His wife (Céline Gounder) is a high profile medical professional and was in Biden's transition COVID team. If there's anything dodgy we will know sooner than later.
Keep the 16x3 (2 games), top 2 proceed to another set of 8x4 groups by retaining the result with the other qualifying team (another 2 games).
The only top qualifies to Quarter Finals (for a maximum 7 games).