Saturday, November 28, 2020

Global – 61,300,000/1,400,000; USA – 13,000,000/264,000 Reporting of cases will be inaccurate for the next couple of days due to Holiday. However, we can expect a post-Thanksgiving surge. Did filming with Janet Tobias and John Hoffmann for the NatGeo documentary. Went to the old RFK Stadium/Armory complex to view and film the 250,000 white flags put up by artist Susan in memory of those who died from COBID-19. Very reminiscent of the HIV/AIDS Quilt project. The crew filmed Chris and I walking through the acres of small white flags. Also filmed us from above with a drone. Trump bringing his argument before the Supreme Court. He has lost every court case (>30) except for one. The Supreme court issue relates to a lower court rejecting his claim that the Pennsylvania election was rigged. He and his lawyers (led by Rudy Giuliani) are an extreme embarrassment to the GOP and to the country. The rest of the world is looking at what is going on here incredulously. We look like a Banana Republic. I never would have imagined in my wildest dreams that our democracy would be so shook. It is still amazing how the ZGOP leaders do not abandon Trump. They are just afraid of him and what he can do after he leaves the Presidency to their political careers – Profiles in Cowardice. Received Deo et Patriae Award from Regis High School and President George W. Bush sent a letter of congratulations: Letter from President George W Got call from Ron Klain tonight at 5:15 PM. He wanted to fill me in on recent appointments (not announced yet) to make sure that I am OK with them: Josh Sharfstein (FDA), Vivek Murthy (Surgeon General), Rochelle Walensky (CDC), Jeff Zients (COVID-19 Czar), Gina Raimondo (Secretary of HHS). Ron said that Biden wanted to call me soon but he did not want to compromise me with the Trump people. They will clear with Meadows that the transition team can start getting in place and then Biden will call me. Got call last night from Mark Ghaly (Deputy Director for Community Health for the LA County Dept of Health Services). He has called me several times for advice. Frantic call saying that they are surging in LA County and very soon hospital beds will be overrun. He wants to do a 3 weeks shutdown of the city to “stop the surge” and wants my support since there is a large pushback to locking down. I agreed to support him.