Tony's Diary — Fauci's Private Diary vs. Public Statements (Sen. Rand Paul / HSGAC release) (Part 3 of 10)

confrontation with the people from Moderna, mostly Tal Zaks, aandStephane
Bancel who wanted to push backon the collaboration (mostly do their own thing).
Moncef, John, Larry and I set them straight.   Also Mikael Dolsten and people from
Pfizer also wanting part of our resoruces (clinical sitesd) without joining the
collaboration.   Several conference calls to straighten this out.   It is not going to be easy.
Had long conversation on “background” with Bob Woodward who is writing a book on
the early response to COVID in the USA.   I provided him with some history of our
response in early January and into February.   Will tlak more with him tomorow
PRESS: Wall Street Journal interview re: Chinese vaccines for COVID; Canadian
Radio re: Larry Kramer; Young Money Radio – Lil Wayne and Dr. Dre;
May 31, 2020 – Global – 5,800,000/363,000;  USA – 1,800,000/104,000
Sunday – as expected, no shows for me.   Also, conditions influenced by widespread
riots and disruptions  going on in multiple cities in response to a Minneapolis policeman
who killed an unarmed black man (George Floyd), which was videotaped by a passerby.
This has dominated the news.
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865A race horse owner just bought a horse to run in the Belmont Stakes and named the horse
“Fauci”!
I made it into a “Doonesbury” cartoon
June 1, 2020 – Global – 6,000,000/368,000;  USA – 1,800,000/104,000
Disruptions continue.  Trump either silent or fueling the problem.  McEnany looking
more and more preposterous as she gives single person press briefings.
Riots getting worse.   Disruption and property destruction around White House and now
into my very neighborhood blocks from my home up at Foxhole Center.   Walgren’s and
Vourhius vandalized.
Did Zoom interview led by Father Dan Lahart for the Regis High School graduating
seniors.  Students loved it.
Jake Tapper did a piece on CNN quoting me as saying that I have not seen or spoken to
the POTUS in 2 weeks from May 18 (Governors call)  through June 1.   Media picked up
on it and made it a big deal
PRESS: Interview with London Times for profile of me;  TV interview with Italian
TV (Sky TV)- Giovanna Pancheri; Washington Times interview on the effect of
demonstrations/rioting on containment of COVID-19;
June 2, 2020 – Global – 6,100,000/371,000;  USA – 1,800,000/105,000
Riots continue in several cities.   Washington, DC particularly bad.   There was violence
earlier yesterday, but then it was a peaceful demonstration.   The POTUS ordered the
police to clear the way through Lafayette Park so that he could do a photo op with a bible
at St. John’s Church across the street.   The police came in and scattered the mostly
peaceful crowd and injured several with rubber bullets and clubs.   Things getting very
bad.
Task Force in Sit Room meeting regarding usual stuff – testing, supply chain,etc.
Meeting with POTUS in Oval Office re: vaccines.  As usual, POTUS was very warm
and friendly with me.   When he walked into the Oval with us waiting, I was standing
next to the door and he said “I love you, Tony.   I feel like giving you a big hug”.   And
throughout the meeting where Moncef described our vaccine activities to him, he kept
referring to me.   After it was over, he called me close to the desk and asked how I was
doing and said “How are you; you are looking real good”.
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866Ran into Alyssa Farah outside the White House.   Real strange.  She said that she really
liked my performance on CNN with Town Hall and also with Jim Sciutto.   She asked
how my other hits went.   I told her that I did not have any other hits and that all my
requests for clearance over the past week have been turned down.   She acted very
surprised and said she would look into this.   Again, she claimed that there was confusion
and lack of coordination with VP’s Comms staff and theirs.   Something funny here.   I
am meeting with Michael Caputo tomorrow AM in my house for breakfast.
PRESS:  Wall Street Journal – Tech Health Interview (ZOOM); Podcast with JAMA
– Howard Bauchner
June 3, 2020 – Global – 6,200,000/378,000; USA – 1,800,000/106,000
No TF today.   Only a Governors call on Nursing Homes to which I was not invited.
Probably mostly Seema Verma.   Also, despite people (including Kellyanne Conway)
assuring me that we are returning to 3x/week press briefings without the POTUS (i.e.
with the VP), nonetheless, the press briefing today was Kayleigh by herself at the
podium.
Had breakfast at my house this AM (6:30 – 7:30 AM) on the back deck with Michael
Caputo  who wanted to discuss with me Comms strategy involving me.   Good
conversation.   He says that there really is confusion at the level of the WH about putting
me out.  Clearly Alyssa wants to put me out there (not for every request, but certainly not
0 for 8 on a given week.   He says that Alexa Hennings is the scheduler who books TV
appearances in the one blocking me for unclear reasons.   He will try to fix that sine he
spoke with Alyssa over the phone yesterday (likely as a result of my meeting her outside
the WH) and Alyssa wants to get me on more.   Complicated situation.   Also, Michael
want me to do more PSAs and even a documentary.   He is trying to establish novel
paradigms for COMMS involving me.   Also, we spoke a lot about his history with
Russia and Roger Stone.   He and his family have been greatly harassed by Antifa and he
understands my harassment by the dark web.   He is clearly an unusual guy who has been
operating “at the edge” for some time.   However, he seems like a pretty good human
being.
Anthony Fauci namesake is a favorite at
Belmont Park
By Justin Tasch
June 3, 2020 | 9:21am | Updated
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867Dr. Anthony Fauci Getty Images composite
Fauci could be a big winner Wednesday.
No, not Dr. Anthony Fauci, the infectious disease expert, but the horse named after him
which will run in the third race at Belmont Park today as racing returns to Elmont, the
first sporting event in New York in 80 days. Fauci, jockeyed by Tyler Gaffalione and
trained by Wesley Ward, is a 4-to-5 favorite.
Had a very difficult experience today.   The POTUS called my cell and screamed at
me because I had mentioned to the Press (likely on a Howard Bauchner podcast or a
Politico interview that the duration of immunity for common coronaviruses was 6 months
to 1 year and that although we do not know the duration of vaccine immunity, it is
possible that we may have to use additional boosts.   Apparently the press blew this up
and said that the vaccine will only protect for a very short time.  The POTUS was very
angry.   He said I cannot keep doing this to him.   He said he lover me but the country is
in trouble and I am making it worse.  He said the stock market only went up 600 points
and it should have gone up 1000 points and so I cost the country $1 trillion.   Quite a
phone call.
10:00 PM – Katie Miller called me up and said she had a message from the POTUS and
the VP.  Both of them (POTUS and VP) asked Katie to tell me that they both loved me
and are sorry about what happened.   They understand and feel that the press will
continue to pit me against the POTUS and so please be careful.
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868PRESS:  Politico interview with Sarah Wheaton
June 4, 2020 – Global – 6,300,000/380,000;  USA – 1,850,000/107,000
Had call with NYC Health Commissioner Oxiris Barbot and Deputy Commissioner
Demetre Daskalakis to discuss the possibility of doing a multicenter study of the
Multisystem Inflammatory Sydnrome in Children (MIS-C).   NYC has 140 cases.
Just today informed that I have been chosen for the: 2020 Sammies Federal Employee
of the Year award.  The ceremony will take place in September.
PRESS:  Live Instagram with Jose Andres; Alan Alda Podcast; Did interview with
Jonathan Swan of Axios.   I got off interview quickly since it appeared I would be
pitted against the POTUS with his questions.
June 5, 2020 -  Global – 6,400,000/385,000; USA – 1,870,000/108,000
Had Zoom with activists David Barr, Peter Staley, Mark Harrington, James Kellerstein
about community engagement with COVID-19 research and the issue of releasing data
before publication.
Moderna becoming a pain in the ass about the collaboration with mRNA vaccine.
Wanting to pull back on prior agreements.   We will pull the BARDA money if they do
so
Did “Fireside Chat” withn  Brookings Institute with David Rubenstein.
I made favorable comments today on CNBC about vaccines and decreasing of # of cases
and the stock market went up by 3%.   I should (but will not) contact the POTUS and say
that he told me on Tuesday that my remarks blunted the increase in the Stock Market and
cost him “one trillion fucking dollars”.    And so now my remarks actually made him “4
trillion fucking dollars”, and so he owes me $3 trillion.
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869PRESS:  WTOP Radio; Interview with the American Journal of Managed Care on
the upcoming virtual IAS 2020 meeting; CNBC with Meg Tirrell; Radio interview
with John Catsimatidis (NYC) – Cats Roundtable; Telemundo TV
June 6, 2020 – Global -      USA
Finally got a haircut with Sabine today after 11 weeks!!
Quiet day.   Catching up on NIH-related Talks.
June 7, 2020 – Global – 6,700,000/393,000;  USA -1,930,000/709
Sunday – no health people on Sunday Shows.   Nation gripped with protests,
demonstrations and violence over death of George Floyd and other assaults on blacks.  A
couple of days ago the POTUS ordered the clearance of Lafayette Park to get to St John’s
Church to do a photo op with a bible.   Police crushed a peaceful crowd.   Major PR
reaction.  Gen Milley and Sec. of Defense Asper being sharply criticized for being there
and participating in the process.   They were probably taken by surprise of what they
were involved in.   Milley wearing combat fatigues (not good).   Protests spreading
worldwide.
Disturbing trend over past few days in number of new cases per day with 29,000 today.
This is not rapidly going down regarding new cases, in fact going up.   USG claiming that
this is due to doing more testing, but that cannot explain it all.   Could be result of crowds
during Memorial Day and if so, we can expect more as country opens, in some cases
prematurely.   Also, deaths keep coming down.
June 8, 2020 – Global – 7,000,000/399,000;  USA- 1,950,000/111,000
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870PRESS: Univision TV; WRC TV – Doreen Gentzler; NY Times interview; WGN TV
Chicago; iHeart Latino Radio with Enrique Santos; Spectrum News TV; taped Bio
Fireside Chat (for tomorrow);
June  9, 2020 -
Phone call with Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC) about “after action” evaluation of our
response.
Big controversy when the WHO’s Maria Van Kerkhove said that transmission
from asymptomatic person was “very rare”.   She got blasted for this since there was no
data to indicate this.   We feel that there is substantial transmission since asytmptomatics
have equivalent viral load in nasopharynx as do people with Sxs.   Also data from Teddy
Roosevelt aircraft carrier and prisons and nursing homes and meat packing plants indicate
that transmission occurs a lot from asymptomatics.
 Lovely “thank you” by the Weill Cornell Medicinegraduating students for my sending
them a video brief “Commencement Address” for their “virtual graduation”.
Several state are showing increases in number of cases and % of tests that are positive.
Coud be the beginning of a rebound.   NYC has opened as had DC.  Other  states getting
“itchy” to open.   Major sentiment to move forward.   We will soon face the problem that
if we see blips that are not contained by contact tracing, will the administration say damn
the torpedoes, full speed ahead or will they pull bak.   I suspect the former.
Weill Cornell Medicine Student Thank you Video
https://vimeo.com/426254316
Password: wcm
PRESS: Yahoo Finance TV; Interview with Melissa Healey of LA Times;
June 10, 2020 – Global – 7,100,000/405,000;  USA – 1,980,000/113,000
Reports of multiple states including North Carolina, South Carolina, Alaska, Arizona,
California, Utah, Tennessee,etc. having the highest single day number of cases reported.
Cannot just be due to increased testing.   Concern that the opening of states will be
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871followed by increased infections that will be difficult to contact trace since many are
asymptomatic.   Spoke with the David Barr group again last night and they feel that they
will not be able to adequately contact trace if a uptick occurs.   Also, there is a growing
urge for peope to “get out”.
Did a Zoom call with Francis Collins and the activists – Peter Staley, James Krellenstein
about PrEP for COVID.
PRESS:  Good Morning America ABC; NPR – Science Friday with Ira Flatow
(taped); CBC Canadian TV; Newsy  Documentary; Bill Nye “Science Rules”; Voice
of America TV with Lesia Bakalets; Interview with the Daily Telegraph;
June 11, 2020 – Global  USA
Had good conversation (having these every 2 weeks) today with Bill Gates on status of
mAb (Regeneron, Lilly, etc.).  Also, discussing other therapies. Also, discussed vaccines.
Great article in Elle magazine about Christine.
Big issue with companies that we are dealing with for COVID-19 vaccine.   Moderna is
acting like and asshole in that they want the USG money but are resisting having the
NIAID network (Larry) control the trial They have the IND and so the trial is really
theirs.   Moncef and I and John Mascola had important call where Moncef indicated that
he himself is concerned that a single network with one leader can be responsible for  3
(Moderna, Astrazeneca, J & J) and possible 5 (Sanofu, Novovax) trials.   Abd so we
decided that Moncef would put in writing that the companies can run their own trials in
our network, but they must harmonize with regard to protocol design (with some
variations), single DSMB, consistent lab results, and same primary and secondary
endpoints.   If they do not agree, then BARDA does not give them money.
I am still concerned about Deb’s negative opinion and tendency towards EUA.
Spoke with Gary Bettman, Commissioner of NHL about their plan for a “bubbled”
season → test all players and isolate them in a bubble and play the season like a
tournament.. MLB and NFL considering such a plan.
PRESS:  CNBC “The Street” with Jim Cramer (interviewed by Katherine Ross);
“The Stadium” TV Marquis Network.
June 12, 2020 -  Global – 7,300.000/415,000;  USA – 2,050,000/114,000
Did Council on Foreign Relations Zoom meeting;
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872Crazy situation where WH approved nothing and then after the Podcast with Caputo, he
said “The WH did not want you to do Wolf Blitzer yesterday since it competed with the
POTUS on TV and so I asked for today, but they gave no response and so let us just go
ahead and do it.”    Tough to figure out what if any strategy they have about getting me
out to the media.
There is a resurgence of cases in those cities that are opening up and now the model is
projecting 1000 deaths per day with total of 170,000 deaths
PRESS:   RAI – Italian National TV; Yahoo News TV; ABC News Podcast with
Jonathan Karl;  WAMU Diane Rehm Podcast; Local TV stations in Buffalo, New
York City, Los Angeles, Seattle, Portland, Oregon, Atlanta; Podcast with Michel
Caputo; CNN Situation Room with Wolf Bitzer;
June 13, 2020 -  Global – 7,400,000/418,000;  USA – 2,116,000/117,000
Got call from Alex Gorsky (CEO and Chairman at J & J) expressing concern on the part
of the company CEOs regarding whether Gen. Gus Perna (as competent as he is supposed
to be in military matters) can actually pull off the massive distribution of vaccine when it
is ready including providing needles, syringes, etc.   I have the same issue since Gus
seems like a good person but every time Alex or Esper says something, he says “Yes sir,
we are on it and will get it done”   Seems too over-confident.   Does he really know what
he is doing?
Got call from Gov. Cuomo at 8:00 AM but missed it because I was running on the C &
O Canal.   When I called him back he as on a helicopter and will call me back later.
When he called back, he expressed how much in denial the POTUS is.   He speaks with
the POTUS regularly and tells him he needs to admit that cases are increasing, and he is
going to help in suppressing them instead of denying them.   NYC is doing well by
carefully opening according to my recommendations.   Cuomo says that I am the only
one left in the USG who is speaking truth.   He has given up on Deb and somewhat on
Bob (who actually has been speaking up lately)
Denial on part of administration saying that increases in case in CA, AZ, TX, NC are
merely increases in testing and/or real increases, but mostly Americans returning from
Mexico to get care since Mexico is exploding with infections right now.   Clearly there
are increases in cases and hospitalizations
PRESS:  None but many shows are showing recent clips to make points.
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873June 14, 2020 (SUNDAY) – Global – 7,600,000/425,000; USA – 2,100,000/116,000
Riots continue with more police killing of African American men, this time in Atlanta
with killing of Rayshard Brooks as he was running away after scuffle with police leading
to firing of officer and resignation of Police Chief Erika Shields.
Becoming clear that the increase in infections in CA, AZ, TX, NC, etc. are real increases
in addition to increased testing.
Had conversation with Fred Hiatt (Washington Post Editor of Editorial Page) about my
evaluation of the situation.   I indicate that it should n0t be pure public health versus
“damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead”, i.e. not shut down versus “liberate the state/city”.
We should expect some cases as we open.   It is critical to how we handle these with
identification, isolation, and contact tracing.
PRESS:   No Sunday Shows, but showing clips of my prior comments.
June 15, 2020 – Global – 7,700,000/428,000  USA – 2,100,000/116,000;
Governor’s call today at WH and I was not invited.
BARDA requesting FDA to pull back the EUA for Hydroxychloroquine and
Chloroquine,   I was always against the EUA for HC and Ch since I did not believe that it
fulfilled the criteria (some indication of efficacy) for an EUA:  see link below.   Also, this
is the issue that Rick Bright has blown the whistle on, i.e. saying that he was pressured
into recommending to FDA (when he was head of BARDA) to issue the EUA.
Got call from Michael Caputo today asking if I thought that the POTUIS should cancel
his campaign rally.   I told him definitely yes.
https://www.fda.gov/media/138945/download
Call from Jeremy Berg at Pitt sending me as Cell Host & Microbe by a Chinese group
Shi-Hui Sun et al:  A mouse model of SARS-CoV-2 Infections and Pathogenesis.  28: 1-
10, July 8, 2020 (Online first)   indicating that the Chinese were making CRISPR.Cas9
knockin mice for ACE-2 that were made 30 weeks ago, which would be August, 2019.
