FAUCI DIARY ARCHIVE — Saturday, August 1, 2020 https://faucisdiary.com/diary/2020-08-01 Text below is verbatim from the released PDFs, with the original line breaks. ============================================================================== DIARY ENTRY — Saturday, August 1, 2020 Source: Tony's Diary Package, pp. 267–268 of 2026.07.24_Tonys-Diary-Package.pdf Words: 142 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Global – 17,400,000/675,000; USA – 4,500,000/153,000 Uneventful Saturday. Southern states still surging; >1000 deaths yesterday. The new approach of jumping on the mostly yellow states that are starting to show a slight increase in percent positive is referred toas the “embers approach” Had conversation with Ian Lipkin. Ian is responsible for the medical/public health aspects of the Democratic Convention in Milwaukee. He called me to go over all the things he has put into place – masks, testing everyone, airflow, limit numbers, physical distance, etc. – to ask if he has missed anything. Seems he has done all he can do. The decision to hold the convention or not is up to the politicians. Since they have decided to go with it, Ian has done his job in making it as safe as possible. PRESS: Usual CNN pitting me against the POTUS