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Infections are 98% Delta in the US now. This very formidable strain of the virus quickly achieved a full replacement for Alpha throughout the world, reflecting its extraordinary contagiousness and some immune evasiveness (<-less than Beta).

BREAKING—Los Angeles is considering a proposal to require proof of #COVID19 vaccination for entry at most indoor dining & sporting events to curb #DeltaVariant. If passed, it’d be the widest-ranging vaccine entry pass system in US. Respect @lapublichealth! latimes.com/california/sto…

Called when I learned that Harlem Hospital Center (of the @NYCHealthSystem) added educators to their list of Vaccine recipients. While there, I was honored to meet their fearless CEO, Eboné Carrington, who has led the community’s engagement in their Vaccine program.

Last year, we saw young Black & brown activists tear-gassed & shot w/ rubber bullets. Now, terrorists storm the Capitol with very little pushback or denouncement by Trump. We must impeach, convict, and remove Trump. We hope all members & staff within the Capitol remain safe.

This is what it looks like when a loser loses.

You could probably convince me that the race has tightened by half a point. On the other hand, there had been a bit of a state poll vs. national poll gap, and Biden got some pretty good state polls this morning. projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/

Pitch in $5 to help this campaign fly. joe.link/3nvsFwL

I mean... it's likely that some of these polls are outliers. But it's worth keeping in mind that the last two elections in which the country was in real bad shape (1980, 2008), there was a fairly sharp break away from the incumbent party in the last month of the campaign.

Sorry if this point is a little obvious, but it's pretty hard for Trump to sustain an argument that the NYT taxes story is "fake news" when he won't release his taxes himself. Obviously the base will buy it but I'm not sure that anybody else does.

Today's "breakthrough" announcement is unlikely to be any breakthrough. 1. Convalescent plasma has no randomized trials. It contains many antibodies that have no neutralizing effect. If it has efficacy, it will be be relatively modest, at best.

This is so perfect.

This chart is amazing. You have to watch it until the end. Wait for it...

BREAKING: @OliverDarcy reveals that the top writer for Fox News host Tucker Carlson has for years been using a pseudonym to post bigoted remarks on an online forum that is a hotbed for racist, sexist, and other offensive content. The writer has resigned. cnn.com/2020/07/10/med…

People in NYC and elsewhere in the Northeast are eating in outdoor bars and restaurants (indoors in places too) and the numbers in the NE generally look a lot like Europe's, which may not be a coincidence since they have similar climates (nice outside in June) and seroprevalence.

Yesterday the US hit a record high for new COVID cases. WEAR A MASK.

If the current polls were election night. Trump shouldn’t just lose, let’s work to ensure it’s a complete rebuke. #TrumpIsLosing

The regional picture looks much like yesterday, though the upward tick in the Midwest is more pronounced.

Teenage TikTok users and K-pop fans claimed to have registered potentially hundreds of thousands of tickets for President Trump's campaign rally as a prank to ruin the event. nyti.ms/2YhJG35

Bolton’s staff were asked to testify before the House to Trump’s abuses, and did. They had a lot to lose and showed real courage. When Bolton was asked, he refused, and said he’d sue if subpoenaed. Instead, he saved it for a book. Bolton may be an author, but he’s no patriot.