{"id":9016,"date":"2020-07-23T18:45:48","date_gmt":"2020-07-23T18:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adhc.lib.ua.edu\/pandemicbook\/?page_id=9016"},"modified":"2021-11-12T21:35:54","modified_gmt":"2021-11-12T21:35:54","slug":"07-23","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/adhc.lib.ua.edu\/pandemicbook\/07-23\/","title":{"rendered":"07-23"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Jul 21: President Trump announces<\/a> at the resumed Coronavirus Task Force briefings that the virus will “probably, unfortunately, get worse before it gets better,” as the daily death rate rises over 1,000 in the last day. He signs<\/a> a presidential memorandum calling for excluding undocumented immigrants from being counted when new congressional district maps are drawn next year. \u00a0He vents<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>to Bob Woodward: \u201cThe virus has nothing to do with me. It\u2019s not my fault.\u201d Woodward reports this in his September book, Rage<\/em>. a A federal study published in JAMA Internal Medicine <\/em>argues<\/a> that U.S. coronavirus cases could be from six to 24 times higher than current confirmed total. Two experimental vaccines, one from AstraZeneca and the other from CanSino Biologics,\u00a0show promising results<\/a><\/span> against COVID-19.\u00a0 Twitter bans<\/a> 7,000 accounts that have been repeating QAnon conspiracy theories.<\/p>

Jul 22: HHS and the Department of Defense (DOD)\u00a0strike a partnership<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>with biotech giants Pfizer and BioNTech for a December delivery of 100 million doses of their COVID-19 vaccine candidate, BNT162. California surpasses<\/a> New York as the state with the most COVID cases. The House votes to remove statues of Confederate figures from the Capitol<\/a>. “It’s past time that we end the glorification of men who committed treason against the United States in a concerted effort to keep African Americans in chains,” says bill co-sponsor Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.). President Trump announces that his administration is expanding a crackdown on violent crime by sending “hundreds” of federal agents to the Democratic-run cities<\/a>\u00a0of Chicago and Albuquerque.<\/p>

Jul 23: Findings from a research letter published in the\u00a0New England Journal of Medicine<\/em>\u00a0indicate that\u00a0levels of antibodies<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>against SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, dropped dramatically across the first 3 months of infection. At this rate, researchers note that antibody resistance would be depleted within a year, although experts note that the possibility of being infected again with the virus is very unlikely. The U.S. hits<\/a> 4 million confirmed cases of COVID-19<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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 \u201cHave you seen this??\u201d emails a colleague in epidemiology, pointing to the news that the Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Defense have reached an agreement to pay Pfizer Inc. and the German firm BioNtech SE $1.95 billion to produce a vaccine when it becomes available. They will produce at least 100 million doses of a vaccine and the United States Government will have first access to it. This is part of Operation Warp Speed, the government program run by former drug industry executives to make sure that when <\/em>the COVID-19 vaccine is discovered, Americans will get it first. These executives have not all divested themselves from the companies that are receiving federal money. Billions have already gone to companies like Moderna, AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson. This is not inherently problematic; these are the companies that have the resources to pursue a vaccine. They are filled with earnest people working hard to end this pandemic. \u201cWhat makes the deal with Pfizer and BioNtech worrisome,\u201d my epidemiologist colleague writes, \u201cis that the rate paid per dose is double what these other companies promised.\u201d[1]<\/a><\/span><\/p>


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