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Like the study declaring zero infection in Huoshenshan Hospital, which we should question, CNN also reported a People's Liberation Army claim that the military had not been impacted — without challenging it.
On the disinformation front, Graphika published a report on the Iranian influence operations today. In this pandemic, it has overwhelmingly pushed origin blame on the United States, and praised China's response and coronavirus diplomacy. drive.google.com/file/d/1z9feAs…
"IUVM appears to have come to the coronavirus pandemic relatively late: Its messaging only turned to the topic in late February... On February 19, 2020, Iran confirmed its first deaths from coronavirus. Soon after, IUVM began
posting about the virus"
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Pre-print out of New York City hospitals: "In the decision tree for admission, the most important features were age >65 and obesity... Age and comorbidities are powerful predictors of hospitalization" medrxiv.org/content/10.110… Image
“You can’t drive a bus or wash dishes on Zoom. These are people we count on to do essential jobs, and they are going unprotected.” buzzfeednews.com/article/danver… ImageImage
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"Virginia’s Democratic legislature, meanwhile, passed a bill last month that would force insurers to cap insulin costs at $50 a month, at the time one of the lowest caps in the nation."
"Sudden prohibition could be catastrophic for the estimated 15M people in the U.S. w/ alcohol use disorder, a chronic relapsing brain disease characterized by compulsive alcohol use, loss of control over alcohol intake & negative emotional state when not" melmagazine.com/en-us/story/wh…
“Untreated, alcohol withdrawal will kill one out of eight people. For comparison, we only lose 20 people a year to opioid withdrawal. With opioid withdrawal, everybody thinks they’re dying, but they don’t really. With alcohol withdrawal, they really do.”
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"The official asked the Thais for help—only to be informed by the puzzled voices on the other side of the line that a U.S. shipment of the same supplies, the second of two so far, was already on its way to Bangkok." politico.com/news/2020/03/3…
"The administration has also placed a moratorium on overseas shipments of USAID’s stockpiles of protective gear and is asking that the equipment be sent to the U.S. instead"
USAID: “They’re really trying to walk a fine line between making sure Americans get everything they need and then starting to provide assistance elsewhere, and the vice president’s oversight is slowing down the decision-making process"
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The states are still not taking this pandemic serious enough. Setting up a room of cots makes for good pictures, but there remains massive voids in the medical supply chain & contingencies of public services. None of them are taking on that bigger problem. The feds aren't coming. ImageImage
POTUS activated the reserve today. The details are sparse. "Exactly which individuals will be recalled were not immediately released... the executive order regarding the move said officials could recall up to 1 million individuals for up to 2 years" militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-…
"Army officials said that more than 9,000 former soldiers with medical training expressed interest in assisting with the coronavirus pandemic efforts.... More than 12300 Army National Guard and Air National Guard have already been mobilized in recent days to help state officials"
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