Saturday, November 21, 2020

Global – 57,300,000/1,400,000; USA – 11,800,000/253,600 192,700 cases yesterday. Continual trend of worse and worse every day. Records of hospitalizations and deaths and daily cases continue to surge. See below. Trump and cronies (Giuliani et al) losing each of the court and other attempts to overthrow the election Had important Webex meeting at 9:00 AM (sunny) with Peter Marks, Cliff Lane, Francis Collins about the data from convalescent plasma that has been basis of EUA. Date are statistically significant, but very unimpressive. Need to treat 70 patients to benefit 1. Had Zoom with NIH people (Francis Collins, John Mascola, Kim Taylor, Gary Gibbons, Eliseo Perez-Stable, Cliff Lane) and with the Janssen people (Paul Stoffels, Mathai Mammen, Stacey Hargraves, Peter Ronco, Macaya Douoguih, et al) to review the status of the Janssen trial and to encourage getting greater diversity in the trial. Got call from Larry Horowitz tonight telling me that Peter Marks told him that Trump called up Steve Hahn today and told him that Alex Azar said that Steve lost the POTUS the election by holding up the news about the Pfizer vaccine. Trump was cursing Steve on the phone and then hung up. Steve did not know if he was going to get fired and told this to Peter who called up Larry. Still not sure what is going to happen.