| — | Joe Lockhart, former Clinton White House Press Secretary (via merelygifted) |
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Can I protect myself from catching the coronavirus? That’s my question as cases mount in the United States.
So I spent one day last week trying to be aware of doing all the right things. I mean, how hard can it be to wash your hands a lot and avoid crowds?
I followed guidelines from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization. Then I asked epidemiologists to grade me. Scroll to the end of the comic to find out how I did.
COMIC: I Spent A Day In Coronavirus Awareness Mode. Epidemiologists, How Did I Do?
Ever since the first case of Covid-19 was detected in the US on January 20, the government’s blunders in creating and distributing diagnostic testing have greatly handicapped our response to the growing pandemic.
(via Early US testing failures may have occurred because Trump wanted numbers low, despite the contagion)
Wow! Congresswoman Katie Porter probably just saved thousands of lives! The CDC has the authority to cover the full costs of testing for covid-19, and she asked them to invoke that authority for ALL Americans, regardless of if they have insurance.





