Tony's Diary Package — page 591

COVID-19 Cases per 100K by Race/Ethnicity in the United States, Mar 1, 2020 -- Jan 10, 2021 : current surge impacting Native Americans >white > hispanic >> black Incident Cases per LOOK Week received by COC American dian Alaskan Mattye, Non-Hispanic i Agian/Pacitic Islander, Won-bMapanic WB Dlack, Mor-Blipparre, @Hapanic ie White, Mon-Hispanke cor ond dear cea Bor ag do iment. 2. Nearly all METROs over 500K residents is deteriorating. - even those that had been stable now have rising cases slides 15-18: NYC area is now reached cases greater than the Spring surge Trump impeached for 2nd time! Several Republicans vote in House for impeachment. Unlikely to come to trial in Senate until after inauguration. Biden does not want distraction from his 100 days agenda. Had zoom call with President of Ecuador - President Lenin Moreno Garces. We discussed the situation in Ecuador, vaccines and a whole bunch of questions that he had. Seems like a very smart person. I promised to advocate for equitable availability of vaccines throughout the world including Ecuador. Had Zoom call with Biden team - (Marcella Nunez-Smith, David Kessler, Rochelle Walensky, Vivek Murthy, Connolly Keigler and Maju Varghese). David led discussion regarding the inauguration. Originally there was supposed to be 250 people on the platform 6 feet apart ()POTUS and VP and Family, supreme court justices, leaders of Congress. 6 feet apart, all masked, all tested. Then then wanted 29,000 on the West Front. Maju Varghese was operationally responsible for arrangements. These 29,000 were cut down to 2000 by David (who is overall responsible for arrangements). The meeting today was to determine if we were OK with this. We all (Marcella, Rochelle, Vivek) voted that there should be no one on the West Front. I made the argument that some of the GOP Congressmen could make trouble by not wearing masks the way they refused when the Capitol was attacked and they were crowded in a