Tony's Diary Package — page 624

Daily new confirmed COVID-19 cases per million people Shown is the rolling 7-day average. The number of confirmed cases is lower than the number of actual cases; the main reason for that is limited testing. Gam] te North America South America Europe Asia Africa 0) Australia Jan 1, 2020 Mar 11 Apr 30 Jun 19 Aug 8 Sep 27 Nov 16 Jan5 Feb14,2021 ( Times TV; NPR -- "Science Friday" with Cases continue to come down globally: Media trying to show discrepancies in the Biden team response. CDC and Walensky under criticism for their recent guidelines for opening schools since they are really quite confusing. They say open the schools but the guidelines show that 85-90% of the country is in the "red" zone and therefore, should hold off on opening. I believe that this is typical CDC confusion and lack of clear crisp guidelines no matter who is CDC Director. Also, the are pitting (a little) what I am saying against what VP Harris is saying. VP saying that we have to "start from scratch" in the vaccine roll out and I have been saying that some things were done well such as the mechanism for shipping vaccines. I reconcile this by saying that the mechanisms for getting doses into people's arms were in bad shape when the Biden team came in. The press are accepting this. Briefed (together with Francis Collins, Rochelle, and Janet Woodcock) the House and Senate Caucuses on COVID-19 variants PRESS: CNN with Jim Sciutto; LA Times TV; NPR - "Science Friday" with Ira Flatow; New York Post: