Tony's Diary Package — page 628

Confirmed Cases (Thousareds] ist ion mR PR RR g ILI LT Sfk aE ol. 5/29-4/5 4/L24 A426 5/9 5 "Represents partial week data -- 27,900,000/499,000 with Margaret Brennan on Face the Nation. Good summary of https://cbsn.ws/3pGH9tR Average New Weekly Confirmed COVID-19 Cases in the U.S, Bi a 3 " moO z & Ey ie E a q =a a x be a z 25 m i iw Rog » . I 39% = = Ae Aas a I I I ASRS 28598 6/7 Shae 24608 TS FDI ST 6 6 2S BReaSSE90 96 SSS SOS TOO TES LOR sae Be Week of -- 27,900,000/500,000 February 21, 2021 - Global - 110,700,000/2,500,000; USA - 27,900,000/499,000 Matt Pottinger's interview with Margaret Brennan on Face the Nation. Good summary of history of the early months: https://cbsn.ws/3pGH9tR Mike Osterholm still predicting an "inevitable" massive surge in the Spring. He also is insisting that we can study the 1 dose strategy in time for meaningful results. PRESS: Sunday shows: NBC - Meet the Press with Chuck Todd; FOX Sunday with Chris Wallace; CNN State of the Union with Dana Bash. February 22, 2021 - Global - 111,100,000/2,500,000; USA - 27,900,000/500,000 Reached 500,000 deaths in the USA today!! However, numbers of new cases continue to come down. Will be race between the new variants and our two tools of defense: 1) vaccine; 2) public health measures. Luckily the mRNA vaccines and J & J are good against the B.117 (UK). Even though they are less effective against the B1.531 (RSA) isolate they still likely will protect against hospitalization and death - the J & J definitely does (tested in RSA) and we can extrapolate that the mRNA (not yet tested in RSA) also does.