Folks—something big is afoot... the CDC is soon holding its first press conference since the start of the pandemic. #COVID19
➡️ Hope this means CDC doesn’t give a damn what Trump does or says anymore. Hope CDC is waking up from its long 10 month censorship oppression.
LFG ✊🏼.
2) For example: Trump officials and CDC scientists waged a nasty battle over reopening guidelines for churches. Pence went ballistic after it was published and forced CDC to delete it. All proven and documented science censorship malfeasance by Trump/Pence WH. #COVID19
Update: El Paso now hiring morgue attendants for $27.20/hour. But job applicant must be strong enough to lift deceased bodies weighing 100-400 lbs. (45-180 kg). Better than using jail inmates at $2/hour to move #COVID19 deceased. But so sad and surreal. 😓governmentjobs.com/careers/elpaso…
2) This job posting likely in response to the outcry from this video last week of inmates moving the surge of deceased bodies for $2/hr into overflow morgues. Still chilling. They now have 10 mobile refrigerated morgues.
3) RATIONING CARE—El Paso has been so depleted by #COVID19 that hospitals soon could decide who gets care and who doesn’t. EP begging TX gov for national guard, but Governor Abbott blocking so far. texastribune.org/2020/11/18/el-…
NO EPIDEMIOLOGISTS RISKING Thanksgiving dinner: I answered this NYTimes poll to professional @societyforepi epidemiologists— here is how 635 epidemiologists are spending Thanksgiving and the holidays. Vast majority just keeping to themselves. #COVID19nytimes.com/2020/11/20/ups…
2) I think the minority having dinner outside household are doing it “outdoors”. There was a survey of how one would have dinner. And outdoor venue was a clear option. Not clear in this tabulation.
3) NYT makes it clear the 21% doing gatherings are doing it safely outside and with masks. I took the survey, so I know how it was asked—a lot of detailed questions how. They just collapsed it for simplicity.
BREAKING—Georgia has certified its election results, upholding Biden victory. It is done. #ElectionResults2020
2) official statement of GA SOS. Now onto the GA specials.
3) A lingers question for Perdue and Loeffler now is if they should quarantine based on close exposure to Rick Scott who just tested positive for #COVID19 but campaigned with them both.
BREAKING—wow—WHO just recommended **against** the use of @GileadSciences’s drug remdesivir in hospitalized #COVID19 patients, citing “there is currently no evidence that remdesivir improves survival or reduces need for ventilation in these patients”. 🧵
👉 who.int/news-room/feat…
2) “data from over 7000 patients across the 4 trials were considered.
The evidence suggested no important effect on mortality, need for mechanical ventilation, time to clinical improvement, and other patient-important outcomes.
The guideline development group...”
3) “recognized that more research is needed, especially to provide higher certainty of evidence for specific groups of patients. They supported continued enrollment in trials evaluating remdesivir.”