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Health policy reporter for Bloomberg News. Of course, tweets are my own, RTs are not endorsements.

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Joined July 2009

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  1. 2 hours ago
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    Aug 8

    What is this nonsense? 1. ACA already protects pre-ex conditions 2. Trump tried to repeal ACA through Congress 3. Trump *right now* supporting lawsuit to repeal full ACA 4. Past Trump exec order allowed insurers to sell “short-term” plans and exclude pre-ex

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  3. 15 hours ago

    A vaccine might be ready by the presidential election but you won’t get it then (or even by inauguration, State of the Union, tax day...) with and

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    “I would hope that by the time we get well into the second half of 2021 that the companies will have delivered the hundreds of millions of [vaccine] doses they have promised,” Dr. Fauci says

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    17 hours ago

    When vaccines are available, the first doses will likely be reserved for health workers and others at high risk. “For three, to six, to nine months, there will be more people wanting a vaccine than there are vaccines,” says one CEO

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    There’s lot we don’t understand about Covid in kids. We shouldn't trivialize observed or possible risks. Schools have been closed; many kids deliberately sheltered from infection. In coaxing schools to open it’s imprudent to argue Covid is harmless, or milder in kids than flu 3/3

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    THREAD: Covid caused 338,000 diagnosed infections in kids. 86 tragically died, thousands more hospitalized. To compare burden to flu, an estimated 11.3 million kids got symptomatic flu in 2018-19, 477 died. If Covid became as widespread in kids as flu, outcomes could be grim. 1/3

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  8. Aug 10

    The Trump administration's effort to have more pharmaceutical ingredients made in the US is not going well

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  9. Aug 10
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    Aug 9

    1 out of every 2,000 Americans alive at the start of the pandemic has now died with COVID.

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    DeWine is the second governor to announce a positive diagnosis, following Oklahoma's Kevin Stitt last month.

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    Aug 6

    However, the drug spending impact of the buy-America EO is expected to be small cuz Medicare/Medicaid don't directly buy drugs, and Navarro said nothing about making hospitals and pharmacies meet purchase requirements. Still, impact unclear till we see the order.

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  13. Aug 6

    Trump will sign an order today attempting to bring production of some essential drugs back to the US, but what drugs the order will cover hinges on the FDA, which is extremely cautious about disrupting the supply chain w/

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    Aug 6

    On , WH Trade/Manufacturing adviser Peter Navarro says Pres Trump will use Ohio visit to sign Executive Order to lessen US dependence on foreign suppliers of Rx drugs & ingredients. Says order intended to help "bring our supply chains home."

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  15. Aug 5

    Kids are most certainly not “almost immune” to Covid-19. In searching state data last month I found CDC’s claim that children make up just 2% of cases to be a vast undercount. That number is more than 4x that in some states

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    Aug 4

    Study by & colleagues found vast majority of Medicare Part D plans covered generic drugs & excluded their branded counterparts in 2019.

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  17. Aug 4

    But he let's her watch TV so she is in heaven

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  18. Aug 4

    It's day 2 of my dad helping watch my 10-month-old daughter because of (potential) covid blowing up our child care. He forgot to give her lunch and her second nap lasted about 10 minutes (probably because of no lunch)

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    Aug 4
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  20. Aug 4

    And it looks like the SEC is investigating the Kodak situation, according to Dow Jones "The price spike briefly produced a potential windfall for company executives who owned stock-option grants, some of which were granted on July 27, the day before the loan became public."

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