2 weeks ago I started raising concerns about Arizona & joined many others in calling for ⁦@dougducey⁩ to please act.

He then had a press conference where he said these accounts were exaggerated. Now those accounts were the good old days.

From ⁦@NephronResearch⁩ pic.twitter.com/DnC5oYiAk1

— Andy Slavitt @ 🏡 (@ASlavitt) June 21, 2020

Governors— we have data now that contact tracing & testing REDUCE the spread of COVID-19.

It’s June 21. What are you going to do about it? pic.twitter.com/xusAgY4JV1

— Andy Slavitt @ 🏡 (@ASlavitt) June 21, 2020

“So I said to my people, slow the mammograms down, please. They’re finding too much breast cancer.” 🤡 https://t.co/kqMMxp49TR

— Lana Slavitt (@somuchweirdness) June 21, 2020

“It’s just a Blue State problem.” pic.twitter.com/FT1nR0NRxa

— Andy Slavitt @ 🏡 (@ASlavitt) June 20, 2020

COVID Update June 19: Cases are rising & states are facing an onslaught as hospitalizations begin to grow.

The month ahead is likely to be filled with terrible loss. It’s time to address that and we might if only the president would care. 1/

— Andy Slavitt @ 🏡 (@ASlavitt) June 20, 2020

During June, the death toll, while high, has been mercifully flat. It’s not clear why but there are a few possibilities… 3/ https://t.co/u3vNHTt1d9

— Andy Slavitt @ 🏡 (@ASlavitt) June 20, 2020

This one month lag is something we were aware of but this confirms what to expect in which states & is how we should target our efforts. 5/

— Andy Slavitt @ 🏡 (@ASlavitt) June 20, 2020

Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina & Utah all have spikes in cases right now.

But all have have relatively level deaths/capita from the month before. 7/

— Andy Slavitt @ 🏡 (@ASlavitt) June 20, 2020

Why isn’t the CDC publishing clinical data from early states?
Moving hospital staff to these states?
Setting up teleconsullts w NY docs? Moving therapeutics in?
Sending in 10s of thousands of contact tracers?
Massively testing underserved communities? 9/

— Andy Slavitt @ 🏡 (@ASlavitt) June 20, 2020