Why would they be doing that last summer???  They could have been studying SARS,
but they already had mouse models.   Possible they just wanted to use a better technique
(CRISPR) OR they knew that SARS-CoV-2 already existed and the outbreak was already
ongoing.
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874Spoke with Howard Zucker, Commissioner of Health for NY State.   He wanted advice
about a possible National Policy for opening up universities.   I referred him to CDC, but
also to Silvia Burwell to see what she is doing with AU.
PRESS:  NEJM Poodcast about our HIV paper in the series for the 50th
Anniversary of NAM;
June 16, 2020 – Global   USA
Laura Ingraham calls me “Deep State” for asking people to wear masks.
RECOVERY trial from UK showed good effect of Dexamethasone on COVID-19
patients on ventilators or Oxygen, but not on early patients.
Media pushing a major breach between me and the White House.   Big issue is that
Pence wrote an OpED in the WSJ saying that there were no increase in cases; the
apparent increase was due to increased testing.  He got blasted since I (and to some extent
Deb) said that the increase in cases was due to BOTH increase in testing AND actual
increase in cases in CA, AZ, NC, TX, AL, etc..   Politico writes:
With help from Myah Ward
VEEP IN THOUGHT — Since February there has been a rift inside the White
House between the scientists and the politicians over how to contain the spread
of coronavirus. Anthony Fauci has been the consistent advocate of a forceful
response and an opponent of any sugar-coating of the perils Americans face.
President Donald Trump has been the reluctant warrior against the disease who
took some major steps early on but soon grew impatient of the stay-at-home
restrictions, the masks, and — most of all — the economic calamity that might
jeopardize his re-election.
Vice President Mike Pence, the chair of the president’s coronavirus task force,
often played the role of bridge between the factions. At the awkward task force
briefings that dominated afternoon television in March and April, the three roles
of the three men played out as theater: Fauci the doomsayer, Trump the
misinformed optimist, and Pence the child of a troubled marriage trying to
smooth things over during mom and dad’s public fights.
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875PRESS: Interview with AP (Marilyn Marchione); Nature – Heidi Ledford; WAMU
Radio 1A;  Wall Street Journal on Dexamethasone study; Jesuit Conference podcast;
Daily Beast – Erin Banco; LA Times Bill Shaikin about MLB opening; WCBS Radio,
NYC – Linda Lopez; Financial Times -Hannah Kuchler
June 17, 2020 – Global   USA
Serius problem emerging with Moderna who are insisting (see discussions above) on
implementing the protocol for mRNA in a way that both Larry Corey and John Mascola
feel strongly is contrary to the safe followup of people who get infected and also contrary
to good science in being able to get good end point data.   We have tried, but theyhave a
CMO who is incompetent (Tal   ).   Their CEO Stephane Bancel has a company that has
never made a product or done a trial despite the fact that by somewhat questionable PR
have built up a cash ase of billions of dollars.   We may have to threaten them with the
withholding of BARDA.  This will be a sticky issue and likely very time consuming.   I
will have to work through Francis, Azar, Marc Short, Mark Meadows, POTUS.   Yikes!
Did virtual meeting with Council on Foreign Relations Independent Task Force on
Prepring for the Next Pandemic – organized by  Sylvia Burwell
Borowitz satirist continues to poke fun at Trump, Pence, Kushner by way of making up
ridiculous satires about our relationship:  https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-
report/white-house-staff-seething-with-envy-after-fauci-reveals-he-has-not-spoken-to-
trump-in-two-weeks
Went toTask Force at WH at 4:00 to 5:30 PM.   Depite the fact that I was concerned
about all the hevy publicity pitting me against the VP, everyone (including junior to
moderate staff) were genuinely glad to see me.   Pence was joking with me from the time
he came into the room.   He said he wants to steel my tricks.   He held up the WSJ and
said when they asked me about the second wave, I should have done what Tony did and
say “Second wave??   What second wave?   We are still in the first wave”
PRESS:  Tea Leaves Podcast – Asian Group;
June 18, 2020 – Global    USA
Communiation between Deb Birx and me on June 18:
Thank you.  I haven’t been sleeping because of this.  What do you think about going into
MS with Lumina as the diagnostic sequencer and massive tracking molecularly?
Sent from my iPhone
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876On Jun 18, 2020, at 7:26 AM, Fauci, Anthony (NIH/NIAID) [E] <afauci@niaid.nih.gov>
wrote (read from bottom to top):
As you recall, I have always been in favor of massive testing.   Now is the
time.   We are swimming in the dark.   Let us discuss at the TF tomorrow.
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
The information in this e-mail and any of its attachments is confidential and may contain
sensitive information.  It should not be used by anyone who is not the original intended
recipient.  If you have received this e-mail in error please inform the sender and delete it
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Infectious Diseases (NIAID) shall not accept liability for any statements made that are the
sender's own and not expressly made on behalf of the NIAID by one of its representatives.
From: Birx, Deborah L. EOP/NSC <Deborah.L.Birx@nsc.eop.gov>
Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2020 8:00 AM
To: Fauci, Anthony (NIH/NIAID) [E] <afauci@niaid.nih.gov>
Subject: Re: 18JUNE2020 Data
Thank you.  I haven’t been sleeping because of this.  What do you think about going into
MS with Lumina as the diagnostic sequencer and massive tracking molecularly?
Sent from my iPhone

I have been obsessing about the increases in cases that do not seem to be
related to openings or closings or massive crowds.   I believe that ultimately
we will see increases related to all of the above; however, right now we may
be looking for the lost keys under the light of the lamppost. There is
something inherent here that we are missing and that is insidiously keeping
the outbreak alive in the USA, and that is more concerning than anticipated
spikes associated with identifiable events.

Anthony S. Fauci, MD
Director
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877National 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
The information in this e-mail and any of its attachments is confidential and may contain
sensitive information.  It should not be used by anyone who is not the original intended
recipient.  If you have received this e-mail in error please inform the sender and delete it
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Infectious Diseases (NIAID) shall not accept liability for any statements made that are the
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From: Birx, Deborah L. EOP/NSC <Deborah.L.Birx@nsc.eop.gov>
Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2020 6:37 AM
To: Redfield, Robert R. (CDC/OD) <olx1@cdc.gov>; Hahn, Stephen <SH1@fda.hhs.gov>;
Fauci, Anthony (NIH/NIAID) [E] <afauci@niaid.nih.gov>
Subject: FW: 18JUNE2020 Data

Remain concerned about CA, FL, TX – followed by SC, MS, NC, GA, AL.  Bob let me know
where exactly you went as we need to ensure surge to the next set of States next week.  The
reason I pushed back on calling it “just reopening”  because it implies it just a thing and
everything is just cases we expected but I think this is serious and specific populations especially
the underdiagnosed Hispanic communities are at enormous risk.  Tony and Bob, I need your
teams to explore pools of 10 on thermofisher and Roche.  We need to be able to tst 10X right now
in communities when you get your team on the ground.  We also need creative ways for housing
and work among asymptomatics – ie working and housing in teams to decrease spread.  Open to
all discussion.  Hopefully we can meet and strategize tomorrow.  We need a breakthrough in
masks.  Pulled 2 paper but maybe we can strengthen guidance.  Also sending the antibody
paper.  Deb
Amazing interview with Bobv Cousy who praises me so wonderfully:
http://hoopshd.com/2020/06/17/a-couple-of-crusaders-hoopshd-interviews-bob-cousy-
about-dr-anthony-fauci/
Selected quotes from Cousy:
Dr. Fauci has become even more well-known this year during his
press conferences as a member of the White House Coronavirus Task
Force: what is it about him that causes the country to trust him?  He
gets offstage as quickly as possible, which is an attribute I admire greatly. I am
not trying to share his spotlight but over the past few decades when someone
asked who my heroes were I would say Dr. Tony Fauci. Lately I have added Bryan
Stevenson to the list after reading his book “Just Mercy” about 5 years ago.
Tony spent his career at NIH simply helping people with his
intellect/knowledge/desire. I think that he is the most unassuming superstar and
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878just wants to help the world. I would like to think that he was engendered with
that philosophy by the Jesuits.

Got call from Chris Wallace at Fox News saying he has been trying to get me on his
show for weeks and wanted to know how I was doing.   I told him to keep trying and
maybe he will get it.
Michael Caputo called me and told me that the Comms people in the WH want to keep
me off TV until next week because of my message that is contrary to the VP and POTUS
– no kidding.
OWS meeting today talking about modelling where the infections are going to surge for
the vaccine trial.
Monsaoui met with Pfizer who said that would sell the vaccine for $100/dose.  This is a
non-starter.   A price should be ~$25/dose.   During this emergency, we can take over
Pfizer or invoke the Defense Production Act (DFA) and dictate the price, and so we have
a “hammer” with them.
I have been speaking about the danger of states/cities leap-frogging over the progressive
checkpoints in the guidelines to “Open America Again” as well as the danger of those in
states who trying to do it right now wearing masks and/or congregating in crowds.   And
sure enough, we are now having significan increases in cases and hospitalization in FL,
TX, AZ, OK.   Particukarly problematic in OK where the Trump campaign rally is taking
place tomorrow in Tulsa.
My comments about the difficulty in getting the football season going this Fall and
Winter has been very widely overed in the Sports Press
PRESS: McLatchey print interview – Michael Wilner;  Washington Post  Podcast
with Allie Caren; Dan Patrick Sports News – TV; Vice News TV; Correire Della
Sera print interview; Financial Times – HIV compared to COVID-19
June 19, 2020 – Global -    USA
Spoke with Fr. Dan Lahart to give him advice and discussion about whther to open up
Regis for the Fall term or do it virtually.   I explained that it would depend on the viral
dynamics at the time of opening.   Their problem is that >95% of the students get to
Regis by riding on a subway and so they really have a defined daily risk that would be
reflected by the virus activity in the city.
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879Last day of my HHS Security Detail.   The whole crew  George Adams, Brett Rowland,
Andre Jacobs, Greg, Mike, and also Mike Lunetto came over for photos and to brief me
about future protection.
POTUS tweeted about me today saying that I have nothing to do with the NFL…. “Tony
Fauci has nothing to do with NFL Football.   They are planning a very safe and controlled
opening.   However, if they don’t stand for our National Anthem and our Grand Ameican
Flag,  I won’t be watching”.
Sign in Greenwich Village:
PRESS:  CBS News Radio NYC; WABC Radio NYC video podcast; Global Health
Affairs Interview with Susan Dentzer
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880June 20, 2020 – Global   USA
Things are really heating up.   Someone leaked to media that Deb and I advised against
the Tulsa Campaign rally.   We never really discussed it at the TF meeting.   I got text-
pinged by several reporters (Jon Karl, Norah O’Donnell, Jim Sciutto, Jim LaCosta  about
this.   I honestly said that I could not conbfirm this since we never discussed thr Tulsa
rally specifically.   Nonetheless, today papers are saying that this is the case.   Clearly
someone is leaking things without knowing the facts.   Karl told me that the word was out
even before the TF meeting ended.  And so, someone is leaking even before we finish.
I am getting progressively disillusioned with Deb Birx.   She is happy talking the
increased cases and the VP who is desparately looking for good news listenes to her and
actually thinks that thngs are going well when, in fact. 13 states are clearly having surges
of cases.   She makes the case that 37 cases are stable or decreasing and underplays the13
that are “on fire”.   In fact after the TF meeting on Friday (yesterday, the VP wants us to
present this to the POTUS who probably hates me by now, even though he says that he
“loves me”.   He has tweeted about me 3 times yesterday and today.   Deb has ststed that
we should noit do clinical trials since “I want to see every infected person in a nursing
home get plasma early on and steroids later.   Forget the trial, we need to do this on
EUAs.    She says the same thing about vaccine trials.   Clearly, she is trying to provide
Trump with his October surprise. I may need to blow the whistle on her.
It is reported that several(6) staff from the WH rally advance team have tested positive
upon screening.
Katie Miller called me and asked if she were protected from reinfection since she is in
Tulsa with the Campaign rally and she did not want to wear a mask because of the Trump
group not wearing masks as a symbol of resistance against the scientists.   I told her that
she and Steven should wear masks since Tulsa is a hot bed and she needs to think of the
fact that she is in 2nd trimester of pregnancy.
David Perlman of he SF Chronicle. He was a great science reporters and one who first
interviewed me during the earlier years of HIV/AIDS
Trump-Fauci tension building up by the press.   White House remains friendly, but press
reports stressing the difference between the POTUS and me.  I am now being ttacked
more by the far right.   Higly tense political situations.   I quite frankly do not really care.
I will keep doing what I am doing.   Am being constantly pinged (texted) by the press
asking my opinion of various statements that are coming out.
Kayleigh McEnany essentially saying that I will not be out in the press.  Alyssa Farah is
the one hope in Comms since she clearly wants me out their.   Kayleigh constantly lying
to and insulting the press.   They are all on to her.
POTUS makes silly statement at the rally in Tulsa that the more you test, the more cases
there will be (implying that testing causes cases) and then said that he told his people to
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881“slow down the testing”.   This triggered a rash of press calls to me that I answered on
background or off the record.
NIH Clinical Trial Evaluating Hydroxychloroquine and Azithromycin for COVID-
19 Closes Early
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National
Institutes of Health, has stopped enrollment in its clinical trial evaluating whether
hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin can prevent hospitalization and death from
coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). This action was taken because NIAID, the study
leadership and the independent data and safety monitoring board (DSMB) overseeing the
trial determined that the rate of participant enrollment has been inadequate for the trial to
meet its objectives in a timely manner. No safety concerns were associated with the trial.
PRESS:
June 21, 2020 (Sunday) – Cases still surging in 13 to 20 states.   Global –
8,500,000/459,000;  USA – 2,300,000/120,000
Much concern about surge of cases, particularly in Florida and South Carolina and
Georgia and Oklahoma.   Also, tensions regarding the Tulsa campaign rally.
June 22, 2020 – Global – 8,700,000/462,000;  USA – 2,300,000/120,000
Belowis a very good article in Politico that describes in detail whast the problem has been
in ther USA response to COVID-19
How the U.S. and Italy traded places on coronavirus
While Trump touted America’s reopening and watched infections climb, European
leaders maintained strict rules and drove cases down.
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882The historical Piazza della Signoria square in
Florence, Italy, in early June. | Andrew Medichini/AP Photo
By DAN DIAMOND and SARAH WHEATON
06/22/2020 04:30 AM EDT
Three months ago, public health officials feared that America would be swamped
by Covid-19 like Italy. Today, the U.S. would be lucky to swap its coronavirus
crisis for theirs.
Italy’s sudden surge of coronavirus in March swamped hospitals, pushed the
nation into a strict lockdown and forced its doctors to ration life-saving
ventilators. About 200,000 Italians were sickened and 29,000 died from the
virus by May 1 alone. Global health officials seized on Italy — as the first country
outside of China to be battered by the virus — as a disturbing case study for the
rest of the world. In private meetings, White House officials worried that Italy
was a preview of the storm about to hit the U.S. health system.
But Italy announced just 264 new Covid-19 cases on Saturday — the same day
that the United States reported nearly 32,000. The European nation opened its
restaurants and stores a month ago, albeit under new, national safety measures,
even as U.S. states wrestled with inconsistent, hasty reopening efforts that have
been blamed for new virus spikes. And Italy’s outbreak has dramatically ebbed
from its mid-March peak, while America’s new per capita cases remain on par
with Italy's worst day — and show signs of rising further, with record
hospitalizations in states like Arizona, Florida and Texas last week.
“I think there are going to be states in our country that can replicate Italy,” said
Ashish Jha, head of Harvard’s Global Health Institute, noting that New York has
made its own dramatic strides in containing the virus.
“But I would rather spend this summer in Rome with my family than in Phoenix.”
Italy is not alone in driving coronavirus down to manageable levels. Its Western
European neighbors Spain and France grappled with damaging outbreaks that
killed tens of thousands and prompted lockdowns, only to drive daily new cases
below 500. Meanwhile, Germany was able to fend off the virus with relatively low
mortality, which some credit to the nation’s robust test-and-trace strategy. The
collective recovery of the European nations — punctuated by Italy’s apparent
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883turnaround — stands in stark contrast to the muddle facing many parts of
America, where the death toll has now topped 120,000.
“I would rather spend this summer in Rome with my family than in
Phoenix.”
 Ashish Jha, head of Harvard’s Global Health Institute
Jha and other public health experts say that America’s piecemeal, politicized
approach to fighting coronavirus has left the United States ever-further behind
the Western European nations that were similarly threatened by the virus but
moved more judiciously to fend it off. They also say that Western Europe is a
better comparison point for the United States than nations like South Korea and
Singapore, which had been scarred by previous viral outbreaks and were more
prepared to handle the arrival of Covid-19. After the damaging initial spike in
cases, European Union members' total daily case count is now about one-
eighth of the U.S. daily cases — despite having roughly the same population.
“Both we and Western Europe were really slow to act,” said Jeremy Konyndyk of
the Center for Global Development, who helped oversee international aid efforts
during the Obama administration. “But the worst performers in Europe with the
bad luck to get hit first, like Italy and Spain … they are now down 85, 95 percent
in terms of case counts from the peak.”
