memeorandum: CDC breakthrough infections (Washington Post)

11:05 AM ET, July 30, 2021

Top Items:

‘The war has changed’: Internal CDC document urges new messaging, warns delta infections likely more severe — The internal presentation shows that the agency thinks it is struggling to communicate on vaccine efficacy amid increased breakthrough infections — The delta variant …

Apoorva Mandavilli / New York Times:

C.D.C. Internal Report Calls Delta Variant as Contagious as Chickenpox — Infections in vaccinated Americans also may be as transmissible as those in unvaccinated people, the document said, and lead more often to severe illness. — The Delta variant is much more contagious …

Discussion: Washington Post, HotAir, CBS News, Lucianne, New York Post, Al Jazeera and NBC New York

ABC News:

CDC mask decision followed stunning findings from Cape Cod beach outbreak — Viral load of vaccinated beachgoers changed what we know about the delta variant — A week after the crowds descended upon Provincetown, Massachusetts, to celebrate the Fourth of July — the holiday President Joe Biden hoped …

Discussion: Reason, No More Mister Nice Blog, The American Spectator, HotAir, Breitbart and Politico

Apoorva Mandavilli / New York Times:

Behind the Masks, a Mystery: How Often Do the Vaccinated Spread the Virus? — The C.D.C.'s new masking advice was based in part on data showing that the virus can thrive in the airways of vaccinated people. The findings are expected on Friday. — The recommendation that vaccinated people …

Discussion: HotAir, Crooks and Liars, Townhall, The Last Refuge, The US Sun, Lucianne and Marginal REVOLUTION

Washington Post:

CDC breakthrough infections — An internal CDC document urges officials to “acknowledge the war has changed” and improve the public's understanding of breakthrough infections.

Discussion: The Daily Caller, Talking Points Memo, NPR and Healthy Skeptic

Wall Street Journal:

MyPillow to Pull Ads From Fox News in Disagreement With Network — Mike Lindell, CEO of MyPillow, says Fox News refused to run ad promoting an event linked to claims of widespread election fraud — The chief executive of MyPillow Inc., one of Fox News's big advertisers …

Discussion: BizPac Review, Slate, CNN, The Gateway Pundit, Insider, Washington Examiner, Mediaite, Ad Age, The Hill, Variety, Raw Story, Deadline and The Atlantic, more at Mediagazer »

The Daily Beast:
‘Shame on Fox News!’: MyPillow Pulling Ads From Network Over Rejected Election-Fraud Commercial

Discussion: Salon, HuffPost, 🔔 The Liberty Daily, Raw Story and Lucianne

The Daily Beast:

Trump: Jan. 6 Cops Who Spoke to Congress Are ‘Pussies’ — DEFILE THE POLICE … Donald Trump has expressed anger that the officers blamed him for the riot he clearly inspired and speculated they were being used as pawns by Speaker Nancy Pelosi. — In the months since the U.S. Capitol assault …

Discussion: Insider, Political Flare, The Intellectualist, Raw Story, Slate, The Editorial Board, LGBTQ Nation and HuffPost

Peggy Noonan / Wall Street Journal:

The Jan. 6 Committee Carries History's Weight — Its members need to nail down what happened on the Capitol—including in their colleagues' offices. — 'It happened, move on. " “It wasn't so bad. ” “It was just a protest that got out of hand. ” A lot of the rioters were screwballs in antlers—crazy uncles, unhappy sons.

Washington Post: How Ashli Babbitt went from Capitol rioter to Trump-embraced ‘martyr’

Jay Nordlinger / National Review:

America gone nuts, &c. — On air rage, extremism, Simone Biles, January 6, Iran, Fidel Castro, 800 numbers, and more — I have a friend who is a flight attendant. I love to hear stories about her travels, and travelers. Also, I send her stories I see in the media.

Melanie Zanona / CNN:
Liz Cheney and Elise Stefanik represent ‘battle for the soul of the party’

Discussion: Real Clear Politics and Forbes

Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
Donald Trump Would Have Made a Great House Republican

Discussion: The Hill, Bloomberg, New York Times, CNN, Washington Post, Politico, Real Clear Politics, Raw Story and Common Dreams

Associated Press:

Ravages of COVID surge evident inside Missouri hospital — OSAGE BEACH, Mo. (AP) — Daryl Barker was passionately against a COVID-19 vaccination, and so were his relatives. Then 10 of them got sick and Barker, at just 31, ended up in a Missouri intensive care unit fighting for his life.

Discussion: The Bulwark, Hackwhackers and Raw Story

CNN:

‘I am furious with myself’: Unvaccinated Covid patient describes the exhausting illness — (CNN)Sitting in her hospital room in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Aimee Matzen struggled to breathe as she described how exhausting it is to have Covid-19. — “The fact that I am here now …

Discussion: KMOV-TV

Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:

Trump's false election fraud claims fuel Michigan GOP meltdown — Joe Biden defeated Donald Trump by more than 150,000 votes in Michigan last November. — Trump and the Michigan Republican Party still aren't over it. — The outcome — and the former president's obsessive efforts to dispute it …

Discussion: Election Law Blog, New York Magazine, Washington Times and Raw Story

Henry J. Gomez / NBC News:

House primary in Ohio takes nasty turn as national Democrats descend — CLEVELAND — The two leading Democratic candidates in Ohio's 11th Congressional District have turned the final days of a special election primary that has captured the national spotlight into a slugfest.

Discussion: The 19th

Daniel Marans / HuffPost:
The Democratic Establishment Is Going All Out To Beat Nina Turner

Discussion: HotAir

New York Times:

How Europe, After a Fumbling Start, Overtook the U.S. in Vaccination — Just a few months ago, European Union efforts were a mess, but its problems were temporary. The United States turned out to have the more lasting challenge. — Early on, while the United States and a handful of others surged ahead …

New York Times: If You Don't Trust A.I. Yet, You're Not Wrong

Politico:

POLITICO Playbook: Sinema's vacation plans, Manchin gets booed and megadonor drama — DRIVING THE DAY — On Thursday night, as President JOE BIDEN boarded Marine One, he made some news. — First, he reiterated that immigration reform should be included in the reconciliation bill.

Discussion: Breitbart, Nevada Current and The Mahablog

The Hill:

Constitutional rights are the exception — From South Carolina's Lowcountry to the suburbs of New York City, we represent much of the diversity that is America. In many ways, we reflect the multiracial, multi-generational coalition that came together last year to deliver Democratic control …

Discussion: Bloomberg, National Review, American Thinker and CBS News

Jason Easley / POLITICUSUSA:
Biden, Schumer, And Pelosi Are Meeting On A Battering Ram To Bust Voting Rights Filibuster

Discussion: CNN, Washington Times, Michigan Advance, Washington Post, New York Times, The Hill, One America News Network and WTOP

Tom Joyce / Washington Examiner:

Biden is paying the price for his Harris mistake — President Joe Biden made a promise — and the result of that promise isn't looking great right now. — Biden vowed that he would pick a female vice president, pigeonholing himself into having limited options for his running mate.

Jack Healy / New York Times:

They Spurned the Vaccine. Now They Want You to Know They Regret It. — People who once rejected the vaccine or simply waited too long are now grappling with the consequences, often in raw, public ways. — PROVO, Utah — As Mindy Greene spent another day in the Covid intensive care unit …

Charlie Cook / The Cook Political Report:

NON-PARTISAN, INDEPENDENT COOK POLITICAL REPORT UNDER NEW LEADERSHIP: SEASONED ANALYST & COLUMNIST AMY WALTER TO BECOME PUBLISHER & EDITOR-IN-CHIEF — For almost 40 years, The Cook Political Report, founded by Charlie Cook, has provided authoritative analysis of campaigns, elections and political trends in the United States.

