The White House released the ‘National Strategy for the COVID-19 Response and Pandemic Preparedness”.

It opens with “America deserves a response to the COVID-19 pandemic that is driven by science, data, and public health—not politics.”

The strategy is organized around 7 goals:
1. Restore trust with the American people.

2. Mount a safe, effective, and comprehensive vaccination campaign.

3.Mitigate spread through expanding masking, testing, data, treatments, health care workforce, and clear public health standards.
4. Immediately expand emergency relief and exercise the Defense Production Act.

5. Safely reopen schools, businesses, and travel while protecting workers.

6. Protect those most at risk and advance equity, including across racial, ethnic and rural/urban lines.
7. Restore U.S. leadership globally and build better preparedness for future threats.
The report is filled with specifics for each goal.

But to me, the most important part of the whole document is the first two words of it’s title: “national strategy”.

A coordinated response at the federal level has been missing since day one. THIS is how we end this pandemic.
Link to the whole document:

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30 Dec 20
Since the vaccine rollout 2 weeks ago, way more people have been diagnosed with #COVID19 than were vaccinated against it.

The stated goal of vaccinating 20 million by years end definitely won’t happen. In fact, at this rate, it would take years to vaccinate enough Americans...🧵
For months we’ve been concerned that the last-mile logistics of the vaccine rollout weren’t as well-coordinated as the amazing science that got us vaccines in record time.

And now that vaccines are here, we’re seeing massive delays in getting vaccine out and injected into arms.
Creating a safe vaccine in record time is undoubtedly hard.

But quickly getting it out - all across the country, in vials at subarctic temperatures, to facilities big and small, and ultimately into peoples’ arms in a coordinated fashion - is arguably harder.
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4 Dec 20
🧵New @CDCGov MMWR today with summary guidance for public health strategies to reduce #COVID19 transmission.

Here’s a quick thread of the evidence-based CDC recommendations and sustainable strategies:

cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/6…
1) Universal face mask use 😷,

2) Maintaining physical distance from other persons and limiting in-person contacts,

3) Avoiding nonessential indoor spaces and crowded outdoor spaces,

4) Increasing testing to rapidly identify and isolate infected persons,
5) Promptly identifying, quarantining, and testing close contacts of persons with known COVID-19,

6) Safeguarding persons most at risk for severe illness or death from infection with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19,
Read 5 tweets
3 Dec 20
🧵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.
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29 Nov 20
As COVID19 surges across the US, it’s hard to describe the situation inside hospitals for healthcare providers & patients.

We made this video depicting 1 day in the ER to show the painful reality & to remind us why we must remain vigilant. Please watch.
We also made a version in French:

And a version with Spanish subtitles:

Read 4 tweets
20 Nov 20
What does 250,000 #COVID19 deaths look like?

If each death was one seat on a jumbo-jet that crashed, this would be the toll to date:

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20 Nov 20
Imagine you’re a doctor walking into an ER shift. You see so many really sick COVID19 patients, struggling to breathe.

The outgoing team isn’t convinced they’re that sick & refuses to treat them. They won’t sign them out to you until they have more evidence.

Sound implausible?
Well this is exactly what’s happening right now.

This administration is refusing to treat this pandemic as the public health crisis it is.

Nearly every damn day we set case & hospitalization records. Deaths are rapidly climbing.

And this administration...is absent and silent.
Worse is that now they’re refusing to sign out to the oncoming team.

So here’s the sad reality:

Every day the Trump administration postpones the transition, more Americans die.

Let me repeat.

Every day the Trump administration postpones the transition, more Americans die.
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