Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), said at a White House briefing that the most recent weekly average shows a 7% increase in infections in the US from the previous week, at about 57,000 cases a day.
New hospitalizations have slightly increased, too.
“I remain deeply concerned about this trajectory. Please, take this moment very seriously,” Walensky said.
And finally, thanks @Twitter for the pretty paper reminder (although next time please choose another colour but pink for background) of my #TwitAnniversary today.
I initially joined @Twitter inspired by @aiww ‘s powerful use of it as a political, political and artistic opponent of #China .
and because I wanted keep up with the people in Belgium who tweeted cat pictures and gifs to support each other while their area was been searched by police following the terrorist attack Nov 2018. doi.org/10.1080/136911…
Bravo @carlbernstein ! It is time the fearful silence & double-faced hypocrisy from people compromised one way or another & then compromising the interests of Justice, Truth & of citizens+country they were elected to serve, came to an end!! theguardian.com/us-news/2020/n…
.@marcorubio@SenRickScott and @ChuckGrassley are listed.
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Bernstein wrote that “with few exceptions”, the senators’ “craven public silence has helped enable Trump’s most grievous conduct – including undermining and discrediting the US the electoral system”.
Full list:
They were: Rob Portman (Ohio), Lamar Alexander (Tennessee), Ben Sasse (Nebraska), Roy Blunt (Missouri), Susan Collins (Maine), Lisa Murkowski (Alaska), John Cornyn (Texas), John Thune (South Dakota), Mitt Romney (Utah), Mike Braun and Todd Young (Indiana),
On Monday, French authorities said 125,840 women were victims of domestic violence in 2019. Another 146 were murdered by their partner or ex-partner – 25 more than the previous year.
After his wife’s death, Daval had cut a distraught figure, appearing in tears at a press conference with his in-laws and leading one of several events organised countrywide in her memory.
Honestly @NobelPrize, please consider their achievement seriously for an award. Two aspects represent truly giant leaps for vaccine & drug development: 1) use of nucleic acids as a source of immunogen production; 2) safe parallelisation of aspects of development & clinical trials
1) is important because nucleic acid chemistry and enzymatic expansion are much easier and more predictable & reproducible than for conventional proteins, be they recombinant or inactivated virus. This means that once conversion of production lines is achieved, producing billions