Tony's Diary Package — page 397

11 October 2020 The overall picture continues to deteriorate raising concerns across the United States there are deeply concerning trendlines across the upper North West Upper Mid West and now the NorthEast, Rising test positivityand cases and now resulting in rising hospitalizations, NO, MT, WY all have populations size similar to VT, MH, and Maine and had test pasitivity rates equal ta the these Morth East States 2 manths ago and are now in fulllog spread, Low populationdensities and small metros are nat protectian trom viral spread inthe community and leads to increased hospitalizations and deaths Currently the Heartland 6 states with less than 19M total population had #5 deaths yesterday (ona low day of reporting) and is growing daily Small clusters can rapidly and silenth spread to large outbreaks -- this spreadis preventable with aggressive mitigation: this is mot about shutting down but using the clear evidence based mitigation that has worked -- which requires behavioral changes both in public and private. The Sunbelt continues to contribute significant daily cheaths showing the significant delay between improvement in the pandemic picture and continued fatalities. I haveincluded serial pictorial analysis to demonstrate the speed of spread and continued tatalities trom the summer spread and the need te prevent the initial silent community spread [through aggressive testing} in order to impact hospitalizations and fatalities It is clear I was mot "alarmist" atew weeks ago when we brought tonvard these concerns and the need ta continue to agaressively mitigate ona National level and absolute necessity of the Administration to continue to stress the importance of masks, physical distancing and aveiding gatherings in both public and private spaces Birx, Hahn, Giroir, or even Pence. She ignored that and tweeted that Karl did not ask for anyone else but me. Karl got furious and tweeted his tweet to her showing her up to be a liar. She responded and said she must have "missed the text". PRESS: Opinions Distinguished person of the week: Fauci calls out Trump's recklessness Opinion by Jennifer Rubin Columnist Oct. 11, 2020 at 7:45 a.m. EDT