Tony's Diary Package — page 1058

I was supposed to be with the President today in the Roosevelt room of The West Wing for his announcement about how we are going to approach the upcoming full season with regard to our response to COVID. This relates to the new message of trying to get updated COVID vaccines (in this case BA.5 bivalent) to be given on an annual basis similar to the flu. However, sadly, Queen Elizabeth passed away within minutes of the scheduled press briefing and so we called it off and we will reschedule. The PBS documentary film coming out in April, 2023: Dr. Fauci Pandemic Documentary on the Way From PBS American Masters The program charts 14 months in the life of the storied physician PRESS: Interview with Il Messaggero (Italy); Sways Univese with Kelly Kincaid; Rolling Out TV with Munson Steed; Sept. 9, 2022 United States • Total Cases: 94,888,931 7-Day average: 70,488 (-18.8%) • Total Deaths: 1,043,921 7-Day average: 314 (-28.1%) • Total new hospital admissions: 5,267,624 7-Day average 4,620 (-10.5%) Worldwide [Source: WHO] - most recent day • Total Cases: 603,711,760 (472,582 new) • Total Deaths: 6,484,136 (1,277 new) MPX cases continue to come down globally and in USA (see graph below). We are having trouble getting supplemental funding from Congress to vaccinate a wider group of moderate risk people suchas commercial sex workers, prisoners, trans people, etc. I have been pushing for elimination of MPX with wider vaccination and ring approach as opposed to elimination.