“In the US, we’ve struggled to get it down one-third — and in the last few days, it
looks like it could rebound again,” Konyndyk added.
Partisan fights bog down U.S. response
Public health experts cited multiple factors for why the fortunes of the United
States have differed from Western Europe — starting with the intense
politicization that worked against a disciplined response, and the federal
government’s decision to let individual states take the lead in reopening. The
decisions of some states to end their lockdowns as early as possible — at levels of
infection considerably higher than those that triggered reopening in Western
Europe — appear to have consigned the United States to a far longer battle with
the virus.
President Donald Trump and some Republican governors have bristled at public
health experts’ advice, questioning predictions on viral spread and pushing back
on recommended lockdowns. GOP-led states like Georgia and Texas reopened
their economies despite requests from public health experts to wait for more
testing and fewer cases.
Meanwhile, Trump’s allies and pundits on Fox News pushed malaria drugs as
possible Covid-19 cures, despite scant evidence, leading to largely fruitless efforts
that consumed the time of senior federal officials — including scientists whose
time would have been better spent pursuing other therapies.
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884“There are plenty of people, on cable TV and elsewhere, who exploited that the
virus was primarily in New York and other places to say that it's a blue state
problem,” said Harvard’s Jha. “They’d ask, ‘Why are we shutting down Montana
when the problem is Manhattan?’”
Democrats, meanwhile, didn’t condemn hundreds of thousands of people for
violating restrictions on mass gatherings to protest police brutality this month.
Instead, governors like New Jersey’s Phil Murphy and Michigan’s Gretchen
Whitmer broke the lockdown orders that they had extended just days before to
join the protests themselves — moves that confused many Americans about the
need for social distancing and fueled charges of hypocrisy from conservatives.
Even basic protections have been politicized in the United States. Trump has
eschewed a mask in public and has sometimes mocked others for wearing face
coverings — despite requirements that people wear masks in certain states and
ample science that they work to prevent the virus’ spread.
The president also swiped at mask-wearers in a Wall Street Journal interview last
Wednesday, suggesting that some Americans are wearing coverings to signal
their disapproval with him. He has repeatedly voiced his hesitation about the
widespread coronavirus testing urged by public health experts, including
controversial remarks at his rally on Saturday.
"When you do testing to that extent, you're going to find more people," Trump
said during his rally in Tulsa, Okla. "You're going to find more cases. So I said to
my people, slow the testing down please." White House officials claimed Trump
was joking.
But in Italy, there’s been much less disagreement over scientists’
recommendations — including lockdowns that were more restrictive than those
applied in the United States — particularly after the virus swiftly tore through the
nation in early March, peaking at 6,557 new cases announced on March 21.
(Adjusted for population, that would be equivalent to about 35,400 new cases in
the United States.) While some protested, residents largely went along with
restrictions that effectively banned jogging, instituted one-at-a-time entry
policies for grocery stores and saw the Pope livestream his Easter Mass from an
empty St. Peter’s Basilica.
That still wasn’t enough to spare Italy from horrific consequences in the early
spring: Doctors had to make decisions on the fly about who would get life-saving
care when there weren’t enough beds to go around. Dead bodies had to be stored
in sealed-off rooms until funeral services were available in the worst-hit regions.
“The Italian crisis provoked by Covid-19 is the most serious event in Italian
history after World War II,” Italian doctors Ciro Indolfi and Carmen
Spaccarotella wrote in April's Journal of the American College of Cardiology. “It
is a national human, health, and economic tragedy.”
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885But the devastation hit home in a way that prompted broad acceptance of
lockdown measures. Political leaders largely embraced the need for personal
protection and have even policed each other. Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte
regularly wears a mask in public — and when he attempted to remove it to speak
to his parliament in April, he was heckled by fellow lawmakers.
Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte regularly wears a mask in public — and when he
attempted to remove it to speak to his parliament in April, he was heckled by fellow
lawmakers. | (LaPresse, Pool via AP Photo)
When far-right populist leader Matteo Salvini tried to take a page from the
Trump playbook, tweeting accusations that the virus came from a Chinese lab
and occupying the parliament in protest of lockdowns, the move backfired. His
party, the League, is still the most popular party in Italy’s polls, backed by about
25 percent of voters,  but support has dropped since February and its lead over
the center-left Democratic party has narrowed considerably.
“One issue that was amazing about all this: Italians took the quarantine seriously,
they collaborated with the central orders and were able to follow the guidelines”
despite widespread economic suffering, said Raffaella Sadun, a Harvard Business
School professor who advised Italy’s prime minister on the crisis. “This may be
the primary point of difference with what we are seeing in the U.S.”
National leadership takes center stage
The early wave of coronavirus cases blindsided leaders around the globe —
although those leaders adopted significantly different paths to respond.
“Whoever the leadership was, we would’ve had an outbreak. Virtually every
country has,” said Jennifer Kates, director of the Kaiser Family Foundation’s
global health policy work. “The United States clearly performed poorly at many
points along the way in January, in February, in March.”
In the United States, Trump’s deputies struggled to convince the president to take
necessary steps to fend off Covid-19 across February and March, ranging from
mobilizing more parts of the federal government to ensuring the availability of
adequate testing. Even after Trump recognized the severity of the crisis by mid-
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886March, the White House largely delegated the subsequent response to states —
forcing governors to end up bidding against each other for supplies and
resources, and fueling broader chaos.
But in famously fractious Italy, after some initial confusion over who was in
charge, national leadership devised a more centralized plan that regional
governors could follow. In Germany, lawmakers gave the federal government
emergency authority to impose health measures across the 16 states. Likewise,
the European Union leaders in Brussels ultimately convinced  national capitals to
stop hoarding medical supplies, coordinate border closures and start discussing
the appropriate standards for ending lockdowns well in advance.
The European countries’ response hasn’t been seamless. Spain was initially
hamstrung by Madrid’s failure to get its fractious regions in line , and German
Chancellor Angela Merkel has faced her own challenges from unhappy regional
leaders. But up-front coordination and quick decisions paid dividends across the
monthslong crisis, experts said.
“That central cohesive role of a federal government has been lacking in the
United States. In a way, the U.S. has hamstrung itself.”
 Alexandra Phelan of Georgetown’s Center for Global Health Science and
Security
“One of the strengths about a federation or a nation is that you can centralize
priorities and goods like acquiring personal protective equipment, or policies like
when to test for coronavirus,” said Alexandra Phelan of Georgetown’s Center for
Global Health Science and Security.
“That central cohesive role of a federal government has been lacking in the
United States,” Phelan added. “In a way, the U.S. has hamstrung itself.”
Another significant difference: how national leaders abroad publicly incorporated
the advice of their top health advisers, even as Trump often undermined the
messages of experts like infectious disease doctor Anthony Fauci — sometimes as
they shared the same stage.
"Countries that have had good understanding between political leaders and
public health leaders have done the best,” said David Heymann, a professor of
infectious disease epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical
Medicine who led the global response to the SARS outbreak in 2003. He pointed
to Germany as a good example, where its public health institute “has been a
constant adviser to the government, and the government has taken the
information and used it.”
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887No time for American exceptionalism
Even as the coronavirus situation began to worsen across the winter, Trump
administration leaders repeatedly touted the U.S. health system as an advantage
that other nations lacked — and, as independent experts acknowledged, for good
reason.
A scorecard issued by the Nuclear Threat Initiative and the Johns Hopkins
Center for Healthy Security in October 2019 ranked the United States the most-
prepared nation to face a pandemic, citing ample investments in infectious
disease detection and response, led by organizations like the Centers for Disease
Control. Meanwhile, Italy ranked 31st in preparedness, falling behind nations like
Estonia and Indonesia.
But the all-encompassing faith in the U.S. infrastructure turned out to be
misplaced, exemplified by the CDC’s early failure on testing, which contributed to
coronavirus’ silent spread. Trump’s own vows in February and March that the
virus would simply “disappear” put the United States out of step with other
developed nations.
“How much of that was America knows best, America can handle this… that was
certainly part of the decision-making,” said Kates of the Kaiser Family
Foundation. “That turned out to be the wrong call.”
Meanwhile, the administration’s aggressive, isolationist posture — with Trump
bashing global health experts and threatening to yank the United States’ funding
from the World Health Organization — has done little to help coordination. And
nations like Italy, which provide universal health care access to citizens,
simplified residents’ efforts to get tested and treated.
The insular thinking in the United States has alarmed global health experts, who
said that opportunities to learn from other nations were missed.
“There was no sound reason to think that a virus capable of overwhelming the
health systems of China and Italy would prove any less dangerous in the United
States,” Konyndyk of the Center for Global Development wrote in Foreign
Affairs this month. “But leaders across American society imagined that somehow
the United States would be spared the ravages of the disease.”
A push to reopen
If the United States had waited just a few more weeks to lift lockdowns — or more
rigorously imposed them in the first place — that could’ve driven cases down
much further, experts agree.
“We know that a one-week delay in imposing lockdowns, given the exponential
nature of transmission, could have reduced cases by 50 percent,” said
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888Georgetown’s Phelan, who acknowledges the downsides of social distancing for
economies.
European countries’ “initial reopening phase was more or less comparable to our
full lockdown phase. And they were much more judicious and consistent in how
they applied it,” said Konyndyk. “They had a much more hard-nosed and a much
more consistent approach to limiting transmission.”
The experts acknowledged that Covid-19 has proven to be a fearsome opponent
and that small flare-ups can quickly mushroom into major outbreaks, changing
the calculus on which countries have contained the virus.
But for now, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control — modeled
on the U.S. CDC — has given European countries a pat on the back last week.
“Decreasing trends in disease incidence are observed and sustained” in almost all
EU countries, the European health agency’s latest threat assessment declared.
While no one knows exactly which types of social distancing measures are best, or
just how intense they need to be, the ECDC said, “such measures appear to have
been associated, at least temporarily, with decreases in the number of newly
reported cases.”
“The lesson for the United States, in my opinion, is … the only strategy, in the
absence of the vaccine and specific therapy, during the Covid-19 pandemic is
social isolation and the use of masks,” said Indolfi, the Italian cardiologist.
Indolfi — who lives in Calabria, a southern region of Italy that experts
worried was at high risk if Covid-19 got a foothold, given its lack of infrastructure
— noted that his nation’s coronavirus intensive care wards are virtually empty
and that the pandemic “can be considered practically over.”
“At the present time, in Italy people consider themselves safer,” he said.
Several experts like Phelan, who also serve as public health professors, said that
they’d already begun incorporating the U.S. response into their classes as a lesson
on public health failures.
“I know for my course, this is pretty much going to be all we’ll talk about,” said
Phelan, who teaches national and global health law at Georgetown.
Kates, of the Kaiser Family Foundation, concluded, “You would not look to the
United States as a case study of how to do this well. The U.S. has in the past, and
could in the future, shown tremendous leadership in health crises. ... The fact that
we couldn't do it in this case — it is depressing, as a global health person.”
Harvard’s Jha, who said he’s long championed some flexibilities in the U.S.
health system compared to nations with socialized health care, said he’s come to
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889his own grim conclusion about America’s often scattershot response to
coronavirus.
“We may end up being the worst of any country in the world in terms of our
response,” Jha said. “Italy… they're going to do way better than us.”
Continued press activity around my comment about NFL likely not being able to play in
the Fall inless in a bubble.   Causing a big uproar with crazies saying I did this so as to
hurt Trump since he needs “return to normal” to get re-elected.
Did a Q and A by Zoom with the Directors of all of the Smithsonian Institutes (>12) on
COVID-12.   Good back and forth.
Mark Meadows called me about helping with a friend of his hospitalized in NC with
COVID-19 and compliating bacterial pneumonias
HBO is going to do a scripted series about me:
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series based on Malcolm Gladwell’s New York Times bestselling book. It
hails from Brian Grazer, Imagine Television Studios and CBS Television
Studios. Greg Walker, showrunner of the DC Universe series Titans, will
write and executive produce the series, with Gladwell also executive
producing.
Outliers  will take a detailed look at why people are successful, what
makes them successful and at what cost. Part historical drama, part
biopic, each season will profile individuals through an unique lens,
looking at the specific historical situation which led to their outsized
imprint on society and what ultimately makes them an Outlier.
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891Kayleigh continues to make a fool of herself on TV with ridiculous answers to questions.
PRESS:   Interview with John Lauerman (Bloomberg News – London); WNYC
NPR Radio with Brian Lehrer; Radiolab Public Radio Interview podcast Jab
Abumrad; ESPN 98.7 Radio Interview (30 minutes)
June 23, 2020 – Global – USA
Big day today with House Energy and Commerce Hearing on COVID-19.   Me, Redfield,
Hahn, Giroir.
VP called me at 10:00 AM when I was driving with Farncois to the Hearing.  He called
from Air Force 2 (on way to Wisconsin) and we spoke for 25 minutes.  He wanted to
know if I needed anything.   He is a good guy, but he was really calling (sub-text of his
words) to urge me to go lightly in my explanations and to not forget to bring out some of
the positive things that are being done.   He still is a guy with the glass half full and not
half empty.   He even admitted this in the conversation.
Hearing was very long (6 hours).  I had some cantankerous exchanges with Rep.
McKinley (R-WV)  who was giving me shit about saying early on that we should not
wear masks to save them for the HCWs at a time when there was a shortage.  I said “Ok,
we are going to play that game”   This went viral on social media.   Also, I sqwitched in
the middle of the Hearing from a black mask to a Washington Nationals mask, which
went viral and 2 days later led to a big photo of me with the Nats mask in the Sports
Section of the Washington Post.
POTUS tweeted about me right before the Hearing:
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892And so now I am his friend when he sees that I have high approval ratings.   Totally
amazing!!
PRESS:  Winston Salem State Radio Podcast with Chancellor Elwood Robinson –
WSSU – Future Focus Now, WSNC 90.5
June 24, 2020 – Global – 9,000,000/470,000;  USA – 2,350,000/122,000
Based on my discussions last night with David Barr and the group he brought together of
people in the trenches of COVID-19 in NYC, New Orleans, DC, Seattle and Chicago, it
is clear that the surge is caused by people opening up and throwing caution to the wind
leading to community spread.   We (me) say that in orde to contain these increases in
nfection that will inevitably occur when you open, we need to identify, isolate and
contact trace.   They are saying that this doesnot work.   Contact tracing is a sham.   It is
done by phone, people do not trust government, there is no isolation after the tracing
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893when tracing does occur and people go right back into multi-generational homes and
infect the vulnerable.
     This was confirmed in 2 conversation that I had with Mak Ghaly the Secretary of
California HHS.   Here is his e-mailfrom today:
Hi, thanks for talking this morning and including me in on this
conversation.
In Califronia, we have built up a statewide contact tracing platform
called CALConnect and we are on our way to have nearly 10,000 contact
tracers throughout the state as our phase I program.  This said,
contact tracing can be improved by
1) increasing the availability of disease investigators skilled at
conducting the initial deep dive into an identified case
2) hiring an army of contact tracing workers who look like the
community they work in and speak the same language as those they are
working to contact trace and support
3) must fund and make widely available safe places for supported
isolation and/or quarantine- underused hotels make sense.
4) must help fund two weeks of wage replacement so that low income
individuals don’t have to make a short term choice between feeding
their families or spreading coronavirus.
In my view funding these ideas at the federal level is a way to do both
community stimulus and response with one single investment strategy.
I will report this to the TF.   I am afraid that we are not equipped to handle resurgences at
the community level.
Did taped briefing to the US Conference of Mayors.
Deb and I realize that Bob redfield is over his head and not really mounting an adequate
response.   He is passive.   Good guy, but not fit for the job.
PRESS:  NPR “Morning Edition” – Rachel Martin;  Front page story and picture of
me in Washington Post and New York Times about the House Hearing yesterday;
NPR Sacramento CapRadio – Sammie Caiola – Facebook Live
June 25, 2020 – Global   USA
Called Deb this AM trying to figure out how to stop this disaster.   Contact tracing does
not work.   We need pooled testing.   She will talk to Jared and I offered to call Mark
Meadows.  Spoke with Mark for 20 minutes at 7:45 AM.   I laid it on heavy and he
gets it.   He will call an emergency meeting at the WH and agrees that we need to do
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894pooled testing.  I told him that our response regarding contact tracing and isolation was a
“Fucking disaster and an abject failure”   Also, he fully appreciates that the CDC is not
up to the task.   They cannot respond o a domestic or global pandemic.
Had good conversation with DeMaurice Smith Director of the NFL Players
Association (NFLPA). I clarified the misunderstanding re: my saying there will not be
an NFL this Fall/Winter.
Did 1.5 hour Zoom with CondeNaste led by Anna Wintour.   This is the overarching
organization of mlost of the major magazines such as Vanity Fair, Wired, Self, Vogue,
Bon Apetit.
I have been invited to appear on Dancing with the Stars  – no thanks!
PRESS:  Toronto Radio KISS 92.5; picture of me with my Nats Mask in the Sports
Section of the Washington Post
June 26, 2020 – Global – 9,300,000/480,000;   USA – 2,420,000/125,000.  40,000 new
cases yesterday, the most for a single day.
Spoke woth Gary Bettman, Commissioner of the NHL giving advice about their opening.
