Administration says city is approaching $1 billion in projected pandemic response context (annual budget is around $16 billion including federal funds)
Some new stats show challenges with contact tracing: City interviewed around 59% of infected residents within three days of positive test; around 37% provided contact information for their close contacts. The average number of close contacts reported was just 1
Haven't seen this stat before: City says small business revenue fell more than 50% between January and July
The District is going to start reporting new daily metrics next week:
-Test turnaround times
-Tests conducted per million
-% of new cases with completed contact tracing interviews within 3 days
-% of new cases who provide contact information for exposed people
The District is retiring the chart that tracks community spread (new cases outside institutional settings by onset date). This has attracted some of the most public scrutiny, and Health Director LaQuandra Nesbitt suggests public has struggled to understand it
Instead of the community spread graph, the District will shift to more frequent reporting of the number of new cases per 100,000 people. That's emerged as the more widely used metric, including the one we track nationally and regionally washingtonpost.com/graphics/local…
District is planning to ramp up flu shot distributions this year, which would inform planning for covid-19 vaccine distribution. @bylenasun explained why a bad flu season can be disastrous for covid response washingtonpost.com/health/covid-f…
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The parents of two children who died by AR-15 gunfire consented to having The Post visually reconstruct what the bullets did to their bodies.
A spokesman for the family of Peter Wang, a Parkland victim, said the "parents want people to know the truth" wapo.st/3JRkV4o
Our top editor explained why The Post did this kind of rare visual examination of what gun violence does to people washingtonpost.com/nation/interac…
The inventor of the AR-15 had no interest in civilians using the gun and would have been horrified to know it has become a tool of carnage in schools, according to a gunmaker who knew him. wapo.st/3LPTkmK
A doctor called one trans woman “it.” A nonbinary person was grilled about their pronouns during an ultrasound. A trans masculine person fled Tennessee as lawmakers restricted care.
We told the stories of trans people navigating health care. Paywall free wapo.st/3Zcf7bg
This story is part of a broader @washingtonpost series on trans life in America, bolstered by rare polling of the community w/ @KFF.
NEW: @FrancesSSellers & I have been investigating Dobbs' consequences.
We found the standard of care for incomplete miscarriages, ectopic pregnancies and other common complications is being scrutinized, delayed — even denied — jeopardizing maternal health wapo.st/3PrUH9y
In Wisconsin, a woman bled for more than 10 days from an incomplete miscarriage after emergency room staff would not remove the fetal tissue washingtonpost.com/health/2022/07…
A woman with a life-threatening ectopic pregnancy sought emergency care at the University of Michigan Hospital after a doctor in her home state worried that the presence of a fetal heartbeat meant treating her might run afoul of new abortion restrictions. washingtonpost.com/health/2022/07…
After omicron arrived, the pandemic’s victims were no longer overwhelmingly unvaccinated.
@dtkeating & I explored the nuanced reasons why. Bottom line: Increasingly transmissible variants endanger the elderly and vulnerable & boosters are important wapo.st/3KnkNYA
The death rates for the vaccinated and boosted are FAR lower than for the unvaccinated.
Age is also essential to understanding this trend. Victims are again mostly elderly, a group overwhelmingly vaccinated. Unvaccinated seniors are far more likely to die, but the unlucky minority of vaccinated seniors who die amounts to a lot of people washingtonpost.com/health/2022/04…
Today’s WFH includes my four-year-old nephew and two-year-old dog both feeding off each other’s chaotic energy. Let’s see how this goes
Breakfast off to a good start
Lunch time update: It's like a hurricane struck the play room. Toddler now slamming his drums after 15 minutes of blowing on his whistle. Dog is clawing at me desperate for escape
Quite the choice for Greenwald to describe the gassing of peaceful protesters among a "a few isolated, symbolic" gestures. Feds were also preparing to take over the D.C. police department and to move military forces from Fort Belvoir into the city.
A medical military helicopter flew low over demonstrators in a display of fear violating global norms. We had an unprecedented deployment of thousands of troops from states allied with the president against civilian protesters in a city of 700,000.
How can someone who built a career on rightful skepticism of government so blithely dismiss military aggression against American citizens?