Friday, January 1, 2021

Global – 81,900,000/1,800,000; USA – 20,000,000/345,000 Records continue to be broken with 125,000 hospitalizations and >3000 deaths. GOP and Trump planning to challenge the January congressional certification of the electoral votes. Disgraceful assault on democracy. • Spoke with Mitt Romney this AM who ran by me an OpEd he wants to submit pointing out the lack of success and weaknesses of the vaccine rollout plan and suggestions of how to improve it. Clearly there is a problem (see below) Problem with vaccine rollout. Plan was to have 40 million doses delivered by December 31 with 20 million in the arms and 20 million in reserve. This far 14 million delivered and 2.7 million in the arms. Clearly, they need to catch up. There is no central “plan” similar to no plan for testing and no plan for PPE. 1. Most concerning are rising case counts during a dramatic decline in testing – CA, TX, FL and where COVID admissions are rising consistent with significant undetected community spread prior to the Holidays and potentially the most significant post Holiday surge – this is FL, TX, GA, SC, NC, WVA. 2. States with the most hospital staff stress are those states in the dark red zone and still rising – CA, AZ, GA and those states in the red zone and still rising – OK, TX, MS, AL, SC, TN, DE, NY 3. The Coasts (80% of the population) are now driving the increasing cases, hospitalizations and death