Andy Slavitt 🇺🇦
@ASlavitt
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Fr Biden/Obama Admins. Host of @inthebubblepod & author best-selling book “Preventable”. Find me on Postnews aslavitt.
Joined April 2013
BREAKING: The NBA just announced that all basketball arenas will he turned into 2020 voting locations. Ample space for large amounts of people to vote safely.
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A distillery in DuLuth, Minnesota, seeing an opportunity, converted the distillery from making alcohol to making hand sanitizer. And you know what they’re selling it for? They’re giving it away free. There are going to be thousands of stories like this to lift up.
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Tomorrow morning, early on the East Coast, the U.S. will rejoin the World Health Organization. Representing the U.S. will be Dr. Anthony Fauci.
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If airlines can ask us not to eat peanuts on board if there is someone with a peanut allergy, why won’t they ask us to wear a mask if there’s an unvaccinated 4 year old or cancer patient on board?.
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Why are famous people getting COVID-19?. BECAUSE WE ONLY HAVE ENOUGH TESTS FOR FAMOUS PEOPLE.
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BREAKING: US hits single day high of reported Coronavirus cases. Federal government silent.
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COVID Update July 26: We can virtually eliminate the virus any time we decide to. 1/.
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COVID-19 may be under control in Florida but they have an unprecedented “pneumonia” crisis.
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Currently experts expect over 1 million deaths in the U.S. since the virus was not contained & we cannot even test for it. This will be recorded as a major preventable public health disaster. I will try to relate what I learned from a long day of calls about what is happening.
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BREAKING NEWS ON CHIP: CBO now says if Congress extends CHIP for 10 years instead of 5, it will not cost the government ANYTHING. It will save $6 billion AND keep 9 million low income kids covered. Congress decides within 9 days. This is not widely known but needs to be.
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BREAKING: Chris Wallace says Trump arrived too late to the debate to get tested and used the honor system.
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BREAKING: No reported COVID deaths in New York. It can be done.
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Why do people who say they want no more lockdowns take no steps to prevent them?.
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In my 53 years of seeing dumb things, defunding the WHO in the middle of a global pandemic is the winner.
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Why are some people worried about unknown long term side-effects of the vaccine but not the unknown long term side-effects of a virus?.
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Non-violent protesters in Minneapolis: rubber bullets. Protesters with an AK-47 & confederate flags: nothing.
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Do vaccines work?. With over 70% of seniors with a vaccine shot, COVID ER visits have dropped 80%.
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BREAKING: Trump just fired one of our country’s most prominent vaccine developers who spoke up against Trump pushing unproven & harmful theories.
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What some call “cancel culture,” others simply call “consequences.”.
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You don’t end mask mandates now for the same reason runners don’t stop running just because they can see the finish line.
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I’m asked what education is needed to get people to want to wear a mask. Basically kindergarten.
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Trump is trying to reduce testing to hide the numbers. Now he is hiding hospitalization counts. This is just the USSR-Chernobyl plan. It doesn't work.
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TODAY: Trump is doing something about the pandemic. Today he’s filing a brief in the Supreme Court to end the ACA & take health care coverage away from 20 million people.
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BREAKING: CDC finds Arizona infection rates . -increased 150% when mask wearing/distancing removed -declined 75% after the measures implemented.
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7,100 people just died from COVID in a single day. We can’t really be numb to that, can we?.
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BREAKING: CDC recommends against Thanksgiving travel. You are seeing the first stages of a CDC being permitted to do their jobs.
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BREAKING: Kemp voids all of Georgia’s local mask mandates. Virus is worse today than at any point. So is Kemp.
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BREAKING: Facing legal setbacks, Texas drops enforcement of school mask mandate ban.
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I used to work inside HHS & I’d like to comment as to why it might make sense for HHS to prevent CDC from getting & showing hospital data. There is no possible good reason.
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On Jan 20, I will join the new White House team on a short term basis as Senior Advisor for COVID response. These are relatively new plans. I will tweet separately about the great plans for some of the other things I have been working on while I do this.
