Tony's Diary Package — page 849

New Pediatric COVID Hospitalizations in the USA sa ae ' : ei ¥. ef i gs 7s : mS fF: ft : z ¢ ¢ "i ; ee; z wi "w Jan 20210 Apr 2021 Jul 2021 updated Aug 13, 2021 rca nape Ancor yo 4 anthagani. PhD Oct 2020 visualization by Kristen P; someone who wants to kill me. All of this together with the stress associated with the fact that the president and others in the administration rely heavily on me four major decisions and I have very little staff relatively speaking who could help me. PRESS: CBS "Face the Nation" with Nancy Cordes AUGUST 16, 2021 Pediatric hospitalizations surging: Someone leaked our plan for boosters. The press are texting me all evening. I am not answering. PRESS: August 17, 2021 There is a lot going on and a lot of moving parts. We have been working very hard on trying to get a plan and a program out to deliver third boost shots to people who have received the original two dose vaccine regimen for M RNA. This is a complicated issue because it appears that the vaccines in the United states as well as globally particularly in places like Israel and England among others are still holding strong and preventing hospitalization and deaths but there is a dramatic diminution with the delta variant in protection against infection and symptomatic disease. There is an inkling that we are starting to see increase in hospitalizations particularly in Israel in vaccinated people. Jeff together with the White House team has been working on a plan to be implemented starting September the 20th to get a third shot to everyone in a cadence beginning with those who originally had received the vaccine first. These people are fundamentally health care workers, the elderly, and people in long term care facilities and nursing homes. The problem is the data that definitively show that we are seeing an increase in hospitalizations with delta are not there yet. However , as I and others know from experience , when you are dealing with COVID-19 , particularly the delta variant, you may be behind the