Tony's Diary Package — page 742

idio; )10,000/585,000 associated with the grant that was funded. This obvious fact appears to get lost in the zeal of some to point fingers at us to be the cause of the problem. PRESS: Interview with The Advocate; NBC Today Show (40 years of HIV); WTOP Radio; Life Out Loud Podcast; CBS Evening News; Bowdoin University Fireside Chat; CNN "Prime Time" with Chris Cuomo May 20, 2021 Global - 164,500,000/3,400,000; USA - 32,900,000/585,000 The White House and HHS want me to do them a favor. There is a Washington Post reporter (Annie Linskey) who is trying to write a story that the CDC is taking on a much broader role of making policy and giving guidelines when in the past they have been more of an advisory group. The White House and HHS want me to disabuse the reporter of this story since as a matter of fact it was only in the last administration with Trump that the CDC was diminished to just being advisory. In every other administration with which I have been involved, the CDC has always made policy and guidelines . The outlier is what happened during the Trump administration. I will try to set the record straight in discussing with a Reporter. There is really an organizer effort to discredit me. This truck was seen on the streets of DC: