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380,000 people die from infections in nursing homes every year. Half our preventable.

In Obama, we created new regulations and Trump got rid of them.
Receipts: CDC source. Also mentioned in this article.

Don’t trust anything without a source (or sourced to the Russian a Times).

nytimes.com/2020/03/04/hea…
Another sad receipt.

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Andy Slavitt
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Currently experts expect over 1 million deaths in the U.S. since the virus was not contained & we cannot even test for it.

This will be recorded as a major preventable public health disaster. I will try to relate what I learned from a long day of calls about what is happening.
The original sin is Trump’s months long denial and his dismantling of public health and response infrastructure.

That wasn’t all, but it led to other fatal mistakes. 2/
The public health infrastructure could have been prepared. What does that mean: nasal swabs, respirators, ventilators, RNA kits to read tests, machines, gloves.

We can at best do 10,000 tests/day. We should be able to do millions. 3/
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Andy Slavitt
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BREAKING: The US is failing to produce even small number of testing kits for COVID-19 extraction despite Trump & Pence statements.

Labs and states are worried. Expect next to no availability to continue for weeks. It is vital to self-quarantine.
Story last night by @politico where the CDC admitted it was out of the kits needed to extract the RNA samples.

The commercial labs & states are now saying the same. Even the small number of tests being produced are not increasing or grinding to a halt.

politico.com/news/2020/03/1…
I’m going to try to explain what is happening but I’m NOT very science-y.

It’s not the testing ability but the SUPPLY CHAIN of all the things you need to extract the RNA sample (who you know if someone has tested positive) through something called PCR.
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Andy Slavitt
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@chrislhayes Most people won’t give a number and have been asked not to. So I’m piecing together we may be producing 4000/day today and in 4 weeks can have a lot more online 1/
@chrislhayes Lab operators who have been on call are estimating 8 weeks based on what their own timetables are.

One person said they’ve had conversations with the Vice President where they pass their estimates along and he has come out with out of the ballpark numbers right after. 2/
@chrislhayes Meanwhile governors still can’t get a straight answer on when and how many. And can’t prooritize populations. 3/
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Laurie Garrett
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G. Elliott Morris
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#NEW We have matched up county-level preferences for music genres with 2016 election results and have found the👏 key👏 data 👏 that capture the cultural currents that made Obama supporters flip to Donald Trump:

liking hard rock music.

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The data we have (from @VividSeats) is truly incredible. In every county, we have a record of the share of concert/etc ticket sales that fall into each genre in 2015/19. Here's that map (with each county scaled for population). Cities like rap/hip hop. Rural areas like country.
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Zoltanne
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OBAMA should be more mindful when accusing Trump about the press & leaks:

1. It is common knowledge among journalists that the #Obama administration has prosecuted more leakers under the 1917 Espionage Act than all former presidents combined. But few admit this truth.
2. The Committee to Protect Journalists released its first comprehensive report on US press freedom.

They discovered that the Obama administration’s policies have undermined the role of the press in three fundamental ways.
3. First, the government’s war on leaks has not only intimidated whistleblowers, it has ensnared journalists.
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1. UNDERSTAND #Syria
Assad does NOT #Chemical attack the ppl he is trying to liberate for the past 3 years.
#DeepState set up
They use a #USA and UK funded group called "The White Helmets" who are #ISIS Members and also pretent to be helpers, rescuers in Syria.
Dirty CIA provide
2. Them with EVERYTHING.
They create #falseflag opps.
People die. They blame it on #Assad

PNAC a dirty dirty Neo-Con #DeepState group created by Bush, Cheaney, Rumsfeld etc.. Created this plan 2 decades ago to wipe out the middle east
3. They are trying to get #Trump to go to war with Syria.

BOLTON was apart of this group. PNAC.
He knows the agenda.
He has been brought in to clean house and screw over the deeps plan.

@realDonaldTrump is 100 steps ahead of everyone.
His message this morning to #Russia
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Zach Everson
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Trump Hotels' website still lists Trump SoHo New York among its properties in the Our Hotels menu. Select its name though to access its page and there's a message about it being renamed

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National politics correspondent for Newsweek, Nina Burleigh, with a fun find on a TV above the bar at the Trump Hotel DC bit.ly/2E37QRR
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