#Briefing

Leora Horwitz

leorahorwitzmd

As a hospitalist physician and health systems researcher, I have been following #COVID19 news closely. Finding myself answering lots of ?s from friends, so am posting some summaries with evidence

Aaron Rupar

atrupar

"Have you studied him? Have you reported on him?" -- Trump takes umbrage after @weijia describes Dr. Bright, the HHS official who says he was ousted after he resisted Trump's

File411

File411

Dear @POTUS @VP @EsperDoD @FEMA_Pete THEY ARE WAITING FOR A PURCHASE ORDER from @fema You incompetent doltsThe Company is ALREADY IN SAMSCUT THE PO NOW or we loseSouth Korea says

Patrick Healy

patrickhealynyt

We have corrected a Times story about white college-educated voters in the Atlanta suburbs who are supporting President Trump. Here’s an explanation of what happened.https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/21/us/politics/atlanta-trump-voters-wome

Ryan Goodman

rgoodlaw

Washington Post scoop:FBI gave #RonJohnson defensive briefing in 2020 warning he was being targeted by Russia to spread disinformation on Biden.What did he do?He considered it “completely useless and unnecessary”With

Weijia Jiang

weijia

The @whca—not the White House—oversees the seating assignments in the briefing room. @kaitlancollins was absolutely right to stay in her assigned seat.https://twitter.com/kaitlancollins/status/1253835649930625026 I was wrong not to mention @chrisjohn

Andrew Freedman

afreedma

[THREAD] The White House today promoted a new lab study on the coronavirus' susceptibility to ultraviolet light, as well as heat and humidity as a reason to think this outbreak

left of Brown

TKispeter

Boredom eh?https://twitter.com/TheoBiddle/status/1282698014474276864 Swerving the education union point like the car meme. Starmer personally and most of his shadow cabinet personally welcomed the opening of the schools and decidedly limite

Kate Bennett

KateBennett_DC

Dr. Fauci says duration of White House press briefings is “really draining." Monday's was 2+ hours.“If I had been able to just make a few comments and then go to

Mel Leonor

MelLeonor_

Quick thread on Virginia's plan for lifting social restrictions, which I outlined in more detail here:https://www.richmond.com/news/virginia/we-cannot-and-will-not-lift-restrictions-like-one-turns-on-a-light-switch-northam/article_cac6c890-386e-5

Alex Andreou

sturdyAlex

This is superb reporting, but a piece is missing, which makes the tone wrong. If you create an atmosphere in which civil servants are traduced, aides are summarily dismissed for

Will Saletan

saletan

Today’s @washingtonpost story says that within days of China’s notice to CDC on Jan. 3, a warning about the coronavirus was specifically included in the President’s Daily Brief.That’s new information,

Department of Health

roinnslainte

At the press briefing in the Department of Health this evening, Chair of the NPHET IEMAG Professor Philip Nolan @President_MU showed a series of slides. 1/13#COVID19 Case numbers rose sharply

Mandatory Distance Moose

SciFirebird

Once upon a time I was pregnant in uniform. For whatever reason, our HQ Co commander was an asshole who took forever to sign my memo requesting maternity uniforms. So

U.S. Surgeon General

Surgeon_General

1/n Here are my remarks from yesterday, when I discussed COVID19 (and chronic disparities like asthma, HTN), their roots in lack of opportunities for some communities, and how everyone needs

Max Roser

MaxCRoser

To understand a global pandemic we need global data.But even more than one year into the pandemic some of the most basic international data on COVID is missing.Just because there