Tony's Diary Package — page 626

e Did podcast with James Hildreth from Meharry Medical College PRESS: CBS This Morning with Gayle King and Tony Dokoupil; Online TV interview with Clive Cookson (Editor, Financial Times) for the UK Science Museum event; White House Press Conference on the usual MWF schedule; CNN "360" with Anderson Cooper. February 18, 2021- Global -- 109,600,000/2,400,000; USA --27,700,000/489,100 Big Ice-storm in Washington DC and major ice storms and snow over southwest (Texas) with several deaths. Currently heavy snow in NYC and Boston Cases continue to drop Briefed President Biden today in Oval (Virtually). I briefed him on pediatric vaccine trials and mentioned that we likely will have high school children (13-17 yo) vaccinated by mid-Fall, but it would take until Q1 of 2022 to get the trials done and approval for elementary school children (6 to 12 yo). He asked good questions but he rambled a bit, seemingly repeating things that he had said a few minutes previously. e Spoke with the PEPVAR group about USA providing $4-5 billion to build plants to produce Moderna mRNA for the world -- Peter Staley, James Krellenstein, David Barr, Christian Urrutia, Wafaa El Sadr. I will bring this up to Jeff Zients. PRESS: MSNBC with Andrea Mitchell; Council on Foreign Relations podcast -- "Why it Matters"; Interview with Char Koosta News (discussed tribal Vaccine hesitancy with Sam Sandoval); Interview with Times of Israel on my Dan David Prize; Interview with Alice Park of Time Magazine on 1* 100 days of Biden Administration; Did Buzzfeed interview with Dan Vergano on the Fateful March 11, 2020 when we shut down Europe. February 19, 2021-- Global USA Online preprint paper cam out from Israel saying that a single dose of Pfizer mRNA protected. well (85% at 15-28 days against symptomatic disease and 72% against symptomatic and asymptomatic disease). 9000 individual study of young and healthy people. We do not know the durability of this protection. I made point at the press conference (see below) that we will