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Jan. 4, 2020 - 20,680 cases and 27 deaths. No sign of diminishing. We are hearing the obvious conflicting opinions of the benefit or harm of travel restrictions. A lot of interest in the revealing that the NEJM paper claiming in one Chinese to German transmission that it was symptomatic transmission, when it probably was not. I quoted that paper (now flawed) in the WH presser. One death in Hong Kong (total of 2 with Phillippines for non-China deaths) 20,680/426 - 2% mortality Continuing to evacuate USC from Wuhan. 4 individuals from Hubei Province under quarantine (2 LAX, 1 ORD, 1 NY) Chinese officials criticizing USA for travel restrictions. WHO also adding muted criticism. Got urgent e-mail from Lindsey Baden from NEJM to review in 2 hours a pape from Germany showing that an asymptomatic person can harbor replication competent virus in nasal passages. State of the Union address tonight and vote on conviction after impeachment tomorrow - weird! PRESS: Bloomberg Radio;Vox print; Marc Siegal Doctor Radio - Sirius; NPR - "All Things Considered"- Richard Harris; Good Morning America - ABC; Yahoo Finance TV; NY Times - Roni Caryn Rabin; Reuters print; Israeli TV - i24 LIVE; Picture in Washington Post; BBC Radio interview 020:
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Jan. 6, 2020 - Chris and I went to a book party for our friend Ruth Marcus (Washington Post columnist), fo her book "Supreme Ambition" about Justice Brett Kavanaugh. Party at the home of David and Katherine Bradley at 2211 30th Street, NW. Elegant home. Super A list at party: Senator Mark Warner, Kellyanne Conway, Andrea Mitchell, David Ignatius, David Frum, Zeke Emanuel, etc., etc. Rafe Sagalyn is Ruth's agent and was there. Also, ran into Sylvia Burwell. Really great to see her. Realized how much I miss working with her. Nice evening.
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Jan. 7, 2020 - Just because of the sudden preduction of 1-3 inches of snow, OPM shut down the USG at 1:00 PM and everyone rushed to get off campus at the same time that Walter Reed personnel are trying to leave. This has created a total nightmare traffic jam on campus. It is taking almost 1 hour to get off campus from time you get in your car. Did TV interview with Canadian TV (CTV) on the viral outbreak in Wuhan, China. Did interview (print) with HealthDay on the influenza season
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Jan. 10, 2020 (Friday)- Infleunza is hot and heavy. Vaccine match is OK for H1N1, but not so good for B and H3N2. Did WUSA local TV on flu as well as interview with Elizabeth Cohen of CNN that went on her blog with multiple references to our conversation. Appeared on Voice of America to discuss the new Wuhan virus documented to be a novel coronavirus. Interesting that ovewr the past several years we have had 3 emerging novel coronaviruses that have caused serious disease in humans: SARS, MERS, and now the Wuhan virus. Chinese publish sequence of the virus on public data base
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Jan. 11, 2020 (Saturday) - Barney Graham ordersd the constructs using credit cards.
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Jan. 13, 2020 - Went to a function at the National Cathedral where David Rubenstein was interview in the naïve (similar to my interview a few years ago) by the Dean of the Cathedral in association with David's book - "The American Story". David was his usual hilarious self.
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Jan. 14, 2020 - Barney Graham's team starts work on GMP vaccine in collaboration with Moderna Did taped interview for the Islam Radio Breakfast Show about anti-vaxx movement. Very good interview. Also, did another interview with Eileen Reilly of Axios ewsHour segment on Ebola with considerable Apparently, CDC is upset because I am saying that this is on a course to be as bad a year as 2017-2018 and 2014-2015. In fact, the flu infection "numbers" are exactly on tract with those years. However, there are less total deaths and hospitalizations. This is due to the fact that Influenza B has predominated early that this hits kids more severely. Since the elderly account for most of the deaths and hospitalizations, the total of these are down; however for this time compared to other years, the number of pediatric deaths is way up. And so it depends what you mean by a 'bad' season. I say it is a bad season and CDC says no. There was a discussion between Azar and Nancy Messonnier of CDC about this and about my statements, but no one thought of getting me on the conference call. Not good. Typical CDC!
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Jan. 15, 2020 - Did interview on WTOP Radio on the number of pediatric flu deaths. I explained the issue of predominance of Influenza B and children and the poor match of the vaccine to circulating virus with Influenza B Victoria.
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Jan. 16, 2020 - The situation in Wuhan, China continues. Now have 2 deaths and 2 cases in Thailand and 1 in Japan. Was in on a PCC meeting via the NIH SCIF with the NSC chaired by Anthony Ruggiero. CDC and DHS have decided to do entry screening at 3 USA airport in people coming directly and indirectly from Wuhan: Kennedy in NYC, LAX, and SFO. Tomorrow night at 10:00 PM a 747 from Wuhan will arrive at Kennedy and will be the first to get screened. nCoV_PCC_SOC_FIN AL.docx I appeared this evening on a PBS NewsHour segment on Ebola with considerable exposure in the piece.