Tony's Diary Package — page 1012

that he's writing about risks in society. t ea ¥ IYI LI IVY Ga, SOME Total Most recent 7-day daily Week-on-week ilable to date day* average change Cases --_---91,5 28,339 161,295 119,044 ». admits 5,073,655 5,679 6,321 Deaths 1,026,723 ported** 931,583,461 Tee 526,166** 5.2%** sitivity** 9.4% reporting lag 0.4 pct. pts. inistered 603,693,871 313,724 0.6% ccinated 223,245,563 42,196 +10.3% I gave an interview with Nate Silver about a book that he's writing about risks in society. Rand Paul together with Roger Marshal, Rick Scott, Josh Hawley, Ron Johnson is holding a "hearing" on origins with the witnesses: Richard Ebright (Lab Director Waksman Lab. Of Microbiology, Rutgers), Kevin Esvelt, (Assistant Professor of Media Arts and Sciences MIT Media Lab) and Steven Quay (CEO, Atossa Theapeutics) all totally non-credible. Angel Rasmussen is blasting them on twitter as hacks. Once per year the minority are allowed to call a hearing and so Paul et al are using this as a publicity stunt. The majority has not even showed up. It is a total farse. I got a follow-up from Chase Crawford from my legislative staff who listened to the hearing and the result was expected in which Ebright came out strong saying that we did do gain of function and that I lied Quay also said that. However Esvelt said that some may call this gain of function whereas other scientists would say it's not since gain of function is such an ill defined term. He came the closest to reality. The rest of them would just pounding away that NIH funded gain of function and it likely caused the outbreak and that I lied saying that we did not. COVID: August 4, 2022 The Wrap: Fox News host Tucker Carlson continued to imply that infectious disease expert and White House advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci somehow is responsible for creating the