Today's News (2020/7/19): COVID-19 edition
It's like they're trying to infect as many people as possible.
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Kemp bans cities, counties from mandating masks
15 July 2020
By Jeremy Redmon, J. Scott Trubey, Willoughby Mariano
https://www.ajc.com/news/georgia-governor-extends-coronavirus-restrictions/75SLQWLJ6FBULIGVEDMNSY5M64/?d
Gov. Brian Kemp on Wednesday extended Georgia’s coronavirus restrictions while explicitly banning cities and counties from adopting rules requiring masks or other face coverings, a measure that could bolster the state’s case in a possible legal battle.
Kemp’s executive order - which was set to expire Wednesday evening - still encourages, rather than requires, Georgians to wear masks in public. The governor has called such a requirement “a bridge too far,” and his office has said local mandates are unenforceable.
The governor’s coronavirus orders have for months banned local governments from taking more restrictive or lenient steps than the state. But the new set of rules he signed on Wednesday specified for the first time that cities and counties can’t require the use of masks or other face coverings.
That could improve the state’s standing in a courtroom fight against a string of cities that have defied Kemp’s emergency order by requiring masks. Savannah led that charge earlier this month, and since then other cities including Atlanta, Athens and Augusta have followed suit.
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Coronavirus data has already disappeared after Trump administration shifted control from CDC
Published Thu, Jul 16 2020
Will Feuer
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/16/us-coronavirus-data-has-already-disappeared-after-trump-administration-shifted-control-from-cdc-to-hhs.html
Previously public data has already disappeared from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s website after the Trump administration quietly shifted control of the information to the Department of Health and Human Services.
Since the pandemic began, the CDC regularly published data on availability of hospital beds and intensive care units across the country. But Ryan Panchadsaram, who helps run a data-tracking site called Covid Exit Strategy, said that when he tried to collect the data from the CDC on Tuesday, it had disappeared.
“We were surprised because the modules that we normally go to were empty. The data wasn’t available and not there,” he said. “There was no warning.”
CDC Director Dr. Robert Redfield told reporters on a conference call Wednesday that states were told to stop sending hospital information to the National Healthcare Safety Network site, the CDC’s system for gathering data, beginning Wednesday. Instead, all data will now be reported through HHS’ reporting portal, officials said, adding that the decision was made to streamline data reporting and to provide HHS officials with real-time data.
Public health specialists and former health officials acknowledged that the CDC’s data reporting infrastructure was limited, and said it needs to be overhauled to meet the demands of the Covid-19 pandemic. However, they expressed concern in interviews with CNBC that the change could lead to less transparent data.
When reached for comment Thursday by CNBC, HHS spokesman Michael Caputo said in a statement that the CDC was directed to make the data available again. In the future, he said, HHS will provide “more powerful insights.”
“Yes, HHS is committed to being transparent with the American public about the information it is collecting on the coronavirus,” he said. “Therefore, HHS has directed CDC to re-establish the coronavirus dashboards it withdrew from the public on Wednesday.”
Representatives of the CDC did not immediately respond to CNBC’s request for comment. Later in the day, the CDC restored the site’s previous dashboards with data through Tuesday, saying: “This file will not be updated after July 14, 2020 and includes data from April 1 to July 14.”
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In separate rallies, Utahns protest mask mandate and demand in-person classes
By Courtney Tanner
15 July 2020
https://www.sltrib.com/news/education/2020/07/15/packed-meeting-utah/
Provo • As she walked up to the podium to speak, one of the moms grabbed a face mask and spit her gum out into it. “It’s garbage,” she shrugged, wadding it up. “It doesn’t work anyway. Not for me and not for my kids.”
A dad who spoke after her said he, too, doesn’t think the masks are effective, and said he’s pulling his kids out of school this fall if the state doesn’t lift its mandate requiring all K-12 students to wear a face covering. Another mother carried her 4-year-old son in her arms, noting there’s no way he would keep one on in his kindergarten class - but she thinks they’re stupid anyway, regardless of age.