My talk with Mark Meadows yesterday precipitated a major firestorm of
disagreement in the WH.   Some elements led by VP and his staff (particularly Katie)
felt we should have a TF meeting and then have a Press Conference with me and Deb
leading and run by the VP.   Apparently, Kayleigh and Alyssa and the POTUS team
(probably Jared and the economy team) were against this.   Triggered much rancor, but
finally we did it.   Clearly, the lines are dividing in the WH.  Clearly, I am precipitating
this since Deb still cannot get herself to speak up even though she lives in the WH.   At
the Press Conference, unfortunately, the VP continues to stress the bright side about
how well we have done when the southern part of the country is on fire.   I came in
and spoke of the danger to the entire country even though the map looks like there are
more good parts than bad parts of the country.   I stressed that we are a heterogeneous
country, but we are not disconnected within the country and an outbreak anywhere is a
danger even to those sections that have done well.   I stressed that the young people have
both a personal and a societal responsibility.   If they get infected, they are feeding the
dynamics of the outbreak and are part of the problem, not part of the solution.   It is up to
them.
The press killed the VP following the press conference saying that he did happy talk
when the country is in serious trouble.   They are correct.   At least the press that I added
a reality check to the story.
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895Had out Security team over the house for a “separation party” since they are being
withdrawn since the death and violent threats have decreased over the past 2 weeks.
Team leader George Adams plus Andre Jacobs, Ken Marty, Brett Rowland, Mike Salva
Had a wonderful time.   We had really bonded with these guys over the past few months.
PRESS:   Much press associated with my remarks at the press conference today.
Will spill over to tomorrow;  Meg Tirrell of CNBC will show parts of our interview
today with the Milken Institute; Interview with Elizabeth Cohen (CNN) for the
Aspen Institute and Aspen Ideas – she will use this for CNN tonight.
June 27, 2020 – Global – 9,700,000/494,000;  USA – 2,500,000/125,000;   45,000 cases
today – highest amount ever.   Florida is having increased hospitalizations as is Arizona
and California.
Clear, there is a SERIOUS PROBLEM.
Deb, Bob Redfield, Steve Hahn and I had a Zoom call that Deb and I arranged.   It is
clear that we need to change strategies and rely (see above) on massive community
testing and effective tracing in person and on foot at the community level.   Our efforts
have failed for a number of reasons.   Bob still insisting that there were likely these many
infections all along, but we were missing them since many were asymptomatic and now
we are picking them up.   That is crazy since there are more hospitalizations and the
percent positives of testing are increased in several states.   The VP saying yesterday that
we are doing really well becomes more ludicrous.   There will likely be 100,000 cases per
day by August.
Cliff and I will try to help out Deb by getting NIH-funded elements to help in the
community testing.
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896PRESS:  Stories from yesterday’s disastrous press conference.
June 28. 2020 – Global – 9,66,000/492,000;   USA – 2,500,000/126,000;    5th day in a
row of new record set for number of daily cases.
Pence (inexplicably) continues on TV to say we have done very well and ours is a
success story.   He is getting blasted.   I have been completely blocked from TV by the
Comms team at the White House.
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897Next couple of weeks will be critical as hospitalizations increase.
VP is finally wearing a mask.    Believe that Deb likely convinced him
PRESS:   Interview with Apoorva Mandavilli of New York Times on “pooled
testing”;  Wolf Blitzer showed an interview of me by Elizabeth Cohen as part of the
Aspen Ideas Festival in a Special Sunday Night Edition of the Situation Room.
June 29, 2020 – Global – 10,000,000/500,000;   USA – 2,550,000/127,000
47,000 new cases yesterday.  50% of all new cases from CA, AZ, TX, FL.   Clearly big
problems with resurgences very likely related to young people at bars and in big parties
related to opening, Memorial Day and crowds.   Mostly young people with average 1.5
decades younger than a couple of months ago.
Governors’ call in Sit Room with VP leading the call.   Clearly, they get it now and are
worried.   I spoke about making the public health response to vehicle to re-opening as
opposed to the obstacle to re-opening, i.e. obey guidelines and always use mask and
physical distancing even when opening.
Gov Ray Cooper (D-NC) called me and spoke for 45 minutes on his dilemma about
whether to open the Charter Schools that are scheduled to open in 2 weeks, right after 4th
July.   He was agonizing since he wanted to do the right thing.   Since this is the first
decision among Governors regarding opening for the Fall term, he feels that he will be
the example.   He is seeing an uptick of cases and he is near FL and so is worried that if
he opens, he may have to lose again if he gets surge like FL and TX,  I recommended that
he delay decision for 2 weeks.   His health officer is Mandy Cohen.
Had important conversation with Pence  right before the afternoon task Force meeting.
I came early and walked up to VP suite and luckily he was sitting in his office with Marc
Short and ? Natalie.   I told him that I am being blocked from TV and I needed to get on
TV to give the ‘risk reduction” message and that I would avoid being pitted against him
or the POTUS merely by not playing that game.   I mentioned the recent interview on
NPR with Michel Martin where she asked a Fauci versus Pence/Trump question and I
responded that this was not helpful and I was there as a health official and not to get into
politics.   Michel gracefully backed down.   I also told him about the dangers of having
me and others on stage with him when he talks happy i.e. glass half full as opposed to
glass half empty.   He got it, but still wanted to do press conferences with us.   He did
promise that he would get me out there on TV since he really liked my message.   First
time anyone ever spoke that way to VP.  He truly likes me a lot (and vice versa).  Now
we have to get the POTUS press people to agree.  Interesting intrigue in the White House.
POTUS people versus VP people.   Katie and Marc are all with me.
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898PRESS:   FOX Radio and podcast (National)
June 30, 2020 – Global – 10,000,000/500;   USA – 2,600,000/127,000.   37,000 cases
yesterday.   Multiple other states (total of 31) are showing increased cases and several
showing increased hospitalizations.
Testified at the Senate HELP Hearing chaired by Lamar Alexander (R-TN) and
ranking minority  Patty Murray (D-WS).   Focus was on opening schools, but it became
free-wheeling.   Elizabeth Warren was her usual muted hostility towards me, probably
since she is aiming to by Biden’s VP and she wants to she she is tough on administration.
Also, Rand Paul was his usual self obliquely accusing me of  arrogance and conceit in
making projections without data.   He referred to my discussing whether Sports could
open.   Actually my responses won him over and he gave me a big wave and smile when
he left the hearing room.   Rest of the hearing went very well.   I predicted that if we do
not do something about the recent surge that the entire country is in danger and we could
reach 100,000 cases in a single day.   This made NY Times immediately online.  I said
“Bars are bad news”.   Outdoors better than indoors.
In a speech today, Joe Biden said that if he is elected POTUS one of the first things he
would do in addressing COVID-19 is to reah out to me and ask me to continue my
leadership role in this effort and “join his administration”.  Clearly, this will piss off
Trump and the White House.
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899PRESS:   Much media coverage of the Hearing today.
July 1, 2020 – Global – 10,200,000/504,000;  USA – 2,620,000/128,000.   Most involved
states now pulling back on opening and closing bars and cancelling events for the
upcoming 4th July.   Spoke yesterday with Marc Khaly from California (see above).  He
is going to cancel all crowding activities over the weekend.   He calls me regularly for
advice.
News reporting that there is now a schism in the White house with Trump, meadows,
Kayleigh and Hope leaning towards economics and deeply suspicious of me versus the
VP and his team (Katie, Fevin O’Malley) favoring me and being much  more realistic
with the VP for the 1st time wearing a mask regularly.   Media speculating that Penceis
now thinking about his own political future and wants to be on the right side of history.
My relationship with Pence getting much stronger.
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900Laura Ingaham (FOX) is now spreading conspiracy theory (Huff Post) that I am actually
“Medical Deep State” and am actually going to be Joe Biden’s running mate:
Laura Ingraham Spews Yet Another
Wild Conspiracy Theory About Anthony
Fauci
The Fox News personality called the nation’s top infectious disease expert “Dr. Doom”
and criticized him for “undermining Trump’s agenda.”
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I reached out to Congressman Joseph Kennedy (D-MA) since we had a garbled
interchange at the House Hearing last week  and it looked like he was annoyed with me.
I wanted to set the record straight and develop a relationship with him.   I was good
friends with great uncle Teddy.   We had a Zoom conversation today for 30 minutes and
it was terrific.   I believe that this is the beginning of a friendship.   He was very gracious
on the Zoom.
Had dinner over Jake Tapper and Jen Tapper’s home in DC.   Terrific couple.
Friendship building.
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901PRESS:  Front page Washington Post  story on my statement that we could get
100,000 cases/day if we do not control the outbreak. NPR – All Things Considered –
Mary Louise Kelly;  BBC Radio Morning Show
July 2, 2020 – Global   USA
Big problems - >53,000 cases yesterday.   Highest ever for a given day.   I am concerned
that we might be on “exponential” increase as we enter into the 4th of July weekend.
POTUS and his people have essentially dropped out and do not even recognize that an
outbreak is ongoing on.  They are denying all requests for me to appear on any major TV
programs.
Caputo is a con man who is completely full of shit.   He says he wants me out there on
TV and yet I am being blocked, very likely by him who knows nothing about public
health.  He is a close friend on Roger Stone, for goodness sakes!
Got call from Ross (POTUS speechwriter) who wants to include in a speech the
beneficial effects of remdesivir and dexamethasone in advanced disease and even
mortality.
Phone Call with Rev. Jesse Jackson, Sr.
PRESS: BBC The World Radio Program; SiriusXM NFL Radio; Multiple outlets
quoting things that I said on BBC, Harvard Business Review and other podcasts
July 3, 2020 – Global – 10,5000,000/513,000;  USA – 2,750,000/129,000
More daily record being broken with cases now at 57,500.
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902Caputo (sleezebag) and White House comms playing games with me in that they are not
allowing me to go out on TV as we enter the 4th July weekend to instruct people on how
to avoind infection.   They do not respond to multiple requests for me to appear.   I spoke
yesterday to Judy Woodruff (PBS NewsHour) and Andrea Mitchell (NBC News), bot of
who want me on their show as does Jim laCosta (CNN).
Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) and LtGov Dan Patrick (TX) attacking me for what I am saying
about how to avoid infection.   Dan Patrick denying that TX skipped over checkpoints in
opening and accused me of lying about this.   I never specifically said they did.   I said
“some states” skipped over guidelines”  Guilty conscience??  CNN did a fact check and
called him out as completely incorrect.
Interesting exchange involving Michael Caputo, me an Alyssa Farah.   Michael is full of
shit, for sure.   He claims to be trying to ge me on TV saying that the WH is blocking.
And so   I wrote an e-mail to him with copy to Alyssa today:
Michael:
   I am sorry to disturb you on this holiday weekend, but I feel compelled to
again reach out to you.   As you are painfully aware, our country is in a very
serious situation with resurgences of COVID-19 cases in multiple states at
record levels.   I believe that it is our moral responsibility to get out the
public health messages about personal and societal responsibility to urge
people (particularly young people) to protect themselves and others from
getting infected as we enter the holiday weekend.  Messages from public
health officials like myself and my colleagues are critical to this effort and
will save lives.   As you know, I have been asked by virtually every network
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903and cable outlet to get out there and deliver this potentially life-saving
message.   Yet every single one of these requests of late, which we re-submit
every day, has been ignored or denied.   We are missing an opportunity to
save lives.  Please consider this.
Best regards,
Tony
Alyssa immediately texts me with the following:  “Hey, Dr. Fauci, just
getting up to speed. WH comms is supportive of you going out, which I’ll
convey to Caputo.   What programs do you think make sense?   I think it
would make sense to add you into the Sunday shows and then look at
network TV next week”.
I tell her my choices and then she texts back:  “I’ll get with your team and
lock some of these in.  Apologies for this happeneing again”.
I had told her that my choice would be Meet the Press. They then tried toget
me on MTP, but they were already booked up.
July 4, 2020 -   Global – 11,000,000/525,000    USA – 2,800,000/130,000
Andrea Mitchell called my cell very apologetic  about not being able to have me on the
show since they already booked a couple of governors who were giving exclusives to
NBC.   I mentioned to her my concern about them keeping me off the air.   She was
shocked and thought that when I did not come on after requests that it was because I did
not want to go on a show.
It is clear that Michael Caputo in totally full of shit.   The WH is now saying that they are
giving the ball back to Pence to decide what happens with COVID-19 and that there will
be more media appearances from health experts.   We shall see.
Florida had 11,000 cases yesterday.   Everything is surging.
July 5, 2020 – Sunday – Hahn on 2 Sunday Shows.   I am blocked (see above).  Surges
continue in multiple states with new records every day.   Particularly FL.   In NY Times
this AM, comment about people in some states, particularly TX (Dan Patrick – Lt. Gov as
an example) are making me the symbol of what they are tired of.   Theyare saying to hell
with the outbreak, “we are done with it”, even though people are getting sick and
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904hospitalized.   POTUS had 4th Juy celebration on South Lawn (I and Chris were invited)
that was crowded and no one wearing masks.   I did not attend.
Not just USA, there are major outbreaks in Brazil, Mexico, Asia (Japan, North Korea,
etc).
I have been having several 30 minute deep background conversations with Bob
Woodward who is writing a book on the Trump response to the outbreak.
Margaret Brennan on “Face the Nation”  came out and explicitly said that the Trump
administration was blocking my appearing onTV including their show where they
continually ask for me and have been refused.
This clearly triggered a response either/or in HHS and the WH because Caputo texted me
in the afternoon and asked what my priority shows would be for next week.    I said
NewsHour with Judy Woodruff and Today with Savannah Guthrie.   Savannah would be
on vacation and so we went with CNN Town Hall with Sanjay Gupta and Anderson
Cooper.   We shall see what actually happens.
Jennifer Rubin wrote column in Washington Post:
Distinguished person of the week: Fauci
finally breaks through
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905Opinion by
Jennifer Rubin
Columnist
July 5, 2020 at 7:45 a.m. EDT
In Senate testimony and interviews, Anthony S. Fauci, director of the National Institute
of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, sounded the alarm: We are not winning in the battle
against the novel coronavirus. Even more important than that was his insistence that we
all wear masks in public. Consider what he told the Senate Committee on Health,
Education, Labor and Pensions on Tuesday when Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) asked if
masks should be given away for free: “There’s no doubt that wearing masks protects
you,” Fauci said. “Anything that furthers the use of masks, whether it’s giving out free
masks or any other mechanism, I am thoroughly in favor of.”
President Trump has been the main impediment to mask-wearing, choosing to turn a vital
public health measure into a sign of tribal identity. Fauci nevertheless has persisted in his
message.
This is hardly the first time Fauci has tried to get Americans to adopt the simple,
lifesaving practice. (“Everybody should wear a mask when out [in] public,” he said in
June. In late May he told CNN, “I want to protect myself and protect others, and also
because I want to make it be a symbol for people to see that that’s the kind of thing you
should be doing.” The advice took on fresh urgency as he warned that the country could
experience as many as 100,000 new cases a day.
The Post interviewed Fauci and other health experts about wearing masks. He was
unequivocal. “It dominates everything I do. The only time I don’t wear one is when I am
alone, when I am home with my wife, or when I am speaking in public — provided there
is 6 feet between me and the people to whom I am speaking, as was the case when I
answered questions at the recent congressional hearings.”
Last week the rate of infections spiked past 55,000 in a single day, and suddenly
Republicans who had pooh-poohed mask-wearing and echoed Trump’s disdain for masks
were speaking up. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) finally proclaimed,
“We must have no stigma, none, about wearing masks when we leave our homes and
come near other people. Wearing simple face coverings is not about protecting ourselves,
it is about protecting everyone we encounter.” Too bad he didn’t say that months or
weeks ago — or tell Trump to stop discouraging mask use.
We seemed to reach a tipping point when Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) finally put out a
statewide order requiring masks. Other states fell into line as the infection and
hospitalization rate soared. Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey (R) issued a shutdown order and
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906encouraged mask-wearing as the virus threatened to overwhelm his state’s hospital
capacity. Pennsylvania , Oregon and Kansas also implemented state mandates on mask-
wearing. Even Vice President Pence — who refused to wear a mask when visiting the
Mayo Clinic in late April — during his visit to Arizona called on Americans to wear
masks.
If only Republicans had listened to Fauci months ago, the U.S. death count  might not be
roughly 130,000 and the pandemic might not be surging in states where leaders shrugged
off mask-wearing and prematurely opened. This is, however, a case of better late than
never.
By successfully cajoling lawmakers and ordinary Americans to wear masks, Fauci will
save thousands of lives before a vaccine is ready. For his constant efforts, defying and
ultimately breaking through the deadly fog of the Trump cult, we say, “Well done, Dr.
Fauci.”
July 6, 2020 – Global    USA
Records continue to be broken in various states.
Did a COVID session virtually at the IAS with Slim Karim and Deb Birx.
Task Force meeting at WH.  VP still focuses on fact that despite the increase in cases,
the deaths are still down.   I mentioned to him that I did not think that the deaths will ever
reach the degree (>2000/day) that it was when NYC was surging, but increased cases will
and are leading to increased hospitalizations.   Wrong Direction.
