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I've found there's a HUGE gap between the intensity level on coronavirus twitter and what people in my life are hearing.

If you're tweeting a lot about #FlattenTheCurve, make sure you're also emailing or calling the people in your life to convince them to take precautions.
Probably everyone you're tweeting to already is seeing this stuff. But a lot of people you love and like or just work with are seeing less of it.

Closing that gap is really important, and they'll listen if it's coming from you, a trusted friend or family member!
Tldr, make sure your belief in social distancing has a high offline R0.
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According to Health Management Associates, Covid-19 will lead to 12-35 million people losing employer-sponsored health coverage.

As many as 11 million people could find themselves uninsured, wiping out about half of Obamacare’s coverage gains overnight. healthmanagement.com/wp-content/upl…
And even those who keep their insurance are going to see it degrade as employers rush to save money by raising premiums and deductibles, and narrowing networks, as they've been doing even in good economic times.
This is a crisis. But it is also, perhaps, an opportunity to solve the foundational mistake of America's health policy system: typing health insurance to employment.
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Cuomo gets a lot more coverage because the national media is based in New York and his brother is on CNN, but CA has contained coronavirus much better than NY, and Gavin Newsom (and London Breed and Eric Garcetti!) have, so far, done a lot of good.
That's not to say there aren't problems in CA, inadequate testing chief among them. But there's a lot to learn from how rapidly the Bay Area, then the state, went into lockdown — decisions that saved a lot of lives.
Numbers on COVID-19 should be taken with salt, for reasons others have noted, but both death records (which are somewhat more reliable than cases) and hospital utilization suggest CA's measures have helped flatten the curve, so far. vox.com/2020/3/26/2119…
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"I’ve been frustrated with this language of social distancing because it seems to imply that we’re only going get through this if we turn our backs on one another — and especially turn our backs on the people who are most vulnerable," says @ErikKlinenberg: vox.com/podcasts/2020/…
The people being asked to sacrifice most right now are younger, and lower-income. Policy in this country didn't extend a lot of solidarity to them before this crisis. Now an enormous amount is being asked of them, to protect those most vulnerable to COVID-19.
Will those same folks asking for sacrifice now stand in solidarity with them on health reform, on climate change, on student debt? This is going to be a long-haul, and for it to work, solidarity can't only go one way.
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