Bill Gates: US 'not even close' to doing enough to fight pandemic

By artappraiser on Fri, 06/26/2020 - 11:34pm |

Bill Gates says the current coronavirus picture, globally and in the US, is "more bleak" than he would have expected.

The fact that people are still dying in the US shows that the country is "not even close" to doing enough to fight the pandemic, he says. https://t.co/YVs9OA3UQu
— CNN (@CNN) June 26, 2020

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UPDATE: coronavirus cases in US have grown 42.8% in one week!

➡️ We have squandered 2 entire months & 2 trillion dollars (likely higher)... all to be worse than before.

Our 50 state report below. Expect mortality to soon follow.

(Figures by teammate @euromaestro) #covid19 pic.twitter.com/vd8mt6sJ0N
— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) June 27, 2020

by artappraiser on Sat, 06/27/2020 - 12:29am

Florida has 1:40 deaths to infections, but now want us to believe with 10,000 infections a day it's 1:400 deaths to infections. Theyre not hiding Covid deaths, are they?

by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 06/27/2020 - 6:54pm

NYTimes' analysis by Sabrina Tavernise, Frances Robles and Louis Keene, June 27, 2020 Updated 5:12 p.m. ET

After Asking Americans to Sacrifice in Shutdown, Leaders Failed to Control Virus https://t.co/T9nHU4QyxN
— Mark S. Getzfred (@marknyt) June 27, 2020

by artappraiser on Sat, 06/27/2020 - 7:30pm

TONY FAUCI has been blocked from some media appearances, amid White House concern that interviewers are trying to turn him on the president, @ToluseO @jdawsey1 @yabutaleb7 report. https://t.co/tGmjm8JW3x pic.twitter.com/FykgJqdk1K
— Dan Diamond (@ddiamond) June 27, 2020

by artappraiser on Sat, 06/27/2020 - 7:57pm

Yikes Texas!

That’s a 22.5 percent positivity rate on testing! https://t.co/NH6Ttxt9IR
— Poppy Northcutt (@poppy_northcutt) June 28, 2020

by artappraiser on Sat, 06/27/2020 - 11:04pm

The world has passed 10,000,000 confirmed coronavirus cases.

1 in 4 of them are in the U.S.

We make up 4% of the worldwide population.
— Amy Siskind (@Amy_Siskind) June 28, 2020

by artappraiser on Sat, 06/27/2020 - 11:34pm

DJT: Never gonna shut it down,
Never gonna say I'm wrong,
If you wear a mask you must hate me!
Never gonna do more tests,
Gonna say I achieved success!

by NCD on Sun, 06/28/2020 - 12:06am

Drumpf keeps on trying the stable misunderstood genius thang, but more and more all we see is classic Emmet Kelly "sad clown"

by artappraiser on Sun, 06/28/2020 - 12:56am

holy shit, this country is gonna be so broke for so long

BREAKING: This is what is happening.

Thanks @rypan. pic.twitter.com/MMG27Ip0Ba
— Andy Slavitt @ (@ASlavitt) June 28, 2020

this is a closeup, more readable map for today, red states are "trending poorly", yellow are "making progress" and green are "trending better"

https://www.covidexitstrategy.org/

by artappraiser on Sun, 06/28/2020 - 1:45am

How the World Missed Covid-19’s Silent Spread https://t.co/AdSLlRFl0p
— Mark Honigsbaum (@honigsbaum) June 28, 2020

by artappraiser on Sun, 06/28/2020 - 3:29am

Ezra Klein:

This is a governance failure, not an inevitability of the disease. pic.twitter.com/A083PtNvD3
— Ezra Klein (@ezraklein) June 29, 2020

by artappraiser on Mon, 06/29/2020 - 12:28pm

Worrisome mutation: “At least four lab experiments suggest that the mutation makes the virus more infectious. Another study from Los Alamos National Lab finds that patients with the G variant actually have more virus in their bodies, i.e. more likely to spread it to others. pic.twitter.com/O6yOJHsUiI
— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) June 29, 2020

by artappraiser on Mon, 06/29/2020 - 12:45pm

"You look at states like FL, TX, CA, GA, SC--the cases are accelerating pretty quickly," says @ScottGottliebMD. "By the time we get to the end of this year probably close to half the population will have coronavirus and that's if we just stay at our current rate." pic.twitter.com/jOpjjwV9sq
— Squawk Box (@SquawkCNBC) June 29, 2020

by artappraiser on Mon, 06/29/2020 - 1:39pm

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