Tony's Diary Package — page 957

- > Gov. DeSantis not recommending vaccines for children 6 months to 5 years: washingtonpost.com Gov. Ron DeSantis abandons Florida children Editorial Board But Mr. DeSantis appears to relish playing politics with public health. He is running for reelection and has his eye on a Republican presidential campaign. His decisions and comments are a craven bid for support from the anti-vaccine movement. We've seen this before. Mr. DeSantis also fought vaccine and mask mandates. His campaign sells "Freedom over Fauci" flip-flops that leave a message when worn on the beach: "Fauci can pound sand." June 19, 2022 PRESS: Book about the disgraceful behavior of authorities at NY Hospital-Presbyterian (particularly Laura Forese) during the outbreak peak in NYC: Facing Death During the Pandemic Marie Brenner's "The Desperate Hours" looks at how health care workers dealt with the perils of Covid. By Sandeep Jauhar June 20 2022 Tested negative today and have had an essentially asymptomatic course. Began reading Deb Birx's book "Silent Invasion" and it is clear already from the first couple of chapters that she is revising history regarding her initial involvement. I am sure that part of it is true but it wants me to be careful that I have to be strict to the truth of exactly what happened and not pad it in my favor Important discussions today by phone with me and separately David Kessler, Larry Horowitz, Richard Koup and Peter Marks regarding what the ultimate choice for the booster vaccine for the upcoming fall surge. I have been very concerned of late that we are not carefully analyzing the immunological basis for the choice of a booster shot to be administered before the potentially upcoming Fall surge. The companies Pfizer and Moderna apparently want to give a bivalent of wildtype plus omicron since that is what they already seem committed to and are making. It is my opinion that by the time we get to the fall season omicron will be completely gone and off the map since it is already gone. The closest thing that we likely would see would be a surge of BA4/5. Yet everything seems to be pointing to the decision of