My abbreviated Anne Laurie roundup on Covid:

Worth rewatching:

Last Thursday, NIH Director Francis Collins expressed his astonishment about Trump’s superspreader events

Normally mild-mannered, Collins said an alien arriving on Earth would conclude that “this is just not a planet that has much promise for the future” pic.twitter.com/TykxpxCy1b

— Chris Lu (@ChrisLu44) September 13, 2020

.@aaronecarroll: “We wasted our chance to get a better summer in the spring. We wasted our chance to plan for the fall in the summer. We’re wasting time again now. Next year isn’t that far away.” https://t.co/WoNMv8hNFD

— Catherine Rampell (@crampell) September 15, 2020

“The CDC is largely being written out of the picture because you have people at the White house who aren’t epidemiologists, saying what a great job they’ve done, and so it’s no longer a set of experts.” https://t.co/Zdh4E1lYMo

— The Hill (@thehill) September 16, 2020

German resort town sees more COVID-19 infections linked to American woman’s bar crawl. Bavaria’s governor calls it a “model case of stupidity.” https://t.co/IN2LNHhxB4

— AP Europe (@AP_Europe) September 15, 2020

Scientists predict COVID19 will become a seasonal virus—but not yet. New report in Frontiers in Public Health suggests the illness caused by SARSCoV2 will likely become seasonal in countries w/ temperate climates but only after herd immunity via a vaccine https://t.co/xUQlG6Ed5u pic.twitter.com/PcsfkRqwhB

— delthia ricks 🔬 (@DelthiaRicks) September 15, 2020

Ugh, exercise:

“Evidence is emerging that the virus can cause heart damage even in people who’ve had mild symptoms or none at all, especially if those people exercise while they’re infected” https://t.co/2S7NbbokIp @MeganMolteni @WIRED They’re anecdotes, small numbers, but we need to learn more

— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) September 15, 2020