Parent after parent followed at the Utah County commission meeting Wednesday afternoon, objecting for more than two hours to having their kids in masks even as counts of the virus continue to climb across the state, where there are more than 30,000 confirmed cases.
They packed into the small boardroom to talk, pulling tape off the seats meant to maintain social distancing and crowding in against the walls. They wore “Trump 2020” hats and carried little American flags, and every time someone said “freedom” or “constitutional rights” the whole room cheered. Almost no one wore a mask; those who did had them pulled under their chins.
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The biggest difference is the families pushing to return in Salt Lake City are willing to send their kids back in masks to make it happen. At the larger and louder rally in the more conservative Utah County, not having to wear them was the point.
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Georgia gov sues to end cities’ defiance on mask rules
By JEFF AMY
and BEN NADLER
The Associated Press
16 July 2020
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/health/defiance-deepens-as-georgia-governor-blocks-local-mask-rules/
ATLANTA (AP) - Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp is suing Atlanta’s mayor and city council to block the city from enforcing its mandate to wear a mask in public and other rules related to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Kemp and Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr, in a suit filed in state court late Thursday in Atlanta, argue that Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms has overstepped her authority and must obey Kemp’s executive orders under state law.
“Governor Kemp must be allowed, as the chief executive of this state, to manage the public health emergency without Mayor Bottoms issuing void and unenforceable orders which only serve to confuse the public,” the lawsuit states.
Kemp on Wednesday clarified his executive orders to expressly block Atlanta and at least 14 other local governments across the state from requiring people to wear face coverings.
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Akiva Cohen
twitter.com/AkivaMCohen
16 July 2020
https://twitter.com/AkivaMCohen/status/1283756648092360704
[THREAD]
OK. Time for a thread on masks. Anti-maskers (who should be as reviled as anti-vaxxers) keep citing research studies showing masks aren't that effective at protecting wearers from becoming infected. You need to know why the anti-maskers are wrong. It's a basic mistake
[THREAD CONTINUES AT URL]
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New survey reveals how many Washingtonians are following statewide mask mandate
By Callie Craighead, Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Published 1:03 pm PDT, Friday, July 17, 2020
https://www.seattlepi.com/coronavirus/article/washington-state-mask-compliance-survey-covid-19-15416107.php
New survey data is detailing public attitudes and responses to the novel coronavirus pandemic, including how many people are following the statewide mask mandate.
The survey, from data collection company Premise, has generated over one million responses from 105 countries to assess the economic, social, and health sentiment surrounding COVID-19.
In Washington, 40% of those surveyed said they always wear a mask when leaving their home, while 36% responded that they sometimes wear a mask. A smaller 23% said they never wear a mask.
Of those who said they did not wear a mask when leaving their home, 28% said they did not own a mask or know how to make one; 22% said they do not believe it is an effective way to prevent the spread of the virus; 16% said they didn't need a mask to protect themselves or others; and approximately 4% said that no one in their area was wearing them.
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Profile of a killer: Unraveling the deadly new coronavirus
By ADAM GELLER and MALCOLM RITTER
July 15, 2020
https://apnews.com/b7276f8610822ba9a57a26a486f4fe6c
NEW YORK (AP) - What is this enemy?
Seven months after the first patients were hospitalized in China battling an infection doctors had never seen before, the world’s scientists and citizens have reached an unsettling crossroads.
Countless hours of treatment and research, trial and error now make it possible to take much closer measure of the new coronavirus and the lethal disease it has unleashed. But to take advantage of that intelligence, we must confront our persistent vulnerability: The virus leaves no choice.
“It’s like we’re in a battle with something that we can’t see, that we don’t know, and we don’t know where it’s coming from,” said Vivian Castro, a nurse supervisor at St. Joseph’s Medical Center in Yonkers, just north of New York City, which struggled with its caseload this spring.
Castro had treated scores of infected patients before she, too, was hospitalized for the virus in April, then spent two weeks in home quarantine. As soon as she returned to the emergency room for her first shift, she rushed to comfort yet another casualty -- a man swallowing the few words he could muster between gasps for air.
