Saturday, December 26, 2020

Global – 78,400,000/1,700,000; USA – 18,700,000/330,000 1. Data will be unstable for the next 2 weeks with both Christmas and New Years but will be tracking new admissions and rate of new admissions 2. 24 States did not report yesterday on critical pandemic parameters and will cause a surge in cases and fatalities due to this reporting issue in the next few days 3. Summarizing the current state of the pandemic : overall the USA is at a high plateau for cases and hospitalizations and due to lagging fatalities reporting in improving states we won't see the fatality plateau until the next 2 weeks Adrienne Arsht sent me an amazing video that she asked Robert Pullen (Kennedy Center) to put together to celebrate my 80th birthday. They gathera whole bunch of celebrities to sing to me and offer words of praise and congratulations: Orlando Bloom, Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher, Amy Poehler, Lily Tomlin, Sophia Bush, Matthew McConaughey, Steve Buscemi, Magic Johnson, Joan Baez, and many others. It was very moving. Situation unchanged. Still outrage that Trump is messing up the relief bill. Harmony Foundation gave me: Top US doctor among 10 to get Mother Teresa Award Mohammed Wajihuddin / TNN / Dec 25, 2020, 09:38 IST PRESS: Good historical documentation of the CDC screw-up with the COVID-19 test by David Wilman in the Washington Post - The CDC’s failed race against covid-19: A threat underestimated and a test overcomplicated The Atlanta headquarters of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (Ron Harris/AP) By David Willman

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