Tony's Diary — Fauci's Private Diary vs. Public Statements (Sen. Rand Paul / HSGAC release) (Part 9 of 10)

society. I have a phone call with Ashish
this afternoon and I will recommend that we not give him additional days of drug but that
we have him stay masked inside for 5 days or until he tests negative by antigen test. They
are concerned about rebound; however, I have told them that if he tests every morning for
five to 10  days after his Paxlovid course ends and he does not show any positivity, he can
go out that day and proceed with business. That would be much more acceptable to the
general public then to give him an extra few days of drug which would not actually
guarantee that he does not rebound.
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PRESS:   The Hill “Rising”; CBC Radio with Robin Bresnahan;
July 26, 2022
Continuing my twice per day discussion with Kevin O'Connor regarding the president's
condition.  The POTUS Is doing very well and improving substantially each day. Today is
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one day following the termination of his  Paxlovid therapy and his CT level is 35 which
means that he has very little replication competent virus in his nasopharynx. He feels very
well and we had a long discussion this evening with Kevin, Ashish Jha, and Ron Klain as to
what the presidents activities could be looking forward. He tested negative today by antigen
test and has a very nice CT level as mentioned above. The White House staff is concerned
about possible rebound and I made a suggestion that he stay masked and in isolation until
he gets two negative antigen tests in a row. After that he can go out and do duties on the
outside provided that he does not travel and that he wears a mask. I would test him
intimately a few times a week to see if he rebounds. It became clear to me that Ron Klain
and the president rely heavily upon my advice but what to do with the president's
condition. I have developed a very good relationship with Kevin O'Connor and he calls me
twice a day.
We had some serious discussions with secretary Becerra about having a consistent message
about the distribution of the monkey pox vaccine . See above about the concern of having
vaccine in places that are not being utilized well there are lines in other jurisdictions. I
supported the CDC recommendation of distributing the vaccine with 75% to risk areas and
25% to actual cases so long as individual jurisdictions utilize the vaccine. The CDC will
send out the vaccine in tranches that will not be followed up with more vaccine until the
jurisdiction actually utilizes the vaccine so that we don't have unused doses in one area and
demands more than supply in another area.
We also discussed whether or not we should declare monkeypox a public health emergency.
I argued strongly that we do that in order to send a signal to the MSM community that we are
very serious about the situation that they find themselves under.
We had the vaccine summit today in the Indian treaty room of the executive office building.
I gave a talk on the NIH research agenda. Also I did an enormous amount of press today which
overlapped with a number of meetings with the White House as well as with secretary becerra.
Big time stressed today and I feel it.
PRESS: CNN “New Day” with John Berman; MSNBC “Morning Joe”; NPR “All things
Considered”; News Nation Now TV; MSNBC “The Reid Out” with Jason Johnson
July 27, 2022
Paper in Nature today validates my disagreement with the CDC last year when Vivek and I
pushed back against their saying that you do not need to test after 5 days of isolation after
infection since most of the transmissions occur in the first few days of infection and after
day 10 you are OK (see prior notes):
How long is COVID infectious? What scientists
know so far
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Those with SARS-CoV-2 are often advised to isolate for only a few days. But evidence is mounting that
some people can continue to pass on the virus for much longer.
•David Adam
POTUS back to work.  The letter below is based on conversations I had last night with
Ron, Kevin, Anita Dunn, Mike Donilon, etc.:
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I was part of the opening panel of the introduction of the UN aids report very beginning of
the  IAS meeting in Montreal. The name of the report presented by Winnie Byanyima (Exec
Director of UNAIDS) is “In Danger”.   Also on the panel was John Nkengasong (PEPFAR),
Adeeba Kamarulzaman (President of IAS), Andriy Klepikov (Dir. Alliance for Public Health in
Ukraine, Keren Dunaway, International Community of Women Living with HIV, Anita
Vandenbald Canadian MP.
AP reporting on the above:
People are exhausted with epidemics and pandemics,” said Dr. Anthony Fauci, the U.S. government’s
leading AIDS expert. “We have to fight twice as hard to get HIV back on the radar screen where it
belongs.”
Yesterday it was a little bit of a distributing and embarrassing situation where Raj Panjabi
piggy-backed his own little mini session on monkey pox right after Vaccine summit at the White
House at the very last minute without letting dawn or Connell know until literally I have to now
will before he was asking her to speak. bottom line is it all is that although everyone agrees that
Raj is a really good guy and his heart is in the right place he is really over his head in his job at
the NSC in charge of pandemic preparedness. Dawn believes that the White House is well aware
of that and that is the reason why they are appointing any “Monkeypox Tsar”
Washington Post:
The Fauci ‘ouchie’ was a near miracle. We
need another.
By the Editorial Board
July 27, 2022 at 2:51 p.m. EDT
Variety:
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Dr. Fauci, Roberta Flack and Zora Neale
Hurston Documentaries on the Way, PBS Boss
Announces
Went to a terrific social function at the incredible home of Adrienne Arsht at 6 Chevy
Chase Circle.   It was a cabaret night where American Pops Orchestra founder/leader had a
contest played old songs and had the audience guess the singer.   I thought that I might win since
I got only 2 wrong, but Renee Fleming won with an even better score.   Had interesting
conversation with Brett Baier where he finally admitted that the 2 recent Science papers by
Worobey, Andersen, Rasmussen et al convince him that the lab leak theory is really not true.
PRESS:  New York Daily News interview with Tim Balk; NPR WBUR Boston with John
Ringer;
Dr. Anthony Fauci says government response
to monkeypox must address anti-gay stigmas
Muri Assunção, New York Daily News
July 28, 2022
Cases and hospitalizations continue to rise slowly with very little increase in deaths.
I recommend to Becerra to declare PHE.
Monkeypox:
Global.health: 20,671 confirmed MPX cases, 42 suspected in 84 non-endemic countries.
4600 in USA.   2 children infected in USA from mother who had sex with bisexual man
The Montreal Gazette concerning my comments (virtually at the UNAIDS report
unveiling):
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in the United
States and chief medical adviser to U.S. President Joe Biden, said the UNAIDS report is “a reminder that
the global plague” of HIV/AIDS “continues to rage,” even though much of our attention diverted to the
global pandemic of COVID and now, monkeypox.
“All of us in the global HIV community must work to reach vulnerable communities,” he said, and the
report is a reminder that “we can do better in this, the fifth decade of AIDS. The priority must be to
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implement better treatment modalities, while improving and optimizing the next generation of
interventions.”
The COVID pandemic and, now, monkeypox, mean “people are exhausted with epidemics and
pandemics. We have to fight twice as hard to get HIV back on the radar screen, where it belongs,” Fauci
said.
I was involved in a very difficult zoom cool this evening with Peter Marks. Rob Califf,
Vivek, David Kessler, Julia Tierney (FDA), Hillary Marston, among others about the
potential conflict that might occur tomorrow when Ashish has convinced the president to
come out and say that anyone who's not been boosted recently should get boosted.
However, we now know that both moderna and Pfizer will have the BA.5 bivalent boost
available the first week of September. This will create a major messaging problem since we are
telling people to get boosted with the vaccine that doesn't cover the current BA.5 variant when
the actual variant-specific boost will be available 5 weeks from now. Somehow or other Ashish
took the initiative to convince the president to say this without consulting with the FDA or the
CDC. If these mixed messages go out it will be a major cluster. I tried to bring this up to them
and suggested strongly that they have a zoom in the morning before any of these announcements
are made in order to get a common message otherwise it will look like one of the worst mixed
messages to come out in a long time. I'm starting to see right now the advantage of having Jeff as
the coordinator since he understands the interactions among the different agencies of government
whereas Ashish is smart, a very good communicator and is well meaning, but he is more about
looking like he's taking the lead on things than coordinating.
Later in the evening, I had dinner over jeff's and Mary’s house which was a great evening.
Guests at the dinner besides Chris and I were: Susan Rice, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin
and his wife Charlene, Deb Harmon, Wally Adeyemo.  The discussion was very stimulating
particularly Susan Rice telling us stories of her escapades during the Obama administration and
secretary Austin telling us about the tension in his multiple responsibilities. One of those
discussions of the night was the desire of Nancy Pelosi to go to Taiwan which everybody feels is
a very bad idea given the geopolitical situation. However for some reason she feels she needs to
go there and everyone seems to be against it.
July 29, 2022
See e-mail chain below regarding the confusion about mixed messages related to my note
yesterday:
From:  Fauci, Anthony (NIH/NIAID) [E] <afauci@niaid.nih.gov>
Sent: Friday, July 29, 2022 7:35 AM
To: Marks, Peter (FDA/CBER) < Peter.Marks@fda.hhs.gov >; Califf, Robert <RMC001@fda.hhs.gov>;
Tierney, Julia (FDA/OC) <Julia.Tierney@fda.hhs.gov >; Tabak, Lawrence (NIH/OD) [E]
<Lawrence.Tabak@nih.gov >; O'Connell, Dawn (OS/ASPR/IO) <Dawn.Oconnell@hhs.gov>; Levine, Rachel
(HHS/OASH) <Rachel.Levine@hhs.gov>; Murthy, Vivek (HHS/OASH) <Vivek.Murthy@hhs.gov >; Kessler,
David (HHS/IOS) <David.Kessler@hhs.gov >; Varrone, Michael (HHS/OGC) <Michael.Varrone@hhs.gov >;
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Roos, Jason (OS/ASPR/H-CORE) <Jason.Roos@hhs.gov>; Mahon, Barbara (CDC/DDID/NCIRD/OD)
<bdm3@cdc.gov>; Goldstein, Robert (CDC/OD) <qyd2@cdc.gov>; Berger, Sherri (CDC/OD/OCS)
<sob8@cdc.gov>; Marston, Hilary (FDA/OC) < Hilary.Marston@fda.hhs.gov >
Subject: RE: Confidential – Next Steps on Expanding Eligibility for Additional Booster
Team:
    I know that we are all struggling with this and trying to get it right, but I really
have a problem with the 4/8/12 message. It is not that it is incorrect from a
medical and/or immunological standpoint. It is that it will it be very confusing. I
know that we are trying to save lives by getting people vaccinated and boosted;
however,  for the overwhelming most part, the people who are going to get
vaccinated (particularly the elderly) are already vaccinated and I am not sure how
much we are going to move the needle in getting the “unboosted” to get boosted
when we are simultaneously saying that in 5 weeks we will have a much better
and more specific vaccine.   That is an inherently confusing message that would
be counterproductive. Right now if we were three months away or even two
months away from a variant specific boost I could see making a big push to get
people boosted now. However, starting with Monday we will be five weeks away
from a variant specific boost. If we want to have one cogent prevailing message it
is that we have a very important boost that will be available in five weeks. The
message should be focused on that. Anything that confuses that will work against
us. Just my take….
Thanks,
Tony
Anthony S. Fauci, MD
Director
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Building 31, Room 7A-03
31 Center Drive, MSC 2520
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, MD 20892-2520
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From:  Marks, Peter <Peter.Marks@fda.hhs.gov >
Sent: Friday, July 29, 2022 6:58 AM
To: Califf, Robert <RMC001@fda.hhs.gov>; Tierney, Julia (FDA/OC) <Julia.Tierney@fda.hhs.gov >; Tabak,
Lawrence (NIH/OD) [E] <lawrence.tabak@nih.gov >; O'Connell, Dawn (OS/ASPR/IO)
<Dawn.Oconnell@hhs.gov>; Fauci, Anthony (NIH/NIAID) [E] <afauci@niaid.nih.gov>; Levine, Rachel
(HHS/OASH) <Rachel.Levine@hhs.gov>; Murthy, Vivek (HHS/OASH) <Vivek.Murthy@hhs.gov >; Kessler,
David (HHS/IOS) <David.Kessler@hhs.gov >; Varrone, Michael (HHS/OGC) <Michael.Varrone@hhs.gov >;
Roos, Jason (OS/ASPR/H-CORE) <Jason.Roos@hhs.gov>; Mahon, Barbara (CDC/DDID/NCIRD/OD)
<bdm3@cdc.gov>; Goldstein, Robert (CDC/OD) <qyd2@cdc.gov>; Berger, Sherri (CDC/OD/OCS)
<sob8@cdc.gov>; Marston, Hilary (FDA/OC) < Hilary.Marston@fda.hhs.gov >
Subject: RE: Confidential – Next Steps on Expanding Eligibility for Additional Booster
Dear Rob,
Thanks.
Perhaps the 4/8/12 messaging is going to be the best way to go then
At least 4 weeks if you are over fifty until next booster (I know the immunologist don’t love this, but
there are different antigens in the booster and mRNA vaccines are not the same as protein based
vaccines. This seems to balance the potential benefits and risks)
At least 8 weeks if your are under fifty
At least 12 weeks if you recently had COVID
If you are immunocompromised, you will need to wait at least 4 weeks, but follow your healthcare
providers recommendation
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Best Regards,
Peter
From:  Califf, Robert <RMC001@fda.hhs.gov>
Sent: Friday, July 29, 2022 6:26 AM
To: Tierney, Julia <Julia.Tierney@fda.hhs.gov >; Tabak, Lawrence A (NIH) <lawrence.tabak@nih.gov >;
O'Connell, Dawn (OS) < Dawn.Oconnell@hhs.gov>; Fauci, Anthony S (NIH) <afauci@niaid.nih.gov>;
Levine, Rachel (OS) <Rachel.Levine@hhs.gov>; Murthy, Vivek (OS) <Vivek.Murthy@hhs.gov >; Kessler,
David A (OS) <David.Kessler@hhs.gov >; Varrone, Michael (OS) < Michael.Varrone@hhs.gov >; Roos, Jason
(OS) <Jason.Roos@hhs.gov>; Mahon, Barbara (CDC) <bdm3@cdc.gov>; Goldstein, Robert H (CDC)
<qyd2@cdc.gov>; Berger, Sherri (CDC) <sob8@cdc.gov>; Marks, Peter <Peter.Marks@fda.hhs.gov>;
Marston, Hilary <Hilary.Marston@fda.hhs.gov >
Subject: Re: Confidential – Next Steps on Expanding Eligibility for Additional Booster
Had a good “Ashish session” late last night.  He is moving forward, but understands that the
faster than expected timetable for bivalent vaccine is a really good thing.  He agreed that its
critical that we reach agreement on the best set of words that capture the common ground
that we want people to get boosted (now 5 RWE studies showing the big effect of even the 4th
shot on reducing death and hospitalization), but with the bivalent imminent lower risk people
have the good option of waiting.  For those who get boosted now—they can still get the
bivalent in xx weeks.
From my view the only thing that will be bad for public health out of our options would be for
us to have different messages.  All other options are a net positive in terms of reducing death
and severe illness.
rmc
From: Julie Tierney <Julia.Tierney@fda.hhs.gov >
Date: Thursday, July 28, 2022 at 10:41 PM
To: Robert Califf <RMC001@fda.hhs.gov>, Lawrence Tabak <lawrence.tabak@nih.gov>,
"O'Connell, Dawn (OS)" <Dawn.Oconnell@hhs.gov>, Tony Fauci <afauci@niaid.nih.gov>, Rachel
Levine <Rachel.Levine@hhs.gov>, Vivek Murthy <Vivek.Murthy@hhs.gov>, David Kessler
<David.Kessler@hhs.gov >, "Varrone, Michael (OS)" <Michael.Varrone@hhs.gov >, "Roos, Jason
(OS)" <Jason.Roos@hhs.gov>, "Mahon, Barbara (CDC)" <bdm3@cdc.gov>, "Goldstein, Robert H
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(CDC)" <qyd2@cdc.gov>, "Berger, Sherri (CDC)" <sob8@cdc.gov>, Peter Marks
<Peter.Marks@fda.hhs.gov >, "Marston, Hilary" <Hilary.Marston@fda.hhs.gov >
Subject: Confidential – Next Steps on Expanding Eligibility for Additional Booster
As a follow up, we’re still working through the FDA statement and will circle back tomorrow morning
with next steps. Thanks for your patience.
Had a very interesting conversation with the HHS team regarding a memo at the secretary
will be sending to the president regarding the declaration of a public health emergency
(PHE). the secretary expressed some concern about whether we should do that or not but his
staff actually wrote a memo making it seem like he definitely wanted it I brought this out to them
when I read quickly the memo while we were on the Zoom and the secretary requested that I
can't fully look at the memo and make comments. I actually think we should definitely declare a
PHE and I modify it the conclusion of the memo to be unambiguous about this. It was really
strange that the secretary said he had reservations and his staff wrote a memo that strongly
recommended that we do it. In my memo back to them I told them that they have to make up
their mind one way or the other and have the memo strongly recommend what he actually wants.
I rewrote the conclusion assuming that he will take my recommendation to declare it
July 30, 2022 (Saturday)
Just got a call at 12 noon from Kevin O'Connor that the president has had a rebound with
a positive antigen test today. He is asymptomatic. This is the real problem since there are no
guidelines from the CDC which dictate what to do when you have someone who you are testing
virtually every day. The CDC health advisory on what to do following a rebound after Paxlovid
treatment does not mention testing at all. the duration of isolation is based purely on symptoms
and time from resolution of symptoms. Here again it goes back to my objection many months
ago of the guidelines the CDC put out about reentry into society following infection. I had
insisted back then that even though it might not be practical for everyone to get testing and often
people need to get back to work after five days, they still should have put some guidance in for
people who can get tested period now we are flying in the dark. Ron Klain is going to want him
out as soon as possible; however, given that he is known to now be antigen positive he has to
isolate for five days and then the question will arise of how often to test him and if he is positive
should he be let out even with a mask. Cliff Lane feels  strongly that he should be in isolation so
long as he is antigen positive and can go out once he has two negative tests in a row.
Got a call from Ashish making sure that we are on the same page.   Also, he asked me if we
should start a 2nd course of Paxlovid.   I told me not to unless the POTUS gets significant sxs
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Gay community getting very agitated about that they perceive as the government’s slow
response and resting the rapidly evolving multi pox outbreak:
Frustration builds in LGBTQ community over
government response to monkeypox
Jen Christensen, CNN
12-15 minutes
July 31, 2022
I gave the special session plenary lecture at the International AIDS Society (IAS) meeting
in Montreal via a virtual presentation. I have given a plenary lecture and virtually every one
of the IAS meetings since 1984.  I reflected on what has transpired since the last meeting in
Montreal which was in 1989. My presentation triggered a prolonged standing ovation from the
audience. The session was chaired and moderated by Laura Waters of the UK.
The president remains antigen positive for the second day in a row following his rebound.
His CT values are 16 to 18.  He has had no additional symptoms although he still has somewhat
of a lingering cough. The plan is to keep him isolated until he asked two negative antigen tests in
a row.
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I got a call from Rochelle who is stuck in Amsterdam following the cancellation of her
flight from Amsterdam to Washington. She is coming back from a trip to Uganda and Kenya.
She thanked me profusely for sticking up for the CDC's decision about allocation of vaccines for
monkey pox.
