Tony's Diary Package — page 659

Daily new confirmed COVID-19 deaths per million people Our World Shown is the rolling 7-day average, Limited testing and challenges in the attribution of the cause of death means that the number of confirmed deaths may not be an accurate count of the true number of deaths from COVID-19. in Data Brazil L\ Chile ---- Paraguay ga FES HoT Eat «----* Mexico ~ _.~ ==. ee ---- Argentina SS -------- -- _s Colombia ;-- Ecuador = Bolivia ---- A 3 Si __, .--- World ae ue Guyana ig = Venezuela --. =e --"S, __ Suriname Feb 18, 2021 Feb 24, 2021 Mar 1, 2021 Mar 6, 2021 Mar 11, 2021 Mar 18, 2021 Source: Johns Hopkins University CSSE COVID-19 Data CC BY '9,700,000/540,000 March 22, 2021 - Global -123,000,000/2,700,000; USA - 29,700,000/540,000 Trump has been attacking me (and Deb Birx) in recent interviews on FOX News and "the Hill" (see below) saying that we were wrong most of the time. However, he actually says that I am a nice guy and he likes me. Big semi-scandal! AstraZeneca again messed up. Today was the day when they announced the data of their phase three clinical trial of a covid vaccine. The data showed a 78.9% efficacy with good efficacy against severe disease. They put out a press conference and press release and we followed with a press release that mirrored their release. As it turns out the data and safety monitoring board, which was getting impatient with them and was having trouble with their submission from the beginning, send them a harsh letter also addressed to me indicating that the data in their press release was not the most recent data an actually made the data looked more favorable. When the White House found out about this, it triggered a series of zoom calls with the comms team of the White House (Courtney Rowe et al) led by Jeff Zients. the final decision was that we would put out a press statement from NIAID in the middle of the night urging AZ to come clean with the DSMB and to straighten out their press release. See below the letter from the DSMB to me and AZ as well as our press release.