A new day has dawned.
Last night @POTUS@JoeBiden formally notified @UN Secretary General @antonioguterres that the United States does NOT wish to withdraw from @WHO & will fully participate in all multilateral efforts to end the #COVID19#pandemic.
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2/ Accordingly, at 4am eastern today the President’s Chief Medical Advisor Dr. Anthony #Fauci addressed the meeting of the @WHO Executive Board, via video to Geneva, saying, “we are retracting notification of withdrawal."
(Pick up at 14:07 in video)
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3/ And @WHO DG @Tedros responded, “Tony, we send our support & best wishes to you, @POTUS#Biden, @VP Harris, the new administration and the American people as you work together to save lives and bring the #pandemic under control.”
The UK mutant B.1.1.7 form of #COVID19 first hit #Denmark on Dec. 14 -- a country that was doing a great job controlling the virus. But then is soared, by 70%/week, and the country is in ER mode.
Are we ready, America?
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2/ In early December the tiny Italian town of Guardiagrele reported a cluster of 4 cases of B.1.1.7 cases & warned national authorities. It soon was spreading all over Italy, which is seeing surging numbers.
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3/ The Rep. of Ireland was a paragon of #COVID19 control, until B.1.1.7 turned up.
Now it has the highest per capita incidence of new cases in the entire world.
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Today, President #DonaldTrump awarded Presidential Commendations to the below individuals in recognition of their exceptional efforts on #OperationWarpSpeed
General Mark Milley
Secretary Alex Azar
Jared Kushner
Moncef Slaoui
General Gustave Perna
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2/#OperationWarpSpeed
Deborah Birx
Anthony Fauci
Adam Boehler
Brad Smith
David Norquist
Chuong Huynh
Janssen Kimberly Taylor
David Simon
Rebecca Kurna
Jonathan Seals
Merck Daniel Wolfe
Christopher Houchens
Robert Johnson
Matthew Hepburn
Jason Roos
David Boucher
John Mascola
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3/#COVID19
Barney Graham
Emily Erbelding
Mary Marovich
Richard Gorman
Christy Ventura
Joseph Chapman
Deacon Maddox
Christine Oshansky
Tremel Faison
Mike Angelastro
Carlo De Notaristefani
Anita Patel
Nancy Messonnier
Greg Hand
Meghan Pennini
Marina Kozak
Rachel Overman
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Calling the current state of #COVID19#vaccine affairs "confusing" barely touches it. A malevolent false twitter claim that "spare" vaccines were at Brooklyn Army Terminal drew 100s to the site. pix11.com/news/local-new…
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2/A neighbor bragged to me that she got vaxed merely by putting her name on a local indie pharmacist's list -- they called & bingo. Meanwhile, it took me 3 days to get an appt for next week, amid crashed govt websites & false appointments for times that had already passed.
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3/Most queries I receive are from people trying to figure out #COVID19 vaccines: Should they? Can they? How? Where?
It's true all over USA. People hear natl reccs frm @CDCgov but different priorities from their States, even cities. latimes.com/california/sto…
Look at this thread. Cong. Schneider makes the THIRD Representative to test + for #COVID19 after spending hours during the Jan 6 insurrection in a room with #Republicans that refused to wear masks. It clearly was a superpreader event.
In this thread is a video showing the following individuals refusing to don offered masks:
Andy Biggs (Ariz.)
Mo Brooks (Ala.)
Michael Cloud (Texas)
Matt Gaetz (Fla.)
Paul Gosar (Ariz.)
Marjorie Taylor Greene (Ga.)
Doug LaMalfa (Calif.)
Markwayne Mullin (Okla.)
Scott Perry (Pa.)
It is likely one of them was a #COVID19 superpreader.
So far, they have all been 100% unrepentant. It's as if they wanted to hurt their colleagues.
While all eyes are on the fallout of the Jan 6 #insurrection the #SARSCoV2 virus is spreading across America at breakneck speed. During the time the entire @WhiteHouse has been focused on false claims that #Trump won -- since Nov 3 -- the US caseload has more than 2X'ed.
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2/ On Election Day Nov. 3, US cumulative #COVID19 cases was 9.6 million. Today it's 22.1 M -- that's an ^ of 12.5 million cases.
And American deaths?
Election Day total = 231,600
Jan 9 = 373,500
So, 141,900 Americans have died while @WhiteHouse focused on "stolen election"
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3/ Given a 36% undercount in deaths in the US, due to delays in reporting + failure to test/diagnose, real #COVID19 toll today is more than a half million.
Since Jan 1st we've added 3700-4K deaths/day and 270K-300K cases/day. If we stay this course, by Valentines Day...
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Just got off a national security zoom mtg (Chatham House rules forbid saying who & where) -- very high level leaders of past mega events, reflecting on Wed #AssaultOnDemocracy at the Capitol.
Universal condemnation of intelligence failures. Some key comments follow.
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2/ “worse than 9/11” (said by someone who had a command role on 9/11 in NYC)
“complete intelligence failure”
“Police across America are overly fixated on groups on the Left, and need to see the Right”
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3/ “these people now have a martyr” (the woman who was shot) “expect to see her image everywhere”
“we are only at the beginning with these nuts”
“This isn’t about Trumpism. If you leave it at that you’re going to get blindsided”
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