Got a call from Jen Ashton of ABC expressing concern about something that I have been
almost obsessing about today and most recently. That is the fact that the public may be taking
monkeypox too lightly assuming that it will stay confined to the population of men who have sex
with men. In addition, we are doing nothing proactively to encourage people to cancel such
events as  ”Southern Decadence” and Black gay pride galas. We are starting to see cases of
spillover into non men who have sex with men populations. Also, there is so much that we do not
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know about the Natural History of this disease and with the potential is to spread beyond MSM. I
will have to talk to people at HHS and the White House that we cannot under play this outbreak.
Call from Francis Collins, Acting Science Advisor to POTUS regarding NIH Director
Choice – Charles Sawyer at MSKCC. Francis wants me to talk to him about the possibility of his
being considered for the job of NIH director. It is essentially a recruiting call that Francis wants
me to have with Charles. Apparently the president is not satisfied with either of the two names
that was submitted to him: Mary Klotman (Duke) and Kimryn Rathmell (Vanderbilt).
August 1, 2022
I have been somewhat concerned about Monkeypox the very beginning, but I am getting
more and more concerned about it as time goes by. It clearly is spreading rapidly throughout
the world the community of MSM with an estimated doubling time of about seven days; my
concern is that we are all seeing some spray into the non-MSM communities such as the recent is
very much bothering me is the continued plans to have MSM and gay pride galas at the same
time that we are having acceleration of COVID as well as outbreaks of monkeypox (see above
my conversation with Jen Ashton)
I got my usual follow up call from Kevin O'Connor regarding the President's condition. He
is concerned that his viral load is going in the wrong direction, namely, his CT value went
from 18/16 to 16/14.   He called me together with Walter Reed ID physician Wes Campbell to
see if I agreed with them that they should not restart Paxlovid since the president does not have
any new symptoms and his oxygen saturation is 98%.  His chest is clear despite the fact that he
has his typical nagging cough that antedated his illness. I agreed with them that they should not
start a second course of Paxlovid.
The administration will announce tomorrow that they are appointing a monkey pox
Coordinator (Bob Fenton) and a Deputy Coordinator (Demetre Daskalakis). Clearly the
response or at least the perception of the response of the government to monkeypox has not been
good. They are hoping to reinvigorate the response by this appointment. Tonight, Kevin Munoz
(WH Comms) called me and he asked me if it was OK to put a quote in the press release
supporting this decision. The White House feels that because of my street credibility with the gay
community that this would make the choice more acceptable. I agreed and provided a brief
quote.
Overwhelming evidence of benefit of vaccines and boosts:
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*****Important debate going on that relates back to the conflict that I had with the CDC I
was concerned that they did not call for antigen testing following infection before someone
is able to go back out into society.    The president got infected, went on Paxlovid, and then
rebounded. And so the question is when can he go back into society. Since he is the president
and we test them every day he is staying isolated until his antigen test reverts to negative. At the
same time, a number of papers including in the NEJM have shown that the median time of
reversion to negative antigen test is actually five days and many people stay positive until day
8,9,10 and beyond.  The CDC recommendations say that after five days since no requirement is
made for testing (which I was very much against this decision and caused a ruckus by
disagreeing with the CDC many months ago), A person can go out into society after five days
with the mask so long as they have no symptoms. And after 10 days, if they still have no
symptoms they can take their mask off. This obviously Will lead to people going out into society
who are still antigen positive and are likely spreading the virus. That was my original concern
when I disagreed with the CDC.
BA.5 now 86% of isolates in USA:
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A lot of activity working with Rob at the FDA and Ashish and CDC to get the right
messaging about recommendations for the booster in the fall.  The FDA would like to say
that the bivalent BA.5 boost is significantly better then the mono valent ancestral strain
boost.   There is a lot of pushback from the immunology community led by John Moore saying
that the bivalent BA.5 boost is only marginally better then the monovalent ancestral strain. The
data is somewhat confusing as explained below in an e-mail from Rick Koup to me. The debate
is whether to ask people who are otherwise that low to moderate risk to get vaccinated now with
the ancestral strain will wait until September when a supposedly much better boost is available.
Most of us have no problem with low risk people waiting, however, I and others are concerned
about overselling that the bivalent boost is much better then the ancestral boost, which is not the
case I will list a couple of emails below that outline the dilemma:
From:  Fauci, Anthony (NIH/NIAID) [E] <afauci@niaid.nih.gov>
Sent: Monday, August 1, 2022 6:53 PM
To: Califf, Robert <RMC001@fda.hhs.gov>
Cc: Murthy, Vivek (HHS/OASH) <Vivek.Murthy@hhs.gov >; Kessler, David (HHS/IOS)
<David.Kessler@hhs.gov >; O'Connell, Dawn (OS/ASPR/IO) <Dawn.Oconnell@hhs.gov>;
Ashish.K.Jha@who.eop.gov  <ashish.k.jha@who.eop.gov>; Salcido, Dori A. EOP/WHO
<Dori.Salcido@who.eop.gov>; Barclay, Lisa L. EOP/WHO <Lisa.L.Barclay@who.eop.gov >
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Rob:
    The point that I was making during the zoom call was that we should get the
data which I believe is available that looks specifically at the titer of neutralizing
antibody against BA.5 induced by the bivalent BA.5 boost versus the title of the
neutralizing antibody against BA.5 induced by the monovalent ancestral boost.
The reason I say we need that data at hand is because if we are going to say that
the BA.5 bivalent boost is far superior to the ancestral boost and that is the
reason should wait for it until the Fall, we better make sure that we have data
that substantiates that.   This is important, since there are people out there saying
that the BA.5 variant boost is really not that much different from the monovalent
ancestral boost when you compare neutralizing antibody titers against BA.5.  If
the data show that the BA.5 bivalent boost is only marginally better than the
ancestral monovalent boost,  we should say that the bivalent is “somewhat”
better and not make it look like the bivalent is a major advance. Having said all of
that, I still believe that the scenario that we agreed upon as delineated in your not
to me is sound.   I just do not want us to oversell how good and different the
bivalent boost will be because this will trigger pushback from the immunology
community.
Best regards,
Tony
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From:  Koup, Richard (NIH/VRC) [E] <rkoup@mail.nih.gov>
Sent: Tuesday, August 2, 2022 9:08 AM
To: Fauci, Anthony (NIH/NIAID) [E] <afauci@niaid.nih.gov>
Cc: Lane, Cliff (NIH/NIAID) [E] <clane@niaid.nih.gov>
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Hi Tony,
Sorry about not getting back to you earlier.  I don’t know why I didn’t see this on my cell phone this
morning.
There is no question that the bivalent BA4/5 will probably do better against BA4/5 than the current
ancestral boost.  This is based upon circumstantial evidence, some of which is presented below.  (Mouse
immunogenicity, infection with omicron).  The actual human data do not exist yet.  The best we have is
from John Beigel in the mix and match study, which shows only a marginal increase in BA4/5 neut titers,
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and which Peter Marks decided not to present at the VRBPAC, probably because the data did not
support his desired outcome.
I think the problem is that the FDA wants to say that they have a better vaccine coming.  Instead, they
should be saying that if people need vaccination now they should get the vaccine now.  As with all
vaccines, they will be rolling out updated vaccines as they become available and when there are data to
support the change.  People in need of vaccines now should not delay in hopes of getting a “better”
vaccine.
John  Beigel can share his data with you.
Best,
Rick
Richard A. Koup, MD
Acting Director
Chief, Immunology Laboratory
Vaccine Research Center, NIAID, NIH
Tel: 301-594-8585
Fax: 301-480-2779
rkoup@mail.nih.gov

Had my twice daily follow up conversation with Kevin O'Connor regarding the condition
of the president.  The POTUS continues to remain with minimal an unchanged symptomatology
characterized by fatigue and his usual post nasal drip related cough. It is still rather concerning
that his CT levels are still very low and have not come back reflecting a very high viral load. We
maintain the decision discussed above about not treating a lab test and only reinstituting therapy
if he has an exacerbation of symptoms.  I emphasized that he must be followed closely for
return of significant sxs, which might trigger retreatment.
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August 3, 2022
Spoke with Kevin O’Connor.   POTUS stable, but still Ag positive.
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Monkeypox spreading globally:
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My comment in NY Times article by Sheryl Stolberg:
“Centering the response operation at the White House gives the
administration more flexibility to coordinate efforts across a range of
agencies that might be involved, including FEMA, the Health and
Human Services Department and the Department of Homeland
Security. It also creates a designated team that has no responsibilities
other than to combat monkeypox — a move that makes sense”, said
Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, Mr. Biden’s chief medical adviser.
NY Times keeps hammering HHS for slow response in getting vaccines out to the community
for monkeypox.   Article by By Sharon LaFraniere, Noah Weiland and Joseph Goldstein:
NYT: “U.S. Could Have Had Many More Doses of Monkeypox Vaccine This Year”
I met with Rino Rappuoli in my office today. They are planning to make him the chief
scientific officer of a pandemic preparedness program by the Italian government in Sienna.  Rino
wants me, either before or after I leave the NIH to help them in an official way to set-up their
program.
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I gave an interview with Nate Silver about a book that he's writing about risks in society.
Rand Paul together with Roger Marshal, Rick Scott, Josh Hawley, Ron Johnson is holding
a “hearing” on origins with the witnesses:  Richard Ebright (Lab Director Waksman Lab. Of
Microbiology, Rutgers), Kevin Esvelt, (Assistant Professor of Media Arts and Sciences MIT
Media Lab) and Steven Quay (CEO, Atossa Theapeutics) all totally non-credible.   Angel
Rasmussen is blasting them on twitter as hacks.   Once per year the minority are allowed to call a
hearing and so Paul et al are using this as a publicity stunt.   The majority has not even showed
up.   It is a total farse.   I got a follow-up from Chase Crawford from my legislative staff who
listened to the hearing and the result was expected in which Ebright came out strong saying that
we did do gain of function and that I lied Quay also said that. However Esvelt said that some
may call this gain of function whereas other scientists would say it's not since gain of function is
such an ill defined term. He came the closest to reality. The rest of them would just pounding
away that NIH funded gain of function and it likely caused the outbreak and that I lied saying
that we did not.
COVID:
August 4, 2022
The Wrap:
Fox News host Tucker Carlson continued to imply that infectious disease expert and
White House advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci somehow is responsible for creating the
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coronavirus pandemic during Wednesday night’s episode of “Tucker Carlson
Tonight.”
*****Critically important issue with CDC.  Usual problem The CDC surprised us all by
announcing that they are going to come out tomorrow with an updating of their guidelines
across several areas including how one addresses getting back in to the public after a bout
of COVID. The updated recommendations that they give are really inherently inconsistent.
A number of things about them are troublesome, but the one that really stands out is the
fact that they say that if you are infected you must isolate for five days and if you decide to
test and have tests available you cannot go out into society with positive tests until after day
10. If you test negative for two days in a row within the 10 day period, you can go out into
society but you still have to wear a mask until day 10.  Importantly and disturbingly, if you
test positive on day 10 since you have already reached the 10 day mark you can then still go
out into society without a mask!!!!  On the other hand,  if you decide not to test at all, on
day five you can go out into society with a mask and then on day 10 after day 10 you could
take the mask off without knowing whether you're positive or not.  This seems just so
inherently inconsistent that it's going to be very difficult to explain that to the public.
When Ashish heard that this was going to be announced tomorrow he demanded that
Rochelle brief us on it tonight. When she did it became clear that the above contradictions
existed (see above). Prior to that meeting,  Rochelle called me up during the day and tried
to explain what they were doing and it immediately didn't make any sense to me. I called
up Cliff and he agreed with me. They seem to think that a positive test on day 10 doesn't
necessarily mean that you're dangerous to go out into society because you should really be
not infective after day 10 when in fact if you have a documented positive antigen test on
day 10 all the data indicate that you definitely are transmissible since a positive antigen test
means that you have replication competent virus. And so, the recommendations for those
who cannot test because they don't have access to test are inherently contradictory to the
recommendations for those who can test. This is going to drive Ron Klain completely crazy.
In fact, Ashish called me up and said that Ron Klain is already so furious with Rochelle
(even before he has heard this) that he fears that her job is in serious danger.
Covid perhaps plateauing:
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POTUS continues to improve:
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William Patrick Connelly, Jr who threatened me and my family goes to jail.   This is the
guy yhat Brett Rowland tracked down.   See Washington Post article:
West Virginia man sentenced for threats
against Fauci, officials Thomas Patrick Connally, Jr.,
was sentenced to more than three years in federal prison
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COVID cases:
United States
•Total Cases: 91,676,264, 7-Day average: 117,351 (-7.3%)
•Total Deaths: 1,027,370, 7-Day average: 378 (-4.9%)
•Total new hospital admissions: 5,078,893, 7-Day average 6,112 (-4.4)
Worldwide [Source: WHO]  - most recent day
•Total Cases: 578,142,444 ( 972,954 new)
•Total Deaths: 6,405,080 (2,491 new)
PRESS:  MSNBC Black/Hispanic Journalists Fireside chat with Alicia Menendez;
August 5, 2022
Met with Hans Kluge – WHO Regional Director for Europe.   He is seeking my advice on
multiple issues such as COVID, MPX, and vaccine related polio.   He said the Europeans
rely very heavily on my opinion:
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Heard from Rochelle last night.   Latest decision is that they wil hold off on the above
announcement.  Had meeting with Bruce Tromberg, Rochelle, Robbie Goldstein and CDC
folks together with FDA folks (Rob Califf and team) and Steve Sha to try to get an
agreement about guidelines for testing for isolation/quarantine when to stop
isolation/masking, etc.   We are coming to an agreement that is not perfect, but that is
workable.   Had another Zoom with the same team + Dawn O’Connell to explain to her our
POTUS still positive on day 7 following rebound.
****Had a really major victory today resulting from a great collaboration between FDA,
CDC, BARDA, me and John Beigel who was responsible for the design of a trial that would
confirm that the study published in the journal Vaccine in 2015 by Frey et al and Bob
Belshe showed that 1/5 the dose of the MVA  monkey pox vaccine administered
intradermally was as effective as a full dose of the subcutaneous administration.  When we
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made this known to Bavarian Nordic (BN), lower level marketing people in the company
objected strenuously, very likely because they saw this as a diminution in the need for full
doses. Amazingly, they distorted the data and tried to marshal congressional support for
blocking the use of the doses in the 1/5 dilution intradermally. This was an egregious
attempt to interfere with the sound public health maneuver. To make a long story short
when John Beigel showed all the data from the 2015 paper come it became clear that this
was a very important way to expand the number of doses that were available. We finally
got the leadership of BN to agree to continue to ship us the doses since their lower level
people as indicated above were trying to block shipment in order to prevent us from
distributing the vaccine in the 1/5 dilution. After much discussion with the FDA, we finally
convinced them to issue an emergency use authorization (EUA) for the administration of
the MVA vaccine in the1/5 intraderma; dilution. This is a major victory for the prevention
of monkey pox because it turns 300,000 doses into 1.5 million doses and 1,000,000 doses
into 5,000,000 doses. I consider this one of the major victories that I was a part of in trying
to expedite the response to monkey pox.
PRESS:  WTOP Podcast with Luke Garrett & Megan Cloherty; CNN with Erica Hill;
MSNBC with Andrea Mitchell;
August 6, 2022
Continued drama now involving Larry Horowitz calling me up talking about how angry
Ron Klain is at Rochelle for wanting to come out with a statement that the vaccines do not
protect against infection at all. I have to look at the data but I think that although
protection against true infection is low to modest at best, it is not zero and so I cannot
figure out, and I am sure that this is what is bugging Ron, why the CDC needs to put that
statement out now exactly at the time when we are pushing people to get the new BA.5
variant in early to mid-September.
August 7, 2022 (Sunday)
Long conversations with the CDC team (Sherri Berger; Rochelle), Steve Sha, Vivek,
Kessler to get the wording correct on the condition to end isolation regarding testing and
masking.
August 8, 2022
For some time now the issue of  ”Long COVID”  has been gaining momentum with much
frustration in the community since recent studies showed that up to 20% of people develop
more COVID following infection. Senator Tom Kaine (D-VA) has been a strong advocate
for support since he is suffering for well over a year from long COVID characterized by
dysesthesias.  The NIH has been given $1.15 Billion to study long COVID. However, I have
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been very disappointed in the initiatives that have been brought forth under the leadership
of NHLBI with Gary Gibbons and Amy Patterson as well as Walter Koroshetz.   Rachel
Levine is now been given the leadership for this at HHS.  Recent description:
  Politico:
Tim Kaine has long Covid. That’s not moving Congress to act.
While Kaine and other Democrats in the House and Senate are pushing for action, they have
failed to gain meaningful momentum due to lack of GOP support.
We had important conversations with activists James Krellenstein, Gregg
Gonsalves, Peter Staley and Emily Bass regarding MPX vaccination.   Peter alerted
me today that James and other activists are concerned about misrepresenting the effective of the
1/5 approach to Jynneos (see above).   I put together a hastily arranged Zoom at 12:45 PM to get
us together and figure out what the problem is.  The problem is that the activists are concerned
that the data are not strong that 1/5 the dose of Jynneos intrasdermally (ID) will be protective.
their argument is a bit inconsistent since the antibody titers induced by Jynneos  ID are exactly
equivalent to a full dose delivered subcutaneously (SC). The activists do not seem to be
concerned about the efficacy of the SC dose, but they are concerned that we might be overselling
the efficacy of the 1/5 dose. This may be an example of their making the perfect being the enemy
of the good. It is much better to have some vaccine rather than no vaccine and so we needed to
settle what their concern was since the FDA will be issuing tomorrow an EUA for the 1/5 ID
dose.  I got the activists on the zoom with Cliff, John Beigel, and me and we hashed it out. Peter
Staley was agreeing with us and we finally got James and Gregg to come to the agreement that it
is best to go ahead with the 1/5 ID program at the same time as trying to get data with a clinical
trial that John will do as to the efficacy. That is better than having not enough doses and having
a 5 minute notice getting the activist community together with my team to try and straighten out
a potential disagreement.
We had another zoom discussion with the HHS team led by Sherri Berger (CDC) to
try to get the precise language for the CDC updating of their website discussion of
the efficacy of the vaccine in preventing infection and transmission (see above). I
believe that we got it right after a very good discussion among the group. The critical issue was
to indicate that the vaccine protection against infection and transmission is only modest and
diminishes with time. The concern was on the part of the White House that the CDC would say
that it was zero.   Now this is not really a consideration since the wording indicates in a positive
way (by my suggestion) that although the protection against infection and transmission wanes
overtime, that is a good reason why we encourage people to get the updated BA.5 bivalent boost.
I believe we avoided a confrontation between the CDC and the White House which would have
endangered Rochelle
PRESS:  Interview with Giuseppe Sarcina of Italian newspaper – Corrierre Della Sera;
August 9-11, 2022  Global – 585,086,861/6,422,914; USA – 92,426,945/1,030,777
Cases and hospitalization plateauing but deaths still at ~300-400/day
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Had a wonderful trip to Seattle where I received the honorary “Hutch” award from the
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research center and the Seattle Mariners baseball organization. I
did a fireside chat at the Medical Center with Larry Corey and then threw out the first pitch that
evening for the Mariners and New York Yankees baseball game. In contrast to the disastrous
pitch at the Washington Nationals game two years ago, this was a perfect pitch to the manager of
the Mariners, Scott Servais, who served as the catcher. Sat in the “owner’s box” at the stadium
and watched the game.   Had a great conversation with Eddie Vedder (lead vocalist and guitarist
for the rock band Pearl Jam.) and his wife Jill.   Eddie reminds me a lot  of Bono.
