Tony's Diary Package — page 256

300,000/140,200; as 73 Slate 00,000/141,000. July 20, 2020 - Global - 14,000,000/598,000; USA - 3,800,000/140,200; • Kentucky, Louisiana, Oregon and South Carolina all set new single-day records for new cases on Sunday. Idaho, Nebraska, Iowa and five other states have seen their seven-day averages for daily new fatalities rise by more than 40 percent in the past week. • More than 100 Florida hospitals have run out of ICU beds for adults. The state has reported more than 10,000 new covid-19 cases on 12 different days in July. Had call with Bill Gates (usual call every couple of weeks) Was on Governors' call from the Situation Room today. Made comment about the importance of the "fundamentals" on 1) masks; 2) close bards; 3) limit restaurant occupancy; 4) avoid crowds; 5) personal hygiene - wash hands. The Nats mask that Iwore to the Hearing is being put into the Cooperstown MLB Hall of Fame! PRESS: Nice profile on me in Corriere della Sera - https://bit.ly/2ZIWDU7 ; Slate Magazine "What's Next" podcast; Podcast/Instagram with Maria Schriver July 21, 2020 - Global - 14,300,000/604,000; USA - 3,800,000/141,000. Surge continues in Southern States. Florida in trouble. POTUS had press conference on COVID-19 without having me, Deb, or other TF members with him Meadows and now Rand Paul have been actively criticizing me for saying that NYC got it right in that after their peak, they brought the infections down and now have few hospitalizations and few deaths. They are incorrect. See below numbers for NYC: