On @IDSAInfo webinar today, .@DrJeanneM notes that although #COVID19 hospitalization rates are trending downward, they've really haven't budged significantly in many places, like Alabama. "We remain stubbornly in the 800 to 900 range."
.@DrJeanneM: If there's ever a year to get your #flu vaccine, this is the year.
.@DrJeanneM: With #influenza season approaching, big concern going to see what could be a perfect storm of accelerated #COVID19 activity as people gather more inside & become continually fatigued with the mask-wearing, #socialdistancing & hand hygiene
.@DrJeanneM sums up concern of the U.S. public health system/#CDC/state & local health departments being overwhelmed with both #flu & #COVID19 this fall is to #GetYourFluShot so you don't get #influenza in the first place.
.@DrJeanneM: pause due to adverse event is reminder #COVID19#vaccines studies being conducted very cautiously/carefully. Unfortunately #WarpSpeed name made lots of people nervous.
Like @NIHDirector & Fauci, reassure trials being conducted w/ unprecedented scrutiny.
.@WHCOVIDResponse briefing coming up at 10:30amET with someone different today: #HHS@SecBecerra, who's joining @CDCDirector Walensky, #NIH Fauci, Jeff Zients to discuss a roadmap to enable US to move forward safely & sustain/build on progress #COVID19😷
"Throughout our history we’ve learned this lesson – when dictators do not pay a price for their aggression, they cause more chaos. They keep moving. And, the costs & threats to America & the world keep rising.
"#Putin’s war was premeditated & unprovoked. He rejected efforts at diplomacy. He thought the West & @NATO wouldn’t respond. And, he thought he could divide us here at home.
Putin was wrong. We were ready."
.@VP@KamalaHarris: For the last year we've had people in positions of incredible power scapegoating Asian-Americans. People with the biggest pulpits spreading this kind of hate.
.@VP@KamalaHarris: A harm against any one of us is a harm against all of us.
The president and I will not be silent. We will not stand by. We will always speak out against violence, hate crimes & discrimination, wherever and whenever it occurs.