Tony's Diary — Fauci's Private Diary vs. Public Statements (Sen. Rand Paul / HSGAC release) (Part 5 of 10)

Bradby;
Washington Post article:
Coronavirus Living
Health
Fauci’s Christmas Eve: Turning 80
and fighting the pandemic
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285Anthony S. Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and head
of the U.S. pandemic response, on Dec. 12. (André Chung for The Washington Post)
By
Joel Achenbach
Dec. 23, 2020 at 8:00 a.m. EST
December 24, 2020 – Global – 77,500,000/1,700,000;    USA – 18,400,000/325,000
I am 80 years old!   Amazing number of Birthday wishes coming in.  Truly moving….
Birthday video from the OR Nursing/DPM staff in the NIH Clinical Center:
Dr. Fauci.pptx
Beautiful and loving tribute to me from my children on a video:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wgTkwmAlUhlnLKzIhWPlIR4E4WPpUMh6/view?usp=drivesdk
Joan Baez texted me: “HAPPY FUCKING BIRTHDAY AND MANY MORE”
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286Nature magazine picked me as one of Nature’s 10 – People who shaped science in 2020.
Over the past 3 weeks I have been on the cover of TIME magazine X2, once as one of the 100
most influential people in the world again as the “Guardian of the Year”.   Also, on the cover of
People magazine
By Kevin A. Wilson (with apologies to Clement Clarke Moore)

‘Twas some days before Christmas—how many I’m not sure
(The days ran together; everything was a blur).
All the houses were locked down from COVID-19,
With everyone wishing for the promised vaccine.
The children were nestled and sleeping just fine.
They were all tuckered out from their classes online.
And mamma in her kerchief and I in my cap
Had just sanitized our hands and hung up our masks.
The year had been hard. We were due a vacation.
But the thing wanted most? Emergency use authorization.
Then out on the lawn there arose such a clatter,
I assumed it was another 2020 disaster.
I ran to the window and put on my mask,
But what would I see? I was too scared to ask.
The neighbors were quiet and socially distant,
Awaiting the time they’d be COVID resistant.
But despite travel bans, there then did appear
A miniature sleigh and eight tiny reindeer.
But this wasn’t Santa. His gut wasn’t paunchy.
It was the trusted presence of Anthony Fauci.
More rapid than eagles, at warp speed they came,
And he whistled, and shouted, and called them by name:
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287“Now Pfizer! Now Sanofi! Now Johnson & Johnson!
“On Moderna! On BioNTech! On Adaptive and Amgen!
To the top of the porch! To the top of the wall!
Now vaccinate, vaccinate, vaccinate all!”
As a virus expelled by a cough or a sneeze
When it meets plexiglass rises up on the breeze;
So up to the house-top the pharma all flew,
With the sleigh full of hope, and Dr. Fauci, too.
And then, in a twinkling, I heard on the roof
The prancing and pawing of each little hoof.
As I drew in my head, and was turning around,
Down the chimney Fauci came with a bound.
He was dressed in a suit, as was always his way,
And his neatly cut hair was a smart silver-grey.
A chart in one hand, a syringe in the other,
And a medical bag—a gift from his mother.
The wisdom in his eyes and the knowledge in his head
Soon gave me to know I had nothing to dread.
With his reassuring smile covered up with a mask,
His no-nonsense style led him straight to the task.
He sprung to my side as I rolled up my sleeve,
And he stuck in the vaccine as quick as you please.
He flew to the bedroom, gave mamma a shot,
Then vaxxed both our kids without waking them up.
Inoculations complete, he returned to the chimney,
And gave me a pamphlet about what he put in me.
Then raising his finger but not touching his nose,
And giving a nod, up the chimney he rose.
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288“C’mon, team!” he said. “We’ve a great opportunity.
If we vaccinate more we can reach herd immunity!”
Then he yelled back to me, as the sleigh quickly rose,
"I’ll be back in a fortnight for the follow-up dose."

PRESS: ABC News Joan Hamburg; Instagram Live with Geoff Edgars of Washington Post
Wall Street Journal: Through AIDS, Ebola and Covid, Dr.
Fauci Is Still Treating Patients
The nation’s top infectious-disease official received the
vaccine in part because he still does rounds in the hospital
several days a week.
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289By Ben Cohen at ben.cohen@wsj.com  and Louise Radnofsky at louise.radnofsky@wsj.com
December 25, 2020 – Global – 78,00,000/1,700,000;  USA – 18,600,000/328,000
Trump at Mar-a Largo while country in crisis.  Cases still surging in certain areas (see
below).   Relief bill in purgatory since he does not want to sign it because of disagreement about
amount of relief ($600 versus $2000).   Everyone had agreed to $600 even though the Dems
wanted more.   White House staff agreed to the bill.   Sent to Trump for signature, except that
now that he has finally looked at it, he wants the $2000 per person, which is what the Dems
wanted to begin with, and the GOP objected to.   And so now, he is bucking against his own
GOP.   In the meantime, people are starving without aid.  Also, the USG might shut down since
the Omnibus budget bill has not been signed either.   Amidst all this, Trump is pardoning a large
number of people (>40), almost all who were involved in the issues surrounding the probe of him
and the impeachment matters.   He also pardoned Gen. Flynn, Roger Stone, and Charles
Kushner.
Deb’s daily report:
Aggressive post Holiday testing of those who gathered and rapid utilization of Mab in those at highest
risk for severe outcomes will be critical over the next 2-3 weeks to blunt the impact of Holiday
gatherings. Deb
1.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
2.I summarized the top 10 states in this data summary for cases in
order : CA, FL, NY, GA, PA, OH, TX, AZ, IL, IN – slides 11-20 – of these
states only PA, OH, IL are improving the others are escalating or at a
high plateau.
3.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
4.The current pandemic state is a combination of continued
improvement in the center of America and continued deterioration in
CA, NV, TX, across the sunbelt and up the East Coast and including TN
and WVA
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290PRESS:   Print version of Joel Achenbach’s feature on my birthday appeared in the
Washington Post.
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,
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291Amy 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
Dec. 26, 2020 at 8:00 a.m. EST
Add to list
December 27, 2020 – Global – 79,200,000/1,800,000;   USA – 18,900,000/331,000
Deb’s note for the day: Hospitalizations had stablized and specific metros were significantly declining
so we will be able to see a post-Holiday surge in cases and hospitalizations and predict depth of surge
impact by 10 Jan.
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2921.Data will be unstable for the next 2 weeks  and decreases cannot be
interpreted with both Christmas and New Years but will be tracking new
hospital 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 week s
Some areas going done and others are still surging.  Big question will be whether we will have a
post-holiday (Christmas and New Year surge).
Letter from VP
Pence - December 18
Photo with VP
Pence - December, 2
Raising concern about what Trump might do as a last-ditch effort to prevent Biden from assuming the
Presidency .   He is already calling for demonstrations in Washington at the time of the January 6
ratification of the electoral votes by the Congress.   He could induce riots and then invoke martial law to
“control” the riots.   Also, he could not sign the Omnibus budget bill and cause a government shutdown
that could interfere with the inauguration
PRESS:  CNN State of the Union with Dana Bash;
The Guardian:
Interview
'New disease, no treatment, no cure': how
Anthony Fauci's fight against Aids prepared
him for Covid-19
Benjamin Ryan
December 28, 2020 – Global – 79,900,000/1,800,000;   USA – 19,100,000/332,200
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293POTUS changed his mind and signed the Omnibus budget bill avoiding a closure of USG.
Spoke with Deb. This AM (this is one of many early morning 6:00 AM calls that I have with her
just to check in and schmooze about what is going on.   She is concerned (probably correctly so)
that the Biden people think that there is some COVID-19 response structure here and there is not.
There is her and backup from CDC and she railed on about how bad the CDC is (I agree with her
in part).   She feels that they completely blew COVID-19 by acting like it was influenza  and
they plugged in the “syndromic” model where you follow and test only those who are
symptomatic since it took them forever to admit that COVID-19 was spread symptomatically
and was very much different from influenza.
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294PRESS:   Taped podcast with ABC Jonathan Karl for later viewing;
December 29, 2020 – Global – 79,900,0900/1,800,000;  USA – 19,200,000/334,000
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2951.Most concerning are where COVID
admissions are rising now showing
significant community spread just prior to
the Holidays and could have the most
significant post Holiday surge – this is
TX, GA, SC, NC, WVA.
POTUS in Florida playing golf.   Massive explosion in Nashville, TN – he has no comment at
all.   Case now at 19,000,000 with 332,000 deaths and he has not mentioned COVID-19 in
days/weeks.
Met by Zoom with Dr.  Jeong, Eun-kyeong, Commissioner of Korea Disease Control and
Prevention Agency to discuss ongoing and future collaborations in COVID-19.   They were part
of the ACTT therapeutic trials.
Call with Peggy Hamburg.   She is concerned about what she is hearing that Janet Woodcock
will be FDA Commissioner and that David Kessler will be the “FDA person in the White
House”.   She has trouble with both of them. She is feeling left out in that the Biden people are
not conferring with her about anything.
Am getting concerned that the administration of vaccines is lagging far behind the projected
number of 40 million by end of December.   They have actually administered only ~2 million
this far with 2 day left in the year.
Letter from Michael
R. Bloomberg to Dr.
Spoke with Adam Silver (NBA Commissioner) about rest of NBA season.   They have come out of the
“bubble” and wanted my take on what the immediate future looked like regarding infections.   They
have done very well and have had to cancel only 1 game.  David Ho is helping to advise them and was on
the Zoom call.
Continue to get calls from Jeff Zientz  just checking facts and policy with me when Biden is about to go
out and make a speech
Rounds with Clinical staff during COVID:
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SKM_C754e2012291
8270.pdf
PRESS:  CNN New Day with Jim Sciutto; TV interview with Steve Clemons – “The Bottom
Line” shown on Al Jazeera English; NPR Radio with Joe Palca
Trump ends Obama's 12-year run as most
admired man: Gallup
By Zack Budryk  - 12/29/20 07:32 AM EST 3,058

President Trump has ended former President Obama's 12-year run as the most admired man in America,
edging out his predecessor in the annual Gallup survey  released Tuesday.
Eighteen percent of the survey's respondents named Trump as their most admired man, compared to 15
percent who named Obama and 6 percent who named President-elect Joe Biden . Three percent named
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony Fauci, while 2 percent chose Pope
Francis.
Rounding out the top 10 were Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Microsoft founder Bill
Gates, Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James and the Dalai Lama, all of whom received 1 percent.
Most Admired Man, 2020
What man that you have heard or read about, living today in any part of the world, do you admire most?
% Mentioning Number of top 10 finish
Donald Trump 18 10
Barack Obama 15 15
Joe Biden 6 2
Dr. Anthony Fauci 3 1
Pope Francis 2 8
Elon Musk 1 4
Bernie Sanders 1 6
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297% Mentioning Number of top 10 finish
Bill Gates 1 21
LeBron James 1 1
Dalai Lama 1 11
Combined first and second mentions; rankings based on total number of responses
G A L L U P ,  D E C .  1 - 1 7 ,  2 0 2 0
December 30, 2020 – Global    USA
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298General Gus Perna asked to speak with me this Am (7:30 AM) for advice and “comfort”.
There has been criticism about the roll-out of vaccines.   @0 million doses were promised by the
end of December and we only have 11 million.   Also, only 2-3 million have been administered
(the latter is not his responsibility).  He realizes that there is disappointment and wants advice.   I
told him that above all he needs to be transparent and honest and not try to coverup any
deficiency.   This is a big operation and he should expect bumps in the road.   He bemoaned that
on the battlefield when he was on the radio he could tell from the background sounds and the
“vibes’ on the radio how the battle was going.   With vaccines, even on conference calls, he
really cannot get a good feel for what all the players are doing and  how honest they are being.
He does not trust Pfizer; he thinks that they keep moving the goal posts.   He likes Moderna.   He
was very grateful for the call.
Senator Marco Rubio is acting like a real asshole.   He is publicly calling me a liar about my
statement in the NY Times about my assessments for the percent vaccinations needed for herd
immunity. I had said that I modified my assessment of 70 to 75%  to be 70 to 85% because we
really did not know the precise number and I wanted to encourage people to get vaccinated to
achieve herd immunity.   Actually, I made that change by extrapolating the measles situation
where measles vaccine is 98% effective whereas SARS-CoV-2 is 94-95% effective.   Measles
begins to lose herd immunity at around 89-90% of population vaccinated and so I brought up the
SARS-CoV-2 to 85% with the range being 70 to 85%.   For that he called me a “liar” Big
hypocrite as he continues to kiss Trump’s ass – the world’s biggest liar.
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299“Sen. Marco Rubio: Dr. Fauci lied about coronavirus — I am appalled by his
arrogance”
Placing blind faith in unelected celebrity scientists has its limits, and we must
not be afraid to call them out
 By Sen. Marco Rubio | Fox News
Had 2nd conversation with Rochelle Walensky where I am advising her on her new position as
CDC Director.  I briefed her on the fact that as good as some of the CDC people are, as an
institution they have hubris and are often incorrect.   She needs to follow her good instincts and
question what they are doing in a friendly, non-threatening manner.
PRESS: WTOP Special Radio with J.J. Green; UK TimesRadio interview; C-SPAN TV
interview with Gov. Newsom of California; MSNBC “The Last Word” with Lawrence
O’Donnell
December 31, 2020 – Global – 81,500,000/1,800,000;  USA – 19,700,000/341,200
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.
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3002.New admissions rising in OK, TX, AL, MS, GA, FL, NY, MA,
WVA, KY High Plateau in CA, AZ, NM, AR, TN, MD, CT, NJ
3.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
4.The Coasts (80% of the population) are now driving the
increasing cases, hospitalizations and deaths.
Mackenzie Miller (Daughter of Katie and Stephen Miller)  admitted couple
days ago first to Georgetown Hospital and then transferred to Children’s National.
Developed acute onset of unresponsiveness.  Improved significantly on IV fluids
and antibiotics and acyclovir.   Baby (6 months old) exposed to grandmother who
has cold sore and so HSV encephalitis suspected.   MRI (brain), EEG, physical
(some hyporeflexia) all OK.   Have spoken with her ID physician Reinhard
Wiedermann and will speak with neurologist Elizabeth Wells.  Am on phone
frequently with Katie and Stephen.
PRESS:  NBC Today Show with Craig Melvin; WBAL Baltimore Radio; MSNBC with
Andrea Mitchell;
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301January 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
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302those 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
        January 2, 2021 – Global – 82,400,000/1,800,000; USA – 20,100,000/347,000
Deaths now averaging around 3000 per day.   Hospitalizations continue to break records.
Trump totally focused on disrupting the transfer of power and declaring the election invalid.
Big day coming up on January 5 when the Congress certifies the Electoral Votes.
January 3, 2021 – Global – 82,600,000/1,800,000;  USA – 20,300,000/350,000
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303Data remains unstable but early signals are increasing test positivity (49) states and in some states rising
cases – tracking closely.   Concerned about upcoming post-holiday surge
1.Reporting remains unstable and will create this current
valley and peak (slide ¾) due to reporting alone –
watching slope of rise.
2.Testing is down 40% over the past 7 days creating a high
admission rate/case across all age groups and any
increase in cases concerning
3.49 states have rising test positivity and 17 rising cases
despite reporting issue – this normal precedes a
significant surge is hospitalizations
Total deaths have not reached 350,000!!
Tweet from Trump:
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304Got a call from Jeff Zients wanting to confirm the I still am in favor of Janet Woodcock for FDA
Commissioner.  He was getting some negative signals from some people that she was involved in
the EUA for hydroxychloroquine.   I explained to Jeff that this was really Mark Meadows
pressuring Steve Hahn who caved in.
PRESS:  ABC “This Week” with Martha Raddatz; NBC “Meet the Press” with Chuck
Todd;
January 4, 2021 – Global – 83,700,000/1,800,000;   USA – 20,600,000/350,700
Expecting the post-holiday surge
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3051.I have included the European data in slides 3 and 4 – most of the European
increases being driven by the UK
2.You can also see from slide 3 the rate of rise of our Fall/winter surge was more
dramatic consistent with the USA having its own more infectious variant
Things starting to move with my involvement with the Biden team.   Biden is concerned
about making sure that he reaches 100 million doses of vaccine in the 1st 100 days.   We are
meeting by zoom with him tomorrow and today and tomorrow we had/will have pre-brief
meetings to discuss our plan – led by Jeff Zients.   Present were Natalie Quillian, Vivek Murthy,
Marcella Nunez-Smith, Rochelle Walensky, David Kessler, Asma Mirza, and Sonya Bernstein.
Plan is to develop community vaccination centers, use mobile units to get to rural areas, etc.
Nursing staff in the OR at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital all wearing Fauci caps.   Email
sent to me by Atul Gawande.
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306PRESS:   Did zoom interview with the Newsday Editorial Board; MSNBC “All In” with
Chris Hayes
January 5, 2021 – Global – 84,200,000/1,800,000  USA – 20,700,000/352,000
Deb’s notes:  Made this shorter to make serious points.  First and foremost our Fall surge slope is
nearly identical to the UK slope suggesting we have had our own more transmissible strain since then
and it was responsible for the Fall surge in the Northern Plain states. My concern then was this type of
surge moving into the more populous states as it has now in CA and now Tx and the sunbelt is unstable
as well as the midAtlantic and NorthEast. Viruses are always in search of escape mutants than are more
transmissible yet preserving replication capacity.  This is happening around the globe and the
immunologic pressure on viruses drive this potential and we continue to increase the immunologic
pressure through percent of population infected, use of plasma and monoclonal Ab and now
immunization.  Key to RNA viruses with this of high mutation potential is to rapidly immunize the
population especially those most likely to have high replication potential – those over 65.  We have to
accelerate the immunization of those over 65 ASAP.  We can’t hold back on the rest of Tier 1 awaiting
1a.  We have been in 1a for a month without adequate progress. Deb
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Trump going completely crazy.  Was recorded on an hour-long telephone call with Secretary of
State of Georgia Brad Raffensperger to change the votes and asked for 11, 780 votes to be
changed (he lost Georgia by 11,779).   Clearly a criminal act of trying to influence an election.
More cowardly GOPs are backing Trump in the House Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) and Senate (Ted
Cruz (R-TX) and Josh Hawley (R-MO)
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308•Big discussion and debate in the press about whether to give more single doses of
vaccine and wait few months before the second dose.   The UK is doing this with
the AZ vaccine.  There is no scientific data to justify this.  They are doing it
because they want to give more people first doses.   Our problem is not more
people than doses, it is that we are not injecting as many people (4 million) with
the doses that we have (14 million).   Much discussion in the press about this.
•Had Zoom meeting with Biden and Harris.   Meeting led by Jeff Zients.
Present was Ron Klain, Natalie Quillian, Marcella Nunez-Smith, David Kessler,
Vivek Murthy, Rochelle Walensky, Bechara Choucair.   Topic was that Biden
wants to announce in a speech 3 transforming steps that he will initiate regarding
vaccines.   Natalie presented our plan and there was discussions about using
pharmacies first and then as we get more doses, opening up “Community Vaccine
Centers”.  I described status of the outbreak.  Biden is much more in favor of
federal presence than is the Trump administration.   Slide deck is below:
Slide Deck - COVID
Policy Briefing 1 5.pd
PRESS:  Interview with Newsweek UK; AP Online interview with Lauren Neergaard;
January 6, 2021 -  Global – 84,800,000/1,900,000;   USA – 21,000,000/356,000
Spoke on chat with Chiefs of Police and with Presidents of Jesuit Schools (led by Fr. Dan Lahart
of Regis)
Made rounds on COVID-19 patient at Clinical Center.   I have been doing this about 1X per
week.   Saw patient today with COVID disease - 73 y.o.  AA male, ex-marine, ex-State Trooper.
Says this is worse he has ever felt.
•My group (Mascola, Graham, Lane, Marston briefed the ART team led by Lu Borio and
Marcella Nunez-Smith and David Kessler.  We spoke about the mutant viruses in UK and
RSA and their impact on mAbs and vaccines.