Washington Post : Coronavirus updates: Seven-day
average case total in the U.S. sets record
for 27th straight day
By Derek Hawkins, Marisa Iati  and Ja        cqueline Dupree
July 5, 2020 at 10:14 p.m. EDT
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908PRESS:  Profile interview with the Financial Times; Philly Beaumont Radio The
Times of London; KCBS Radio San Francisco;  Clips of me on CNN
July 7, 2020 – Global -  11,300,000/532,000;  USA – 2,900,000/130,000
Did press briefing via Zoom in Alabama with Sen. Doug Jones (D-AL) – went very well.
Here we go again.   Got call from Francis Collins who got a call from Marc Short who
said the WH is upset with me because I gave the interview with Sen. Doug Jones (see
above) and he is a Democratic Senator is a tight race with a Republican and they are
suspicious that I am favoring the Dems.  BTW, the interview was approved by HHS Leg
and ASPA.
Caputo called saying that the WH was just going to approve the requests for me to appear
on NewsHour and CNN, but because I said that relying on decrease deaths to say that all
is well with COVID-19 is a “false narrative” and we should not be complacent … I said
this on the Sen. Jones interview.  Now the POTUS is also tweeting that I am wrong on
this as I have been wrong on many things including masks and closing down travel,
which is complete bullshit.
PRESS: Interview with Denise Grady of New York Times regarding Moderna
tension; Corriere della Sera Italina newspaper – Giuseppe Sarcina; ABC News
FiveThirtyEight Podcast – Anna Rothschild;
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909July 8, 2020 – Global 11,500,000/536,000;  USA – 3,000,000/131,100
TF meeting at the Dept. of Education – I was in Sit Room and not part of the press
conference that followed.   Purpose of the TF was to push for opening of schools.  Good
thing that I was not part of the press conference (Deb, VP, Sec. DeVos) since much
negative public response.  Clearly Trump is pushing to open the schools no matter what.
There is concern about the safety of the children and teachers.   Yet, Trump together with
Redfield (being pressured) is saying that the CDC guidelines should not stand in the way
of opening schools (what???).   Glad that I am not involved in that discussion.
Spent 1 hour on Zoom with Sean Penn and his organization – CORE – coronavirus
relief.   Great conversation.  They provide testing in various cities and wanted my opinion
of how they can optimize their impact.   I strongly advised them to focus on a process
that has an impact and endpoint, not just testing to increase the numbers.   I
recommended that they work with cities (like LA, Atlanta) that can utilize their efforts to
actually do effective identification, contact tracing, and isolation.   Sean and his group
were very grateful for the time that I spent with them.
Tension building up with the press (especially CNN) stressing Trump versus Fauci.
Trump tweeting negative things about me.  When asked about my comment of “false
narrayive”, he said I am wrong on a lot of things.  He said that I said not to shut down
China (this coming from Peter Navarro) (when I actually said to shut it down).  He is also
saying that I was against masks before I was for them.   Someone is obviously feeding
him this shit.
Caputo told me that I am being kept off TV (even though they were leaning to approve
requests) because of my comment about “false narrative” concerning relying on deaths
going down.
Even some crazy stuff on the Dark Web about Chris saying that she is Ghislaine
Maxwell’s sister:
The debunking is under way!
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910PRESS: Wall Street Journal podcast – Kate Linebaugh; Sirius Radio “Doctor
Radio” – Marc Siegel
July 9, 2020 – Global   USA
>60,000 new cases yesterday!  Things not going in the right direction at all, yet continued
happy talk from the VP and the White House.   Clearly I am the “skunk at the picnic”.
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911Bob Redfield defending the fact that Trump forced CDC to change guidelines that Trump
felt was too strict to open the schools.   Bob is losing a lot of credibility.   Trump wants to
open the schools at all costs.   Clearly he does not care about the safety of the chidren,
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912PRESS:  Hill TV with Steve Clemons – The Future of Healthcare; Press conference
at IAS on COVID-19; CNN continues to quote me in opposition to Trump and as
the ony person telling the truth.
July 10. 2020 – Global – 12,000,000/546,000;    USA – 3,110,000/133,000
Another record day with 68,000 cases.   Approaching my prediction of ~100,000.
Important meeting with Pence who asked to see for 20 minutes before today’s Task
Force meeting.   He obviously is concerned over the press making an open conflict
between me and Trump.  He explained how much respect and affection he had for me.
He then asked me for advice about how we are doing.   I said that I would be coldly
honest with him.   He agreed to accept that.   I then told him that he is completely losing
credibility when we have >60,000 new cases with increased hospitalizations and deaths
and he starts off at the Pressers saying “We are in a good place”.   I stressed that it would
be best to establish credibility first by coming out right off and saying we have a big
problem, but we are trying to address it in the Southern states that are involved as well as
prevent such resurgences in other states.   Then and only then could he say that we are in
a better place and shape to respond than we were before.   BUT, you must admit the
problem first.  He agreed and was clearly grateful that I was open and honest with him.   I
then told him that 19 years ago in this same room I sat with VP Cheney to discuss the
Anthrax attacks.  I have a photo of Cheney and me right here   Pence asked where in the
room I did this with Cheney and where was the picture taken.   He then called in the WH
photographer and took a photo of exactly where Cheney and I were sitting.   He seemed
to really enjoy that historic context.   At the end of the TF meeting, he again thanked me
for his conversation.
Also, Mark Meadows called me and asked that we meet next week to straighten out the
conflict between me and Trump.   We shall see how that meeting turns out.   I see him on
Monday.
PRESS:  Podcast with American Dissected; CNN (especially Don Lemon, but also
several others at CNN) hammering away at the Fauci versus Trump issue.
July 11, 2020 – In USA – 3,300,000 cases and 136,000 deaths.   Numbers still soaring
with ICU beds filling up in Florida.
Heard from Washington Post (Jasmeen Abutaleb) that she is writing a big article for
tomorrow (Sunday) about the conflict between me and the POTUS.   Yikes!   Let us see
how that turns out.
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913Had call with Marc Ghaly Heath Commissioner from California (Los Angeles) wanting
advice about how to respond to the surge of cases in California.
July 12, 2020 – Cases still soring.  Florida >13.500 today
Big firestorm over the Post article and the fact that unspecified White House officials
have compiled a list of things I said that were incorrect.  This is oppositional research
agsinst one of their own (me).   The blowback has been incredible.   I have been
contacted by virtusally every reporter (Post. NY Times, mutiple CNN – Sanjay Gupta,
Jim Sciutto, networks) that I have ever dealt with and they are consistently outraged by
the disinformation campaign of the WH against me and the attempt to discredit me .
They all want to help.
I called up Marc Short (whom I trust) to ask his take on this.   He was “embarrassed”
and disturbed by this action by the White House.   He believes that it could not have
happened without Mark Meadows’s buy in and approval.   This shows the schism
between the VP’s people and the POTUS/Meadows people.   Marc was quite disturbed
that this is going on.
Also, Brett Giroir tried to throw me under the bus on Sunday TV saying that I am not
always correct – playing into the discrediting scheme.
Sign (below) photo sent to me from Sylvia Burwell.
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914a
PRESS:  Big deal – Front page story in Washington Post: “White House sidelines an
increasingly candid Fauci” by Yasmeen Abutaleb, Josh Dawsey, and Laurie
McGingle – much comment about this on the Sunday Shows.
July 13, 2020 – Global   USA
Yesterday Florida had >15,000 infections – most for any state since the beginning
Met with Mark Meadows.   He denies knowing anything about the WH drive to
discredit me.   This is tough to believe in that multiple nerws outlets (networks and
Cables0 have been given a list of my “mistakes and errors” directly from the White
House.   No way that he did nt knw abut it.   Nonethelerss, he said he will make sure that
it stops.   Too late, they already did the character assassination.
Major, Major show of support for me for multiple and varied sectors.   Most peole
expressing outrage that the trump administration woud be so bumbling and incompetent
to try to discredit the most credible scientist in the world.
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915Gave Fireside Chat Podcast for Stanford Univerity MC’d by Lloyd Minor, dean of
Stanfod Medical School.
Met virtually with Mark Lerner and officials from Washinfgton Nationals to discuss
potential obstacles to their opening at Nats Stadium on July 23.   I will throw out the first
pitch.
Another all with Dionne Warwick about COVID-19.   She is advising Biden people.
Chris Cuomo on the top of his show blasts Trump administration regarding trying
todiscredit me.
Peter Staley blasts Trump regarding me on Anderson Cooper 390 (CNN)
PRESS:  TV and print have flooded the media in support of me and condemnation
of the Trump administration.
Opinions
Fauci has been an example of
conscience and courage. Trump
has been nothing but weak.
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916A sign outside a home in Rockport, Mass., reads "In Fauci We Trust." (Brian
Snyder/Reuters)
Opinion by
Michael Gerson
Columnist
July 13, 2020 at 5:09 p.m. EDT
July 14, 2020 -   Global -  12,800,000/568,000;  USA – 3,400,000/136,000
Outbreaks still raging in Florida – records being broken.  >60,000 cases yesterday
Deep state is going more crazy than ever in attacking me as the academic community is
mobilizing to defend me.   Real crazy.   See below:
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917I did a fireside chat online at Georgetown hosted by John Monahan.   It was taken up
my multiple press including C-SPAN, which then fed into CNN and other networks.   It
was a good venue for my getting the message out.
Phone call with Alyssa Farah.   She apologized profusely about the “screw up” with her
junior staff who put out the list of how I got things wrong.  She admits that it only hurts
the POTUS to disrespect me and question my credibility.  I told her that the White House
(either Meadows or the POTUS) need to shut up Stephen Moore and stop his publication
of “Dr. Wrong” paper.   If he does not the entire academic community will dump all over
the POTUS.
Peter Navarro wrote OpEd in USA Tosday saying everything that I have ever said was
incorrect.
I went on a Goergetown Fireside chat (see above) and in ashort sentene I said that the
current outbreak was “comparable to 1918”.   I did not mean in numbers, but for a
sensitive person, it could mean that I wa predicting 50 million deaths.  Well, tonight
Francis Collins  called me up saying that he just got off the phone with Mark Meadows
who was screaming at him about what I said.  Mark wanted this “walked back”.
Clerly Markis vey sensitive about playing down the pandemic because of the ucoming
election and anything that indictes that this is a big problem drives him nuts.   I got on the
phone with Mark (he was still very angry), but I calmed him down and said that I would
clarify this on my next TV appearance.   He then indicated that he really liked me very
much and respected me and values ou relationship.   I apologized for what happened and
he accepted the apology.   Just an example of the tension that the pandemic in the context
of the upcoming election is causing.
PRESS: Trevor Noah https://bit.ly/2CyI0tH ; CNN – see above at Georgetown again
strongly pitted me against the POTUS regarding a particular statement when I was
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918asked about “who can we  trust”.   I said “medical and public health experts who
speak based on science and data and who tell the truth”.   I said “trust me”.    CNN
took that as strongly implying “do not trust Trump”
July 15, 2020 – Global   USA
Continue record-breaking numbers of cases with increased hospitalizations and now even
deaths.
The press are all over the issue of the White House trying to discredit me.   Alyssa Farah
put out tweet saying that the USA Tody OpEd by Peter Navarro was never cleared or
approved.
Adm. Michael Mullen, former Chairman Joint Chiefs called me to empathize and
give me encouragement and support.   Very nice of him since I had never met him.  Very
nice conversation
The Lincoln Project put out a vewry provocative Fauci versus Trump link:
Lincoln Project ad https://bit.ly/2AYJAEy
Dan Scavino retweated this cartoon mocking me.   This caused outrage among my
supporters:
Letter from Congressman Krishnamoorth to AZAR regarding attackes on me:
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2020.07.15 Letter
from Krishnamoorth
Amazing Day!!   The setting is the extreme tension in the press and in the White House
about the USA Today OpEd by Peter Navarro and the “list” of my mistakes sent out by
WH Comms.   On my way by car to the WH for the TF meeting, I received a call from
the POTUS.  He started off by saying that this tension of me versus him is terrible and
needs to stop.   He “loves” me and know we have a very special relationship and have
bonded right from the beginning.   He is furious about the Navarro OpEd and said (as
Mark Meadows walked into the room and he put me on speaker phone):  “I am going to
tell Navarro if he says or writes one fucking word against you I am going to kick his
fucking ass out the fucking door.   Mark, make sure Novarro understands, one more word
and he is out the fucking door and he won’t come back”.  He then started to talk to me
about how bad or not things were.   He wanted me to be “positive”.   I took the
opportunity to say”  “Mr. President, with your permission, can I be absolutely frank with
you?   We have a problem and we need to own it.  We need to admit that the situation is
serious, otherwise we completely lose credibility.   We should own the problem and then
emphasize how we are going to fix it as opposed to denying the problem”.    He was not
entirely happy with this but said that he understood the point that I was making.   It was a
very good conversation.
Then after the TF meeting ended, I got a note from the Sit Room staff that Mark
Meadows was on the phone from Air Force One and wanted to speak with me.   He had
seen the interview from The Atlantic and was angry that I had not “walked back” my
statement about the 1918 pandemic on that interview.   He was again angry and said he
thought that I agreed that I would walk back the statement today.   I told him I was going
to wait until tomorrow when I am on the NewsHour with Judy Woodruff.  That was not
good enough for him.   He wanted it done today.   He was also pissed that I had
mentioned to the press that we had met and I spoke about the nature of our conversation.
He was clearly over-reacting since even he admitted the press knew about our meeting,
but I do not think I said anything else to them except that we had met.
Anyway, on the way back to NIH I called Sanjay Gupta and asked him to quote me
tonight on his TV hit on CNN and say that I wanted to clarify that on the Georgetown
interview, I did not mean to imply that COVID-19 would be as bad (50-100 million
deaths) as was 1918.  Sanjay agreed to do this.   I texted this information back to Mark on
Air Force One and he replied: “Thanks for getting back with me.  We are going to make
this work.”
The media is totally buzzing about the tension between me and White House.
Amazing support for me and blowing off of Navarro and the “list”
PRESS:  The Atlantic Pulse with Ed Yong; Interview with New Yorker Magazine on
COVID vaccine with Dhruv Khullar;
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920July 16, 2020 – Global    USA     Cases continue to surge.   >67,000 cases yesterday.
Hospitalizations and deaths going up.
Problem emerging here.  Mark Meadows is starting to be a problem.   He wanted me
to “walk back” the statement comparing COVID-19 to 1918.   I was planning to do it on
a schedule appearance on NewsHour today (Thursday).   However, Mark called me
yesterday and was upset that I did not do it already.   He could not wait 1 day.   I said OK
and called Sanjay Gupta and asked him to quote me on his show and also  write it on his
blog that I wanted to clarify.   I thought that he did a good job.   Then this AM I get
another angry call from Meadows saying the clarification was not strong enough
(??really).   Then on the phone he went on that I need to back off  with media since this
cannot be a “Tony Fauci show”.   He did not like the fact that I did an “In Style” piece
and did not want any more profiles of me.   If that was not enough, he hung up and then
120 minutes later called and said he read something where I was reported  to say that the
incubation period was greater than 14 days and wanted me to retract this.   I do not
remember ever saying that and so he sent me an article where Chuck Todd mentioned
that I said that.   I pushed back and got angry myself saying that I never said that and so I
do not know what he wants me to do.  I will try to track down that statement.  I also will
see if I can state again the 1918 clarification on my Face Book live chat with Mark
Zuckerberg this evening.   Trouble brewing here.   For the first time, I am seriously
considering resigning from the Task Force.   I cannot tolerate people following my every
word.   You know he has staff looking up things about what I have said in the past.
Teleconference with Matt Pottinger and Bob O’Brien to discuss opening the travel
between USA and Europe.  Right now there are exceptions for travel for business, but not
for tourism.
PRESS:  Did terrific FaceBook Live with Mark Zuckerberg – 1.8 million viewers;
July 17, 2020 -    Global – 13,400,000/580,000;  USA – 3,600,000/138,000
Records being broken daily.   Yesterday 74,000 new cases.   Hospitalizations and deaths
increasing.
Big issue – Despite all the walking back stuff regarding the 1918 comment, Mark
meadows in an appearance on FOX News and reported by The Hill, Mark Meadows said
that my comment was “irresponsible”.   This is really bad.   He is losing control of
himself with the screaming at Francis and me and the demanding walking back on trivial
issues like my comment on 1918 and the “non-issue” about the incubation period being
greater than 12 days (which I never said) and now this comment about “irresponsible”, I
am thinking about resigning from the Task Force.   I called up Marc Short for advice.
Mark was on Air Force Two with the VP coming back from Wisconsin and could not
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921respond but called when he landed at Andrews.   He said that he too is having trouble
dealing with Meadows who is says can be very difficult.   Mark told me to hang in there
and not do anything drastic just in response to Meadows.   Short was totally supportive
and clearly indicated that Meadows was a problem for him also.
Did Chamber of Commerce live podcast – came out very well.
Did Medscape Podcast with Eric Topol and Abraham Verghese
Did WebMD with John Whyte
Concresswoman Maxime Waters called wanting me to directly address millennials.
Good conversation.
Crazy Michael Caputo says he now has total control of approvals for HHS people for TV,
but wants a “murder Board” before each appearance since “if we screw up, his job is in
trouble”.   Total bullshit since the 1st “Murder Board” for Francis (CNN) and me
(NewsHour) was a joke with his staff who know nothing trying to question Francis and
me.
Slso, Caputo calls me and says that he is takng over the decision about who goes on TV
and not the White House.   He wants an organized program of equal distribution among
the HHS docs.   He sounds delusional.   He is declaring independence from the WH.
Syas that they will decide Sunday Show, but nothing else.
PRESS: PBS NewsHour with Judy Woodruff; New York Times article by Michael
Grynbaum refute Navarro’s USA Today OpEd with title: “Newspaper Says Op-Ed
Attacking Fauci Was Misleading”;   Many clips on CNN drawing from Chamber of
Commerce podcast
July 18, 2020 – Global – 13,800,000/594,000;    USA – 3,640,000/139,000.
Cases continue to surge.   News cycle dominated  by reports of conflict between me and
the Trump insiders (see below)
Petitions from multiple scientific organizations going around to sign on in support of me.
Comm situation becomes even crazier.   Despite Caputo saying that he is now “calling
the shots and not the White House (see above), Alyssa Farah called me and said that Jake
Tapper wants me this week and she will put me on for Tuesday.   I explained to her what
Caputo said and she told me not to pay attention to him since he is a big problem.   She
even said that it would be better if he stopped tweeting about Roger Stine and
concentrated on his job, things would work better.   Anyway, I am caught in the middle.
Let us see how this turns out.
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922PRESS:  Article in New York Times by Mark Leibowich  - “Whats Happening” to
Dr. Fauci is the Buzz.  – Description of the tension against me and for me;  Long
article in Washington Post by Philip Rucker, Laurie McGinley, Josh Dawsey and
Yasmeen Abutaleb “Attacks on Fauci undercut response”.  Also article in CNN blog
by Vivian Salama, Pamela Brown, Kristen  Holmes and Kate Bennett quite critical
of Birx for selling out to trump and compatring me and Deb; Also another New York
Times Article by Giovanni Russonello “Most Americans Put Their Faith in Fauci”;
Boston Globe by Kevin Cullen: “The Crusader doctor and the non-crusading judge”
– comparing me from Holy Cross and Chief Justice John Roberts from Harvard –
cute article
July 19, 2020 (Sunday) -  Continuing surge
Francis Collins on Meet the Press – did well.   They continually ask him if WH has told
him to fire me.   Francis responded that this is “unimaginable”.
John Lewis dies of pancreatic cancer
Many societies are writing statements in explicit support of me.   It isvery moving and
humbling.
Kellyanne Conway called me today saying how angry she was at the unseemly criticism
of me by some in the White House.  She has spoken to the POTUS about this and he is
strongly supportive of me
Mark Mradows and I going back and forth regarding his nitpicking every word of mine
on interviews.   Latest was his concern that I said that NYC did a good job in getting back
to basline and opening safely.   He says NYC did a terrible job and I should not be setting
them as an example.   He is incorrect and misunderstood what I was saying.   I meant that
they went down to baseline and are not opening safely.   WEgo back anad forth and
finally call a truce.
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923USA Today piece by Gov. Larry Hogan:
Hogan: Governors like me rely
on experts for COVID facts. Dr.
Fauci has never let me down.
As Trump downplayed COVID, Fauci offered clear-eyed views of the
evidence and what we faced. I shudder to think where our country would be
without him.
Larry Hogan
Opinion contributor
PRESS:  New York Times article by Michael Shear, Noah Weiland, Eric Lipton,
Maggie Haberman, and david Sanger entitled “Passing off virus burden, White
House fueld crisis” – criticizes Deb Birx a lot.   I comme out well;   Major 3 page
article in Washington Post  by Molly Roberts entitled “Anthony Fauci built a truce.
Trump is destroying it” – very favorable profile
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924July 20, 2020 –  Global – 14,000,000/598,000;   USA – 3,800,000/140,200;
•Kentucky, Louisiana, Oregon and South Carolina all set new single-day records
for new cases on Sunday. Idaho, Nebraska, Iowa and five other states have seen
their seven-day averages for daily new fatalities rise by more than 40 percent in
the past week.
•More than 100 Florida hospitals have run out of ICU beds for adults. The state has
reported more than 10,000 new covid-19 cases on 12 different days in July.
Had call with Bill Gates (usual call every couple of weeks)
Was on Governors’ call from the Situation Room today.   Made comment about the
importance of the “fundamentals” on 1) masks; 2) close bards; 3) limit restaurant
occupancy; 4) avoid crowds; 5) personal hygiene – wash hands.
The Nats mask that Iwore to the Hearing is being put into the Cooperstown MLB Hall of
Fame!
PRESS:  Nice profile on me in Corriere della Sera -  https://bit.ly/2ZIWDU7 ; Slate
Magazine “What’s Next” podcast; Podcast/Instagram with Maria Schriver
July 21, 2020 – Global – 14,300,000/604,000;  USA – 3,800,000/141,000.
Surge continues in Southern States.   Florida in trouble.
POTUS had press conference on COVID-19 without having me, Deb, or other TF
members with him
Meadows and now Rand Paul have been actively criticizing me for saying that NYC got
it right in that after their peak, they brought the infections down and now have few
hospitalizations and few deaths.   They are incorrect.   See below numbers for NYC:
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926PRESS: NPR Radio – “Morning Edition” Rachel Martin; New York Times interview
wih Jennifer Senior; Nice article in U.S. News and World Report; CNN with Jake
Tapper – The Lead; Interview with John Casey of The Advocate
July 22, 2020 – Global   USA
Death threats are ramping up again and so my security with George Adams is coming
back.   George will take Christine and meto the game tomorrow night and provide
security.
Had a great  Zoom conversation with Ryan Zimmerman (Zim) who gave me tips on
throwing out the first ball on Thursday.   He was wonderful.   Very nice man.
Interesting day at the Task Force.   Called the POTUS   I mentioned to the VP that the
POTUS did a good job on the solo press conference yesterday.   I told VP to tell the
POTUS that I said so.   The VP told me to call him myself since he has such great respect
for me.   Katie Miller gave me the phone number of the POTUS’s personal secretary,
Molly Michael.   I called her and she ultimately (30 minutes later) connected me.   I told
him it was a good idea (like I had told him last Thursday) to own the problem, admit that
things are bad and describe how he is going to do something about it.   I also told him
that it was good that he did it solo and kept it to 30 minutes.   He was very glad to hear
from me and said it was”a really great call”
Gov. Andrew Cuomo called me asking how I was.  I told him that I was upset that the
far right was trying to discredit me.   He strongly suggested that I resign; he does not
seem to appreciate the difference between resigning from TF and resigning from NIAID.
He said I will lose credibility if I stay and that my legacy needs to be preserved.   He said
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927if I quit he will make sure that I am hired as an uber-consultant and could do very, very
well in the private sector.  Sorry, not for me.
Nearly 3,500 Public Health Experts Signal
Support for Fauci
Current and Former Health Officials, Physicians, and
Scientific Experts Sign Letter Denouncing White House
Attacks on NIAID Director
July 22, 2020
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Nearly 3,500 of the nation’s leading public health experts are speaking out against White
House attacks on National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease Director Dr.
Anthony S. Fauci and are calling on President Donald Trump not to sideline science or
scientists as the country continues to reel from the COVID-19 pandemic. The signers
include two former Commissioners of the Food and Drug Administration, two former
directors of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a former Secretary of the
Department of Health and Human Services, a former Surgeon General, several leading
medical journal editors, and hundreds of the nation’s most prominent physicians,
researchers, and public health experts.
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928The open letter to President Trump was drafted by former FDA Associate Commissioner
Dr. Peter Lurie, now President of the Center for Science in the Public Interest, and
epidemiologist and longtime AIDS activist Gregg Gonsalves, now of Yale School of
Public Health, who began circulating the open letter on Friday evening.
“This week and last, the White House mounted a campaign to discredit one of our
nation’s leading scientific experts, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National
Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, who has advised six Presidents on epidemics
from HIV to SARS, from Ebola to H1N1 influenza,” the letter reads. “Since the
beginning of the pandemic, he has remained one of the world’s most trusted scientists on
COVID-19, daily explaining in lay terms the complexity of an illness we still don’t fully
understand. And he has done so by placing science front and center in the public
discourse. Attempting to marginalize highly respected researchers such as Dr. Fauci is a
dangerous distraction at a time when we most need voices like his.”
In mid-July, the White House circulated a set of talking points criticizing Dr. Fauci to
journalists , and Trump administration trade advisor Peter Navarro penned an op-ed in
USA Today claiming that Dr. Fauci was “wrong about everything I have interacted with
him on.” USA Today retroactively said that Navarro’s op-ed had claims that were
misleading or lacked context, and thus did not meet the paper’s fact-checking standards.
Though the White House eventually distanced itself from the Navarro op-ed, Dr. Fauci
was not invited to participate in yesterday evening’s White House coronavirus briefing,
the first since April.
Signatories to the open letter include former New England Journal of Medicine Editors
Dr. Marcia Angell and Dr. Jerome Kassirer; current New York City Health
Commissioner Dr. Oxiris Barbot and former Commissioner Dr. Mary Bassett; former
NBC News science and health correspondent Dr. Robert Bazell, now at Yale; American
Public Health Association President Dr. Georges Benjamin; Dr. Luciana Borio, former
Director for Medical and Biodefense Preparedness at the National Security Council; New
York University bioethicist Dr. Arthur Caplan; former US Surgeon General Dr. Joycelyn
Elders, former HHS Deputy Secretary William Corr, former CDC Director and current
President and CEO of Resolve to Save Lives Dr. Thomas Frieden; former EPA official
and current Dean of the Milken Institute School of Public Health at George Washington
University Dr. Lynn Goldman; former FDA Chief Scientist Jesse Goodman, now with
Georgetown University; former FDA Commissioners Dr. Margaret Hamburg and Dr.
Jane Henney; Dr. Shelley Hearne of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public
Health; The Lancet Editor-in-Chief Dr. Richard Horton; Ruth J. Katz of the Aspen
Institute and former Dean of the Milken Institute School of Public Health at George
Washington University; former CDC Director Dr. Jeffrey Koplan of Emory University;
Yale cardiologist Dr. Harlan Krumholz; former HHS Assistant Secretary Dr. Nicole
Lurie; Federation of American Scientists President Dr. Ali Nouri; former HHS official
Dr. Anand Parekh of the Bipartisan Policy Center; former JAMA Deputy Editor Dr.
Drummond Rennie of the University of California San Francisco; former HHS General
Counsel William Schultz; former Kansas Governor and HHS Secretary Kathleen
Sebelius; former FDA Deputy Commissioner and current Vice Dean for Public Health
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929Practice and Community Engagement at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public
Health Dr. Joshua Sharfstein; and Editor-in-Chief of the Science family of journals Dr. H.
Holden Thorp.
“As current and former public health officials, researchers, and public health
professionals, we call on our political leaders, members of the media and all Americans
to reject the sidelining of science, to speak out against the silencing of scientists, and to
champion open and public scientific discussions of the issues facing our country as we
struggle to make progress against the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic,” the letter continues. “For
that, we need the clear voices of government experts, including Dr. Fauci, to be available
to the American public without limitation. That is the only path that can bring success in
our efforts to control the virus.”
“Science and scientists had been under relentless assault during the Trump administration
before the COVID-19 pandemic, and that assault has not let up,” said Lurie of the Center
for Science in the Public Interest. “We must reverse the administration’s hostility to
science and certain scientists if we’re to deploy the public health measures and develop
the treatments and vaccines that are our only hope for bringing the pandemic under
control.”
“We have so much work to do to end the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic in the United States.
We’ve seen too much death, too much economic devastation already. Public health and
science offer us a way out, a way to vanquish this virus. But to do that we have to
embrace the best science and scientists this country has to offer, not denigrate the very
expertise that is vital to our survival at this moment,” said Gonsalves of Yale School of
Public Health.
Topic:
COVID-19 Integrity In Science Anthony Fauci
Contact Info:
Contact Jeff Cronin (jcronin[at]cspinet.org) or Richard Adcock (radcock[at]cspinet.org).
Telephone call with Marc Ghaly fro CA again asking for advice on how to control the
surge in CA.   A problem is that even when you close the bars, people have backyard
barbecues that are as bad as bars.   He is also concerne about the upcoming harvest
season with migant workers.   75% ofinfection are among LatinX
PRESS:  Randy Rainbow Pleads for Dr. Fauci's Help to 'Gee, Officer Krupke'
https://bit.ly/3jtogIN;
July 23, 2020 – Global  - 14,800,000/612,000;   USA – 3,950,000/143,000
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930Uneventful day with usual NIH meetings.  Did not go down to White House.   Getting
nervous about throwing out the first ball at Nats stadium tonight in the Opening Day
ceremony of Nats versus Yankees game.
Amazing night at NATS Stradium where I threw out the first pitch to open the 2020
Baseball season with Nats – NY Yankees game.   Unfortunately, I threw a “bouncer” to
the right of the plate.   I felt really badly but the overwhelming public reaction to it was
sympathetic and positive.   Mark Lerner (owner of Nats) had me sign dozens of baseballs
to be given out to people and one that will go into the Baseball Hall of Fame together
with  2 Louisville Slugger bats. I signed a Nats Jersey that will hang on the wall in Nats
stadium next to a similar shirt signed by President Obama.   Game got rained out in the
6th inning and we went home.   Yankees were leading 4-1.
PRESS: Interviewed with David Axelrod for “The Axe Files” podcast; Wall Street
Journal Article on AIDS activism;
July 24, 2020 – Global – 15,000,000/619,000;    USA – 4,020,000/144,000
Routine day.   Went for my “annual” physical with Ted Li.   All is well.
PRESS:   FOX News with John Roberts; On front page picture of me glove tapping
with Sean Doolittle; Podcast with CSIS (Steve Morrison); Interview with Ben Cohen
of Wall Street Journal;  podcast with Khan Academy; WINS NYC Radio;
July 25, 2020 – Global     USA
Texas now have to triage who gets into intensieve and who does not (too far gone and/or
too old.   Very difficult situation.   California takes over from NY as state with the most
cases.  Florida still surging.
Deaths in the USA up to 1000/day for 4th day in a row.
They have created a baseball card with a photo of me throwing out the first pitch.
Judy Mikovits is planning to be on conspiracy TV shows via Sinclair news network
saying that Fauci created the coronavirus in China and brought it to the USA
Over the past week POTUS has done 3 press conferences alone.   I have commented to
the press that I think that this is good since he is now giving a sober message that things
will get worse before they get better and that people should wear masks and avoid
crowds.   He has cancelled the GOP Convention in Jacksonville Florida.   I commented
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931that I liked the fact that the pressers were short and concise.   CNN sarcastically
commented that I really giving a vailed criticism of his prior pressers.
July 26, 2020 (Sunday) – 5th Day in a row for 1000 deaths/day.   Brett Giroir on Tapper
(State of the Union) talking bullshit about testing with Jake pressing him.   I gave Jake
some questions to ask him.   Mark Meadows on This Week with George Stephanopoulos
saying that public health measures are not working and we will have to rely on
interventions such as vaccines and therapeutics.   This is his way of backing out of a
failure and trying to get an “October Surprise”.   Heads up for him trying to push an early
approval of vaccine or even influencing the decision about convalescent sera, which
actually do not look too good right now.
Spent better part of yesterday and this AM working out the tension between the COVPN
sites, Larry Corey and Moderna.   Larry acting out since he is angry that Moderna and
perhaps AstraZeneca  are going with CROs instead of the COVPN sites.   Larry
understandably feels left out and disrespected.   He has a point but he is poisoning the
relationship with the companies, which is a bad idea since like it or not, we (Operation
Warp Speed – OWS) allowed the company instead of NIH to hold the IND and so it is
their trial.   Larry hostility spilled over to the site PIs and they leaked to the press
disparaging things about Moderna, which set off a media pickup, etc.   I called Larry,
then set up a Zoom yesterday with Moncef Slaoui, Matt Herpburn, John Macola to figure
out how to fix this.  I volunteered to convince Larry that he is inadvertently becoming the
“problem”.   Zoom call today with Larry and the above 4 to come to some sort of
understanding:   Larry and COVPNs would not be left out of the action, but Larry must
stop criticizing the Company.   Tomorrow we have Zoom with all of us + the COVPN
PIs.
Jake Tapper woke me up at 11:23 AM (I went to bed early) furius at POTUS for tweeting
about the fact that Jake severly questioned Brett Giroir on SOTU CNN show today.   Jake
was really pissed at the craziness of it all.
July 27, 2020 – Global – 15,800,000/640,000;    USA – 4,200,000/147,000
Today is launching of Phase 3 trial of Moderna mRNA-1273.   First patient received
the vaccine in Savannah Georgia at 6:45 AM.   Fastest ever in the USA from sequence to
phase 1 and fro sequence to now phase 3
We had in Building 1 a virtual press conference at 10:00 AM with me, Francis Collins,
Matt Hepburn, and Stefan Bancel announcing the start of the Phase 1 trial.
Met with the POTUS in the Oval Office today briefing him (with Azar, Collins, Gen.