One of the things that was striking about the evening at the ball game was that when they
announced me as receiving the award with giant pictures of me on the photocam, I received a
prolonged standing ovation from 45,000 people in the stands. Yet, the far right as exemplified
by the newspaper The Washington Examiner put on YouTube the headline “Fauci booed at
Mariners game.  They put the microphone next to about five or six people out of 45,000 who
were booing and saying I should go to jail and they completely ignored the 45,000 people that
gave me a prolonged standing ovation. This is so exemplary of the distortion of reality by the
far right.
Monkeypox continues to surge:
August 12, 2022
Deaths seem to be up a bit at around 400/day!
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August 13, 2022
More drama with regard to the CDC and Rochelle Walenski. After much going back and
forth between the CDC and the other docs including me, Vivek, Steve Cha, and to some extent
David Kessler, we thought we had gotten them pulled back from making the statement that the
vaccines were not effective at all in preventing infection and transmission. The reason this is an
issue is that if they came out with that statement, which in fact is not entirely true since there is
some degree of modest but declining protection as you would expect, then this would conflict
with the statement and effort of recommending that people get the updated bivalent BA.5
vaccine in September.   In addition, it would undermine the DoJ’s efforts at mandates for
vaccines under certain circumstances.   In any event, the CDC agreed to pull back on the
statement of absolute lack of efficacy of vaccines against infections and transmission  and take a
more measured approach of saying that the vaccines provides only modest and waning efficacy
against infection and transmission and that is why we should heed the advice of getting the
updated booster in Sept.  However, although they did this on their website, the MMWR that cam
out yesterday had the same original damning language.   When Larry Horowitz and Ashish
noticed this, Larry went off the wall and in a somewhat agitated manner called me up this
AM and said that this is the last straw and he was sure that when Ron Klain gets back from
Spain this weekend he would fire Rochelle.   Ashish was more measured and seems to have
come to the conclusion that sooner or later (maybe not right now) Rochelle would have to go.
Let us see what happens…..probably nothing
August 14, 2022
Had a wonderful dinner last night at the extraordinary home of Adrienne Arsht at 9 Chevy
Chase Circle, Chevy Chase, MD.  Guests included Alexandra Villard de Borchgrave
(Chairman. Light of Healing Hope Foundation and former war correspondent), Jonathan
Capehart (MSNBC and Washington Post), Pamela Melroy (former astronaut and Deputy
Administrator, NASA), Sen Bill Nelson and Wife Grace (Administrator, NASA), Vivian Salama
(WSJ – war correspondent), Jonathan Goodrich (Attorney, Interior Department).
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35,000 cases of MPX globally:
August 15, 2022
Great disparity of COVID deaths comparing USA and other countries:
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PRESS:  The Shade Room (Online streaming); The Grio TV;
August 16, 2022
I had a very important and moving conversation with Ron Klain in his West Wing Office
today at 11:45 AM (bright, sunny, mild day).   I announced to Ron that I would be stepping
down from all of my positions including chief medical advisor to the President. I will make
the announcement next week and my date for stepping down will be sometime in December
of this year. One of the concerns that Jeff Zients and I had would be that Ron would want
to push back on my leaving giving all the trouble that he's having with the CDC. However,
he somewhat surprised me by saying that his instinct would be to push strongly to convince
me not to leave, given that he considers me “one of the most important public servants in
the history of the country” given that I have saved millions of lives over the last several
years. He would be almost embarrassed trying to convince me to change my mind about
something that I obviously have thought about for some time and that I thoroughly
deserve. He went on to say so many nice things that I was embarrassed. He said that he
considered it a major privilege in his life to have had the opportunity to work with me both
during the Obama administration with Ebola and now with COVID and monkey pox. He
said that he would arrange tomorrow for me to either see the president if the president
comes to the White House tomorrow; if he does not come to the White House then arrange
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a phone call between me and the president tomorrow. It was a most moving meeting the
extraordinary praise shown towards me and the sincere appreciation for all that I have
done for the country and the world during my long career. He sounded extremely sincere.
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NIH will write a Science Forum on NIH accomplishments in COVID.   Below is a
preliminary outline of what will be said.   I added a mention of the role of the COVID -
19Prevention Network (CoVPN) in the clinical trials of all the vaccines:
Key COVID-19 Milestones – NIH
High-level COVID-19 Accomplishments
2020
January 10:
The genetic sequence of the SARS-CoV-2 virus was released, which was used as the blueprint for
the rapid development of the mRNA COVID-19 vaccines.
Blurb: SARS-CoV-2 genetic sequence released
Image: Ask Palladian for timeline image
January 13:
NIH and Moderna finalized the design of a vaccine candidate and began working to produce it.
Blurb: NIH/Moderna finalized COVID vaccine candidate design
Image: https://www.flickr.com/photos/nihgov/50047466123/in/album-72157713108522106/
January 31:
The United States declared COVID-19 a public health emergency.
Blurb: U.S. declared COVID-19 a public health emergency
February 25:
NIH launched the Adaptive COVID-19 Treatment Trial (ACTT) series of studies with a
randomized, placebo-controlled clinical trial to evaluate the safety and efficacy of the antiviral
remdesivir in adults hospitalized with COVID-19 (ACTT-1).
Press release
Blurb: NIH launched trial of the antiviral remdesivir
Image: https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/remdesivir-covid19-liquid-medication-
background-1706609728
March 11:
The World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic.
Blurb: WHO declared COVID-19 a pandemic
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March 16:
The Phase 1 clinical trial started for the investigational vaccine, known as mRNA-1273, co-
developed by NIH and Moderna.
Press release
Blurb: NIH/Moderna COVID vaccine Phase 1 clinical trial started
Image: 3.16.20 Phase 1 Moderna
April 17:
NIH launched the Accelerating COVID-19 Therapeutic Interventions and Vaccines (ACTIV)
initiative, a public–private partnership focused on developing treatments and vaccines for
COVID-19. ACTIV streamlined the process for adding new agents into trials and rapidly deployed
existing NIH networks of more than 620 trial sites across the U.S. and internationally. The
initiative evaluated over 800 therapeutic agents and prioritized 33 for inclusion in ACTIV master
protocols. Six of these agents have shown compelling evidence of benefit in randomized clinical
trials.
Press release
Blurb: NIH launched ACTIV, a public-private partnership to develop treatments and vaccines
Image: 4.17.20 ACTIV
April 21:
After convening a panel of academic and government experts to critically review and synthesize
available data from clinical trials and other study reports, the first NIH COVID-19 Treatment
Guidelines were published to provide clinicians with guidance on how to care for patients with
COVID-19. T he panel has issued more than 50 updated editions since April 2020 and the
guidelines have been visited more than 30 million times.
Press release
Blurb: NIH published the COVID-19 Treatment Guidelines
April 29:
NIH launched the Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics (RADx) initiative to speed innovation leading
to reliable diagnostic testing.
Press release
Blurb: NIH launched RADx initiative to speed innovation in diagnostic testing
Image: 4.29.20 RADx
May 22:
Preliminary peer-reviewed data from the ACTT-1 trial indicated that the antiviral drug
remdesivir is safe and improved clinical outcomes for hospitalized adults with COVID-19.
Press release
Blurb: Antiviral drug remdesivir found safe and effective.
Image: https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/medication-prepared-people-affected-by-
covid19-1731814354
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May 24:
NIH created a public COVID-19 OpenData Portal  to openly and quickly share COVID-19-related
drug repurposing data and COVID-19 variant-specific effects against all approved drugs. It was a
key resource for the ACTIV Tracking Resistance And Coronavirus Evolution (TRACE) efforts.
Blurb: COVID-19 OpenData Portal shares data on drug repurposing and variant effects with
drugs.
Image: 5.20 COVID Data Portal variants
July 8:
NIH launched the COVID-19 Prevention Network (COVPN), a clinical trials network to test
COVID-19 vaccines and other prevention tools.
Press release
Blurb: NIH launched COVID-19 Prevention Network to test COVID vaccines and treatments.
July 27:
The Phase 3 clinical trial started for the investigational vaccine mRNA-1273, co-developed by
NIH and Moderna. The trial enrolled approximately 30,000 adult volunteers who did not have
COVID-19.
Press release
Blurb: NIH/Moderna COVID vaccine Phase 3 clinical trial began, enrolling ≈30,000 adult
volunteers.
Image: https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/covid19-vaccination-asian-male-patient-
getting-1831245058
August 4:
NIH launches the first ACTIV clinical trials to test the safety and efficacy of treatments both for
mild and moderate COVID-19 patients and for patients hospitalized with COVID-19.
ACTIV-2 press release, ACTIV-3 Press Release
Blurb: First ACTIV trials to evaluate the safety and efficacy of COVID therapeutics begin.
Image: 8.4.20 ACTIV trials
September 16:
Recognizing the need to ensure inclusive participation in vaccine trials, NIH launched
Community Engagement Alliance (CEAL) Against COVID-19 Disparities.  CEAL provided outreach
and engagement opportunities in racial and ethnic minority communities disproportionately
affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. (In 2021, NIH supplemented the effort with $29 million in
funding from the American Rescue Plan).
September press release
Blurb: NIH launched CEAL to ensure diversity in vaccine trials and reach out to
disproportionately affected communities.
Image: 9.16.20 CEAL
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September 30:
NIH expanded research to improve COVID-19 testing among underserved and vulnerable
populations as part of the RADx initiative, the RADx Underserved Populations (RADx-
UP) program.
Press release
Blurb: NIH expanded RADx initiative to improve COVID-19 testing in underserved populations.
Image: 9.30.20 RADx UP
October 2:
Quidel Sofia 2, the first point-of-care test to detect COVID-19 supported by NIH’s RADx initiative,
receives emergency use authorization (EUA) from the FDA.
Blurb: First RADX-supported COVID test received EUA.
Image: 2.2.20 Test Kit
December 11:
The ACTT-2 trial found that baricitinib, an anti-inflammatory drug, reduced time to recovery for
people hospitalized with COVID-19 who were treated with remdesivir.
Press release
Blurb: Trial results showed remdesivir in combination with anti-inflammatory drug baricitinib
reduced hospital recovery time
Image: https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/medication-prepared-people-affected-by-
covid19-1970653763
December 15:
The first over-the-counter COVID-19 test, developed with support from NIH’s RADx initiative,
received an FDA emergency use authorization.
Blurb: First RADx-supported over-the-counter COVID-19 test received EUA.
Image: 12.15.20 RADx OTC
December 18:
FDA authorized the NIH-Moderna vaccine for emergency use for people 18 years of age and
older. The NIH-Moderna vaccine went on to receive authorization for various age groups and is
now available for everyone over the age of 6 months.
Blurb: FDA grants EUA to NIH/Modera vaccine
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10-2021-1891094320
2021
January 5:
NIH’s RADx launched an interagency variant task force to evaluate the impact of new variants on
the performance of all authorized point of care and over the counter diagnostics, as well as tests
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in pre-authorization review. This ongoing partnership with FDA informs regulatory decisions,
RADx investments, manufacturer designs, and government procurements.
Blurb: Interagency variant task force launched to evaluate impact of variants on COVID tests
Image: 1.5.21 variant tests
January 20:
The ACTIV Tracking Resistance and Coronavirus Evolution (TRACE) initiative launched. It is
focused on identifying emerging variants of SARS-CoV-2. TRACE aims to prioritize which viral
variants should be studied to determine the effectiveness of vaccines and therapeutics,
coordinate data sharing, and report results regularly to allow confident decision making by the
U.S. Government, health professionals, and pharmaceutical organizations.
Blurb: The ACTIV Tracking Resistance and Coronavirus Evolution (TRACE) initiative began to
identify, evaluate, and report on emerging variants.
Image: https://www.flickr.com/photos/nihgov/52129878815/in/album-72157713108522106/
February 27:
FDA authorized the Janssen COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use. NIH supported the
development of the single-shot vaccine, which does not require special refrigeration.
Blurb: FDA grants EUA to Janssen COVID vaccine
Image: https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/izmir-turkey-january-17-2021-coronavirus-
1925271767
March 31:
In collaboration with the CDC, NIH launched an innovative community health initiative called
“Say Yes! COVID Test” for counties in North Carolina and Tennessee to determine if frequent
self-administered COVID-19 testing can help residents reduce community transmission. Say Yes!
COVID Test went on to distribute 6.8 million rapid tests that were developed with RADx support
in numerous targeted areas throughout the country.
Press release
Blurb: NIH launched community health initiative Say Yes! COVID Test to assess frequent self-
testing.
Image: 3.31.20 Say Yes COVID Test
April 15:
NIH announced the Safe Return to School Diagnostic Testing Initiative, which awarded up to $48
million over several months to fund projects to build evidence on safely returning students,
teachers, and support staff to in-person school in areas with vulnerable and underserved
populations. (Additional funds issued July press release).
April press release
Blurb: NIH launched Safe Return to School Diagnostic Testing Initiative
Image: https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/side-view-portrait-young-africanamerican-
man-1967011807
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August 4:
Part of the ACTIV initiative, an NIH-supported clinical trial showed that treating moderately ill
hospitalized COVID-19 patients with a full-dose blood thinner reduced their need for organ
support, such as mechanical ventilation, and improved their chances of leaving the hospital.
Press release
Blurb: ACTIV-4 clinical trial found that a full-dose blood thinner improved outcomes for
moderately ill hospitalized patients.
September 15:
NIH announced $470 million in funding for a nationwide study of tens of thousands of people to
support research on the long-term effects of COVID-19 called the NIH REsearching COVID to
Enhance Recovery (RECOVER) Initiative.
Press release
Blurb: NIH funded REsearching COVID to Enhance Recovery (RECOVER) Initiative to study
COVID’s long-term effects.
Image: Can we use this image from the timeline? NIH Strategic Response to COVID-19 | NIH
COVID-19 Research
October 9:
Brii Biosciences filed for an FDA emergency use authorization for the ACTIV-3 monoclonal
therapeutic antibody combination amubarvimab/romlusevimab that demonstrated clinical
effectiveness in preventing progression of disease for mild to moderate COVID-19 patients.
Blurb:  ACTIV-3 trial found monoclonal therapeutic antibody combination effective in preventing
disease progression in mild to moderate patients.
October 27:
NIH announced the Independent Test Assessment Program (ITAP), which established an
accelerated pathway to support FDA evaluation of tests with potential for large-scale
manufacturing. The program is an extension of the NIH RADx initiative. In less than two months,
the first two over-the-counter tests that went through the ITAP accelerated pathway received
EUAs, contributing millions of tests per month to the domestic supply.
Press Release
Blurb: NIH announced ITAP, an accelerated pathway to support FDA evaluation of COVID tests.
Image: https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/portland-usa-feb-5-2022-closeup-
2118748202
2022
January 26:
The NIH clinical trial on booster doses of different COVID-19 vaccines to determine the safety
and efficacy of mixed vaccine regimens found that all combinations of primary and booster
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vaccine resulted in increased neutralizing antibody levels. The data strongly suggest that mixed
COVID-19 vaccines could increase protective efficacy against symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection.
Press release
Blurb: NIH clinical trial data strongly suggest that mixed COVID-19 vaccines could increase
protective efficacy against symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection.
Image: FC getting his vaccine? https://www.flickr.com/photos/nihgov/50747919667/in/album-
72157717478402642/ OR https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/black-teen-girl-shows-
vaccine-mark-1899903244
June 2:
Topline results from the ACTIV-1 Immune Modulators clinical trial showed that immune
modulator drugs improved survival for people hospitalized with COVID-19.
Press release
Blurb: ACTIV-1 immune modulators trials meet secondary endpoint/improved survival
July 20:
The CDC recommended that Novavax’s COVID-19 vaccine be used as another primary series
option for adults in the United States ages 18 years and older. NIH supported development of
the Novavax vaccine, NVX-CoV2373, and is studying it in the “mix & match” trial, where adult
volunteers who have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19 receive booster doses of different
COVID-19 vaccines to determine the safety and immunogenicity of mixed boosted regimens.
Blurb: CDC recommended Novavax vaccine for adults
Image: https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/novavax-coronavirus-vaccine-doctors-
nurses-hands-1904970715
April 29:
Two years after its launch, RADx-supported companies increased cumulative U.S. capacity by
>2.5 billion tests, helping drive a national paradigm shift where over the counter (home) and
point of care tests become the dominant form of testing.
Blurb: After two years, RADx-supported companies increased U.S. capacity by >2.5 billion tests
Image: 4.29.22 RADx test capacity
Monkey pox cases in the UK starting to trend downward:
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August 17, 2022
E-mail from Ron Klain after I met with him and asked to speak with the POTUS:
From:  Klain, Ronald A. EOP/WHO <RK.COS@WHO.EOP.GOV>
Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2022 10:19 AM
To: Fauci, Anthony (NIH/NIAID) [E] <afauci@niaid.nih.gov>
Cc: Goepfert, Stephen M. EOP/WHO <Stephen.M.Goepfert@who.eop.gov>
Subject: [EXTERNAL] RE: Thank you
Tony,
Sad for me, sad for America, but no one has earned it more.
The President is anxious to speak with you today – he travelled to Delaware last night.  I am copying
Stephen Goepfert here, who is with the President in Wilmington, to arrange the timing for your call.
Ron
I just had a wonderful conversation with President Biden. He called me up (started the conversation
with “Hi, Joe here….”) and told me how much he admired me and how much of a pleasure it was to
work very closely with me over the past year and three quarters. He told me that he wanted to
guarantee that I would have as much protection as I need for as long as I need it. I told him how much
I enjoyed working with him and that I was actually thinking of leaving government at the end of the
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last administration. However, when he became president and offered me the job as his chief medical
advisor it was a job that I absolutely could not refuse. I also told him that working with him over the
last two years was the capstone of my career. He was quite moved by that and seemed to be very
pleased with hearing that.
PRESS:  Interview with Rolling Stone (Matt Sullivan) regarding story on Steph Curry
August 18, 2022  Global – 590,659,276/6,440163;   USA – 93,124,238/1,034,118
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CDC (Rochelle Walensky) comes out with a strong statement of “mea culpa” admitting
that the CDC is broken and has failed terribly in the response to the COVID pandemic.
LONG OVERDUE!
CDC Moving
Forward Fact Sheet.
NY Times (La Franiere and Weilland):
Walensky, Citing Botched Pandemic Response,
Calls for C.D.C. Reorganization
Among other flaws, public guidance during the coronavirus pandemic was “confusing and
overwhelming,” the agency said.
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RFK, jr continues his destructive ways:
Ars Technica: Anti-vaccine activists giddily celebrate as poliovirus spreads in NY
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I defend CDC and Rochelle regarding their admission of their botched response by
commending them for honesty and trying to reform.   I did this on MSNBC with Andrea
Mitchell.
