@mattlargey I read it more as skepticism at federal government and their special interests vs. him being against government stimulus. No dog in this fight just think posting the one tweet without mentioning the others is rather incendiary. Maybe that’s MO for all social media? 🤷🏼♀️
White House says, science should not stand in the way of reopening schools? I guess it’s good to have it spelled out. The administration is generally not in favor of science. Might surprise a few of us. My O My... science out of the way??
UT epidemiologist Lauren Ancel Meyers (who is doing nationwide predictions about COVID and accurately predicted Austin would be having a spike in June/July) is saying if we open schools Aug 18 in Austin, there will be infections on Day 1 classes have students.
NEW: Austin area moves into stage 5 territory as the average daily hospitalization rate moves up to 74.8/day.
73 new admissions today.
7 new deaths.
482 new cases.
JUST IN: Austin interim health authority says he stands ready to take 'enforcement action' against businesses that are not wearing masks. People are urged to call 311 to make reports.
@MeaEscott "If things don't change ... by mid-July we're going to exceed hospital capacity" -- @MeaEscott
Asks everyone to act as if a shelter-in-place order is in place.
NEW: Another record day for new #COVID19 cases in Travis County.
506 new confirmed cases.
We're talking about 6 times the daily new cases we were seeing on June 1.