Tony's Diary Package — page 512

together with George -- 13,800,000/273,000 To prevent as many fatalities as possible a comprehensive Federal response with aggressive support to States to include strang statements that Europe with strong mitigation are improving -- there is a clear roadmap ta contain this virus and preserve the health system -- ensuring the identification of silent spread and early Ox and Tx and those at risk for serious Dz: Reinstate aggressive communication at the WH level: masking requirements at all times outside of immediate household, physically distancing, hand hygiene AND critically limiting of social interactions to the immediate household for the next 60 days while we bridge to the rapid vaccination of the vulnerable populations decreasing hospitalizations and fatalities : this is a short term sacrifice to protect the vulnerable. We must directly confront the myths that many Americans believe ' Many Americans believe that masks don't work dué to prior tweets, that the epidemic is a hoax, that the figure of 94% of those who died had co-morbidities meant that they died from something else and we have inflated the fatalities -- instead of understanding that the co-morbidities predisposed them to severe COVID Clear recommendations to States about the importance of short term mitigation interventions : restricting indoor dining and limiting and/or closing areas of congregation without mask (bars, gyrns etc.) this was successful in the USA in the summer and was successful in Europe during their fall surge -- states across the country are not mitigating adequately to preserve the health system --even those states that mitigated In the surmmer are failing to mitigate now Continued critical guidance on the Holiday season to limit all indoor gatherings to Immediate household only Aggressive re-alignment of Ag testing towards finding and preventing unrelenting silent spread that continues to trigger community spread In waves -- a hand full of states are moving in this direction Expansion of NAT testing now to ensure colleges and K-12 teachers can access routine regular testing in January Expanding frequency of LTCF testing and aligning early vaccination into LTCF With Moderna's potential of one shot resulting in some protection - aggressive immunization of the vulnerable and the elderly in the community in addition to the Pfizer priority to HCWs and LTCF could dramatically change hospitalization rates and fatalities in the next 30-35 days led • Got call from Jeff Zients in preparation of my briefing the Biden "landing team" tomorrow. Jeff wanted to alert me that Biden will be calling me right after the briefing. • Received the Eleanor Roosevelt Prize for Global Human Rights Advancement from the American Bar Association Center for Human Rights • PEOPLE Magazine names me 2020 Person of the Year together with George Clooney, Selena Gomez and Regina King PRESS: CNN: Elton John honors Anthony Fauci on World AIDS Day; CNN Heroes with Anderson Cooper; KTVQ TV - Billings, MT; ABC News PRIME (Online); Fox TV News; Frank Bruni writes in the NY Times: Anthony Fauci is the steely superhero of my deep state, and he's flanked and fortified by all the government health officials who also pushed back against the quackery of Scott Atlas, the Trump-flattering pandemic adviser who resigned on Monday December 3, 2020 - Global - 64,000,000/1,500,000; USA - 13,800,000/273,000 Records being broken: 3000 deaths yesterday; >100,000 hospitalizations; >200,000 new infections. With gauntlet of Today I met with President elect Biden's landing team. It was a good meeting that was led by Jeff Zientz, Vivek Murthy, and included David Kessler, John Auerbach, Tom Inglesby,