Tony's Diary Package — page 340

9 September 2020 Holiday weekend reporting always unstab will be key 2.Cases are stable 3.Prior gains in AL and SC being reversed and will need to intensify focused mitigation 4.Jncreasing hospitalizations/100 cases continues and is widening indicating undertesting in areas of community spread : 14 republican states and 6 democratic states have significant declines in testing rates since the new CDC guidance was published 5.Hospitalizations beginning to rise in some college towns where students returned 3-4 weeks ago 6.Fatalities now rising in the heartland : fatalities should continue to decline over the next 4 weeks if outbreaks can be limited and not spread to local communities and hometowns : data will be unstable this week due to reporting 7.Universities with strong plans for testing and isolation are remaining open -- others continue to close and send students homes 8.Universities need to ensure students are tested, isolated and cared for on campus or in COVID designated areas to ensure containment and prevent spread both into local community and to hometowns 9.The Heartland and ND, SD needs to increase mitigation efforts or will drive hospitalizations and deaths 10.This week in person swing : VA, KY, TN, MS, AL, NC, SC (mayors and colleges) e and is rerected in |uesday data Daily New Cases in the United States Daily New Cases Cases per Day Data as of 0:00 GMT+0 100k ii m2 mh 75k E: (IMRT ini J oA) -- 50k bi Cc a G = 25k AANA a Lt)ee Ce er eg I a I i ! AP Pe AB oh Ph PP at oP tk at ae ot wa ee a a a ee x) y eo x) conor we ot on Pi f s woe AP ay? e eee =e ee oh ® Daily Cases [I "> 7-day moving average AS Bob Woodward's book "Rage" just came out today causing a media fire storm since it has Trump saying that he knew along along that COVID-19 was very serious, but he played it down to not frighten the American public.