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Dumbperson

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Joshua Holland

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2hDuring the '18 flu pandemic, Philly held a "liberty parade" to sell WWI bonds. Docs said they should cancel, but organizers wanted to raise $ and 200K people packed into Broad Street. Within 2 wks, 5K had died & a bunch of troops shipped out to Europe. https://smithsonianmag.com/history/philadelphia-threw-wwi-parade-gave-thousands-onlookers-flu-180970372/
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Scott Gottlieb, MD
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Meanwhile Comic Con will bring together 100,000 people in Seattle in a week. Into an area of America’s only known, potential larger outbreak. So far, local officials and event organizer are maintaining the event with stepped up efforts at infection control and other measures.
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Oh god plz let some of these comic book dorks take a dirt nap.
 
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watdaflock?

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Moderna is about to start human testing on a vaccine. Get a grip snowflake.
You know who tests the vaccine? Healthy people. It'll still be close-to a year, you idiot.

"The development and now testing of the vaccine has moved rapidly as compared with typical vaccine R&D, though federal health officials have cautioned that real-world use of the shots, if they succeed in testing, remains more than a year away. Even if the first trial has positive results, additional testing would be needed to validate the vaccine’s safety and effectiveness, according to Anthony Fauci, director of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, or NIAID. Dr. Fauci told a House subcommittee Wednesday he expected it would take at least a year to 18 months to be “fully confident that we would have a vaccine that would be able to protect the American people.”
 

UnconTROLLed

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WH Coronavirus task force expert Dr. Debbie Birx had some critical advice for the elderly. Coronavirus is particularly dangerous for the elderly and people with pre-existing conditions. Those folks should seriously consider whether it's a good idea to fly commercially, she said.
Literally a Debbie downer
 

tonyexpress

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Coronavirus Misinformation Lives Online, Despite Efforts to Stamp It Out

A review by The Wall Street Journal found dozens of pages and groups that have sprung up on Facebook to offer virus-related news and places to talk, some rife with comments or posts stoking fear about the virus or circulating unproven information.

False virus information could be more damaging than false content related to political discourse that has received attention in recent years, according to academics who study misinformation, because it might lead people to make misinformed decisions about their health or cause unwarranted panic.

One video posted to YouTube claimed that the Central Intelligence Agency has used the coronavirus as part of an “attack on Bernie,” referring to Sen. Bernie Sanders, the Democratic presidential candidate.

A spokesman from Mr. Sanders’s Senate office said he couldn’t comment on campaign-related matters, and campaign representatives couldn’t be reached for comment. A spokesman for the CIA said the agency “does not comment on such outlandish and offensive misinformation.”
 
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