Van, thank you for expressing the sorrow and relief that we all feel. My hope is that those who hoped for a different outcome will take a moment to empathize with the pain so many of us have felt over the past four years.
BREAKING: JOE BIDEN WINS
Joe Biden will be the 46th president of the United States, CNN projects, after a victory in Pennsylvania puts the Scranton-born Democrat over 270 https://t.co/pZ8pr4cMTG #CNNElection
900 portraits set up by families in Detroit to memorialize their loved ones killed by Covid. Seeing these faces brings home the tragedy of numbers. We can never forget those we've lost.
Trust is an essential part of any epidemic response. What we've seen in recent days from the CDC has threatened to undermine public confidence in the agency. That's unprecedented and dangerous. https://t.co/hzpvk9WXBg
“I’m really concerned, and frankly, quite disappointed that masks have been politicized,” Dr. @CarlosdelRio7 says about the crowd at a Trump rally booing after being asked to wear masks. https://t.co/IWnLVGaszY
If an asymptomatic contact tests positive, their contacts can be identified, warned, and quarantined. Not testing asymptomatic contacts allows Covid to spread. The CDC guidance is indefensible. No matter who wrote it and got it posted on the CDC site, it needs to be changed.
https://t.co/uZxX2FQ5SW. GA has made progress in slowing #COVID19 transmission but with 167 new cases per 100,000 we are still in the RED ZONE. We need to accelerate progress to halt transmission. We can do it!
Estimated cost of recent epidemics/pandemics:
SARS (2003) - $40 billion
H5N1 (2006) - $40 billion
H1N1 (2009) - $45 billion
Ebola (2014) - $55 billion
COVID-19 (2020) - $8.8 TRILLION
Investing in public health preparedness is FAR cheaper than the economic impact of a pandemic.
Perspective: How high is the death toll from Covid in the United States?
- 4x as many deaths as from suicide, kidney disease
- 3x as many as from flu and pneumonia
- Twice as many as from diabetes
- More than Alzheimer’s, stroke, lung disease, injury (including opiate overdose).
Over 800 students quarantined in @CherokeeSchools after 50 students & staff test + for #SARSCoV2 and we still don’t think a face mask mandate for schools in needed?
A really sad day as the world passed 20 M #COVID19 cases & 737,864 Deaths with U.S. passing 5M cases & 165,000 deaths. The U.S. with ~ 4% of world pop has 25% of world cases. We are not doing well, ignore anyone we says otherwise @Worldometers https://t.co/ANiNNVfu1o
“There have been more deaths due to suicide than due to #COVID19 during the same time period in this country” says @NKaslow Please, pay attention to mental health, it’s a huge public health crisis. See here the reasons for increase in deaths from suicide at this time: