Today @DrMikeRyan -- who heads up @WHO #COVID19 response -- received Ireland's Trócaire’s Romero Award. His speech was extraordinary. Some is in the clip below. And in a thread, here are key transcriptions.
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#COVID19 does not discriminate. We too cannot, must not, discriminate in our fight against this #pandemic. Doing so will only work in the pandemic’s favour. The last eight months have shown us that unity, not singularity, defeats pandemics.”
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“We are pushing nature to its limit. We are pushing population to its limit. We’re pushing communities to their limits. We’re stressing the environment. We are creating the conditions in which epidemics flourish. We’re forcing & pushing people to migrate away from..."
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Ryan/4
"...from their homes because of #climate stress.
We’re doing so much and we’re doing it in the name of globalisation & some sense of chasing that wonderful thing that people call economic growth. In my view, that’s becoming a malignancy, not growth, because..."
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Ryan/5
"...what it’s doing is driving unsustainable practices in terms of how we manage communities, how we manage development, how we manage prosperity.
We are writing cheques that we cannot cash as a civilisation and they’re going to bounce. My fear is that our children.."
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Ryan/6
"...are going to pay that price. That someday when we’re not here, our children will wake up in a world where there is a #pandemic that has a much higher case fatality rate, and that could bring our civilisation to its very knees."
Ryan/7
"We as individuals & as communities need to recognise that pure individualism gets us nowhere. We have to act collectively in the face of an #epidemic. This is a hard thing to do. We live in an individualistic society. That sense of community is what saves you...”

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In a letter circulated yesterday #PeterDiamondis apologized for holding his annual Abundance 360 brainstorming for CEOs: it turned into a #COVID19 superspreader event. But when you read what he did to make the gathering safe, you'll see why this virus is SO hard to control.
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"I thought creating a #COVID19 'Immunity Bubble' for a small grp in a TV studio setting was possible. I was wrong. If any of you have an impulse to lower your vigilance w/masks & social distancing after receiving a negative PCR test, you need to read this."
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Diamondis in January in LA switched his annual mtg to a studio, with virtual attendance. But some CEOs wanted an in-person experience, so they set up a rigorous series of PCR #COVID19 testing protocols, testing every person daily starting 72 hrs b4 the mtg.
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3/More Tampa @SuperBowl #COVID19 superspreading.
As with every big sports victory, men partied wildly all night. Fine. But in the Age of #coronavirus masks, social distances should...SIGH
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7 Feb
Preprint but BIG: Calif researchers study the B117 mutant #SARSCoV2 virus in USA & find, "there have been multiple introductions of B.1.1.7 into the
U.S., with the earliest dating back to the end of November, 2020."
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doi.org/10.1101/2021.0…
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"These analyses revealed large clades of closely related #SARSCoV2 lineages clustering w/in states, as well as
natl spread...consistent w/community transmission
following several of these introductions, including spread across U.S. states.
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over 1 million travelers crossing checkpoints for several days during the peak Thanksgiving
season and for 12 of 18 dys surrounding the Christmas &
New Year’s holidays..."
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4 Feb
Just started, House Energy & Comm: HEARING ON "SAFEGUARDING AMERICAN CONSUMERS: FIGHTING FRAUD AND SCAMS DURING THE PANDEMIC"
energycommerce.house.gov/committee-acti…
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2/ Jessica Rich @GeorgetownLaw
"our outdated privacy laws undermined our ability to respond to the #pandemic ...American consumers refused to use contact tracing apps tracking the disease – largely due to privacy concerns."
docs.house.gov/meetings/IF/IF…
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3/ William E. Kovacic @GWULaw
"The #pandemic regulatory stress test has illuminated weaknesses in the framework through which the United States and other countries address supplier misconduct
amid crisis conditions."
docs.house.gov/meetings/IF/IF…
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Now underway Congressional HEARING ON "ROAD TO RECOVERY: RAMPING UP #COVID19 #vaccines , TESTING, AND MEDICAL SUPPLY CHAIN"
Testimony includes:
Luciana Borio, M.D.
VP, In-Q-Tel
Ex-Chief Scientist, @US_FDA
Ex-Director for Med & Biodefense Prep, NSC
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energycommerce.house.gov/committee-acti…
2/ Luciana Borio:
"Unfortunately, we thought we were better prepared today than we were in 2001, but our systems did
not stand up to the challenge of this pandemic. We must do better. "
docs.house.gov/meetings/IF/IF…
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3/ Greg Burel
President, Hamilton Grace
Ex-Director, U.S. Strategic National Stockpile
"Establishment of an aggressive govt investment platform driven by clear needs for critical products would
allow the us to develop & maintain this domestic base. "
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2 Feb
Hearings LIVE in Congress (Energy & Commerce Co) on #vaccine rollout problems. energycommerce.house.gov/committee-acti…
Predictably, #Democrats are critical of #Trump admin failure to allocate funds/planning to immunization, while #Republicans are blaming the States. MORE
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2/ Testimony includes:

Dr. Ngozi Ezike, M.D.
Director
Illinois Dept of Public Health
"Unfortunately, from the very beginning, vaccination efforts in Illinois were hampered by conflicting federal messaging and, in some cases, no messaging."
#COVID19
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3/ Testimony:
Dr. Joneigh S. Khaldun
Chief Med Exec
Michigan Dept of Hlth & Hu Servs
"Michigan is primed & ready to expand our #COVID19 vaccination prog, but the limited supply of
#vaccine allocated to the state conts to be our largest barrier."
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