Holy hell, FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn's grasp of statistics is alarming. A 35% reduction in mortality does NOT mean that if 100 people get covid-19 and are treated with convalescent plasma, then 35 lives will be saved.
The head of the federal agency in charge of authorizing new medical treatments doesn't understand what reduction in mortality means. How can we trust anything the FDA does, if this is the guy who decides whether the agency will bow to political pressure?
This appears to be the data @SteveFDA was citing, but unable to understand. A plasma study (with no comparison group) found the treatment reduced the 7-day death rate from 11.9% to 8.7% – which Hahn interpreted to mean that 35 in 100 lives would be saved! h/t @taylorcyoung
WeBuildTheWall raised $25 million from GoFundMe, and built 4 miles of wall at a cost of more than $50 million. And that extra $25+ million was paid for by... the contractor, Tommy Fisher, out of his own pocket.
Who is Tommy Fisher, this generous benefactor of WeBuildTheWall?
He's the guy that was awarded $1.4 billion in government contracts, after President Trump personally and "aggressively" pushed for DHS and the US Army Corps to award those contracts to him. washingtonpost.com/immigration/he…
After the US Army Corps initially rejected Tommy Fisher's bid for a wall contract, Trump summoned Pentagon officials to the White House to tell them they needed to hire Fisher's company.
The downside of Twitter suspending the QAnon accounts is that we can no longer see exactly what batshit conspiracy theories were embraced by Trump's "future Republican Star" Marjorie Taylor Greene.
But future Republican star Marjorie Greene did report that she was "feeling hopeful" when a twitter thread convinced her that Q had predicted the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers had been funded to build the wall.
Marjorie Greene was also closely following several QAnon posts about various bizarre child trafficking conspiracies.
But thanks to her twitter, I now know what "frazzledrip" is, and wow, I was really fine not knowing any of that.
If you just muck up the mail in Milwaukee for a week or two, Trump won't have to stress much about Wisconsin's electoral votes.
Trump is plotting out how to use his control of the US Postal Service to secure his victory in the 2020 election, and he doesn't feel the need to keep it particularly secret.