Not a home test yet, but a big step in the right direction x.com/YaleSPH/status…

We'll take any good US pandemic news we can get. Today's is the lowest number (38K) of new cases in almost 2 months The COVID Tracking Project Caveats: weekend (Sunday) data and it is going thru @HHSgov's contract with TeleTracking

I don't know who needs to hear this today but that thing you're certain of is probably more complicated than you think and you should consider the possibility that you might be wrong

“To be born in the United States is to be born addicted to racist policies, to strive to be anti racist is to break an addiction cycle” (paraphrased) -Dr. Ibram Kendi

We can’t say “I’m not racist” when we grow up in cultures that are built on racism and encourage those behaviors, we have to work against what we inherently learn and are taught by our culture and society #AntiRacistWebinar

This report is noteworthy for 2 main reasons washingtonpost.com/climate-enviro… 1. The largest genomic study of an outbreak to date, tagged by 2 #SARSCoV2 sequence letter changes 2. An extraordinary superspreader event, from a Biogen conference to Boston homeless shelters and far beyond

There could literally be a vaccine that prevents some cancers and people still wouldn’t take it (I know because this is actually a thing)

Mateo FM @Dr_Michael_PJ Q: “Have you traveled internationally in the last two weeks?” A: “No, but we live in a hotspot and I work around Covid+ patients. Were you planning on warning the international places I traveled to?”

Imagine explaining to yourself in 2019 that a wild Friday night in 2020 would involve scrolling Twitter for FDA updates

We can get there faster, by not thinking we're starting to induce #SARSCoV2 immunity from scratch. We've unfortunately had way too much of a head start. covid19-projections.com/path-to-herd-i… Youyang Gu x.com/EricTopol/stat…

This about sums it up.

A covid pill could be coming sooner than you think. Think Tamiflu for covid. If Merck's drug works, it could be a gamechanger in the fight against this ever-mutating virus. w/Riley Ray Griffin in this week's Businessweek $MRK bloom.bg/3fmbzjc

Do vaccines work? With over 70% of seniors with a vaccine shot, COVID ER visits have dropped 80%.

If you make it a crime to give voters water as they wait in line, you're not pro-democracy.

JUST IN: Johnson & Johnson: "Insufficient" evidence of "causal relationship" between COVID-19 vaccine, blood clots hill.cm/SQJHTxT