Open Thread | Update on COVID-19 From Andy Slavitt

Posted on June 8, 2020 by rikyrah

You know that I follow Andy Slavitt on Twitter. He always keeps the healthcare information coming, and gives it in plain language.

COVID Update June 6: I talked to today that has one of the biggest growth in cases in the country.

There are some big differences with states that were hit hard with the virus in March or April.

And a preview of a second wave that is concerning. 1/

— Andy Slavitt @ 🏡 (@ASlavitt) June 7, 2020

With 500,000 tests/day now, we are testing many people now with slight symptoms & no symptoms. Every state but 2 has positives now lower than 10%.

So when we see high case growth in Southern states and Western states, it is not the same as when we saw it happen in NY. 3/

— Andy Slavitt @ 🏡 (@ASlavitt) June 7, 2020

For the last few weeks, cases in this state have gone up. But at first it was waved off. Testing was higher. Cases were inevitable.

But more recently, perhaps reflecting the opening of that state, hospitalizations started to increase. 5/

— Andy Slavitt @ 🏡 (@ASlavitt) June 7, 2020

If things get worse, the reservoir of will in this state to do anything resembling another shut down is gone. Many people have been told they sacrificed for nothing. 7/

— Andy Slavitt @ 🏡 (@ASlavitt) June 7, 2020

The good news is they are more prepared than early states were. Older people who can are presumably being more cautious. Hospitals have PPE and plenty of beds & infection controls in place.

The death rates should be lower. 9/

— Andy Slavitt @ 🏡 (@ASlavitt) June 7, 2020

The state now has three big hot spots. One a meat processing plant. The other two in cities.

They no longer believe they are dealing with an innocuous situation. 11/

— Andy Slavitt @ 🏡 (@ASlavitt) June 7, 2020

The state has testing resources but very limited contact tracing & almost no isolation strategies.

They have called the White House whose only advice had been to test more. 13/

— Andy Slavitt @ 🏡 (@ASlavitt) June 7, 2020

This offers a peak at what we could see in a second wave, particularly one that approaches election season.

More tolerance with bad consequences and less willingness to sacrifice— particularly as Trump fixates on the economy & the election. 15/

— Andy Slavitt @ 🏡 (@ASlavitt) June 7, 2020

2) people will need to pay much closer attention we the signal from Govt will be weaker. Bars may be open, churches may be open. It doesn’t mean they’re safe. 17/

— Andy Slavitt @ 🏡 (@ASlavitt) June 7, 2020

The virus is enough to battle. Our leaders should be removing the politics from decisions of life & death. End/

— Andy Slavitt @ 🏡 (@ASlavitt) June 7, 2020

I know that this is a red state. They are the only ones stupid enough to look towards this White House for guidance ON ANYTHING.

I will say this again…

It will take all my energy to go to and from work, trying to stay COVID-19 free. When I say that I don’t give a shyt what they open up…

It👏won’t👏be👏me👏

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rikyrah says:

June 10, 2020 at 6:06 pm

The next day, Trump asked Hogan to send the Maryland National Guard to DC. Trump had just directed cops to tear gas and beat peaceful protestors for a photo op.

Virginia's Governor refused. Governor Hogan–the supposed "moderate" Republican–agreed. https://t.co/DkLoqqfACs

— Vaughn Stewart (@DelegateStewart) June 5, 2020

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rikyrah says:

June 10, 2020 at 5:52 pm

So. Let's set the stage…
President Trump has chosen as the venue for his first rally in months, Tulsa, Oklahoma, site of a horrific massacre of African Americans. And he has set the date for June 19th, Juneteenth, a celebration of the end of slavery in the United States.

— Dan Rather (@DanRather) June 10, 2020

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rikyrah says:

June 10, 2020 at 5:51 pm

It's pre-meditated racist evil. https://t.co/Rdx7aLXa9J

— Matt Murphy (@MattMurph24) June 10, 2020

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rikyrah says:

June 10, 2020 at 5:48 pm

Just wanna say that Ossoff won because the black vote overwhelmingly turned out for him. So bashing the voters for voting Ossoff is bashing the black community of GA.

— UnitedAsOne2020 (@UnitedAsOne2020) June 10, 2020

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rikyrah says:

June 10, 2020 at 5:47 pm

I wonder what all the Black Kings for Trump have to say about him denigrating Black Wall Street like this. I thought they said Trump was pro-black business? Isn't that what they always say? https://t.co/6oSraaJG9V

— itgurl (@itgurl_29) June 10, 2020

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rikyrah says:

June 10, 2020 at 5:38 pm

Trump campaign demands CNN retract poll showing Biden up by 14 points!

They actually filed a Cease and Desist order to force ⁦@CNN⁩ to retract or take down the poll.

When one is a pathological liar, the truth is, indeed, a bitter pill.#GoJoe2020 https://t.co/gwIPF5EH9l

— Southern Sister Resister (@ResisterSis20) June 10, 2020

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rikyrah says:

June 10, 2020 at 5:29 pm

This thread 👏👏😢😢

Our leaders were Black women and they genuinely loved us. Because they loved us, we did ALL the GS things: we sold cookies, and earned badges, and did community service, and went camping.

— I'm a Doctor. Stay Home and Wash Your Hands (@dst6n01) June 9, 2020

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rikyrah says:

June 10, 2020 at 5:25 pm

Don’t start none.
Won’t be none.

WHITE SUPREMACIST WEARING "FLIP FLOPS" 😜
HARASSES AN ASIAN MAN
AND GETS

KNOCKED THE F#%CK OUT!

😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣

pic.twitter.com/nFMq66JlAg

— Honey Chile 😘 (@HoneyChile15) June 10, 2020

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- Liza says:
  
  June 11, 2020 at 1:15 pm
  
  Perhaps I am wicked and evil but I really like this video.
  
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  - vitaminlover says:
    
    June 12, 2020 at 10:54 pm
    
    Had that Asian guy been me, I would NOT have tried to help him up after I whipped him. I would have left him laying there.
    
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rikyrah says:

June 10, 2020 at 5:07 pm

Truth 👏👏

You can’t call/treat someone like the spare their whole life and then be surprised when they escape with the person who treats them as a priority. Think again. pic.twitter.com/K1NTZR0Fjl

— 𝗧𝗛𝗥𝗜𝗩𝗘 𝗢𝗡 𝗣𝗨𝗥𝗣𝗢𝗦𝗘 👶🏻📚 (@freepeeper) June 10, 2020

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Liza says:

June 10, 2020 at 1:31 pm

Anyone heard from Ametia?

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- rikyrah says:
  
  June 10, 2020 at 5:13 pm
  
  She is fine. Her family is doing well.
  
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  - Liza says:
    
    June 10, 2020 at 5:23 pm
    
    It’s good to hear. I’ve been thinking about her.
    
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Liza says:

June 10, 2020 at 11:39 am

NEWS: The Minneapolis Police Department will withdraw from contract negotiations with the local police union. https://t.co/rMFrk6TiW2

— The Appeal (@theappeal) June 10, 2020

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Liza says:

June 10, 2020 at 11:37 am

If you need to see a little black joy, please watch my moms reaction when I told her I got into law school with a $40,000 annual scholarship 🤩 pic.twitter.com/KDo4c19WYl

— Mel (@ladyfromdalou) June 10, 2020

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- vitaminlover says:
  
  June 12, 2020 at 10:57 pm
  
  A lovely queen!
  
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Liza says:

June 9, 2020 at 10:39 am

When you're accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression. (It's not.)

— Franklin Leonard (@franklinleonard) October 10, 2015

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Liza says:

June 9, 2020 at 8:55 am

Well said.

Democrats are not going to embrace a slogan that polls as low as defund the police, but the moderates and liberals need radicals to create space for substantive changes. https://t.co/qaYZ8gASzv

— Adam Serwer🍝 (@AdamSerwer) June 9, 2020

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Liza says:

June 9, 2020 at 8:54 am

Indeed.

We have a profound crisis of imagination in this country.

— Eddie S. Glaude Jr. (@esglaude) June 9, 2020

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Liza says:

June 9, 2020 at 8:47 am

Just when you think you can’t hate him more…

The 75 year old activist whose assault Trump is supporting is also an activist with Witness Against Torture, protesting GTMO, an anti-war activist who has protested drone bases and an active member of the Western New York Peace Center.

— jeremy scahill (@jeremyscahill) June 9, 2020

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- Liza says:
  
  June 9, 2020 at 8:50 am
  
  Same here. I’m still amazed by the crazy bullsh!t the POS can come up with.
  
  I have to confess that I did not have "that 75 year old guy faked his own bleeding head trauma" on my Donald Trump Batshittery Bingo card
  
  — Jeff Tiedrich (@itsJeffTiedrich) June 9, 2020
  
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rikyrah says:

June 9, 2020 at 7:11 am

Just know the so-called “progressives” were quite fine with the two party system when they thought they were about to run it and kick us out of it. Now they’re back to decrying two party politics but were fine with it if it meant Bernie ruled by fiat.

— (((RuggedAmethyst))) (@GrooveSDC) June 9, 2020

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rikyrah says:

June 9, 2020 at 7:08 am

The only three Democrats who seem to know how to handle the media ar Nancy Pelosi, Maxine Waters and Stacey Abrams. Most Democrats are too worried about appearance and civility.

— FedUp_Mom (@Fedup_Mom) June 9, 2020

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rikyrah says:

June 8, 2020 at 9:37 pm

I love this. Bringing it all together.#COVID19 #BlackLivesMatter #GeorgeFloydProtests pic.twitter.com/YCWsDHH2yk

— Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) June 8, 2020

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rikyrah says:

June 8, 2020 at 9:35 pm

I'm not going to quibble, decry or complain about this act of solidarity. I am grateful. I was uplifted and seeing the Kente cloth made my chest rise. I'm proud asf! I needed this. Thank you @TheBlackCaucus and @SpeakerPelosi pic.twitter.com/EOEv3PuCYO

— Blue Blooded Democrat-Votes By Mail 🇺🇸 (@blewis823) June 8, 2020

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rikyrah says:

June 8, 2020 at 9:35 pm

Biden releases statement on economy entering a recession: “Trump inherited the longest economic expansion in history from the Obama-Biden administration, but like everything else he’s inherited, he has squandered it.” pic.twitter.com/hTREZ6ZhYV

— Rebecca Morin (@RebeccaMorin_) June 8, 2020

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rikyrah says:

June 8, 2020 at 9:33 pm

Ramsey Orta, who filmed the deadly Eric Garner arrest in 2014, has been released from prison https://t.co/Gbmum0hrR8 pic.twitter.com/g9MwDSSTB7

— Rolling Stone (@RollingStone) June 8, 2020

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rikyrah says:

June 8, 2020 at 9:31 pm

Jared Kushner is a silver spoon, slumlord millionaire with rat-infested properties who couldn't even fill out his security forms properly, how is he being put in charge of racism lmaoooo

— BrooklynDad_Defiant! (@mmpadellan) June 8, 2020

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rikyrah says:

June 8, 2020 at 9:30 pm

CNN national poll:
Biden 55%
Trump 41%

Trump approval
Approve 38%
Disapprove 57%

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) June 8, 2020

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Liza says:

June 8, 2020 at 9:13 pm

I guess we’ll see…

"Clearly the NFL was trying to keep Colin out but it wasn't because they were worried about business, it was because they were kowtowing to Trump," Kaepernick's attorney told @ABC.

"Any club may sign Colin if they choose to do so," an NFL spokesman said. https://t.co/6DAH8QmcbO

— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) June 8, 2020

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Liza says:

June 8, 2020 at 9:10 pm

And Mitt stands ready in case Trump doesn’t make it to November.

Black Lives Matter. pic.twitter.com/JpXUFlxH2J

— Mitt Romney (@MittRomney) June 7, 2020

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rikyrah says:

June 8, 2020 at 6:19 pm

'It’s a long time, 8 minutes and 46 seconds. It’s a long time to be on one knee. But for 244 years, there were plenty of knees on the necks of Blacks who came to this country’ — Rep. @WhipClyburn pic.twitter.com/6kqsNXGOmc

— NowThis (@nowthisnews) June 8, 2020

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rikyrah says:

June 8, 2020 at 5:18 pm

They didn’t. But presented the #JusticeInPolicingAct . The framing should be #JusticeInPolicing . The „new slogan“ is Susan Sarandon & Co, rightwingers profiting from it and probably Putin‘s Troll army fueling it (while Zuckerberg cashing in on it) pic.twitter.com/Cqe68X0IUf

— Christine Loriol (@ChristineLoriol) June 8, 2020

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rikyrah says:

June 8, 2020 at 5:12 pm

#JusticeInPolicing now that is a winning message. https://t.co/9YSf5nNQqe

— Sassy_Tiff ⚖️ (@tify330) June 8, 2020

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rikyrah says:

June 8, 2020 at 5:11 pm

she just channeled rand paul's neighbor pic.twitter.com/lznIfvWB7R

— Florida Chris (@chrislongview) June 8, 2020

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rikyrah says:

June 8, 2020 at 5:10 pm

Have any of the bluechecks talking about kente cloth mentioned any single aspect of the bill that was introduced 🤔 or is their whole existence based on keeping yall dumb and distracted 🙃https://t.co/O3hpeJPicD

— she aint messin with no broke Karen ⚖️ (@Drea_got_rage) June 8, 2020

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rikyrah says:

June 8, 2020 at 5:09 pm

Meghan McCain asks Kamala Harris whether she is “defunding the police,” then proceeds to get schooled by her and Sunny Houston 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 #BlackLivesMatter #TheView pic.twitter.com/DtwyFllUwC

— Madam Auntie Kamala Harris for VP! (@flywithkamala) June 8, 2020

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rikyrah says:

June 8, 2020 at 5:08 pm

Via jamieleehurtt #tiktok
The video shows young Azariah in tears, saying, “I could die from the color of my skin,” as her father, Joseph, squats on the floor beside her and hugs her. Jamie told Storyful, “My fiancé and I decided it was time to speak about how she may get treated pic.twitter.com/KrTRbneFs8

