Once we have a vaccine that's effective and widely deployed, we can bring the pandemic to an end, until that time, we are going to continue to have to confront and deal with the virus.

Ashish Jha

It was a great reminder that if you take a population of people, and do regular testing twice a week, that you can actually keep outbreaks under control.

It was a great reminder that if you take a population of people and do regular testing twice a week, that you can actually keep outbreaks under control and you can continue, not totally normal operations, but operations like with in-person classes throughout the fall.

In the ideal world based on the modeling data -- twice-a-week testing.

This is the last really horrible surge of Covid that we will hopefully ever have to deal with.

The Johnson Johnson trial is the biggest trial of the vaccine that I know of -- 60,000 people.

This is completely expected, and it's just a reminder how ridiculous it is to try and meet a political timeline of having a vaccine before November 3, the Johnson Johnson trial is the biggest trial of the vaccine that I know of -- 60,000 people.

( Daily) cases have come down. Deaths are starting to decline. Hospitalizations are down. This is good news, and it's largely because of smart policies in Texas and Arizona and Florida around masking and closing bars.

We didn't get here overnight. This has really been one mishap after another, the single factor that really differentiates us from everybody else is denialism that has pervaded our entire approach.

One is the underlying level of infection is rising, which is obviously the thing we are most concerned about, but in about 18 to 20 states, the number of tests that are being done is actually falling. And it's falling because our testing system is under such strain that we just can't even deliver the tests today that we were doing two weeks ago in about 18 to 20 states. That's very concerning because when cases are rising, and your number of tests are falling, that's a recipe for disaster.

Of course, all of this is completely unnecessary. We don't have to go through this, we're going through it because we're just not doing the basic stuff that we need to do to suppress the virus.

I like the fact he acknowledged the importance of wearing masks and that he acknowledged things will get worse. Unfortunately, there was also a certain amount of misinformation about how great America is doing.

It was good to have the President address the pandemic and the crisis that we are all in, i like the fact he acknowledged the importance of wearing masks and that he acknowledged things will get worse. Unfortunately, there was also a certain amount of misinformation about how great America is doing.

I think the CDC's recommendations are really basic and, in fact, I think they should go further. Look, you can open up schools anywhere you want. That's really not the debate.

This is incredibly frustrating for the millions of Americans who have gotten sick and have not been able to get tests.

It makes sense why so many Americans are feeling like we're done, and they're feeling a certain sense of apathy.

First, is that they were told that if we shut down and really kind of bend the curve, that we will we will be passed the worst and everything will work out.

The reality is that the virus is with us. The reality is that the first wave only hit a small number of places -- now it's coming to every other place. It's coming to a county or a city or a state near Ashish Jha.

Other states already had a lot of cases and they opened pretty rapidly, and what I think were seeing is a mix of some of that higher levels of cases and some outbreaks.

What we saw was,around Memorial Day, the country started to open up and some states were in pretty good shape and eventually opened very slowly, other states already had a lot of cases and they opened pretty rapidly, and what I think were seeing is a mix of some of that higher levels of cases and some outbreaks.

Even if we don't have increasing cases, even if we keep things flat, it's reasonable to expect that we're going to hit 200,000 deaths sometime during the month of September, and that's just through September. The pandemic won't be over in September.