1/5 Thread: Tonight, nothing about our national failure to detect the entry of #COVID19 entry into the US from Europe, resulting in transmission for weeks, world's greatest epidemic in NYC. President's travel ban from Europe > 1 month after virus gained a foothold in US

2/5 Thread: Following awful epidemic in NYC, the White House CoV Task Force refused to launch national plan to contain #COVID19, resulting in a massive resurgence in the Southern States. Throughout Summer 2020, US has led the world in new COVID cases per day and COVID deaths/day

3/5 Thread: Currently 1 in 5 global deaths from #COVID19 is an American

Today we reached the awful milestone of 180,000 deaths
Mid September we'll hit 200,000 deaths
December we'll hit 300,000 deaths

No mention tonight, and no interest in slowing it down

4/5 Thread: ZERO new ideas on how to control #COVID19. In its place, the White House Coronavirus Task Force has said "let the teachers and principals figure it out" oblivious to the simple reality that teachers will get sick if we open schools across much of the US

5/5 Thread: This Administration has overseen the historic decimation of Hispanic, African American, Native American communities across the Southern US, 30-35% of deaths under the age of 65, parents, brothers, sisters

“The Trump administration is responsible for the single worst public health failure in the last 100 years,” Peter J. Hotez, a global health expert and dean at the Baylor College of Medicine, told me @NickKristof . https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/26/opinion/trump-us-coronavirus.html