— DaDNotNoun (@DadIsntANoun) June 3, 2020

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rikyrah says:

June 8, 2020 at 5:06 pm

Fred T. Joseph – who set up a FAKE Black barbershop to promote Elizabeth Warren – says the CBC is “anti-Black” because they wore and gifted kente cloth to Dems, a practice they have been doing for years. pic.twitter.com/Nw7WioAfJh

— PragmaticObotsUnite (@PragObots) June 8, 2020

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rikyrah says:

June 8, 2020 at 4:58 pm

😒😒😒

To show solidarity with black lives, Senate and House dems accepted African Kente cloth to wear as they announced a huge new police reform bill designed to combat systemic racism

In the comments ,Bernie leftists team with writers for the federalist, to mock this https://t.co/3hfz8NITLw

— T. Fisher King (@T_FisherKing) June 8, 2020

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rikyrah says:

June 8, 2020 at 4:57 pm

Funny how the populist left wants to make racism about money.

They see BLM and want to replace it with "DEFUND the police". Note how they remove "black lives" and replace them with fiscal policy!

When all you have is a hammer and sickle, everything looks like class warfare… https://t.co/7234q0sG9O

— Truth Sandwich🥪🇺🇸❄️🍩🇭🥀⚖️ (@master_deli) June 8, 2020

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Liza says:

June 8, 2020 at 8:56 am

There’s a straight line from slavery to this.

How are we supposed to reform this? https://t.co/nu79GzBm7j

— Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) June 8, 2020

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Liza says:

June 8, 2020 at 8:52 am

BREAKING: A veto-proof majority of the Minneapolis City Council has pledged to disband the city's police department and invest in community-led public safety. pic.twitter.com/hIVAPbQWcx

— Democracy Now! (@democracynow) June 7, 2020

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Liza says:

June 8, 2020 at 8:45 am

Ha ha…

Philly skaters showed up today to say Fuck The Police pic.twitter.com/C3sWuTSrtF

— Zach Harris (@PotCzach) June 7, 2020

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Liza says:

June 8, 2020 at 8:43 am

Twenty thousand people in Hollywood https://t.co/Yz77oIYThu

— Meagan Day (@meaganmday) June 8, 2020

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Liza says:

June 8, 2020 at 8:40 am

Amen! But it’s too late now.

Can we all just admit this: The transformational changes that covid, the economic crisis, police brutality and racial turbulence will force are precisely some of the things Bernie Sanders was talking about but may have sounded too extreme to some just months ago.

— Charles M. Blow (@CharlesMBlow) June 8, 2020

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rikyrah says:

June 8, 2020 at 7:38 am

Sabotage
Deliberate sabotage 😠😠😠

Why can’t the message be “Black Lives Matter” ?

Why did it have to become “Black Lives Matter = Defund the Police”?

— Sasha (@SashaBeauloux) June 8, 2020

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rikyrah says:

June 8, 2020 at 7:36 am

Karen IMMEDIATELY left the store after getting slapped! 🤣 https://t.co/ptTgaYn2in

— Veronica McDonald🗣 (@Purify_toast17) June 7, 2020

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- vitaminlover says:
  
  June 12, 2020 at 11:00 pm
  
  Loved it! Tee hee!
  
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rikyrah says:

June 8, 2020 at 7:26 am

1) *Before* the pandemic, GDP growth under your tenure was at almost exactly the same pace as it was during Obama’s second term. Despite your spending $2T on an unfunded tax cut.
2) *Since* the pandemic, the economy has wiped out all the net job gains going back to December 2011 https://t.co/Iie2YNL6vx

— Catherine Rampell (@crampell) June 8, 2020

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rikyrah says:

June 8, 2020 at 7:14 am

Fierce. pic.twitter.com/HClLGz0xxb

— Roy Rodgers McFreely (@ajust0419) June 8, 2020

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- rikyrah says:
  
  June 8, 2020 at 7:23 am
  
  Just FYI, as several commenters have noted, the guy's name is Jay Snowden, 51 years old. He was arrested & charged with one count of disorderly conduct. There's video here, if you can stomach it. https://t.co/M90nmWzjVA
  
  — David Roberts (@drvox) June 8, 2020
  
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rikyrah says:

June 8, 2020 at 7:12 am

I will never ever forgive @BernieSanders for staying silent while his racist fans insulted this living piece of black history

Ever https://t.co/MQWeUGgXFb

— T. Fisher King (@T_FisherKing) June 8, 2020

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rikyrah says:

June 8, 2020 at 7:11 am

A white woman who parked her car in the path of anti-racism marchers—and then spit on a black protester who asked her to move it—was arrested https://t.co/2yPSufegmU

— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) June 8, 2020

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rikyrah says:

June 8, 2020 at 5:58 am

Good Morning, Everyone 😊😊😊

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