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I often tweet about states struggling so now, a wonderful success story:

New York

Doing 67,000 tests a day

Finding 670 cases a day

1% test positivity

This is South Korea level. And its awesome

Transmission levels so low NY can, with proper precautions, open schools safely

— Ashish K. Jha, MD, MPH (@ashishkjha) August 5, 2020

The blue line is the Southwest. The yellow line is the Northeast.

If the governors are opening hot spots too quickly, say “No”. We want to get to the Yellow Line, not drift above it.

Thanks to @JessStrawn for this analysis. 14/ pic.twitter.com/Qt0ELAoRFc

— Andy Slavitt 🇮🇱 🇺🇦 (@ASlavitt) August 5, 2020

L.A. County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer said Wednesday infection rates among residents aged 30 to 49 nearly tripled between June and late July, and rates among those 18-29 quadrupled. https://t.co/yYcroFIgIE

— KCAL News (@kcalnews) August 5, 2020

“The public needs to know that this is very much a real disease, and we need your help… to stop the spread of COVID-19.”

Healthcare workers share the hardest parts about being on the frontlines of the pandemic.

Watch NOW: https://t.co/U4UZMHn7bF pic.twitter.com/UENmc9kPCq

— NBC News NOW (@NBCNewsNow) August 5, 2020

What I believe will be the BEST NEWS: the first very cheap, highly replicable saliva test is about to be approved by the @US_FDA.

It costs $2-3 per sample!
It uses interchangeable reagents for scale
It new capacity

More on this soon

Kudos @YaleMed @NBA @robbysikka

— Andy Slavitt 🇮🇱 🇺🇦 (@ASlavitt) August 5, 2020

The Republican governors of Florida, Arizona, and Georgia chose to listen to Trump instead of public health experts.

Their decisions to reopen their states too soon have had devastating consequences: pic.twitter.com/qkcgpgo37v

— CAP Action (@CAPAction) August 5, 2020

This must be especially falling to Florida governor Ron DeSantis, who had been angling for precisely this kind of extended praise.

Doug Ducey gets it instead. https://t.co/L6jNE6cvzn

— Alexander Nazaryan (@alexnazaryan) August 5, 2020

Arizona hit a record daily high of 158 reported coronavirus deaths on July 30 @nytimes pic.twitter.com/ToxhRL0esF

— Jesse Rodriguez (@JesseRodriguez) August 5, 2020

Trump buried in mockery for latest press briefing of ‘lies and nonsense’ https://t.co/4xAjxzSt6i

— Matthew Chapman (@fawfulfan) August 5, 2020

Twitter is making this ad almost impossible for anyone to find. If you can see this please retweet it. #ConsequencesForTrump https://t.co/Mj5cVIUz2p

— Adam Parkhomenko (@AdamParkhomenko) August 5, 2020

Trump announcing the Kodak deal, LAST WEEK: "Groundbreaking," "A big deal," "A great deal."

Trump on the Kodak deal, NOW: "I wasn't involved in it."

— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) August 5, 2020

Here’s a new ad that twitter is going to try and kill in support of Trump. If you can see this please immediately retweet #DonsNextCon pic.twitter.com/PnXYSN1DlF

— MeidasTouch (@MeidasTouch) August 6, 2020

NEW TONIGHT: “Twitter said it will require President Trump’s campaign account to remove a post containing coronavirus misinformation, banning the account from tweeting until it does so.’https://t.co/9YkSs2VM1A

— David Begnaud (@DavidBegnaud) August 6, 2020

Twitter temporarily restricted Trump campaign's ability to tweet over false Covid-19 claimshttps://t.co/ZPkOwXpkQt

— Charles M. Blow (@CharlesMBlow) August 6, 2020

Inbox: Facebook has removed the video Pres. Trump posted to Facebook claiming children are 'almost immune from COVID-19.'

"This video includes false claims that a group of people is immune from COVID-19 which is a violation of our policies around harmful COVID misinformation."

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) August 5, 2020

“This is the first time Facebook has taken down a post from the president for violating the company’s policies on covid misinformation.” https://t.co/DOcYUZZdbx

— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) August 6, 2020

Unemployment went up because states that had reopened too early had to close back down from the virus spread. They reopened too early because they listened to Trump. This economic pain is on him. https://t.co/5vL3mrRdCm

— Neera Tanden🌻 (@neeratanden) August 6, 2020

Pence, head of the Coronavirus Task Force, is signing autographs without a mask on the rope line after his remarks in Florida. pic.twitter.com/QnupwBCaC0

— Justin Gomez (@JustinGomezABC) August 5, 2020

“OPEN THE SCHOOLS” is a terribly dangerous campaign slogan. @heathergtv explains.

