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Wrote about why India likely has 25K+ deaths dailyPushback: we lack hard data on crematoriums so we can't be sureTrueBut we get 25K+ deaths no matter how you lookAnother approach:400,000

India reports another 400,000+ cases, 4000+ death dayA sustained level of horriblenessAnd its not correctTrue number surely closer to 25,000 deaths, 2-5 million infections todayLots of ways to estimate but

Will we reach herd immunity?We might. In some places. For periods of timeAnd not sure it matters that muchExperience from UK, Israel clearGet enough folks vaccinated, pandemic fades into the

Important breaking newsUS govt calling for a pause of the J&J vaccine after a small number of people develop a very rare blood clot.While unfortunate, its the right step.Central to

What's the state of the pandemic in the US? In last monthB.1.1.7 and other variants have become dominant90M vaccines have gone into armsCases are up about 20%Here's the key graph

Daily reports tell us what happened last week, 2 weeks ago, 4 weeks agoThis is why folks are worried about what's nextToday's 7 day moving avgs167K cases, 3600 new hospitalizations,

Slaoui, speaking to @jaketapper, lays out an aggressive vaccination timelineIf he's right, we'll see virus spread starting to slow from growing population immunity by end of January into FebruaryAnd much

Today was a very, very odd dayI testified before @senatehomelandThey held a hearing on hydroxychloroquine.Yup, HCQIn the middle of the worst surge of pandemicHCQIt was clear how our information architecture

Through their votes, the American people have decided they want a new approach to the pandemicBut we have 73 days until new President takes office73 hard daysWithout action, additional 100,000

President keeps saying we have more cases because we are testing moreThis is not trueBut wait, how do we know?Doesn't more testing lead to identifying more cases?Actually, it doesSo we

President Trump, advisor @SWAtlasHoover arguing there's lot of false coding of COVIDThis is junk newsLike junk food, junk news tastes good but has no nutritional valueSo what are the facts?Don't

On 9/23, Indiana's @GovHolcomb lifted nearly all COVID19 restrictionshttps://www.wfyi.org/news/articles/gov-eric-holcomb-lifts-almost-all-covid-19-restrictionsThis struck me and other public health folks as dangerousA month later, how&#