PRESS: MSNBC with Andrea Mitchell; Podcast “In the Bubble” with Any Slavitt; CNN –
“The Situation Room” with Wolf Blitzer
August 19, 2022
Cases seem to be plateauing throughout the country with some exceptions. Perhaps we are
coming into a downswing as we enter the Fall
PRESS:  Interview with Marissa Evans of LA Times on racial disparities in MPX; WTOP
Radio;
August 20, 2022
Had my usual every three-week zoom meeting with Drs. Li and Hellmann. I explained to
them that as of Monday at 11:00 AM when I made the announcement of my stepping down
from the NIH, I will enter a new chapter in my career and in my life. There's obviously
stress and anxiety associated with this decision.  However, there's also excitement for the
new adventure and unknown.
Had a wonderful Zoom meeting with Nathan Chen at 12:30 PM.  He had been wanting to
meet me for some time now and we finally connected by zoom. He was so modest and nice
and kept expressing what an honor it was to meet me and speak with me. He is going into his
third year at Yale having taken off most of two years to practice for the Olympics where he gave
probably the most historically perfect performance to win the gold medal. He plans to go to
medical school after he graduates. I was struck by his maturity and modesty when I asked him
why he was interested in medicine. He said all his life he had been practicing to make himself
better and better and better, but it was all about himself. Now he wants to do something that has
a positive impact on society and on other individuals. The sign of a very mature young man.
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I had a very long (1 hour and 10 minue) exclusive interview with Yasmeen Abutaleb
(Washington Post) concerning my upcoming stepping down from Government service.
Embargoed until Monday at 11:00 AM
August 21, 2022
Interesting trivia (Sports Business Journal):
Dr. Anthony Fauci’s First
Pitch Sets Baseball Card
Record
By Tom TaylorJuly 28, 2020
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Topps has issued a trading card of Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, throwing out the first
pitch of the MLB season last week. The card was only available for 24 hours,
under the company’s Topps Now brand, but it set a new record with 51,512
sold.
August 22, 2022
TODAY IS THE DAY!  I announce that I will be stepping down from the NIH as well as
from my position as chief medical adviser to the president effective December, 2022.
There has been a literal avalanche of positive feedback about my announcement with
hundreds and hundreds of texts and emails of congratulation and praise for me. President
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has come out with a statement as have a number of other prominent individuals. See the
president statement below:
Statement from President Joe Biden
on the announcement of Dr.
Anthony Fauci’s Departure
from NIAID
AUGUST 22, 2022•STATEMENTS AND RELEASES
During my time as Vice President, I worked closely with Dr. Anthony Fauci on the United
States’ response to Zika and Ebola. I came to know him as a dedicated public servant, and a
steady hand with wisdom and insight honed over decades at the forefront of some of our most
dangerous and challenging public health crises. When it came time to build a team to lead our
COVID-19 response – in fact, in one of my first calls as President-elect – I immediately asked
Dr. Fauci to extend his service as my Chief Medical Advisor to deal with the COVID-19 crisis
our nation faced.  In that role, I’ve been able to call him at any hour of the day for his advice as
we’ve tackled this once-in-a-generation pandemic.  His commitment to the work is unwavering,
and he does it with an unparalleled spirit, energy, and scientific integrity.
Dr. Fauci has served under seven Republican and Democratic Presidents during his career,
beginning with Ronald Reagan.  He was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2008
under President George W. Bush.  For almost four decades, he has served as Director of the
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, helping our country navigate health crises
ranging from HIV/AIDS to COVID-19.  Because of Dr. Fauci’s many contributions to public
health, lives here in the United States and around the world have been saved.  As he leaves his
position in the U.S. Government, I know the American people and the entire world will continue
to benefit from Dr. Fauci’s expertise in whatever he does next. Whether you’ve met him
personally or not, he has touched all Americans’ lives with his work. I extend my deepest thanks
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for his public service. The United States of America is stronger, more resilient, and healthier
because of him.
Statement of Sec. Becerra:
Statement by HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra on
Upcoming Departure of Dr. Anthony S. Fauci
Today, Anthony S. Fauci, M.D. announced he is stepping down in December 2022 from the
positions of Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and Chief of
the NIAID Laboratory of Immunoregulation, as well as Chief Medical Advisor to the President.  U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra issued the following
statement:
“This is a decision we all knew would eventually come but hoped never would. As HHS Secretary, I
am privileged to know Dr. Fauci professionally and personally and deeply admire his decades of
public service that have undoubtedly improved the health of millions of people globally. When I
arrived at HHS, the world was one year into the COVID-19 pandemic. I quickly came to rely on Dr.
Fauci’s wisdom and counsel in our response, and along with his scientific acumen, I treasure his
ability to break down complex science in simple terms to the American people to save lives.
“His selfless passion to bring hope and healing to people fighting for their health knows no bounds.
In fact, Dr. Fauci’s pioneering approach to tackle public health decades ago included a critical role in
our nation’s domestic and international response to HIV/AIDS, ultimately helping create the
President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief.
“I will be sorry to see Dr. Fauci depart in December, but I wish him all the best in his future
endeavors and look forward to witnessing his next chapter.”
Larry Tabak statement:
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Statement from Lawrence A. Tabak,
D.D.S., Ph.D., on the departure of
Anthony S. Fauci, M.D.
Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., Director, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Today marks the end of an era with the announcement by Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., that he will
be stepping down as the Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
(NIAID), Chief of the NIAID Laboratory of Immunoregulation, and Chief Medical Advisor to
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President Biden. Tony’s departure will cause a tectonic shift in the modern history of the
National Institutes of Health.
He is the model public servant — dedicated and selfless, and a brilliant scientist and physician
who is passionate about developing treatments and cures for those who are sick and suffering.
He has dedicated his life’s work to advancing knowledge about the causes of complex diseases
ranging from HIV to asthma, rarely satisfied with anything less than a cure. For Tony, it’s
personal. He works tirelessly on behalf of all patients, often at great personal expense, and
always bringing his Brooklyn tenacity to the fight. I know of no one more dedicated than Tony
to the mission of the NIH and the health of the American people.
Tony’s NIH career spans 54 years, 38 of those leading NIAID, advising seven U.S. Presidents,
and reassuring the public as America’s doctor during outbreaks of infectious diseases, from
HIV to Ebola to COVID-19. Without exception, he is always guided by the science. It’s been an
extraordinary privilege and honor to have worked by his side and to have learned so much
from him — I will miss him greatly. But I also look forward to seeing what Tony will do next. I
have no doubt that he will continue to have an enormous impact on the world.
Lawrence A. Tabak, D.D.S., Ph.D.
Performing the Duties of the NIH Director
Ashish K. Jha, MD, MPH
@AshishKJha46
Tony Fauci is the most consequential physician scientist of
the past half century Having served 7 Presidents through
HIV/AIDS, Anthrax, H1N1, Ebola, Zika, and of course COVID
Thousands consider him their mentor, including me Grateful
for your service to our country Dr. Fauci
Ronald Klain
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@WHCOS
I cannot think of a public servant who has done as much to
save as many lives for as long a period as Dr. Tony Fauci.
And he is a gem of a person.
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I will always be grateful that we had a once-in-a-century
public health leader to guide us through a once-in-a-
century pandemic. Few people have touched more lives
than Dr. Fauci – and I’m glad he’s not done yet.
PRESS:   Beautiful article in the Washington Post by Yasmeen Abutaleb:
Fauci plans to step down in December after
half a century in government
By Yasmeen Abutaleb
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Updated August 22, 2022 at 2:20 p.m. EDT| Published August 22, 2022 at 11:00 a.m.
EDT
NY Times  by Cheryl Gay Stolberg:
Fauci Says He Will Step Down in
December to Pursue His ‘Next
Chapter’
MSNBC with Rachel Maddow (Rachel was extremely laudatory)
August 23, 2022
NY Times  Opinion piece by Gregg Gonsalves is really nice:
OPINION
GUEST ESSAY
Anthony Fauci’s Retirement Marks
the End of an Era
Aug. 23, 2022, 5:00 a.m. ET
PRESS:  WTOP with Nick Iannelli; CNN “New Day” with Kaitlan Collins; WGN Bob
Sirrott Show (Chicago Radio); Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC Radio);  FOX
News “Live” with Neil Cavuto; BBC Newsnight TV; NPR “All Things Considered” with
Mary Louise Kelly
August 24, 2022
The number of texts and e-mail of thanks and praiseupon the announcement of my
stepping down are stunning, ranging in the several hundreds. I am getting truly exhausted
trying to answer all of them.
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Jill Biden rebounded after a course of Paxlovid just the way I did!!
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Cases slowly (very slowly) coming down:
Very nice article about me and retirement in Nature:
‘He has saved countless lives’: US scientists
on Fauci leaving NIH role
From the AIDS epidemic to the COVID-19 pandemic, the iconic medical chief
has advised seven presidents on numerous outbreaks.
•Max Kozlov &
•Lauren Wolf
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Probably the best article ever written about me in the Washington Post today:
THE CRITIQUE
Fauci carried all our angst and anger with
patience and decency
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Perspective by Robin Givhan
Senior critic-at-large|Follow
August 23, 2022 at 7:10 p.m. EDT
With all of the praise and adulation that I'm getting from so many sources, the far right
GOP keep saying that they're going to investigate me after I stepped down even though
there's absolutely nothing to investigate me about; they are looking very mean spirited.
August 25, 2025
Interesting cartoon in Washington Post concerning my stepping down:
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We are really not coming down in cases/hospitalizations/ or deaths very sharply.   We
seemed to have hit a plateau with a very slight trend downward.
United States
•Total Cases: 93,777,133, 7-Day average: 90,676 (-6.7%)
•Total Deaths: 1,037,281  7-Day average:  390 (-11.6%)
•Total new hospital admissions: 5,198,924  7-Day average 5,614 (-6.6%)
Worldwide [Source: WHO]  - most recent day
•Total Cases: 596,119,505 (829,163 new)
•Total Deaths: 6,457,101 (2,564 new)
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In Science indicating how Tucker Carlson was ranting about me after hearing of my
stepping down:
Almost everything Tucker Carlson said about
Anthony Fauci this week was misleading or
false
Science fact-checks the Fox host’s rant against “Saint Tony,”
who announced his retirement on Monday
•25 Aug 2022
•6:10 PM
By Jon Cohen
Tweet from Bill Gates:
Tony, you were an amazing public servant long before
COVID-19 struck – and now you are a hero to millions of
people, including me.
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npr.org
Fauci to step down in December after decades of public service
Dr. Anthony Fauci helped guide the U.S. through the COVID crisis, and earlier in his career
played a key role in the response to AIDS. He has served under seven presidents.
The Soapbox Quoting the New Republic:
We May Never See Another Lifelong Public
Servant Like Anthony Fauci
In a distinguished government career spanning more than half a
century, he expertly steered America through two devastating
pandemics. But given how Republicans have maliciously attacked
him, why would anyone want to follow in his footsteps?
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PRESS:   Bloomberg News with David Westin;  Spectrum News Los Angeles with Giselle
Fernandez;
August 26, 2022
Dan Diamond story in the Washington Post:
Health
House panel: Trump sought to pressure FDA on covid vaccines, treatment
The report offers fresh details about that campaign and how it rattled agency officials.
This panel report documents the attempts of Peter Navarro and Hatfill to undermine me
and get me fired since I pushed back on Hydroxychloroquine:
https://coronavirus.house.gov/sites/democrats.coronavirus.house.gov/files/2022.08.24%20The%20Tru
mp%20White%20House%E2%80%99s%20Relentless%20Attacks%20on%20FDA%E2%80%99s%20Corona
virus%20Response.pdf
PRESS: London Times Radio with Carole Walker; Gray TV interview;
August 29, 2022
Previous 2 days my daughters and partners were here for the weekend.  Very slow with
regard to COVID.
Clearly people like John Moore (who is the most reasonable) and Paul Offit (not so much)
are pushing back on the drive to boost people in September with the “updated” BA.5
bivalent since they say that boosters are not needed (Offit) or that the original vaccine is as
good as the bivalent (Moore)
Ashish Jha called me today asking advice on when to give the POTUS the bivalent BA.5
boost.   I told him 3 months after his recent infection.   Same for the First Lady.
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Monkeypox cases starting to plateau – probably a combination of behavioral modification
+ vaccine availability:
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Statement from Tedros: Then, on my friend, Tony, Tony Fauci. We have been friends for many years.
I respect him dearly and greatly. He’s an incredible scientist, amazing human being and congratulations
to him for all the job that he has done. I know retirement doesn’t mean he will stop working. Retiring for
him is like changing a tyre, meaning another mission, and I look forward to continue working with him
closely through other things he will, I know, continue to do. So, I wish him all the very best. Tony is so
special and everybody knows, I think.
With COVID, we are still doing worse with deaths than any other country:
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PRESS:   Interview with Swiss newspaper -Finanz und Wirtschaft;
August 30, 2022
USG (FDA) getting ready to issue EUA for BA.5 bivalent boost
PRESS:  JAMA Interview with Editor-in-Chief Kirsten Bibbens-Domingo;
August 31, 2022
NY Times  Opinion piece by Ari Schulman (rather critical of me):
Why Many Americans Turned on
Anthony Fauci
Aug. 31, 2022
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Growing evidence that people who get COVID have higher incidence of heart disease,
diabetes and other chronic disease compared to those who have not been infected (see
Financial Times):
ft.com
The growing evidence that Covid-19 is leaving
people sicker
Sarah Neville, Federica Cocco
15-19 minutes
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Call today from Rajeev Vankayya inquiring about whether I might want to be on Board of
CEPI and also his new company after I step down.   I told him I cannot talk about this until
I actually step down.
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I received a phone call today, former vice president Richard Cheney congratulating me on
my career and thanking me for all that I have done over the decades that I had been in
public service.  We went on to reminisce about the things we did together to take away the
creation of project bioshield. I told him how impressed I was with what his daughter lives
was doing and pushing back against the extreme right and the trump people. He is
obviously very proud of her and expressed that.
PRESS:  Sirius XM Radio – “The Briefing” with Steve Scully; Bloomberg News Interview
with Jeanie Bauman, John Lauerman, Riley Griffin;
Sept. 1, 2022
United States
•Total Cases: 94,385,669  7-Day average: 85,762 (-6.6%)
•Total Deaths: 1,041,280  7-Day average:  404 (-5.4%)
•Total new hospital admissions: 5,235,025  7-Day average 5,106 (-5%)
Worldwide [Source: WHO]  - most recent day
•Total Cases: 600,555,262 (670,371 new)
•Total Deaths: 6,472,914 (2,676 new)
Very telling graph about the role of vaccination in preventing death:
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FDA gave EUA to BA.5 bivalent boosts and USG has ordered 170 million doses to be
administered starting next week.   As usual some concern among some “talking heads”
about doing this from Paul Offit who generally feels that most people really do not need
boosters to a milder John Moore who is concerned about the immunology of a poor
response.   Eric Topol gives the pros and cons today in his usual blog:
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Recent article in Salon (worthwhile reading  whole article):
COMMENTARY
Farewell Dr. Fauci: How the
right turned a national hero
into a villain in service of
Donald Trump
The right's attack on science is the most dangerous of its cynical power plays.
Fauci is just collateral damage
By HEATHER DIGBY PARTON
Columnist
Nice cartoon from 2020 by Mark Tatulli  :
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Other Tatulli cartoons with Lio:
May 11, 2020
https://www.gocomics.com/lio/2020/05/11
May 12, 2020
https://www.gocomics.com/lio/2020/05/12
May 13, 2020
https://www.gocomics.com/lio/2020/05/13
June 5, 2020
https://www.gocomics.com/lio/2020/06/05
Nice article in Science by Jon Cohen:
Anthony Fauci, loved and hated, plots his next
move: ‘I'm not going to sit in my house’
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In a candid exit interview, the NIAID head reflects on the
seven presidents he served, controversial decisions, and
feuding with Rand Paul
•1 Sep 2022
•6:50 PM
•By Jon Cohen
PRESS:  KNSD NBC (TV) + KUAN Telemundo, San Diego with Mark Mullen;
Sept. 2, 2022
There is a very interesting situation that has emerged from the White House particularly
involving Ron Klain and Ashish Jha in the context of the BA.5 bivalent booster shot. The
FDA has authorized and the CDC has approved the use of the bivalent BA.5 booster for
individuals 12 years of age and older. The concern of Ron and Ashish is that we need to sell it to
the American people in a manner in which they feel this is something “new and different”  that
they really should partake of. However, even though we all feel that people should be getting a
booster shot, to sell it as something that is going to be much better than the prototype boost
would be somewhat of a stretch since although one can project that there would be an advantage
of a variant specific boost, early indications from an immunological standpoint indicate that
although it is likely going to be somewhat better it is not going to be a lot better.  In addition,
there is the push back from some in the scientific community that we are doing this with very
little human clinical data. One can extrapolate from clinical immunological data using a BA.1
bivalent variant boost where the data are plentiful. In addition, we have extraordinary amount of
data on the safety of using this type of vaccine in billions of doses and billions of people
worldwide. Also, the preclinical mouse data with the specific BA.5 bivalent vaccine indicates
that it gives an anti-BA.5 response much higher then the prototype vaccine does. Ron and Ashish
are struggling with ways to sell this and the latest thing they're trying to do is to say that it could
be part of a yearly booster similar to what we do with flu. All of this is fine except that they're
straining to get a message so that a lot of people will get boosted when in fact this is unlikely
going to be the case. No matter what we say, the message will not change the facts and we're
getting close to the line of overselling something. In one instance today, Ron was upset that
Vivek had said that this was an updated “boost” instead of an updated “vaccine” because he felt
people don't want this to be yet again another boost whereas if we sell it as an updated vaccine in
the context of making it a yearly occurrence then that would be perceived as something that is
truly new.
PRESS:  NPR with Rob Stein; MSNBC with Yasmeen Vossoughian; CNN with Ericka Hill;
PBS NewsHour with Judy Woodruff;
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Sept 3, 2022
Email exchange between Ron Klain and me regarding the above:
From:  Klain, Ronald A. EOP/WHO <RK.COS@WHO.EOP.GOV>
Sent: Saturday, September 3, 2022 7:31 PM
To: Fauci, Anthony (NIH/NIAID) [E] <afauci@niaid.nih.gov>
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: yearly vaccine
 No worries Tony.  My concern is that we have so much Covid fatigue in the country, so little take up of
fourth shots, we just need to try something new.  I cannot stomach a winter of back to 2000 deaths a
day.  We have to find a way to get people to take the new shot — I think annual vaccine is a good
message but you know best.  Whatever whatever we can do to get big take up on this new bivalent —
it’s our only real hope to not have a third winter of death.   Bless you for all you are doing to help this
effort.