1.There is a significant increase in test positivity rate and a high hospital
admission rate/case across all age groups
2.I have included the top 10 states for cases and it is a mix of states that were
surging prior to the Holidays NY, TX, FL, GA, AZ and states that were improving
or stabilzing prior to the Holidays CA, PA, OH, IL, NJ and tracking these states
will be key to estimating the impact of the Holidays on cases and eventually
hospitalizations
The Fall surge in the Northern Plain states was more aggressive and we warned if this type
of surge hit populous states this would threaten the health care system – this is what we
are seeing in CA and to be clear this is spreading across the Sunbelt and into the North East.
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309Trump incites riot as protestors storm the Capitol, break windows and occupy
Pelosi’s office.   Capitol Police utter failure to control them. Democrats take both
Senate seats in Georgia Election - Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock.
Biden electoral votes certified by Joint Session of Congress.   Sens. Hawley and Cruz
fight to the bitter end to their shame.   Several senators who originally had
supported the attempt to overthrow the election have changed their mind because of
the shock of the storming of the Capitol
PRESS:  Podcast Fireside Chat with David Rubenstein for the Economic Club of
Washington, DC; BNN Bloomberg Canadian TV;
January 7, 2021 – Global – 85,500,000/1,900,000;    USA – 21,300,000/360,000
Record number of deaths yesterday - >3963.  Today another record at 4000.   Surging continues.
Slow start in the implementation of administration of vaccines.   Was supposed to have 20
million doses distributed and administered by December 31.   Today there have been 15 million
distributed and 5 million administered.
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310PRESS:  NPR – “Morning Edition”, Noel King; France24 TV (Arabic language); WJLA
TV;
New York Times: NYT: Fauci says he thinks that January will get worse, and that the
vaccination effort needs more time.
January 8, 2021 – Global    USA
4111 Deaths!!  Record hospitalizations.
I have been on the phone with Jeff Zients a few times today.  I checked the number for
projected requirement of vaccines to fulfill the promise of 100 million doses in arms in 1st 100
days of Biden administration.  The number in the Biden slides (Kessler derived) was 275 million
doses and 135 million people (getting 2 doses) by end of April.   I called Moncef Slaoui and got
the actual numbers and they totaled 189 million.   I called Jeff and let him know.   He checked
with Kessler who then checked with Moncef and they figures that the doses that had already
been allocated prior but not given yet would make up for the difference.   I am concerned that we
(Biden team) will not meet the promise.   Too many vicissitudes in vaccine production.   Perhaps
Janssen will bale us out with the 25 million doses in March and 40 million in April (single dose
required).    Then, Biden team announced that they would not hold back any doses to save for 2nd
shot, but will immunize everyone then can with doses they have.   This places a lot of faith in the
precision of the production/delivery of doses.  They may have to pause with 1st doses to catch up
with 2nd dose requirement.
At 8:00 PM tonight as I was over Rob and Ellen’s “open Garage” dining room, Jeff Zients
called  me again asking for a favor.  A Politico reporter is already getting ready to write a story
spreading rumors that Biden is upset with his COVID team and Jeff is asking a favor for me to
go on “background” and tell the reporter that they are doing a very good job.   I told Jeff that I
would of course be happy to do this.
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311PRESS: NPR International – “The World”; C-SPAN doing “Facts and Faith” at VCU talk
with Virginia Governor Northam.   Speaking to Black Faith leaders
January  9, 2021 -  Global  -  87,600,000/1,900,000;  USA – 22,000,000/368,000
The pandemic is getting more scary.   Every day more and more cases and deaths.  Patients in
the hallways in California.   Nurses and MDs exhausted.  It seems that people are getting
infected who are being careful and have no idea why they are getting infected.   N501Y mutation
is here in the USA, but it is not dominant.   We may actually have out own mutant that we have
not recognized since the CDC has not really been looking.
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312Had conversation this AM 12:10 PM to 12:50 PM with 2 reporters from Politico (Adam Cancryn
and Tyler Pager).   Call set up by T.J. Ducklo (see note about regarding call from Jeff Zients).
See above regarding content of call.  I convinced them that the Biden team is a good team and
that the discontent is typical Washington, DC rumors.  Interesting that someone associated with
Biden campaign is already spreading damaging rumors about the team.   Probably someone who
wanted a place in the transition and is not satisfied with what was given to them.
David Ho is doing tests on convalescent sera and sera of people who were vaccinated and is
finding disturbing data in both the UK and worse in the RSA mutants.  It looks like the vaccine
might be compromised.   We need to prepare to modify the vaccine if this observation holds up.
Also, Peter Staley and James Kellerstein are writing an article for an OpEd to ask for the DPA to
build a plant so that we can make unlimited amount of vaccine.   Ewe can use this if we need to
quickly do a strain change.

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historical record of A.S. Fauci – Part 3
January 10, 2021 – Global – 88,400,000/1,900,000  USA – 22,100,000/371,100
And the surge goes on…..  There is a real concern that we have our own mutant that is resulting
in an increased surge in cases.   People are saying they have no idea how they got infected since
they have been observing public health recommendations.   See below comments from Birx.
After Thanksgiving the Northern Plains MN, IL, MI held and did not significantly deteriorate.  In contrast
this current post Holiday surge is causing deterioration in all metros including metros that were stable
and metros that did not experience a significant post Thanksgiving surge.  NYC has returned to case
counts equal to the Spring recognizing we are testing at much higher rates but this surge is just
beginning in NYC and with this current rate of rise of cases could drive significant cases, hospitalizations
and deaths especially if it deteriorates at the rate of LA.  Proactive setting up of infusion sites now is
critical in all large metros and active immunization of those over 65.  We have enough vaccine in the
States to immunize nearly 15M senior which would be nearly 25% of all seniors over 65.  We need to
treat this current situation as the emergency it is. Deb
Deb’s report:
1. Reporting has stabilized and we have returned to the pre-thanksgiving rate of cases as the current
resurgence moves into the populous states from CA to TX to FL and resume a full log phase
rate
2. EVERY METRO over 500K residents is deteriorating except Honolulu. -  even those that had
been stable now have rising cases  slides 6-52 : NYC area is now reached cases greater than the
Spring surge
3. All of the most populous states are deteriorating or continuing to deteriorate – CA, TX, FL, NY – only
CA maybe showing signs of reaching a high plateau – TX, FL, NY will become the new epicenter of this
surge over the next 3 weeks – I believe we have had our own evolved and more transmissible strain
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or strains since September by reviewing all the epidemiologic data – this fall/winter has a more rapid
rate of rise from the beginning which predated Thanksgiving and continues at the rate post the
Holidays (slide 3) – this rate of rise is now independent of the weather as it is occurring across the
South, LA, etc -  the surge is more difficult to mitigate - which will require more aggressive action to
control and all actions need to be taken now to flatten this curve and preserve the health system)
Normally the weekly high for fatalities is Wednesday – deeply concerning that both Weds Thurs and
now Friday have deaths near 4000/day
See graphs on slide set below (frightening):
10Jan2021DataSum
mary.pptx
Major discussion among Congress in invoking the 25th Amendment to remove Trump.
Pelosi is going to go ahead with impeachment proceedings  even though there would be no time
to convict, they can impeach.   Several people in the White House and Cabinet are resigning –
Elaine Chao, Matt Pottinger.   POTUS is attacking Pence for not going along with his attempts to
overthrow the election.   Poor Pence.   He had been so loyal, but I am pleased to see that the
goodness that I recognized in him is coming out, albeit a bit late in the game.   The crazies in the
Trump following are calling for the execution of Pence, similar to Crazy Steve Bannon calling
for my beheading.
PRESS: WGN Radio (Steve Dale) – Chicago;
Satire from The Borowitz Report
Fauci Says Immunity from Trump Requires
Two Doses of Impeachment
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By Andy Borowitz
January 11, 2021 – Global – 88,800,000/1,900,000;   USA – 22,300,000/373,200
Surge continues unabated.   Deb’s notes:
1.Reporting has stabilized and we have returned to the rapid pre-
thanksgiving rate of cases as the current resurgence moves into the
populous states from CA to TX to FL
2.Nearly all METROs over 500K residents is deteriorating. -  even
those that had been stable now have rising cases  slides 22-26: NYC
area is now reached cases greater than the Spring surge
3.All of the most populous states are deteriorating – CA, TX, FL, NY – only
CA maybe showing signs of reaching a high plateau – TX, FL, NY will
become the new epicenter of this surge over the next 3 weeks – as
viruses evolve and strains are imported– the fall/winter has a more
rapid rate of rise predating Thanksgiving and continues at the rate post
the
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Continued discussion about invoking the 25th Amendment.   Trump have been permanently
banned from Twitter and at least temporarily from Facebook (maybe permanent).  Trump stating
that “it is only beginning”.   Intelligence chatter indicating that there will be massive
demonstrations and even violence associated with the inauguration.
Mick Mulvaney made some interesting comments on a CNN Special on “insurrection”.   When
asked why so many people stuck with Trump when all the signs were there that he was acting
crazy.   Mick said that when you lie with him in the WH day after day, you see that he has
accomplished a lot and you tend to downplay in your mind the signs of craziness.   I even saw
some of that during the time that I went to the WH every day for months in the Spring and
Summer.
Marc Short called me and asked for me to make connection with the Biden people and invite
someone to today’s Task Force Meeting so that the Biden Team can get a feel for how the
current task Force works.   I called Jeff Zients and Jeff gave them Cyrus Shahpar who is on the
Biden team and works for Tom Frieden.
Did a chat with Bishop TD Jakes including Kizzy Corbett.  Trying to
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Spoke with Pat Foye of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA).   They want me to do
a 1 minute PSA to encourage their  employees to get vaccinated.
PRESS: Rural TV Network – “Rural Health Matters”, Nashville, TN TV;
POLITICO: ‘There is a palpable concern’: Biden presses advisers over 100 million Covid
shot goal  (This relates to my conversation with Zients/Ducklo)
CDC: No sign of homegrown U.S. coronavirus
variant, but scientists need to look harder
By
Joel Achenbach ,
Kim Bellware  and
Hamza Shaban
January 12, 2021 – Global – 89,400,000/1,900,000;   USA – 22,500,000/375,100
4400 deaths today
John Mascola working with David Ho to determine the possibility that the UK (N501Y;
B.1.1.7) and/or the RSA mutants evade the antibodies induced by vaccines.   According to Ho,
the RSA mutants are much more troublesome in that they do not eliminate the protection of
vaccine induced antibodies, but they definitely decrease by 2 to 3-fold their potency.   David is
now working on studying the UK mutant. Stay tuned.
The next 4 weeks will be determined by whether the large Southern, upper Mid-West,  Mid-Atlantic and
North-East metros will be able to contain the rapid accelerating viral spread or have the prolonged log
phase followed by the high plateau of LA (now entering month 3).  Deb
1. Reporting has stabilized and we have returned to the rapid pre-thanksgiving rate of cases as the
current resurgence moves into the populous states from CA to TX to FL : cases are up 7% from
last week's same time period.
2. Nearly all METROs over 500K residents is deteriorating. -  even those that had been stable
now have rising cases slides 7-45: NYC area is now reached cases greater than the Spring
surge
Throughout “the 2019 flu season from Sept. 29 to Dec. 28, the CDC reported more than 65,000
cases of influenza nationwide,” while “during the same period last year, the agency reported 1,016
cases.”
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•Had discussion with Chris Whitty and Patrick Vallance of the UK regarding their mutant
and their vaccine program.  They confirmed that the mutant is spreading widely in UK
and other EU countries and also that there is no increase in virulence of escape from
vaccine-induced antibodies.   They also mentioned that they are more concerned about
the RSA variant (mutants).
•Did Fireside Chat with Barbara Bush on “Future Forum for Preparedness” (her Global
Health Corps)
Had discussion with Azar, Pence, and the OWS crew about vaccine rollout.    We will as of
tomorrow (announce at the Governor’s call) that we are changing our rollout strategy.   We are
going to be more flexible and not strictly wedded to the ACIP/CDC guidance of Phase 1a.   We
should continue that, but move on the people >65 years old and people 16 (or 18) to 64 with
underlying conditions
Am communicating with Stanley Tucci.   He has heard through the media that I make Tympani:
From:  Stanley Tucci <sta914@gmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2021 2:28 PM
To: Fauci, Anthony (NIH/NIAID) [E] <afauci@niaid.nih.gov>
Cc: Lottie Birmingham <lottie.birmingham@icloud.com>
Subject: Re: Stanley Tucci and Timpano
Dr. Fauci,
Thank you so much for your timely response and your kind words. The books will be whisking
their way towards you imminently.  It is my hope that someday we might prepare and enjoy a Timpano
together.  All the best to you and your family.
With great respect and
admiration, Stan
On 12 Jan 2021, at 6:54 pm, Fauci, Anthony (NIH/NIAID) [E] < afauci@niaid.nih.gov> wrote:
Mr. Tucci:
     Thank you for your very kind note.   I was thrilled to hear from as I am a great
fan of your acting and am looking forward to watching your CNN Special.   I would
be honored if you could send me autographed copies of your cook books.  My
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address is 3012 – 43rd Street, NW; Washington, DC 20016.   I hope that you are
doing well during these difficult times.   Please stay safe.
Warm regards,
Tony
 Jeff Zients called me to get approval of a statement that Biden will put out criticizing the Trump
administration for opening up the floodgates of the Phases for vaccines (see above) given that
there is not enough vaccine to go around at this point.  Indicated that I did not like the statement
sine it was a gotcha.  Jeff did not like that but nonetheless changed it somewhat according to my
suggestions.
PRESS: Here Are 18 Celebrities (And Public
Figures) Who Have Gotten The
Coronavirus Vaccine
From politicians to performers.
by Matt Stopera
BuzzFeed Staff
January 13, 2021 – Global – 90,100,000/1,900,000; USA – 22,700,000/379,000
The surge continues.   Could this be that we are dealing with our own highly contagious variant,
but we do not realize it since the CDC sequencing surveillance has not been very comprehensive
as has the UK surveillance?   See below
1.Reporting has stabilized and we have returned to the rapid pre-
thanksgiving rate of cases as the current resurgence moves into the
populous states from CA to TX to FL : cases are up 7% from last
week's same time period, as CA improves, the high population
states of TX and FL will surge and the fatalities will increase, many
states are reaching 0.2% rates per population deaths
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2.Nearly all METROs over 500K residents is deteriorating. -  even
those that had been stable now have rising cases  slides 15-18: NYC
area is now reached cases greater than the Spring surge

Trump impeached for 2nd time!   Several Republicans vote in House for impeachment.
Unlikely to come to trial in Senate until after inauguration.   Biden does not want distraction
from his 100 days agenda.
Had zoom call with President of Ecuador – President Lenin Moreno Garces.   We discussed
the situation in Ecuador, vaccines and a whole bunch of questions that he had.  Seems like a very
smart person.   I promised to advocate for equitable availability of vaccines throughout the world
including Ecuador.
Had Zoom call with Biden team – (Marcella Nunez-Smith, David Kessler, Rochelle Walensky,
Vivek Murthy, Connolly Keigler and Maju Varghese).   David led discussion regarding the
inauguration.   Originally there was supposed to be 250 people on the platform 6 feet apart
()POTUS and VP and Family, supreme court justices, leaders of Congress.   6 feet apart, all
masked, all tested.   Then then wanted 29,000 on the West Front.  Maju Varghese was
operationally responsible for arrangements.   These 29,000 were cut down to 2000 by David
(who is overall responsible for arrangements).   The meeting today was to determine if we were
OK with this.   We all (Marcella, Rochelle, Vivek) voted that there should be no one on the West
Front.   I made the argument that some of the GOP Congressmen could make trouble by not
wearing masks the way they refused when the Capitol was attacked and they were crowded in a
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room.   Also, if someone gets infected, the press will jump on us.   David will bring this back to
Biden and Klain.
Had regular every 2 weeks call with Bill Gates – Bill and Trevor Mundel know about the issue
with the mutations that David Ho is working on.   We discussed working together to track them
as well as using Gates money to jump-start the development of mRNA vaccines to match the
mutations (B.1.1.7 variant) with the N501Y mutation.   We need to be ready to respond
Front Page Story of Italian Magazine “I Love Sicilia”
SKM_C754e2101131
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Some Black Muslims accusing me of trying to experiment on Blacks.   He mistakenly
(deliberately) is ignoring that I, Pence, Biden, Harris have all gotten vaccinated.   He is saying
that Blacks would be the herd immunity that would protect whites:
Beyond Tuskegee: Targeting of Black people
for Covid-19 vaccine
By
Anisah Muhammad, Contributing Writer
On January 10, Student Min. Muhammad, a researcher, scholar and author, delivered the Nation of
Islam’s Sunday address at Mosque Maryam, titled, “Beyond Tuskegee: Why Black People Must Not Take
the Experimental Covid-19 Vaccine.”
“Why beyond Tuskegee? The vaccine mafia who want Black people to be the first injected with this
experimental vaccine have centered the Tuskegee experiment in their narrative, most prominently Dr.
Fauci.
Let’s say we get 75 percent, 80 percent of the population vaccinated,” Dr. Fauci said on Dec. 9. “If we do
that, if we do it efficiently enough over the second quarter of 2021, by the time we get to the end of the
summer, i.e., the third quarter, we may actually have enough herd immunity protecting our society that
as we get to the end of 2021, we can approach very much some degree of normality that is close to
where we were before.”
As of July 1, 2019, the U.S. Census Bureau reports that 76.3 percent of Americans are White.
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Bob Woodward came to my house tonight to deliver the transcripts of the tapes of his
interviews of me for his book “Rage”.  He said that it would help me with the writing of my
book, He really wanted to come over and tape an interview with me about my current dealing
with Biden.   I explained the interactions with Biden (see above).   Nothing controversial;
however, it was clear why he wanted to come over.  He is writing yet again another book.   We
met outside in the cold due to COVID-19
I wrote a belated birthday note to Joan Baez (her birthday was Jan.9, 1941).   I had forgotten due
to recent events at the Capitol, and so I wrote her a note apologizing.   She wrote back: “Of
course I accept!.   There was a postcard circulating in Frace under a liberal administration in the
eighties, “nous sommes tous dans la merde”.   We are all in the shit.   I don’t speak French
anymore, but the post card stands out.  Yes, we are the same age!  You are a rock star and I am a
badass, and age is very much beside the point.   Thinking of you.  Joan”
PRESS:   WPIX TV New York City with Dan Mannarino;  Children’s Hour Public Radio;
WMBD radio and WYZZ TV (Central Illinois);  The Children’s Hour Public Radio;
January 14, 2021 – Global –  90,800,000/2,000,000;  USA - 23,000,000/383,400
Note from David Ho.   Mutants are becoming very troublesome:
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Here is an overview first.  Will share detailed organized data in a couple of days.  I am available to chat
at a mutually convenient time.  Patrick Vallance from the UK is reaching out to me to get preliminary
results as well.
We have constructed SARS-CoV-2 pseudoviruses that contain all 8 mutations in the
UK variant and all 9 mutations in the SA variant.  In addition, we have also
constructed pseudoviruses that contain each of the 16 mutations (501Y mutation is
shared) individually.  This entire panel has been tested on a collection of ~30 spike-
specific neutralizing monoclonal antibodies, 20 convalescent plasma, and 18
vaccinee sera (Moderna and Pfizer).  First, both UKdelta8 and SAdelta9 showed
increased replication capacity in vitro, which is consistent with their increased
transmissibility in vivo.  Overall, the impact on virus neutralization is profound, with
the SA variant being worse than the UK variant.  It is quite clear that these two
variants could now resist several classes of neutralizing monoclonal antibodies
already used in the clinic or still in development, and in most cases we understand
which of the mutations are conferring the resistance.  This information is particularly
relevant to companies like Lilly and Regeneron, which have approved clinical
products that are severely affected by these results.  In addition, a large majority of
convalescent plasma samples showed an appreciable loss in activity against the new
variants, suggesting re-infection may be more likely when confronted with either of
these two strains.  Finally, we also observed a significant impact on vaccinee sera in
that every serum sample tested showed a substantial loss in neutralizing activity
against the SA variant, whereas the loss in activity against the UK virus is not as large
or as universal.  Again, we believe the latter findings should be shared promptly with
the field, because these new strains threaten the effectiveness of the current
vaccines.  Importantly, the strategy that the UK is now contemplating (giving one
dose and delaying the second dose) is quite dangerous in that one or two additional
critical mutations on top of either strain (under suboptimal antibody concentrations
induced by one shot without a booster) could render current monoclonal antibodies
and vaccines useless.  Our data are germane to that debate.  Our data are more or
less complete, except for live virus neutralization results.  We are still waiting for the
UK and SA to be distributed by the US government to our lab.  We expect to have the
live viruses soon, and could generate the confirmatory results in about 7-10 days
after receiving the viruses.
