The virus doesn't care. It doesn't care that you want to see a movie. The virus just keeps on going. It doesn't care how you feel about this thing. It doesn't care that you're impatient ... It just wants to keep going, and it will keep going ... It will get you if it wants to and if you put yourself in harm's way.

You may have a different reaction to the virus than other people. You may do okay; you may not. But you certainly will put other people at risk if you're not careful, and I think if that [doesn't] stop you cold, then I don't know who you are as a person. If you're not worried about your parents, if you're not worried about people who have immune deficiencies, if you're not worried about those who have cancer, there's something wrong with you ... You should seek seek religious or psychological help.

If you actually really deeply poll people... healthcare turns out to be a bigger economic issue than their tax rate—than virtually anything else ... For just about half of Americans, a single medical expense and they are in bankruptcy. The number one phone call to the American Cancer Society hotline when people are newly diagnosed with cancer is 'I cannot afford to have cancer.'

There's this period called the incubation period ... If you get exposed today, there's almost no point in going and getting a test tomorrow ... You'll be negative even if you're positive ... The best window... is probably around a five-day period, maybe a six-day period if you want to be conservative.

It's okay to have days that do suck [amid COVID-19]. Don't put too much pressure on yourself for anything ... Feel how you're feeling, be intentional about how you're living your life, and if you have a bad day, don't be too hard on yourself.

Economists project that 42% of the jobs that we are losing [amid COVID-19] are gone forever. So, if you take as a rough ballpark estimate 40 million jobs lost, 42% would be about 17 million jobs. The Great Recession cost us 8.8 million jobs at the peak or trough depending upon what graph you're looking at. So, we're looking at two times the job loss of the Great Recession in perpetuity.

For reasons we still don't understand, there's kind of a modified SARS/MERS impact of this disease [COVID-19] in the sense that there is a super-shedding kind of environment ... 20% of the patients or cases account for 80% of the transmission.

The [COVID-19] test cadence matters more than the sensitivity of a pure test. The more we test, the more often we test, the better these tests will perform and the more likely we are to pick out positives and reduce the spread in the community.

They explored heart damage in the near-term and long-term of contracting COVID-19, and what they found was, out of the patients they tested, 78% had heart damage while they were infected even if they showed no symptoms of having it and 60% continued to have [heart damage] even after they were no longer infected.

I think we have a pretty good handle on the fact that the transmission with this virus [COVID-19] is primarily swapping air with someone else.

Most governments, whether they're Republican or Democrat, tend to rise to occasions when there are wars, when there are pandemics. This one has not.

The most common job categories in the United States are clerical and administrative work—including call centers, retail & sales, food service & food preparation, truck driving, and transportation & manufacturing. Those five categories comprise about half of American jobs.

To me, cash relief [amid COVID-19] is the bare minimum we should be doing, particularly when... our government has failed us miserably in trying to stem this pandemic. And then they're failing miserably in getting enough resources into our hands so that we can actually make it through this crisis period much less do something more dramatic, like adhere to public health guidelines or stay in.

Universal basic income is non-partisan ... Liberals love it because it's going to improve education outcomes and help feed families and make us mentally stronger ... Conservatives like it because it's pro-business, it helps support the middle class, it's pro-entrepreneurship, and it doesn't have a giant bureaucracy attending to every step of it.

This is going to be something that, as you go into October [2020], you will start to see more and more saliva testing [for COVID-19] and a move away from swabs, particularly nasopharyngeal swabs.

To me, there are... three major things that are making Americans miserable right now. Number one is healthcare; number two is housing; number three is education. And the cost for each of those things has gone up and up and up even as people's incomes have stagnated.

Among patients with moderate COVID-19, those randomized to a 10-day course of remdesivir did not have a statistically significant difference in clinical status compared with standard care 11 days after initiation of treatment. Patients randomized to a 5-day course of remdesivir had a statistically significant difference in clinical status compared with standard care, but the difference was of uncertain clinical importance.

We need to redefine our economic measurements to revolve around how we're doing, how healthy we are, how mentally healthy we are, how our kids are doing, [and] whether our environment is going to actually be able to sustain human life. Things like that would actually tell us how we're doing instead of having these stock market prices be the end-all be-all because how these companies are doing and how we're doing have less and less [of a] relationship.

74% of Americans, including a majority of both Democrats and Republicans, support cash relief during the pandemic.

One of the other things this pandemic makes clear, hopefully to everyone, is that we cannot have healthcare tied to your employment and that we need to have some sort of public option Medicare-for-all program that folks can access without breaking the bank.