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BREAKING: No virus after all the NBA is tested. Masks work for exact same reason no NBA player tested positive for Coronavirus in the bubble. When the virus has no place to go, it dies.
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BREAKING: Trump Administration will not participate in plan by leading countries in the world to distribute vaccine equitably throughout the world. It is another shameful day.
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Republicans in the Senate didn’t have the time to renew unemployment insurance but they have time jam through a court justice in 2 weeks.
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“It really does feel like the U.S. has given up.” -European scientist.
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Why do people not believe there is a microchip in Ivermectin?.
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Natural herd immunity is an excellent idea until you’re in the herd.
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If your governor won’t take action until there’s a refrigerated truck outside the county hospital, you can do better.
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By the end of September, the US will have the lowest vaccination level of all prosperous democracies,. With the largest supply & the biggest head start.
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There is one thing virtually everyone dying from COVID has in common. They haven’t been vaccinated.
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Hanging garlic on your neck is now officially not the worst idea to fight Coronavirus.
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BREAKING: By a 20-point margin, Americans say Trump’s handling of the Coronavirus makes them less likely to vote for him.
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I marvel that if someone attacked the homeland with a biological weapon and killed 150,000 people, the Tom Cottons of the country would be like “let’s go to war on this enemy” instead of “hey, I’m not wearing that piece of fabric.”.
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If you want to get a COVID-19 test and can’t, a good route seems to be to become a US Senator or an NBA basketball player.
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It’s easy to spot people who want the economy to open the fastest. They’re wearing a mask.
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If you can’t beat a virus, just stop testing. If you can’t win an election, just stop people from voting. THAT is cancel culture.
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Trump decided not to inform people of ACA open enrollment in order to sink it. That's not the only option. RT here if you will help spread.
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BREAKING: Judge in Maine rules that Gov LePage must implement Medicaid expansion (as passed by the voters). LePage has said he would rather go to jail than give Mainers health care. Speaking on behalf of many, yes please.👌.
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I wanted to see how much a favor Rubio did low income families with his act today. For a family w 2 kids, the average cost of daycare is $2k/month. @marcorubio just secured $25/month for that family. This same bill allows wealthy kids to inherit $11 million tax free.
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NEW: Scott Atlas has just resigned. If I hear the name again in 20 years it will be too soon.
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I want a president who “learns a lot” about a deadly infectious disease before it kills 210,000 people & before he becomes a one-person hot spot. #NotAskingALot.
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COVID Update December 3: Not enough attention has been played to the villainous role of Mitch McConnell and the Senate in this pandemic. 1/.
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BREAKING: The CDC now pulls down language saying COVID aerisolizes. It’s reasonable to wonder who is calling the shots at the CDC and what the scientists actually think.
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.@RonDeSantisFL is the first human I’ve ever seen not phased that pediatric hospitals are filling up on his watch.
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BREAKING: Oklahoma passes Medicaid expansion by ballot initiative!.
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We abandoned national testing. We abandoned contact tracing. We have made not wearing a mask a symbol of freedom. World renowned epidemiologists are receiving violent threats.
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I was asked today what will be most different about Joe & Kamala’s approach to the pandemic. A plan.
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BREAKING: White House takes away FDA authority to regulate COVID tests. It’s August, de-regulating & politically meddling are not what FDA needs right now. More soon. Follow if interested.
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If you’ve worn blackface or repeatedly said President Obama was born in Africa you should resign.
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The more time I spend in DC at the start of this Administration, the more I see what the career civil servants were forced to endure these last 4 years. The quiet heroism to keep doing their jobs for the public under any circumstance is what sets them apart.
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NEWS: Bars in Florida & Texas ordered to shut immediately as hospitals fill & governors demonstrate poor understanding of the concept of a time lag.
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BREAKING: The bipartisan Medicaid Directors from all 50 states just issued this negative statement about Graham-Cassidy. Big. Very unusual.
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For everyone suddenly against “court packing,” what do they think we just witnessed?.
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UPDATE: California students will be required to get vaccinated, first in the nation.
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Mitch McConnell left town letting unemployment insurance expire after a Democrats passed it 3 months ago because he didn’t have enough time. His time should be up.
