Spencer Cox

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@sheriffdperkins I can’t wait to be there soon! — PolitiTweet.org

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@matthewLksl I turned on the TV just in time to see Roberts steal second and thought…well, I guess I know what I’m doing for the next hour…👊🏼😊 — PolitiTweet.org

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@Soapywings Thanks Mike! — PolitiTweet.org

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@SeguraChristine Her book was amazing. — PolitiTweet.org

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@KevinLabrum Thank you Kevin! — PolitiTweet.org

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@mikekofoed 👊🏼Well done my friend. — PolitiTweet.org

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@Ben_In_Utah @DeidreHenderson Thanks Ben! — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @SenMikeLee: Yesterday, the SBA announced that agricultural businesses are now eligible for SBA’s Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) a… — PolitiTweet.org

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@brandengallen2 Thanks Branden. And yes, we work closely with all states and have shared best practices back and forth. — PolitiTweet.org

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Good reminder… — PolitiTweet.org

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@danieljharris Yes! — PolitiTweet.org

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One of my favorite people in this world…grace and humility personified. (And I’m fairly confident you won’t see any other NBA owners working a sewing machine to protect healthcare workers).❤️👊🏼 #TakeNote — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @Intermountain: Gail Miller, Intermountain's board chair, joined #ProjectProtect with her family & has personally sewn 200 masks, while… — PolitiTweet.org

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@n8pyfer Thanks Nate! https://t.co/WVLBHTkFvD — PolitiTweet.org

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@n8pyfer https://t.co/WVLBHTkFvD — PolitiTweet.org

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@caseyjacketta Yes. — PolitiTweet.org

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@caseyjacketta Utah Department of Health and the University of Utah. — PolitiTweet.org

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@bullet_farmer Not that type of surveillance. Health department randomly selects Utahns and asks them if they are willing to *voluntarily* get tested just to see if they have or have already had the virus. That’s how we find out how many people (statistically) have really had the virus. — PolitiTweet.org

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@searlebenjamin8 Thanks Ben! https://t.co/WVLBHTCgUd — PolitiTweet.org

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11/ Finally, we have given much deserved praise to our healthcare workers, but I also want to recognize our public health professionals. They have been working around the clock and are often forgotten. Without them, none of this is possible. Thank you for making us proud! /End — PolitiTweet.org

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10/ All of this is possible because of unprecedented collaboration between health care systems, local health, non-profit and private institutions who have stepped up in amazing ways...AND because of the sacrifice of Utahns over the past 6 weeks. We can do this because of you! — PolitiTweet.org

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9/ Fourth, we are testing all elective surgery patients to protect our healthcare workers. And fifth (not yet started, but soon), we are working to test employees in critical infrastructure and high risk industries (like food processing plants). — PolitiTweet.org

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8/ Third, we have begun randomized surveillance testing of 12,000 Utahns, including BOTH swab (PCR) and antibody (serology) tests to help us better understand how widespread the virus has been throughout our state. — PolitiTweet.org

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7/ Second, to protect vulnerable populations we have assembled 10 mobile strike teams that are being deployed to long term care facilities, underserved communities and other vulnerable populations to significantly increase testing in those areas. — PolitiTweet.org

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6/ First, we can now conduct contact tracing w every positive case, attempt to identify the source of the infection (via testing) AND test all asymptomatic close contacts for both the victim and the source. This will help us find sources and exposures before they begin to spread. — PolitiTweet.org

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5/ Now, this is the really exciting part...we also finally have much more testing capacity than demand. That means--when combined with our robust tracing capacity--we can finally go on the offense to try and fight this disease. Here is how we are now using those tools... — PolitiTweet.org

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4/Thanks to ARUP, Test Utah and IHC we are 5th in testing/1M people, 6th in positives/test and 2nd in deaths/positive test (the only state in the top 10 in those 3 areas). And, we have 1,200+ staff working on contact tracing (a number we think is the most/capita in the country). — PolitiTweet.org

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3/From the beginning, you've heard me obsess about ramping up testing/tracing as the only way out of this "sledgehammer" approach of everyone staying home and into a "surgical" approach of testing people and then testing/isolating everyone they contacted: https://t.co/tizBrN2z1x — PolitiTweet.org

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2/ Remember, there were multiple reasons for extreme social distancing. The one we talk about most is to flatten the curve and not overwhelm our healthcare systems. But equally important is buying time to build out our testing and tracing capacity. — PolitiTweet.org

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1/ Hey friends, I want to share a few things about our coronavirus response that haven't gotten much attention. As we cautiously open things up we tend to obsess over case counts (which matter!) and miss the testing and tracing infrastructure that we have been furiously building. — PolitiTweet.org