Pfizer today is asking the US Food and Drug Administration to approve its Covid-19 vaccine for 12 to 15 year old children. Currently it is approved for anyone 16 or older. This comes after its trials showed it to be 100% effective in preventing Covid in that age group. Pfizer/BioNTech said...
Epidemiology
CNN reports that the Biden team is greatly concerned that Trump’s public numbers on vaccines are fake and, more critically, it is hard to really know what the current state of play is. States across the country say they're running low on coronavirus vaccine supply, with many officials insisting the...
The White House continues to to dodge the facts with double-talk, as it becomes more obvious that Trump endangered numerous people including perhaps Joe Biden. Trump seems to have known that he was COVID-positive prior to the first debate. x The White House has dodged questions for seven straight days about...
I attempted to watch clips of Donald Trump’s ABC Town Hall from last night. It was like watching a concussed orangutan drown in a bucket of Yoo-hoo. Not sure why Trump agreed to do this, as it was well outside his comfort zone — that being the twin bouncy castles of...
I don’t know how else to describe someone who is pro-coronavirus as anything but evil, or as The Louisville Courier-Journal columnist Joseph Gerth calls Kentucky State Attorney General as “bidding to become Kentucky’s most prolific serial killer.” But Daniel Cameron is evil. During the midst of a surging viral epidemic, Cameron has taken...
The problem of Trumpian logic and math is that epidemiology has too many syllables. A “99% US survival rate” for Trump is the rhetorical acceptability of a million deaths. The weeks have become even more absurd as the election approaches. That 99% meme accompanies attempts on Twitter to convince people that masks...
Trump in 2013: x Ignorance is inexcusable; itâÂÂs the surest way to fail. No acceptable reason exists for not being well informed. — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 26, 2013 Trump now: x Nobody briefed or told me, @VP Pence, or Chief of Staff @MarkMeadows about the so-called attacks on...
The GOP’s goal is more about being reelected rather than economic recovery, and their tacit promotion of RW resistance through gun rallies is only a first step “back to normal”. This is happening even if they also tolerate attacks on science by pseudo-scientific propaganda like Vaxxed or Plandemic. Unfortunately, the...
I’ve always suspected Donald Trump would be far more upset if someone screwed up his McDonald’s lunch order than if, say, millions of promised (and necessary) coronavirus tests failed to materialize by a self-imposed deadline. After all, Trump can lie about the tests, but he can’t pretend he has an invisible...
Paul Krugman is always a pleasure to read, in that he is so often right, and so often cuts to the heart of the matter. This morning’s column is particularly insightful: Trump and His Infallible Advisers Trump and company didn’t make a one-time mistake. They grossly minimized the pandemic and...
Watching videos of these rallies is like watching a squirrel play with a downed power line. What do these people think is going to happen? Really, what? How can this possibly end well? x The reopen Arizona rally ends with a singing of âÂÂAmazing Grace.â The host encourages everyone listening...
I feel better already. The A-Team. pic.twitter.com/FIw2fKqgwR — Mark Horowitz (@MarkHorowitz) April 13, 2020 Let’s see, we’ve got Mark Meadows, reliable Trump flunky and the new acting White House chief of staff; Ivanka Trump, the pr*sident’s daughter and a noted exploiter of low-wage Chinese labor; Jared Kushner, the know-nothing fopdoodle Trump...
COVID-19 is not like the seasonal flu, among other things. The above chart should end all comments about it being “just like the flu”. Remember that 0.6% of the US population has been tested for COVID-19. And Howard Dean is the first to announce that he’ll not go on MSNBC as...
The Trumpian disinformation machine lost a month and now recalibrates death toll expectations in the last two pressers. President Tiger King’s reelection can only happen with a recovering economy and a receding coronavirus contagion. In his desperation, his media frame for electoral success now moves from zero to 100,000 deaths. Today he...
The 2.2 million death toll cited by Trump that would occur without any mitigation will become a meme so that the quarter million death toll won’t seem so high. We’re not going to know the real numbers much like Puerto Rico, until much later. So much disinformation in today’s COVID-19...
So much disinformation and the data is not pointing in a direction that would justify Trump attempt to “open the economy”. His posturing seems to continue as usual with the same incompetence and it is going to get worse before it gets better. x Source: https://t.co/0MM08iFLyL— Nick Knudsen ðºð¸ #DemCast (@DemWrite)...
This fucking guy: Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) is under fire for what is being regarded as juvenile rhetoric while the Senate is in gridlock over a stimulus package. In a tweet on Sunday night, Cornyn sniped at Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) — who explained why Senate Democrats voted...
How do Kentucky rednecks respond to the coronavirus pandemic? First up, treat it like terrorists and 9/11 and go out and live your lives! State Rep. Jim Gooch received applause from fellow Republicans after a House floor speech Wednesday defending the legislature's decision to continue meeting amid the pandemic, urging...
Aside from the forced separation of families, The #TrumpPlague will be more than about fleas and rats. The Trumpian aversion to accurate data elsewhere has brought the nation to the edge of the golden hour. x If the mortality rate is 1%, that means 50,000 of the cases from the...
Apparently Jared Kushner, because Trump doesn’t trust anyone else, will do the same cracker-jack job on WH strategy he did with that Wednesday Trump address to the nation. x BREAKING – Trump assigned Jared Kushner & Ivanka to come up with a new WH strategy to battle COVID-19 by Monday...