Tony's Diary Package — page 344

12 September 2020 .Data remains unstab Vy: showing depth of lagging indicator : as the current pate of decline it will take 3-4 more 'weeks to get under 500/day average. But concerning rise in mortality throughout the Heartland and IL 2.Data issues continue in TX and we have a data team on the ground 3.New hospital admissions remain high without substantial declines 4.Increasing hospitalizations/100 cases continues and is widening indicating undertesting in areas of community spread 5.Universities with strong plans for testing and isolation are remaining open -- others continue to close and send students homes -- this is resulting in students going underground and "refusing" to test for fear their university will close or that they will be sent home 6.University of South Carolina is an example of surveillance testing, student testing, isolation and care resulting in improvements 7.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 8.The Heartland (AR improving) and SD needs to increase mitigation efforts or will drive further hospitalizations and deaths PRESS: Interview with Newsweek - Fred Guteri; MSNBC with Andrea Mitchell; CNN Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer September 12, 2020 September 13, 2020 Important Day!! - POTUS called me up at around 11:20 AM (Sunday) and started a diatribe about my interview on Friday with Andrea Mitchell on MSNBC. He went on and on about how negative I was on the show. He said that I was great on Thursday with John Roberts (FOX) and so "what happened" to make me negative. I tried to explain to him that the entire message was not all negative. I was really saying that there is a risk with the upticks in ND, SD, MT and other states for a surge if we do not intensify the public health measures of masks, distance, crowds, etc. I emphasized that what I was saying is that we can control this without having to shut down. As soon as I mentioned the word "shut down" he went off saying we will never again shut down as if I was suggesting that we would when I was saying just the opposite. He then went off on asking about