We warned about this. It was utterly foreseeable. I wrote this 2.5 weeks ago.

Here's the thing: hospitalization data are like a smoke alarm that detects smoke from several weeks ago.

When it goes off, your house is already burning down.https://t.co/UV5EKTMrQ5

— Ed Yong (@edyong209) December 4, 2020

I just saw someone argue that this reflects a failure of hospitals to prepare for the winter, so I'm just going to re-up this piece about what's happening to perhaps the best-prepared hospital in the country, and then scream into the void again. https://t.co/Y1oQv8YiPp

— Ed Yong (@edyong209) December 4, 2020

Seems to me docs should use EARLY at home evidence-based #COVID treatment strategies to keep pts out of hospital. Like Dr Peter McCullough’s, Vice Chief of Medicine at Baylor U Med Center. See @cov19treatments Addresses 3 issues 1)antiviral 2)ant-inflammatory 3) antithrombotic pic.twitter.com/U1Bqz8SitT

— A.Genova MD (@amgenova) December 5, 2020

10 countries, 1 outlier pic.twitter.com/iGgLyFEbkn

— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) December 5, 2020

LA’s mayor sounds the alarm tonight on a meteoric rise of Covid-19 cases:

“This is the greatest threat to life in Los Angeles that we have ever faced,” he said at a news conference.

— Jon Passantino (@passantino) December 5, 2020

LA reported a record number of new cases today, shattering all-time highs it previously set two other times this week.

Hospitalizations have now broken records for four straight days.

— Jon Passantino (@passantino) December 5, 2020

Garcetti said today's numbers — more than 8,800 new cases — would have been unimaginable just a few weeks ago. There have now been more cases this week than in the entire month of October.

— Jon Passantino (@passantino) December 5, 2020

The number of people hospitalized in LA County — America’s most populated with 10 million residents — has tripled in the last week, and hospitals are expected to run out of beds in two to four weeks if cases continue to rise at their current rate, Garcetti said tonight.

— Jon Passantino (@passantino) December 5, 2020

New—I’m pleased to announce that to fight the pandemic, we formed a specia group to support Biden on #COVID19 pandemic response, a multidisciplinary task force called the ‘COVID ACTION GROUP’.

Here is our piece in USA Today. @yaneerbaryam @AliNouriPhD https://t.co/NoBHm1Gt6i

— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) December 5, 2020

The United States tallied a record 228,767 new coronavirus cases today.

That is one-third of all the new cases reported on Earth.https://t.co/74QzWYbn1p

— Mike Baker (@ByMikeBaker) December 5, 2020

Folks—a “heated” tent outside is **NOT** considered an “outdoor” venue for safe #COVID19 risk. Don’t be cowboy cavalier about this. https://t.co/YjJah3bGTG

— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) December 5, 2020

"The country's daily case count is estimated to peak on January 20... at around 448,000."https://t.co/IqhdBQIXYm

— Branko Milanovic (@BrankoMilan) December 6, 2020

This is deeply irresponsible and will cause people to die. https://t.co/snKTurQ9uV

— Brian Schatz (@brianschatz) December 7, 2020

The Oregon Medical Board suspended the license of a doctor who boasted onstage at a “Stop the Steal” rally that his clinic never used masks. LINK: https://t.co/ijth4eODze https://t.co/1VU0dKxKra

— Suzette Smith (@suzettesmith) December 5, 2020

This is actually a better source of information about the vaccination "plan" than the Federal Government, which hasn't explained much of how they intend to actually get this done. https://t.co/OBkMHehPMf

— JP (@jpglutting) December 7, 2020

Really tight race on Covid deaths at the moment but it seems like America will pull into a decisive lead soon pic.twitter.com/npw70JN5HS

— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) December 7, 2020

If you had told me a year ago that this would be an emergency alert on my phone - to stay inside because the virus is spreading rapidly - I can’t even begin to imagine what would go through my head. pic.twitter.com/0pFcJ9HYWr

— Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen) December 8, 2020

Agree. Trump’s overt clowning and utter lack of basic empathy serves to obscure a much larger set of institutional failures.

Tomorrow’s post is on one piece of this. https://t.co/oXzSwavChx

— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) December 8, 2020

Last night, one of my (many) patients with COVID told me she had a large Thanksgiving dinner with family—22 people. The day after, one family member tested positive. Since then (according to my patient) *ALL* 22 people have developed symptoms, some severe.

We are so tired. pic.twitter.com/RQ9TvUPnvC

— Rebecca Karb (@DrKarb) December 8, 2020