Tony's Diary Package — page 308

5,600,000/175,000 22 August 2020 Improvement in cases from 68,000 (7 day average) to currently 45,000 (7 day average) in 4 weeks Test positivity dropping from 9 te under 6 over the past 4 weeks and gain needs to accelerate Hospitalizations declining and next week mortality should decline Aggressive mitigation efforts decreasing community spread across the Sunbelt and will need to continue to ensure cases, hospitalizations and fatalities decline Continued widespread community spread in CA driven in all size metro and Central Valley -- we need to decide between a WA, OR, CA, NV trip primarily focused in agricultural and hispanic communities up through the central valley to WA (continued spread) vs. aMN, MI, WI, IL, SD (rising cases) trip as both with continued or rising cases Test positivity rising in MO, KS, OK, IL and slide 9 shows movement of increasingly high test + in Heartland : will need continued worked with the Heartland with rising cases, test + and large land grant universities returning without adequate testing to define depth of outbreaks and prevention of spread into the local communities with vulnerable residents Providing the major metro curves today where you can see improvements across the board but each curve is different and degree of current outbreak is not predicted by previous outbreak and each curve is different in peak and duration of peak primarily related to degree of mitigation. Will need strong Labor Day messaging to prevent another Memorial Day spreading event Daily New Cases in the United States Daily New Cases Lases per Day Data as of 0:00 GMT+0 LOO 5k 25k NN) cele See PPO 89 98.8 Pe " # ae eye ve e ee opt gf gt oF a a tg? a " *s fe +? un 'e fn Novel Coronavirus Daily Cases © © Dally Cases ("] = F-day moving average = Fy PRESS: Continued coverage of my surgery in press. August 22, 2020 - Global - 22,800,000/795,000; USA - 5,600,000/175,000