"If we fail to develop a national coordinated response based in science, I fear the pandemic will get far worse and be prolonged, causing unprecedented illness and fatalities," ousted HHS official Dr. Rick Bright says in prepared remarks to House cmte.https://t.co/kQt05vtNPi

— MSNBC (@MSNBC) May 14, 2020

Dr. Rick Bright says he will never forget receiving an email from an N95 manufacturer warning: "We're in deep shit. The world is, and we need to act."

Bright told Congress that he forwarded the message, which fell on deaf ears.

He also wrote that in his complaint. pic.twitter.com/khvL9flQBq

— Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) May 14, 2020

"We're in deep shit": Whistleblower Rick Bright details the failure to act on mask shortages https://t.co/BReGckU1Ln

— Mother Jones (@MotherJones) May 14, 2020

The Office of the Special Counsel has preliminarily found a "substantial likelihood of wrongdoing” in the removal of Dr. Rick Bright from BARDA, a federal agency overseeing coronavirus response efforts. https://t.co/t5tppqqvjy

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) May 14, 2020

About an hour and 15 minutes before Dr Rick Bright is set to testify before Congress that he was removed his job as a top vaccine official because he refused to put politics over science, President Trump says Bright is a “disgruntled employee” who is “not liked or respected.” https://t.co/lzX5RZsZEL

— Yamiche Alcindor (@Yamiche) May 14, 2020

As Trump says it’s time to reopen schools, the CDC is preparing to send a warning for doctors nationwide to be on the lookout for signs of a rare but deadly illness attacking children across the country believed to be related to the coronavirus. https://t.co/CbDif6Jz4t

— Amy Siskind 🏳️‍🌈 (@Amy_Siskind) May 14, 2020

Just so we’re clear: Sec HHS Alex Azar was unwilling to testify before Congress today on the pandemic response, but he found time to fly to Allentown, PA to do a campaign event with Trump.

— Amy Siskind 🏳️‍🌈 (@Amy_Siskind) May 14, 2020

TRUMP: "When you test, you have a case. When you test, you find something is wrong with people. If we didn't do any testing we would have very few cases." pic.twitter.com/tEX1uXQbmp

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 14, 2020

“Jared [Kushner] had been arguing that testing too many people, or ordering too many ventilators, would spook the markets and so we just shouldn’t do it… That advice worked far more powerfully on [Trump] than what the scientists were saying.” https://t.co/yeLMnHQzjS

— b-boy bouiebaisse (@jbouie) May 14, 2020

"No one knows what 'Obamagate' is, and that includes President Trump. It's a hashtag in search of a scandal," said Ned Price, NSC spokesman under Obama. "The only people it will galvanize are those already 1,000 percent behind" Trump. https://t.co/vZ5ohOHpQi

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) May 14, 2020

This is what my European colleagues think America is and I guess they're right https://t.co/Dr0SDiBVhO

— G. Elliott Morris (@gelliottmorris) May 14, 2020

If you think armed right-wing terrorists won't shut down polling places in November based on conspiracy theories amplified by the president … you need to work on your tragic imagination.

— David Roberts (@drvox) May 14, 2020

Incremental progress doesn't make for good headlines, especially when it's slower than it should be, but a lot of the things suggested in this article are happening to some degree or another.https://t.co/Shbos1xxK5

— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) May 14, 2020

So now the GOP can put a Trump stooge in charge of intelligence who will try to produce fake reports about Biden and Obama in time for the election. Cool, cool. https://t.co/s0XCR6eatm

— Molly Knight (@molly_knight) May 14, 2020

Just flooding the zone with this stuff https://t.co/G3VMIKx16e

— jim manley (@jamespmanley) May 14, 2020

We’re going to hear more and more of these stories https://t.co/VNIbHM5M4p

— Molly Jong-Fast🏡 (@MollyJongFast) May 14, 2020

NEW: The U.S. government has paid at least $970,000 to @realdonaldtrump's businesses since Trump took office.

That includes at least **1,600** nightly room rentals at Trump properties. https://t.co/lJbUeMU2My

— David Fahrenthold (@Fahrenthold) May 14, 2020

Trump's hotel profits are back in the spotlight with a court's reversal in an emoluments case https://t.co/nXt00yuETl

— Bloomberg Politics (@bpolitics) May 14, 2020

Shit shit shit shit shit I did not mean to say this out loud on national television pic.twitter.com/vh07Pccs5I

— DevinNunesTHEDragQueen (@NunesDrag) May 14, 2020

This is pure Westminster bubble piffle. The government spent the past decade dismantling the NHS, the Civil Service and pandemic planning. “The system” is them. They are the ones who are not fit for purpose. https://t.co/4GYl8bRINS

— Mark O'Neill (@marxculture) May 14, 2020

Fuck me, is this where we are now?

We can just send underpaid public servants into potentially life-threatening situations as long as we refer to them as ‘heroes’?

“Get into that burning building and put that fire out! A hose? You don’t need no stinking hose, you fucking hero.” pic.twitter.com/KiItmBPSrg

— 🏳️‍🌈 Max 🏳️‍🌈 (@SpillerOfTea) May 14, 2020

“We are going to see cases go up. The virus is going to continue spreading.”

Professor @devisridhar says lifting the coronavirus lockdown is “pointless” if we do not have the proper infrastructure to detect and trace. #bbcqt pic.twitter.com/cycMG5q5gG

— BBC Question Time (@bbcquestiontime) May 14, 2020

Last year Boris Johnson told supporters there would be ‘no forms, no checks, no barriers of any kind’ on goods crossing the Irish sea after Brexit https://t.co/v7oRv2prTb

— The New European (@TheNewEuropean) May 14, 2020

Global death toll climbs above 300,000 as U.S. cases top 1.4 million.

Tracking the virus: https://t.co/OQ9t5rhXvC pic.twitter.com/EkkNanFHEV

— ABC News (@ABC) May 14, 2020

Everywhere we see wealthy democracies reporting higher death rates than authoritarian regimes. Belgium, 55 k cases, reports 8 k deaths; Turkey, 144 k, says 4 k. Switzerland & Ecuador both 30 k cases; Ecuador acknowledges 500 more dead, despite overall death toll at 500% normal.

— Jeff Sharlet (@JeffSharlet) May 14, 2020

More than 50 days after India locked down, the pandemic’s human and economic toll is worsening, with new cases surging at a record pace https://t.co/xpS0kxAHez

— Bloomberg (@business) May 14, 2020

The people of this place owe Emma & Jake DeSouza a huge debt of gratitude.

I can't begin to imagine the stress & pressure of this, but I know it was real.

We are British, Irish, both & it's thanks to their efforts that UKG climbed down from their antagonistic & wrong position https://t.co/2Y6MNFzVJW

— Sorcha Eastwood (@SorchaEastwood) May 14, 2020

No one belonged to the marshes of coastal GA more than Ahmaud Arbery. His family’s roots there run more than 200 years deep. Glynn county native, Jim Barger, Jr., writes about who Ahmaud was & what his community must reckon with in the wake of his murder. https://t.co/2N41Da1xD1 pic.twitter.com/nHqEJOaUPK

— Bitter Southerner (@BitterSouth) May 14, 2020