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3 May, 4 tweets, 3 min read
📣 WEEKLY UPDATE: How #COVID19 has spread across every U.S. state & territory, per capita, to date:
acasignups.net/21/05/02/weekl…
Nearly 1 out of every 7 residents of South Dakota, North Dakota & Rhode Island have tested positive for #COVID19 to date.

More than 1 out of 9 in IA, TN, UT, AZ, SC, OK, NE & AR.

More than 1 out of 10 in NJ, IN, DE, MS, KS, AL, IL, FL, NY, GA, ID, WI, NV, MN, WY & MT. Image
#COVID19 has killed more than 1 out of every 360 residents of New Jersey.

More than 1 out of 390 in NY.
More than 1 out of 400 in MA.
More than 1 out of 500 in RI, MS, AZ, CT, LA, SD, AL & PA.
More than 1 out of 600 in IN, NM, ND, AR, IL, GA, MI, IA, SC, TN, NV, TX, OK & KS. Image
Put another way:
#WearADamnMask
#GetVaccinatedASAP

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Charles #GetCovered-ba Profile picture
4 May
There's 335M people in the U.S.
~269M are 16+. 70% of that is ~188M w/1 shot, 160M w/2 shots (or 1 J&J).

If 3.5% remain J&J, we'll need ~314M total shots to hit that. Today we're at ~247M.

We need 67M more shots in 61 days. Tough but doable.
Update: They’re actually targeting 100M more shots in the next 60 days.
wsj.com/articles/biden… Image
So the actual target is ~350M shots total by 7/04, give or take.
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Charles #GetCovered-ba Profile picture
4 May
For all the talk about the ACA being a "giveaway to the insurance industry," it actually put some serious regulations on both their practices and profit margins.

Tackling the hospital and drug industries ("providers") will be a much tougher battle.
Part of the problem for battling each of them PR-wise:

--Hospitals: Unlike insurance carriers, which are generally perceived as faceless voices on a phone, at a hospital, you can at least SEE a bunch of expensive equipment & a bunch of trained professionals doing stuff.
--Drug Companies: They've had just as terrible a reputation in the public eye as insurance carriers...but in the COVID age, suddenly they've been given an opening to (rightly or wrongly) play Saviors of the Human Race...AND THEY KNOW IT.

Here's an ad from just this morning: Image
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Charles #GetCovered-ba Profile picture
4 May
This article about Bill Gates’ oldest daughter is a bit depressing. She seems like a perfectly nice person, but it clearly underscores how there’s simply no way for someone as wealthy as Gates to raise his kids “normally” even if he truly wanted to.
businessinsider.com/microsoft-foun…
She didn’t have her own smartphone until she turned 14...but:

“To support her passion, Gates' father set about buying property in Wellington, Florida, a hot spot for wealthy equestrians...he dropped $37M to buy a whole string of properties near Laurene Powell Jobs' estate.”
“In 2011, he told The Daily Mail that his kids would each get a "minuscule portion" of his wealth, which Forbes estimates stands at $130.5 billion. "It will mean they have to find their own way," he said.”

Good for him!
However...
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Charles #GetCovered-ba Profile picture
4 May
📣 MICHIGAN: A case study in how the #COVID19 partisan "hoax"/anti-science divide led to the COVID partisan vaccination divide:
acasignups.net/21/05/03/michi…
Remember this, from @KatherineEban? Image
Well, that eventually led to this, which I've been much-criticized for daring to even track over the past year: Image
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Charles #GetCovered-ba Profile picture
1 May
📣 WONKY BUT IMPORTANT:
CMS releases 2nd half of #NBPP2022 rule; will save #ACA enrollees $400 in out of pocket costs; COBRA SEP & more! acasignups.net/21/04/30/cms-r…
1. CMS is rejecting a Trump rule re. how maximum out of pocket (MOOP) expenses are increased; by reverting back to the prior formula, the MOOP increase will be $400 - $800 less than it otherwise would have been.
2. CMS has confirmed that those taking advantage of the #AmRescuePlan's COBRA subsidies thru September WILL be able to switch to an #ACA plan for October - December via a Special Enrollment Period! (this is a big deal for several million people).
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Charles #GetCovered-ba Profile picture
30 Apr
For anyone wondering, here in Michigan, blue counties have fully vaccinated about 10% more of their population than the red counties, but the swing counties are actually doing the best so far.
(Note: I'm dividing the total number of doses by 2, then dividing that by the TOTAL population, not just those 16+. J&J is only around 3% of the total so it shouldn't move the needle much).
Here's a scatter plot graph of all 83 counties. I dont' know how to vary the dots by population size in Excel, however; the handful of counties on the right side actually have more people living in them than the flurry of dots on the left side.
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