Sent from my iPhone
On Sep 3, 2022, at 5:04 PM, Fauci, Anthony (NIH/NIAID) [E] <afauci@niaid.nih.gov> wrote:

Ron:
    I just spoke with Dori about your concern that I did not mention the planned strategy of a
yearly updated COVID vaccine for most of the population in the PBS (Judy Woodruff)
interview.   As you probably know, I clearly mentioned this strategy  in the CNN Interview and
the MSNBC interview earlier in the day.   I was planning on mentioning it in the PBS interview,
but then she steered he conversation towards resources available for the distribution of the
updated vaccines. I was hoping to get back to the subject to bring up the yearly issue, but then
towards the end of my last comment they said in my earpiece that we were done.  I probably
should have squeezed in the concept earlier when she asked “who should get it and
when”.   Sorry.
Thanks,
Tony

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Anthony S. Fauci, MD
Director
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Building 31, Room 7A-03
31 Center Drive, MSC 2520
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, MD 20892-2520
Phone: (301) 496-2263
FAX: (301) 496-4409
E-mail: afauci@niaid.nih.gov
Sept. 4, 2022
MPX stabilizing globally and in USA:
Sept. 5, 2022
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Very nice counter and fact check about the misinformation spread about me by ther
Annenberg Public Policy Center:
FactCheck.org: Correcting Misinformation About Dr. Fauci  https://bit.ly/3eo3g86
Nature Medicine:
•Published: 05 September 2022
Long-term cardiac pathology in individuals
with mild initial COVID-19 illness
Sept. 6, 2022
Washington Post/Bloomberg:
So Long to Anthony Fauci, Unlikely Avatar of
Polarization
Analysis by David A. Hopkins | Bloomberg
September 5, 2022 at 5:11 p.m. EDT
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Crazy Peter Navarro in the Washington Times:
The FDA's mass murder of more than
half a million Americans
HCQ and Ivermectin: The Voldemorts' of America's medicine cabinet
By Peter Navarro and Dr. Steven Hatfill -
Monday, September 5, 2022
COVID cases trended down more now:
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PRESS:  We  had our regular White House Press briefing – this time with Jha, Walensky,
Becerra and me.   Since Jeff left, we are only have these every few weeks.;  Canadian
Broadcast TV; Government Executive interview
September 7, 2022
From Government Executive interview:
Dr. Fauci to Young Scientists: Follow the
Science and ‘Stay out of Politics’
After nearly six decades of civil service, Dr. Anthony Fauci
hopes his post-government life will focus on inspiring the next
generation of public servants.
I had an interesting evening last night. I went over Zeke Emanuel’s together with Chris to
celebrate a surprise 65th birthday party. At the party was Rahm and Ari Emanuel Together
with some of Rahm’s children. The dinner was catered by Pineapples and Pearls restaurant. The
dinner took place is Zeke's almost renovated amazing new home at 3303 Highland Place, NW
MPX – 55,000 globally and 21,000 in USA
PRESS:  Sinclair News “The National Desk” with Jan Jeffcoat; Florida PBS Town Hall;
“Positive Living” Fireside Chat with Kurt Goodman and Butch McKay
Sept. 8, 2022
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I was supposed to be with the President today in the Roosevelt room of The West Wing for
his announcement about how we are going to approach the upcoming full season with
regard to our response to COVID. This relates to the new message of trying to get updated
COVID vaccines (in this case BA.5 bivalent) to be given on an annual basis similar to the
flu. However, sadly, Queen Elizabeth passed away within minutes of the scheduled press
briefing and so we called it off and we will reschedule.
The PBS documentary film coming out in April, 2023:
Dr. Fauci Pandemic Documentary on the Way
From PBS American Masters
The program charts 14 months in the life of the storied physician
PRESS:  Interview with Il Messaggero (Italy); Sways Univese with Kelly Kincaid; Rolling
Out TV with Munson Steed;
Sept. 9, 2022
United States
•Total Cases: 94,888,931  7-Day average: 70,488 (-18.8%)
•Total Deaths: 1,043,921  7-Day average:  314 (-28.1%)
•Total new hospital admissions: 5,267,624  7-Day average 4,620 (-10.5%)
Worldwide [Source: WHO]  - most recent day
•Total Cases: 603,711,760 (472,582 new)
•Total Deaths: 6,484,136 (1,277 new)
MPX cases continue to come down globally and in USA (see graph below).   We are having
trouble getting supplemental funding from Congress to vaccinate a wider group of
moderate risk people suchas commercial sex workers, prisoners, trans people, etc.  I have
been pushing for elimination of MPX with wider vaccination and ring approach as opposed
to elimination.
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Had a wonderful evening last night going with Chris to a concert by Dionne Warwick at
the Warner Theater in DC.   Met her after in her dressing room.   Lovely woman.
Marc Siegel wrote a very nice piece in USA Today about me:
Dr. Anthony Fauci knows he's
made 'a lot of enemies.' Here's
what I know about him.
He is a great resource within the medical world. Why has he become
such a polarizing figure during the COVID-19 pandemic?
Dr. Marc Siegel
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Opinion columnist
Had a wonderful evening at the Library of Congress at a function sponsored by Catherine
and Wayne Reynolds. The featured people at the dinner who were Jimmy Page (Creator
and lead guitarist of Led Zeppelin) and his wife poet Scarlett Sabet who sat at my table.
Jimmy and Scarlett were absolutely wonderful and people and creative artists.   Jimmy now
collaborates with Scarlet on making albums of her recited poems.
Sept. 10, 2022
Had a great dinner over my house with Jeff and Mary Zients and Bob Seder.  It was really
great to spend time with them particularly since Jeff has been so amazingly helpful to me in
planning when I transition out of government. We had some interesting conversations about the
future of the Biden ministration throughout the current term as well as the possibility of the
second term.
St. Louis Post Dispatch:
stltoday.com
Editorial: Kids suffered dearly during pandemic
school closures, but don't blame Fauci
the Editorial Board
4 minutes
Sept. 11, 2022
The New York Post continues to lie and distort.  This is abut the conspiracy theory that
Mark Zuckerberg and I were colluding to suppress free speech:
Fauci’s direct line to Zuck proves Facebook
COVID censorship was all about power, not
public health
By
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Post Editorial Board
September 9, 2022 4:59pm
Sept.12, 2022
Covid cases continue to decline:
Sept. 13, 2022
Florida physicians defending me in the Gainesville Sun :
Dr. Anthony Fauci deserves better
from Gov. Ron DeSantis than
insulting comments
Bruce Stechmiller and more than 30 others
Guest columnists
Statement made during the last NIAID Council meeting of mine as NIAID Director:
On behalf of the AIDS Research Advisory Committee, ARAC, I want to take a moment to
reflect, as we open the September 2022 meeting, which will be the last ARAC meeting under the
NIAID leadership of Dr. Anthony Fauci. As you all know, Dr. Fauci has led NIAID since 1984,
and it is impossible to capture the enormity of his contributions. His extraordinary leadership of
NIAID, and through it the Division of AIDS, has been unparalleled. His ability to see the world,
and make it better, has been astonishing: from the most fundamental scientific questions, to the
most difficult clinical problems of our lifetimes, to the many public health challenges the world
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has faced over the past 40 years, in HIV and so many infectious and other diseases. These efforts
have had profound and life-saving effects, on individuals, communities, and the entire world. We
thank him, on behalf of people everywhere, and we look forward to what will no doubt be
continued extraordinary accomplishments as he opens a new chapter. Thank you Dr. Anthony
(‘Tony’) Fauci.
Sept. 14, 2022
Important day! Today at 10:00 AM I testified before the Senate HELP committee chaired
by Sen. Patti Murray with Richard Burr as Ranking minority. It will be likely the last time
that I will be testifying before the United States Congress in my position as the director of
NIAID.  Rand Paul was his usual self asking hostile questions of me saying that I am denying
the existence of natural immunity. He showed a C-SPAN film clip of me taken out of context
where I say that a person who was infected with flu did not need a vaccination – I then held up a
clip from Reuters “Fack-Checker”  saying that Rand Paul was taking me out of context:
Fact Check- Fauci’s 2004 comments
do not contradict his pandemic
stance
By Reuters Fact Check
 He then accused me of not providing the amount of royalties that people on advisory committees
get. I pointed out to him that I have nothing to do with the VRPAC or ACIP. All in all, he made
a fool of himself and threatened to haul me before committee’s under oath if GOP takes over the
Senate.
Sept. 15, 2022
Monkeypox cases continue to decline in daily cases.   Total for USA = ~22,000; for world
~60,000:
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Joel Szabat who was the acting Secretary of DoT during the trump administration asked
me to say a few words to his group at the Department of Transportation at his last COVID
meeting with them. Joel is really a good guy and he was so pleased that I took the time to pipe
in by zoom to his last meeting and congratulate him and all the Department of Transportation
workers for the good work that they did during the COVID outbreak. I was extraordinarily well
received by the group for taking the time out to join them and to congratulate them on their good
work.
I also have been doing on a regular basis the principals meeting as well as our resuming on
a more regular basis the White House press briefings. I have not mentioned these in previous
notes but they are occurring on a regular basis. Today I briefed the principles on the rationale for
the BA .5 bivalence booster shots.
Letters of congratulations on my career and retirement from Pres. George W. Bush and Sen.
Patrick Leahy:
Letter from Pres.
George W. Bush  on
Letter from Sen.
Patrick Leahy (D-VT)
PRESS:  LBC TV in UK with Andrew Marr; Texas  Tribune Festival Interview with Evan
Smith; Financial Times interview; National Journal Interview
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Sept. 16, 2022
I have always thought that Bob redfield was somewhat of a bizarre personality and his
history dating back to his time at Walter Reed has proven that. But I didn't think that he
was as crazy as he is now manifested by an interview he gave with a totally weird person
Paul Thacker in which he condemned Francis Collins and me I think we're the first ones
beginning this award for misleading the American public and for lying to the American
public and even accusing me of lying under oath at a congressional hearing.It is truly
unfortunate that as a former CDC director he has stooped so low as to get into the
conspiracy theory space:
Former CDC Director Robert Red field On Inside Battles
WithAnthony Fauci, And Why Classified Information Will Point
to aLab Accident in Wuhan
ROBERT REDFIELD: DICHRON INTERVIEW
Paul D. Thacker
Sep 15
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The Lancet report on COVID by a panel chaired by Jeffrey Sachs has recently come out
and inappropriately equated the possibility of a lab leak with that of a natural occurrence
of the virus. There has been an uproar among the biology community against Jeff who
apparently removed from the panel anyone who felt strongly about the natural occurrence
and actually went on a podcast with Robert F Kennedy, Jr talking about how the lab leak
was likely the cause even though there is absolutely no evidence to indicate this. Prominent
virologists including Angela Rasmussen and Peter Hotez have come out very strongly
condemning Jeff saying that he should have been removed as chair on the basis of his
strong prejudice and certainly on the basis of his allying himself with Robert F Kennedy
junior. This is another example I believe of Richard Horton the editor of Lancet trying to
get involved in controversial issues which bring attention to his journal. This is not the first
time he has done this:
The Telegraph :  Major Covid report suggests virus
could have leaked from a US lab
The Lancet’s paper said it is ‘feasible’ that Sars-Cov-2 emerged from a natural spillover or a lab incident,
but elements provoke backlash
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*****Truly an insane piece by Bob Redfield:
Former CDC
Director Robert Red
PRESS:   “Breaking Med”   online interview with Michael Smith;
Sept. 17, 2022
Chris and I had dinner over Ellen Sigal’s home together with Diana DeGette and her
husband Judge Lino Lipinsky. It was an interesting conversation and part of the discussion was
the fact that the GOP will probably haul me before their oversight committees and make a
spectacle of the Wuhan, gain of function situation. Diana is the current Chair of the Energy and
Commerce oversight committee and if the GOP wins the House, she will be the ranking minority
member. This is very good for me but it doesn't completely shield me from there attacks which I
need to be prepared for that will come either in the House with Jim Jordan et al or in the Senate
with Rand Paul et al.   They will likely treat me like they treated Hillary Clinton during the
Bengazi Hearings.
Sept. 18, 2022 –
Met John Podesta and Leslie Dach at an award ceremony for me at Georgetown Prep
where Chris and I received the Pedro Arrupe, SJ award for Exemplary Public Service.
They were both aware that I will be attacked by the GOP after the election and I will likely
need legal assistance. John offered to put together a program to develop a fund to pay my
legal bills.
Sept. 19, 2022
I had to help clean up a bit of a mess today when the President casually said on a “60
Minutes” interview that the pandemic was over. I had a number of press today and certainly I
got asked the question particularly on NPR about how this relates to the fact that all of us have
been saying that we are still in the middle of a pandemic and 400 people are dying each day. I
gave the explanation that it really is a matter of semantics and that the president was referring to
the fact that the fulminant stage of the outbreak is no longer present since we were experiencing
800,000 cases a day and over 3000 deaths per day several months ago and the situation is very
different now. However, I did emphasize that we are still in the middle of a pandemic.
It is likely that there will be another wave of infections in November:
Variant report 2022-09-14
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A variant wave is likely to start in at most 3 months
The BA.2.75 sublineage BA.2.75.2 (S:346T, S:486S, S:1119N) currently doubles in share every week (+80-
120%). It made up between 0.1 and 0.5% in samples from two weeks ago in Europe (in Asia, North
America and Oceania, the share is higher at between 0.5-5%).
•Global Cov-Spectrum query
•Europe Cov-Spectrum query
If this growth trend continues, this variant will dominate in about two months. At this point, the growth
advantage would manifest in increased overall growth in incidence and a variant wave would start
around November - on top of the expected seasonal acceleration of transmission.
The growth advantage over resident BA.2 or BA.5 lineages is of the same order of magnitude as was the
case when BA.5 displaced BA.2, which was sufficient to cause a summer wave.
Currently, BA.2.75.2 is the fastest growing lineage with more than 350 sequences available. The rest of
this report will focus on other lineages that may end up growing faster than BA.2.75.
PRESS:  Canada TV “The Agenda” with Steve Paikin;  NPR “The World”  with Marco
Werman;Podcast with Steve Morrison at CSIS; MiddleEast Broadcast Interview (TV);
Rural Health Matters TV with Dr. Jeffrey Gold;
Sept. 20, 2020
•Typical media distortions.   Vivek Murthy was on MSNBC with Morning Joe and
they showed a clip of POTUS saying that the pandemic was “over” and then they
showed immediately after a short clip of “part” of my interview with Steve
Morrison in a CSIS podcast of my saying:  FAUCI [clip]: “we are not where we need to be
if we're going to be able to quote live with the virus because we know we're not going to
eradicate it. we only did that with one virus, which is smallpox, and that was very different.
because smallpox doesn't change from year to year or decade to decade or even from century
to century.”   As expected this created somewhat of a disturbance with the meme being
pitting me against the president of the United states. Rather typical press nonsense.
The POTUS is getting pushback and criticism in that he has inadvertently undermined out
attempts to get more money from the Congress for COVID since the GOP will now quote
him as saying the pandemic is “Over”.   I have been out there explaining that the POTUS
meant that the “fulminant” nature of COVID when we were getting 3 to 4000 deaths per day is
now behind us, whereas now even though we are at an acceptably high level of three to 400
deaths per day, it is still much better than it was many months ago. It is as good an explanation as
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any to get us back on track with the world realizing that we still have to take COVID very
seriously with the current toll per day as well as the possibility that we might wind up getting
another variant such as BA.2.75.2 in November.
Went to the Kennedy Center last night to participate in the presentation to Cliff Lane of the
Paul Volcker Career Achievement Medal (the “Sammies”)
PRESS:  Lancet Podcast interview; Podcast “Inside the Issues” with Alex Cohen
(California); TED interview (Fireside Chat with David Biello);
Sept. 21, 2022
Nice Q & A with Erin Durkin in the National Journal about my relationship with Congress
and different administrations:
Wednesday Q+A with Dr. Anthony Fauci
The infectious-disease expert-turned-political lightning rod
discusses his next chapter, the high points of his work for
seven presidents, and the lessons learned from the COVID
outbreak.
I had a very enjoyable interview for 45 minutes at the Atlantic Festival held at the new
Wharf section of DC right off Main St. It was a very successful interview with an
extraordinarily enthusiastic crowd then gave me the opportunity to explain in detail some
of the nuanced issues associated with COVID and the interviewer Ross Anderson (Deputy
Editor of The Atlantic  also asked a lot about my history dating back to my very early years
at NIH.
Will receive Fulbright Prize on April 19, 2023:
2022 Fulbright Prize to Drs. Kizzmekia Corbett
and Anthony Fauci
Benefits of vaccination and boosts:
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PRESS:  Fireside chat at The Atlantic Festival (see above)
Sept. 22, 2022
United States
•Total Cases: 95,700,347  7-Day average: 54,186 (-10.6%)
•Total Deaths: 1,049,864  7-Day average:  314 (-12.2%)
•Total new hospital admissions: 5,327,014  7-Day average 3,971 (-9.9%)
Worldwide [Source: WHO]  - most recent day
•Total Cases: 610,866,075 (428,321 new)
•Total Deaths: 6,510,139 (1,395 new)
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Russia threatening nuclear attack on Ukraine as their forces are now losing to the
Ukrainians
I testified before the Bipartisan Commission on Biodefense held at the Hudson Institute
(Scooter Libby is Senior VP).   The group that I testified before was Joe Lieberman, Donna
Shalala, Rep. Susan Brooks, Jin Greenwood, Tom Daschle, Tom Ridge (by zoom – unfortunately
still severely compromised due to a stroke a couple of years ago).  The Commissioners all
congratulated me on my career and praised me for my decades of public service. I gave a very
energetic and passionate plea for support in the long term and consistently of our research
component of the pandemic preparedness plan. I also spoke about the importance of major
funding to modernize the CDC and their surveillance efforts. All in all, it was a very good
appearance before an important Commission.   My old friend Joe Lieberman wished me “Cent
Anni” and made a great joke:  “In every 75 year old person is a 35 year old that wondered what
the heck happened.”
The White House MPX coordinators (Bob Fenton/Demetre Daskalakis) are trying to
micromanage (Project by project) our and the CDC’s portfolio.   Bad news!!  They mean
well, but this is unprecedented for any WH element to micromanage a research portfolio.
I received a delightful call today (pre-arranged) from former Congressman Joseph P.
Kennedy III   informing me that I have been chosen to be honored at a gala in Boston with by
the Edward M Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate. The award is given for service to
the country and the co-awardee with me would be basketball legend Bill Russell formerly of the
Boston Celtics. I had a wonderful conversation with Joe over the phone in which he expressed
extraordinary admiration for me for what I have been through and the attacks against me by the
far right.
On my way tomorrow to Aspen for “The Weekend” where I will do a “fireside chat” on COVID.
Monkeypox cases declining:
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Sept. 23-25
I had a wonderful weekend in Aspen Co where I attended “The Weekebnd” hosted by
Mukesh  Ambani (Reliance; Edythe Broad (The Broad Foundation); John Doerr (Kleiner
Perkins); Ari Emanuel (Endeavor); Robert Kraft (New England Patriots); Yuri Milner
(DST Global); Eric Schmidt (CEO Google); Patrick Whitesell (Endeavor).  The meeting
coincided with the wedding in Aspen of my niece Carolyn Huskey.  The participants in the
meeting were the typical AAA crowd of politicians, economists, journalists, sports figures,
among others. On the side I had a very nice conversation with Alex Rodriguez (A-Rod) who
proved to be a very intelligent thoughtful person. There were also very interesting discussions
about Ukraine and Russia and cyber security. I did a fireside chat with David Agus on COVID.
Many people including Ash Carter of Harvard Kennedy School and Marc Tessier-Lavigne
(President of Stanford) were approaching me about my post-NIH life.  As usual, I said no
discussion until 2023.
Sept. 26, 2022
I had another of my very regular zooms with Sir Chris Whitty and Sir Patrick Valance from
the UK and compared notes on COVID and Monkeypox
In the GE Hatchett newspaper:
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’Work from the shadows’: How Trump’s COVID response ties to a former professor’s GW
email
Emails and documents obtained from the subcommittee found that Hatfill devised a plan for
Navarro to call on the Department of Justice to investigate Anthony Fauci, the director of the
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, his staff and other officials like former FDA
Commissioner Steven Hahn to “shut them up for a bit.”
Sept. 27, 2022
I did not think that Rick Bright would last at the Rockefeller Foundation. They may have
caught on to him.   He is probably the “former BARDA official” who said nasty things
about me to the WSJ.
Former Health Official Bright to
Leave Pandemic Prevention Post
Rick Bright in 2020. Photographer: Greg Nash/The Hill/Bloomberg
By Madison Muller
September 26, 2022 at 9:35 PM EDT

Rick Bright, a former US health official who condemned the Trump
administration’s Covid-19 response, is leaving a Rockefeller
Foundation pandemic prevention effort just over a year and a half after
being tapped to lead it.

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Spectrum News:   Rand Paul pushing back against additional COVID funds that I and our
HHS/WH colleagues are asking for:
Sen. Rand Paul introduces bill to divert COVID-
19 funds toward disaster recovery efforts
Vaccine effectiveness from Israel:
Sept. 28, 2022
Had a great dinner last night at my home with Tom Frieden and Chris. Tom is the president
and CEO of Resolve to Save Lives, In the organization he formed with the financial help of
Michael Bloomberg and Mark Zuckerberg. It was a very interesting evening and I got a lot of
information of what it is like to leave the federal government as he did when he left the CDC and
to go out on your own in a new adventure. Tom has always been a good friend and emphasized
how much I helped and supported him in the CDC when he was the director.
Amazing that Mbeki is still spoutin AIDS-denialism.   He is currently Chancellor of a university
in RSA (Unisa):
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TAC slams Mbeki for repeating his 'HIV
denialist' views, demands apology
Terrific podcast of TWIV with Vince Racaniello who interviews Eddie Holmes who
vigorously defends me regarding the famous Feb. 1, 2020 teleconference.   He says that I have
been terribly unjustifiably vilified  when I should be commended for my behavior during that
phone call:
TWiV 940: Eddie Holmes in on viral origins
Sept. 29, 2022
I had a terrific meeting with Jeff Zients this morning on the back deck of my house in our
usual breakfast meeting, of which we have had many over the last almost two years.  Jeff
was following up with me to see how I was doing following the announcement of my retirement.
He has been extremely helpful in guiding me about the proper steps to take in the transition to
non-government life. It is also noteworthy that he and his former deputy Natalie Quillian have
been asked by President Biden to line up names four people to occupy leadership positions in the
administration at the end of the second year and as the new Congress comes in. In addition to
details about what I am going to be doing over the coming months, Jeff asked my advice about
names of people who could fill senior positions particularly in the arena of health and science.
Ebola is starting to heat up in Uganda.    Deputies meeting tomorrow via SCIF to scope out
the situation.  I will attend.    About 50 cases in rural Uganda
Sept. 30, 2022
United States
•Total Cases: 96,052,716  7-Day average: 47,112 (-13.1%)
•Total Deaths: 1,053,173  7-Day average:  344 (-6.7%)
•Total new hospital admissions: 5,353,767  7-Day average 3,733 (-7.4%)
Worldwide [Source: WHO]  - most recent day
•Total Cases: 613,942,561 (460,497 new)
•Total Deaths: 6,520,263 (1,248 new)
We had the deputies meeting in the SCIF today on Ebola in Uganda led by the White
House National Security Council. This was preceded by a preparatory meeting among the
HHS team led by Andrea Palm. During that meeting Andrea got very upset with Henry Walke
and Rochelle of CDC Because they were falling into the same trap as they did with COVID
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when they were indicating that they will likely go into slow walk the availability of diagnostics.
It seems that the CDC just has not learned a lesson at all about the catastrophe regarding the
availability of diagnostics during COVID.  During the meeting with the deputies, my role was to
tell them about the 100 doses of the Sudan ebola vaccine that we have at the VRC.  it was a lot of
discussion about everything from isolation to travel to availability of interventions to dealing
with the Ugandans. There are currently no cases outside of Uganda in cases have been confined
to four provinces in Uganda. There was a concern that the neighboring countries of Rwanda and
DRC are vulnerable.  Also, there was considerable discussion about how we would handle the
entry of potentially or actually infected patients from Uganda into the country. Approximately
140 people a day fly in to the United states indirectly from Uganda since there are no direct
flights from Uganda to the United States.
JAMA news article by Len Strazewski:
Dr. Fauci stood up for science when it counted.
What’s next?
Other variants are starting to evolve such as BA.4.6, BF.7 and BA.2.75.2:
Oct. 1, 2022 –
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We had a 1 hour meeting today with all the relevant members of HHS (CDC, NIH,
BARDA, ASPR, etc. ) led by deputy secretary Andrea Palm to work out the departmental
approach towards the Ebola outbreak in Uganda. The NIH’s (NIAID) major role will be to
provide 100 doses of the Sudan specific ebola vaccine from our VRCfor Uganda. In order
to go through the proper diplomatic channels, Dr. Tedros (DG of WHO) wrote me an
official letter requesting that I send our hundred doses to Uganda (see below):
Director_National
Institute of Allergy a
Oct. 2, 2022
We had multiple zooms today (with HHS folks) that will culminate with a briefing of
secretary Becerra on the evolving situation of Ebola in Uganda.  I brought up in the
premating the consistent difficulties that we have with WHO who always want to actually
design the protocols and then have organizations like NIH or CDC be the implementers of their
protocols. This arrogance lies fundamentally with Anna Maria Restropo who has clashed
frequently with Cliff Lane in prior Ebola situations dating back to 2014. We shall see how all of
this plays out. Currently, there are 30 confirmed cases of Ebola in Uganda and more than 20
probable cases. In the zoom meetings we discussed all of the things that we discussed in the past
when ebola struck West Africa and DRC. This has to do with the availability of testing, with the
issue of travel into the country of people who might be infected with ebola, as well as our role in
supplying vaccines testing and therapies in the form of monoclonal antibodies and other drugs to
the Ugandans. More to come. Becerra backs my concern about the WHO trying to dictate the
design of clinical trials.   I referred to Anna Maria Restropo without mentioning her name.
Becerra gets it.
Oct. 4, 2022
Starting to get significant uptick in cases in the UK. This is troublesome since we usually
follow them by about four to five weeks.
Oct. 5, 2022
An example of the White House over ruling CDC. Rochelle and the CDC do not want to
require entry screening of people coming in from Uganda in the context of ebola; however,
the White House is very hyper about covering all the bases and on demanding a modified
form of entry screening even though Uganda is requiring exit screening.
PRESS:   CBS “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Oct. 6, 2022
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Yesterday I went up to New York City to appear on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
It was hilarious and the theme was to give people their booster shot. As part of the scripted show
he asked me if I was going to get my booster and I said I'm due for it and he said well let's go get
it. We got up walked out of the studio went to the Duane Reade pharmacy and got the shot.  The
response to the show has been phenomenal!!
Many new variants hovering around.   From Trevor Bedford:
PRESS:  NJ PBS “Chat Box” with David Cruz; News Nation with Chris Cuomo;
Oct. 7, 2022
Note the growth advantage that BQ.1.1. has over BA.5.   We definitely need to watch out
for these new Omicron sublineage variants as we approach late Fall/early Winter :
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We are doing very poorly compared to other countries in boosting out population:
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Oct. 8, 2022
United States
•Total Cases: 96,363,451  7-Day average: 43,693 (-8.4%)
•Total Deaths: 1,056,029  7-Day average:  324 (-13.1%)
•Total new hospital admissions: 5,376,728  7-Day average 3,376 (-7.8%)
Worldwide [Source: WHO]  - most recent day
•Total Cases: 616,951,418 (466,669 new)
•Total Deaths: 6,530,281 (1,543 new)
Oct. 9, 2022
PRESS:  CNN with Pamela Brown;
Oct. 10, 2022
Mike Gerson wrote an amazing piece on me in the Washington Post:
Opinion
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Why Anthony Fauci is the greatest public
servant I have known
By Michael Gerson
Columnist |
October 10, 2022 at 1:08 p.m. EDT
American political disagreements have often come down to us in the form of vivid dyads. Alexander
Hamilton vs. Thomas Jefferson. Stephen A. Douglas vs. Abraham Lincoln. Franklin D. Roosevelt vs. Arthur
H. Vandenberg.
One such conflict over the past few years has been Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) vs. Anthony S. Fauci , the
longtime head of the department of infectious diseases at the National Institutes of Health.
I am not referring here to any moral or intellectual equivalence between the figures. Their inequality, in
fact, is a central part of the story. Paul’s contempt for expertise, his spread of conspiracy theories, his
use of oversight as ambush — all this indicates a performative approach to governing. Reality does not
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ultimately count; the play is the thing. And Paul has found an audience among ideologues who
demonstrate their fidelity by taking some extra poison  in their pudding.
The single most shocking fact to come out of the recent pandemic has been the unfair self-
apportionment of pain and death. People in majority-Republican counties experienced 73 more deaths
from covid-19 per 100,000 people than those in majority-Democratic counties. There are a variety of
explanations. One is certainly the use of high office to discourage the most basic means of self-
preservation during a deadly disease outbreak. Imagine if it had been Democratic public authorities
encouraging Republican self-victimization. But it was Republican officials who did it — and found it an
effective method of self-publicization.
On the other side has stood Fauci. In more than 50 years at the NIH, Fauci has been accustomed to
scientific debates in which disagreements emerge as the result of seeking different methods in the
pursuit of the same goals. But Paul and his co-ideologues have left the assumption of shared objectives
in tatters. And this has constituted an attack on the very idea of public service — the notion that true
experts can make a career in seeking the common good.
For Fauci, it has been a professional and moral commitment that politics should stop at the human
biome’s edge. This does not imply that scientific experts are perfect. To the contrary, the purpose of the
scientific method is to organize failure into deeper insight. But it does mean that scientific truth is not
relative — or determined in the political realm.
In attempting to demonize  Fauci, his critics gained a fundraising target. And that, by their own lights, is
the definition of political success. But seldom has the choice of an attack been more of a self-indictment.
Fauci is not only a symbol of public health orthodoxy; he has done as much as any scientist to turn
medical innovation into humanitarian progress.
For generations, Fauci has applied a low-key excellence to fighting domestic AIDS, tropical infectious
diseases, global AIDS and Ebola. His role in the creation of the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS
Relief has helped save tens of millions of lives and built medical infrastructure across the developing
world. His focus and public investment have brought us to the verge of vaccines against malaria, one of
the world’s deadliest parasites.
Fauci is a symbol of sorts. He demonstrates what can happen when a nation at the height of its power
employs the finest scientific minds of their generation to the pursuit of public health goals few believed
were possible. The result has been a golden age of public health, motivated by an American belief in
human dignity.
This is not the kind of reputation to be dented by political attacks or internet rumors. It is a legacy
praised each day by the chorus of millions of breaths that would otherwise be silent. A vast chorus of
the nearly lost.
As someone who worked for a few years with Fauci during George W. Bush’s administration, I saw how
he pushed for new ideas and new funding: by expressing his passion for the scientific project itself. He is
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the ultimate explainer. In briefings, he did not conspire to make himself seem smart. He made those he
briefed feel they had spent a few minutes looking out on a vast landscape of innovation.
Robin Givhan: Fauci carried all our angst and anger with patience and decency
Fauci assumes that everyone is rational and thus persuadable. That is not quite true. But when he
described to me the shifting shell of sugars that surround and protect the AIDS virus, or how mRNA
vaccines work, it left a few impressions. First, how something that can kill you can be so fascinating. But
also how much Fauci’s friendship felt like mentorship. The greatness of his calling rubbed off a bit. And
one was left with the infection of his mission.
Fauci’s forthcoming retirement as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
will cost Americans, and people around the world, far more than they realize. But he will ever remain
the greatest public servant I have known.
Oct. 11, 2022
Met with the Indian contingent for the VAP program (Vaccine Action Plan), a program I
started with India 34 years ago.  We signed an updated MOU to continue the program.   Dinner
tonight at the Indian Ambassador to USA (Taranjit Singh Sandhu) at his home together with the
Indian Finance Minister tonight
PRESS:  NBC News Medical Unit with Ashkay Syal;
Oct. 12, 2022
Met in Building 31 with Stella Kryiakides, Commissioner of EU for Health and Food Safety
and Peter Piot to discuss COVID and other issues including Monkeypox.   Enjoyable
meeting.   She told me how much all of Europe relied on my advice on COVID, particularly
during the 1st year.
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Oct. 13, 2022
Had a very disappointing conversation today with Dep Sec Andrea Palm, Kevin Barstow
and the HHS General Counsel Samuel Bagenstos.   They essentially told me that they will
not be able to help me at all after I leave government service on December the 31st.  In
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particular, they will not be able to provide me with legal backup if I get called before
oversight committees if the GOP takes over the Congress. In addition, they are going to
discontinue my protective service that has been given to me for the past 2 1/2 years. They even
went on to suggest that I could hire a private security firm to protect me. I would say that this is a
relinquishment of their responsibility to me since everything that I've done that has put me into
this position I've done in my service to HHS and the US government.
PRESS: Interview with Rodney Russel for the journal Viral Immunology; Interview with
WHO Bulletin; Interview with Ed Randell “Fans for the Cure” Radio Show;
Oct. 14, 2022
United States
•Total Cases: 96,640,059  7-Day average: 38,949 (-11.9%)
•Total Deaths: 1,058,692  7-Day average:  328 (-8.5%)
•Total new hospital admissions: 5,400,083  7-Day average 3,268 (-4.4%)
Worldwide [Source: WHO]  - most recent day
•Total Cases: 620,301,709 (417,329 new)
•Total Deaths: 6,540,487 (1,094 new)
I had a delightful zoom conversation with a 3rd year student at Bronx High School of
Science – Ayshi Sen, an immigrant from Bangladesh. She is writing for her school newspaper
and she asked for an interview.   She was over the moon that I agreed to do the interview
Considerable concern that is growing about the impact of new variants that have a
transmission advantage and that evade the critical monoclonal antibodies such as Evusheld:
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PRESS: Interview with Erin Banco of Politico;   Interview with The Guardian with David
Smith
Oct. 16, 2022
Did a panel at the Annual meeting of the NAM.   Panel chaired by Salim Abdul Karim.  I
spoke on “Lesson Learned from COVID-19”.   Has a brunch at “Founding Farmers” restaurant
with Salim and Quarraisha.  Still very tough going out in public since I get swamped by people
wanting selfies.   The agents do not like that since if I say yes to one then a whole crowd forms.
Washington Post Opinion piece by John Erickson:
Opinion
Anthony Fauci’s work saved countless lives
October 16, 2022 at 12:15 p.m. EDT
Nice 50th Anniversary Gala of NAM at the Building Museum. I was individually recognized
and got a prolonged standing ovation.   Heartwarming as I as totally mobbed by my colleagues
wanting selfies.   I must have done at least 100 (no exaggerating!)
PRESS:   ABC “This Week” interview with Jon Karl;
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Oct. 17, 2022
Crazy thing has now emerged. Boston University investigators have done an experiment
that clearly would have fallen under the category of oversight by the P3CO process. Yet
they never told our NIAID program people about it, nor was there any mention of these
experiments in the grant that they cited in the pre print paper, nor was there any mention of this
in the progress reports from the grant. What they did was swap an omicron spike on to a Wuhan
matrix to determine the effect of the chimera on the function of the virus. As you might expect
the people who have been attacking us for gain-of-function research  are jumping all over this.
We are putting out a statement indicating that we knew nothing of these experiments and they
should have told us about them and put it through the P3CO process. Let us see how this plays
out.
Oct. 18, 2022
Had one of my intermittent calls from Joan Baez just checking on seeing how I am doing.  I
would love to visit her after I step down just o see where she is living in California
Oct. 19, 2022
BU admits that they did the experiments on their own and did not use NIAID funds.  Stll
ongoing discussion whether this was actually GOF since fewer mice died.   In any event, we
are clear of this.
Presented for the last time as NIAID Director to the Executive Committee of IDSA at the
Marquis Marriott Hotel in DC
PRESS:  CBS TV News;
Oct. 20, 2022
Honored with Chris and Francis Collins and Diane Baker at a Rooftop Reception by the
Friends of Patients at NIH
PRESS:  WNYC Radio – “The Brian Lehrer Show”; Taped Local NBC TV with Doreen
Gentzler;
Oct. 21, 2022
United States
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•Total Cases: 97,063,357  21 -Day average: 39,803 (-30.9%)
•Total Deaths: 1,065,152  21-Day average:  388 (-13%)
•Total new hospital admissions: 5,422,246  7-Day average 3,156 (-4.4%)
Worldwide [Source: WHO]  - most recent day
•Total Cases: 623,470,447 (371,876 new)
•Total Deaths: 6,551,678 (1,143 new)
Presented Alexander Fleming Award of the IDDSA to Larry Corey at the DC Convention
Center
Humbling experience for me as I received a prolonged standing ovation from the crowd of 6000
people as I walked on to the stage to introduce Larry. Also, the IDSA established a perpetual
prize in my name the IDSA Anthony S. Fauci Prize for “courage in leadership in speaking
scientific truth, perseverance in the face of opposition and serving as a change agent for
health care and patients around the world”.
BQ.1.1 is gaining ground!
Oct. 22, 2022
PRESS: ABC “Good Morning America” (weekend); Gave interview with Roxanne Roberts
of the Washington Post in connection with the unveiling of my portrait by Hugo
Crosthwaite at the National Portrait Gallery
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Oct. 24, 2022
The Uganda Ebola outbreak is spreading in Kampala and causing concern.
