Tuesday, May 4, 2021

Global – 153,200,000/3,200,000; USA -32,300,000/574,700 Lower numbers – 32,500: • I did the Governors’ call and did the epi update since Rochelle was not able to be on the call. I clarified with Governor Cuomo why we should not get hung up on the “elusive” concept of herd immunity threshold since no one knows what that is. We should just focus on getting as many people vaccinated as quickly as we possibly can and for sure the number f cases will come down. • I did the briefing for the “TV Docs” in preparation of the POTUS speech on the goal of 70% of adults vaccinated by July 4 • Spoke with Indian Ambassador to the USA (Taranjit Singh Sandhu) about the situation in India. PRESS: BBC Worldwide Radio (interview on India); MSNBC – “Deadline White House” with Nicole Wallace; CNN – Situation Room” with Wolf Blitzer; NBC@Peacock with Mehdi Hasan; ABC - Jimmy Kimmel Live Financial Times got the story right, but the headline wrong: Fauci warns against discarding trade rules on Covid vaccines Biden senior adviser says move would spark legal disputes and delay inoculation campaigns