Tony's Diary Package — page 575

Daily new confirmed COVID-19 cases eh Shown the rodling 7-day average. The number of confirmed cases is lower than the qumber of actual cases; the main reason for that is fimibed testing (Gea toe Add country 250,000 'United States: 200,000 . 150,000 100,000 50,000 United Kingdom Germany ea France Jan23, 2020 Mar ii Apr 30 Jun 1 Aug 8 Sen 2? Nowlé Jan3.2021 Source: Jokns Hoptins University COSE COVIG: 19 Date = Laet updated 4 January, 0506 (London Grey cceyY Jan 23,2020 (9 C7) Jan3, 2021 1. I have included the European data in slides 3 and 4 - most of the European increases being driven by the UK 2. You can also see from slide 3 the rate of rise of our Fall/winter surge was more dramatic consistent with the USA having its own more infectious variant Things starting to move with my involvement with the Biden team. Biden is concerned about making sure that he reaches 100 million doses of vaccine in the 1st 100 days. We are meeting by zoom with him tomorrow and today and tomorrow we had/will have pre-brief meetings to discuss our plan - led by Jeff Zients. Present were Natalie Quillian, Vivek Murthy, Marcella Nunez-Smith, Rochelle Walensky, David Kessler, Asma Mirza, and Sonya Bernstein. Plan is to develop community vaccination centers, use mobile units to get to rural areas, etc. Nursing staff in the OR at the Brigham and Women's Hospital all wearing Fauci caps. Email sent to me by Atul Gawande.