“If it’s not safe enough for Trump’s kid, it’s not safe enough for anyone else’s.” #COVID19 pic.twitter.com/chjOyMBnOx

— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) August 5, 2020

Trump's meddling with the Census has everything to do with his political and anti-immigrant agendas. If he gets his way, the American people will pay the price for generations.

We can’t let that happen. pic.twitter.com/EWr6Rnmh7y

— Vice President Kamala Harris (@VP) August 6, 2020

Donald Trump and his campaign have never been fluent in strength or decency: "It's notable that the Trump campaign is trying to make Biden look bad with a photo of him in a solemn religious moment." https://t.co/u3fvkkoHHR

— Andrew Bates (@AndrewBatesNC) August 5, 2020

CIA steers clear of Senate Republican probe into Bidens – POLITICO https://t.co/8lh1HqG7Eo

— Blake Hounshell (@blakehounshell) August 5, 2020

For months, since the House passed a COVID relief bill, Democrats have been begging Republicans to negotiate with us.

They refused. McConnell sent the Senate on recess for half of July.

Now, after one single week of negotiation, they are ready to give up because it's too hard. https://t.co/x7DQMBnLS7

— Chris Murphy 🟧 (@ChrisMurphyCT) August 5, 2020

Brett Kavanaugh will kill us allhttps://t.co/I1tDGiGvgT

— Jamison Foser (@jamisonfoser) August 5, 2020

Gov. DeSantis: Coronavirus spike not caused by Floridians’ behavior, it’s ‘seasonal’ https://t.co/ZqizgN3Q0n

— Grandpa Snarky 💙🌈🌊🌊 🌊🌊 #SlavaUkrain (@GrandpaSnarky) August 5, 2020

Jerry Falwell Jr has apologized to ‘everybody’ for bizarre yacht photo — and says mystery women is his wife’s assistant https://t.co/eDl3vJM0QA

— Raw Story (@RawStory) August 5, 2020

Hi, you can read it here: @KFILE: NEW: The pick to be ambassador to Germany has attacked the country for supporting "Muslim invaders" saying… https://t.co/wPm8pZpubH See you soon. 🤖

— Thread Reader App (@threadreaderapp) August 4, 2020

NY AG Letitia James just announced she will make a major national announcement tomorrow at 11:30. Here’s the release pic.twitter.com/6hpNMEh9CD

— Stephen Gandel (@stephengandel) August 5, 2020

News: The Manhattan DA issued a subpoena to Deutsche Bank for financial statements that President Trump provided to the bank.

Deutsche complied and handed over documents to the DA@davidenrich @benprotess @WRashbaum @BenWeiserNYT @kirstendanis scoop https://t.co/8lLgsIDUaS pic.twitter.com/pgFN0PMc0s

— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) August 5, 2020

Are there sweeter words in these dog days than, "Deutsche Bank complied with the subpoena."

— Schooley (@Rschooley) August 6, 2020

Sen. Kamala Harris doesn’t have to apologize for being a formidable competitor in a presidential competition. https://t.co/aT519WKqVc

— ESSENCE (@Essence) July 30, 2020

50% of white Americans would vote for Trump if election were held today https://t.co/2EWhoapVb5

— Newsweek (@Newsweek) August 6, 2020

When you’re leading a presidential race nationally by double digits, you’re set to exceed 300 electoral votes.

And that's where we have our inaugural 2020 battleground map right now: Biden 334, Trump 125, Toss Up 79 https://t.co/9X07TRS53U pic.twitter.com/zyxRJHl2uf

— Mark Murray (@mmurraypolitics) August 6, 2020

You geniuses have spent $800 million to get your guy to 36%. @realDonaldTrump, what did @parscale and Jason Miller do with all the money? https://t.co/w2I1Zt0FIc

— Reed Galen (@reedgalen) August 6, 2020

Today, I'm formally introducing the RELIEF Act in Congress to help stop evictions and keep people housed during this crisis.

Few things are more essential right now than housing and running water to prevent the spread of COVID-19.

Read about it here. https://t.co/jmncjbiuOV

— Vice President Kamala Harris (@VP) August 6, 2020

Madam Speaker detailed the provisions of the #HEROESAct that passed the House 11 weeks ago.

She spoke poignantly about the lost opportunity to mitigate some of the health & economic impact of the #coronavirus after the Senate refused to get serious about a bill – until now. pic.twitter.com/wajTxvHIAu

— #DontMessWithNancy 💪💪🏻💪🏼💪🏽💪🏾💪🏿 (@FriendsofNancyP) August 5, 2020

Sally Yates spars with GOP at testy hearing https://t.co/NYeSdMdzFK pic.twitter.com/oV3QDKGnd9

— Mike Walker (@New_Narrative) August 5, 2020