Trump's quarter-million deaths achievable by election day, US records 1200 deaths yesterday

Last updated on August 8, 2020

Kansas demonstrated unintentionally that mask use “flattens the curve” by comparing counties that had mask mandates with those that didn’t.

US records more than 2,000 #coronavirus deaths in 24 hours, the highest number of daily fatalities in 3 months: Johns Hopkins University #COVID19 trackerhttps://t.co/5v8lF3itDm— Julie Laumann (@Otpor17) August 7, 2020

It is August 7. Trump on the pandemic on July 7: “I think we are going to be — in two, three, four weeks, by the time we next speak — I think we're going to be in very good shape.”

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) August 7, 2020

We are not in Kansas anymore, we are in Kansas everywhere.

‘Winning the battle’: Kansas health official says mask mandates decrease COVID cases https://t.co/1ltjeeV2SP

— The Kansas City Star (@KCStar) August 7, 2020

Nearly 300,000 Americans could be dead from COVID-19 by December 1, according to a forecast by health experts at the University of Washington.

Live updates: https://t.co/US2EqGgWD8

— Al Jazeera News (@AJENews) August 7, 2020

Trump’s messaging is desperately trying to isolate exceptions in a pandemic that does not recognize state borders, while trying to make ludicrous comparisons with other countries.

Stop calling COVID-19 the China Virus. Nobody calls the H1N1 swine flu pandemic the American Pig Flu despite the fact that the H1N1 influenza virus that killed 100 million people originated in a pig farm in Kansas in 1918 and then flared up again in California and Mexico in 2009.

— Eugene Gu, MD (@eugenegu) August 3, 2020

Irregularities found in Trump administration's contract for company used to collect COVID-19 data | Via: Salon https://t.co/WY0BJhcRpl

— SafetyPin-Daily (@SafetyPinDaily) August 7, 2020

According to @maddow, ten areas are in for big trouble COVID-wise including Baltimore, Atlanta, Kansas City, Portland, Omaha, Chicago, Boston, Detroit and Washington, D.C. How do we know? Someone leaked a private call from the scarf lady. https://t.co/Xhhqi1eFhv

— audiomagnate🔊 (@audiomagnate) August 7, 2020

Speech muffled with your mask? Not a problem.

A robotics startup in Japan has created a smart mask with a built-in microphone that amplifies your voice and translates your speech into 8 languages @taisuke_ono pic.twitter.com/nmpCPnCwu7

— Bloomberg QuickTake (@QuickTake) August 4, 2020

Trump Sues the Coronavirus for Treating Him Unfairly

Trump said that he was accusing the coronavirus of meddling in the 2020 election.https://t.co/DlrxvsTSwu

— ¡SATIRISTAS! (@Satiristas) August 7, 2020

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