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22 Jun, 8 tweets, 3 min read
Donald Trump wanted to stop CDC tests & once proposed to detain & quarantine Americans at Guantanamo Bay. “Don’t we have an island that we own?” Trump asked aides in the Situation Room in Feb 2020. “What about Guantánamo?” 🧵

Book review by @ddiamond
washingtonpost.com/health/2021/06…
2) “Aides were stunned, and when Trump brought it up a second time, they quickly scuttled the idea, worried about a backlash over quarantining American tourists on the same Caribbean base where the United States holds terrorism suspects.”
3) ““Testing is killing me!” Trump exclaimed in a phone call to HHS Sec Alex Azar on March 18, yelling so loudly that Azar’s aides overheard every word. “I’m going to lose the election because of testing! What idiot had the federal government do testing?” …(wait for it)
4) “Uh, do you mean Jared?” Azar responded, citing the president’s senior adviser and son-in-law, Jared Kushner. Just five days earlier, Kushner had vowed to take charge of a national testing strategy with the help of the private sector”
5) “Trump countered that the U.S. government never should have become involved in testing, arguing with his health secretary over why the CDC was seeking to track infections at all. “This was gross incompetence to let CDC develop a test,” Trump said as he berated Azar.
6) More juicy details in new book 📕 by Washington Post journalists @yabutaleb7 and @damianpaletta — “Nightmare Scenario: Inside the Trump Administration’s Response to the Pandemic That Changed History.” amzn.to/3zNeuJC
7) I feel like this quote is worth it’s weight in history gold.
8) what the hell…

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Eric Feigl-Ding Profile picture
23 Jun
Vaccines for dummies. Excellent cartoon. #COVID19 #CovidVaccine

HT @BenjAlvarez1 for the find.
2) Which vaccine lay explainer video is better? I think it’s a tie. I love this one on mRNA vaccines…
3) however for the best technical explainer on mRNA vaccines, this one by @ScientistSwanda is the best one on the internet!
Read 5 tweets
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23 Jun
NEW—European CDC warns the #DeltaVariant is expected to account for 90% of all #COVID19 cases in European Union by end of August. Delta has already spread to 23 EU countries; 66% of new cases in Portugal. In Moscow, 90% are #DeltaVariant. US at 20-30% now.
nytimes.com/live/2021/06/2…
2) “Unfortunately, preliminary data shows that it can also infect individuals that have received only one dose of the currently available vaccines. It is very likely that the Delta variant will circulate extensively during the summer, particularly among younger individuals”
3) Most E.U. countries have not yet fully vaccinated one-third of their total populations: the average is about 27%.
Public health officials have said that Delta may be 50 percent more contagious than Alpha. European CDC estimates that Delta is between 40-60% more transmissible.
Read 8 tweets
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23 Jun
BREAKING—Dr. Anthony Fauci said Wednesday the #DeltaVariant now accounts for ~20% of newly diagnosed cases in U.S. and **will become dominant #COVID19 strain** within weeks. FT also estimated 31%, meaning it’s doubled/tripled in 1 week!🧵 HT @Dawn_Kopecki
cnbc.com/2021/06/23/del… Image
2) It just exploded in the U.K. It went from a minor variant to now more than 90% of the isolates in the U.K.," Fauci said the variant has a doubling time of about two weeks and currently accounts for 20% of the isolates in the U.S., which are newly diagnosed infections.
3) "So you would expect, just the doubling time, in several weeks to a month or so it's going to be quite dominant, that's the sobering news."
The variant, first emerged in India, has quickly swept the globe. WHO officials said that delta has been found in at least 92 countries.
Read 11 tweets
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23 Jun
9 million Americans abroad are frustrated by lack of vaccines. Marine Corps Cpl. Samuel Wright, 81-year-old Vietnam veteran living in Thailand, has not yet gotten access—he feels "abandoned" & "betrayed”. They've left us here to die."🧵
By @JustineColeman8
thehill.com/policy/healthc…
2) “As part of the age group most vulnerable to severe illness, Wright said he and his wife are not willing to play "Russian roulette" and risk traveling to the U.S. to get their shots.”
3) Michael DeSombre, a former U.S. ambassador to Thailand, traveled with his family to U.S. to get vaccinated. But not all American expatriates have the money to travel to the US, to get both shots and pay to quarantine in a hotel if their country requires it upon their return.
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23 Jun
Explosive new book reports that Trump hoped #COVID19 would take out (ie kill) his former national security adviser, John Bolton. The exact quote is below… 👀 hot damn. And the authors @damianpaletta and @yabutaleb7 thinks Trump was serious!
axios.com/trump-john-bol… Image
2) juiciest quote:

"You f*cking moron. We’ll all be dead by June.” ~Jared Kushner. 

As #COVID19 slammed US in early spring, Jared Kushner was furious to learn the US order of millions of masks wouldn't arrive til June 2020… amzn.to/3zNeuJC
3) Also crazy… Trump wanted to detail Americans at Gitmo!
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23 Jun
Right on cue… #DeltaVariant has arrived in the low #Vaccination states of America 🇺🇸 and setting off sharp increases in #COVID19 cases again. If only epidemiologists had been trying to warn… 🧵 Image
2) The rise coincides with the increase in the #DeltaVariant - from 10% over a week ago to 31% over the weekend. A tripling in one week!
3) fully vaccinated % in Missouri, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Utah… pretty low. Image
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