Interesting meeting this AM at the Pentagon.   At the invitation of general Charles Brown, I
was given a tour of the Pentagon. Apparently, a lot of people at the Pentagon admire me very
much and wanted to have the opportunity to show me around the facility. I spent close to two
hours getting a tour that was truly fascinating and enjoyable given my love of the history of wars,
and the response to me was very moving. Several women civilian employees as well as military
officers came over to me wanting selfies and in their telling me how much they admired what I
have done throughout my career, more than one of them actually broke into tears as they were
telling me how much they appreciated me. It was very moving. I also had the opportunity to have
a chat with Secretary Lloyd Austin as well as my friend Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Mark Milley.  Mark was amazing.  He gave me his new Joint Chiefs Chairman challenge coin
as well as a signed copy of three books: the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, And
Washington's rules of civility. He was also hilarious and telling me that President Biden,
Attorney General Merrick Garland, himself, and I are going to be attacked by the GOP if they
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take over the house and the Senate. Mark’s comments to their attempts on attacking us amounted
to two words that he told me: “Fuck ‘em”.  He told me he was not going to take any shit from
them. As a military officer he will act with civility, but if they try to push him around and
embarrass him and humiliate him publicly he will blow them away. It was refreshing to hear him
and his response to what I will almost certainly be facing, and I totally agree with him.
PRESS:  Extensive profile interview with Der Spiegel with Raphaela von Bredow
Oct. 25, 2022
COVID in Poland versus USA
I did an event at the White House with President Biden where he got vaccinated in front of
a TV camera after interacting with me, Ashish, and Vivek, as well as several CEO's of
pharmaceutical corporations such as CVS, Rite Aid, Walgreens, and Albertsons.  The POTUS
was extremely nice to me giving me a big hug in front of everyone and telling everybody that he
and I have been through hell together and that I saved the country and was the one that kept it all
together when things really got bad. He was really quite sincere and very nice.
The anti-Fauci rhetoric is heating up leading to election on November 8:
STAT : On the campaign trail, Republicans ramp
up anti-science, anti-Covid, often anti-Fauci
messaging
PRESS:   Interview with “HCare”; Hearst TV; MSNBC TV with Lindsey Reiser; “The
Skimm” podcast; WHUR DC radio; KMOJ Minneapolis radio; WAMJ Atlanta radio;
Michigan Chronical newspaper; NewsStitched newspaper; “Make it Plain” podcast with
Rev. Mark Thompson; MSNBC with Alex Wagner
Oct. 26, 2022
Important history of women accusing me of sexual misconduct.   This is well-documented
in the attached document:
FAKE NEWS
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She Said Anthony Fauci Sexually
Assaulted Her. Now She Says Jacob
Wohl and Jack Burkman Paid Her to Lie.
After failing to frame Robert Mueller, Elizabeth Warren, and
others for sexual misconduct, the infamous Trumpster hoaxers
tried to go after Fauci. But the woman they hired to play the
victim had second thoughts.
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I'd just finished Saturday morning's second cup of coffee when an email
popped through, subject line: "Exposing Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman."
"Hi Nancy, I hope you are having a nice weekend. I feel very bad about lying
to you and others about Dr. Fauci. I took it upon myself to call Jacob Wohl
and Jack Burkman and record them (see attached)… Many thanks and again,
I feel very bad about all this. I apologize to you, the other reporters and Dr.
Fauci."
The writer of the email identified herself as Diana Andrade. I had never
before emailed with Andrade, but had spoken with her 10 days earlier, when I
knew her as "Diana Rodriguez." At that time, Rodriguez alleged that when
she was 20 years old, in 2014, she'd been sexually assaulted by Dr. Anthony
Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
and one of the most visible faces in the government's response to the
COVID-19 pandemic.
For those lucky enough to be unfamiliar with the exploits  of Wohl and
Burkman, they are pro-Trump provocateurs who've found a niche drumming
up fake sexual harassment allegations that end comically badly, including
against former FBI Director Robert Mueller (who turned out to have been
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serving jury duty the day he was supposed to have committed the assault) and
Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren (the press conference for which took place
on Burkman's stoop, and whose supposed victim was a 24-year-old Marine).*
Being on the receiving end of an allegation of sexual misconduct is now a rite
of political passage—a perverse sign you've made it. Fauci's star rose in
March as he appeared at COVID-19 briefings day after day, outshining
President Donald Trump and occasionally knocking the president's
pronouncements out of the headlines. Here, then, was an opportunity for
Wohl and Burkman to take down the newest of Trump's perceived enemies,
to maybe become favorites in Trump's actual orbit. On the chance it would
cause their own star to rise, they would move Fauci toward irrelevancy, if not
infamy.
The rollout of their latest smear job was a fiasco, a series of "media alerts"
announcing press conferences with no start times, never mind that neither the
public relations contact nor the company she worked for appeared to exist,
and a "statement" from Rodriguez so breathless it seemed intended to steam
up the windows. (Not for nothing, Sally Quinn recently confessed she based a
thinly veiled D.C. heartthrob in her 1991 bestseller Happy Endings on Fauci,
so Wohl and Burkman aren't the first to write this particular fan fiction.)
"He looked rich and powerful, and I love smart men with grey hair. He told
me all about his fantastic career in medicine, so I went upstairs," Rodriguez
wrote of her fictional meeting with Fauci at the bar of the Four Seasons Hotel
in Washington, D.C. After detailing some ineffective hotel bed wrestling and
managing to flee with her honor intact, Rodriguez closed with the statement,
"Now, when I see him on TV touted as some kind of hero, I want the nation
to know the truth. This is my truth. This is my story."
It was all in a league of its own weirdness, a collision of Harlequin romance
and #MeToo. Nevertheless, several journalists called into a conference call to
hear Rodriguez's story. We were treated, instead, to Wohl and Burkman on
the line, stating they'd on the fly been invited to represent Rodriguez, who
haltingly told a story that varied significantly from the media alert and, when
questioned for clarification, was talked over by Wohl.
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"People come forward against figures that are considered media darlings with
very credible allegations and are attacked by the media," he told us. "And you
see the same sort of victim-blaming here."
He and Burkman then tried to dissemble past there not being one verifiable
fact or person in their latest confection, implausibly invoked the name of
Kevin Spacey as someone who would speak for their client, and confirmed
for reporters that the original location of the press conference had been at the
Chinese Embassy.
"They were kind enough to offer the venue and there's not a lot of open
venues these days," said Burkman during the call. (He had "a contact there.")
It was all beyond absurd, and when the reporters finally stopped laughing,
one asked, "Can you just tell us you're pulling a prank here?"
With the exception of The Daily Dot, which covered the claim only to
debunk it, no outlet touched the story. There was no there  there, and while it
might've been instructive to show readers how the rancid sausage is made,
did we want to give these charlatans more sunshine, especially in light of
Fauci leading the battle against a deadly pandemic?
And that would have been that—until Saturday's email, which included
Andrade telling me, "The reality is that I've known Jacob since 2018 and that
he charmed me into taking money to do this (see attached picture of us
together)," taken when they were romantically involved. Also, that Wohl and
Burkman "had me do something like this…back in January."
"And I understand they're trying to get another girl to do it, too," she writes.
"They asked me if I knew anyone to do it."
Andrade was correct. The day before, I'd received another press release, this
time from Burkman, citing a new accusation by "Karen Draper," a "former
assistant" of Fauci—a person and claim almost certainly as vaporous as the
last. Why did they keep trying the same scam when they were clearly so bad
at it?
"They are interested in one thing: power," Andrade writes. Sure, but how
could such buffoonery be perceived as power? Were they so desperate to
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catch Trump's eye they would pounce on anyone garnering public adulation,
something the president was temperamentally unable to abide? And was there
any upside to the rest of us knowing what animates a couple of amateur dirty
tricksters, wannabe Roger Stones minus the charisma and connections?
Andrade, having been in the muck with these two, thought people should
know. She had not acted nobly—and had taken money for not acting nobly—
to try to bring down a man she had never met. Disgust with the enterprise
made her want Wohl and Burkman to admit what they'd put her up to. The
deciding factor to get them on tape, however, was Wohl asking her to provide
another girl.
"I ignored his inquiry about this," she writes. "But it led me to feel like I
needed to blow the whistle."
***
During the nine-minute, 35-second call, Wohl and Burkman do not cover
themselves in glory. They hector Andrade when she says she's feeling
paranoid and wants reassurance that everything's fine.
"What could be wrong, Diana?" Wohl asks. "You did a good job, you got
paid. What's the problem? What seems to be the issue? You're freaking out.
You're texting me late at night. What's the issue?"
"What's the problem? What's your problem?" echoes Burkman. "Tell me
what the problem is? What's your problem?"
She says she's uncomfortable with the money they gave her, some guy
showing up, claiming to be a lawyer, with his face hidden by a cap.
"Is he even a real lawyer?" she asks. "I looked him up."
"Yeah, he's a real lawyer," Wohl says. "He's a good lawyer," and then goes
on to brag about that lawyer's White House connections.
It's possible that a White House–connected lawyer might have hand-delivered
five figures in cash to Andrade in Los Angeles. It's also possible Wohl made
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up the whole thing. But she says she did get the money, and Wohl and
Burkman are clearly eager to imply that they are intimate with Team Trump.
The cloaks and daggers might have been discomfiting, but ultimately were a
distraction from what Andrade wanted on tape. She proposes she give back
the cash and instead receive a wire transfer (thus creating a trace), a
proposition Burkman shoots down. ("Cash is best," he tells her. "We don't
want any records of this nonsense.") She wants the men to admit they are
trying to bring down a person who in no part deserves it.
"Let me tell you something, Diana," says Burkman. "This guy shut the
country down. He put 40 million people out of work. In a situation like that,
you have to make up whatever you have to make up to stop that train and
that's the way life works, OK? That's the way it goes."
Andrade counters that he and Wohl are not taking COVID-19 seriously. "It's
not just any virus. I mean, it's a huge deal….I think you guys think it's
something made up, and it's not."
"Mother Nature has to clean the barn every so often," Burkman counters.
"How real is it? Who knows? So what if 1 percent of the population goes? So
what if you lose 400,000 people? Two hundred thousand were elderly, the
other 200,000 are the bottom of society. You got to clean out the barn. If it's
real, it's a positive thing, for God's sake."
"So, what? Survival of the fittest?" Andrade asks, a bit more pique in her
voice. (The sense you are dealing with people who have an enthusiasm for
eugenics can do that.) But Wohl's not having it.
"Diana, look, can you just do this for me?" he says. "Can you just keep your
mouth shut and just…just do it for me."
"Oh Jacob, come on," she says. "You have a way of charming people…and
there are a lot of things I don't want to say in front of Jack but I am so done
with you. I do not want to deal with this anymore. I think you're actually an
evil person…you're just, you're just so charming until you get me cornered. I
don't know how you do it, but you find a way to make me go along with your
little plans."
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At this, the men talk over each other, telling Andrade she "readily
volunteered" and asking who cares if she "made up a story. Grow up, for
Christ's sake." And those harassing phone calls she's started getting since the
conference call?
"Probably telemarketers," Wohl tells her.
Shortly afterward, Andrade ends the call. Then she emails me.
***
"I'm sure you noticed I wasn't following the script," she says, after our first
email, with regard to the story told on the conference call not lining up with
the press statement. Yes, I say, it was pretty bad.
There was "no preparation!" she says. Jacob "just told me, because he knows
my other story, he just said, 'Use the same stuff.'"
The "same stuff" is a reference to a sexual assault Andrade says she
experienced when she was just out of high school, when she was attacked in a
car by a much older man. The incident caused her shame, both having been
assaulted by someone she barely knew but thought she could trust and also
"because I lied to my mom about where I was when this happened."
"For many reasons, I couldn't talk about it," she says, but she had told Wohl,
back when they were involved. It had made him angry on her behalf, and this
past January, he had made her an offer.
"He said, 'Well, you know you don't want to talk about this, but maybe this
could be another way of talking about it.'" He then asked her to recraft her
experience into an accusation against an Academy Award–winning actor. He,
Wohl, would pay her to do it.
"He said, 'We actually need someone like this, and maybe it'd be good
practice for you to be able to talk about this,'" she recalls. "'Just talk about
how you feel about the real thing, but take it out against this other person.'"
Andrade made the accusation. She never knew why Wohl wanted her to do
this, and the story never gained traction. Wohl then had her try again with
Fauci. Another strikeout.
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As feeble as they are at pulling off these cons, Wohl and Burkman appear to
appreciate what a powerful motivator shame can be and how it has been used
traditionally to keep women quiet. They have refashioned
#BelieveAllWomen into a tool for their own purposes, including in their most
recent media alert about the press conference, called for this Friday, for
alleged Fauci victim "Karen Draper."
"This is becoming a disturbing pattern, and the left-wing media has no
interest in letting women speak their truth," Burkman wrote in the press
release. "I'm hopeful that Karen will be able to tell her story and help bring
this troubling series of events to light."
"I don't know how they do all these things and why they do all these things,"
Andrade says. "Also, he tried to frame Mueller…I'm like, how is he not in
jail?"
Reached by email for this story, Wohl responded "no comment" and
Burkman replied only: "We stand by Diana and her allegations." Even
Andrade herself has been vague on some details of her own biography,
adding another layer of obfuscation and mystery to an already fantastical
narrative.
I ask Andrade if she'd ever considered that Wohl might blackmail her by
exposing the assault she experienced. She says she does not think he will, and
that despite what he'd roped her into she "still wishes good things for Jacob."
But there was one thing she did wonder, in light of his attempts to bring
down Mueller and Fauci.
"I don't understand," she says, "how he doesn't get in trouble."
***
Maybe it was the noncommittal murmurs Andrade had started to make, but a
little more than seven minutes into the taped call, something seemed to occur
to Wohl.
"You haven't talked to anybody, have you?" he asked.
"Mm," said Andrade.
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"No one, no one, Diana," he said. "I think it's the weekend; you're bored,
you're worked up. Can you sit on this for the weekend? Don't talk to anyone
about this. Not your parents, not anyone, and it'll be fine."
"And is Dr. Fauci fine?" she asked. "I mean, is everything going to be fine
with him?"
With adversaries as chaotic and inept as Wohl and Burkman, the answer
seems to be yes.
*CORRECTION: The original version of this story said Sen. Elizabeth
Warren's accuse
PRESS: CNN with Kate Bolduan;
Oct. 27, 2022
I went to Boston yesterday to do a fireside chat with Peter Staley at the Harvard Kennedy
School Institute of Politics. It was a record crowd of students from Harvard who are literally
overwhelming in their enthusiasm and response to me. Among the students and present in the
audience were Larry Summers (former President of Harvard and former Secretary of the
Treasury) and Bill DiBlasio (former Mayor of NYC).  Had dinner with Jenny in Cambridge and
she was radiantly beautiful!
COVID down in children:
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I was part of a tribute to Larry Kramer  where a Medallion describingwas placed at the front
of 2 Fifth Avenue the apartment in Greenwich Village near Washington Square Park where
Larry lived since 1973
Every day there is more conspiracy theory disinformation about me:
They had a Fauci “look-alike” contest in Florida with a prize being a weekend at an
exclusive Inn:
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THE AVENUE  |  LIFESTYLE
Dr. Anthony Fauci look-alikes take over
downtown Gainesville
7 contestants pretended to be the president’s chief
medical advisor
By Jiselle Lee
•
October 27, 2022 | 2:19pm EDT
PRESS:  Joe Madison Sirius XM Radio; Frank Ski Show – Frank Ski and Nina Brown
(Georgia/DC radio); Midday Flavor Radio (Alabama) with Jimmie Doctrie; WVON
Morning Show (Chicago) with Rufus Williams; Epicenter NYC Jeanne Pinder Podcast;
Oct. 28, 2022
United States
•Total Cases: 97,329,787  21 -Day average: 37 (-25.1%)
•Total Deaths: 1,066,351  21-Day average:  373 (-13.7%)
•Total new hospital admissions: 5,445,602  7-Day average 3,217 (+1%)
Worldwide [Source: WHO]  - most recent day
•Total Cases: 626,090,018 (267,575 new)
•Total Deaths: 6,564,556 (618 new)
BQ.1 and BQ.1.1 becoming more prevalent:
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PRESS:   MSNBC with Yasmin Vossoughian; Newsy with Marista Georgiou; Amsterdam
News (New York) Heather Butts;V-103 (Atlanta)
Interviewer:  Maria Boynton; CNN with Jake Tapper;
Oct. 30, 2022
On “Meet the Press” this AM (Sunday) Chuck Todd discussed the attack on Paul Pelosi
and mentioned several prominent people in Congress and Supreme Court who were also
threatened and mentioned the arrest of the person who threatened me and my family
Oct. 31, 2022
PRESS:  ITV News – UK with Alex Sandler; Wired with Steven Levy;
Nov. 1, 2022
Met with Josh Levy today (via Zoom) and with his staff in person (Connie and Pang) to
start making arrangement to give my papers and other material such as honorary
doctorates to the Library of Congress.
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Paxlovid saves lives:
PRESS:  CBS News interview with Michelle Miller (in anticipation of the Mohammed Ali
Award; Diane Rehm podcast;
Nov. 2, 2022
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For 1st time in months, the 7 day average numbers are creeping up:
PRESS:   Article in Washington Post today by Roxanne Roberts on my portrait in the
National Portrait Gallery; Tape American Cities Rebuilding with Jeff Greenfield; NPR
with Rob Stein; Washington Post Podcast with Maggie Pennman;
Nov. 3, 2022
Washington Post story this AM indicating that Rand Paul will come after me if GOP tkes
over Senate and he becomes chair of wither HELP or Homeland Security:
POLITICS
Rand Paul says U.S. botched covid. He could
soon lead probes of it.
The Kentucky Republican, a fierce critic of the pandemic
response, is in line to chair Senate health panel if GOP
wins control
By Dan Diamond
 and
Rachel Roubein

Updated November 2, 2022 at 6:00 a.m. EDT|Published November 1, 2022 at 11:30 p.m.
EDT
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Nov. 3, 2022
Had Tabletop exercise at the EEOB-350 for emergence of new variant.  Led by Ashish Jha
and Kevin O’Prey.   Present was HHS crew (with Becerra virtual) and Denis McDonough
(VA).   Only 90 minutes.   We really did not accomplish much.   Some good comments by Denis
McDonough.
Am starting to feel the reality of the fact that I am leaving for good in about 7 weeks.   A lot
of clearing out to do in my office.
PRESS:  ABC (Local) WJLA TV – “Government Matters” with Mimi Geerges;
Canadian Broadcasting Company (CBC) The National News Program (Exit interview)
with Adrienne Arsenault; Al Jazeera TV; News Radio 849 WHAS (Kentucky News Station)
Nov. 4, 2022
I received the call today from David Ho who had recently published a preprint article
showing that the neutralizing antibody response against the BA4/5 variant induced by the
bivalent BA 4/5 boost versus the ancestral strain boost were essentially equivalent, namely,
the BA4/5 bivalent boost was no better than the standard boost. Last night, I heard from
Pfizer in a zoom call with Jha and all of HHS (Walensky, Murthy, Kessler and my team at NIH)
that in their experiments there was a fourfold higher titer associated with the boost by the
bivalent BA4/5 compared to the boost with the ancestral strain. Pfizer claims that their study was
controlled whereas the studies by Ho and Barouch were not and the numbers were small. David
Ho called me today and emphasized that the combination of numbers of his study and Barouch's
study made them equivalent in size to the Pfizer numbers. In addition, he made the important
point that there were some discrepancies in the data that were in the press release from Pfizer
which did not contain all of the data that made them concerned about the Pfizer data. In addition,
David suggested that it is in Peter Mark's interest to agree with Pfizer since Pfizer confirms what
his decision was about the BA4/5 bivalent boost. I do not know whether this is David Ho
concerned that his data are not holding up or whether he has a very good point that Pfizer is not
being totally above board with the presentation of their data. I will have to try to figure this out
by discussing it with a few other people. I have already discussed it with Cliff  Lane and he
thinks that both of those studies don't definitively show the answer since they both have
weaknesses. Cliff recommends that the data undergo significant statistical analysis.
