1/5: This week the US will reach two terrible milestones: 25 million confirmed cases (which means about 100 million actual cases) and 400,000 lives lost (the number of American GIs sacrificing their lives in WWII) https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/coronavirus-us-cases.html?referringSource=articleShare

2/5: How did we get to this point? First, the deliberate decision by Trump White House + HHS agencies, especially CDC, to not put the US Federal Govt out in front, an insistence that the states must be in the lead. Even when it was obvious this strategy was failing they dug in

3/5: Second, as things began to fail in summer 2020 with the Southern surge, the WH embarked on an concerted Antiscience disinformation campaign that downplayed the epidemic, said it was the flu, attributed COVID19 deaths to other causes, discredited masks, spectacularized HC...

4/5: In August the WH brought in Dr Atlas to amplify the Antiscience messages. In the summer of 2020, I explained daily to the American people what an Antiscience disinformation looks like and how it works then pleaded with WH to implement my “Oct 1 Plan” to slow fall surge

5/5: Even as I predicted disaster(as both coronavirus scientist and the major target of Antiscience groups for many years) i didn’t have the power or bandwidth to halt it. And here we are. Now that we’ve squandered every option to control COVID19, all we have left is vaccinations