#Inthebubble

COVID Update October 10: I had a call with a Republican governor of a state in trouble and gave me a sense of where we are.Here is what I learned...1/
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COVID Update July 7: If someone tells you you’re “essential,” you’re going to want to run the other way. Because “essential” now means underpaid, unappreciated, sacrificial & there to serve
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COVID Update April 13: Trump is making a decision about how he wants to proceed & so I called someone who knows how he operates better than anyone I could
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COVID Update September 12: The head of the @WHO called out for “moral bankruptcy” in our COVID response. He’s exactly right. 1/ People are no longer dying from the virus
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COVID Update April 14: The day— what Congress should do next. The food supply & the drug supply. Ventilators, hospitals & Trump. The numbers. A day in my life. How
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COVID Update July 16: Anyone can tell you the controversies of today: masks, schools, bars & what to leave open.But we haven’t seen anything yet. What about the controversies of
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COVID Update July 31: We have spent months in the US being perfect hosts to the virus while most of the world has flattened it. What will change in August?
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COVID Update July 2: Why not to freak out. 1/ Yes, the news is bad. Yes, more than ever we all know this was preventable. And yes, it’s a sad
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COVID Update July 12: Just because things will get worse before they get better doesn’t mean they won’t get better.They will! But let’s take it in order. 1/ Three things
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COVID Update May 21: Something is happening in the world that we should pay attention to.Sadly we are ignoring it and the many warnings it represents. 1/ Finally, there is
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COVID Update July 20: COVID has proven a few things about government, at least to me.And it bears on a lot of our next moves. 1/ 1. When you elect
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COVID Update April 15: I worked on some visible problems & dove into some less visible ones. Visible— the infrasructure needed to contain future outbreaks. Less visible— prisons, what’s happening
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COVID Update March 31: I spent the day trying to assess some of the greatest needs we have & what the Federal government could be solving now.Yesterday was about our
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COVID Update April 20: The next narrative will be one of the states vs the federal government & who has responsibility for testing.The Hill, governors, WH, testing cos. I got
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COVID Update May 18: Monday I try to provide a state of the union on COVID.Categories today: New York/rest of US, State Openings, Science, Congress, Public Discource 1/ The state
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COVID Update April 21: My focus on the Senate Bill, what it means and what’s next. The next bill. And I talked to my hero today about one of our
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