HOWEVER, Eric Topol reviews the different studies:
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Great put down of the HELP Report in LA Times:
Column: ProPublica and Vanity Fair are pushing
the COVID lab-leak theory, but their exposé is a
train wreck
BY MICHAEL HILTZIKBUSINESS COLUMNIST
NOV. 1, 2022 1:15 PM P
BQ.1 and BQ.1.1 continues to overcome BA4/5:
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PRESS: CBC TV “Rosemary Barton Live”;
Nov. 5, 2022
I had an amazing evening at the Mohammed Ali Gala in Louisville Kentucky where I
received the Mohammed Ali Humanitarian Award for Lifetime Achievement. Others who
received similar rewards included Jose Andres and former NBA Rookie of the year.  I had a
wonderful tour of the Muhammad Ali Museum at the Muhammad Ali Center and I was
introduced by Ali's wife Lonnie Ali.  I also received a personal tour of the Louisville Slugger
baseball bat factory and I was given a bat specifically named for me. And enjoyable time all
around.
Of note was the extraordinarily enthusiastic reception I received from the people at the
Louisville airport and at the Gala event.   I was totally mobbed for selfies.   Interesting that
this is Rand Paul’s state (Kentucky) and I thought that I might not be well-received and I
actually was totally met with love and admiration.
Six other honorees were recognized at Saturday's ceremony for embodying Muhammad Ali's Six core
principles: confidence, conviction, dedication, giving, respect and spirituality. Those honorees include:
•Confidence Award winner Gitanjali Rao, a 17-year-old from Louisville was named Time
Magazine's Kid of the Year for "inventions help to detect lead content in water, provide early
diagnosis of prescription opioid addiction, and counter cyberbullying."
•Conviction Award winner Lefteris Arapakis from Greece for his work fighting pollution in the
Mediterranean Sea. Arapakis also heads up an organization, Enaleia, that teaches people how to
clean plastic out of the sea.
•Dedication Award winner Mohamad Al Jounde from Syria, has helped give 200 children access
to education via the Gharsah School in Lebanon.
•Giving Award winner Liam Elkind, a Yale student who co-founded Invisible Hands during the
COVID-19 pandemic to help ensure at-risk community members have access to food and
medical supplies.
•Respect Award winner Malcolm Brogdon, the former NBA Rookie of the year, for his work in
Tanzania with the Brogdon Family Foundation, which helps people access clean water and
quality education.
•Spirituality Award winner Lual Mayen from South Sudan for working for refugee and migrant
rights. He also founded Junub Games, an organization that teaches the "importance of peace
through video games."
Nov. 7, 2022
I had a very important meeting today in Jeff Zients’ office where he arranged me to meet
with Robert Bauer, former lawyer for President Obama and Dana Remus, lawyer for
President Biden until July 2022 (4 months ago). Jeff wanted them to advise me about how I
should handle my legal counsel for the upcoming oversight hearings that certainly will occur if
the GOP take over the house and/or the Senate. It is clear that even with Pro bono considerations
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that this is going to cost me a lot of money since the GOP has promised that they would make
my life miserable and blame me for virtually everything that happened bad to the country during
the pandemic. Jeff has been an amazing friend to me and the next challenge would be to make
sure that I have Secret Service protection after December 31st at which point HHS has stated that
they have no responsibility or authority to protect me despite the multiple threats on my life. In
addition, HHS will not provide me legal protection after I leave.
Later in the day I took off for New York City to receive the Yitzhak Rabin lifetime medical Leadership
Award given by  American Friends of Rabin Medical Center at the Plaza Hotel. Before I got there it was
somewhat of a harrowing experience since I was recognized walking from the Hilton Hotel on 6th Ave
and 52nd St to the Plaza Hotel on 59th St and 5th Ave. I was beset by a horde of at least 20 paparazzi
who followed me from 6th Ave to 5th Ave walking backwards surrounding me and flashing lights that
blinded me. That has never happened to me before and is a full warning of what I'm going to have to
expect. I absolutely must have security protection or I am going to be in deep trouble.
Nov. 8, 2022
Election day!
Deaths worldwide down 95% according to WHO
RSV surging in USA and also early and touch flu season emerging.
PRESS:  Cox Media TV;
Nov. 9, 2022
Red (GOP) wave did not occur with many (not all) election deniers supported by Trump
losing throughout the country.  Rand Paul wins in KY and during his acceptance speech
says many times that the first thing he is going to do is to Investigate me.   However, the
Senate may not flip to GOP.
Very tough races.   Will not know results until December since there is a runoff in Georgia
between Warnock (D) and Walker (R).
Prepped Erik Stemy for briefing the E & C Oversight Staffers on Wuhan grant
PRESS:   NPR “Science Friday” with Ira Flatow
Nov. 10, 2022
Just for the record here is the full story on Connally whom Brett arrested:
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Thursday, August 4, 2022
Man Who Made Threats Against Dr. Anthony Fauci and
Other Federal Officials Sentenced to Over Three Years in
Federal Prison
Greenbelt, Maryland – U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis sentenced Thomas Patrick Connally, Jr.,
age 57, most recently of Snowshoe, West Virginia to 37 months in federal prison, followed by
three years of supervised release, for making threats against a federal official, specifically for
sending emails threatening harm to Dr. Anthony Fauci, the current Director of the National
Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).  Connally
further admitted threatening Dr. Francis Collins, the former Director of the NIH, Dr. Rachel
Levine, currently the Assistant Secretary for Health at the U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services, as well as a Massachusetts public health official and a religious leader.
The sentence was announced by United States Attorney for the District of Maryland Erek L.
Barron and Deputy Inspector General for Investigations Christian J. Schrank, Office of Inspector
General of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
“Everyone has the right to disagree, but you do not have the right to threaten a federal official’s
life,” said U.S. Attorney for the District of Maryland, Erek L. Barron.  “Threats like these will be
prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.”
“Today’s sentencing shows that individuals threatening violence against federal officials and
others will be held accountable for their crimes,” said Deputy Inspector General for
Investigations Christian J. Schrank of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office
of Inspector General.  “The public, including public servants, deserve the utmost safety and the
assurance that they can perform their duties without interference.  Our agency, working closely
with our law enforcement partners, will continue to bring those who threaten violence to justice.”
According to Connally’s plea agreement, from December 28, 2020, to July 25, 2021, Connally
used an anonymous email account from a provider of secure, encrypted email services based in
Switzerland, to send a series of emails to Dr. Anthony Fauci, the current Director of the National
Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (“NIAID”) and the Chief Medical Advisor to
President of the United States, threatening to harm and/or kill Dr. Fauci and members of his
family.  One of the emails threatened that Dr. Fauci and his family would be “dragged into the
street, beaten to death, and set on fire.”  On April 24, 2021, alone, Connally sent seven
threatening emails starting at 10:05 p.m.
As detailed in Connally’s plea agreement, also on April 24, 2021, beginning at 9:34 p.m.,
Connally sent Dr. Francis Collins, the then-Director of the NIH, a series of four emails
threatening Dr. Collins and his family with physical assault and death if Dr. Collins did not stop
speaking about the need for “mandatory” COVID-19 vaccinations.
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As stated in his plea agreement, Connally admitted that he sent the threats to Drs. Fauci and
Collins with the intent to intimidate or interfere with the performance of their official duties and
with the intent to retaliate against Dr. Fauci and Dr. Collins for performing their official duties,
including discussing COVID-19 and its testing and prevention.
Connally also admitted sending emails threatening harm to three other individuals.  Specifically,
on November 24, 2020, Connally sent a series of six threatening emails to Dr. Rachel Levine,
then Secretary of Health for the State of Pennsylvania, at Dr. Levine’s email account at the
Pennsylvania Department of Health.  The subject lines and body of the emails threatened Dr.
Levine with physical violence and death.  Similarly, on August 31, 2020, Connally sent an email
threatening physical violence and death for a public health official in Massachusetts.  Finally, on
April 21, 2021, Connally sent a series of four threatening emails to four individuals who work
for a religious institution in Newark, New Jersey.  The four emails threatened physical violence
and death to a religious leader at the institution.
Investigation revealed that the anonymous encrypted email account was associated with
Connally.  On July 27, 2021, law enforcement arrested Connally in Snowshoe, West Virginia,
and executed a search warrant at his residence as well as on his vehicle, seizing five laptops and
two cellular telephones which belonged to Connally.
United States Attorney Erek L. Barron commended the HHS OIG for its work in the
investigation.  Mr. Barron thanked Assistant U.S. Attorneys Rajeev R. Raghavan and Jessica C.
Collins, who prosecuted the federal case.
For more information on the Maryland U.S. Attorney’s Office, its priorities, and resources
available to help the community, please visit https://www.justice.gov/usao-md/community-
outreach.
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Crazy RFK, jr. has now made a film trashing me.  In addition, other far-right crazies have
also made a film.   See below:
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Had my usual Zoom meeting with Sir Chris Whitty from UK.   WE have become long-
distance friends over these couple of years.   He mentioned that I have the support of the
UK and global medical and scientific community.  I should definitely include a discussion
about my relationship with Chris and with Patrick Vallance in the book.
PRESS:  Global News Canada (TV);
Nov. 11, 2022
Exciting day.  In preparation for the installing of my “living portrait’ by Hugo Crosthwaite
into the National Portrait Gallery tomorrow, there was a gala celebration at the home of
Jeff Bezos 2330 S Street, NW.  His home is an enormous mansion that goes on and on. It was
formally a textile museum that he converted to his Washington DC home. The guest list was
AAA.  Notable conversations well with Jose Andres who wants to cook a special one-on-one
dinner with me at his home in DC. Also I had a very serious conversation with Hillary Clinton
who said that she thinks about me every day knowing that I will have an experience if the GOP
games either chamber of the Congress similar to her experience with Benghazi. She offered to
appear with me at the hearings as a physical show of support. I am not so sure that that is a great
idea since that might politicize me even more than I've been politicized. I also have a warm
conversation with Marian Wright Edelman …and several others.   The other awardees (and
their presenters) were: Jose Andres (Laurene Powell Jobs), Clive Davis (Alicia Keyes)Ava
DuVernay (Isabel Wilkerson), Marian Wright Edelman (Hillary Clinton), Serena Williams
(Mellody Hobson) Venus Williams (Sonya Haffey and Isha Price)   David Rubenstein will
present me.
After the gala we were invited to another gala at the Cafe Milano, celebrating their 30th
anniversary. I went there out of respect to Franco Nuschese.   However, it was somewhat of a
stressful experience since I got completely surrounded by “well-wishers” who anted selfies
and/or to shake my hands.   It was really overwhelming and reminds me why I will need security
for some time.
Nov. 12, 2022
Jeff Zients 56th birthday.   I dropped off a signed copy of Harrison’s at his house.
An historically memorable day at the National Portrait Gallery. A Gala event was held
tonight honoring the inductees to the National Portrait Gallery. It was the highest level of
AAA list you could imagine in Washington DC. There was a red carpet entry to the gallery
which resembled the red carpet entry into the Academy Awards with multiple TV and
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radio and print interviews as you walk along the red carpet before you get to the main
place where photographs were taken. It started off as a very wamt night for November 12
at 75 F and clear sky, but by the end of the night and into tomorrow morning it got much
colder.  It was very clear that the extraordinary talent and unique approach that Hugo
took captivated the audience of more than 750 people at this gala opening and dinner
affair. I was the first awardee who was recognized, being introduced by David Rubenstein.
I received a prolonged standing ovation from the crowd (as did others).   David gave his
usual tongue-in-cheek introduction of me telling the story of how he offered me a “higher
calling’ in private equity 12 years ago.   I had wonderful conversation with other awaredees
and others who expressed sincere appreciation of what I have done over more than 50
years.  Of particular note were conversations with Marian Wright Edelman who called me
“her hero and a true national treasure”.  Also, Jose Andres (he wants to invite me to a
private dinner at his home) Clive Davis, Ava DuVernay and Isabel Wilkerson, and Venus
Williams (not so much Serena) were very warm towards me.  It was an extraordinary
affair.   In the middle of it, Dan Diamond from the Washington Post  texted me that the
GOP did not take the Senate and so Rand Paul will not have the opportunity to harass me
with senate oversight hearings.      We were invited to go across the street by Jose to his
restaurant Zaytinya for after hours champagne.  He quickly stopped there but Jose had not
arrived and so we left a message of greeting to him and took off since it was already 11:50
PM.  A truly AMAZING evening!!
PRESS:  CBS Saturday Morning with Michelle Miller; Der Spiegel article came out (see
above);
Nov. 13, 2022 (Sunday)
Mark Dybul texted me to alert me that Mike Gerson was fading quickly and was in
Georgetown Hospital waiting for Hospice.  Bles Building, 4th Floor, Room 24.  It was very
sad to see. Mike was in dire straits literally on his last few hours to few days. He recognized me
and was obviously very glad to see me. We had a brief conversation I told them how important
he was to me and to the rest of the world and he said that he truly appreciated that.  A truly great
man will soon leave us.
Was briefed today by the Moderna team led by Steve Hoge on the latest data of their
bivalent BA4/5 boost.  The data look really very good and it is clear that the updated booster
performs very well and better than the ancestral booster across the board in inducing antibodies
against BA 4/5 and all of the sub variants of omicron including BQ.1.1.  This is very good news
for the upcoming winter. However, there is still very little uptake of this updated booster by the
general public. There is this complacency that the pandemic is over and the confusion about why
we need to continually get updated boosts because of the combination of appearance of new
variants together with the lack of durability of response to either vaccine or infection.
Catch up on prior important information.   From May, 2020:
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All of Jacob Wohl’s Spectacularly
Failed Smear Attempts
By Bridget Read
Jacob Wohl. Photo: John Middlebrook/CSM/Shutterstock
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In my phone call with Ashish today, I emphasized that they need to dial this back since
the naysayers (John Moore, Paul Offit, et al)  will blast us for making statements without
clinical data.
I did the Oxford Union Fireside Chat via zoom– very enjoyable.
PRESS: McClatchy TV “Exit Interview”; NEJM Podcast associated with my upcoming
“exit commentary” in NEJM; My comment in Washington Post article by Dan Diamond
today: “The supplemental requests that we keep putting in … just because they don’t go anywhere,
doesn’t mean the need for them disappears,” Anthony S. Fauci, the government’s top infectious-disease
expert, said in an interview last week.; Regional Media – “Make It Make Sense” with Monique
Pressley; Rolling Out with Rashad Milligan; Philadelphia Tribune (print) with Alec Larson
Nov. 15, 2022
BQ1.1 is continuing to take over.   XBB is very low but is a quick transmitter as shown in
Singapore
PRESS:   STAT Summit interview with Helen Branswell;
Nov. 16, 2022
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Terrific event last evening. I was honored at the home of the French Ambassador  to the
United States (2221 Kalorama Road, NW) where I received the Pasteur Medal commemorating
the bicentenary of Louis Pasteur's birth in 1822. Only a dozen medals are given this year being
awarded to leading scientists, benefactors, philanthropists, and representatives of several
countries. The stock of metals will be exhausted by the end of 2022 and no other metals will be
minted. It was very much of a love fest with a very nice presentation of the metal to me by
doctor Stewart Cole  who is the Director of the Pasteur. Ambassador Philippe Etienne was
very gracious and a very nice person.   They sang my praises and we had a very elegant dinner.
Very rainy and cold night.  Janet Tobias was there.
Photo shoot at my home and at work by prize-winning (MOMA) photojournalist Wolfgang
Tillmans
Democrats (Leslie Dach) are pushing back on the GOP who are trying to investigate me:
Revealed: Democrats' new 'war room' will
investigate Republicans for abuse of power
Matthew Chapman
Politico:
Politico: Investigating the investigators: Dem strategists to launch counterpunch to House
GOP
Politifact: Dr. Anthony Fauci, Ron DeSantis and others “are ALL in a diamond mining
business in Oklahoma together!”  We rate the claim that DeSantis, Fauci, Moody and Redfield are
in a diamond mining business Pants on Fire!
Had very nice dinner of Lasagna, wine, bread over my house with Chris and Rochelle
Walensky.   We discussed the sensitive issues associated with the attempts on the part of some
to have her removed as CDC Director.   Also, we marveled at the fact that with Rochelle and I
together, there were 4 armed OIG Special Agents outside my house guarding Rochelle and me
PRESS:  Regional Media - Nexstar  with Raquel Martin;  Hearst with Kalyn Norwood;
Spectrum with Julia Benbrook
Nov. 17, 2022
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Michael Gerson, Post columnist and Bush
speechwriter on 9/11, dies at 58
Mr. Gerson helped shape President George W. Bush’s
messaging after the 9/11 attacks and then moved to The
Washington Post, where he wrote about politics and faith
PRESS:  Der Spiegel –
The Evil in the World"Anthony Fauci's Life as a Right
Wing Target
He has been an adviser to seven presidents, and he played a major role in protecting
millions of people from AIDS. Now, pandemic expert Anthony Fauci is stepping down –
as one of the most loved, and most hated, medical professionals of all time.
By Rafaela von Bredow
17.11.2022, 19.28 Uhr
Nov. 18, 2022
United States
•Total Cases: 98,174,364  7-Day average: 40,102 (-3.2%)
•Total Deaths: 1,073,115  7-Day average:  317 (-5.3%)
•Total new hospital admissions: 5,516,552  7-Day average 3,308 (-4.4%)
Worldwide [Source: WHO]  - most recent day
•Total Cases: 633,263,617 (188,389 new)
•Total Deaths: 6,594,491 (544 new)
Recent immune evasion studies from David Ho show that BXX and BQ.1.1 evade
monoclonal antibodies and have increased evasion from immune responses.   Hybrid
immunity is OK, but vaccine induced  immunity with Abs is down while protection against sever
disease is OK (in Singapore).
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Nov. 19, 2022
Rochelle called me up this morning and arranged for a zoom at 10:30 AM to discuss her
side of the story of why she wants to simplify the boosting regimen for children less than
five and six years old for the

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: society. I have a phone call with Ashish  this afternoon and I will recommend that we not give him additional days of drug but that  we have him stay masked inside for 5 days or until he tests negative by antigen test. They  are concerned about rebound; however, I have told them that if he tests every morning for  five to 10  days after his Paxlovid course ends and he does not show any positivity, he can  go out that day and proceed with business. That would be much more acceptable to the  general public then to give him an extra few days of drug which would not actually  guarantee that he does not rebound. Released by Chairman Rand Paul PRESS:   The Hill “Rising”; CBC Radio with Robin Bresnahan; July 26, 2022 Continuing my twice per day discussion with Kevin O'Connor regarding the…