Tony's Diary Package — page 312

24 August 2020 Continued improvement in most of the original red states and many have moved to the yellow status but 3 red states TX, SC, MS need to expand mitigation to drive down cases along with GA (M5, GA, And TX account for the highest cases/100,000 slide 2) = Will spend this week working with thoge states to ensure: they continue to decline Test positivity dropping from 9 to under 6 over the past 4 weeks and gain needs to accelerate -- slide 5 Hospitalizations declining and this week mortality should decline Continued improvement in mortality rates in all age groups including those over 70 --slide 7 Will be important to ensure all Governors are aware of lhe ingordance of nnemedigte Leaner! with Remndesivir and plasma 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 metros and Central Valley moving into eastern OR and WA Test positivity and cases rising in M0, KS, OK, IL 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 Will need strong Labor Day messaging to prevent another Memorial Day spreading event that has taken 2 months to begin to contral-- approx 40% of the deaths have occurred post the Memorial Day triggered super spreading week that seeded the South. Most of the Heartland most likely seeded from residents COVID-19 Daily Report Reported on August 24, 2020 States assigned to groups based on test positivity in the week ending August 19. Red states (>10% positive) Yellow states (5-10% positive) Green states (<5% positive) AL, AR, AZ, CA, FL, GA, HI, IA, IL, IN, KY, LA, I AK, CO, CT, DC, DE, MA, MD, ME, MI, ND, ID, KS, MS, NV, SC, TX MN, MO, MT, NC, NE, OK, SD, TN, UT, VA, I NH, NJ, NM, NY, OH, OR, PA, RI, VT, WA, wi WV, WY Case counts Test positivity rate New COVID-19 cases per day (7-day average) Percent testing positive (7-day average) 70000 = -- National ---- Red States ---- Red States 60000 --~ yellow States ------ Yellow States -- G States =------ Green States Pa reen uv -_ Pm 50000 Z a 2 20 © 40000 S sed = 30000 ais c Cc s '§ 20000 g 10 --E =]2 10000 15-Mar 15-Apr 15-May 15-jun 15-Jul 15-Aug 15-Mar 15-Apr 15-May 15-Jun 15-Jul 15-Aug Source: Aggregate counts reported by jurisdictions to CDC. Source: Unified State Reporting Results Timeseries, HHS Protect. Deaths per 100 cases Death counts COVID-19 deaths per 100 cases (7-day average) New COVID-19 deaths per day (7-day average) uw --=-- National ---- National h 12 ---- Red States ---- Red States S =---- Yellow States = Yellow States By ---- Green States rs ---- Green States : S ral @ > 2000 oO q S a o = - 3 1500 a es) a ¥ © 1000 : i Rid °o ry 2 500 a E = 15-Mar 15-Apr 15-May 15-Jun 15-Jul 15-Aug 15-Mar 15-Apr 15-May 15-Jun 15-Jul 15-Aug Source: Aggregate counts reported by jurisdictions to CDC. Source: Aggregate counts reported by jurisdictions to CDC.