"Voters were deeply divided on what mattered more: containing the coronavirus or hustling to rebuild the economy"
As if this was a dilemma rather than it being fully interdependent.
Over 100,000 new covid cases today (1st time here or anywhere in the world), more than 1,200 deaths, hospitalizations relentlessly climbing to a new pandemic peak.
Might be a good time for a new strategy. Like having a plan. washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/11…
The virus is thriving finding new hosts, making them sick, and killing them. And the pattern is all too familiar. 1. Most new infections for the pandemic, >103,000, on a very steep ascent now @COVID19Tracking
This one is about what I learned this year, a most challenging one for all of us 1/
For 10 years, I posted biomedical and science stuff mainly about genomics, digital medicine, #AI. As the pandemic became a reality in February, I shifted attention to it, almost exclusively 2/
I'd already been tweeting too much (aka twitterrhea, and sorry for that), but this led to more than doubling or even tripling the posts on any given day due to the outpouring of new information (ideal substrate for an info junkie) 3/
A ladder. Off the chart again with 83,000 new confirmed infections the past 2 days. Years from now people will look back and think how is this possible in the USA. Bleak? 2/
It doesn't have to be. We know we could achieve marked suppression by a universal mask mandate and aggressive non-pharmacologic mitigation measures. That doesn't have to equate to the "L" word. But timing is critical now 3/
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In the next 4 months, 130,000 American lives could be saved by universal mask use, according to the new @IHME_UW forecast which gets us to >510,000 deaths by end February @NatureMedicinenature.com/articles/s4159…
As compared with the status now:
"Mask use has emerged as a contentious issue in the United States with only 49% of US residents reporting that they ‘always’ wear a mask in public as of 21 September 2020"