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A vaccine NEVER saved a life. Only a vaccination has. Remember this during WH presser today about vaccine identification and manufacture. Seems fast? A vaccine still needs to be distributed in the homeland. A basic logistics challenge. 1/
Not convinced WH does logistics well? Could it be the logistics failures with tests, masks, gloves or ventilators? Some background on how it should work based on previous vaccination programs. From @theatlantic on the "who gets it first" issue.


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With @ASlavitt for @LemonadaMedia for his In the Bubble podcast on the "points of distribution" (POD) system that is used to get a vaccine from a box in a warehouse into the arm (or nose). Again, logistics and its super complex.


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Meanwhile, the President caters to the anti-vax crowd which is focusing on future Coronavirus vaccine plans and aided by foreign influence. Mayors/Govs need to get ahead of this now, denying privileges to those who refuse vaccinations now and in future. Take on disinformation 4/
On this, there is no wavering. We can not go through this pandemic only to end up with a solution that some set of the population is opposed to. Anti-vaxxers perform in criminal behavior and on this I've been consistent at least. 5/
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Finally, there is no question my party affiliation and I try to keep voting choices off this feed. Regardless of his party, President Trump is not fit to be President. As a nation, we deserve better.
So, many things make me nervous. But one leaves me scared. 5/
And that is that Trump, should he win, will preside over the fastest, most essential vaccination program in world history and he will do so in the same manner of nepotism and incompetency that he has governed this country. That Kushner is involved confirms that likelihood. 6/
The vaccination program will occur either in Trump's 2nd term or Biden's first. The calendar is set. Regardless of your party, choose as if your life depended on it. 7/7
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Background: Managing chaos is sort of my yoga and 18 years ago, in early March, I put together a chart for my students to help ground them. The Coronavirus may be new; crisis management is not. Plenty of mistakes and outrages since then, but only way is forward. 2/
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Thread: some early (its early) thoughts on CDC guidelines released without fanfare late last night. First, timing. In a crisis that follows normal planning, an incident command (WH has inserted itself instead) has a planning cell that is guiding policies for days ahead @cnn 1/
It makes sense. You want to have a group not overwhelmed by the day-to-day who are determining how the response would want to position itself in the future, let alone transition to recovery. In other words, what we do today should head towards a plan for tomorrow. 2/
All states have decided that they are "opening up" in some fashion already. The CDC guidelines posit conditions for that opening up that should have been disclosed weeks ago. It's all so late; we are always so late (testing, supply chain, closing, etc) during this response. 3/
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Pandemic and hurricanes, double whammy 2020 season. For @RedCross, @fema, etc., the planning for hurricanes has changed. Evacuations (however inexact the weather modeling) will be called earlier -- to give more time -- with focus on hotels rather than large shelters. 1/
Just got out of meeting for Red Cross and all worried about the complex balance that people won't leave homes. If you are in hurricane area, urge you to read this. 2/

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Honestly, it's a no joke of a hurricane season -- will start early, go long. Nothing else to do but be ready. That's always better than worrying. 3/3
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