KTLA:

LAUSD to require COVID-19 testing for all students and staff, regardless of vaccination status — The Los Angeles Unified School District will require all students and employees who are returning for in-person instruction to participate in weekly COVID-19 testing — regardless of vaccination status, the district announced Thursday.

Discussion: Breitbart, NBC Los Angeles, Los Angeles Times and Twitchy

CNN:

Trump faces another primary test in Ohio House race — (CNN)Donald Trump has a lot on the line in suburbs and small towns south of Columbus, Ohio. — After the Trump-backed candidate in Texas' 6th Congressional district runoff election lost this week, the pressure is now on the former President …

Discussion: CNBC

Donna Brazile / USA Today:

Joe Biden and I are Democrats who want Republicans to stay alive and vote — COVID vaccines were Donald Trump's greatest victory. Yet Republicans are resisting and sometimes dying instead of celebrating him and getting the shot. — I've dedicated my life to working on political campaigns to elect Democrats.

Discussion: FiveThirtyEight, CNN, Ace of Spades HQ and Los Angeles Times

Glenn H. Reynolds / New York Post:

No, Karen, we're not masking again: A winning GOP message for 2022 & beyond — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's latest confused pronouncement about masks is another blow to the embattled agency, whose track record hasn't been exactly brilliant.

Discussion: Althouse

Marianna Bacallao / Nashville Public Radio:

Conservative Radio Host Phil Valentine Is On A Ventilator; His Brother Says It's Time To ‘Go Get Vaccinated’ — Conservative radio talk show host Phil Valentine has been placed on a ventilator, according to his radio station, SuperTalk 99.7 WTN. He's been hospitalized now for more than two weeks.

Discussion: WAVY-TV

Will Feuer / New York Post:

Key inflation indicator jumps 3.5 percent, fastest rise in 30 years — A key inflation indicator rose 3.5 percent in June from a year ago — its biggest year-over-year jump in 30 years — as costs continued to grow in the US economy just as it's mounting a comeback from the pandemic, the feds said Friday.

Karl Evers-Hillstrom / The Hill:

Survey: 85 percent of flight attendants dealt with unruly passengers — More than 85 percent of flight attendants dealt with unruly passengers in the first half of 2021, according to a survey conducted by the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA (AFA). — Nearly 1 in 5 flight attendants experienced …

Discussion: RedState

Issues & Insights:

Biden's ‘Accomplishments’ So Far: A Troubling Tale In 8 Charts — Months after President Joe Biden supposedly “rescued” the country from the COVID-19 pandemic and promised that he'd bring the country together, how is the nation doing? Well, there are several indicators on the rise.

Discussion: Raw Story, Washington Examiner and Instapundit

New York Times:

Qaddafi's Son Is Alive. And He Wants to Take Libya Back. — In his first meeting with a foreign journalist in a decade, Seif al-Islam described his years in captivity — and hinted at a bid for Libya's presidency. — اقرأ باللغ ة …

Discussion: عرب …

THE CITY:

Researchers Find Signs of COVID-19 Mutations in NYC Sewage, Pointing to Possible Dog and Rat Infections — Scientists studying coronavirus in local wastewater say that city environmental officials initially had “zero willingness to help explore this potential public health risk.”

Discussion: The US Sun and naked capitalism

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:

Republicans moving to block University of Wisconsin virus testing, vaccination rules — MADISON - A Republican-controlled committee plans to block the University of Wisconsin from instituting COVID-19 testing, masking and vaccination protocols on campuses across the state …

Ian Millhiser / Vox:

Yes, Covid-19 vaccine mandates are legal — What the law says about vaccine mandates, explained. — In 1902, the city of Cambridge, Massachusetts, faced a smallpox outbreak. In response, the local health board ordered the city's residents over the age of 21 to be vaccinated against this disease.