NEW: The Republican National Committee is requiring attendees of the party's spring donor retreat in Florida to get tested for COVID & submit proof of a negative result as a condition for entry. https://t.co/kJtCLZWqHR @dcexaminer
— David M. Drucker (@DavidMDrucker) April 6, 2021
Category: Covid-19
How it works
The more that people delay or decline vaccination, the more risk falls to kids and teenagers who can't get vaccinated yet.
Their risk of severe disease is much lower, but they aren't like vaccinated adults. https://t.co/HCsXNfA3Rn
— James Hamblin (@jameshamblin) April 5, 2021
Ron DeSantis is a blight on the land
'60 Minutes' nails Ron DeSantis in vaccine 'pay to play' — with program allowing the rich to fly in for shots https://t.co/Kx3utTKg0S
— Suburban Guerrilla Ω (@SusieMadrak) April 5, 2021
Belle Glade, FL is a majority Black community. Many residents don’t have cars. In the earlier days of vaccination, elderly residents would have to take two buses to Publix, because @GovRonDeSantis made that the only option.pic.twitter.com/lIkjhlxXot
— Marisa Kabas (@MarisaKabas) April 4, 2021
Says Mayor James of West Palm Beach: “But isn't it funny that these mistakes only happen in communities that have that kind of wealth? They didn't make a mistake and send a thousand doses to the poorest communities in our county?” https://t.co/gyrW9hYPTg
— 60 Minutes (@60Minutes) April 4, 2021
Campaign finance reports obtained by 60 Minutes show that weeks before Florida Governor Ron DeSantis announced a partnership with Publix grocery stores to distribute the vaccine in its pharmacies, Publix donated $100,000 to his PAC. https://t.co/bS3ZBeET1W pic.twitter.com/BSUlpVbXSP
— 60 Minutes (@60Minutes) April 4, 2021
Ha ha
Entire flight applauds as anti-masker couple gets thrown off plane 🤣✈️ pic.twitter.com/lnybVbzVxD
— Marjorie Gaylor Queen (@Tim_Tweeted) April 1, 2021
The poser
“‘His point is absolutely stupid, and I would know because I enrolled participants in the Pfizer-BioNTech trial,’ Kawsar Talaat, an assistant professor at Johns Hopkins, told me.” @DKThomp on the pandemic’s wrongest man—on vaccines, and everything else:https://t.co/rUbCKPKHIC
— Frederick Deknatel (@freddydeknatel) April 1, 2021
Here it comes
Thanks to shameless politicians and their wacky followers:
Coronavirus surge could be worse than the last for the Americas: PAHO https://t.co/zjSyCSD1pY pic.twitter.com/TrGDQOY4Nl
— Reuters (@Reuters) March 31, 2021
She’s good
Rachel Levine confirmed as assistant health secretary. She is the first openly transgender official ever confirmed by the Senate. https://t.co/6c97eQkoRe
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) March 24, 2021
Your papers please
Hang on to that COVID-19 vaccination card — it’s important https://t.co/6knP1ndXtG
— Daniel Lopez (@4danlopez) March 23, 2021
Interesting
“What we learned registering thousands of our neighbors for vaccines”… in an unusual move, these journalists turned themselves into vaccine scheduling volunteers, and boy are their observations powerful https://t.co/X2f9VibymT
— Jodi Kantor (@jodikantor) March 23, 2021
Missing
The United States's missing high school students. At one school in Indio, California, "Attendance dropped from 94 percent down to as low as 70 percent" after teh school shut down and switched to virtual classes. https://t.co/k3sbxK8thF
— Helaine Olen (@helaineolen) March 22, 2021