Tuesday, July 14, 2020

Global - 12,800,000/568,000; USA – 3,400,000/136,000 Outbreaks still raging in Florida – records being broken. >60,000 cases yesterday Deep state is going more crazy than ever in attacking me as the academic community is mobilizing to defend me. Real crazy. See below: I did a fireside chat online at Georgetown hosted by John Monahan. It was taken up my multiple press including C-SPAN, which then fed into CNN and other networks. It was a good venue for my getting the message out. Phone call with Alyssa Farah. She apologized profusely about the “screw up” with her junior staff who put out the list of how I got things wrong. She admits that it only hurts the POTUS to disrespect me and question my credibility. I told her that the White House (either Meadows or the POTUS) need to shut up Stephen Moore and stop his publication of “Dr. Wrong” paper. If he does not the entire academic community will dump all over the POTUS. Peter Navarro wrote OpEd in USA Tosday saying everything that I have ever said was incorrect. I went on a Goergetown Fireside chat (see above) and in ashort sentene I said that the current outbreak was “comparable to 1918”. I did not mean in numbers, but for a sensitive person, it could mean that I wa predicting 50 million deaths. Well, tonight Francis Collins called me up saying that he just got off the phone with Mark Meadows who was screaming at him about what I said. Mark wanted this “walked back”. Clerly Markis vey sensitive about playing down the pandemic because of the ucoming election and anything that indictes that this is a big problem drives him nuts. I got on the phone with Mark (he was still very angry), but I calmed him down and said that I would clarify this on my next TV appearance. He then indicated that he really liked me very much and respected me and values ou relationship. I apologized for what happened and he accepted the apology. Just an example of the tension that the pandemic in the context of the upcoming election is causing. PRESS: Trevor Noah https://bit.ly/2CyI0tH ; CNN – see above at Georgetown again strongly pitted me against the POTUS regarding a particular statement when I was asked about “who can we trust”. I said “medical and public health experts who speak based on science and data and who tell the truth”. I said “trust me”. CNN took that as strongly implying “do not trust Trump”