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1. More terrible public-health messaging. @JohnBerman asks Xavier Becerra why, if everyone in an office is vaccinated, they need to wear masks, and Becerra hems and haws before saying vaccinated

"Many governors, mayors, school boards and superintendents are still debating whether families should continue to have the option of virtual schooling this fall."Seriously?https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/09/us/covid-school-reopeni

Why not say to Pfizer, "We'll pay $20 a dose for every extra dose you can make this year, whether on your own or via licensing," (and offer Moderna $15)

Moderna has already said it won't enforce its patents. That's not the barrier to duplicating its vaccine.https://twitter.com/ElsTorreele/status/1386414933672292352 There's a lot of fuzziness in the way people write about the que

The middle ground is that Sidney Powell is a complete fool, who has allowed her ideological biases to destroy her ability to think critically about the facts.https://twitter.com/Pragmatictakes/status/1330045227319619584 As a reminder,

New column for @Marker on the way a lack of demand, not shutdowns, is what's now holding the economy back.https://marker.medium.com/forget-shutdowns-its-demand-shock-that-s-killing-our-economy-3062e94c122e You still hear people saying w

1. Texas now has more Covid deaths than California does, even though California's population is 33% bigger. So Texas's per capita death rate from Covid is 40% higher than California's.

1. It’s amazing how common this kind of virus nihilism - there’s no way to contain it - is on here, given how empirically wrong it is. Set aside the

1. The way covid-skeptics will try to spin this story is to say, "If the president can get it, then anyone can. So there's no point to locking down or

!. It's important to see that the GOP is trying to normalize the idea that a presidential election will be decided by the Supreme Court - and to reject that

1. With all the talk about the Court deciding the election, there's a subtle - but very important - point about Bush v. Gore that's almost never discussed anymore:Bush had

1. Thread about my 2-year-old, COVID testing, and why it's so important that rapid testing is expanded and made widely available, rather than being concentrated on high-risk populations.https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/02/trump-cor