@JoeBiden @KamalaHarris:
@PeterHotez has a national strategy to contain #Covid and save 100,000 American lives by December 31st. He had to revise his plan as his original plan for containment by October 1st was ignored by the White House. As you both
@PeterHotez has a national strategy to contain #Covid and save 100,000 American lives by December 31st. He had to revise his plan as his original plan for containment by October 1st was ignored by the White House. As you both
https://twitter.com/PeterHotez/status/1313813616408375296
are aware, the United States has no national strategy, and without leadership and expertise guiding our country, people continue to be become infected and thousands die. On average, as of October 6th, around 919 people per day continue to die of this
novel coronavirus. The daily death toll from seasonal #flu, using prelim max estimates from the 2019-2020 flu season, is an average of almost 332 people. You can go to covidtracking.com to view data.
Infectious disease/virology experts and other healthcare professionals are very concerned about this upcoming flu season with #SARS_CoV_2/#Covid19 as this poses likely significant risk once again to hospital capacity, looming #PPE crisis
and sadly but certainly more deaths-and possibly thousands that are preventable, assuming the adoption of @PeterHotez national strategy. PPE is still a massive challenge in the United States, for example N95 masks continue today to be a challenge
not only the sourcing of these masks, but the distribution. Additionally, according to the Association of Medical Colleges, there is a projected shortfall of 40,000 to 122,000 physicians over the next decade with a shortage of 29,000 to 42,900 doctors
in the United States, depending upon several factors. Flu season hitting with a pandemic that is not under control means we will again stress and strain our healthcare system. Again, with no national strategy and the chaos of flu season running into Covid,
our hospitals, healthcare professionals and front line workers face an even worse Autumn than we have so far this year. In an interview with @Contagion_Live @gallagher_grant in July of this year, @PeterHotez discussed how the Federal Government could
step in and help with the response including: The White House messaging scientifically accurate information, briefings every day with top infectious disease specialists such as Dr. Fauci, including ongoing guidance and support measures in place
to allow for cooperation to ultimately contain this virus. To further complicate matters, not only did the White House totally ignore Dr. Hotez (and Dr. Fauci) but the administration began running a purposeful misinformation campaign. Further chaos.
Dr. Hotez states: "The White House Coronavirus Task Force insisted that the individual states lead and chart teir own COVID-19 destiny, while the federal government would back them up with manufacturing support. This was a failed strategy from day one--
...Individual states lacked the expertise to contain the virus and they needed the smoke screen of the Department of Health and Human Services for the governors to justify unpopular measures for virus containment. --- "The Institute for Health Metrics
and Evaluation currently projects that more than 360,000 Americans will die by the close of 2020! But it does not have to be this way"...so @realDonaldTrump I'm tweeting this to incoming President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris because you
have cost thousands of American lives, you have sickened members of your staff and now likely staff members at the White House, you refuse to acknowledge the seriousness of this virus and if you are reelected I am genuinely terrified for this country.
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