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6 Jan

LIVE ON CNN NOW:

MAGA protesters storm steps & front of the Capitol Building.

Law enforcement completely retreats. No effort to contain or channel protesters.

So Black Lives Matter protesters: Swept with violence & tear gas from Lafayette Park.

MAGA protests: Occupy Capitol.

2/ To be clear, this part of the protest is not in the control of the DC Metropolitan Police.

The Capitol Building and the grounds are the responsibility of the Capitol Police.

3/ Capitol Police are now trying to restore some order. Have cleared some steps.

VP Pence has been ushered out of the Senate chamber, via CNN.

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5 Jan

The critical Senate runoff elections in Georgia aren't 'happening' today, this first Tuesday in 2021.

The voting finishes today, but most of the votes have long-since been cast — 70% or more.

GA votes cast so far in early voting
• 3 million

Votes expected today:
• 1 million

2/ But the turnout of in-person voting today — what we might come to call the 'final day' of voting — is critical.

In Georgia's presidential voting on Nov. 3, Democrats did better in early voting. Donald Trump won 60% of votes cast on election day.

ajc.com/politics/early…

3/ The early voting in the Georgia US Senate runoff is huge.

Previous record turnout for a GA runoff election:
• 2.1 million (2008)

Early voting this time is up 43%.

Early voting in this 2-race runoff reached 77% of the total for the presidential election two months ago.

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16 Nov 20

We have a 2nd coronavirus vaccine that looks astonishingly effective — in early trials.

Moderna announced results this morning.

->30,000 patients in the trial

->Vaccine 94.5% effective

->Also a 2-dose vaccine

Trial not concluded. There are side effects, esp. after 2nd dose.

2/ Last Monday, as a reminder, Pfizer+BioNTech, announced preliminary results in trial of their vaccine — 90% effective. (Also a 2-dose vaccine)

That's 2 vaccines for coronavirus which are showing truly impressive effectiveness just months into development and testing.

Wow.

3/ That's good news — but it's not going to rescue us from a hard, dark winter.

At the earliest, Pfizer & Moderna, and health departments around the US, might have the ability to administer vaccines to 20 million people starting mid- to late-December.

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12 Nov 20

The coronavirus pandemic in the US is now completely out of control.

We're missing any kind of leadership.
Any kind of effort to contain the runaway disease.

• Cases, all-time high (145k / day)
• Hospitalizations, all-time high (65,000)
• Deaths rising slowly to 1 / minute

2/ But what's happening in the states?

There is some mythology here. Most prominent:

'It's just hitting places that haven't had it. Of course that was going to happen.'

• It didn't _need_ to happen — that's our incompetence.

• The pandemic is everywhere, like never before.

3/ If you look at the data in the last 7 days, daily new cases have risen in all 50 states+DC.

IL +49% (11.4k / day)
MN +49% (4.8k)
PA +45% (3.7k)
OH +42% (5.3k)
CA +41% (6.4k)
MI +41% (5.7k)

That's just 6 states.

Notice 2 things:
->They are big states
->Case counts high

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12 Nov 20

The coronavirus pandemic isn't just out of control in the US — it's rampaging uncheckedacross the entire country.

Wednesday, Nov 11:

• Total cases, all-time high: 145,835
• Total hospitalizations, all-time high: 65,368
• Deaths, 2,811 — highest 2-day total since May 19 & 20

2/ So…

Where is Dr. Deborah Birx?

Where is Dr. Anthony Fauci?

Where is Dr. Robert Redfield?

• Birx, coordinator of the White House covid task force
• Fauci, director of the Nat'l Institute of Allergy & Infectious Diseases
• Redfield, director of the CDC

Where are they?

3/ At least in public, no one is asking the question:

How do we get the pandemic under control?

How do we even *start* to corral the spread of the virus this time — the third time?

Look at the slope of the curve — cases rising almost straight vertical.

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9 Nov 20

Vaccine news this Monday morning:

Really big.

Really good.

(Preliminarily.)

Pfizer & German partner BioNTech report their vaccine — furthest along in US trials — is 90% effective.

That's better than the most optimistic hopes scientists & doctors had.

statnews.com/2020/11/09/cov…

2/ How big is this news as the pandemic is raging out of control across the US and Europe?

US stock market futures are indicated up 1,400 points for the Dow at the open (9:30 am), which is 5%, and would send the Dow to a new all-time record at the opening.

3/ The US public health expert Ashish Jha, now dean of the school of public health at Brown, says, 'If that headline really number really holds up, that is huge. That is much better than I was expecting and it will make a huge difference.'

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