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ons/essays/pepfar.html County-level COVID-19 Community Levels JULY 7, 2022 Over 73% of the U.S. population is in an area with a medium or high COVID-19 Community Level. % of Counties I % of Pop. Low 41.3% 26.4% Percentages do not sum to 100% because of rounding. CDC Source: U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) 328947- FJ Met with Adam Russell, Acting Deputy Director of newly formed ARPA-H PEPFAR Oral history: https://www.bushcenter.org/publications/essays/pepfar.html PRESS: Newsy TV Interview; Radio New Zealand RNZ; July 8, 2022 Global USA PRESS: Mother Jones Interview on HIV Vaccines with Jackie Lynn Mogensen July 9, 2022 People are acting like and hoping that COVID is over, but it is not. There are still >100,000 cases/day which is likely a gross undercount since many cases (perhaps x5) are not reported and deaths are stuck at ~300 with hospitalizations increasing: I had a conversation with Rochelle and Vivek about this today (Saturday) indicating that I believe we are not doing enough in a proactive way of getting out there with the press and in other venues talking up how we need to increase mitigations such as reminding people about the importance of wearing masks as well as pushing to get people vaccinated and boosted. Also, as I have said in the recent discussion with Dan Diamond of the post in which he tweeted I would discussion that we need to be more liberal in getting people a fourth shot who are less than 50 years old but might have some underlying conditions without necessarily being