Perna, Moncef, Jared Kushner) about therapeutics and vaccines.   He was typical stream
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932of consciousness and rambling on.   It is clear he wants therapeutics quickly.   He
accepted that the vaccine might not be ready before the election, but he was not happy
about it.   He kept pushing about when therapy would be ready.   Francis and I were
surprised when some of the WH staff sitting behind us told him that the convalescent
plasma data looked real good and we would have definitive results tomorrow.   Had no
idea what they were talking about since we know that the plasma data are a mess and we
are bringing in statisticians (independent) to look at the data.
The baseball card of my opening day pitch by Todd has broken the all time record for
sales with 51,512 print sales in just 24 hours.   Craziness continues.
Threats against me are increasing greatly and so George Adams and my “modified”
security  detail is back
PRESS:  Press conference re: start of Moderna vaccine trial (mRNA-1273); did
Face Book Live with Francis Collins and Steve Hoge on the Moderna phase 3 trial;
CNN Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer; FOX News with John Roberts.
July 28, 2020 -  Global   USA
On GMA, George Stephanopoulos brought up that the POTUS has retweeted a tweet
from a Breitbart based group that said that I was misleading the American public and
thsat I was a fraud.  George asked me to respond and I blew it off saying that I do not
tweet or even read tweets.   After the interview, George texted me saying: “Thank you,
Tony.  So impressive”.   The POTUS is playing a weird game of acting Okay with me in
person and saying that our relationship is fine to the press and then retweeting stuff that
attacks me.   He is a very strange guy.
Task Force meeting today.   Continued surge in Florida.   Threats now to yellow states of
Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, and others sine they are seeing increases in percent positives of
their tests.
PRESS:   Good Morning America – ABC with George Stephanopoulos; Black
Entertainment TV – Marc Lamont Hill; Wired print interview with Steven Levy;
AP Website TV – Mike Stobbe;  Fireside Chat – American Federation of Teachers –
FaceBook Live
July 29, 2020 –
Trump bemoaned to the press at a press conference yesterday that my approval ratings
were better than his. And he did not understand why.  Amazing!!   He really stepped in it
yesterday when he endorsed a group of whacko doctors who said that
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933Hydroxychloroquine cures COVID-19.  Woman (African) doctor named Stella Immanuel
who beiieves in alien DNA and demon sperm said you do not need masks and HC cures
COVID-19.   Trump not resally knowing much about her, endorses her because she
pushed HC.   Don Lemon (CNN) on his show last night crucified Trump for this.
Again the narrative continues of me versus Trump.  CNN and the media in general are
having a field day with this and hammering Trump.
Met with group of “Doctors” (Deb, Seema, Brett, Bob) in a new format led by Adam
Boehler and Brad Smith + Morgan Ortagus (Comms) to tighten up policy
Tucker Carlson calls Anthony Fauci a
“hypocritical buffoon”
Carlson: “Criticize Fauci, and you will disappear from the internet”
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PRESS:  BBC Radio News; ESPN podcast with Pablo Torre; BBC/PBS World News
TV with Katy Kay; MSNBC with Andrea Mitchell; 4 local TV stations –
Telemundo; Univision; 2 others
July 30, 2020 – Global – 16,600,000/565,000; USA – 4,400,000/151,000
Participated in a “Call to Action to Donate” ceremony at the American Red Cross
Headquarters.   Did tour with Azar and the POTUS and visited with a person giving
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934blood.   Then had roundtable with POTUS, Azar Hahn, Adams, Collins, Birx. Adam
Schechter of Quest, Gail McGovernPres and CEO of ARC.
Had phone conversation with Ted and Annette Lerner (Owners of Washington
Nationals).   They wanted to thank me for all that I am doing for the country and to wish
me well.   Promised that we will be seating together at a nationals game.
PRESS:   Press briefing associated with visit to Red Cross; Black Press USA
Fireside Chat Face Book Live; CNN Town Hall with Sanjat Gupta and Anderson
Cooper
July 31, 2020 –
Still >1000 deaths per day.  Slight flatteningin AZ, but other states still surging.   Yellow
states starting to increase.
Red states - >10% positive; Yellow states – 5 to 10% positive; Green states - <5%
positive
House Hearing today – Select Subcommittee on COVID-19 – Chair – James Clyburn –
Rayburn-2154,   Major clash with Jim Jordan (R-OH).   Go to You Tube to see.  I believe
that I made him look silly.
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935Important call form Larry Horowitz who works closely with nancy Pelosi.
Apparently, There was a meeting in the WH with Steve Mnuchin, Mark Meadows,
Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schummer.   Steve and Mark told Nancy and Chuck that
AstraZeneca  will have vaccine in September and that it will be given an EUA.  Theyare
talking about the ChADOX vaccine that Adrian Hill is testing in Brazil and South Africa,
It is a 10,000 person trial.  Apparently, Peter Marks does not know anything about this
and Larry just informed him.   Bottom line is that they are going to pressure Steve Han
(who likely will cave in in the idea of an EUA) to issue one even though Peter has serius
issues with this.   An EUA will likely get in the way of completing the RCTs that are
going on.  Clearly. This is politically driven and will be a ploy for Trump to get re-
elected.
PRESS:   Much coverage on CNN of my encounter and confrontation with Jim
Jordan.   CNN Jim Sciuttto, Don Lemon and Chris Cuomo dumped all over Jordan.
August 1, 2020 -    Global – 17,400,000/675,000;  USA – 4,500,000/153,000
Uneventful Saturday.   Southern states still surging; >1000 deaths yesterday.   The new
approach of jumping on the mostly yellow states that are starting to show a slight
increase in  percent positive is referred toas the “embers approach”
Had conversation with Ian Lipkin.   Ian is responsible for the medical/public health
aspects of the Democratic Convention in Milwaukee.  He called me to go over all the
things he has put into place – masks, testing everyone, airflow, limit numbers, physical
distance, etc. – to ask if he has missed anything.   Seems he has done all he can do.  The
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936decision to hold the convention or not is up to the politicians.   Since they have decided to
go with it, Ian has done his job in making it as safe as possible.
PRESS: Usual CNN pitting me against the POTUS
August 2, 2020 (Sunday) – Global – 17,700,000/681,000;  USA – 4,600,000/154,000.
I was not on any Sunday shows despite requests for from them.   Brett Giroir on Meet the
Press and Deb on SOTU.
POTUS continues to tweet that I am incorrect in what I am saying.   He rejects that I say
that the USA only shut down by 50+% while EU shut down by 90% and then goes on
with the non-sequitur that we have more cases BECAUSE we are testing more.   The
press in blasting him for supporting the wild woman Stella Immanuel.
August 3, 2020 – Global   USA
Far right and FOX News continuing to attack me.  Tucker Carlson calling me a “Fraud”
and a “hypocritical buffoon”.
Fireside Chat  with Dartmouth Medical School faculty.
PRESS:   Local TV – KDFW-TV – Dallas; KABC-TV – LA; KSNV-TV – Las
Vegas; WTVJ-TV – Miami; KTLA-TV – Los Angeles; WGN-TV- Chicago; KGTV-
TV – San Diego; Voice of America TV with Greta Van Sustern; JAMA Podcast with
Howard Bauchner; US News and World Report (Brian Kelly interview); Face Time
Live Press conference with Gov. Lamont (D-CT)
August 4, 2020 – Global  - 18,000,000/688;  USA – 4,700,000/155,000
Amazing Day – We were supposed to have a routine TF meeting today.   We were
waiting in the Sit Room for a 3:00 PM start and the VP was late at 3:15 PM.   Marc Short
then came in and said that the POTUS wanted some of us ogo to the Oval Office.   We
we got there, the entire senior staff was there (everyone).  The VP sat the following
around the Resolute Desk – me, Deb, Redfield, Giroir, Azar.   The POTUS then started
eyeing and throwing around the Fuck word:   “What the fuck are you people doing?   Deb
you are saying that the pandemic is now in the rural areas.   First the cities, now the rural
areas.   Where is it now.   I am saying we have it under control and you say it is
everywhere.   Tony, you are always contradicting me.  Giroir, you say HC does not work
(he said this on SOTU on Sunday).   I took it and many good doctors swear by it.The whs
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937fucking message.   You need to be positive”.   Then he started raving that we are seeing
more cases only because we are doing more testing.   The other countries look good
because thery are not testing. At that point, Kellyanne Conway took over and made the
point that we can say what we feel is correct, but if it contradicts the pOTUS, they need
to hear about it in the Oval or Sit Rooms and not hear about it for the first time on TV.
Everyone remained silent.   At that point I gifures enough is enough.   I said:  “Okay Mr.
president.   We are now in the Oval office and so you need to hear it diretly from me.
Increased testing does not cause cases.   When you increase testing you will of cours pick
up asynptomatics whm you might otherwise not notice.   However, when you have
increased percent positives and increased hospitalization, and increased deaths, that
means that there are truly more cases.  He then changed the subject and started talking
about the fact that deaths are down.   After I broke the ice, then Deb, Redfield, and Giroir
chipped in.   All in all it was a manifestation that he is desparate and still does not
understand the pandemic.   Very interesting encounter.
After that we went to the Doctors Huddle with Brad Smith and Adam Boehler to talk
about tesing and schools.   More later.
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1Historical Record of A. S. Fauci – Part 2
August 5, 2020 – Global – 18,100,000/692,000;   USA – 4,750,000/156,000.
Met with POTUS yesterday in Oval (see part 1).   Photo below:
Had Peter Navarro discuss HC with NIH Guidelines Panel.   He was his typical
arrogant self and rejected RCTs as being flawed and stuck with the observational
studies.  He maintained: “I am wrong, no one is harmed, if you are wrong,
thousands of people die”.   He denies that HC can have any deleterious effects.
His partner on the call was Mark Hatfill (Yikes!)
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2PRESS: Did The Forum at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health –
“When Public Health Means Business” with Sanjay Gupta moderating –
carried live by CNN; Bloomberg TV – David Westin; Brain Pop TV; Politico
podcast – Dan Diamond; Reuters TV; Interview with Walter Isaacson on
Amanpour and Company TV
August 6, 2020 –  Global – 18,400,000/698,000;   USA – 4,800,000/158,000
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3Got semi-agitated call from Mark Meadows at around 7:45 AM saying that he
is going to keep me off all TV until we sit down and talk.   He admits that I am
probably being misquoted, but the press is pitting me against the POTUS.   They
are trying to drive a wedge between us.   My interview with CNN this AM was
terrific, and when I saw that it was Mark who was calling I thought that he was
calling to tell me that the CNN interview was great.   Apparently, I had said
yesterday that the virus would not be “eradicated”, which is true (only smallpox).
This is against what the POTUS said.   I explained this to Mark and he seemed to
understand that I was saying that it could not be eradicated, but I emphasized that it
could be controlled.   I suggested that he watch the CNN interview.   He stated that
the POTUS has a great deal of affection for me and he does not want to see a rift.
He said he would watch CNN New Day and get back to me.  I may be off TV for a
while.
Call from Sen. Pat Toomey (R-PA) asking about a few things.   Is it a good idea
to widely test for antibodies in PA to determine penetrance of infection?   I told
him yes.   Also, questions about use of saliva POC tests.   Good conversation.
Discussion with Don Milton and Kimberly Prather on aerosols.   They are particle
and aerosol physicists and it is clear that particles larger than 5 um can aerosol
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4including those up to 50 or 100um.  Important implications for masks and indoor
ventilation and physical distancing.
Did a briefing with Qs and As to the Congressional Asian Pacific American
Caucus (CAPAC) led by Rep. Judy Chu and including Mazie Hirono, Grace Meng,
Bobby Scott, Tulsi Gabbard, Brad Sherman, Susan Davis, Mark Takano.   Went
very well.
PRESS:  WVLK Lexington, KY Morning News Radio; CNN New Day with
John Berman; Bloomberg News on Vaccine hesitancy – Anna Edney
August 7, 2020 – Global -    USA
Made rounds again today (felt really good) – saw Mr. Davis (HIV, IRIS, Steroids
and Ramsey-Hunt Syndrome);  Also saw Sharon Rockefeller in for Steve Holland
and will get removal of rectal stump that is chronically infected with fistula due to
radiation.
OWS Weekly Call – All 6 companies now have advanced purchase agreements.
Also, Pfizer still not giving any information even though they have adv. Purchase
agreement.   This is unacceptable and they need to be blasted in my memoir.
Also, we are averaging 800 enrollments/day in the Moderna trial:
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board briefing Vx &
Call from Larry Horowitz (works with Nancy Pelosi) (should have described above).   He had
warned me a few days ago about Meadows trying to pressure Hahn and Marks to grant UA (or
even BLA) prematurely to vaccines (likely AZ) in time for the election.   I called Peter Marks a
couple of days ago (together with Collins and Lane) and explained that we would back him if he
holds the line.   He called the AZ package “a hot mess’ and definitely not in shape for an EUA
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5Plasma drive on Times Square
Did Fireside Chat (virtual) at Brown University with Ashish Jha (new Dean at Brown School of
Public Health) -
PRESS: Face Book Live – Brown Fireside Chat (see above)
August 8,2020 – Global – 19,200,000/716,000;  USA – 4,900,000/160,200.
POTUS acting even more erratically.   Keeps insisting that increased case numbers
are due only to increased testing, ignoring the increases in percent positive,
hospitalizations and deaths (>1000/day).
Inconsistent message to me whether they want me on TV.   David Muir (ABC
World News Tonight) requested me and we accepted and thought that it was
cleared and then silence.  Same for NBC Morning News with Savannah Guthrie.
And so, I decided to call Alyssa Farah and straighten things out.   She was her
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6usual wonderful self when I explained that I needed to know where I stood with the
WH and being on TV.   She said that she would want me on every day and every
night.   However, the POTUS keeps saying that the Doctors are contradicting him
and he is very impulsive and so when he sees or hears about a contradiction he
blows up and says either Birx should not be on TV or Fauci should not be on TV.
Comms people obey and then after a couple of days, they know that he calms
down and even forgets and they then get me and Deb back on the air.   Alyssa also
said that Kayleigh McEnany reminds him that I have an 80%  approval rating and
it is not a good idea to keep me off TV.   They want me on TV, but they have to
play to POTUS and Mark Meadows impulsive and mercurial behavior.  Interesting
call.

PRESS:   Appeared in Washington Post:
As Fauci battles the pandemic and politics,
his grateful neighbors celebrate him as a
hero
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7Ida Bergstrom and her sons Lars, 11, left, and Nils, 14, are selling yard signs to show support for
Anthony S. Fauci, who is the nation's top infectious-disease expert and one of their neighbors.
(Bill O'Leary/The Washington Post)
By
Marisa Iati
Spoke with Dr. Patrizia Cavazzoni (Deputy Director and Acting Director of
CDER/FDA.   She is Acting for Janet Woodcock who is now at OWS.  Larry
Horowitz (see above) who warned me about Meadows pressuring Hahn and
ultimately Marks to give EUA or even BLA prematurely to vaccines (likely AZ),
also said that Patrizia needed some support because Henry Ford hospital has put in
for a re-issue of the EUA for Hydroxychloroquine (previously removed by the
FDA), being pushed by Peter Navarro to do so.   Patrizia had just reviewed all the
data (including the Henry Ford data – observational study with many confounders)
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8and feels strongly that no EUA is justified.   She wrote it up and will officially
submit it and make it oubic.   HOWEVER, she was told by Steve Hahn to wait
until Monday (today) so that he can “speak with Meadows”.   Question is whether
Steve merely wants to inform Meadows out of courtesy, or he might cave to
meadows.   We shall see.  Patrizia is OK.   She will stay strong.
August 9, 2020 – Global – 19,500,000/722,000; USA – 5,000,000/161,000
Birx gets compared with me in a Guardian  article:
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9Dr Deborah Birx: voice of scientific reason
or apologist for Trump?
The coordinator of the White House coronavirus taskforce built her reputation fighting Aids but
is she compromising it by indulging the president’s whims?
Dr Deborah Birx speaks during a meeting in the Oval Office with Trump. Photograph:
Rex/Shutterstock
Tom McCarthy
@TeeMcSee
Published on Sun 9 Aug 2020 05.00 EDT
Months of frustration with Donald Trump’s denial of the coronavirus crisis in the United States
boiled over last week when the Democratic House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, publicly attacked a
top member of Trump’s coronavirus team, Dr Deborah Birx, for standing by the US president
despite his record of lies and misinformation about the virus.
Her position contrasts sharply with Dr Anthony Fauci, her former supervisor and current
scientific peer on the White House coronavirus taskforce, who has clashed more frequently
with Trump – but has if anything risen in the public estimation for doing so.
The question for Birx is whether, after the current health emergency is past, she will be
remembered as a Fauci-like figure who was able to work with Trump without becoming
personally compromised – or as something else.
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10We know sooner or later that when EU opens up, there cases will go up if they are
not careful, and some of them are not careful:
From an American Artist in Paris”
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11Whether or not to open schools has been a major topic of discussion as we
approach the school opening timetable.   I have been saying consistent that we
should have as a default position our attempt/intention to open schools because of
the psychological effects on children and in some areas, the dependence on schools
for breakfast and lunch.   Also, the potential deleterious downstream effects on
working parents.   HOWEVER, the primary consideration must be the health,
safety and welfare of the children and the teachers, and the potential spreading to
others (i.e. family members).   I have stated that one size does not fit all and
decisions should be based on the level of infection in the community:
PRESS:  Front page article in Washington Post blasts Meadows and Trump
for ignoring me and Birx and carefully monitoring everything that I say in
order to keep us on message and when we do not, they do not approve
requests for interviews.   Glad that the sources were many and so they do not
think that I leaked.
