Peaks are 7/23 (220), 7/30(221), & 8/4 (225); the 7-day moving average peak is July 25/26 (209), with a second peak on August 5 (213).
The peak of July 25 hasn't moved since I started reporting it on August 27. The 2nd peak appeared on Sept 11, and it hasn't moved, either.
2/6
Yesterday's deaths (as best we could find them - read bottom of the chart for more details):
Median age: 79
Minimum age: 34
Maximum age: 98
77% are 65 or older
Reporter: Should medical procedures require a negative PCR test?
Dr. J. Bhattacharya: “I think that depends on the infrastructure of the hospital. If you suspect someone has COVID, for instance, they’re symptomatic… you absolutely should take precautions…
1/5
"Let’s say I need an eye surgery. Do i need a negative PCR? I’m completely asymptomatic… No, I think the answer is no… because they’re very unlikely to be passing the infection on to people, and the people that are going to be treating them will all have PPE, all of them...
2/5
"—effective PPE, much more effective than the general public… I can understand hospitals that might want to do it, but to require that that happen for every single person… The reason I say that is that there are costs to that...
3/5
Peaks are 7/23 (220), 7/30(221), & 8/4 (225); the 7-day moving average peak is July 25/26 (209), with a second peak on August 5 (213).
The peak of July 25 hasn't moved since I started reporting it on August 27. The 2nd peak appeared on Sept 11, and it hasn't moved, either.
2/7
Yesterday's deaths (as best we could find them - read bottom of the chart for more details):
Median age: 74
Minimum age: 41
Maximum age: 101
72% are 65 or older
.@GovRonDeSantis asked Dr. Bhattacharya about Fauci’s statements on masks, referring to a March interview in which Fauci said masks may make you feel protected, but people touch their faces and possibly increase infections.
1/10
DeSantis: “All scientists were pretty much saying that. Now many say [it's] basically [a] mark of a good person, are you wearing it or not. It doesn’t seem like the underlying evidence has changed very much…
2/10
"what is the average person [supposed to think] when they were literally tweeting at you ‘Don’t wear a mask,’ and [I don’t think] the explanation that we want to save them for healthcare workers… really flies because healthcare workers aren’t wearing cloth masks…
Peaks are 7/23 (218), 7/30(216), & 8/4 (219), and the 7-day moving average peak is July 25 (206), with a second peak on August 5 (209).
The peak of July 25 hasn't moved since I started reporting it on August 27. The 2nd peak appeared on Sept 11, and it hasn't moved, either.
2/7
Yesterday's deaths (as best we could find them - read bottom of the chart for more details):
Median age: 78
Minimum age: 37
Maximum age: 99
82% are 65 or older
Dr. J. Bhattacharya: “Dr. Fauci’s been involved in infectious disease control for a very long time. He is a preeminent scientist for a good reason; he is an expert. But in early February, March, we sort of put him on a pedestal...
1/8
"to essentially give his knowledge about a whole range of things, some of which was in his control and knowledge set, and some of which was not. And I saw him a few months ago… where he very humbly said, look, I’m giving you my expertise,...
2/8
"as an infectious disease expert, on how to manage this disease. I’m not looking at the broader policy context.
“We think about science like giving us all the answers, but that’s a mistake. What science does is it tells us if we do A, we might get B...
3/8