Tony's Diary Package — page 302

17 August 2020 Data Summary The case stall is primarily driven by rising cases in the yellow states esp CA and continued high casesin GA, M5, ID Highest daily cases per population AL(22/ 100,000), AR (15/100,00), FL (29/100,000), GA (29/100,000), 1D (24,'100,000), MS (25/'100,00), NY (24/'100,000), SC (20/100,000) and TX (25/100,000) New hospital admissions remain at a high plateau withoul declines-- current rate 34 May rates Deaths are increasing due to substantial spread into communities with high co-morbiditles (esp the South) and LTCF and will continue to accelerated over the next weeks without containmentof the LTCF spread US deaths / population will continue to rise and we will pass all European countries except Belgium in the most fatalities normalized per population Increasing evidence of long term morbidities related to heartand long damage from COVID infection -- across age proups-- one should not trivialize these consequences.as we will see more evidence of this damage as survival rates improve and with our case burden Continued improvements continue across the Sunbelt red states but mot the West Coast with cases in CA, OR, WA Strong mitigation mustcontinue te States with improvements in the Sunbeltto drive cases dawn ta less than 5/100,000 and test positivity less than 3% to contain community spread and prevent surge in mortality throughout the fall-- gains are fragile and creating another round of substantial community spread before the fall will further accelerate hospitalizations and deaths NE hasan excellentinfection control exampleof a State program to supportnursing homes thathas been expanded to other settings including prisons, meat packing plants etc -- would be excellentte highlight on the GOV call as well as 1A summer highschool sports program Excellentsaliva high throughout testing example fram KS and OK supporting colleges and universities that can be highlighted on call -5,400,000/170,000 • Did Fireside chat with Gallaudet University • Discussion with Cong. Sanford Bishop (D-GA) - member of CBG - particular interest in Vets. • Gave COVID lecture to ASM Microbe meeting. Afterwards did fireside chat with Peggy Hamburg PRESS: Taped interview with J.J. Green, national security correspondent for WTOP radio; August 18, 2020 - Global - 22,000,000/773,000; USA - 5,400,000/170,000 I continue to be kept out of the classic press but am getting in through indirect ways. Still have >1000 deaths per day. Scott Atlas now the main person that Trump listens to. I have reached out to Scott to give him a fair chance to explain to me exactly how he feels about children getting infected and the issues with letting community spread happen. We obviously differ here. He and White House feel that we can let children get infected in schools since they do not get sick and we just need to protect the vulnerable in Nursing Homes. Fallacious thinking since there are many not in Nursing Homes who are vulnerable such as obese people, diabetics, hypertensives, etc. ALSO, many reports coming out now about long term cardiovascular and brain effects in younger people who were not