Thread by @Kyle_A_Morse

Dr. Rick Bright: "Our window of opportunity is closing. If we fail to develop a national coordinated response, based in science, I fear the pandemic will get far worse and be prolonged, causing unprecedented illness and fatalities."
cnn.com/2020/05/13/pol…

Cont: "The world is confronting a great public health emergency which has the potential to eclipse the devastation wrought by the 1918 influenza which globally claimed over 50 million lives." READ HERE: cnn.com/2020/05/13/pol…

Our "health care system is being taxed to the limit, our economy is spiraling downward – leading to mass unemployment & our population is being paralyzed by fear stemming from the lack of a coordinated response & a dearth of accurate, clear communication about the path forward."

"@HHSGov leadership was dismissive about my dire predictions about what I assumed would be a broader outbreak and the pressing need to act, and were therefore unwilling to act with the urgency that the situation required."

"Understanding that the US had a critical shortage of necessary supplies and #PPE to deal with a pandemic... I pushed HHS to ramp up US production of masks, respirators and other critical supplies, such as medicine, syringes and swabs. Again, my urgency was dismissed..." #COVID19

For those keeping score at home, @realDonaldTrump shipped 18 tons of US medical equipment and masks to China after Dr. Rick Bright and the WHO warned about a global shortage. #PPEshortage #coronavirus washingtonpost.com/health/us-sent…

"When I resisted efforts to promote and enable broad access to an unproven drug, chloroquine, to the American people without transparent information on the potential health risks, I was removed from BARDA." foxnews.com/science/hydrox…

"I...believe that we must act urgently to effectively combat this deadly disease. Our window of opportunity is closing. If we fail to develop a national coordinated response...I fear the pandemic will get far worse and be prolonged, causing unprecedented illness and fatalities."

"If we ignore the science, we stand a dramatically increased risk of worsening the spread of the virus in the coming months."

If you care about science, beating @realDonaldTrump, or stopping #COVID19, make a plan to fucking vote. iwillvote.com