NEW—Largest CDC study on mortality to date pegs #COVID19 associated excess deaths at 285k. But that is not all. There are huge % excesses deaths, especially in young adults 25-44 and in Hispanic, Black, Asian, Native American minorities. Whites less so.🧵 https://t.co/gRoSSBuqSm pic.twitter.com/W29nDZLf1c
— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) October 20, 2020
Category: Covid-19
Manslaughter
This WP investigation, based on inside reporting, finds that Trump and like-minded advisers — in particular, Scott Atlas — have abandoned the war on the virus. They've decided to accept mass infection, and they've undercut measures to stop the spread. /1 https://t.co/LDWSvzQ6ta
— Will Saletan (@saletan) October 19, 2020
Dr. Birx reportedly asked Pence to remove COVID-19 adviser pushing 'junk science' https://t.co/vcjiX45bIR via @YahooNews
— Suburban Guerrilla Ω (@SusieMadrak) October 19, 2020
Building lifeboats
As our pal Driftglass likes to say:
BREAKING: Chris Christie urges Americans to wear masks to fight the coronavirus that put him in ICU for 7 days, warning that the virus is "something to take very seriously." https://t.co/fNduWamMrR
— NBC News (@NBCNews) October 15, 2020
Bastards
NEW: As virus spread, reports of Trump administration briefings fueled Wall Street selloff. W/@katekelly https://t.co/ONm9TLpegB
— Mark Mazzetti (@MarkMazzettiNYT) October 14, 2020
Decisions
Nelba is someone I know from Twitter, and the wingnut conspiracy types still hound her online and tell her Ana’s shooting death was staged. She is one of strongest people ever:
The latest in my series: Nelba and Jimmy lost their daughter, Ana Grace, in the Sandy Hook shooting. Now they faced an agonizing dilemma — whether to let their surviving child, Isaiah, go back to school amid a deadly pandemic. (thread)https://t.co/gxwVfjv20D
— John Woodrow Cox (@JohnWoodrowCox) October 7, 2020
I wonder who that was?
BREAK: The White House warned attendees of the Gold Star family event Sept. 27 that they may have been exposed to COVID-19.
— Erin Banco (@ErinBanco) October 7, 2020
Raises questions about whether it knew there was a COVID-positive individual in attendance
W/@attackerman @swin24 @samstein https://t.co/EE1XLrE9C0
@ABC confirms a military aide responsible for carrying the ‘nuclear football’ tested positive over the weekend and traveled with the president last Thursday to New Jersey per @Santucci @KFaulders
— luis martinez (@LMartinezABC) October 6, 2020
Crede Bailey, the head of the White House security office, became sick with the coronavirus before the Sept. 26 Rose Garden event, I'm told. https://t.co/h6xtIOzCLD
— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) October 7, 2020
Vote them out
Breaking: “In an unprecedented move,” the New England Journal of Medicine has published an editorial “condemning the Trump admin for its response to the Covid-19 pandemic – and calling for the current leadership in the US to be voted out of office.”https://t.co/4fxv26TZBx
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) October 7, 2020
Dying in a Leadership Vacuum | NEJM https://t.co/lOMW34d641
— Suburban Guerrilla Ω (@SusieMadrak) October 7, 2020
Insert your joke here
ANTIFLA!!! pic.twitter.com/mep0kCGxRI
— Suburban Guerrilla Ω (@SusieMadrak) October 8, 2020