Tonight's #COVID19 thoughts:

Florida reported 132 new deaths today, the highest for the state so far. One hundred and thirty two people lost their lives, their friends and families lost their loved one. https://twitter.com/IvankaTrump/status/1283221019684110337
People who don't understand how epidemiology or infectious diseases work (or who are paid not to understand) have been trying this "but deaths aren't rising, these cases are fake" like of attack.

As if SARS-CoV-2 cares about their feelings and their fragile worldview.
The virus, as we've come to understand in the United States, will be relentless if we give it room to spread.

And we've done just that.

There's lag between abandoning public health safety measures and an explosion in cases, and there's lag between new cases and new deaths.
And the White House is in a fight over beans.
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