Choice excerpts from @POTUS@JoeBiden speech yesterday in Cleveland:
"From a year of darkness, we're now emerging into the light. And I said from the very beginning: There's no chance -- no chance for this economy to come back unless we beat the #pandemic."
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Biden/2
"And after administering 271 million doses of #vaccine in the first 120 days...cases are down now from January 83%. The number of deaths has fallen by 85%.
Schools are reopening. Businesses are reopening. Restaurants are reopening.
We've turned the tide..."
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Biden/3
"...on the once-in-a-century #pandemic...(and) on a once-in-a-generation economic crisis. Families are beginning to be able to breathe just a little bit easier.
We still have work to do, but our future today is as bright & wide open as it ever has been."
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Biden/4
"Now we're faced w/a question: What kind of economy are we going to build for tomorrow?
I believe this is our moment to rebuild an economy from the bottom up & the middle out, not a trickle-down economy...an economy that rewards work, not just wealth."
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Two recently discovered #coronaviruses may have jumped from cats/dogs and pigs to people. These are not, as headlines claim, "new viruses" -- rather, they were found in samples taken from past pneumonia outbreaks. Good overview: the-scientist.com/news-opinion/t…
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2/ In 2017-18 in Sarawak, Malaysia a strange pneumonia epidemic hit, hospitalizing children.
Recent analysis of stored 2017 nasal swabs led to discovery of a #coronavirus that is a chimera, genetically from cats & dogs. It infected some children. academic.oup.com/cid/advance-ar… MORE
3/ In 2014 in a school in Haiti children developed high fevers. Recent analysis of samples from those kids revealed a previously unknown pig #coronavirus .
The spike protein of the virus appears to have adapted to human cells. medrxiv.org/content/10.110…
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Why is the @JoeBiden administration doing such a lousy job with convincing the hesitant to get #COVID19#vaccines?
Here's some messages I'd like to see.
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Message 1: Worried you might give your kids or grandkids #COVID19 ?
Great news: The virus spreads via breathing, shared air. You can wear masks to cut that. AND, turns out the vaccines fill your nose & throat w/virus-killing antibodies, so you don't spread or harbor virus.
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Message 2: All of those scary mutant forms -- variants -- of #COVID19 ? Looks like all of the vaccines used in the USA knock them out. Sometimes the immune response against a particular variant is weaker, but it still works.
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A 40-page analysis of 100s of 1000s of false social media postings aimed at discouraging #COVID19#vaccine uptake finds that 65% of it traces to just 12 people -- and here's the names.
(Do with them what you will, says Centr for Countering Digital Hate) …b-49f5-9bb2-cb57bb47e4ba.filesusr.com/ugd/f4d9b9_b7c…
And here are the Disinfo Dozen.
#1 - Joseph Mercola is a successful anti-vaccine entrepreneur, peddling dietary supplements
#2 is Robert F. Kennedy, Jr, a long-standing anti-vaxxer
Three important @CDCgov studies just released, about the future of the U.S. #COVID19 epidemic.
First, CDC assembled 6 independent modeling teams to forecast the May to July epidemic, w/various assumptions about #vaccine uptake, mask use, opening up…
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2/ All 6 see the US epidemic peaking in May, and then steadily declining over the summer. What differs dramatically is the RATE of decline, hinging on vaccination rates & social distancing relaxations. cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/7…
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2b/ “These scenarios show ongoing efforts to ^ #vaccination coverage & maintain physical distancing, masking, isolation & quarantine are warranted. As the #COVID19#pandemic evolves & more data become available, future projections can provide improved publ hlth response.”
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Images from the horrendous #COVID19 catastrophe in #India must start with #SuperSpreader events in early April. Religious festivals were not dampened, and there was no mask enforcement. #COVID19India
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2/ And political campaigning was pursued vigorously in early April, with huge throngs and no mask requirements. #COVID19#SuperSpreader
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3/ Fueled by a double-mutant variant strain of #SARSCoV2 on top of those #SuperSpreader events, India's #COVID19 epidemic soared at terrifying speed, all over the country, but especially in New Delhi. Burned-out healthcare workers feared for their lives.
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