CNN Reporter notes that many election workers sacrificed their health and safety to help at the polls while the pandemic rages on.
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Karma is calling.
Biden transition team announces coronavirus advisers, including whistleblower Rick Bright
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More Covid in the WH under Trump.
And Ben Carson was at the Election Night event at the WH where Mark Meadows walked around without a mask, with Covid.
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And VP Penceās appearance today where he wants to take credit for Pfizerās vaccine, but it was not part of Operation Warp Speed.
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Just a reminder of where things stand.
220,523: The total number of Americans who died in every war in the 20th & 21st centuries EXCEPT WWII.
243,819: The confirmed number who died of COVID-19 since Feb 6th.
2 - 6.3 MILLION: The number who could die from Trumpās herd immunity plan.
Itās Nov. 9th. It didnāt go away.
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Well, thatās how the virus spreads, immediately and inside indoor gatherings. Super Spreader event redeux.
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399,163 COVID-19 deaths
based on Current projection scenario by February 1, 2021
Drudge report is not reporting pro-Trump stuff (itās been awhile)Drudge link
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From an epidemiologist- public health expert
The numbers look very bad right now.
7 days instead of 14 days I believe
Asymptomatic Covid-19 Cases Show Need for Wider Surveillance Testing, Study Suggests - WSJ
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Grrr! We just had an unexplained community case here in Auckland.
Posting this excellent GIF for info re the swiss cheese model for system accidents.
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And another Trump Campaign who has been down in Philadelphia āhelpingā Trump with the count.
as weii as
A Republican National Committee spokesperson also confirmed Thursday that Richard Walters, the party organizationās chief of staff, had tested positive, as well. Walters did not attend the election night party.
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Super spreader consequencesā¦The school where all 3 kids were enrolled, asked Javanka to remove their kids because there had been too much Covid exposure near them.
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From a ND nurse who describes her Covid patients who still do not think the virus is real.
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Oh look, Trumpās āadviserā Scott Atlas, who wants to see millions die from an attempt to reach herd immunity, is now encouraging domestic terrorism, treason, and insurrection in Michigan.
Trump coronavirus adviser Scott Atlas urges Michigan to ārise upā against new Covid-19 measures
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Calling out Dr Scott Atlas to be fired for his āwrongheadedness.ā
And what part of the Hippocratic oath, in prticular āDo no harmā does he understand?
The Washington Post: Scott Atlasās rabble-rousing will lead to illness and death. He should be fired.
The Editorial Board
SCOTT ATLAS is a neuroradiologist, not an infectious disease expert, nor an epidemiologist. As President Trumpās leading adviser on the coronavirus pandemic, he continues to make statements that will cause more illness and death. He ought to be fired immediately.
This weekend he was speaking about Michigan, which, like other states in the Upper Midwest, is struggling with the raging virus. Hospitalizations are way up, new cases are shooting ever higher, deaths are four times greater than in September, and the test positivity rate is 9.8 percent, indicating the virus is spreading. On Sunday, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) announced reasonable new restrictions in an effort to slow the spread, including closing bars and restaurants, casinos and bowling alleys; sending college and high school students to remote classrooms; and ordering all but essential workers to labor from home.
āWe are in the worst moment of this pandemic to date,ā she said in words that could apply to the entire country. āThe situation has never been more dire. We are at the precipice and we need to take some action because as the weather gets colder and people spend more time indoors, the virus will spread, more people will get sick, and there will be more fatalities.ā
[Full coverage of the coronavirus pandemic]
Dr. Atlas has frequently belittled lockdowns and pandemic restrictions, saying they have deleterious knock-on effects and are unnecessary, and that only the āvulnerableā need protection. Of the Michigan restrictions, he wrote on Twitter: āThe only way this stops is if people rise up. You get what you accept. #FreedomMatters #StepUp.ā So, while the governor was desperately trying to save lives by slowing the virus transmission, Dr. Atlas was urging people to disobey and revolt. This is incendiary talk, especially since the governor was the target of a kidnapping plot foiled by the FBI before the election. Dr. Atlas later insisted he would never encourage violence and was talking about voting and peaceful protest.
But the damage was done. His message was that people should ignore the governor and resist the pandemic restrictions, as Mr. Trump did with his āLIBERATEā tweets in April. If Dr. Atlasās advice is followed, more people will get sick and die. The nation is engulfed in coronavirus infections; the spread is extremely alarming, with more than 100,000 new cases every day since Nov. 4. The tidal wave of disease is stressing hospital systems to their limit and all but ensures that deaths will be increasing in the weeks to come.
It is bad enough that Mr. Trump walked away from a strong federal response to the pandemic and left it to beleaguered states. Now that the states are on the front lines of the battle, telling people to disobey the governor and ārise upā is appallingly ignorant and foolish. āIt actually took my breath away, to tell you the truth,ā Ms. Whitmer said on Monday. Yes, it is breathtakingly wrongheaded.
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Can not be more direct than thisā¦
After Big Thanksgiving Dinners, Plan Small Christmas Funerals, Health Experts Warn - Mississippi
Health workers care for an ICU patient with COVID-19 at the University of Mississippi Medical Center, where hospital beds are now full. Photo courtesy UMMC
Mississippians should plan āto have very small Thanksgiving gatheringsā with only nuclear family members this year to stay safe amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Mississippi State Health Officer Dr. Thomas Dobbs and other public health officials warned on Friday.