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Speaking of recounts, could we also do a recount of all the kids that haven’t been reunited with their parents, people who died unnecessarily, and who have lost their insurance?.
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DOD reports that 95% of military have now had at least one shot now. In the scheme of controversies, this was not one.
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BREAKING: ACA enrollment down 10% so far with Trump marketing budget down 90%. The good news: Most can get covered for $75/month no matter pre-existing conditions. The problem: almost no one knows that after Dec 15 it will be too late to get covered.
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BREAKING: After reviewing 340,000 pages and record amount of data, the FDA has given full approval to the Pfizer vaccine.
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COVID Update: When vaccine requirements are announced, whether in the military, a company, or a hospital, there is attention paid to the often dozen(s) who protest. Less attention is paid to the thousands who get vaccinated. 1/.
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The state of Florida now has more daily cases now than NY at its peak. A couple things need to happen now.
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By now every American should have access to N-95 quality masks. Every day that passes is a scandal & an epic failure of indifference of our government. Details to come soon. Follow here if interested.
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Today is the big day. 2 weeks ago today President Trump promised “a full and complete health care plan” within 2 weeks. So of course I set my calendar & woke up early. I could not be more excited to finally see this.
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We ended up allowing thousands of people to die so we could have bars open for a couple months.
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A note to Fauci critics:. For years, he has been working tirelessly on the development of the mRNA vaccine in anticipation of a potential major viral outbreak. And on Jan 11, 2020, his team downloaded the gene sequence & on the 13th began work on the vaccine. So keep it down.
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BREAKING: Trump drops action to deport international college students. Thank you. Having the idea still makes you an asshole.
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BREAKING: With one month until the election, at 55,000 today we had the highest number of new cases since mid-August— all of them important.
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If Trump spent half the energy he expends on voter suppression on virus suppression, you’d be going to able to share ice cream cones with strangers by now.
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We lost one-third if our economy simply because we didn’t address our public health crisis.
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Four years later, it’s good to be back to get to work for the American public. There’s no feeling like it that I’ve experienced.
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Doctors in Italy are begging us to listen to them. 21,000 confirmed cases, 20% growth in a single day. Non-COVID-19 cases getting by without medical care. Ventilators are in short supplies causing death tolls to rise to 100s/day. 1/.
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Your employer, college, school, or favorite venue can and should require vaccinations as a condition of entry. The only option not to would be a daily negative test.
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I got to Washington DC tonight. For all of the madness surrounding this moment & how we got here, I got off the plane feeling the weight of the moment in history and how much good people have pulled together to try to define our future in the toughest times.
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BREAKING: The US is failing to produce even small number of testing kits for COVID-19 extraction despite Trump & Pence statements. Labs and states are worried. Expect next to no availability to continue for weeks. It is vital to self-quarantine.
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Governors,. Time to decide what’s more important: opening bars or preparing to open schools.
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COVID-19 Prep Update- March 14:. Last night I was on with state & local officials around the US well into the night. By March 23 many of our largest cities & hospitals are on course to be overrun with cases. I am going to prepare a memo for them. I will share highlights here.1/.
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I don’t know if a half-dozen people have ever done more damage to the planet, to human welfare, to democracy, and to public safety in the course of less than a year.
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COVID Update May 4: We’ve been lied to about the potential death toll in this country & it matters. 1/.
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44% of Americans say they would take a vaccine before w Phase 3 trial. In other news, 56% of Americans know what a Phase 3 trial is.
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COVID Update December 17: This is my worst thread. I hate writing it. But I have to write it. 1/.
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When this is over, we’re going to need to find another state for Disney World.
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BREAKING: Judge orders migrant children in detention centers released due to Coronavirus outbreaks.
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For all the yelling & screaming about freedom, we no longer have the freedom to go to Europe.
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BREAKING: Dr Fauci just testified that the COVID-19 death toll is likely meaningfully higher than the 80,000 reported.
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6 million vaccinations reported over 2 days this weekend. Using fancy math, that’s 3 million/day.
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