“Anne McCloy began living a double life: news anchor by day, vigilante unemployment specialist by night. She’d work all day, come home, eat dinner, and then forward emails to the governor’s office until 2 a.m.” theatlantic.com/politics/archi…

This is appalling, Los Angeles.

NIH isn't a 'company,' it's an agency of HHS. This, just like the liberal conspiracies about Trump forcing an expedited and unsafe a vaccine, is irresponsible and ignorant.

Really tired of the mainstreaming of conspiracies on both sides.

Yikes.

The ethics of randomized vaccine, placebo-controlled trials when there is a known effective vaccine
science.sciencemag.org/content/early/…
Important perspective, clinical care vs clinical trial distinction
new Science Magazine by NIH Bioethics Dept

Covid & Flying
americanair taking employees on flights to nowhere.
Covid deaths in 1.5 hours = all US commercial air fatalities in the past 18 yrs
One day US death toll = 16 fully loaded 737 MAX jets
Chance of catching covid w/ middle seat vacant 1/7,700
wsj.com/articles/if-co…

The now famous 'Swiss Cheese Model' for preventing #COVID19 spread, by Ian M Mackay, PhD in NYT Science
nytimes.com/2020/12/05/hea…
by Siobhan Roberts w/ Bill Hanage @BillHanage.bsky.social Julie Gerberding

Lessons here from Wave 1 for hospital leaders facing Wave 3
Important thread by Esther Choo, MD MPH

I always admired the #Zappos customer service approach - the health manifesto below shows that a new approach for customer experience is needed - if Tech was your differentiator last decade customer experience will make you stand out in the next.. #customerexperience

A key concern about the high efficacy of vaccine trials: dropout of participants getting placebo and impaired ability to determine temporal durability of protection
wsj.com/articles/covid… by Rolfe Winkler

This graph by The COVID Tracking Project is telling.
24 states are already at peak covid hospitalizations before the effects of the holiday gatherings. Nothing like this at any time in the American pandemic. It appears to be a national apoptosis program.

SF tightened #COVID restrictions this week.

Here's another snapshot of SF vs South Dakota. The populations are roughly equal. South Dakota has 4.9x cases and 5.9x deaths thru the day before Thanksgiving.

Note - deleted prior tweet with incorrect info on schools, my mistake.

New Science Magazine investigative reporting on HHS.gov ability to monitor hospital bed use/capacity: 'The HHS Protect data are poor quality, inconsistent with state reports, and the analysis is slipshod'
sciencemag.org/news/2020/11/f…
Just want you want during a pandemic.
by Charles Piller

Just remarkable.

Cyberattacks against hospitals disrupted operations and healthcare delivery in the US. 'During the outage, the cancer center was able to treat about 25 percent of the normal chemotherapy patients” bit.ly/36kDKud

.USA TODAY on today's Moderna news – vaccine data just gets better & better tinyurl.com/y2mhrjna Referring to fact that there were 30 serious cases: ALL in placebo recipients, I'm quoted: 'This is a remarkably effective vaccine and, with results like that, a game-changer.'

3. As this graph shows, there's been a lot of death from pneumonia, #influenza & #Covid19 in 2020, but it's been Covid-related since the spring. #Flu deaths seem to have stopped by late April or early May. FluView report is here: cdc.gov/flu/weekly/ind…

5. Last thing: This chart. You don't normally see something this striking. There hasn't been a pediatric #flu death since May — or at least not yet reported to @cdcgov. That's a blessing.

Highlighting the #OpenScience work of Yong-Zhen Zhang for sequencing the #SARSCoV2 genome and releasing the data publicly on Jan 10th, laying the foundation for the rapid and successful mRNA vaccine programs. Great telling of the story by zeynep tufekci

The droplets and bubbles of #COVID19
by arghya manna Annals of Int Med
acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/G2…
Very informative fluid dynamic graphics MIT CEE