Global – 64,500,000/1,500,000 USA – 14,000,000/276,000
Did photo shoot and interview with Alice Park of TIME Magazine.
• I called up Rosa De Lauro to congratulate her on being chosen by Nancy Pelosi as Chair of the Appropriations Full Committee. She had tears in he eyes thanking me nd saying how excited she was that Biden has announced that I would be his Chief Medical Advisor.
• Spoke with Don Fehr of the NHL Players Association about the likelihood of the NFL having a season and what my projection for 2021 was.
More records broken – 200,000 cases; 2885 deaths; >100,000 hospitalization. Hospitals are starting to get over-run. California starting lock-downs to avoid hospital crisis (see above figure)
PRESS: NBC Today Show with Savannah Guthrie; Multiple press stories about Biden speaking with me, asking me to stay on as NIAID Director and offering me the title of Chief Medical Advisor; Greta Van Susteren “Full Court Press” TV (VOA); “Today with Kaye” Baltimore Radio Show; CNN Town Hall with Anderson Cooper and Sanjay Gupta;
Biden said he asked Fauci to stay on and be a
chief medical adviser in his administration
By Jim Acosta, Jim Sciutto and Kate Sullivan, CNN
Dec 4, 2020
Dr. Fauci’s released records hold 1 diary entry filed under Friday, December 4, 2020, from the Tony's Diary Package. 199 words in total, reproduced below exactly as released. The diary text appears on pp. 514–516 of 2026.07.24_Tonys-Diary-Package.pdf.
Correspondents named on this day4
Matched by surname against the 108 correspondents in the release, so a common name may match more than the person intended. See the whole of 2020 as a calendar.