Not to detract from the celebration BUT
We just had >128,000 new US infections, another new record.
The hospitalizations continue to rise to almost 59,000 ()(~1,000 more since yesterday)
1,097 more people died.
@COVID19Tracking
We have serious work cut out for us
We're about to go to a new pandemic peak in people hospitalized, >60,000
The rise in cases is limitless unless we take aggressive action, which of course should have been initiated months ago. But it's never too late.
There is no such thing as a freakin' #casedemic and we don't need to see these lines going up anymore. It's high time to take control of this virus. We can do this.

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4 Nov
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
2. As cases rise, so do hospitalizations
Read 4 tweets
4 Nov
"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.
If C contained, E expands.

Source for quote nytimes.com/live/2020/11/0…
This false dichotomy is the 2020 version of "It's the economy, stupid."
Read 4 tweets
31 Oct
Today marks 11 years on @twitter for me.
Thanks for reading along🙏
I wrote a 🧵about what I learned in the first decade here:

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/
Read 14 tweets
27 Oct
I wish all these déjà vu reports of "disappearing antibodies" would disappear. That is not a problem.
directorsblog.nih.gov/2020/10/20/two… by @NIHDirector
nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…
@NEJM
Or this paper on the known knowns
jimmunol.org/content/early/…
Read 4 tweets
25 Oct
Diagnosis: Uncontrolled spread
covidexitstrategy.org
1/
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/
Read 11 tweets
23 Oct
A new American pandemic record
83,010 cases reported today
@COVID19Tracking
Hospitalizations on a relentless rise
One week ago, there were concerns that the 3rd surge was manifest with highest cases since August.
Now highest cases in 2020.
Read 6 tweets

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