to bring the pandemic under control by accelerating the development & manufacture of #COVID19 vaccines, & to guarantee fair & equitable access for all countries?
?https://t.co/CPNzyTjsLz pic.twitter.com/jBupCY7dur
— World Health Organization (WHO) (@WHO) August 24, 2020
China says it began public use of #COVID19 vaccine a month ago, bypassing clinical trials https://t.co/M5TKtBwB9c
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) August 24, 2020
China logs ninth consecutive day with no locally transmitted COVID-19 cases https://t.co/vmpTo1O8K5 pic.twitter.com/ri5NWVYRsk
— Reuters (@Reuters) August 25, 2020
South Korea closes schools and returns to remote learning in Seoul area as the country counts its 12th straight day of triple-digit daily increases in coronavirus cases. https://t.co/aX71nM5iwW
— The Associated Press (@AP) August 25, 2020
India reports more than 60,000 coronavirus cases for a seventh straight day https://t.co/sm4DfDzw9Y pic.twitter.com/xrBAIAqVW4
— Reuters (@Reuters) August 25, 2020
Europe looking awful right now. Danger we will soon overcome the US in daily cases pic.twitter.com/u8YguoJJrs
— Bruno Maçães (@MacaesBruno) August 24, 2020
Trump says US #Covid19 deaths are lower than Europe's.
??https://t.co/97YnNt0LWq pic.twitter.com/mcds3yrUZP— Helen Branswell (@HelenBranswell) August 23, 2020
Germany's confirmed coronavirus cases rise by 1,278 to 234,853: RKI https://t.co/54iD95XD0o pic.twitter.com/oQv0fOkAWZ
— Reuters (@Reuters) August 25, 2020
Australia reaches 25,000 coronavirus cases, officials urge more testing https://t.co/ALGHp2gdLP pic.twitter.com/9ggC0wIQQu
— Reuters (@Reuters) August 25, 2020
Coronavirus: Bali closed to foreign tourists until end of 2020 https://t.co/G3eCempu6d
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) August 25, 2020
Argentina records record number of coronavirus cases and deaths https://t.co/hVzFwBkhjs pic.twitter.com/b3Qfnom1f7
— Reuters (@Reuters) August 25, 2020
Long delays at U.S.-Mexico border crossings after new travel restrictions https://t.co/jPcLzY3b9x pic.twitter.com/noSnpoDCsd
— Reuters (@Reuters) August 25, 2020
UN: Global tourism loses $320bn amid coronavirus pandemic https://t.co/GegpWISOS1 pic.twitter.com/ROawHDpgnb
— Al Jazeera News (@AJENews) August 25, 2020
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The sky is not falling: Scientists in Hong Kong report a what looks like a credible case of #Covid19 reinfection, 4.5 months after first infection.
This is interesting but not unexpected. The man's second infection was symptom-free. @DrewQJoseph reports. https://t.co/Ft6oSqKUjS— Helen Branswell (@HelenBranswell) August 24, 2020
If you're gonna have the first credible claim of reinfection then it seems like pretty good news that the patient was asymptomatic the second time around and developed an immune response quickly. https://t.co/3K5dxqIJrH
— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) August 24, 2020
I asked how many whites would have to die of COVID, through all direct and indirect pathways, for white mortality in 2020 to rise to the best level that Black mortality has ever been.
The answer: 400,000.
— Elizabeth (@ewrigleyfield) August 24, 2020
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GOOD NEWS:
"The 7-day average of #coronavirus deaths dropped below 1,000/day over the weekend for 1st time since late July. Also, the average # of new cases dipped to abt 42,600 as of Sunday, well below its peak in mid-July of around 67,000 daily cases"https://t.co/IcwakiNtL6— Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) August 24, 2020
Today, 28 states are now coronavirus #hotspots — based on cases and positivity rates increasing, or meeting specific thresholds.
That means ~64.5% of the U.S. population is living in a hot spot.
Dig into our criteria in the state data dashboard: https://t.co/3ww4dGJLvT pic.twitter.com/TNCNePt8ag
— KFF (Kaiser Family Foundation) (@KFF) August 24, 2020
1 in 5 nursing homes are short on PPE in the midst of a #coronavirus rebound in many parts of the U.S. Nursing homes are also faced w/ staff shortages especially in facilities hit hard by #COVID19 https://t.co/FcZyWi6k4u
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) August 25, 2020
The most tragic part of this is that the woman who died as a result of this wedding didn’t even attend it:https://t.co/J2NVbfjkr3
illustrates the moral bankruptcy of arguments that people not at high risk should be able to live their lives as normal and not have to wear masks
— Nurit Baytch (@NuritBaytch) August 23, 2020
South Dakota's Sturgis Motorcycle Rally is over, but public health departments across the U.S. are trying to measure how much the coronavirus spread during the gathering before hundreds of thousands of bikers traveled home. https://t.co/uZJso0J88N
— The Associated Press (@AP) August 24, 2020
… An analysis of anonymous cell phone data from Camber Systems, a firm that aggregates cell phone activity for health researchers, found that 61% of all the counties in the U.S. have been visited by someone who attended Sturgis, creating a travel hub that was comparable to a major U.S. city…
Health departments in four states, including South Dakota, Minnesota, Nebraska and Wyoming, have reported a total of 81 cases among people who attended the rally. South Dakota health officials said Monday they had received reports of infections from residents of two other states — North Dakota and Washington. The Department of Health also issued public warnings of possible COVID-19 exposure at five businesses popular with bikers, saying it didn’t know how many people could have been exposed…
… Without a nationally-coordinated testing and tracing system, containing infections in a scenario like Sturgis is “almost impossible,” said Dr. Howard Koh, a professor at the Harvard School of Public Health who worked at the Department of Health and Human Services under former President Barack Obama.
“We would need a finely orchestrated national system and we are far from that,” he said. “We are really witnessing a 50-state effort with all of them going in different directions right now.”…
The smaller (but still dangerously large) Laconia Bike Week is taking place right now. Fortunately, New Hampshire’s governor saw fit to impose at least *some* restrictions (no vendors, limited bar/restaurant capacity, masks ‘required’), so it seems like things are pretty sedate so far. Biggest test will be the final days next weekend…
Not wearing a mask is now a religion pic.twitter.com/bt1F65JhEu
— Benjamin Young Savage (ᐱᓐᒋᐱᓐ) (@benjancewicz) August 24, 2020
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