Tony's Diary Package — page 728

Washington Post; CNN Interview from Global USA 1% 154% I had a terrific experience today, which is Nurse's Week. A couple of nurses from the different wards had written emails to me asking me to drop by and say hello to nurses on the occasion of Nurse's Week; they felt that the nurses would really appreciate seeing me and being able to take pictures with me. And so, today with the help of the head of nursing at the NIH Gwen Wallen and the various Ward supervisors, I visited every nursing unit in the NIH Clinical Center to congratulate and thank each of the nurses on Nurse's Week and to take literally hundreds of photos both as groups and as individual selfies. The nurses went absolutely wild to see me they were squealing and laughing and clapping. It was something to behold. The hour and a half that I invested in doing that was well worth the time in that it had to have been an extraordinary morale builder for the nurses. • I did a bunch of ceremonial social things virtually at Vanderbilt University where I taped my commencement address today to be given as a taped version next week. The Vanderbilt community was very excited to help me with them even though it was virtual PRESS: Interview with Joel Achenbach of the Washington Post; CNN Interview from India; May 6, 2021 - Global USA Daily cases at 44,000 Incidence and vaccine coverage • US (13/100K) 1st dose 45%I 2nd 33% • UK (2/100K) 1st dose 52%I 2nd 24% • Israel (0.7/100K) 1st dose 58%I 2nd 54%