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Report: Trump Wants To Block Funding For Virus Testing, CDC In Next Stimulus Package
Jack Brewster, Forbes Staff
Updated Jul 18, 2020, 06:51pm EDT
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jackbrewster/2020/07/18/report-trump-wants-to-block-funding-for-virus-testing-cdc-in-next-stimulus-package/#1cf2c44f53cb
As Congress races to come together on a fifth coronavirus stimulus package with cases skyrocketing across the country, the Trump administration is actively working to block “billions of dollars” in federal funding for testing and the Centers for Disease Control, according to a new report from the Washington Post.
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Meadows says Fauci wrong to compare coronavirus to 1918 pandemic
By Morgan Chalfant - 07/16/20
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/507763-meadows-says-fauci-wrong-to-compare-coronavirus-to-1918-pandemic
White House chief of staff Mark Meadows said on Thursday that Anthony Fauci was wrong to liken the coronavirus to the 1918 flu pandemic, calling his remarks “false” and “irresponsible.”
Meadows made the comments on Fox News after rebuking White House trade adviser Peter Navarro’s decision to pen an op-ed criticizing Fauci, the top U.S. infectious disease expert, which the chief of staff said was “not appropriate.”
Meadows went on to argue that not everything that Fauci says is correct.
“He was at Georgetown the other day and he suggested that this virus was worse or as bad as the 1918 flu epidemic. And I can tell you that not only is that false, it is irresponsible to suggest so,” Meadows told Fox News’s Martha MacCallum. “Listen, we all say things and do things that we wish that we hadn’t done.”
“My understanding is Dr. Fauci is walking that back and telling the American people that that was not accurate and not based on science,” Meadows continued. A spokesperson for the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, which Fauci directs, did not immediately return a request for comment.
Meadows was referring to remarks Fauci made Tuesday during a Georgetown University Global Health Initiative webinar during which he described the coronavirus as a “pandemic of historic proportions” and suggested it was possible the coronavirus could approach the “seriousness” of the 1918 pandemic.
“Right now if you look at the magnitude of the 1918 pandemic where anywhere from 50 to 75 to 100 million people died, I mean that was the mother of all pandemics and truly historic. I hope we don't even approach that with this, but it does have the makings of the possibility of … approaching that in seriousness, though I hope that the kinds of interventions that we're going to be, and are implementing would not allow that to happen,” Fauci said.
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Josh Marshall
twitter.com/joshtpm
18 July 2020
https://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/1284706062197764096
Bad news on the school opening front. A large study from South Korea suggests that children over 10 are very effective spreaders of COVID. So while pre-school and very young kids may be less effective vectors. Most school age kids 9+ are good vectors.
[EMBEDDED LINK TO:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/18/health/coronavirus-children-schools.html
Older Children Spread the Coronavirus Just as Much as Adults, Large Study Finds
The study of nearly 65,000 people in South Korea suggests that school reopenings will trigger more outbreaks.
]
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Gregg Gonsalves
twitter.com/gregggonsalves
19 July 2020
https://twitter.com/gregggonsalves/status/1284796204417679360
[THREAD]
So, there is something strange going on in America, I keep getting asked "can we reopen schools," "what's going to happen with universities, my son is starting at..." No one asks WHAT WILL IT TAKE TO RE-OPEN THEM. 1/
[NEXT]
Americans are looking for some sort of permission slip from scientists to get out of doing the work we need to do RIGHT NOW to ever have any chance of re-opening safely (and I fear it's too late for the fall). 2/
[NEXT]
PARENTS, STUDENTS. Do you want to go back to school? Well, guess who holds the key to whether you can or not? Your governor and President. UNLESS WE GET #SARSCoV2 under control there is NO MAGIC WAY to return to our normal lives safely. 3/
[THREAD CONTINUES AT LINK]
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- Kemp bans cities, counties from mandating masks
- Coronavirus data has already disappeared after Trump administration shifted control from CDC
- In separate rallies, Utahns protest mask mandate and demand in-person classes
- Georgia gov sues to end cities’ defiance on mask rules
- OK. Time for a thread on masks.
- New survey reveals how many Washingtonians are following statewide mask mandate
- Profile of a killer: Unraveling the deadly new coronavirus
- Report: Trump Wants To Block Funding For Virus Testing, CDC In Next Stimulus Package
- White House Chief of Staff lies about Fauci statements, Meadows says Fauci wrong to compare coronavirus to 1918 pandemic
- A large study from South Korea suggests that children over 10 are very effective spreaders of COVID.
- I keep getting asked "can we reopen schools," "what's going to happen with universities, my son is starting at..." No one asks WHAT WILL IT TAKE TO RE-OPEN THEM.
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Kemp bans cities, counties from mandating masks
15 July 2020
By Jeremy Redmon, J. Scott Trubey, Willoughby Mariano
https://www.ajc.com/news/georgia-governor-extends-coronavirus-restrictions/75SLQWLJ6FBULIGVEDMNSY5M64/?d
Gov. Brian Kemp on Wednesday extended Georgia’s coronavirus restrictions while explicitly banning cities and counties from adopting rules requiring masks or other face coverings, a measure that could bolster the state’s case in a possible legal battle.
Kemp’s executive order - which was set to expire Wednesday evening - still encourages, rather than requires, Georgians to wear masks in public. The governor has called such a requirement “a bridge too far,” and his office has said local mandates are unenforceable.
The governor’s coronavirus orders have for months banned local governments from taking more restrictive or lenient steps than the state. But the new set of rules he signed on Wednesday specified for the first time that cities and counties can’t require the use of masks or other face coverings.
That could improve the state’s standing in a courtroom fight against a string of cities that have defied Kemp’s emergency order by requiring masks. Savannah led that charge earlier this month, and since then other cities including Atlanta, Athens and Augusta have followed suit.
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Coronavirus data has already disappeared after Trump administration shifted control from CDC
Published Thu, Jul 16 2020
Will Feuer
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/16/us-coronavirus-data-has-already-disappeared-after-trump-administration-shifted-control-from-cdc-to-hhs.html
Previously public data has already disappeared from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s website after the Trump administration quietly shifted control of the information to the Department of Health and Human Services.
Since the pandemic began, the CDC regularly published data on availability of hospital beds and intensive care units across the country. But Ryan Panchadsaram, who helps run a data-tracking site called Covid Exit Strategy, said that when he tried to collect the data from the CDC on Tuesday, it had disappeared.
“We were surprised because the modules that we normally go to were empty. The data wasn’t available and not there,” he said. “There was no warning.”
CDC Director Dr. Robert Redfield told reporters on a conference call Wednesday that states were told to stop sending hospital information to the National Healthcare Safety Network site, the CDC’s system for gathering data, beginning Wednesday. Instead, all data will now be reported through HHS’ reporting portal, officials said, adding that the decision was made to streamline data reporting and to provide HHS officials with real-time data.
Public health specialists and former health officials acknowledged that the CDC’s data reporting infrastructure was limited, and said it needs to be overhauled to meet the demands of the Covid-19 pandemic. However, they expressed concern in interviews with CNBC that the change could lead to less transparent data.
When reached for comment Thursday by CNBC, HHS spokesman Michael Caputo said in a statement that the CDC was directed to make the data available again. In the future, he said, HHS will provide “more powerful insights.”
“Yes, HHS is committed to being transparent with the American public about the information it is collecting on the coronavirus,” he said. “Therefore, HHS has directed CDC to re-establish the coronavirus dashboards it withdrew from the public on Wednesday.”
Representatives of the CDC did not immediately respond to CNBC’s request for comment. Later in the day, the CDC restored the site’s previous dashboards with data through Tuesday, saying: “This file will not be updated after July 14, 2020 and includes data from April 1 to July 14.”
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In separate rallies, Utahns protest mask mandate and demand in-person classes
By Courtney Tanner
15 July 2020
https://www.sltrib.com/news/education/2020/07/15/packed-meeting-utah/
Provo • As she walked up to the podium to speak, one of the moms grabbed a face mask and spit her gum out into it. “It’s garbage,” she shrugged, wadding it up. “It doesn’t work anyway. Not for me and not for my kids.”