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•Received the Ken Shine Prize in Health Leadership from the University of Texas at
Austin Dell Medical School
•Briefed the Congresssional Blue Dog (moderate Dems) and Moderate GOP members led
by Rep. Stephanie Murphy (D-FL) and Rep John Katko (R-NY)
•Met with Rep. Espaillat  (D-NY) who want me to meet with a contingent from the
Dominican Republic.   I will do so, but after the inauguration
•Got call from Beth Cameron (NSC)  informing me that Biden want me to be the Head
of WHO delegation and to announce on January 21 (4:10 AM ET) that the USA is back
in the WHO.
•Biden give big speech (7:15 PM) announcing $1.9 trillion budget package including
$415 Billion for COVID response

PRESS:  KSEE24 TV (NBC Affiliate in Fresno, CA)
January 15, 2021 – Global – 91,500,000/2,000,000; USA – 23,200,000/387,300
Had Zoom briefing of Biden and Harris  to prep them for the speech that Biden will give at
3:45 PM on the vaccine rollout plan.   We briefed him at 2:30 to 3:30 and he and Harris (only he
spoke) gave briefing to the Nation.
Biden announced today that he has asked Francis Collins to stay on. I had some influence on
this.   Eric Lander will be head of OSTP.
Considerable concern about the new mutants in UK, Brazil and especially South Africa –
David Ho is studying this carefully and finds that the UK variant results in a 2-fold decrease in
ability of vaccine-induced antibodies to neutralize.   For the South African variant it is 4 to 5-fold
decrease.  Had Zoom with David and John Mascola and others and David went over the Mutant
data.   Bottom line is that against the UK mutant the vaccine (Moderna)-induced sera is
weakened by 2-fold; however, against the RSA (and by extrapolation although did not look the
Brazilian) mutant the sera are diminished by 5-fold)   MAJOR IMPLICATIONs for vaccine
development and for policy such as letting people into the country
PRESS: Ebro in the Morning Radio Show in NYC; Today Show NBC TV with Craig
Melvin; CTV - Canadian TV – Sunday Show (Ian Wood); WUSA TV Jan Jeffcoat;
January 16, 2021 – Global – 92,300,000/2,000,000; USA – 23,400,000/391,000
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Jeff Zients gave me the entire Biden plan to look at and approve - I mentioned to him in
detail the recent data from David Ho.   We will set up a call for Sunday with the Biden team
(doctors) since now several teams such as Michel Nussenzweig, Jess Bloom and others are
finding the same thing as Ho.   I want the call on Sunday since Michel is publishing his data in
BioRx on Monday.   I will bring John Mascola on the call with me to describe with some slides.
Also, I have pushed with JZ to get Ned Sharpless re-appointed as NCI Director otherwise
his resignation letter will go into effect on January 20. I asked JZ to get in touch with Ron Klain
and re-appoint hi.   JZ called me back this evening and said he spoke to Ron and Ned will stay as
NCI Director.
Post-holiday surge seems to be stabilizing.   See Deb’s comment below:
1. For the first time in weeks all indicators except fatalities are flat or declining.  This
suggests with full data triangulation that we have reached in most of the country the post
Holiday peak and declines should continue to follow with continued mitigation.  Testing
rates have resumed to pre Holiday levels as for the first time week over week cases have
declined (SLIDE 4) from last week's high – but testing for asymptomatic cases must
increase to sustain the gains.  Finding the containing the silent spread will be key to
holding the current gains
2. CA is stabilizing at a high plateau and if AZ, FL, TX, NY can hold at their current plateau or
early declines we could see National improvement beginning next week and
improvement in fatality rates in 30 days but not without reaching 450K in 4 weeks and
500K fatalities over the next 8 weeks based on current case load and rate of rises
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3. Most of the rapidly rising metros appear to be reaching peak or at a high plateau and
some like Chicago and NYC are beginning to decline.  The key will be continued aggressive
mitigation
4. New COVID hospital admissions are stable at a high plateau nationally but if the larger
states and metros can hold or improve the rates should steadily decline if we can keep
everyone focused on vigilance as we vaccinate PLEASE SEE SLIDE 3 SHOWING ICU BED
OCCUPACY – SHOWING CLEARLY THE PRIMARY CURRENT STATES WITH THE WINTER
SURGE
PRESS:
January 17, 2021 – Global – 92,300,000/2,000,000;   USA – 23,700,000/395,000
We may have reached the peak of the surge upon a surge
1.For the first time in weeks all indicators except fatalities are
flat or declining.  This suggests with full data triangulation that
we have reached the post Holiday peak in most of the country
and declines should continue with continued mitigation. These
gains can be sustained and can accelerate if behavior change
holds
2.Test positivity is declining. Testing rates have resumed to
pre Holiday levels as for the first time week over week cases
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have declined from last week's high – but testing for
asymptomatic cases must increase to sustain the gains.
Finding the containing the silent spread will be key to holding
the current gains.
3.Cases are declining or stable across the country (down 8.8%)
•John Mascola and I presented to JZ and the Biden medical team the results from David
Ho’s work on the UK and RSA mutants.   (see above).   We explained that this requires
careful messaging since people would interpret incorrectly that this nullifies the vaccine
which it does not.   JZ has tasked me to write a 2-paragraph description to send to
Biden tonight.  I did so and now we have a meeting tomorrow AM to discuss possibility
of travel restrictions from RSA and Brazil.
PRESS:   Meet the Press (NBC) with Chuck Todd; Che Tempo Che Fa Italian Sunday TV
Show; MSNBC Lawrence O’Donnell
January 18, 2021 – Global – 94,000,000/2,000,000; USA – 23,800,000/397,000
Zoom meeting at 7:30 AM with JZ and the team + Jake Sullivan – discussed the restrictions
on travel to RSA, Brazil and perhaps other countries.   Leaning towards requiring PCR 72 hrs
before board to USA followed by Ag test upon boarding followed by Ag test within 3 days of
landing + quarantine.   Will present to Ron Klain and POTUS after inauguration.
Deb Birx’s next to last TF note:
This is the last metro case analysis. We are seeing mostly significant improvements or major metros
holding at a high plateau.  I am worried about the 12 metros that are still increasing and one of them is
DC.  I walked some of the areas downtown on Sat while I was moving out of my State Dept office and
there are major feeding tents set up around downtown for the workers and National Guard – these can
be super spreading locations and the National Guard is from around the country including hotspots.
National Guard troops must be tested and must be tested when returning but I worry we are creating a
massive viral spreading event as troops deploy to DC and then return home and the co-mixing of local
metro police with National Guard.  That said by all indicators we are stabilizing as a country and
improvements should continue.  New hospital admissions are down across the country and is super
spreading events can be managed we should continue to see improvements as more states will be able
to utilize health personnel to support massive vaccination. On the personal level getting the elderly –
the highest risk group over 75 - immunized is incredibly difficult.  We have the entire family working to
secure sites for my parents but you need to be tech savvy and able to constantly refresh sites and search
multiple county and state websites. Then you have to be able to transport and move them to the
vaccine sites.  We think we may have secured a PG county option for this week but if elderly do not have
tech support or outreach and transportation support this will be incredibly difficult for them.  Deb
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1.For the first time in weeks all indicators except fatalities are improving and are
either flat at a high plateau or declining over 7 days.  This suggests with full data
triangulation that we have reached the post-Holiday peak in most of the country and
declines should continue with continued mitigation. These gains can be sustained
and can accelerate if behavior change holds and testing increases to find the
asymptomatic cases to prevent community spread
Had farewell conversation with Vice President Pence.   I called up Marc Short to ask him to
have the VP call me today since I was not sure that I would be able to attend (virtually) the last
TF meeting this Tuesday.   The VP called and we had a very touching and person discussion
saying how much he respected me and how the TF would not have been able to accomplish what
it did without me.  He was very touched.   I told him how important it was for his legacy that he
acted with such dignity and resolve over the last days when he refused to go along with Trump’s
attempt to get him to overthrow the election results.  WE parted by saying we will always be
there for each other.
Received material from Beth Cameron for my announcement on early AM of Jan. 21 that we
will re-join the WHO.  I will edit it and get it re-approved.   Very nice that I have been chosen to
be head of delegation to the WHA in Geneva (virtually) to make this announcement.
Summary of some events over past few days/weeks:   Jeff Zients calls me multiple times per
day checking facts, etc.   I brought up to him that it would be a good idea for continuity that he
keep on Francis as NIH director since if he does not act to tear up the required letter of
resignation, Francis automatically is gone and we have an acting (which would not be bad since
Larry Tabak is great).   Ned Sharpless is in the same boat as presidential appointee at NCI.   And
so I mentioned to Jeff that we should keep Ned on and he made it happen.   And so, in fact I am
responsible for keeping the NIH and NCI Directors in their jobs.   A surprise is that Harold
Varmus called me up and expressed great concern that Francis was staying on.   He said many
substantial members of scientific community (Bruce Alberts, Shirley Tilghman, etc) are quite
concerned and feel that it is time for a change.  I explained to Harold that this was probably
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temporary and related to need for continuity related to COVID-19 efforts.   He is trying to get
momentum to have this reversed.   Harold has always felt that change is important
PRESS: TNT “The Arena” with Cari Champion;
January 19, 2021 –
Received booster dose of Moderna vaccine today together with Francis Collins and Alex Azar.
Said goodbyes to Alex and Brian Harrison (his COS).   Alex described how terrible it was
dealing with the White House people.   He specifically mentioned Marc Short.   He feels that
Marc, Joe Grogan, and Deb. Birx undermined HHS.
Deb Last e-mail:
1.The country is in a better place than we have been since before
Thanksgiving. All indicators except fatalities are improving and
are either flat at a high plateau or declining over 8 days.
Monday represents weekend reporting but last night was the
lowest case number since the beginning of Nov. Full data
triangulation that we have reached the post Holiday peak in
most of the country and declines should continue with
continued mitigation. These gains can be sustained and can
accelerate if behavior change holds and testing increases to
find the asymptomatic cases to prevent community spread –
we must find those asymptomatic cases to ensure new
aggressive variants rapidly spread undetected
Last coronavirus Task Force meeting.  VP asked Ben Carson to start with a prayer.  VP
Pence saying goodbye and how proud he is of what the group has accomplished.  He read a letter
that he is sending to all of us thanking us.   He also has chronicled the “accomplishments” of the
TF and the government’s efforts.  He will send such a letter and the list of accomplishments to
Biden.   He thanked all of us sincerely and expressed multiple times how much of a privilege it
was to work for us.  He asked that we help the incoming Biden people in the transition (a little
late!!!)   Alex Azar warned that their work would be denigrated by the incoming group and their
press people, but that is “natural”.  Alex delineated everything that he felt we did right.   He
spoke of our accomplishments in testing, PPE, etc.   One would argue about that.  Deb Birx
spoke about how great it was in working with everyone.   She spoke of trust and belief in your
colleagues.  Wow, this is interesting given how often she threw CDC under the bus and how she
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and Marc Short were in disagreement on everything, and how she hated Brett Giroir and
badmouthed him all the time saying that he always promised more than he could deliver.  Brett
Giroir praised the VP and said that the VP brought out the best in everyone.  VP Pence asked
me to say words.   I praised him and also praised the VP’s staff.   I did not mention Marc Short
and Katie Miller, but they knew I was referring to them.  Bob Redfield praised the VP as well as
Deb Birx.  Pete Gaynor explained what a honor it was to work for the VP.  VP then thanked a
number of people including Jerome Adams, VP staff, Marc Short, Katie Miller and others,
Ben Carson, Keith Kellog.   VP signed off to a resounding round of applause!
PRESS:  The PBS Masters people have started filming in earnest for their documentary;
interviewed by Adi Ignatius and others for the Harvard Business Review;
NYT: As Fauci receives his second dose, he urges Americans to get vaccinated; CNN with
Jake Tapper;
January 20, 2021 -   Global – 94,000,000/2,000,000; USA – 24,000,000/400,300
 Inauguration Day!  Trump refusing to attend inauguration and left with a flare that was very
sparsely attended.   Biden was at Mass as Trump flew off to Mar-a-Largo.   Trump’s speech was
surrealistic talking about all the great accomplishments of his Presidency.   He also strongly
hinted that he will be back with a “movement”.   He is a very dangerous man!!
I am preparing for my early AM speech to WHO Executive Board tomorrow.  Beth Cameron has
given me much leeway on the Speech (which her staff put together).
Mutants of SARS-CoV-2 getting much play in the scientific “preprint” arena.   Final papers will
soon come out.   We will put restrictions (requirement for pre - and post - flight testing +
quarantine) from RSA.  Will brief POTUS Biden tomorrow.
Am still quite achy from vaccine booster shot from yesterday.
Here are my remarks for WHO tomorrow early (4:00 AM) morning:
Remarks of Dr.
Anthony S. Fauci at
Got a call from Jared Kushner from Air Force 1 on his way to Mar-a-Largo thanking me for
what we did with COVID-19
Spectacular Inauguration speech by Biden!  Poem by Amanda Gorman was amazing (she is
22 years old).   Lady Gaga sang the national anthem; J-Lo sang, as did Garth Brooks.   Biden hit
the right tone.   The speech was in my mind comparable to those of Lincoln, Kennedy, FDR
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Quotes from speech:  “Let us not lead by example of power, but by the power of example”;  “We
must end this uncivil war”
PRESS:
CNBC - Dr. Fauci to lead U.S. delegation at WHO
meetings as Biden plans to reverse Trump
withdrawal
Published Wed, Jan 20 20218:41 AM EST
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January 21, 2021 – Global – 95,000,000/2,000,000;   USA – 24,300,000/405,000
Made speech at Executive Board of WHO (4:00 AM ET) to announce that USA is rejoining
WHO.   Also, we are rescinding Mexico City Policy.  I spoke as representing newly
inaugurated President Biden
Remarks of Dr.
Anthony S. Fauci at
Tedros response:
WHO Director-General's remarks at the 148th
session of the Executive Board
21 January 2021
Thank you, my brother Tony, and welcome to the WHO Executive Board as head of delegation for the
United States of America.
Thank you, my friend, for your personal support for WHO over many years, and especially in the past
year.
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We have benefited immensely from your participation as a member of our regular global health leaders
calls, since the start of the pandemic.
And thank you for your incredible leadership against the pandemic in the United States.
This is a good day for WHO, and a good day for global health.
I send my deep thanks and warm congratulations to President Biden and Vice President Harris, and to
the American people.
Terrific day!   Briefed Biden and Harris in the State Dining Room of the White House.
Together with JZ, Natalie Quillian, Rochelle Walensky, Marcella Nunez-Smith.  Really relaxed
and warm interchange with both Biden and Harris.  Then, I went with Jen Psaki and did a press
briefing in the White House press room (first time in a long time).   They really want me out
there and there is no pushback at all for my appearances.   CNN went into major panel
discussions about the fact that Biden chose me as the first scientific press briefing.
PRESS:   Did full press briefing in the White House press room.
Washington Post article by Philip Bump:
Fauci, unchained
The government’s leading infectious-disease expert exults in
being able to speak frankly
Fauci says it's 'liberating' to 'let the science speak'
Good Morning America (ABC) with Michael Strahan; CBS Sunday with Ted Koppel;
CNN with Chris Cuomo;
January 22, 2021 – Global – 96,000,000/2,000,000; USA – 24,500,000/409,000
Some confusion about whether 100 million doses in 100 days or 100 millionb people in 100
days.   Finally straightened it out and it is “doses” not “people”.   Press are starting in aready in
first criticizing that the goal is too lofty and now they are saying that the bar is tyoo low since we
are already getting 800K per day.   You just cannot win.
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PRESS:  CNN New Day with John Berman;  Black News Channel with former Mayor
Sharon Pratt; WTOP Radio with Mike Murillo; University of Montana Student newspaper
(Jacob Owens); NPR – “All Things Considered” – Mary Louise Kelly; NBC LX TV with
Tabitha Lipkin and Ashley Holt;  Conference of Mayors Panel – with Vivek Murthy –
picked up by networks, cable, and C-SPAN; MSNBC – Rachel Maddow;
January 23, 2020 – Global – 97,000,000/2,000,000; USA – 24,700,000/413,000
PRESS:  Vaccine Town Hall with Ebro Darden & Kizzy Corbett; MSNBC with Alex Witt;
Interview with Donald McNeil for the New York Times on my experience with the Trump
administration; MSNBC “Politics Nation” with Rev. Al Sharpton;
Stat:
The 10 Biden officials to watch
on the Covid-19 response
By R A C H E L  C O H R S  @rachelcohrs
J A N U A R Y  2 1 ,  2 0 2 1
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January 24, 2021(Sunday) – Global – 97,500,000/2,100,000; USA – 25,000,000/416,000
Deb Birx had a 45 minute taped interview with Margaret Brennan right after me.   It was moving
in some respects, but a fair bit of revisionist history.
PRESS: CBS “Face the Nation” with Margaret Brennan; CBS Sunday with ted Koppel;
Donald McNeil interview in the NY Times: NYT: Fauci on What Working for Trump Was
Really Like
January 25, 2021 – Global – 99,000,000/2,100,000; USA – 25,000,000/418,000
•Did really good WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM Panel chaired by John Mickethwait
(Bloomberg) with panelists: Prime Minister of Greece Kyriakos Mitsotakis; Nancy
Brown (CEO of American Heart Association) and Frans van Houten (CEO of Royal
Philips)
•The vaccine is now being referred to as the “Fauci Ouchie”
•Many interviews today focusing in part on the fact that Deb (on Face the Nation) and I
(in the interview with Donald McNeill) opened up about the difficulties in dealing with
Trump Administration.
A lot of discussion about the RSA and UK variants and the potential effect on mAbs and
importantly vaccines.  Thus far, even though the mutants diminish somewhat the efficacy
of the vaccines, the antibody response of the vaccine is still within the cushion of
efficacy.   Recent data indicate that the UK strain is also increased in virulence as well as
transmissibility.
On an interview with Erin Burnett (CNN) I went
PRESS: Good Morning America (ABC) with George Stephanopoulos; Today Show with
Savannah Guthrie; CBS This Morning with Tony Mason;  Latino USA Radio with Maria
Hinojosa (NYC); Fireside chat with Leroy Hood on receiving the 2021 Precision Medicine
World Conference Luminary Award; WBUR Boston NPR Radio; WGN Radio Chicago –
Bob Sirott Show;  ABC TV News Live Lindsey Davis;  Spectrum News TV with Alex
Cohen; CNN with Erin Burnett;
January 26, 2020 - Global – 99,000,000/2,100,000; USA – 25,200,000/420,000
VP Harris visited NIH for her booster shot with Husband Greg Emhoff.   She and I did a PSA
together.
Had moving conversation with Moncef Slaoui who felt that the Biden people were discrediting
and bad-mouthing OWS that Moncef led.   In fact, Moncef did a fabulous job in getting 2
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vaccines (Moderna and Pfizer) approved (EUA) that are highly efficacious with other candidates
(Janssen, AZ, Novavax) not far behind.   He feels badly for the OWS team and for himself.   I
told him that he has done a fabulous and historic job in what he accomplished.   I told him that to
me and many others, he is a hero.  He was very touched by the conversation.
