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So, @yabutaleb7 @SherylNYT @HelenBranswell @edyong209 . There is a bigger story emerging here: @CDCgov is saying asymptomatics and community spread are no longer a priority for #COVID19 control in the USA. This is coming from @WhiteHouse. 1/ https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/26/politics/cdc-coronavirus-testing-guidance/index.html
. @jbkrell from @PrEP4AllNow has shared a little noticed @HHSGov press release on Defense Production Act edict for antigen tests specifically for nursing homes. 2/ https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2020/08/20/trump-administration-uses-defense-production-act-to-aid-our-most-vulnerable.html
And there still aren't enough tests. Anyone who thinks this is more than a question of political will is fooling themselves. We could scale-up testing for diagnosis and screening if we wanted to. 3/
Add this all up and it points to us going "Swedish on steroids". That is let the epidemic burn through the population while trying to protect the elderly. This did not work out so well in Sweden. 4/ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/19/sweden-records-highest-death-tally-in-150-years-in-first-half-of-2020
So, @realDonaldTrump isn't saying it, but we've surrendered to #SARSCOV2. He wants us back to normal, all schools open, businesses back to full tilt, and we are going to do this on the backs of the most vulnerable members of our society. 5/ https://news.yahoo.com/stephen-miller-push-safely-reopen-200818802.html
This is "the plan"--we're through with the pandemic. It's behind us. 6/ https://www.businessinsider.com/larry-kudlow-top-trump-adviser-pandemic-past-tense-rnc-deaths-2020-8
They are going to make this "reality," they are starting. Now @fema will stop reimbursement for PPE for #COVID19. 7/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2020/08/25/cities-states-fear-they-may-lose-critical-fema-dollars-coronavirus-response/?
Want to know where this is coming from? Steve Atlas, the radiologist from the @HooverInst. Now, Atlas, Miller, Kushner, Navarro are setting our policies. All the scientists are out. Birx remains, sidelined, but @CDCgov and @NIH gone. 8/ https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/17/trump-scott-atlas-coronavirus-doctor-396741
And for policy people like @ASlavitt @ScottGottliebMD @ZekeEmanuel @JeremyKonyndyk and others--we need to put the pieces together. It's emerging that the US strategy on @COVID19 is now moving starkly away from any sort of consensus public health approach. 9/
It's a model now, which will maximize deaths and infections because no one with the expertise that matters, matters in @WhiteHouse. This is the story of the week, not #RNCConvention2020, which is the diversion. 10/
This is the plan. It’s not neglect or bumbling or ignorance. It’s deliberate and the new official policy of the United States of America, but none of us has been told about it yet. end/
