NBC News: The U.S. coronavirus death toll has now passed 180,000.
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) August 26, 2020
Trump has said, several times, in public, that he would like the government to sabotage Covid testing and … well … it turns out he's the president! https://t.co/1Y1xqpBRWu
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) August 26, 2020
Fauci tells @drsanjaygupta he was under anesthesia when task force met to discuss changing testing guidance. “I am concerned about the interpretation of these recs & worried it will give people the incorrect assumption asymptomatic spread is not of great concern. In fact it is.”
— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) August 26, 2020
the country with complete and total nonsense talk. @ProjectLincoln
— Steve Schmidt (@SteveSchmidtSES) August 27, 2020
The federal govt is offering few details on how the coronavirus is spreading, even as people socialize & travel, and authorities reopen schools and businesses. It's frustrating data researchers, who want to help authorities make decisions to save lives https://t.co/5T1AgS4kxO
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) August 26, 2020
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COVID-19 LIVE updates ? https://t.co/nQfTTsPsnK
? Coronavirus cases pass 24 million globally
?? South Korea virus cases highest since March
?? India reports record 75,000 new virus infections pic.twitter.com/FJJmYlaDHF— Al Jazeera English (@AJEnglish) August 27, 2020
For the global pandemic. the US and Brazil stand alone on a death plateau of a thousand lost lives per day.
Today 1,249 Americans reported dead from covid-19.
Now into 6th consecutive week of >1,000 fatalities every weekday pic.twitter.com/R1WZZ4sIpV— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) August 27, 2020
Coronavirus: Vaccine front-runner China already inoculating workers https://t.co/iclnQ7dHWM
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) August 27, 2020
Coronavirus: Hong Kong to push ahead with easing social-distancing rules despite confirming 21 new cases https://t.co/3ANqlfSvh6
— SCMP News (@SCMPNews) August 27, 2020
China's offer of coronavirus tests for all in Hong Kong meets with public distrust https://t.co/nGeYLrEAoU pic.twitter.com/qFqOJBLQ6h
— Reuters (@Reuters) August 27, 2020
South Korea's parliament is shut down and a group of lawmakers enter self-quarantine as the country records more than 400 new #coronavirus infectionshttps://t.co/HBel23lgY7 pic.twitter.com/VswcDGDqCw
— AFP news agency (@AFP) August 27, 2020
South Korea urges work from home as country reports most daily cases since March https://t.co/h0u5iwx9q6 pic.twitter.com/nCYXAxCgQj
— Reuters (@Reuters) August 27, 2020
India reports record daily jump of 75,760 coronavirus infections https://t.co/i0Lm0Obzhd pic.twitter.com/S9HmguOOOC
— Reuters (@Reuters) August 27, 2020
The only story that should matter today: India's caseload reported today is the highest that any country has ever recorded on a single day since the start of the outbreak. (WHO and John Hopkins have differing figures but the trend is the same)https://t.co/g9OfZPoYC6
— Niha Masih (@NihaMasih) August 27, 2020
India coronavirus: Covid strikes remote Greater Andamanese tribe https://t.co/2tf4KXb6Id
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) August 27, 2020
Despite a spike in coronavirus infections, authorities in Europe are determined to send children back to school. They want to narrow learning gaps between haves and have-nots that deepened during virus lockdowns – and to get their parents back to work. https://t.co/eVWy8yAQMf
— The Associated Press (@AP) August 27, 2020
Schools Can Reopen, Germany Finds, but Expect a ‘Roller Coaster’ https://t.co/2xtcdomfhF
— Volker Stollorz (@Stollovo) August 26, 2020
Orthodox Jewish yeshiva (religious school) students study in plastic cells set up amid the Covid-19 pandemic in the Israeli city of Sderot.