āYouāre going to have a lot of sick folks who caught (COVID-19) during Thanksgiving. We know this is the perfect milieu, having young folks and old folks and folks with chronic illness around the tableāand then death,ā Dobbs said during a sober Mississippi State Medical Association Zoom meeting with fellow physicians on Nov. 12.
The stateās top health official urged even Mississippians who are having small holiday gatherings to observe 6 feet of social distancing and to hold the gatherings outdoors, where the chance of transmission is lower.
āWe donāt really want to see Mamaw at Thanksgiving and bury her by Christmas,ā MSMA President Dr. Mark Horne said during the meeting, concurring with the state health officer.
āWeāre going to see some of that. Itās going to happen,ā Dobbs replied.
Horne agreed.
āItās going to happen. Youāre going to say hi at Thanksgiving, itās so nice to see you, and youāre either going to be visiting her by Facetime in the ICU or planning a small funeral by Christmas,ā the MSMA president said.
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Hospital capacity to accept new patients is crumbling, Dobbs said. He cited a conversation last week with a physician who had decided to send a Mississippi patient to a hospital in Pensacola, Fla., after failing to get them in a bed anywhere in Mississippi.
That doctor, Dobbs said, settled on Pensacola after also trying and failing to find beds for the patient in the Alabama cities of Birmingham and Mobile. He urged Mississippians to exercise caution, not just when it comes to avoiding the virus, but more generally.
āBe careful, because thereās nowhere for you to go if you have a car wreck,ā the state health officer said. āUnfortunately, weāre not having a collective appreciation for how serious this is. Please protect yourself, protect your family, and please protect the vulnerable. Because itās going to be a rough few weeks.ā
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Heās got Covid and at 87 years old letās hope he gets the super antibodies treatment.
āIāve tested positive for coronavirus,ā Grassley wrote. āIāll (be) following my doctorsā orders/CDC guidelines & continue to quarantine. Iām feeling good + will keep up on my work for the ppl of Iowa from home. I appreciate everyoneās well wishes + prayers &look fwd to resuming my normal schedule soon.ā
Grassley, as president pro tempore, is the most senior Republican in the chamber.
If Grassley missed Tuesdayās votes because of his quarantine, his first missed vote since 1993 when he missed due to floods in his state, according to his office.
āI learned today that Iāve been exposed to the coronavirus,ā he said in a statement from his office earlier Tuesday. āI will follow my doctorsā orders and immediately quarantine as I await my test results. Iām feeling well and not currently experiencing any symptoms, but itās important we all follow public health guidelines to keep each other healthy.ā
Grassley is the second GOP senator in under a week to announce that heās isolating after a possible Covid exposure. Republican Sen. Rick Scott of Florida said Saturday that he was isolating as well after coming into ācontact with someone who subsequently tested positive for COVID.ā
Grassley was seen at the Capitol speaking to reporters Monday afternoon.
NYTās Covid coverage with Grassley story. And Alaska Rep Young, (R-AK) also 87 had Covid and was hospitalized 2x, and Sen Rick Scott (R-FL) is quarantining.
Senator Charles E. Grassley of Iowa, at 87 the oldest Republican serving in the chamber, on Tuesday announced that he had tested positive for the coronavirus, becoming the second octogenarian member of Congress to be diagnosed in the past week.
Mr. Grassley, who had said earlier that he was quarantining after exposure to the virus, said on Twitter that he was āfeeling goodā and would ākeep up on my workā for Iowans from home, following his doctorās orders and public health guidelines.
He did not disclose any details about the circumstances of his exposure, but Mr. Grassley was on hand Monday as usual to open the Senate in his role as president pro tempore ā the post typically reserved for the most senior member of the majority party ā and for the first vote of the week. Mr. Grassley took his mask off briefly to deliver remarks on the Senate floor, as many senators do. His remarks focused on the need for continued social distancing and mask-wearing in order to stem the spread of the pandemic, urging āeveryone to do their part.ā
His positive test result marked the latest alarming development in what is threatening to become a mini-outbreak on Capitol Hill, where lawmakers continue to meet in close quarters with inconsistently applied health precautions.
Senator Rick Scott, Republican of Florida, was also in quarantine after being exposed to someone in Florida who tested positive for the virus, and several House lawmakers remained in quarantine after similar exposures in their home states.
Representative Don Young of Alaska, the longest-serving member of the House and its oldest member, who is also 87, disclosed on Monday that he had been hospitalized over the weekend as he battled a case of the virus. Two other lawmakers ā Cheri Bustos of Illinois and Tim Walberg of Michigan ā also announced positive tests the same day.
As multiple votes took place on Tuesday, Mr. Grassleyās absence ended the longest consecutive streak of voting in the Senate held by a single member. The Iowan often boasted of his record of having never missed a vote since 1993, when floods ravaged his state.
Among the votes he missed was one to move to confirm Judy Shelton, President Trumpās pick for the Federal Reserve board, whose nomination stalled in the Senate after it failed to draw enough support to advance.
ā Emily Cochrane
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