A dad who spoke after her said he, too, doesn’t think the masks are effective, and said he’s pulling his kids out of school this fall if the state doesn’t lift its mandate requiring all K-12 students to wear a face covering. Another mother carried her 4-year-old son in her arms, noting there’s no way he would keep one on in his kindergarten class - but she thinks they’re stupid anyway, regardless of age.
Parent after parent followed at the Utah County commission meeting Wednesday afternoon, objecting for more than two hours to having their kids in masks even as counts of the virus continue to climb across the state, where there are more than 30,000 confirmed cases.
They packed into the small boardroom to talk, pulling tape off the seats meant to maintain social distancing and crowding in against the walls. They wore “Trump 2020” hats and carried little American flags, and every time someone said “freedom” or “constitutional rights” the whole room cheered. Almost no one wore a mask; those who did had them pulled under their chins.
...
The biggest difference is the families pushing to return in Salt Lake City are willing to send their kids back in masks to make it happen. At the larger and louder rally in the more conservative Utah County, not having to wear them was the point.
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Georgia gov sues to end cities’ defiance on mask rules
By JEFF AMY
and BEN NADLER
The Associated Press
16 July 2020
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/health/defiance-deepens-as-georgia-governor-blocks-local-mask-rules/
ATLANTA (AP) - Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp is suing Atlanta’s mayor and city council to block the city from enforcing its mandate to wear a mask in public and other rules related to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Kemp and Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr, in a suit filed in state court late Thursday in Atlanta, argue that Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms has overstepped her authority and must obey Kemp’s executive orders under state law.
“Governor Kemp must be allowed, as the chief executive of this state, to manage the public health emergency without Mayor Bottoms issuing void and unenforceable orders which only serve to confuse the public,” the lawsuit states.
Kemp on Wednesday clarified his executive orders to expressly block Atlanta and at least 14 other local governments across the state from requiring people to wear face coverings.
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Akiva Cohen
twitter.com/AkivaMCohen
16 July 2020
https://twitter.com/AkivaMCohen/status/1283756648092360704
[THREAD]
OK. Time for a thread on masks. Anti-maskers (who should be as reviled as anti-vaxxers) keep citing research studies showing masks aren't that effective at protecting wearers from becoming infected. You need to know why the anti-maskers are wrong. It's a basic mistake
[THREAD CONTINUES AT URL]
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New survey reveals how many Washingtonians are following statewide mask mandate
By Callie Craighead, Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Published 1:03 pm PDT, Friday, July 17, 2020
https://www.seattlepi.com/coronavirus/article/washington-state-mask-compliance-survey-covid-19-15416107.php
New survey data is detailing public attitudes and responses to the novel coronavirus pandemic, including how many people are following the statewide mask mandate.
The survey, from data collection company Premise, has generated over one million responses from 105 countries to assess the economic, social, and health sentiment surrounding COVID-19.
In Washington, 40% of those surveyed said they always wear a mask when leaving their home, while 36% responded that they sometimes wear a mask. A smaller 23% said they never wear a mask.
Of those who said they did not wear a mask when leaving their home, 28% said they did not own a mask or know how to make one; 22% said they do not believe it is an effective way to prevent the spread of the virus; 16% said they didn't need a mask to protect themselves or others; and approximately 4% said that no one in their area was wearing them.
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Profile of a killer: Unraveling the deadly new coronavirus
By ADAM GELLER and MALCOLM RITTER
July 15, 2020
https://apnews.com/b7276f8610822ba9a57a26a486f4fe6c
NEW YORK (AP) - What is this enemy?
Seven months after the first patients were hospitalized in China battling an infection doctors had never seen before, the world’s scientists and citizens have reached an unsettling crossroads.
Countless hours of treatment and research, trial and error now make it possible to take much closer measure of the new coronavirus and the lethal disease it has unleashed. But to take advantage of that intelligence, we must confront our persistent vulnerability: The virus leaves no choice.
“It’s like we’re in a battle with something that we can’t see, that we don’t know, and we don’t know where it’s coming from,” said Vivian Castro, a nurse supervisor at St. Joseph’s Medical Center in Yonkers, just north of New York City, which struggled with its caseload this spring.
Castro had treated scores of infected patients before she, too, was hospitalized for the virus in April, then spent two weeks in home quarantine. As soon as she returned to the emergency room for her first shift, she rushed to comfort yet another casualty -- a man swallowing the few words he could muster between gasps for air.
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Report: Trump Wants To Block Funding For Virus Testing, CDC In Next Stimulus Package
Jack Brewster, Forbes Staff
Updated Jul 18, 2020, 06:51pm EDT
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jackbrewster/2020/07/18/report-trump-wants-to-block-funding-for-virus-testing-cdc-in-next-stimulus-package/#1cf2c44f53cb
As Congress races to come together on a fifth coronavirus stimulus package with cases skyrocketing across the country, the Trump administration is actively working to block “billions of dollars” in federal funding for testing and the Centers for Disease Control, according to a new report from the Washington Post.
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Meadows says Fauci wrong to compare coronavirus to 1918 pandemic
By Morgan Chalfant - 07/16/20
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/507763-meadows-says-fauci-wrong-to-compare-coronavirus-to-1918-pandemic
White House chief of staff Mark Meadows said on Thursday that Anthony Fauci was wrong to liken the coronavirus to the 1918 flu pandemic, calling his remarks “false” and “irresponsible.”
Meadows made the comments on Fox News after rebuking White House trade adviser Peter Navarro’s decision to pen an op-ed criticizing Fauci, the top U.S. infectious disease expert, which the chief of staff said was “not appropriate.”
Meadows went on to argue that not everything that Fauci says is correct.
“He was at Georgetown the other day and he suggested that this virus was worse or as bad as the 1918 flu epidemic. And I can tell you that not only is that false, it is irresponsible to suggest so,” Meadows told Fox News’s Martha MacCallum. “Listen, we all say things and do things that we wish that we hadn’t done.”
“My understanding is Dr. Fauci is walking that back and telling the American people that that was not accurate and not based on science,” Meadows continued. A spokesperson for the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, which Fauci directs, did not immediately return a request for comment.
Meadows was referring to remarks Fauci made Tuesday during a Georgetown University Global Health Initiative webinar during which he described the coronavirus as a “pandemic of historic proportions” and suggested it was possible the coronavirus could approach the “seriousness” of the 1918 pandemic.
“Right now if you look at the magnitude of the 1918 pandemic where anywhere from 50 to 75 to 100 million people died, I mean that was the mother of all pandemics and truly historic. I hope we don't even approach that with this, but it does have the makings of the possibility of … approaching that in seriousness, though I hope that the kinds of interventions that we're going to be, and are implementing would not allow that to happen,” Fauci said.
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Josh Marshall
twitter.com/joshtpm
18 July 2020
https://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/1284706062197764096
Bad news on the school opening front. A large study from South Korea suggests that children over 10 are very effective spreaders of COVID. So while pre-school and very young kids may be less effective vectors. Most school age kids 9+ are good vectors.
[EMBEDDED LINK TO:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/18/health/coronavirus-children-schools.html
Older Children Spread the Coronavirus Just as Much as Adults, Large Study Finds
The study of nearly 65,000 people in South Korea suggests that school reopenings will trigger more outbreaks.
]
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Gregg Gonsalves
twitter.com/gregggonsalves
19 July 2020
https://twitter.com/gregggonsalves/status/1284796204417679360
[THREAD]
So, there is something strange going on in America, I keep getting asked "can we reopen schools," "what's going to happen with universities, my son is starting at..." No one asks WHAT WILL IT TAKE TO RE-OPEN THEM. 1/
[NEXT]
Americans are looking for some sort of permission slip from scientists to get out of doing the work we need to do RIGHT NOW to ever have any chance of re-opening safely (and I fear it's too late for the fall). 2/
[NEXT]
PARENTS, STUDENTS. Do you want to go back to school? Well, guess who holds the key to whether you can or not? Your governor and President. UNLESS WE GET #SARSCoV2 under control there is NO MAGIC WAY to return to our normal lives safely. 3/
[THREAD CONTINUES AT LINK]
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