Tuesday, December 29, 2020

Global – 79,900,0900/1,800,000; USA – 19,200,000/334,000 1.Most concerning are where COVID admissions are rising now showing significant community spread just prior to the Holidays and could have the most significant post Holiday surge – this is TX, GA, SC, NC, WVA. POTUS in Florida playing golf. Massive explosion in Nashville, TN – he has no comment at all. Case now at 19,000,000 with 332,000 deaths and he has not mentioned COVID-19 in days/weeks. Met by Zoom with Dr. Jeong, Eun-kyeong, Commissioner of Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency to discuss ongoing and future collaborations in COVID-19. They were part of the ACTT therapeutic trials. Call with Peggy Hamburg. She is concerned about what she is hearing that Janet Woodcock will be FDA Commissioner and that David Kessler will be the “FDA person in the White House”. She has trouble with both of them. She is feeling left out in that the Biden people are not conferring with her about anything. Am getting concerned that the administration of vaccines is lagging far behind the projected number of 40 million by end of December. They have actually administered only ~2 million this far with 2 day left in the year. Letter from Michael R. Bloomberg to Dr. Spoke with Adam Silver (NBA Commissioner) about rest of NBA season. They have come out of the “bubble” and wanted my take on what the immediate future looked like regarding infections. They have done very well and have had to cancel only 1 game. David Ho is helping to advise them and was on the Zoom call. Continue to get calls from Jeff Zientz just checking facts and policy with me when Biden is about to go out and make a speech Rounds with Clinical staff during COVID: SKM_C754e2012291 8270.pdf PRESS: CNN New Day with Jim Sciutto; TV interview with Steve Clemons – “The Bottom Line” shown on Al Jazeera English; NPR Radio with Joe Palca Trump ends Obama's 12-year run as most admired man: Gallup By Zack Budryk - 12/29/20 07:32 AM EST 3,058 President Trump has ended former President Obama's 12-year run as the most admired man in America, edging out his predecessor in the annual Gallup survey released Tuesday. Eighteen percent of the survey's respondents named Trump as their most admired man, compared to 15 percent who named Obama and 6 percent who named President-elect Joe Biden. Three percent named National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony Fauci, while 2 percent chose Pope Francis. Rounding out the top 10 were Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Microsoft founder Bill Gates, Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James and the Dalai Lama, all of whom received 1 percent. Most Admired Man, 2020 What man that you have heard or read about, living today in any part of the world, do you admire most? % Mentioning Number of top 10 finish Donald Trump 18 10 Barack Obama 15 15 Joe Biden 6 2 Dr. Anthony Fauci 3 1 Pope Francis 2 8 Elon Musk 1 4 Bernie Sanders 1 6 % Mentioning Number of top 10 finish Bill Gates 1 21 LeBron James 1 1 Dalai Lama 1 11 Combined first and second mentions; rankings based on total number of responses GALLUP, DEC. 1-17, 2020