Tony's Diary Package — page 932

should be all over these types of leads. In addition, when I began to probe it is clear that this issue had been circulating for a couple of days, and amazingly on the calls with the White House medical team Rochelle and the CDC never brought it up. This is really strange since I would imagine that with their global connections they would have been all over this. I have arranged to have both Rochelle and Francis Collins join the zoom call that Larry Corey set up for us to engage with the South Africans. Just heard tonight that the WHO has called a special meeting to address the issue: First meeting of Scientific Advisory Group for the Origins of Novel Pathogens (SAGO) https://www.who.int/news/item/24-11-2021-first-meeting-of-scientificadvisory-group-for-the-origins-of-novel-pathogens-(sago) WHO Director-General's opening remarks at the First meeting of the WHO Scientific Advisory Group for the Origins of Novel Pathogens (SAGO) https://www.who.int/director-general/speeches/detail/who-director-generals-opening-remarks-at-the-first-meeting-of-the-who-scientific-advisory-groupfor-the-origins-of-novel-pathogens-(sago) WHO calls special meeting to discuss new Covid variant found in South Africa with 'a large number of mutations' https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/25/who-calls-special-meeting-to-discussnew-covid-variant-from-south-africa-with-large-number-ofmutations.html?fbclid=IwAR1VKOrWxAWjeHqVzJH0KLpPgPBRhEH lWZU KrN4bol3qFcrLgLYOjrO5aI Covid: New heavily mutated variant B.1.1.529 in South Africa raises concern https://www.bbc.com/news/health-59418127 New variant displaying a 'big jump in evolution' detected in South Africa. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/25/world/variant-south-africa-covid.html