2) @apoorva_nyc’s excellent school reopening debate 🧵 starts here. School debates right now are really heated — over heated IMHO — which too much bashing and unfair labeling from both sides. This is a fair & balanced thread.
C’mon FLORIDA! I don’t wanna be that epidemiologist dude who has to remind @GovRonDeSantis daily that he has a civic responsibility to stop the outbreak of #B117 in his state & its spread to rest of 🇺🇸. B117 is more contagious #COVID19 & trouble. 🧵on why. cdc.gov/coronavirus/20…
2) #B117 is surging, but especially in Florida. It is fastest surging there and doubling likely every 9 days, faster than the rest of the US.
3) Florida seems to be experiencing the faster rate of growth. (Maybe because @RonDeSantisFL@GovRonDeSantis hasn’t put in much mitigation). #B117 will become dominant in Florida sooner... likely by March 8th. It’s much more contagious too.
Don’t praise DeSantis too soon... Florida is the fastest rising state for #B117 variant that is more contagious. B117 is poised to dominate as the majority variant by mid March. We might have a new surge in April if we aren’t careful in Florida and nationwide. #COVID19
Get ready folks—Mars rover Perseverance is soon landing on Mars on Thursday! It’s the heaviest & hardest landing ever attempting — like landing a car on Mars, and stopping it from velocity of 12,000 miles/hours to zero.
2) “Hitting the 4.8-mile-wide landing site targeted by NASA after a journey of 300 million miles is akin to throwing a dart from the White House and scoring a bull’s eye in Dallas.”
3) “This is one of NASA’s most important endeavors, the first multibillion-dollar Mars mission in nine years and the initial phase of a three-mission campaign to return samples of Martian soil to Earth.”