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18 Nov, 4 tweets, 3 min read
🚨BREAKING:@Pfizer to seek FDA emergency-use authorization—data show its #coronavirus vaccine is 95% effective with no serious safety issues.

▶️162 infections for placebo vs 8 for #vaccine
▶️9 serious #COVID19 cases for placebo vs 1 for placebo

cnn.com/2020/11/18/hea…
ENCOURAGING: Pfizer says the vaccine is >94% effective in adults over 65 years old, who have higher risk for serious #COVID19 and death, and added; “Efficacy was consistent across age, race and ethnicity demographics.”

#coronavirus

Based on current projections, Pfizer and its partner expect to produce globally up to 50 million vaccine doses in 2020 (2 doses needed for each person vaccinated) and up to 1.3 billion doses in 2021.🙏
IMPORTANT: these data were evaluated by an *independent* data monitoring committee.

I anticipate that Pfizer’s #vaccine will get the nod from FDA within a few weeks (at most) and await publication of the full results in a peer-reviewed scientific journal.

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20 Nov
🚨BREAKING: Two separate New York State #fraud investigations into Trump and his businesses—1 CRIMINAL and 1 civil—have expanded to include tax write-offs on millions of dollars in consulting fees, some of which appear to have gone to @IvankaTrump.💥

nytimes.com/2020/11/19/nyr…
The inquiries —a CRIMINAL investigation by Manhattan DA Cy Vance Jr and a civil one by the state attorney general, @NewYorkStateAG James are being conducted independently, bBth offices *issued subpoenas* to the Trump Organization in recent weeks for records related to the fees.🔥
Trump reduced his taxable income by deducting ~$26 million in fees to unidentified consultants as a “business expense” between 2010 and 2018.

Some of those fees appear to have been paid to Ivanka.🧐

#TaxFraudTrump
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19 Nov
⚠️NO SURPRISE: the surge of new #coronavirus cases is WORST in states whose leaders neglected to enforce virus containment efforts or failed to implement mask mandates, such as #SouthDakota and #NorthDakota, 2 of the 3 hottest #COVID19 zones in the world.

nytimes.com/interactive/20…
A relationship between policies and #coronavirus cases is CLEAR:

States with more consistent control policies—such as in New England—avoided a summer surge and are now having a smaller fall surge, as opposed to states that rolled them back very quickly like #Florida or #Texas.
#NorthDakota has made little effort to contain the #coronavirus.

For a while, its residents were spared. Now, nearly 1 in 10 North Dakotans have tested positive for #coronavirus — about a third of those in just the past 2 weeks — and **1 in 1,000 have DIED of #COVID19**.😱
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16 Nov
🚨BREAKING: Good news! #Moderna says preliminary data show that its #coronavirus vaccine was 94.5% effective in protecting study volunteers from #COVID19.

Of 95 people who got #COVID19 with symptoms, 90 had placebo and only 5 had Moderna’s #vaccine.
wsj.com/articles/moder…
Moderna also says that the preliminary data show that its #vaccine is safe, but they still await longer-term safety results that will be available in late November.🙏

#coronavirus #COVID19
Although preliminary—and we will need to see data published in a peer-reviewed scientific journal—Moderna’s results “are very im­pres­sive and very en­cour­ag­ing and ex­cit­ing re­sults,” per Dr. Fauci.

If all goes well, Moderna’s #vaccine could be authorized by FDA next month!
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15 Nov
🚨The US surpasses 11 million #coronavirus cases just 6 days after 10 million:

Apr 28: 1 million
Jun 11: 2 million
Jul 8: 3 million
Jul 23: 4 million
Aug 9: 5 million
Aug 31: 6 million
Sept 25: 7 million
Oct 16: 8 million
Oct 30: 9 million
Nov 9: 10 million
Nov 15: 11 million
New #coronavirus cases are ACCELERATING.

Today: 11 million
6 days ago: 10 million
16 days: 9 million
30 days: 8 million
51 days: 7 million
75 days: 6 million
98 days: 5 million
115 days: 4 million
130 days: 3 million
157 days: 2 million
201 days: 1 million

Winter is coming.😰
In-home gatherings are fueling #coronavirus spread.

As I warned, we are "heading down the path to Hell...

If you get together with grandma for #Thanksgiving, you may be burying her at #Christmas."

PLEASE don't gather in person for the holidays.🙏🏼
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14 Nov
🔥Joint op-ed by David Boies and Theodore B. Olson: We opposed each other in Bush v. Gore.

Now, we agree: Biden won.🇺🇸💙

#BidenWon #ByeDon
washingtonpost.com/opinions/boies…
“We represented the opposing sides in Bush v. Gore. We still don’t agree about how SCOTUS ruled, but we completely agree that nothing in that case—or in SCOTUS’ decision—supports the challenges now being thrown about in an attempt to undermine #PresidentElect @JoeBiden’s victory”
🔥”Over the past week, we have heard repeated assertions that the outcome of this election is somehow in doubt, as it was in 2000.

It is not. Biden will be president.”💥

#BidenHarris2020 #ByeDon #BidenWon
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12 Nov
👏🏼GREAT NEWS! A new type of test detects T-cell response to the #coronavirus, which may be a better indicator of immunity and clinical outcome than antibodies.

Antibodies can wane, but people may remain IMMUNE to the virus due to T cells.

@apoorva_nyc
nytimes.com/2020/11/10/hea…
Researchers analyzed samples from 2,200 people in Vo #Italy, which tested all 2,900 residents for the #coronavirus in March when cases were soaring. The T-Detect test correctly identified 97% who had a confirmed diagnosis vs. only 77% from a commercial antibody test.💉

#COVID19
T cells specific to a virus can be difficult & expensive to detect via traditional methods. Adaptive Technologies cleverly designed a test to detect T-cell receptors that recognize the #coronavirus – all made possible by the advent of fast and inexpensive sequencing technologies.
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