🧵Let's talk about #COVID19 and how you stay safe over the holidays and the coming months:
You likely already know the next few weeks are going to be ugly. Our numbers going into the winter are disastrous, and will only get worse in the coming weeks. A lot worse. Way worse.
I've said this since the spring - the virus can't infect you if the virus doesn't find you.
So given that there's virus everywhere, what can you do? I assume you already know to wear a mask, wash your hands, keep your distance. But what else?
If you don't need to travel, don't. It's that simple. Yes, we all want to see our family. And we will. There IS an end in sight.
The Trump administration deserves praise for the development of promising vaccines in record time.
Unfortunately this has been accompanied by a public health response that in every other aspect has been an abject failure.
As the virus ravages the US, there is still no plan.
I see people replying this administration should get no credit for the vaccines. I disagree.
Moderna has NEVER brought a vaccine to market and was in dire financial straits before getting a huge cash infusion from the US. Today they announced a vaccine that’s 94.5% effective.
And saying Pfizer didn’t get funding to help develop their vaccine is true - but they did get nearly $2 billion to bring 100 million doses to market.
Yes, the vaccines exist because of the hard work of scientists, all over the world, working nonstop for almost all of 2020...
Although there was good #COVID19 news today, the hardest part still lies ahead.
New cases are at record highs and hospitalizations will soon be as well. Deaths will sadly follow.
So I made an explanatory photo montage for why we mustn't be complacent. Follow along below:🧵
When you look at these charts and see daily updates on COVID19 cases/hospitalizations/deaths, it might be hard to understand how they all fit together and why the recent trends are so worrisome. So let me explain...
First, let's look at CASES.
We won't look at the first 'wave' from March because we had very testing then and we missed the majority of cases.
But look at our huge cases increases starting in June and September. You see new cases start ⬆️ around June 8 and Sept 14...