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It’s not protests or Memorial Day BBQs that will contribute to the death toll of COVID-19.

It is pure lack of political leadership.
McConnell is pushing off the urgent need for contact tracing by stopping movement on the budget.
Trump refuses to address COVID unless the stock market is down.
State hospitals are asking for help in AZ & other states & not getting any.
Trump won’t promote basic mask wearing.
This is a virus not a political football. Our elected leaders can address just like elected leaders around the world. Politics has no place here.
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Why do I say there’s a major gap?

Because for starters we don’t know who spreads it the most & we don’t know who’s most succeptable.

And what we think we know is based on a lot of guesswork & weeks of observation.2/
Why do countries have vertical curves & then peak?

Some things we believe:
-we socially distance
-sneezers & coughers isolate
-large events stop
-bars close

Maybe. May be a small or a big part of the what’s going on.

3/
It makes sense that when we opened, the infectiousness would increase but not go back nearly to where it was before the virus as a number of those things would remain. 4/
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NEW: AZ Fovernor beginning his press conference on COVID-19 now.

He will continue a “calm & steady approach.”

Follow here for more. 1/
Background:

Hospitalizations are 1291. Up from 796 a month ago.
Positive tests are 13.1% up 5 points since 5/26
Very short contact tracing resources
Ducey says they have no hospital capacity issues.

Says wants to see cases drop but they are rising but says it relates to increases in testing. Also says there is an increase in positive tests.

Acknowledges this is bad.
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6 months in 400,000 people have died around the world and it is still making its way around the globe. Currently experiencing the highest daily case growth.

More than 1/4 of the deaths are in the US when population is 4% of the world. 2/
There are 6 million global cases, 2 million in the US. 1/3 of the cases and 4% of the population.

Poor countries in Africa, Caribbean & Central Asia & Latin America have not been hard hit yet. Most of the US has still been spared. 3/
There are 2 important measures of an infectious disease— how infectious and the fatality rate.

Diseases like Ebola have much higher death rates
Measles has with much higher infection rates.

But COVID-19 has a combination of both that Fauci calls his “worst nightmare.” 4/
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