Tony's Diary Package — page 627

"9 -- 27,800,000/494,000 NATIONWIDE COVID-19 METRICS BY WEEK Mar 12, 2020 - Feb 17, 2021 15,000 10,000 5,000 Weekly Tests Weekly Cases Avg. Weekly Hospitalized -8.7% From Last Week -25.8% From Last Week -17.6% From Last Week 14.0M ueM 120,000 12.0M 1.4M 100,000 10.0M 1.2M 80,000 8.0M 1.0M 0.8M 60,000 6.0M 0.6M 4.0M 40,000 0.4M 2.0M 20,000 0.2M I cow lil = ete a oe = > -- fae a bo = = a a EST ERESCE CIOS OF STORE SL ST Lee ae 325957235 3523235 Source: The COVID Tracking Project °o Weekly Deaths -20.9% From Last Week " a Apr9 Juni Jul 2 Jul 23 Aug Sep Oct 15 Nov Nov Dec Jan? Jan May Mar stick with the 2 dose since we know from our studies that the 2nd dose increases the response 10fold over the 1st dose. This height of response gives a cushion against the existing variants and also if you have a less-than-optimal response (albeit a good response) to the 1st dose, you may actually "select" for more variants. • Call from Jeff Sachs about the International Monetary Fund (Special Drawing Rights - SDR) and the possibility of a $40-$50 billion dollar program to vaccinate the entire world. He wants me to have a special role. Moe later. • Gave Harvey lecture virtually at Georgetown • Met with Francis C, Carl D, John Martin, and Larry Tabak about the COVID targeted drug development program that I am trying to set up with the $743 million that we put into our total NIH budget request. It will be based in NIAID with Carl as the lead. As usual Francis wants governance to be somewhat under his control. All good. We will get it done. PRESS: Interview with Erin Banco - The Daily Beast; White House Press Conference; ESPN Baseball TV with Buster Olney; interview with Ben Samuels of Haaretz Israel Newspaper (he tried to get me involved with commenting on the policy of Israel and I refused); MSNBC with Joy Reid; February 20, 2021 - Global -110,400,000/2,400,000; USA - 27,800,000/494,000 PRESS: