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Okay, so let's begin with some very, very good news.

There actually is a fair bit of good news this morning.

Piece of good news, number one, the testing trends all over the United States seem to

suggest that the summer is actually having a fairly significant impact on COVID-19. Because as the lockdowns are ending, state by state, the southern states seem not to be experiencing a wild uptick in the number of infections, even though they are gradually reopening. Now, again, they are gradually reopening. I've talked to people in Florida, I've talked to people in Georgia, I've talked to people in Texas. And despite the media reports that everybody is willy-nilly going out in the streets and making out with each other, that's not actually what's happening. A lot of stores have remained closed because they can't actually abide by some of the strict regulations. Most people are still wearing masks. Most people are socially distancing. And even though you're seeing pictures from places like California and New York with lots of people out there, a lot of those pictures are taking with particular type of lenses that actually make it look as though people are closer together than they actually are. It's a trick of photography and it's sort of disturbing that people do it, but it is a reality. Yesterday, my wife and I took the kids out to a park. There's pretty much no one around. People who were around. We're socially distancing. We've been doing that for weeks. People sort of understand on a general level what is smart and what is not. That doesn't mean everybody, but that does mean that more people than you would suspect. And that means that even if there are some infections, it's going to be a lower level than prior to the lockdown because people are engaging in different behavior. We're starting to see those trends. Scott Gottlieb, former FDA commissioner, put out a series of tweets looking at some of those

trends. Scott Gottlie, former FDA commissioner, put out a series of tweets looking at some of those trends.

So in tweet number one, he put out from AEI, a graph showing the number of tests going up across the

country really, really rapidly. So as of May 1st, we were experiencing something like

290,000 tests, something like that run on May 1st. And on average, probably the first,

the first week of May, we were running somewhere in the neighborhood, probably 250,000

tests a day. Now we are running on average closer to 400,000 tests a day. Meanwhile, the

number of positives has gone down steadily

during that time, which means basically the number of people who are positive with COVID-19

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