Tony's Diary Package — page 167

'10,000/73,000 Got rather unusual phone call from Larry Horowitz arranged by Anna Eschoo (DCA). He was asking questions about Rick Bright, likely related to tomorrow's Hearing on the Whistleblower issue and his getting fired from BARDA. I was careful in response. Larry said he had many e-mails (from January, 2020) where Rick was calling attention to fact that we needed supplies for the SNS (masks, PPE, ets) and Kadlec was not listening. The e-mail make Kadlec look bad. Larry wanted to know if I knew about these e-mails. I had never seen them. They were all e-mails within ASPR/HHS/BARDA. Trouble looming with the distribution of the Remdesivir that was donated by Gilead. Kadlec with Adm. P given task of distributing the drug equitably and eithically (Chris was consulted) to the hospitals that needed it. VP at the end of the TF meeting asked Azar, Kadlec, Adm. P, Deb and then unexpectedly me to get on the phone tonight and by tomorrow have a solution to what was perceived as a misalignment of distribution. It was clear from discussion last night that someone (likely Kadlec and ASPR) screwed up since in NYC, it was clear (and I picked it up right away) that the hospitals such as Cornell and Columbia did not get drug while Queens Hospital and Lincoln Hospital got drug. There is a furor about his screwup and Deb is not hesitating to call it out. May 7,2020 - Global - 3,600,000/248,000; USA - 1,210,000/73,000 Phone call with Secretary Azar about how to fix this problem. Cluster in process. Deb does not show up for phone call. Francis at Hearing today aimed at the Rick Bright issue. Not much problem for Francis. Big Cluster regarding the mis-distribution of Remdesivir. FEMA dropped the ball. They were supposed to distribute through ASPR the drug accoding to need of hospitalized patients in states. Deb Birx made it clear in an e-mail to Pete Gayno (FEMA Director) that the drug should be distributed according to need.