Kolek planning to go pro
Yeah. I was the dope who said 3,000 - 4,000 by mid-January.
The "joke" is on us. We are Sweden!https://www.politico.com/news/2020/12/16/trump-appointee-demanded-herd-immunity-strategy-446408A trump official demanding that we kill Americans.
ICUs are at 100% capacity in all of Central and Southern California. And new cases are continuing to climb.
A much more transmissible variant spreading around London?https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/19/world/europe/coronavirus-uk-new-variant.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=HomepageAlarmed by a fast-spreading variant of the coronavirus, Prime Minister Boris Johnson abruptly reversed course on Saturday and imposed a wholesale lockdown on London and most of England’s southeast, banning Christmas-season gatherings beyond individual households.The decision, which Mr. Johnson announced after an emergency meeting of his cabinet, came after the government got new evidence of a variant first detected several weeks ago in Southeast England, which the prime minister asserted was as much as 70 percent more transmissible than previous versions.The new measures, which take effect on Sunday, are designed, in effect, to cut off the capital and its surrounding counties from the rest of England. They are the most severe measures the British government has taken since it imposed a lockdown on the country back in March, and reflect a fear that the new variant could supercharge the transmission of the virus as winter takes hold.
Very oddly sourced article, basing much of it what their PM said, without much science behind it.Weird article
Definitely not strong on the science. I suspect they published it because it is certainly newsworthy that London is effectively shut down and cut off from the rest of the UK.
What frequently isn't talked about is the actual number of infections is much higher than reported confirmed cases. Not everyone who is infected gets a test to confirm.I'd be curious to see what the statisticians think about how many actual cases there instead of confirmed cases.
Yes. Particularly among the young who were fortunate enough to be asymptomatic but capable of spreading it to their family members. Widespread, effective, accurate anti-body testing sure would have been a nice benchmark.
The White House COVID Task Force continued airport screening for months after they realized it wasn’t working, and putting customs and immigration officials at risk.https://www.cnbc.com/2020/12/21/white-house-covid-task-force-kept-airport-health-screeners-in-place-despite-risk.htmlIn interviews with dozens of federal employees and task force officials over four months, CNBC learned that the program proved not only ineffective but dangerous from its earliest days. One former official on the White House coronavirus task force estimated that that three- to four-dozen personnel were infected by the end of May. To compare, nine travelers out of hundreds of thousands screened in the program were detected to have been infected by the end of September.Yet the White House chose not to dismantle it, in a bid to avoid worrying the public.
Dr. Birx announced that she is retiring at the end of Trump's term.
Real story is she wasn't asked to return, and if you're wondering why...WASHINGTON (AP) — As COVID-19 cases skyrocketed before the Thanksgiving holiday weekend, Dr. Deborah Birx, coordinator of the White House coronavirus response, warned Americans to “be vigilant” and limit celebrations to “your immediate household.”For many Americans that guidance has been difficult to abide, including for Birx herself.The day after Thanksgiving, she traveled to one of her vacation properties on Fenwick Island in Delaware. She was accompanied by three generations of her family from two households. Birx, her husband Paige Reffe, a daughter, son-in-law and two young grandchildren were present. https://apnews.com/article/travel-pandemics-only-on-ap-delaware-thanksgiving-52810c22488fff7e6bb70746bdc9bc61
Some might call her a poser.
I mean, no screenwriter could have made up these last 4 years.