Tony's Diary Package — page 16

are hearing the symptomatic and so the NEJM paper is incorrect. However, the fact is still true. Also, George was very sensitive and understandably defensive since he was the one who said early on that there was no human to human transmission and that the original 27 cases in the wet market reported on December 31, 2019 were animal to human when actually human to human transmission was occurring weeks before. The Wuhan health officials did not tell him this and he thus gave out false information. This lapse likely allowed the outbreak to take hold since Wuhan went about their business with 40,000 pot luck festivals without social distancing. Failure of HIV vaccine trial HVTN-702 (Uhambo) conducted in South Africa >5000 participants showed no efficacy at all. DSMB stopped trial due to futility PRESS: WTOP Radio; CNBC; TRT Turkish TV (x2); CGTN Chinese TV; On camera interview with Jennifer Ashton in VRC - ABC News; Lou Dobbs FOX News. 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