David Lim
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David Lim
@davidalim
Health reporter @POLITICO covering the @US_FDA. Prescription Pulse co-author. Tips: [email protected]. DM for Signal.
- The White House confirms to me that there is no Coronavirus Task Force briefing today. So much for daily updates.
- A few issues here: 1.) China has definitely tested more people for #COVID19 than the United States at this point. 2.) Comparing the number of tests we've run this week to a vague 8-week period for South Korea is misleading. For starters the USA has more than 6x the population.Just reported that the United States has done far more “testing” than any other nation, by far! In fact, over an eight day span, the United States now does more testing than what South Korea (which has been a very successful tester) does over an eight week span. Great job!
- "That comprehensive vaccination plans have not been developed at the federal level and sent to the states as models is as incomprehensible as it is inexcusable," @SenatorRomney says in new statement calling for Covid-19 vaccination sites in schools across the country.
- SCOOP: The Biden administration plans to reopen its popular program with the U.S. Postal Service to mail free at-home Covid-19 tests to households that request them ahead of a potential winter surge. Ordering will open Tuesday. w/ @adamcancryn:
- SCOOP: The Biden administration is planning to announce tomorrow a plan to distribute hundreds of millions of N95 masks at pharmacies and other sites. The masks will be sourced from the Strategic National Stockpile. w/ @adamcancryn:
- Woke up with a sore throat and it seems I've managed to get Covid again. Got over a Covid infection in January. Can't report the case to the DC close contact app with the public health emergency over. If you were at the Kennedy Center last night, consider taking a rapid test.
- If someone can explain to me the legal basis of any of these executive orders I would appreciate it.BREAKING: Bypassing Congress, President Trump defers payroll tax, extends unemployment benefits as negotiations on coronavirus package stall. apne.ws/14tkFbP
- At a pharmacy in DC for my bivalent Covid-19 booster shot - there's a line for prescription pick up. Both of the people next to me didn't even know a fourth shot is available. Both said they don't understand why Biden said the pandemic is over if there is another shot.
- Trump's first FDA commissioner being direct on TV: "I think if RFK follows through on his intentions, and I believe he will, and I believe he can, it will cost lives in this country," Gottlieb said. "You're going to see measles, mumps and rubella vaccination rates go down."From my segment today on @CNBC We face a grim and avoidable resurgence of once vanquished childhood infectious diseases if we follow down a current path now being laid in Washington. cnbc.com/video/2024/11/…
- BREAKING on J&J Covid-19 vaccine: "After conducting an updated analysis, evaluation and investigation of reported cases, the FDA has determined that the risk of thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome ... warrants limiting the authorized use of the vaccine."Today, we limited the authorized use of the Janssen #COVID19 Vaccine to those 18+ for whom other auth/approved vaccines are not accessible or clinically appropriate, & to those who elect Janssen because they would otherwise not receive a COVID vaccine. go.usa.gov/xudMH
- Trump: "We’re testing everyone we need to test, and we’re finding very little problem." The United States is barely testing for #COVID19 compared to South Korea or China. Hard to find what you aren't looking for, public health experts say. My story:
- Really interesting and telling interview by @chrislhayes with Anthony Fauci tonight on CDC's isolation guidance. Gives insight into what CDC and top admin health officials were thinking. Really blunt discussion of trade offs to keep society running during upcoming weeks. 🧵:
- My own grandma passed away this afternoon in California and I needed to take a walk. She immigrated from China and raised our family through hard work. I would like to think she has good company today. Being here surrounded by people grieving in silence is soothing in a way.A small crowd has assembled outside the Supreme Court following news of Ruth Bader Ginsburg's passing.