•Got on my usual Tuesday evening Zoom call with health officials throughout the country
(Hosted by David Barr) and asked question of what the problem was with doses of
vaccine.   Was it that we had doses but could not logistically get them into the arms of
people OR was it that the demand far outstripped the supply.   Overwhelmingly they said
that there was not enough supply.   Group was:  Sharon Balter (LA), Jeff Duchin
(Seattle), Jennifer Avegno (NOLA), Allison Arwady (Chicago), La Quandra Nesbitt
(DC), Marci Layton (NYC)
•Spoke with basketball mega-star Karl-Anthony Town.   Terrific young man. He has
COVID-19.   His mother died of COVID-19.   He is Columbian and was brought to my
attention by Congressman Espaillat from NYC who is Columbian.
PRESS: FOX America’s Newsroom with Dana Perino and Bill Hemmer;  NBC TV Special
with Richard Engel;
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January 27, 2020  - Global    USA
Really good relations developing with the WH Comms team led by Jen Psaki and particularly
Courtney Rowe.   Dramatic difference from Trump WH Comms
Did “Fireside Chat” with NEJM – Eric Rubin and Lindsey Baden
•315 cases of the B.1.1.7 lineage (UK) in 28 states; RSA lineage B.1.351 is worrisome as
it is evading mAbs and diminishing neutralizing caoacity of Abs from vaccines.
Very important historical review in USA Today about the development of the Moderna
vaccine:
USA Today: Luck, foresight and science: How an unheralded team developed a COVID-19
vaccine in record time  https://bit.ly/36i7ffM
PRESS: White House Press Conference with Walensky, Fauci, Slavitt, and Zients; The Hill
TV with Steve Clemons; Fox America Reports TV with John Roberts and Sandra Smith;
PBS South Florida Town Hall; CNN  Town Hall with Sanjay Gupta and Anderson Cooper
– on with Rochelle Walensky;
Daily Beast:
Dr. Fauci Shoots Down Fox News Host Bill
Hemmer’s Trump Questions
‘READY TO MOVE ON’
“It just seems like there’s this aggressiveness toward the Trump administration,” Fox News anchor Bill
Hemmer pressed. Dr. Anthony Fauci wasn’t having it.
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Article in The Atlantic by Peter Nicholas – will clearly cause a stir:
How Anthony Fauci Got Through the ‘Bullshit’
The new White House chief medical adviser reflects on the last year working for the Trump
administration.
Peter Nicholas
FOX News:  Fox News pundit Steve Hilton pushed a
ridiculous conspiracy theory that Dr. Fauci is
behind the coronavirus
January 28, 2020 – Global – 100,200,000/2,200,000;  USA – 25,500,000/428,000
Tedros called me up and aske me to help him connect with the Biden people, i.e. Sec Becerra,
Jeff Zients, the VP, etc.   Stewart Simonson willing to help me since I am ultra busy.
Had confidential conversation with the Janssen people – Paul Stoffels et al about the Ad26
vaccine data.   Not that great.  77% VE in USA and ~50% in RSA.   Will get more details later.
Data better against severe disease but this will be a messaging problem.
Novavax and Janssen came out with their embargoed (until tomorrow) results of their trials:
Novavax phase 3 in UK – 90% VE; Phase 2b in RSA – 50% VE.
Janssen  phase 3 in USA/RSA/Brazil -  72% VE at 28 days (a 1 dose vaccine); 85% VE against
severe disease; 57% VE in mod/severe disease in RSA at 28 days and 88% VE with severe
disease in RSA
Much press activity and emphasis on the fact that antigenic variation has clinical consequences.
Also, with both vaccines, good news for the global supply
PRESS: Good Morning America (ABC) with George Stephanopoulos; NPR Morning
Edition with Sarah McCammon;
January 29, 2020 – Global    USA
•Fireside Chat with NYC Health Commissioner David Chokshi
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Met with Jeff Zients and Team to discuss what to do with 2nd dose of vaccine, i.e. hold it
back completely, hold it back 90%??
PRESS:  Did press conference at NIH for the release of the Janssen data; Did White House
press conference for COVID-19 in general;  PBS NewsHour with Judy Woodruff; NBC
Nightly News with Lester Holt; WUSA TV with Gabe Cohen; New York Press Club
Fireside Chat with Steve Scott; Filming with Sanjay Gupta for CNN Documentary;
January 30, 2021 – Global – 101,400,000/2,200,000; USA – 25,900,000/435,2000
Daily cases continue to come down, but growing concern about the arrival of mutants: B.1.1.7
(UK) in 30 states and 434 people infected; B1.351 (South Africa) with 2 cases in South Carolina;
P.1 (Brazil with 1 case in Minnesota
RSA strain identified today in person in Maryland
Went on a filmed walk with Sanjay Gupta and Chris on the C & O Canal as part of the
Documentary that he is doing (See yesterday).
Had zoom call with Rob Manfred (Commissioner of MLB) and Dan Halem (Deputy
Commissioner).   They want to delay opening Spring training from February 17 to March17 and
have a comparable delay in opening day.   They want to do this since they feel (rightly so) that
the decreases in cases will be even more pronounced with an additional month and they will be
able to get more of the umpires and players vaccinated with the delay.   Of note, Tom Frieden
spoke with the MLB Players Association and the players want to start earlier since it affects their
salaries.   Now the Players want to speak with me.
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January 31, 2021 (Sunday) – Global – 102,100,000/2,200,000;   USA – 25,900,000/438,000
Zoom calls today discussing: a) vaccinations for the Federal workforce b) Vivek just wanting to
discuss masks, variants, schools, etc. – touching base.
February 1, 2021 – Global – 102,600,000/2,200,000;  USA -26,000,000/440,000
Had usual MWF Press conference by Zoom
Had discussion with the team (+John Mascola) about how best to utilize the J & J product
(Ad26).   There will be a messaging issue about 72% versus 94-95%.   We cannot designate it for
any specific group for that reason and so we decided to just out it in the mix with the other
vaccines and have people make their choice based mostly on 1 dose vs 2 doses.
Got call tonight from Mayor Bill Di Blasio very concerned that the supply of vaccine for NYC is
no where near meeting demand.   He is begging me to check with WH and see  if anything can
be done – DPA or some other mechanism.  I will speak with David Kessler about this.
PRESS:  White House Press conference with Nunez-Smith, Walensky and Slavitt; mGreta
van  Sustern – VOA; KMEX 34 TV – Los Angeles – Hispanic; CNN Situation Room with
Wolf Blitzer
February 2, 2021 – Global – 103,000/2,200,000; USA -26,200,000/442,000
Daily cases going down but deaths still lagging at around 3000 per day
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Mutants continue to evolve with the 484K mutation characteristics of the B.1.351 lineage in RSA
now being seen in the UK with the B.1.1.7 lineage.   Goes along with what I have been saying
that viruses will mutate if you give them free rein to replicate.   Viruses that do not replicate will
not mutate.
Bill DiBlasio called me back and I explained to him that I had spoken to David Kessler about the
Supply-demand issue with the vaccines and that there really was no solution.  It is too late to
invoke the DPA to have other factories make mRNA vaccine.   By the time they gear up, there
will be enough vaccine from multiple companies to vaccinate the entire country.
Met with POTUS and VP in the Oval office  with Jeff Zients, Natalie Quillian, Andy Slavitt
and Walensky and Nunez-Smith on video screen.   Discussed the status of the outbreak
(Walensky) and vaccines, particularly recent data on J & J and implications for variants (Fauci)
PRESS:  Washington Post Live – Online interview with David Ignatius; Australia  “60
Minutes” TV; MSNBC “All In” with Chris Hayes; CNN with Don Lemon
Washington Post – 02/02/2021: Poor handling of virus cost Trump his reelection, campaign
autopsy finds  “Voters in the states overwhelmingly supported a mask mandate — 75 percent — and
Anthony S. Fauci, the country’s top infectious-disease specialist, secured an approval rating almost as
high. Trump did not support a mask mandate — sometimes mocking the wearing of masks — and
regularly criticized Fauci, threatening to fire him at times.
Advisers repeatedly encouraged Trump to wear a mask, stop attacking Fauci and signal to the public that
he was taking the coronavirus more seriously”
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How Anthony Fauci beat Donald Trump in
2020
February 3, 2021 - Global   USA
Biden Comms team putting me out there with the press continually.  They are giving me totally
open clearance for everything that I get asked to do.   Completely different from the ridiculous
restrictions of the Trump Comms team
•Daily cases continuing to come own.   Much emphasis on the impact of the variants.
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PRESS: ABC Good Morning America with George Stephanopoulos; NBVC Today Show
with Savannah Guthrie;
February 4, 2021 – Global – 104,000,000/2,3200,000; USA – 26,400,000/449,000
Discussions last night and prior evenings regarding the use of the excess J & J vaccine of clinical
trial grade.   Move to donate this to RSA to vaccinate their HCWs.   RSA has been pleading with
the USA to help them get vaccines since they are being ravaged by the B.1.351 variant.  Phone
call last night with David Kessler, Beth Cameron/Hilary Marston (NSC), me and Cliff Lane to
figure out a mechanism to get this to them since it is only clinical trial grade. And we want to
avoid the optics that we are either a) giving away vaccine meant for USA to RSA or b) we are
“experimenting” on black Africans.
•Gave one of several plenary addresses at a Brookings -Tsinghua University Roundtable
of US-China Collaboration on COVID-19. Chinese Speakers included Zhong Nanshan,
Wang Chen, Gao Fu
Had nice conversation with the MLB Players Association with Tony Clark (Exec Director),
Bruce Meyer (Senior Director, Collective Bargaining and Legal), Ian Penny (General Counsel),
Kevin Slowey (Director Player Services), Matthew Nessbaum (Deputy General Counsel), Robert
Lenaghan (Assistant General Counsel) and Max Scherzer (member, Exec. Comm.).   They asked
great questions about vaccines.   I emphasized that I did not want to get in the middle of a
dispute between MLB and players regarding when to start the season.   They understood
perfectly.   I had some nice back and forth with Max Scherzer.
PRESS: BBC Radio with Tim Harford; NBC TV Boston – LaToya Edwards; MSNBC with
Ari Melber; NBC TV “off the record” discussion with the entire NBC TV team; CNN with
Chris Cuomo.
February 5, 2021 – Global   USA -
Had terrific conversation today with Bob Cousy.   Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) had called me a
couple of weeks ago saying that Bob Cousy would love to connect with me by phone,   Joe is a
good friend of Cousy’s.   I called Bob’s cell phone and we spent 20 minutes chatting about all
kinds of things.   He has a great sense of humor.   He is disturbed by the devisiveness in our
society (similar to my concern).  He spoke about his being 92 years old and that he body in
“falling apart” despite the fact that he has “all my smarts”.   He is a rally charming guy.   We
developed a great rapport on the phone.   Note that he came to my lecture at Holy Cross a few
years ago and we had dinner together.
PRESS: Had usual White House Virtual Press Conference with Andy Slavitt, Rochelle, me
and Tim ….; FOX TV with Neil Cavuto;
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February 6, 2021- Global -105,000,000/2,300,000;  USA – 26,700,000/458,000
Had Zoom call with David Kessler and the BARDA people trying to decide whether to invest
considerable money in guaranteed purchase of the Lilly mAb combination that will soon go for
an EUA.   Their data look fairly good for treatment of early disease to prevent hospitalization
and PEP
•Got call from Mike Osterholm trying to convince me to go with his
concern/recommendation that we go with1st doses to as many people as possible given
the fact that B.1.1.7 (UK) may become dominant in the USA and increase
cases/hospitalization.   This is a difficult problem sine we only have data for prime/boost
with mRNA vaccines.
February 7, 2021 (Sunday) – Global – 105,400,000/2,300,000;  USA – 26,800,000/461,000
Superbowl Sunday!   Tom Brady beast Patrick Mahomes
PRESS:  Meet the Press (NBC) with Chuck Todd;
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February 8, 2021 – Global – 106,000,000/2,300,000;  USA – 27,000,000/462,000
Important point is that the vaccines are protecting against severe disease (hospitalization and
death):
First day since Nov. 2 that daily cases were less than 100,000:
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Kat McKinnon played me again on Saturday Night Live: https://bit.ly/36SyePm
Did fireside chat with Prince Georges County -  County Executive Angela Alsobrooks and Drs.
Carter and Wright to discuss vaccine in the African-American community
PRESS: AP Interview with Mike Stobbe; FOX TV News “Special Report” with Bret Baier
February 9, 2021 – Global – 106,100,000/2,300,000; USA – 27,000,000/464,000
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Eric Lander (OSTP) visited the VRC today and I we briefed him on our activities, particularly
the development of the mRNA vaccine and Barney’s development of the stabilized pre-fusion
Spike protein.
Of note, Martin Fletcher of the Daily Telegraph did a profile of me and told me that the London
Times had asked him to gather information for them for an obituary that the Times wanted to put
“in the can” just in case I passed away suddenly.   They wanted to be the first to have an obituary
PRESS:   Fireside Chat with the COVID Collaborative – Gov. Dirk Kempthorne, Gov.
Deval Patrick, and Gary Edson; Interview with Martin Fletcher of the Daily Telegraph for
a profile of me;
February 10, 2021 – Global – 106,600,000/2,300,000; USA – 27,000,000/467,000
Cases continue to fall considerably.   We are now at less than 100,000 cases per day, when we
were up to 400,000 at one time.
•Had zoom with Dr. Hans Kluge WHO Regional Director for Europe
•Did Fireside Chat with David Rubenstein as part of the Duke Global Health Institute
Victor Dzau Lecture
•Pleasant thing – I had mentioned on a radio or TV show that what I missed most about
NYC was the Nathan’s hot dogs.   Today sitting on my home from steps were two
packages of Nathan’s hot dogs – a gift with a nice note from Tim Shriver saying that he
“could not resist the hot dog invitation”.
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Had a wonderful experience this evening.   I received (virtually) the Award of Courage from
AmFAR.   It was presented to me virtually by Julia Roberts  from her breakfast room in her
home in Northern California.   She was so charming.   When my image came up on the screen
she gasped and said that every time she sees me her throat gets dry and she gets nervous and
excused herself to go into the kitchen and get a glass of water.   When she came back and
introduced me it was the most wonderful introduction.  She introduced me to her son while we
waited to check the filming and we chatted a bit.   She is so charming, natural, fun and amazingly
beautiful.
PRESS: Did routine MWF White House Press conference.  I spoke about making sure that
people with immune deficiencies or on immunosuppressive drugs get vaccinated since they
are very vulnerable; Interview with Rima Krist of the Navajo Times
February 11, 2021 – Global – 107,000,000/2,300,000;   USA – 27,100,000/470,100
Number of daily cases continue to diminish.  CDC starting to do practical things that I have
actually been pushing for some time.   For example:   Wearing 2 masks could be better than just
one.   They did a dummy study and showed that a cloth mask over a surgical mask actually gives
a more complete fit and keeps out aerosols.   Another example is that people who are vaccinated
do not need to go into quarantine after exposure to a documented COVID-19 case.
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POTUS Biden visit to NIH.  Biden visited the NIAID VRC today at 3:30 PM on a sleety and
snowy day.   It was a great visit.  I presented to him the history of the VRC and the importance of
the work that Barney Graham has done with the stabilized spike protein.   We brought Biden into
the room where the experiments were done and Barney and Kizzy Corbet presented to him.   He
was accompanied by Jeff Zients.   We then went to Natcher Auditorium where he addressed
(virtually) the NIH community with a great speech in which he called out Francis and I multiple
times.
PRESS:  Today Show (NBC) with Savannah Guthrie – discussed new mask
recommendations from CDC and the B.1.1.7 variant; BBC Radio; “What a Day” podcast;
CNN Sports TV with Charles Barkley and Ernie Johnson; Univision TV interview; Axios
TV for HBO – update with Margaret Talev
Nice article in Vogue:
For Dr. Anthony Fauci and Dr. Christine Grady,
Love Conquers All
By Michelle Ruiz
Power Players
CNBC:
Bill Gates and Dr. Fauci talk regularly — here’s
what they’re discussing now
Published Thu, Feb 11 202112:25 PM ESTUpdated Thu, Feb 11 202112:26 PM EST
Cory Stieg@corystieg
February 12, 2021 – Global – 107,000,000/2,400,000; USA – 27,200,000/474,000
David Kessler and I had discussion with Sen. Burr and Murray about viral variants.   They
wanted to be briefed on the threat and what we are doing about it.
Did a briefing of the Foreign Press with Andy Slavitt
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Briefed the Deputies and Cabinet Secretaries  led by Jeff Z.
PRESS:  Good Morning America (ABC) with George Stephanopoulos; Univision TV with
Jorge Ramos; ABC/FOX Montana TV; Podcast with Al Franken;
February 13, 2021 – Global – 107,800,000/2,400,000; USA – 27,300,000/479,200
•Trump acquitted by the spineless GOP Senators.   However, 7 GOP Senators did vote for
conviction.   Sorry day for our country.   Trump still has them in his grip.
February 14, 2021 – Global – 108,200,000/2,400,000;  USA – 27,400,000/482,500
Cases continue to come down.   People like Mike Osterholm are saying that we will inevitably
have yet again another surge due to B.1.1.7 that will become dominant.   I do not necessarily
believe that this will be the case.   I believe that if we double down on public health measures
and continue to push vaccinations, we do not necessarily have to experience a surge.   Having
said that, WE MUST BE PREPARED FOR A SURGE.
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PRESS:  ABC “The Week” with George Stephanopoulos
February 15, 2021 – Global – 108,600,000/2,400,000;  USA – 27,500,000/484.000
Down to 68,000 cases yesterday!
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Did  Zoom call with Winnie Byanyima (Exec Dir. Of UNAIDS) together with Regan Hofmann.
Winnie was very grateful for my leadership in COBID-19 and HIV/AIDS.   We discussed the
importance of having a global effort (hopefully led by USA) to get the world vaccinated against
COVID-19.   Winnie was excited about the fact that I mentioned the loosening of patents in a
recent interview to allow wider availability of COVID-19 vaccines.    I promised that I will
continue to push the “international and global” agenda.   I mentioned that we would need to get
things under better control in the USA before we would be able to generate interest in global
issues.
PRESS:  Telemundo HOY DIA TV;  NBC Local TV Doreen Genzler;
NPR (Daniel Estrin):
The Coronavirus Crisis
Fauci Awarded $1 Million Israeli Prize For
'Speaking Truth To Power' Amid Pandemic
February 16, 2021 – Global – 108,800,000/2,400,000; USA – 27,500,000/485,100
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Cases continue to come down globally:
Media trying to show discrepancies in the Biden team response.  CDC and
Walensky under criticism for their recent guidelines for opening schools since they
are really quite confusing.   They say open the schools but the guidelines show that
85-90% of the country is in the “red” zone and therefore, should hold off on
opening.  I believe that this is typical CDC confusion and lack of clear crisp
guidelines no matter who is CDC Director.  Also, the are pitting (a little) what I am
saying against what VP Harris is saying.   VP saying that we have to “start from
scratch” in the vaccine roll out and I have been saying that some things were done
well such as the mechanism for shipping vaccines.  I reconcile this by saying that
the mechanisms for getting doses into people’s arms were in bad shape when the
Biden team came in.   The press are accepting this.
Briefed (together with Francis Collins, Rochelle, and Janet Woodcock) the House
and Senate Caucuses on COVID-19 variants
PRESS: CNN with Jim Sciutto;  LA Times TV; NPR – “Science Friday” with
Ira Flatow;
New York Post:
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February 17, 2021 – Global – 109,200,000/2,400,000; USA – 27,600,000/486,400
Cases continue to plummet:
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•Did Fireside Chat with AME Reid Temple Church (Maryland) – Pastor Mark Whitlock
•Did podcast “Pod Save America” with Jon Favreau
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•Did podcast with James Hildreth from Meharry Medical College
PRESS: CBS This Morning with Gayle King and Tony Dokoupil; Online TV interview
with Clive Cookson (Editor, Financial Times) for the UK Science Museum event;  White
House Press Conference on the usual MWF schedule; CNN “360” with Anderson Cooper.
February 18, 2021- Global – 109,600,000/2,400,000;  USA – 27,700,000/489,100
Big Ice-storm in Washington DC and major ice storms and snow over southwest (Texas) with
several deaths.   Currently heavy snow in NYC and Boston
Cases continue to drop
Briefed President Biden today in Oval (Virtually).  I briefed him on pediatric vaccine trials
and mentioned that we likely will have high school children (13-17 yo) vaccinated by mid-Fall,
but it would take until Q1 of 2022 to get the trials done and approval for elementary school
children (6 to 12 yo).   He asked good questions but he rambled a bit, seemingly repeating things
that he had said a few minutes previously.
•Did really fun “Fireside Chat” with Karl-Anthony Towns (All-Star NBA Player – Rookie
of the Year in 2015-2016) and “Dominicans on the Hill”.    He had COVID-19 and` his
mother died of COVID-19.   We gave good messages to the Dominican community
•Spoke with the PEPVAR group about USA providing $4-5 billion to build plants to
produce Moderna mRNA for the world – Peter Staley, James Krellenstein, David Barr,
Christian Urrutia, Wafaa El Sadr.   I will bring this up to Jeff Zients.
PRESS: MSNBC with Andrea Mitchell; Council on Foreign Relations podcast – “Why it
Matters”;  Interview with Char Koosta News (discussed tribal Vaccine hesitancy with Sam
Sandoval);  Interview with Times of Israel on my Dan David Prize; Interview with Alice
Park of Time Magazine on 1st 100 days of Biden Administration; Did Buzzfeed interview
with Dan Vergano on the Fateful March 11, 2020 when we shut down Europe.
February 19, 2021 – Global    USA
Online preprint paper cam out from Israel saying that a single dose of Pfizer mRNA protected
well (85% at 15-28 days against symptomatic disease and 72% against symptomatic and
asymptomatic disease).   9000 individual study of young and healthy people.  We do not know
the durability of this protection.   I made point at the press conference (see below) that we will
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stick with the 2 dose since we know from our studies that the 2nd dose increases the response 10-
fold over the 1st dose.   This height of response gives a cushion against the existing variants and
also if you have a less-than-optimal response (albeit a good response) to the 1st dose, you may
actually “select” for more variants.
•Call from Jeff Sachs about the International Monetary Fund (Special Drawing Rights –
SDR) and the possibility of a $40-$50 billion dollar program to vaccinate the entire
world.   He wants me to have a special role.   Moe later.
•Gave Harvey lecture virtually at Georgetown
•Met with Francis C, Carl D, John Martin, and Larry Tabak about the COVID targeted
drug development program that I am trying to set up with the $743 million that we put
into our total NIH budget request.   It will be based in NIAID with Carl as the lead.   As
usual Francis wants governance to be somewhat under his control.   All good.   We will
get it done.
PRESS:  Interview with Erin Banco – The Daily Beast; White House Press Conference;
ESPN Baseball TV with Buster Olney; interview with Ben Samuels of Haaretz Israel
Newspaper (he tried to get me involved with commenting on the policy of Israel and I
refused); MSNBC with Joy Reid;
February 20, 2021 – Global -110,400,000/2,400,000;  USA – 27,800,000/494,000
PRESS:
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February 21, 2021 – Global – 110,700,000/2,500,000;  USA – 27,900,000/499,000
Matt Pottinger’s interview with Margaret Brennan on Face the Nation.  Good summary of
history of the early months: https://cbsn.ws/3pGH9tR
Mike Osterholm still predicting an “inevitable” massive surge in the Spring.   He also is insisting
that we can study the 1 dose strategy in time for meaningful results.
PRESS:  Sunday shows:  NBC - Meet the Press with Chuck Todd;  FOX Sunday with Chris
Wallace; CNN State of the Union with Dana Bash.
February 22, 2021 – Global – 111,100,000/2,500,000; USA – 27,900,000/500,000
Reached 500,000 deaths in the USA today!!
However, numbers of new cases continue to come down.  Will be race between the new variants
and our two tools of defense: 1) vaccine; 2) public health measures.   Luckily the mRNA
vaccines and J & J are good against the B.117 (UK).  Even though they are less effective against
the B1.531 (RSA) isolate they still likely will protect against hospitalization and death – the J &
J definitely does (tested in RSA) and we can extrapolate that the mRNA (not yet tested in RSA)
also does.
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PRESS:  The Telegraph:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/0/dr-
anthony-fauci-had-publicly-disagree-
trump-allowed-terrible/
Anthony Fauci exclusive interview: 'When I
publicly disagreed with Trump he let
terrible things happen'
Good Morning America (ABC) with George Stephanopoulos; CBS This Morning with
Gayle King and Anthony Mason; PBS “GZERO WORLD” with Ian Bremmer; White
House Press Briefing – I outlines therapeutics and the new FDA updated guidelines to
companies for handling variants; Fireside Chat with David Rubenstein upon my receiving
the 2021 Great Americans Medal from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American
History; Reuters online TV interview with Julie Steenhuysen; i24 TV News (Israel);
Fireside chat with  Leon Panetta at his Panetta Institute for Public Policy.
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February 23, 2021 – Global -111,400,000/2,500,000; USA – 28,000,000/500,000
Had great call with Barbra Streisand.   She called my cell at 6:05 PM.   She has recently had
zoster with lesion on hip/buttock.  She has post-zoster neuralgia down her leg, but the primary
lesion had healed.   She wanted to know if it was OK to get the mRNA vaccine.   I told her yes.
We then stared discussing life in general.   I told her that I work listening to her songs on
ALEXA.  She really did not know what ALEXA was.   I accidentally butt called her later in the
evening and she said that she was going to call me anyway since she wanted to know if there was
any difference between the Moderna and the Pfizer product.   I told her none.   I then explained
to her more about ALEXA.   I brought the phone over to ALEXA and asked to play “Songs by
Barbra Streisand”.  When the song came on loud and clear, she started laughing and absolutely
loved it!
PRESS:  Yahoo News Interview
February 24, 2021 – Global – 111,800,000/2,500,000; USA – 28,100,000/501,200
The PBS team is here today filming their documentary.
Received the 2021 Larry Foster Award for Integrity in Public Communication from the Arthur
W. Page Center (Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications of Pennsylvania State
University
PRESS:
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February 25, 2021 – Global – 112,200,000/2,500,000    USA – 28,000,000/503,600
Cases continue to come down, but yesterday was 1st day that cases actually started to back up a
little.   Could be artifact.   Variants gaining much attention.  The B1.427/429 in California is
spreading in CA and seems to be somewhat more transmissible. The new B.1. 526 in NYC is
also troublesome and spreading.
Issue with J & J. VRBPAC will meet on Feb. 26 (tomorrow).
Big Day at the White House -   Met with POTUS and VPOTUS in the Oval office  for our
weekly briefing on COVID.   In Oval with us was Jeff Z, Natalie Q; on screen weas Rochelle
and Marcella.   I presented the options for the upcoming ruling on J & J for EUA.   Data on >60
WITH comorbidities doers not look good.  Overall USA efficacy 72%.  I also described the
Moderna efforts to do with NIAID Phase 1 trials with a boost to previously vaccinated and
prime/boost for previously not vaccinated people using the B.1.531 (South African variant).
Then went with the POTUS and VPOTUS to South Court auditorium to watch NIH OMS nurse
Elizabeth Galloway administer mRNA (Moderna) to 4 volunteers to celebrate before a packed
press the 50 millionth vaccine within 37 days of Biden Presidency
Then went to do PSAs with the White House digital Comms team.   They all wanted selfies with
me.
Had 5:00PM call with Janet Woodcock, Francis Collins, John Mascola, Cliff lane, Peter Marks,
and we decided that it would be best to recommend and EUA for people younger that 60 years
old because the >60 years with co-morbidities had only a 42% efficacy.
Had 6:30 PM talk led by Bechara Choucar and including me, Rochelle and Marcella at the
request of Jeff Z to discuss what two vaccinated people can do together.   We were getting
criticism that we were not using common sense to tell people that they can now relax a bit and
enjoy each other.   Example I give in being able to hug Jenny now that we are both vaccinated.
Th right wing crazies at FOX have been criticizing me for not recommending loosening up.   I
have true to not get ahead of the CDC sine I feel stringy that two vaccinated people can act
together like there is no outbreak.   However, in society, this would be different.   My point is
that the risk is very small and each person should evaluate the level of risk they are willing to
take to start getting back to normal.  I will give my professional judgment while we are waiting
for the CDC to come out with some guidance.   I will be on all the Sunday Shows this weekend
and this is what I will say.  Rochelle agrees and says that the CDC will be coming out with some
professional judgment guidelines soon.
E-mail from Leon Panetta:
From:  Panetta Institute < info@panettainstitute.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 24, 2021 8:15 PM
To: Conrad, Patricia (NIH/NIAID) [E] <conradpa@niaid.nih.gov>
Subject: From Leon E. Panetta to Anthony Fauci
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Dr. Anthony Fauci
Director
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
c/o Patricia Conrad
conradpa@niaid.nih.gov
Dear Tony:
Sylvia and I want to express our deepest thanks for your generous participation in our Lecture
Series.  We broke a record with over 1,400 attendees and received a number of compliments on your
performance.  One of our friends – a former Trump supporter – said “I’ve changed my mind – Fauci is a
good guy!”  Of course, he too is Italian.
We look forward to one day taking you and your wife to a great Italian restaurant whether in
Washington or here in Monterey. Either way, we are deeply grateful for your kindness and service to our
nation.
Regards,
Leon
LEP:sb
PRESS:   Today Show (NBC) with Savannah Guthrie; Newsweek interview with Jack
Dutton (British); CBSN Interactive with Tanya Rivero;  CNN with Chris Cuomo
From Axios:
21 mins ago - Health
"This is a race": Fauci urges Americans to take
whatever COVID vaccine is available
Sarah Mucha
Good summary of the year:
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A year after Trump said coronavirus was
‘under control,’ a look back at the first news
stories
President Donald Trump at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta on March 6, 2020.
(Alex Brandon/AP)
By
Philip Bump
Feb. 24, 2021 at 9:36 p.m. UTC
February 26, 2021 – Global – 112,600,000/2,500,000;  USA – 28,200,000/506,800
Cases continue to fall however we're paying considerable attention to the possibility of surges
associated with the variants.  Of note, Pfizer is planning to do a boost at about six months in
order to increase the level of neutralizing antibodies that could cover indirectly the variants. OK
 put together a zoom meeting for me to talk to members of the RED organization to discuss the
global aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic. They were people from all over the world whom I
did not recognize but several of them were apparently famous artists and entertainers. One of
them was Larry Gagosian who is a very famous art dealer. The tone of the discussion and the
questions was the importance of a global response to a global pandemic. In this regard I stressed,
and they totally resonated with me, the importance of making vaccine available to the entire
world since an outbreak in any part of the world is threatening to every part of the world. There
was some nice warm interchange between Bono and I at the beginning of the discussion and
throughout. He mentioned that his son has started a rock band and since his son has asthma they
called the band the inhalers.
Unfortunate and sad situation – Received a call from Tony DiNovi, Chair of the Board of
Trustees of Regis High School, that Father Dan LaHart has been removed indefinitely from the
Presidency of Regis High School.   Apparently, he was involved in sexual impropriety with adult
male members of the Regis community.  There is also an issue of alcohol abuse.  He is currently
secluded in a treatment center.  Tony called me because the story will likely be in the New York
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Times on Monday and the press might be calling me since it is widely known that I am strongly
connected with Regis
PRESS: We had the usual White House press conference on the Monday , Wednesday,
Friday schedule; CBS 60 Minutes PLUS (taped);  MSNBC Town Hall with Joy Reid.
February 27, 2021 – Global – 113,200,000/2,500,000;   USA – 28,300,000/509,000
Had good conversation with Ashish Jha. He is a good guy and he wants to understand much
better why I am insisting on a single dose of the vaccine rather than adhering to what others are
suggesting about giving all one doses and then worrying about the second dose three months
later in order to protect as many vulnerable people as one can. I explained to him our strategy
that the major concern is the evolution of mutations (variants) that would not be covered by a
less than optimal level of neutralizing antibody. We know that when we look at the in vitro data
the variants diminish the efficacy of the vaccine-induced antibodies; however, the high levels of
antibodies induced by the 2nd dose give some degree of protection  (cushion) even against the
mutants. Therefore. we are concerned that if we only give first doses and we wait three months
or more to give the second dose that variants may dominate and infect the suboptimally protected
people. In addition, a suboptimum level of response could actually select for mutants. In
addition, there was no reason why we cannot dramatically increase the administration of doses
together with the markedly increased availability of vaccine such that we can have our cake and
eat it, namely, we can give a lot more first doses at the same time as we keep up with the second
doses. We really need the CDC or another organization to model that. I will explain this all to
Ron Klain on Sunday.
I had an important conversation today led by Janet Woodcock and Peter Marks of the
FDA about the J & J EUA. Also on the call were Francis Collins, Cliff Lane, and Rochelle
Walensky.The subject matter was that their advisory committee (VRBAP) for consideration for
an EUA for the J & J product (Ad26). The committee unanimously and  strongly recommended
an unqualified EUA even though the data for elderly individuals older than 60 years old with
comorbidities was 42%. However, there were not enough data points to be able to make a
definitive statement that there is a significant diminution of efficacy in that subgroup. Janet and
Peter are very concerned since they wanted the recommendation to be that the EUA would
involve people younger than 60 years old. Apparently, the AC IP will go along with that
recommendation. Rochelle and I in our conversation with Jeff Zients had decided that when
asked by the press we would say that this is an excellent vaccine equivalent to the other two. It
might become problematic if the press focuses on that group older than 60 years old with
comorbidities. The fact is that the numbers are so low that you cannot say anything about the
subgroup analysis.  Janet and Peter will face the press tonight. We help them to get a consistent
message with ours. This is critical since I will be on four of the Sunday talk shows tomorrow.
Throughout the late afternoon I was on several calls with Jeff Z who kept on checking with
Ron Klain regarding what the right approach would be when asked on TV about what
people who had both doses of vaccine could do with each other such as having a dinner with
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family and a few guests all of whom were vaccinated. Ron was quite concerned that I not go too
far out on a limb and say that vaccinated people can safely interact with unvaccinated people in a
household setting. Ron was also concerned about the issue a vaccinated people interacting with
unvaccinated children.  Finally after many calls going back and forth between me and Jeff and
then between Jeff and Ron and back to me again we decided to have a 3 way call among Jeff,
Ron, and me. We worked it out such that I will say that I am comfortable with adults in a small
gathering within the home not wearing masks as long as everyone was vaccinated. Importantly, I
would stay that the CDC would be coming out with recommendations in the next couple of
weeks.
PRESS:  On Saturday Night Live played by Kate McKinnon:
Pop Culture
SNL dreams up a Fauci-hosted game show
where contestants vie for the vaccine
Travis M. Andrews
Feb. 28, 2021 at 12:51 a.m. EST
February 28, 2021 (Sunday) – Global – 113,500,000/2,500,000;  USA - 28,400,000/510,800
Big topic on the Sunday shows (see below) was the EUA Issued by the FDA for the Johnson and
Johnson adeno virus vaccine. Also, there is concern that I expressed about easing up on
prevention modalities since the decreasing slope up infections is starting to show signs of
plateauing. On Face the Nation( see below) Margaret Brennan showed a clip of me being
portrayed on Saturday Night Live by Kate McKinnon.  Also, the governor of South Dakota
Kristi Noem said that I was almost always wrong. She claims that the most important parameter
of how well you are doing is how you maintain hospital capacity. When Margaret play that clip I
was kind to the governor by saying different states do different things and in different ways,
whereas I might have pointed out that her state has the most deaths per capita by COVID-19 than
any other state in the country.
Got a call from Jeff that Anita Dunn saw me on all the shows and said that I was fabulous.
Flattening of decline concerning.  We shall see what happens in the coming days and weeks.
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Had zoom call today with Ron Klain arranged by Jeff an included me Bechara, Marcela,
Rochelle, Natalie, and others. The main topic was whether we should stick with our strategy of
two doses in the usual time frame or switch to one dose and extend the interval by a couple of
months before giving the second dose. Ron is concerned that in November we will be criticized
for having let a few million people who would have been vaccinated remain UN vaccinated
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because we wanted to give two doses to everyone. I was the main explainer emphasizing that the
second dose gives a much higher titer of antibody that will address at least partially the inevitable
evolution of variants including those from California and importantly the B.1.526. Ron did not
want to tell us what to do but he wanted to make sure that we seriously considered both
alternatives and were comfortable without decision to stick with two doses on the regular
regiment.
The ACIP recommended to CDC to implement the EUA for the J & J vaccine. Now the
CDC needs to recommend the distribution and we can start distributing 4,000,000 doses almost
immediately and then we will have 20 million by the end of March and a total of 100,000,000 by
the end of June
PRESS:  Was on 4 Sunday talk shows:  ABC This Week with George Stephanopoulos; CNN
State of the Union with Dana Bash; CBS Face the Nation  with Margaret Brennan; NBC
Meet the Press with Chuck Todd.
March 1, 2021 – Global – 113,800,000/2,500,000;   USA – 28,400,000/512,000
•We did our weekly briefing of Principals – Cabinet members and deputies
•Did a podcast with the New Jersey Council of Churches
PRESS: NPR Radio 1A; Podcast with Kai Kuperschmidt (Science Magazine) on HIV
versus COVID-19 vaccines; White House Press Conference (Routine 3x/week);Satellite
Radio Tour for Native Americans; Podcast with the Interactive Advertising Bureau (David
Cohen);
March 2, 2021 – Global – 114,100,000/2,500,000;   USA – 28,500,000/513,100
Still coming down, but the slope is changing:
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Participated in the University of Edinburgh “Futures Conversations” Chaired by Professor
Peter Mathieson (Vice-Chancellor, University of Edinburgh) and involving a conversation
between me and Professor Nanshan Zhong (China) and Sheila Tlou (former Minister of Health
of Botswana) on the global impact of COVID-19.  We spoke about global solidarity for vaccine
equity.   Also, spoke about the variants.   Also, spoke about the approach that China took with
the outbreak, i.e. complete lockdown
Call from Larry Horowitz.   Nancy Pelosi is angry about the fact that J & J is being equated with
the mRNA vaccines since she has seen the data about the people >60 yo with co-morbidities.
Also, she does not like the 72% versus 94-95%  for mRNA.   She is taking her annoyance out on
the medical team (she has not
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PRESS: Podcast with Kai Kuperschmdt (follow-up from yesterday0; Seattle Gay News
interview; Interview for Pritzer Forum/Chicago Council; Hispanicize PSA taping (Paola
Ramos); Telemundo 52 Los Angeles;
 In Washington Post (see below)
Fauci: U.S. must stick with two-shot strategy
for Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna vaccines
Delaying a second dose to inoculate more Americans creates
risks, infectious-disease expert says
By
Dan Diamond
March 1, 2021 at 8:38 p.m. EST
March 3, 2021 – Global – 114,400,000/2,500,000;  USA – 28,500,000/515,300
Still plateauing:
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Note that Europe cases are going up.   They are using the 1 dose of vaccine approach:
Governors of Texas and Mississippi withdraw all public health measures such as masking and
not doing indoor dining.   I and Rochelle and Biden on TV saying that this is risky and ill-
advised.
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PRESS: BBC Scotland Morning Radio Show;  Black News Channel with Kelly Wright;
Brandeis Webinar with Atul Gawande and Elizabeth Rosenthal; Town Hall with United
Food and Commercial Worker Union; CNN with Erin Burnett;
My prediction, one year ago on NBC reported here by brian Williams:
One year ago, Fauci predicted how bad a Covid
pandemic could be
In March 2020, Dr. Anthony Fauci spoke with NBC News Chief Foreign Correspondent Richard
Engel before Covid-19 became a global pandemic. MSNBC's Brian Williams shares how
shockingly accurate Fauci's predicted ended up being.
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March 4, 2021 – Global – 115,000,000/2,600,000;   USA – 28,600,000/517,200
Continuing to plateau:
Governors of Texas and Mississippi are pulling back on all public health guidelines such as
masks (removing the mask mandate), physical distance, crowds.   Press slamming them for
thisand Rochelle and I are being asked about this on every media hit.
Had very good discussion with Dr. Soren Brostrom, Director General of the Danish Health
Authority Danish representative on the WHO Executive Board AND Lone Dencker Wisborg,
Danish Ambassador to USA on Global Health matters and potential collaboration between USA
and Denmark in global health security and pandemic preparedness.
Also met with  Congressman Espaillat regarding variant B.1.526 in his district in NYC.
Had back and forth with Jeff and Rochelle regarding the guidelines that CDC is preparing on
what people who are vaccinated can and cannot do.   Jeff Wants to make sure that I am
comfortable with the guidelines. I looked at them in the usual manner the CDC had too many
qualifying statements in there that were necessary. Jeff had a problem with putting a vaccinated
person in the same room with a person who is not vaccinated and not using masks. I convinced
him that we should assume the very small risk and if the person who is not vaccinated is of low
risk, then one does not have to wear a mask. Jeff was very sensitive in not having the White
House interfere and so he went along with my suggestion that actually agreed with the CDC,
except for the fact that they were not precise in their wording can I edited their document some
what. The bottom line is that we would say that two vaccinated people can be indoors together in
a home setting without masks or physical distancing. In the home setting, where one person is
vaccinated and the other person is not, the vaccinated person has a minimal risk and attention
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should be paid to the risk of the  unvaccinated person.  If the person who was not vaccinated is of
a low risk then they can do away with masks and can be together. If the person who was not
vaccinated is of high risk of severe disease then the vaccinated person needs to wear a mask. I
worked with Rochelle and returned the document to her.Let us see how it ultimately turns out
I received the AmFAR “Award of Courage” on a virtual Gala tonight.   The award
presented to me (recorded) by Julia Roberts
PRESS: MSNBC “Morning Joe”  with Joe Scarborough, Mike Brzezinski, and Willie
Geist; Interviewed with Alexis Papachelas of Greek Kathimerini Newspaper; WTOP with
Mike Murillo (Online and Radio); NPR with Rob Stein; Town Hall with Blue Star
Families; CNN “The Lead” with Jake Tapper; CBS Newspath with Jon LaPook; NBC with
Lester Holt – doing special of last photos that people took before the Pandemic struck.   I
showed photo and gave interview about that 2019  Christmas Eve dinner at my sister’s
home; Interview with The Atlantic with James Hamblin on COVID-19 epidemiology
March 5, 2021 – Global -115,300,000/2,600,000; USA – 28,600,000/519,100
Plateau maintaining:
Briefed POTUS and VPOTUS virtually.   He was in Oval.   I was at NIH. I explained about
variants and how the “cushion” of antibodies provided by the 2nd dose of vaccine give
considerable protection against severe disease
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PRESS: Black News Channel Morning Show (TV); Time video regarding Sesame Street;
Washington Post interview regarding vaccine hesitancy (Online TV); 2 PSA with Gloria
Estaban and Carolina Sandoval; White House press conference;
March 6, 2021 – Global – 115,700,000/2,600,000; USA – 28,700,000/521,300
Had pre-brief with the WH comms team (Courtney Rowe, Ben Wakana, Kate Berner, Mariel
Saez, Ian Sams, etc for my appearance on Face the Nation tomorrow (Sunday).
7day average is not exactly plateauing, it is just flattening a bit:
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GOP at the local level are trying to pass laws that suppress minority voters such as saying that
you cannot give food to people who are waiting in line for hours to vote.   This
disproportionately affects African American voters.
PRESS:   MSNBC with Tiffany Cross;
March 7, 2021 – Global – 116,100,000/2,600,000; USA – 28,800,000/523,000
Status of vaccines in USA from Monica Ghandi:
The intensity of both my popularity and of the hate that the far right have of me increases:
Fauci.pdf
PRESS:   CBS “Face the Nation” with Margaret Brennan
March 8, 2021 – Global 116,500,000/2,600,000; USA – 28,800,000/524,000
Plateau starting to come down”
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Had a very nice and informative discussion with the minister of foreign affairs of Bosnia and
Herzegovina, Bisera Turkovic.  She is in a very difficult situation in that she was promised
vaccine from CoVAX; however, they have not come through on their promise. Therefore, she is
asking me as a trusted person for suggestions on how she might address the outbreak in her own
country. As of February 22, 2021 there have been 128,000 cases and 5000 deaths in Bosnia and
Herzegovina.  I could not help her very much except to encourage her to have her people
continue to wear masks and observe appropriate public health measures. I also suggested to her
that she tried to make a deal with the Russians to try to get some of their vaccine. I also
suggested that are possible long range solutions to try and get some of the surplus vaccine that
would be left over after the USA vaccinated its entire population. She was very grateful for the
discussion.
Was on panel with President Clinto Chair) for a discussion of the shortage of oxygen in the
LMIC.   Also there were: Joy Phumapi and John Nkgengasong
•Received the Tufts University Presidential Medal and did a Zoom Q and A with the Dean
of the Tisch College of Civic Life at Tufts
PRESS: Interview with Sarah Owermohle for Politico; White House Press Conference;
Axios interview about March 11 – with Naomi Shavin; Fireside Chat  with National league
of Cities; Fireside Chat with Tufts University Dean of Tisch Colege on the occasion of
receiving the Presidential Medal; CBS New Radio, Los Angeles interviewed together with
L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti
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March 9, 2021 Global – 116,900,000/2,600,000;  USA – 28,900,000/525,000
Oops!   See below.   Likely a fluke:
•Had a very nice virtual ceremony inducting me as a Honorary Fellow into the Royal
College of Physicians of Ireland by its President Dr. Mary Horgan.  Bill Powderly
(Washington University of St. Louis) connected us.   Mary had taken an infectious
Diseases fellowship at Wash U.
•Did Fireside Chat with Paul Kelly (Chief medical Officer of Australia) on the differences
between COVID-19 in USA and Australia.   Sponsored by CSIS (Steve Morrison and
Katherine Bliss)
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PRESS: NPR “All Things Considered” with Mary Louise Kelly (done together with
Francis Collins); VICE TV Documentary Taping; Gray TV Special with Greta Van
Susteren; Did podcast with Tom Inglesby from Hopkins;
March 10, 2021 – Global – 117,300-,000/2,600,000;  USA – 29,000,000/526,200
Had a very moving tribute to me upon the receipt of the Yale University School of Management
“Legend in Leadership” Award from the Chief Executive Leadership Institute.   Moving
comments by Albert Bourla (Pfizer), Alex Gorsky (J & J).
PRESS:  CNN “New Day” with John Berman; Interview with Carolyn Johnson of the
Washington Post; Instagram with Eugenio Derbez (Mexican-American entertainer)
Historical comparison of the vaccine efforts of Trump versus Biden in NY Times article by
Sharon La Franiere:
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Biden Got the Vaccine Rollout
Humming, With Trump’s Help
Trump administration officials grumble that they laid the groundwork for surging
vaccinations, but some hard work in the trenches has helped pick up the pace of
production.  See link below:
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/10/us/politics/biden-coronavirus-vaccine.html
March 11, 2021 – Global -117,800/2,600,000; USA – 29,100,000/527,700
Had Zoom with Jeff and the team to go over the POTUS speech for tonight to commemorate the
1 year anniversary from the time (March 11, 2020) when the WHO declared this a pandemic of
global health concern and we shut down travel from Europe.   This was a big day for me 1 year
ago – (go back to notes of March 11, 2020).   Also, I have been pushing with Jeff and Rochelle
to have the CDC be a bit less “risk averse” in their recommendations of what a person can do
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once they are fully vaccinated.   The CDC really needs to step up and give recommendations for
travel, workplace, houses of worship.   They are dragging their feet.   I am gently coaching
Rochelle to go by her own instincts and not always yielding to the rigidity of the career CDC
staff.
•Had Zoom call with Gov. Dan McKee of Rhode Island asking advice about the next few
weeks and his plans for the state
PRESS:  NBC “This Morning” with Savannah Guthrie; ABC “Good Morning America”
with George Stephanopoulos;  ESPN “First Take” TV with Max Kellerman, Stephen A.
Smith, and Molly Qerim Rose (discussed my 5 favorite athletes); Podcast (“We Can Do
This”) with Robin Roberts; CBS Evening News with Norah O’Donnell; Filmed Stephen
Colbert for tomorrow night; MSNBC – Rachel Maddow
March 12, 2021 – Global -    USA
Still plateauing:
Briefed the Principals for our weekly briefing.   I showed the replication cycle of SARS-CoV-2
and the vulnerable targets for direct anti-viral therapy
David Kessler together with Rick Levin (formerly of Yale) made a proposal to provide through
the congress 5 billion to me and NIAID to decide how we wanted to put together a “vaccine
manufacturing plan that would involve everything from the fundamental research going into
pandemic preparedness to the actual manufacturing of 300,000,000 doses of vaccine per year.
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This is an extraordinary offer then I will have to sit down with my team particularly John
Mascola who was on the call with us to determine what aspect of this multifaceted plan that
David proposed would be owned by us here at NIAID versus what we would give to
HHS/ASPR/BARDA.  I asked John to think about a team that we could put together in the
beginning of the week to come back to David with a plan. Obviously, we will have to go 2
Francis Collins and thoroughly briefed him and get his buy in.
PRESS: Zoom interview with Spike Lee for a documentary that he is filming;
Politico by Sarah Owermohle and Erin Banco
Fauci takes on a new role: Biden’s Covid whisperer
Few others cast as long a shadow as Fauci — who over the last year has given America a crash course in
epidemiology — especially with top health posts vacant.
March 13, 2021 Global – 118,800,000/2,600,000; USA – 29,200,000/530,700
PRESS:   Filmed with Mark Manucci for PBS
March 14, 2021 – Global – 119,200,000/2,600,000; USA – 29,200,000/531,800
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PRESS:  NBC “Meet the Press” with Chuck Todd; CNN State of the Union” with Jake
Tapper; Fox News with Chris Wallace; Gray TV “Full Court Press” with Greta Van
Susteren
March 15, 2021 – Global – 119,600,000/2,600,000;  USA -29,300,000/532,400
Got call tonight from Larry Horowitz saying that Drew Weissman and his collaborator are
planning to hold a press conference to discuss their studies in mice showing that an
intramuscular injection of the mRNA vaccine leads to an immune response in the amniotic fluid
of the pups in a pregnancy model. The FDA has already received the DART (Development and
Reproductive Toxicology) studies from Moderna and Pfizer. According to Emily these studies
were clean. The FDA has heard about the Weissman studies and feels that they are invalid. The
two companies also feel that the studies are invalid. However, we cannot blow them off for
obvious reasons. Even if the Weissman studies prove to be invalid, the fact that they are holding
a press conference is going to create a huge mess. Hopefully, we can get this sorted out and have
a repeat of studies to counter this finding. More later.
Jeff Zients has heard about this and called me tonight at 9:30 PM.   I told him we have to get the
FDA out their showing that they have DART studies and explaining what their studies showed.
Cases coming down:
Yet Europe is seeing an upswing of cases resulting mostly from B.1.1.1.7:
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Today I received on a virtual zoom the Ivan Alan Award for Social Courage given by Georgia
Tech University and it's President doctor Angel Cabrera. There was a video about my
accomplishments and Rochelle Walensky joined us to celebrate the award. Rochelle was very
generous in calling me her hero, her mentor, and her friend. I should point out at this point that
Rochelle has become closer and closer to me in our very collegial relationship. In addition, I
should point out that I have been getting a number of awards and prizes that I had not even
documented in these notes. It is a shame that things are moving so quickly that I don't even have
time to savor for a moment the many awards that I have been getting.
PRESS: Did White House Press briefing today with Rochelle and Andy;
March 16, 2021 – Global – 120,000,000/2,700,000; USA – 29,300,000/533,100
I took the led in pushing Janet Woodcock (FDA) and Rochelle Walensky (CDC) to make sure
that all their ducks were in order.  In fact, Janet checked and both Pfizer and Moderna had clean
DART studies on record and CDC was following closely 2000 vaccinated pregnant women from
a cohort of 31,000 and no red flags.   All good so far.
Participated in a very nice function at the National Cathedral where Francis Collins and I and
Eliseo Perez-Stable gave brief remarks to various ministers from surrounding counties such as
Montgomery, Arlington, Fairfax, District of Columbia, and others. The purpose was to have
these African American pastors get publicly vaccinated in the cathedral so that their constituents
would follow. It was one of many outreach efforts that Francis and I and others have been doing
over the past months to stimulate interest in getting vaccinated.
Summary of vaccines below:
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PRESS: MSNBC “Morning Joe” with Joe Scarborough; ABC “GMA3” with Jen Ashton;
Wall Street Journal – CEO Council with John Bussey; Podcast with The Economist;
National Cathedral Function with Press
March 17, 2021 – Global – 120,400,000/2,700,000; USA – 29,400,000/534,100
Testified before the House Energy and Commerce Oversight & Investigations Subcommittee
chaired by Diana De Gette (D-CO) with ranking member Morgan Griffith (R- VA).   Good
hearing with the usual snarkiness from David McKinley (R-WV) and Gary Palmer (R-AL).
Several question centered around the GOP angry because the Dems are not giving Trump enough
credit for the vaccine.   It is reflecting what Trump has been saying to the media.
Pres. Joe Biden sent me a thank you letter:
Letter from
president Joe Biden
PRESS: NBC Late Show with Seth Meyers; White House Press Conference
March 18, 2021 – Global – 120,900,000/2,700,000; USA – 29,400,000/535,200
Testified before the Senate HELP Committee chaired by Sen. Patty Murray (D_WA) and
ranking Minority Richard Burr (R-NC).   I had my typical fight with Sen. Rand Paul who
insisted that masks were pure theater.   I blew him away.
After the Hearing, I briefed the POTUS and VPOTUS on Building Vaccine Confidence.
Present virtually – me, Andy Slavitt, Marcella Nunez-Smith, and Courtney Rowe.   In the Oval –
Jeff, Natalie Quillian, Anita Dunn.
Had call with Jeff, David K. Natalie, Anne Schuchat regarding alarming increase in NYC of
B.1.526.  Anne will call Zucker to suggest strongly to shut down bars and restaurants. We
are afraid of a surge that we had expected since NYC tends to follow Europe, which is surging
now following a plateau.
SA giving vaccine to Canada and Mexico.   For Mexico it is a quid pro quo to control
immigration at the border.
Also, AstraZeneca continues to mess up on their examination of data with the DSMB.   They
have shown extreme incompetence throughout this entire affair with mixing up clinical trial data
in the UK to not having equity demographically in their USA trial
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PRESS: NBC “Today” with Savannah Guthrie; Did short TV hots with local stations in
Alabama, Louisiana; North Carolina; South Carolina; CNN with Chris Cuomo
March 19, 2021 – Global    USA
Still flattening.   General worry about surge while several states are pulling back on mask
mandates and other public health measures:
PRESS:  CBS “This Morning” with Gayle King; Snapchats with White House Comms;
MSNBC “All In” with Chris Hayes
March 20, 2021 – Global – 122,000,000/2,700,000; USA – 29,600,000/538,300
Had our newly established Saturday AM meeting with the medical team led by Jeff Zients to go
over important issues.   I brought up for the first time the issue of having Biden lead an effort to
allow LMICs to produce their own vaccine.   This could be a legacy issue for him similar to what
George WQ. Buch did with PEPFAR.
Cases starting to come up after the plateau:
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PRESS:  NBC “Today Weekend” with Kristen Welker and Peter Alexander;
March 21, 2021 – Global   USA
Still flat or slightly increased:
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While Europe continues to surge:
And Brazil follows:
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March 22, 2021 – Global -123,000,000/2,700,000; USA – 29,700,000/540,000
Trump has been attacking me (and Deb Birx) in recent interviews on FOX News and “the Hill”
(see below) saying that we were wrong most of the time.   However, he actually says that I am a
nice guy and he likes me.
Big semi-scandal!  AstraZeneca again messed up. Today was the day when they announced the
data of their phase three clinical trial of a covid vaccine. The data showed a 78.9% efficacy with
good efficacy against severe disease. They put out a press conference and press release and we
followed with a press release that mirrored their release. As it turns out the data and safety
monitoring board, which was getting impatient with them and was having trouble with their
submission from the beginning, send them a harsh letter also addressed to me indicating that the
data in their press release was not the most recent data an actually made the data looked more
favorable. When the White House found out about this, it triggered a series of zoom calls with
the comms team of the White House (Courtney Rowe et al) led by Jeff Zients. the final decision
was that we would put out a press statement from NIAID in the middle of the night urging AZ to
come clean with the DSMB and to straighten out their press release. See below the letter from
the DSMB to me and AZ as well as our press release.
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final Concern over
AZ press release.pdf

NIAID Statement on AstraZeneca Vaccine
Late Monday, the Data and Safety Monitoring Board (DSMB) notified NIAID, BARDA, and AstraZeneca that it was concerned by
information released by AstraZeneca on initial data from its COVID-19 vaccine clinical trial. The DSMB expressed concern that
AstraZeneca may have included outdated information from that trial, which may have provided an incomplete view of the efficacy
data. We urge the company to work with the DSMB to review the efficacy data and ensure the most accurate, up-to-date efficacy
data be made public as quickly as possible.
Authorization and guidelines for use of the vaccine in the United States will be determined by the Food and Drug Administration
and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention after thorough review of the data by independent advisory committees.
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PRESS:   White House Press briefing – I presented the AZ results – 78.9% effective and
100% effective against sever disease – 0 in vaccine; 5 in placebo;  BBC Radio World News;
The Hill:
Trump says Fauci 'a
promoter more than
anything'
BY JUSTINE COLEMAN - 03/22/21 09:18 AM EDT 621
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March 23, 2021 –  Global -123,400,000/2,700,000;  USA – 29,700,000/540,500
Did Governor’s Association call and gave them an update.   Was introduced by Governor Cuomo
who bragged about my New York City roots and that I am Italian-American.
Did a Fireside Chat with the Forum of Small States – 100 of the smaller nations of the world.   It
was very enjoyable and they were totally appreciative of me and many said how popular I was in
their country.   The Irish Ambassador said I was “beloved in Ireland”.
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PRESS:  ABC - Good Morning America with Robin Roberts; much press calls associated
with the AZ issue described above; Entravision interview with Tsi-Tsi-Ki Felix from
Univision;   many print interviews related to the AZ issue (see above)
Politico:
Fauci: AstraZeneca needs to 'straighten out' vaccine data
March 24, 2021 – Global -123,900,000/2,700,000; USA – 29,800,000/541,300
•Moncef Slaoui fired from GSK Board of Directors for sexual harassment charges dating
back a few years
•AZ continues to mess up on everything they seem to do.   Hopefully, we will bring their
miscommunication to an end as they finalize their discussions with the DSMB.
•Got a call from Tom Frieden today about 2 issues: 1) Tom wants to know how I feel
about working with Moderna in getting them to give up some intellectual property so that
we can get vaccine to the developing world . He wants to see if I have a relationship with
Moderna. If so, he would like to help with seeing if we can get Moderna to cooperate in
building plants in the developing world to provide vaccine. Tom is going to send me
some talking points that I might bring to Jeff Zients so that I do not go rogue on this
without letting the administration know. 2) Tom is quite concerned that there is no
decision yet on the commissioner of the Food and Drug administration. He is very much
in favor of Josh Scharfstein over Janet Woodcock. He is trying to figure out ways to get
the administration to seriously consider Josh. Apparently Ron Klain is concerned that
Josh would have trouble getting confirmed by the Senate. Tom thinks that this is not an
issue.
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PRESS: White House Press Briefing – most questions still about the AZ situation; Town
Hall on Sirius XM “Rock the Bells” with LLCoolJ – guests – me, Marcella Nunez-Smith
and DJ Jazzy Jeff;
ENTERTAINMENT
03/24/2021 07:45 am ET
Dana Carvey Goes Full ‘Godfather’
With Hilarious Dr. Anthony Fauci
Impression
“She was having sex with Dr. Anthony Fauci, now she’s banging a
f**king star.”
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/dana-carvey-anthony-fauci n 605b174dc5b66d30c74022cc
The Brooch Is Back, Baby
“These days, better than a tweet,” as one stylist put it.
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March 25, 2021 – Global  - 124,200,000/2,700,000; USA – 29,800,000/543,000
After a Zoom meeting yesterday with the DSMB Chaired by Rich Whitley, it became clear
that they are furious with AZ since they feel that the AZ people are “pathological liars”.   It is a
shame, because their vaccine is really a good vaccine; however, with their dishonest actions, they
are casting discredit on the vaccine.
Continues to plateau amid concerns for surge.   Spring break is at hand.
Variants in the USA:
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The plateau continues:
PRESS:  Bloomberg podcast; Podcast “Just Getting Started” with Rich Eisen;
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March 26, 2021 – Global – 125,200,000/2,700,000;  USA – 29,900,000/544,000
Have continued to make virtual rounds on patients at the clinical center. I have not been
indicating it in these notes; however, I have been regularly going to rounds at least once per
week and occasionally two times per week. I want to make sure that I do not lose contact with
what is going on in the trenches both with HIV and with COVID-19.
Cases creeping up…….
PRESS:  White House Press Conference – I introduced the college campus transmission
study (Larry Corey);
March 27, 2021 – Global -125,800,000/2,800,000; USA – 29,900,000/545,300
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PRESS:  ABC – Good Morning America (Weekend);
March 28, 2021 Global   USA
Going in the wrong direction:
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PRESS:  CBS – Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan; Viewing of the Sanjay Gupta
piece on CNN of the “6 doctors”;
March 29, 2021 – Global – 126,900,000/2,800,000; USA – 30,100,000/546,700
•Considerable commenting rom the press about the Sanjay Gupta Special last night on the
“6 Doctors” where me, Birx, redfield, Hahn, Giroir, and Kadlec were interviewed.   I cam
out fine, but the press criticized the rest , particularly Birx, Redfield and Hahn for using
the interviews to try to rehabilitate their reputations that suffered by their performance
during the Trump administration where they did not speak up against the misinformation
from Trump (see below under “Press”)
•Briefed the POTUS and VPOTUS on our usual weekly briefing.
•President Trump lashed back in response to the CNN Special last night and wildly
criticized Deb and I even making up stories that I bad-mouthed Deb all the time.  He is
truly an obnoxious adolescent.   Below is his statement:
– March 29, 2021 –
Statement by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America
Based on their interviews, I felt it was time to speak up about Dr. Fauci and Dr. Birx, two self-promoters
trying to reinvent history to cover for their bad instincts and faulty recommendations, which I
fortunately almost always overturned. They had bad policy decisions that would have left our country
open to China and others, closed to reopening our economy, and years away from an approved
vaccine—putting millions of lives at risk.
We developed American vaccines by an American President in record time, nine months, which is saving
the entire world. We bought billions of dollars of these vaccines on a calculated bet that they would
work, perhaps the most important bet in the history of the world. Dr. Fauci and Dr. Birx moved far too
slowly, and if it were up to them we’d currently be locked in our basements as our country suffered
through a financial depression. Families, and children in particular, would be suffering the mental strains
of this disaster like never before.
In a fake interview last night on CNN, Dr. Fauci, who said he was an athlete in college but couldn’t throw
a baseball even close to home plate, it was a “roller,” tried to take credit for the vaccine, when in fact he
said it would take three to five years, and probably longer, to have it approved. Dr. Fauci was incapable
of pressing the FDA to move it through faster. I was the one to get it done, and even the fake news
media knows and reports this.
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Dr. Fauci is also the king of “flip-flops” and moving the goalposts to make himself look as good as
possible. He fought me so hard because he wanted to keep our country open to countries like China. I
closed it against his strong recommendation, which saved many lives. Dr. Fauci also said we didn’t need
to wear masks, then a few months later he said we needed to wear masks, and now, two or three of
them. Fauci spent U.S. money on the Wuhan lab in China—and we now know how that worked out.
Dr. Birx is a proven liar with very little credibility left. Many of her recommendations were viewed as
“pseudo-science,” and Dr. Fauci would always talk negatively about her and, in fact, would ask not to be
in the same room with her. The States who followed her lead, like California, had worse outcomes on
Covid, and ruined the lives of countless children because they couldn’t go to school, ruined many
businesses, and an untold number of Americans who were killed by the lockdowns themselves. Dr. Birx
was a terrible medical advisor, which is why I seldom followed her advice. Her motto should be “Do as I
say, not as I do.” Who can forget when Dr. Birx gave a huge mandate to the people of our Nation to not
travel, and then traveled a great distance to see her family for Thanksgiving—only to have them call the
police and turn her in? She then, embarrassingly for her, resigned.
Finally, Dr. Birx says she can’t hear very well, but I can. There was no “very difficult” phone call, other
than Dr. Birx’s policies that would have led us directly into a COVID caused depression. She was a very
negative voice who didn’t have the right answers. Time has proven me correct. I only kept Dr. Fauci and
Dr. Birx on because they worked for the U.S. government for so long—they are like a bad habit!
Hospitalizations in people <65 years old:
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PRESS:  Had a “Roll Up Your Sleeves” chat for a PSA with Matthew McConaughey;
MSNBC – Meg Tirrell;
Washington Post:
Feuds, fibs and finger-pointing: Trump officials
say coronavirus response was worse than
known
'That’s what bothers me every day’: Birx and others admit
failures that hampered the White House response
White House coronavirus response coordinator Deborah Birx, left, and National Institute of Allergy and
Infectious Diseases Director Anthony S. Fauci listen as President Donald Trump speaks last spring. (Jabin
Botsford/The Washington Post)
By
Dan Diamond
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March 30, 2021 – Global    USA
I remain close to Deb Birx and she still communicates with me about he observations of how
things are going.  Below is an e-mail she sent me this morning:
Testing rates continue to drop reaching under July levels
despite substantial increase in number of test and testing
supplies available.  "Surveillance testing" or testing for this
silent spread is so critical. The original rising test positivity in
18-24 is now 25-44 and rising.  This is how all the prior surges
occurred - due to vaccination level the fatalities maybe be less
and the risk to the health system maybe less but the potential
for significant increases in morbidity and long term impact of
COVID 19 will be most evident in these age groups. Simply
repeating the same public health messages without tailoring to
specific age groups on specific media platforms where the
message will be heard will not have the impact we need at this
moment.  Please take care of yourself.  Deb
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Trump furious and being inarticulate in responding to our appearance on CNN Special.    He is
still talking about my errant pitch on opening day last year.   He is rambling on.   Meadows and
Navarro  are attacking me on FOX News.   Navarro calling me a pathologic liar and calling the
virus the “Fauci Virus’.   The Trump team is really acting like a bunch of idiots.
Peter Navarro being delusional again:
Peter Navarro Slams Dr. Fauci: Virus Came From ‘Building’ He Built
•Had Zoom meeting with Brazilian Minister of Health Dr. Marcello Queiroga.   They
need help from the USA because they are having a terrible problem and President
Bolsonaro is very Trump-like and hurting the country with his approach.   I offered to
help by collaborating in research and discussing strategies.   They really want vaccine
from us, but the USA policy is that we will wait until we vaccinate our whole country
before we give away excess vaccines.   Unfortunately, that is all that I could offer them.
They will get plenty of vaccine from Pfizer, AZ and J & J in late May and early June.
After the zoom meeting, I received a note from one of their scientists – Dr. Jorge Kalil.
He asked me to please help them and hang in their with them sine Bolonsaro in terrible
and the Brazilian scientific community and Brazilian people hold me in high regard and
they need me to stick up for them
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•Had Zoom meeting with Marshawn Lynch former running back for the Seattle
Seahawks.   Really interesting.  A lot of street talk.   It was actually a “PSA” for
vaccinating African Americans
•Had Zoom with D.L. Hughley – famous entertainer - another interesting chat on his
show about African Americans and CVID vaccinations
•WHO Report is out saying that it is “very unlikely” that the virus originated from a lab
accident.   There is concern that the Chinese had a lot of influence over what data the
WHO group had access to
PRESS:  Did interview with Phil Rucker about his book on the Trump response to COVID-
19
Politico: Trump lashes out at Fauci and Birx after CNN
documentary
The former president released a fact-challenged statement criticizing the former advisers after they
criticized his administration’s pandemic response.
Health
Fauci and others look ahead to the
holidays: Put another leaf in the table
(QuickHoney for The Washington Post)
By Marlene Cimons
March 27, 2021 at 10:00 a.m. EDT
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March 31, 2021 – Global – 127,900,000/2,800,000; USA – 30,200,000/548,200
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•Had my every other week call with Chris Whitty and Patrick Valance of the UK.   They
are as concerned as we are about the potential for another surge.   They are waiting on
ordered doses of vaccine.
•Did nice interview with Nick News for Children answering their questions about
vaccines.
•Did interview with Ricky Martin scheduled for Latin Grammy awards.   Asked
questions about vaccines.
•I have been praising David Ho to the White House people regarding his studies of the
variants.   On that basis they are now probing whether he might be a good choice for
FDA Commissioner.
Source
Dr M Gandhi  UCSF:
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PRESS:WJLA TV – discussed Nats baseball season; CNN with Chris Cuomo;
Morning Joe’ Trashes Fox News Host for
Allowing Navarro’s Unhinged Fauci Rant:
‘That’s Fireable’
April 1, 2021 – Global – 128,500,000/2,800,000; USA – 30,300,000/549,100
The Trump people including Meadows, Navarro and several other minor figures are going
on a rampage on FOX news attacking me.   Navarro calling me a psychopath and pathologic
liar and Meadows blaming me for not weighing in on Children at the border.   Amazing!!!  Other
news media are criticizing them strongly for doing this.
•Had nice Fireside Chat with American Red Cross – Gail McGovern (CEO).  The
comments on the chat box were uniformly positive
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•Had a Zoom with Prize-winning artist Hugo Crosthwaite and Taina Caragol of the
National Portrait Gallery.   Taina will be commissioning Hugo to do a portrait of me
for the National Portrait Gallery Collection.   The whole process will take about 1 year.
•Majorie Taylor Greene is trying to introduce legislation to fire me.  Really!!!!:
•Marjorie Taylor Greene: Fire Fauci and
ban vaccine mandate and passport
        by Paul Bedard, Washington Secrets Columnist |
PRESS: CBS This Morning with Gayle King; WXYZ TV Detroit; FOX L.A. TV “The
Issue Is” with Elex Michaelson;  NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt; NATs Podcast with
Al Galdi and Mark Zuckerman.
April 2, 2021 – Global – 129,3000,000/2,800,000; USA – 30,400,000/550,200
•Had nice Fireside Chat with Rep. Doris Matsui.
•Am still being attacked by the far right wing including Senators (Lindsey Graham) and
media (FOX).   Interesting that they are asking me to explain the “crisis” at the border
when that has nothing to do with me.
•Had great interview with Neal Cavuto of FOX (see below under “Press”) in which he
allowed me to counter all of the criticisms of people like Mark Meadows, Lindsey
Graham, Navarro, etc.   Navarro is calling me a pathological liar saying that I had nothing
to do with the vaccine.   He said this in response to my saying that one of the best
choicesI made was to push ahead with Barney Graham’s collaborationwith Moderna.
Obviously, Navarro has no idea about this and so has no idea what he is talking about
•Another important issue – Robert F. Kennedy, Jr has written a book about me entitled
“The Real Anthony Fauci”, which will almost certainly be a slanderous book.   Am
undecided about whether I should get lawyers involved
PRESS: NPR Morning Edition with Noel King; NBC TV Detroit with Dr. Frank
McGeorge; White House Press briefing; Politico Podcast with Jeremy Siegel; Interview
with Business Insider; Interview with The Guardian; FOX News with Neal Cavuto.
April 3, 2021 – Global – 129,900,000/2,800,000; USA – 30,400,000/552,800
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Went to a “Spring celebration” at Bob Seder’s house to observe the Cherry Blossoms at
Kenwood.  I am a little nervous sine people were hugging and not wearing masks, although
virtually everyone had been vaccinated.
Still lingering at ~60,000 new infections/day:
PRESS: CNN with Jim Acosta;
April 4, 2021 – Global – 130,400,000/2,800,000;  USA – 30,500,000/553,700
Things getting a bit scary.   As B.1.1.7 becomes more dominant, we re seeing surges in some
areas with younger people (even school kids) getting infected and hospitalizations increasing in
relatively younger people.   See below:
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Race between the vaccines (4 million shots administered yesterday!!!) and a new surge:
April 5, 2021 – Global -131,000,000/2,900,000;  USA – 30,500,000/554,100
Still putting pressure on me to switch to a single dose.
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Mike Gerson wrote an amazing column in the Washington Post about me:
Opinion: Why tearing down Fauci is essential
to the MAGA myth
Opinion by
Michael Gerson
Columnist
April 5, 2021 at 4:35 p.m. EDT
MAGA political philosophy is not systematic, but it is comprehensive. Right-wing populism offers a
distorted lens to view nearly all of life.
Through this warped lens, progress toward equal rights is actually the oppression of White people. Free
and fair elections, when lost, are actually conspiratorial plots by the ruthless left. But perhaps the most
remarkable distortion concerns the MAGA view of covid-19.
We have all seen the basic outlines of pandemic reality. Experts in epidemiology warned that the
disease would spread through contact or droplets at short distances, which is how it spread. The experts
recommended early lockdowns to keep health systems from being overwhelmed, and the lockdowns
generally worked. The experts said Americans could influence the spread of the disease by taking basic
measures such as mask-wearing and social distancing. The disease was controlled when people did
these things. The disease ran rampant when they did not, killing a lot of old and vulnerable people in the
process.
There were, of course, disagreements along the way about the length of lockdowns and the form of
mandates. But on the whole, American citizens have witnessed one of the most dramatic vindications of
scientific expertise in our history. We have been healthier when we listened to the experts and sicker
when we did not.
This is the context in which the MAGA right has chosen to make Anthony S. Fauci — the director of the
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases since 1984 — the villain in their hallucinogenic
version of pandemic history.
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It is worth disclosing when a columnist has a personal connection to a public figure. I have known Fauci
since I was in government during the early 2000s and watched him help create the President’s
Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief. He is the best of public service: supremely knowledgeable, personally
compassionate, completely nonpolitical, tenacious in the pursuit of scientific advancement and resolute
in applying such knowledge to human betterment. He has no other ambition or agenda than the health
of the country and world.
Yet slamming Fauci was a surefire applause line at the Conservative Political Action Conference in
February. Former Trump administration officials continue to target him. Republican members of
Congress vie with one another to put Fauci in his place.
For Trump officials, including Donald Trump himself, this makes perfect sense. If Fauci has been right
about covid, then playing down the disease, mocking masks, modeling superspreader events, denying
death tolls, encouraging anti-mandate militias and recommending quack cures were not particularly
helpful. If Fauci has been right, they presided over a deadly debacle.
When former Trump trade adviser Peter Navarro claims that Fauci is “ the father of the actual virus ” or
former chief of staff Mark Meadows complains about Fauci’s indifference to the (nearly nonexistent)
flow of covid across the southern border, the goal is not really to press arguments. It is to create an
alternative MAGA reality in which followers are free from the stress of truth — a safe space in which
more than half a million people did not die and their leader was not a vicious, incompetent, delusional
threat to the health of the nation.
Metaphorically (but only barely metaphorically), there is a body on the floor with multiple stab wounds.
The Trump administration stands beside it with a bloody knife in its hand. It not only claims to be
innocent. It claims there is no blood. There is no body. There is no floor.
Congressional Republicans who criticize Fauci to prove their populist manhood are even more pathetic.
Their self-abasement is voluntary. Watching Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) debate science with Fauci during
committee hearings is like watching Albert Einstein being disputed by his dry cleaner. Fauci is often
reduced to making obvious points in a patient voice. Fauci deserves his Presidential Medal of Freedom
just for his heroic forbearance.
All these critics of Fauci have chosen to attack the citadel of science at its strongest point. With squirt
guns. While naked and blowing kazoos.
This useless exertion is somehow wrapped in the language of freedom. Freedom from the servitude of a
piece of cloth on your face that might save your neighbor’s life. Freedom to light off fireworks below a
potential avalanche. Freedom to store uranium in your backyard. Freedom to set fire to a crowded
theater.
Here is the reality of covid. It is not an easy thing to persuade hundreds of millions of people who feel
perfectly healthy to wear masks, socially distance and get a vaccine injected into their arms. Fauci is
dedicated to these goals. Anyone who purposely undermines them is a danger to the health and safety
of their fellow citizens.
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Fauci is practicing epidemiology. His critics are practicing idiocy. Both are very good at their chosen
work.
PRESS: PIX 11 TV – New York City;
April 6, 2021 – Global – 131,500,000/2,900,000; USA – 30,600,000/554,400
Had Zoom call with Pascal Soriot, CEO of AstraZeneca.   He wanted to apologize for the
miscommunications concerning the interactions between AZ and the DSMB a couple of weeks
ago.   He wanted my advice as to the best way forward.  I explained to him that the most
important thing for him to do would be to wait until the United States FDA comes out with their
EUA. This would give the AZ product the validity that he is hoping for. I also mentioned that the
confusion associated with the mixed up dosing situation associated with the Oxford group added
a degree of skepticism about the entire AZ product. Best thing to do is to wait to see but the FDA
says about the product.
We seem to be stuck at around 60,000 per day:
PRESS: ABC - Good Morning America with George Stephanopoulos; MSNBC – Morning
Joe with Joe Scarborough; National Press Club Interviews; Fox Local TV Stations
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April 7, 2021 – Global -132,000,000/2,900,000;  USA – 30,700,000/555,200
Terrific experience tonight – On my walk tonight with Christine through American University
campus, on the way back we were met by throngs of American University students who illegally
sitting on the grass enjoying themselves. In groups of three to five people they kept coming up to
me wanting to get photographs and selfies. It was truly amazing as it went on for group after
group after group. I must have posed for photographs with over 50 young kids from American
University. Then, on the way down past  Al Dente restaurant where we stopped to pick up a
pizza, customers outdoors and inside the restaurant kept coming up to me asking to be
photographed with me. My pizza took a long time to be ready and so I must have spent 15
minutes at the door of the restaurant allowing people mostly young kids but some adults to have
selfies with me. The entire situation was culminated when I walked out of the restaurant with
Andre Jacobs, my security man, and the entire population of people who are eating outdoors at
Al Dente and Chef Geoff’s burst into a prolonged round of applause. It was really quite
charming. Andre had gotten nervous throughout the entire situation since some people just ran
up to me with their camera in their hand to get a selfie. Andre does not like people just running
up to me an almost body slammed a man who meant well but who didn't realize that he had
charged up to me. A memorable experience!
PRESS:  CBS “This Morning” with Gayle King; White House Press Conference (I
discussed durability of vaccine-induced response; CNN with Anderson Cooper 360;
April 8, 2021 – Global -132,700,000/2,900,000;  USA – 30,700,000/556,100
Spoke with Olive Shisana and Morena Makhoana (Biovac) about setting up capability to
manufacturing mRNA vaccines in South Africa.   Olive claims to be the special advisor to
President Cyril Ramaphosa of RSA.   They want me to help to get Moderna to assist RSA in the
form of Makhoana’s company Biovac to make mRNA vaccines for RSA.
