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Let’s call this out: This is an outright and full blown Antiscience disinformation campaign coming out of the White House. I’ve got the bow tie on and I’m ready for battle.... usatoday.com/story/opinion/…
See you beginning at 6 AM Eastern, 5 AM Central on @NewDay
I see this as a struggle over the human rights and dignity of people living in poor neighborhoods across the American South now being decimated by #COVID19 and a uncaring and unconcerned federal government
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Perhaps she was referring to a different country? Here in the US we're seeing a steep rise in hospitalizations and ICU admissions due to #COVID19
I fear we're entering new phase of coordinated misinformation, gas lighting, deflection:

1. Claiming 99% COVID19 is harmless
2. Claiming no deaths
3. Hospitalizations due to things other than COVID
4. Invoking Chinese Conspiracies
5. Blaming WHO
As someone named the "OG Villain" (original gangster) by RFK Jr + the antivax movement, I know exactly how coordinated antiscience campaigns work (my paper in
@PLOS). What we're now seeing from the White House has all those hallmarks. This is dangerous
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/ar…
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Totally agree with White House CoV TF priority to open schools, as articulated by @AmerAcadPeds. And the way to do this? Do the hard work over this summer to get every state back to containment mode, or close to it. In that way we can safely open schools by the fall
The problem is there is not the federal plan to make this happen. Instead their unrealistic (and tone-deaf) strategy is to push for re-openings in the middle of massive #COVID19 resurgence in 30 US states, and failing to understand why this will likely fail.
Yet another big dump on the states and local school districts to figure it out....and oh yes, if you have any questions go to the CDC website.
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Our Letter to Congress on ⁦@WHO⁩ Withdrawal from Public Health, Law and International Relations Leaders oneill.law.georgetown.edu/letter-to-cong…
So tragic how if the White House had owned this epidemic, even with past mistakes, we could have gone into containment mode across the nation. We could still do this in time for the fall, and safely reopen schools, colleges, even have a college football season, the NFL, NBA, NHL
But several things have to happen: 1) White House needs to explain to the American public our dire situation, 2) prioritize a federal strategy, and 3) CDC needs to operate in a different way, and take a leadership role, instead the usual the states are in charge and we advise.
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