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The testing bottleneck *continues* to cause huge problems in the US response.
Right now tests are still being rationed, which means we still don't have them available for asymptomatic healthcare workers who may have been exposed to the virus. So we're just taking them offline!
I've talked to ER docs who have colleagues not working because they have to self-isolate. Governor Lamont told me tonight that ***200 hundred*** nurses in CT are on "furlough" because they may have been exposed, but can't get tested. This is madness!
If there is ONE LESSON from Wuhan and Lombardy it's that the virus takes out frontline healthcare workers which then *exacerbates* the crunch. We need to be able to test these people. Have to.
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Chris Hayes
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The range of possible futures ahead of us is vertigo-inducing. I can imagine a world where we lock down and manage to flatten the curve and get a handle on things in a few weeks and take it from there and a world where this is something we live with for a year.
I think there’s data and expertise to support both, though bulk of public health experts are more in the latter camp.

But the big questions right now are: when and if Italy flattens and what’s on the other side of their curve *and*
Does China see another outbreak as it opens back up?

We don’t have answers to either.
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This is all feels both scary and surreal and part of what's hard about getting our minds around it is searching for some kind of analogue or precedent. But there really isn't a perfect one.
Probably the closest comparison is to disaster preparation and the recovery after something like Katrina, or war-time mobilization. But neither of those exactly fit and in ways, I actually think can give some cause for solace.
In the case of a disaster it comes and destroys things and then leaves fairly quickly and we have to pick up the pieces as a society. This will last longer. And unlike a war there is no enemy to fight, no violence to be done that can create a victory.
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NYC, like many cities, compiles flu data from all ERs to help track flu season. Below are patients presenting for Influenza Like Illness (ILI) over the past 6 months. Notice flu season peaks and then recedes.

Then right at March 1, it begins to shoot back up dramatically. Image
There’s very good reason to believe the overwhelming majority of those cases are Covid-19. And that terrifying spike is likely a more accurate track of the disease’s growth than the still-limited testing.
(Also this data is put in by healthcare professionals assessing patients so it’s almost certainly not a psychosomatic effect of Coronavirus fears.)
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Daniel Sinclair
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Now Japan too 👀 https://t.co/9yeEsUGHDx
It’s probably a good time to remember that the 2002 SARS outbreak killed 774 people across 37 countries and it had a 10% mortality rate. This one looks less deadly, but also looks ripe to — and actively is — going global. on.ft.com/2u6G7zV
Umm, any of y'all have room in your bunker? The Chinese government was withholding the severity of this outbreak & transmission capability, and the number of coronavirus cases has exploded😷
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Right, I have poured myself a nice strong Coping Gin, so very soon I will be giving a brief extemporised presentation on the subject of “Cats” (2019) the movie, which I saw with @SnarkyPlatypus in Sydney this afternoon. Prepare yourself for the magic.
No, @markhumphries, because I’m sitting here in my underpants and with my Coping Gin and the world is not ready for a livestream of this nature.
So, the thing to remember about “Cats”, any version, is that it’s all Andrew Lloyd Webber’s fault. There is literally no reason why that cunt should’ve been made Baron Lloyd-Webber. HE IS IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS FFS. Anyway...
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Christopher Moore
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This should be clear, before this goes any further:if your health plan does not guarantee coverage without premium penalty for, or exclusion of a preexisting condition, it is not covering preexisting conditions as well as the current ACA. Saying it, don’t make it so. #healthcare
In another life, before I was a novelist,I was a health insurance broker. I filed claims for clients, read policies, and dealt with insurance underwriters all day. The ACA needs work,at LEAST a public option (Medicare buy in?), but nothing the GOP has proposed to date is as good.
I’m not addressing single-payer right now, I’m addressing the myth that somehow we’d have great healthcare if John McCain hadn’t voted down Obamacare repeal. That was the last great act of a patriot — for the people. Scapegoating him for your own failure is the act of a coward.
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I think the real question is "how do we create the means and foundation for the agenda," not the money to pay for it.

We always get money by taxing working class and middle class people.
That's how we pay for the two wars we've been in for over 15yrs.
The #healthcare industry employs millions of Americans.
In the only vision Bernie Sanders has ever presented, that somehow disappears and is replaced by something completely different....by magic. He has never had a plan for it or "breaking up the banks."
nydailynews.com/opinion/transc…
The most workable--and quick--plan we could get (if people vote in November and the Democrats regain the House)--is the #MedicareExtraForAll plan.

Getting people to give up their employer-paid insurance will be hard, but this could convince everyone.
latimes.com/business/hiltz…
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Cyrus Toulabi
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I can't with this guy...but interestingly, he's also revealing a lot with each one of these interviews.

Why not just go speak to the Grand Jury? Clearly, it's not about avoiding spending more time talking about the investigation and your experience...

He can't help himself..
#NOW: SAM NUNBERG says he was told he wasn't a target or a subject of the investigation and he was OFFERED IMMUNITY by the Special Counsel's team.

He also said THEY WANT HIM TO TESTIFY...TO CATCH ROGER STONE ON PERJURY...

ADMITTING THAT ROGER MAY HAVE LIED TO PROSECUTORS.
#LOL: Save this one...

SAM NUNBERG: "I'M NOT GOING TO JAIL, COME ON."
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