Israel has over 92,000 COVID-19 cases to its nine million population, with fewer than 700 deaths
? Menahem Kahana pic.twitter.com/loTVE7XLVC
— AFP news agency (@AFP) August 27, 2020
Australia COVID-19 hotspot reports lowest rise in cases in nearly two months https://t.co/lsHfpHKHGE pic.twitter.com/8i1XUXVBVV
— Reuters (@Reuters) August 27, 2020
Africa's coronavirus outbreak may have passed its peak, the World Health Organization's regional director told a conference of African health ministers. Dr. Matshidiso Moeti said new cases are declining. S. Africa has had half the continent's cases https://t.co/tWTsjaaKCS
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) August 26, 2020
Argentina daily COVID-19 cases top 10,000 for first time https://t.co/n7nDaYFwGX pic.twitter.com/W0WL1ryFvn
— Reuters (@Reuters) August 27, 2020
Brazil asks China for proof chicken wings had coronavirus https://t.co/y8KHK8N1FK pic.twitter.com/amOe2xaXcb
— Reuters (@Reuters) August 27, 2020
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A dilemma for ‘long-haulers’: Many can’t prove they ever had #Covid19 https://t.co/IcQJMtRlVw via @statnews
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) August 27, 2020
"Asymptomatic #SARSCoV2 infections contributed substantially to transmission… were the source for 69% (20-85%) of all infections"
https://t.co/Ni4bXac21v
New @eLife by @JonCEmery @Rein_Houben @LSHTM @cmmid_LSHTM @LSHTM_TB and colleagues pic.twitter.com/kCECeeAB47— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) August 26, 2020
Moderna said its experimental COVID-19 vaccine induced immune responses in older adults that were similar to younger participants https://t.co/laiuhop8GO pic.twitter.com/90X5x9Vdna
— Reuters (@Reuters) August 27, 2020
J&J adds Chile, Argentina and Peru to Latin America COVID-19 vaccine trials https://t.co/hKP1vKjr4m pic.twitter.com/7sbBCGQCDk
— Reuters (@Reuters) August 27, 2020
“The coronavirus may infect anyone, young or old, but older men are up to twice as likely to become severely sick and to die as women of the same age. Why? Men produce a weaker immune response to the virus than do women.” https://t.co/XwxuaTDvPm
— David Wallace-Wells (@dwallacewells) August 26, 2020
US Coronavirus: Covid-19 child cases have increased by 21% since early August, new data shows – CNN @AmerAcadPeds https://t.co/7b9FepX3j8
— Mark Del Monte, JD (@AAPDelMonte) August 26, 2020
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My university is testing all students and staff 2x/wk.
So it processed 17,000 coronavirus tests yesterday.
That is 2.7 percent of all testing done across the entire United States.
That is not a typo.
— Alfred L Roca (@AlfredLRoca) August 25, 2020
U.S. Justice Department weighs probe of blue states over COVID-19 deaths in nursing homes https://t.co/nNkdenMluy pic.twitter.com/ytWMAA1nbP
— Reuters (@Reuters) August 27, 2020
The U.S. Justice Department on Wednesday said it may investigate whether four states led by Democratic governors violated the civil rights of the elderly by requiring nursing homes to admit coronavirus patients, a practice which critics say led to thousands of deaths.
The department said it was seeking COVID-19 data related to nursing homes from four states: New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Michigan…
Two of the four targeted states, Michigan and Pennsylvania, are among the most hotly contested in the Nov. 3 presidential election.
All four states have been hit hard by the pandemic, reporting among the highest number of COVID-related cases and deaths associated with nursing homes, according to figures reported by the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
The Justice Department did not issue data requests to other states that have reported comparable caseloads at nursing home facilities, such as Texas, Florida and California.
Tremendous @AP piece dissects how attempts by the Governor & leaders of #Florida politics to muzzle and cut public health, downplaying the #COVID19 threat, exploded in their faces.
Cautionary tale: Public Health matters.https://t.co/ff7Iuv8ytX— Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) August 25, 2020
Maine summer camps successfully stem spread of COVID-19: CDC https://t.co/xRzcPtBD8x pic.twitter.com/YlZC78D92g
— Reuters (@Reuters) August 27, 2020
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