I taped my NAS remarks receiving their Public Welfare Medal.   I spoke of my relationship with
7 Presidents including the difficult relationship with Trump.
Met virtually for our regular weekly meeting with the POTUS and VPOTUS.  Interesting
situation.   Marcella has been quite ill with inflammation of her brain stem (acute). She was quite
incapacitated but is now improving rapidly on corticosteroids. She actually took the zoom call
from her rehabilitation institution. We were joking that the loudspeaker might soon say that
visiting hours are over and the president and vice president would hear it over the zoom. In
addition Vivek was zooming from Miami and in the middle of the discussion a Peacock outside
his window started making noise. What a scene.
Daily cases still going up – 74.5 million yesterday:
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PRESS: RAI Italian TV; France 24 TV Interview
New York Times (— Isabel Kershner) : Israel marks Holocaust Remembrance Day with
a virtual march and remarks by Dr. Fauci.
Held virtually for a second year because of coronavirus restrictions, the event featured recorded
remarks by two prominent figures in the battle against the coronavirus: Dr. Albert Bourla, a son
of Holocaust survivors who is the chief executive of Pfizer, the pharmaceutical company that,
together with BioNTech, produced a leading coronavirus vaccine; and Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, the
leading infectious disease expert in the United States.
April 9, 2021 – Global – 133,600,000/2,900,000;  USA – 30,800,000/557,100
•Bad day – Chris brought her right arm  (distal radius0 playing basketball with me for
filming for Nat/Geo.   Happened on the last 10 seconds of playing
PRESS:   Stephen Colbert had a skit about me and “the 4th Wave” -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xb0fB13xYYg
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April 10, 2021 – Global – 143,300,000/2,900,000;  USA – 30,900,000/558,000
•Spoke again with Ari Emanuel and his team of Don Walker (lawyer, represents Obama
and Clinton) and Jay Mandell (Mostly involved with books).   They just wanted to check
in to see if IU needed anything.   I mentioned the situation with Robert F. Kennedy, Jr
who is writing a book about me entitled “The Real Dr. Anthony Fauci”, which
undoubtably will be a very scandalous book. Don Walker was adamant that we should do
nothing about this since Bobby Kennedy has absolutely no credibility over the past
several years. because of how crazy he has been acting Over the past several years. His
strong recommendation is to just let it go. Don emphasized again how much money that I
would be making with my lectures. I re emphasize to him that although I like the idea
about making money, my most important goal is to do good , and that I would prefer to
do several speeches pro bono depending upon who asks me.
•Joan Baez will receive the Kennedy Center Award and there is a reception at the State
Department on May 19th.   She has invited me as her guest.   What fun!   Just spoke with
her over the phone to check if there will be mask wearing since the press will have a field
day if they saw me with Joan and we did not have masks.
•We vaccinated 4.6 million people today
Daile cases continue to rise – 81,400:
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April 11, 2021 – Global – 135,000,000/2,900,000; USA – 31,000,000/558,800
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Sunday -quiet day.   Catching up on writing Commencement address.
Heard during my interview with MSNBC (see below) that Trump , while on FOX with Laura
Ingraham said I was “full of crap” and that he never listened to me.   Hasan came back on
MSNBC and said that is why hundreds of thousands of people died, because he did not listen to
me.  Appasrently, Trump also made this comment during a fundraiser at Mar-a-Largo where he
sharply attacked 2 people: me and Mitch McConnell.
PRESS:  MSNBC with Mehdi Hasan;
April 12, 2021 – Global    USA
The Daily Mail in their reporting of the removal of Father Lahart from his position of President
of Regis High School made sure to mention that I was an alumnus of the school (of course) (see
below under Press.
•Had a good Zoom meeting with Hon. Luigi Di Maio, Minister of Foreign Affairs and
International Cooperation of Italy.   He is in the USA to celebrate the 160th anniversary of
Italian relations with USA.   Good conversation.  He wanted advice of the COVID-19
situation in Italy and Europe.   Interesting how these foreign leaders want my opinion on
these issues that have policy as well as public health implications.
•Got call at 10:00 PM from Rochelle Walensky that the CDC and FDA had called a
pause of the J & J vaccine due to 6 cases (all women – ages 18 to 48) of Cerebral
Venous Sinus Thrombosis (CVST).   I died, 3 hospitalized (2 in ICU), 2 discharged.
Events occurred from 6 to 13 days after vaccination.   CDC/FDA will do press
conference tomorrow at 10:00 AM.
PRESS:  Daily Mail: Jesuit priest, 59, is removed as president of Manhattan's prestigious
Regis High School - that Dr. Fauci attended - for 'non-consensual sexual misconduct with
adult subordinates'; BBC radio interview (2 part series) on 40th Anniversary of recognition
of AIDS pandemic; BBC - Radio “The Today Programme”; CNN “Situation Room” with
Wolf Blitzer.
I have been speaking about this all the time:
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April 13, 2021 – Global – 136,200,000/2,900,000;  USA – 31,100,000/559,700
Jeff Z. calls me at 5:46 AM telling me to clear my calendar since the WH wants me out
there with the press.   See below – I engaged in the Jen Psaki Conference in the White
House press room with Jeff Z.
Obviously, this is a big deal even though it is a very rare event 6 cases in 6,850,000.
I was on the Governors call with Rochelle and Jeff to explain the situation to the Governors.
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PRESS:  White House Press Conference with Jen Psaki and Jeff Z.; CBS Evening News
with Norah O’Donnell; NBC Evening News with Lester Holt; ABC Evening News with
Linsey Davis; MSNBC with Chris Hayes
April 14, 2021 – Global -137,000,000/3,000,000;  USA – 31,200,000/560,600
There is a very important issue going on regarding a dispute between the vaccine Research
Center an Moderna regarding the inventorship of the patent associated with the confirmation of
the spike protein. For some strange reason Moderna wants to give us Co ownership of the patent
but not inventorship of the patent. The VRC insists with good reason that we are true inventors
of the patent. We had a conversation this morning among Francis Collins , myself , John
Mascola, and Mark Rohrbaugh concerning any leverage that we might have over Moderna to
pressure them in sharing the expertise of their technology with developing countries particularly
in southern Africa. They have made a public statement that they will not interfere with any
countries that want to use their technology. However, given the complexity of the technologies it
is important that they pitch in and help the companies transfer the technology. Peter Staley and
his activist friends are understandably pushing us to exert pressure on Moderna to transfer their
technology  to the developing world. The reason why the patent issue becomes relevant here is
that the more control we have over what Moderna does the better we will be able to pressure
them into the above. We decided that the best approach would be for Francis Collins and I to
have a telephone call with the CEO of Moderna , Stephane Bancel and the POresident of
Moderna, Stephen Hoge.
Had call with Chairwoman Rosa DeLauro of the House Appropriations Committee.   She
wants to know what I think she should do with the $6.5 billion that they want to give to ARPA-H
that would go to NIH.   There is a fear among NIH grantees that the regular increases  that NIH
usually receives on a yearly basis will be diminished be 'cause the Congress is now giving the
NIH $6.5 billion for “special projects”. They were thinking of giving the NIH $2.5 billion for the
regular appropriation plus $6.5 billion for the special projects for a total of $9 billion, which is a
lot. I suggested to Rosa that she called some of the money off the $6.5 billion and add it to the
regular appropriation for the NIH. She seemed OK with this.
I had recently received a letter from senator Lindsey Graham essentially demanding that as the
chief medical advisor to president Biden, I go down to the border and look at the difficult health
conditions there regarding the SARS coronavirus. Subsequent to that I received a letter from
about 8 or 9 congressmen asking me to do the same thing. In fact, in his letter to me senator
Graham said I was neglecting my responsibility as the adviser to the president if I did not go
down to the border and report back on the “terrible conditions” on the border. This is clearly a
set up trying to embarrass the president. Tomorrow I testify before the house Energy and
Commerce Select Committee on COVID-19. Two congressmen who signed the letter will be
there. I anticipate that they will ask me the same question about going to the border. Today I
asked Jeff Zients to ask Ron Klain and the president if it is OK for me to say that since I
am the chief medical advisor to the president I would be happy to go to the border if the
president ask me to. However, with all due respect I am not the adviser to the Congress but to
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the president. I will do what he asked me to do, and again with all due respect not what the
Congress asks me to do. Ron Klain and the president are OK with this approach.
•Got call from Jeff that the Oxford group were coming out with a paper tomorrow saying
that in a large data base they found that mRNA vaccinbes had even more thrombosis
than AZ.   Obviously, bullshit.   They did not look for thrombocytopenia and so the
observation is invalid.   Also, not surprising fr the Oxford group sine their vaccine is in
trouble and I would not be surprised if they were trying to disparage the other vaccines.
PRESS:  MSNBC – “Morning Joe” with Willie Geist; CNN “New Day” with John Berman;
NBC “Today” with Savannah Guthrie;  White House Press Conference (regular 3x/week).
Did 4 separate Local TV hits with Cameron Webb in Mississippi Stations
April 15, 2021 – Global – 137,900,000/3,000,000; USA – 31,200,000/561,400
Still hanging around 70,000/day:
Major clash with Rep. Jim Jordan during the House Energy and Commerce Select Committee
on COVID-19 chaired by Jim Clyburn and Steve Scalise as Ranking Member.   Jordan did his
usual aggressive asking me multiple questions without giving me a chance to answer.   He was
harping on my giving him a definite date when he can get his “liberty and freedom back” that I
was restricting him from.   I insisted that this was not a matter of liberty and freedom, but was a
public health issue.We had a heated discussion.   I finally told him that he was “ranting”.  In
addition, I told him that he was making this a personal issue. He denied that, but I insisted that he
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was indeed making it a personal issue. Finally, when his time was up he kept on talking and
representative Maxine Waters told him to shut up.
PRESS:  All over TV in my clash with Rep. Jordan at the E and C Hearing – CNN covered
it extensively and Jimmy Kimmel had it in his monologue;  Reuters TV interview with Julie
Steenhuysen;   Had conversation with member of NY Times editorial board member
Jeneen Interlandi about 1 dose versus 2 doses.   She seemed to side with me.
April 16, 2021 – Global – 138,700,000; USA -
•Andy Slavitt remarked how proud of me he was as he watched me respond to Jim
Jordan.
•Fox News is attacking me abut my interchange with Jordan, BUT MSNBC is attacking
FOX for attacking me.   Example:
•Scarborough slams Jordan for spreading
'lies' about Fauci: 'It's sheer idiocy'
•By Cameron Jenkins - 04/16/21 11:38 AM EDT 410
•In the Instagram with Tyra Banks (see below) she was wonderful.   People who wrote
comments were 95% positive, but some were really mean and vicious statements about
me and Tyra.   One person said that Tyra was sexy, but I was even more sexy than she
was.   She read it and put a big smile on her face and said that she agreed with that but
then beautifully and gently shot this down by saying:   “Dr. Fauci, that is true and my
mother is in love with you” .   Zing 😊
PRESS: Veja Magazine (Brazil) – reporter – Julia Teixeira Braun; Facebook – “Now This”
with Zinhie Essamuah; Instagram with Tyra Banks (she was absolutely fabulous); MSNBC
“Reid Out” with Joy Reid;
April 17, 2021 – Global – 139,500,000/3,000,000; USA – 31,400,000/563,200
Cases continue to creep up in certain states (>35).
Had nice dinner over Ellen Sigal’s home with Diana DeGette, Chair of the House Energy and
Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations.
Dana Bash sent me a text:   “I just watched the whole Jordan thing.   Again, you’re a better man
than I….    As our friend Wolf Blitzer said to me yesterday – no one would have blamed you if
you said simply “Mr. Jordan, go f--- yourself”
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PRESS:   Had another of several interviews at home with Mark Manucci for the PBS
Masters Documentary
April 18, 2021 – Global – 140,300,000/3,000,000; USA – 31,400,000/564,000
•David Axelrod sent me a text saying that his wife Susan says that I look 10 years younger
since the change of administrations.
•I received a text from Dana Bash pointing out that Vanity Fair recently had a headline
that said: Jim Jordan trips over his own asshole trying to debate Anthony Fauci.
PRESS: ABC This Week with Martha Raddatz; NBC  Meet the Press with Chuck Todd;
CBS Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan; CNN State of the Union with Dana Bash;
MSNBC The Sunday Show with Jonathan Capehart;
April 19, 2021 – Global – 141,100,000/3,000,000; USA – 31,500,000;564,300
Today is the day (April 19) when the POTUS said that everyone 16 years of age and older is now
eligible to receive a vaccine.   No more restrictions to priority groups
•Kate Berner sent me a note saying that I was “outstanding” at the White House pressor.
•I get a lot of FOIA requests regarding my financial statements as well as regarding text
messages , written correspondence, and phone calls . These are clearly directed at trying
to catch me at something usually from conspiracy theorists but also from Republican
operatives. The most recent FOIA requests have been for any text messages between me
and Susan Rice, Ron Klain, Anita Dunn, and Kate Bendingfield. The most recent one has
come from the Republican National Committee in the person of Nicholas Erickson.
Clearly, I have become a prime target of the Trump Republicans
•Had great conversation with Amb. Katherine Tai who is the US Trade
Representative. The ambassador was extremely excited about partnering with me in
trying to get a waver of the patent restrictions for the production of vaccines by the
developing nations. She is also very well aware that the important issue is to transfer the
technology and the expertise even after the wave it has occurred. I had mentioned to her
that I would soon meet with the CEO of moderna to try to get him to cooperate and
transferring this technology. We left it that we shall get back together after she does some
work on this problem.  In the arena of small world things, the ambassador mentioned to
me that her mother was a scientist here at NIH and that she is a child was put Into the
NIH daycare center. I believe that I will get along very well with her.
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PRESS: NPR -Morning Edition with Rachel Martin; CBS “This Morning” TV with Tony
Dokoupil; Rickey Smiley Radio; Enrique Santos Show (TV); The Morning Hustle Show”
(Radio) with Headrack; White House Press Briefing; did loal TV hits in Indianapolis,
Jacksonville, FL, and Birmingham, AL; Australian ABC News Radio
April 20, 2021 – Global   USA
Maybe coming down a bit:
•I was on the governor’s call today.   One of the questions that came up today was why we
still have a mask mandate for outdoors.   I agree that this is a problem.   Rochelle
answered that CDC is re-examining this issue.   I feel that we should obviously say that if
a person is out alone outside, they do not need to wear a mask.
•Important issue brought to my attention regarding potential far right wing coming
after me.
It appears that a few of the far right grantees of NIAID are joining with the radical right
wing people in the public as well as people in the Congress such as congressman Jim
Jordan and Senator Rand Paul to try and connect me with the virus from WUHAN. In
fact, David Morens has heard that these people are trying to “bring me down” .. They are
saying that I deliberately worked with the Chinese together with Peter Daszak to create a
virus that would be released to the world. This sounds very much like a way-out
conspiracy theory, which it is. However, there are enough crazy people around to make
this a problem. I am going to arrange for a phone call with David in order to determine
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more details as to what is going on. It is my suspicion that some of these so-called NIAID
grantees are Imperiale and Rich Ebright.  They have been complaining about gain of
function research for years. They have even publicly made the claim that when they
speak against anything that I want I will prevent them from getting their grants.
Everybody knows that this is absolutely preposterous, but they in fact are preposterous.
Let us see if in fact these are the villains.
PRESS:   BBC Radio – 2nd installation of a story that BBC is doing on the history of
HIV/AIDS;  Columbia TV -NTN 24;  Instagram with Aidan Galassetti
April 21, 2021 – Global   USA
Cases back up again a bit – 57,000:
Had an important call without colleagues in South Africa another southern African
countries to discuss the possibility of conducting a clinical trial with the moderna m RNA
vaccine.  The issue is that they are in desperate need of a vaccine since the AZ vaccine does not
work against the variant B.1.351. In addition, the J&J vaccine that appears to do well against the
South African variant will not be ready for at least several months and there is a window of
opportunity to do a clinical trial with a delayed placebo crossover on 14,000 people. The issue is
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that the South Africans particularly Glenda Gray and Linda GAIL Becker need to show that the
mRNA vaccine is effective in South Africa particularly among persons living with HIV. David
Kessler who will be key in getting the product to South Africa was on the zoom. I feel that this is
definitely worthwhile doing since if we can prove that the mRNA vaccine works in South Africa,
then Glenda feels that they can convince the African countries to make a major investment in
buying the mRNA vaccine. On the phone call were the following :  Glenda Gray, Linda-Gail
Bekker, Philip Kotze, Mike Chirenje, Tulio de Oliveira, Larry Corey, David Kessler, Emilio
Emini, Cliff Lane, John Mascola, Carl Dieffenbach, Emily Erbelding, among others.
Beautiful situation of my impact on an autistic child.   See attachment:
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corr.pdf
•I presented nomination of Barney Graham to NAS Section 44.  Bob Gallo made a random and
completely unnecessary potentially negative comment about Barney while presenting another
candidate (Ray Schinazi)
Hello, my name is Nicholas Wilson and I am a senior at Arizona State University studying
history, Political science, and education.
This year has been tough, but I got the vaccine. I wanted to thank Dr Fauci for all his hard work
and to commemorate this modern marvel I got a tattoo. I hope you enjoy.
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PRESS: Hispanic TV hits: Despierta America; Actualidad Radio – Juan Gomez and
Roberto Rodriguez (South Florida); CNN Newsroom with Victor Blackwell; NBC TV –
Dallas with Julie Fine;
April 22, 2021-  Global    USA
Note the difference in mask mandates between the red and blue states:
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•I participated in an iPC meeting today chaired by Beth Cameron of the National
Security Council. The purpose of the meeting was to figure out how we could ask for
$30 billion for pandemic preparedness and put it into the American Jobs Plan bill. The
NIH had put in a proposal through HHS of close to $30 billion for our needs alone. There
appears to have been some confusion as to the fact that HHS did not send down our
request to the NSC in time for inclusion in the NSC document that was being discussed at
the meeting. This led to a lot of running around on my part and on the part of Francis
Collins and Larry Tabak to figure out how we can get our request properly represented in
the discussion. It seemed to have worked out OK as I together with Eric Lander made a
presentation to the IPC that indicated the broad scope of our needs without necessarily
mentioning the budget. It was one of those times where you walk in the morning and find
out that you have to do something that nobody told you about until one hour before you
had to do it. I refer to my need to make a presentation on behalf of the NIH to the IPC.
•
•Did a Fireside chat with the American College of Physicians. The chat was chaired by
Dorilyn Moyer.   In addition, I was presented with the 2021 Boyle award from the
American College of Physicians. To illustrate how flooded I am with things , I had no
idea I was being awarded the Joseph F. Boyle award and I had to make comments
accepting the award. I had to quickly scramble to get Kim to go on the Internet and find
out just what the Joseph F. Boyle award is. As it turns out it is an award bestowed upon a
current or former government official who has provided outstanding public service to
improving the delivery of health care. Again, I am running

Summary:
Sen. Rand Paul's 24 July 2026 release of Anthony Fauci's personal diary entries (December 2019 - December 2022), obtained through the HSGAC oversight process and presented alongside his contemporaneous public statements. Released ahead of Fauci's subpoenaed testimony before HSGAC on 29 July 2026.

Excerpt: Bradby; Washington Post article: Coronavirus Living Health Fauci’s Christmas Eve: Turning 80  and fighting the pandemic Released by Chairman Rand Paul 285Anthony S. Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and head  of the U.S. pandemic response, on Dec. 12. (André Chung for The Washington Post) By  Joel Achenbach Dec. 23, 2020 at 8:00 a.m. EST December 24, 2020 – Global – 77,500,000/1,700,000;    USA – 18,400,000/325,000 I am 80 years old!   Amazing number of Birthday wishes coming in.  Truly moving…. Birthday video from the OR Nursing/DPM staff in the NIH Clinical Center: Dr. Fauci.pptx Beautiful and loving tribute to me from my children on a video: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wgTkwmAlUhlnLKzIhWPlIR4E4WPpUMh6/view?usp=drivesdk Joan Baez texted…