August 10, 2020 –
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12Important NBC print article (blog) about the difference between Birx and me:
Trump calls Birx's COVID-19 warnings
pathetic — but the real test is what she
does next
Doctors like Fauci and Birx find themselves in an unenviable position, as do so many employed
by the Trump administration. But given our national crisis, there is little room for excuses.
Dr. Deborah Birx, the White House coronavirus response coordinator, arrives for a coronavirus
task force briefing in the Rose Garden at the White House on April 27.Jabin Botsford / The
Washington Post via Getty Images file
Aug. 10, 2020, 4:30 AM EDT
By Jalal Baig, oncologist
Dr. Anthony Fauci is, by now, a household name.  But the good doctor's mostly unalloyed
advocacy of scientific and public health truths has come with clear political and personal costs.
As the coronavirus has spread, Birx has hewed much closer to the White House’s often-
problematic pandemic script.
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13There are constant rumblings of Fauci's firing by President Donald Trump, who excoriates him
regularly for committing "a lot of mistakes." In addition, the director of the National Institute of
Allergy and Infectious Diseases has drawn the ire and ridicule of lawmakers like Sen. Rand Paul,
R-Ky., and Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, for opining on matters deemed to be beyond his preserve.
Most bloodcurdling are the "serious threats" that have been made  against him and his family.
Fauci's counterpart on the White House coronavirus task force, Dr. Deborah Birx, the response
coordinator, is in a different position. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called Birx "the worst" in a
closed-door meeting with members of the Trump administration at the end of July. Then during
a follow-up appearance on ABC's "This Week" on Aug. 2, Pelosi accused the official of enabling
Trump's spread of coronavirus misinformation .
These concerns are not unfounded. As the coronavirus has spread from raging fires in scattered
epicenters to a national inferno, Birx has hewed much closer to the White House's often-
problematic pandemic script. For months, she stayed publicly mum in the face of Trump's
politicized and patently false claims about the contagion, occasionally gushing about his
nuanced appreciation for science.
Yet, when Birx finally countered some of Trump's conspiracy theories and half-truths this
month, she predictably found herself in his crosshairs.
She stated the obvious last week, describing infections as "extraordinarily
widespread"throughout the nation. This irked Trump, who accused Birx of taking "the bait"
from Pelosi and attacking the administration's response.
Birx, a colonel in the Army who serves at the pleasure of the president, highlights the
metamorphosis that seemingly competent and objective individuals undergo inside Trump's
White House. As David Smith wrote in the Guardian , "Like other White House officials before
her, she is said to be sacrificing a hard-won professional reputation at the altar of Trump's
vanity."
Now, as America enters a new, critical coronavirus phase, Birx finds herself at a fork in the
pandemic road. Will she continue to walk the line between truth and the politicized "truth"
Trump desires to hear? Or will she opt to clearly put her medical oath over job security?
August would be an ideal time for Birx to grow a spine. With the protracted first wave of the
virus inching closer to the dreaded fall and with schools now reopening, the country remains all
but rudderless in its response to the coronavirus pandemic. After the federal government
abdicated its role to helm a coordinated response, 50 states scrambled to cobble together 50
different plans.
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14Trump, meanwhile, has continued with his dangerous musings on the virus. As physician Dhruv
Khullar observed in the New Yorker, "The work of saving lives has been complicated by
misinformation, rhetoric, and political calculation." Apart from hismuddled messaging on
masks, Trump has said COVID-19 would just "disappear," promoted hydroxychloroquine as a
safe and effective treatment, ascribed increased cases merely to testing and pronounced 99
percent of coronavirus cases  to be "totally harmless." He has also continued to peddle his belief
that kids are "virtually immune" from the virus "and we have to open our schools."
Doctors like Fauci and Birx find themselves in an unenviable position, as do so many employed
by the Trump administration. They have been tasked with speaking uncomfortable and
inconvenient truths to those in power. But given the current asphyxiation of scientific and
public health expertise in Washington, there is little room for excuses.
Birx established her profile as a physician-scientist of great repute through work on HIV and
AIDS since the 1980s. Nowadays, Birx works closely with Vice President Mike Pence, who refers
to her as his "right arm." With an office located near the Situation Room, she has become a cog
in the president's team.
Unfortunately, instead of serving as a firewall in the West Wing against Trump's medical
disinformation, Birx has too often been obsequious.
In an interview with the Christian Broadcasting Network in March, she praised Trump's ability
to assimilate data and science: "He's been so attentive to the scientific literature and the details
and the data," she said, Vox reported. "I think his ability to analyze and integrate data that
comes out of his long history in business has really been a real benefit during these discussions
about medical issues." In April, she remained mum and unmoved when the president turned to
her and hypothesized aloud about using disinfectant as a coronavirus treatment.
That same month, her rosy outlook on the country's outbreak provided Trump the scientific
data he needed to push forward with his plans to reopen the country economically after an
extensive lockdown. As the New York Times reported  in July, "Dr. Birx was the chief evangelist
for the idea that the threat from the virus was fading." Her fervor was based on her erroneous
assumption that America's trajectory would resemble Italy's and that infections and deaths
would crater after reaching a peak in mid-April.
Given the president's stance on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and school
reopenings, it is unnerving that Birx has worked to strip the organization of potentially vital
coronavirus patient data. She has also worked to create more pliable guidelines for schools,
despite the concerns of many medial professionals.
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15The suddenly beleaguered Birx is not without allies, however. Even as Trump turned on her, the
New York Times reported  that others have spoken out in her defense, including Kentucky Gov.
Andy Beshear and Gov. Tate Reeves of Mississippi. Dr. Carlos del Rio, an infectious disease
specialist who helms the scientific advisory board for a State Department AIDS program Birx
runs, told the New York Times it was Birx who convinced Pence to appear publicly wearing a
mask, weeks before Trump relented. In the past, even Anthony Fauci has noted that Birx finds
herself "in a difficult position" and that she "essentially lives in the White House."
A difficult position indeed. But as Fauci told Politico, "You should never destroy your own
credibility. And you don't want to go to war with a president."
"But you got to walk the fine balance of making sure continue to tell the truth," he said.
Ultimately, the looming loss of more American lives as summer turns to fall should give
Deborah Birx pause. At a moment when science and public health have been criminally
devalued, fidelity to Trump — and yes, perhaps her future career prospects — should be
superseded by a simple promise she made many years back as a medical student to "first, do no
harm."
Jalal Baig
Dr. Jalal Baig is a physician and writer. He is an oncologist in Chicago. His work has appeared in
The Washington Post, The Guardian, The Atlantic, Slate, Vice, Salon and elsewhere.
Had productive talk with particle and aerosol physicists from DHS who confirmed the fact that
particles >5 micrometers  do aerosolize.   Leader of group was Matthew nMoe.   His people
were Paul Dabisch, Michael Hevey, Justin Taylor, and Marcia Firmani.   Andrea Lerner was with
me on the call.
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16Patrizia Cavazonni stood by her guns and Steve Hahn did not over-rule her
regarding the EUA or Hydroxycholoquine
PRESS:  ABC TV – David Muir – ABC World News Tonight;
August 11, 2020 – Global    USA
Very serious e-mail from Deb Birx this AM and my response to her:
Deb:
   I am totally with you.  I will, and I trust we all will, continue to give the
message that we have been giving.   This is an historic pandemic and it
is our responsibility to do everything we can to contain, control and
eliminate it.   We cannot just let the virus do its thing since people will
die.   Children get infected and some of them get very sick and they
almost certainly play a role in the community spread.  W e should hold
strong on this.   Perhaps we can still be value-added, but we need to
discuss that if the POTUS is following Atlas’s advice and not ours, then
what are we doing there?
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17Best,
Tony
Anthony S. Fauci, MD
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Subject: Oval yesterday
A very dangerous meeting in the OVAL yesterday.  I had been excluded from all oval meetings
since 22April until a couple of weeks ago when the President began speaking to Tony and I and
thus the southern hot pink graphic showing the Southern outbreak.  Since then I am sometimes
included in a brief meeting before his press briefing (approx. 2-3 times total). A couple of weeks
ago a Dr Scott Atlas showed up at the WH with a very different take on the epidemic.  Dr Atlas
thoughts
1. No matter what we do it the outcome will be the same – in other words in most places
the virus has already run its course.  There is enough herd immunity to protect the rest
of the population if we protect the vulnerable
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182. Schools can open and should open everywhere – I countered that this would cause a
new round of community spread and eventually lead to new hospitalizations and deaths
– but I had no impact
3. Children are not at any risk to infection and do not spread the virus in any manner – the
do not transmit the virus
4. HTN and associated co-morbidities are not that critical – ie all BB, MLB, FB except for
line backers that are overweight are at no risk as physical fitness overcomes the virus
effects
5. Masks are over rated and not needed
6. Testing is very over rating – thus the source of the President’s call for new testing
guidance
7. Case identification is bad for the President’s reelection – testing should only be of the
sick
The president has decided we were wrong about “heat” and the summer and therefore our
opinions at this point are irrelevant.  (As was discuss by CHOP months ago and all models
predicted outdoors (thus summer) would decrease R1 by 15-20% due to some increase in social
distancing but this could immediately be over come with decreased mitigation such as social
distancing and etc and thus the situation we are in.) He noted that it was the task force that got
us into this ditch by promoting testing and falsely increasing case counts compared to other
countries.
The conclusion was Dr Atlas is brilliant and the President will be following his guidance now. I
don’t know what can be done at this point but I will make another run at this and will continue
the state by state approach to try to contain the virus but doubt my abilities to change the
President’s mind concerning what needs to be done – strict mask use, expansion of testing,
strict social distancing and limiting access to all public venues where social distancing and
masks cannot be used, limit school reopenings where there is uncontrolled community spread –
the red counties – until the outbreak can be contained, limiting in yellow counties with strict
social distancing and mask use.
Open to all thoughts but I don’t think I can be very effective at this point. Deb
Met with POTUS in Oval Office together with Collins, Deb, Moncef Slaoui, Gus
Perna and the entire WH staff with our group sitting in front of the desk.   Meeting
was supposed to be our briefing the POTUS on vaccine progress.   However, it
turned into the free-floating stream of consciousness about vaccines, treatments,
stock market, Russian vaccine, approval ratings, testing too much, influenza, etc,
etc.   My relationship with him is now back on track as I joked with him a lot
during the meeting.   Lasted about 40 minutes.
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19Had teleconference from my home with Mascola, Dieffenbach, Mike Cohen, Peter
Gilbert, Larry Corey regarding the revealing of the AMP data (Antibody Mediated
Prevention).   HPTN 703 – Women in Southern Africa and HPTN 704 – MSM and
TGW in Americas and Switzerland receiving VRC01 infusions every 2 months for
10 months.   Data are clear:   overall no prevention of HIV infections.   However,
very clear from sieve studies that VRC01 prevented acquisition of VRC01
sensitive isolates.   Big win!    This is first step in a multi-mAb regimen similar to
combination ART
PRESS:  Terrific Face Book/Instagram with Tiffany Haddish;
August 12, 2020 – Global – 20,000,000/735,000;   USA – 5,120,000/164,000
4800 items regarding me on sale:
Fauci items on Etsy - n=4804   https://www.etsy.com/search?q=fauci
Discussed on a “chat” with Pastor Miller of St. Luke’s Lutheran Church in Silver
Spring in a session for children.   She also said a prayer for me.
Bets Malone has written a song about me to the words of “You Made me Love
You”.   Going viral on you tube.   Totally crazy
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20Important meeting at Task Force – Trump has brought in a Dr. Scott Atlas, a
radiation oncologist from Stanford Hoover Institute.   He is a FOX News
Commentator and Trump has seen him on FOX.   He is against everything we are
saying.   He wants to open schools in red Zone, feels that children do not get sick
(or even transmit when they get infected) and so we should let herd immunity
form.   He wants to protect the vulnerable but does not realize that we do no do that
effectively.   He wants to only test symptomatic people.   He obviously does not
believe in community spread.   This is going to be a real problem.   The rightwing
press is saying that Trup brought him in to counter me and Birx.  Atlas now has an
office in the EEOB and he is Special Assistant to the POTUS.   He is also now a
member of the Task Force.
PRESS:  Did Fireside Chat with the “Trilateral Commission” led by Meghan
O’Sullivan and Juliette Kayyem (Harvard Kennedy School of Government)
August 13, 2020 – ~1500 deaths yesterday – deadliest day of summer.  Global –
20,200,000/737,000; USA – 5,200,000/165,1000.
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21Had very nice Zoom conversation with Gov. Raimondo (D-RI) about school
opening.   RI is in green zone and so it was an easy conversation.
The Fauci cult is getting even stronger.   E-mail from  Children’s Hospital at
Northwestern in Chicago”
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22Amazing  surprise:   Irwin Redlener called me.   He is a friend of Joan Baez and
said that Joan is now an accomplished portrait artist and she is a great admirer of
mine and has painted a portrait of me.   Irwin wanted to know if it was OK for him
to give Joan my cell phone number.  I said of course and within an hour Joan
called me and we had a wonderful conversation with her calling me an American
hero.   She texted a copy of the portrait to me.   I gave her my home address and
she will send me a print of it.   See below:
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24PRESS: Local Radio and TV in North Carolina – 1) 106.1 FM:  KC O’Dea
Show (Radio); 2) Bo Thompson WBT (Radio); 3) WGHP Fox 8 Brad Jones
TV Greensboro; 4) WXII TV Davonte McKennith – Winston-Salem.   PBS
NewsHour with Judy Woodruff.  Instagram Live with Matthew
McConaughey.  Pew Trust Podcast
August 14, 2020 – Excess death calculations has us actually at 200,000 deaths
from COVID-19.  Global   USA
Did Task Force today.   Had brief discussion with Scott Atlas.   He is concerned
about being seen as the “anti-Fauci”.   He says that he is not in favor of “let it rip”
to develop herd immunity.   He believes in herd immunity, but he feels that we
should just protect the elderly and vulnerable in nursing homes.  He may be
backing off on what he was “supposed” to have said.   Clearly, Deb Birx and to
some extent Redfield feel that he is dangerous.   He might be, but I really need to
hear from him what is position is on a variety of subjects.
Joan Baez sent me a beautiful note this evening.
Hi Tony,
Just a thought..
People have told me over and over how important I was I'm their lives..I never
really either believed them or paid them much attention.  But maybe too much
modesty, false or otherwise, is as silly as blowing ones own trumpet to loudly.
I wonder if you have any idea (probably not) how important you are to us, our
health, our sense of hope, and that we won’t go under, not just yet.  I am not
optimistic about the future of our country, or the world for that matter.  But that
doesn’t mean I’ve given up.
I’m fortunate to paint, and paint well.  Same as I sang well.  I had the blessed luck
to end my singing career shortly before Covid upended the entertainment
industry.
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25My first portrait exhibit was called “Mischief Makers”.  It consisted of people who
had spoken truth to power, many risking their lives to make change without the
use of violence.
Without even thinking about it, you are doing nonviolent resistance every time
you stand up in front of the cameras with people all around you who are doing
everything possible to negate common sense and science.. knowing your life
oddly and unexpectedly is more fragile than you’d thought, by the splits and
divisions, mistrust and hatred - mostly people by who are encouraged to do evil,
are now very close by.
Corragio Tony!  If I, or anyone from my community of activists and friends can
help you out in any way, please just let us know.
Meantime, my British mom used to say, "Carry on the good works and take care..
good people are scarce."
Yours, Joan
On rereading  this I see that parts of it might be appropriate to put up on my face
book page.  Let me knkw if that makes you uncomfortable in any way.
PRESS:
August 15, 2020
Brett Giroir getting slammed by the press for saying that we do not need to do
widespread testing.   He is acting annoyed with the press (which is a bad idea)
when they push him and mention that all the health experts disagree with him.
The Fauci cult continues:
Fauci Bobblehead Raises $200k for Healthcare Workers
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26Two new Fauci-themed bobbleheads are on preorder. They will also raise money to support
healthcare professionals.
By Christopher Ruvo
The National Bobblehead Hall of Fame and Museum has revealed that a bobblehead it
produced of Dr. Anthony Fauci has raised more than $200,000 to aid in the fight against COVID-
19.
Dr. Anthony Fauci
The museum generated the money by donating $5 from every Fauci bobblehead sale to the
American Hospital Association’s Protect the Heroes Campaign in support of the 100 Million
Mask Challenge and other initiatives that protect healthcare workers on the front lines of the
coronavirus pandemic. Other bobbleheads, including one of Dr. Deborah Birx, helped generate
an additional $70,000 in donations for the cause.
Given the success of the Fauci bobblehead charitable initiative, the Milwaukee, WI-based
museum has created two more Fauci bobbleheads that are now available for preorder. The first
commemorates the Fauci “facepalm” incident from earlier this year, while the second features
the original Fauci bobble design with a red tie. The museum will continue to donate $5 from
every purchase to Protect the Heroes.
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27Dr. Fauci ‘facepalm’ bobblehead
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28Dr. Fauci red tie bobblehead
“After releasing the first bobblehead of Dr. Fauci, we received a lot of requests for a facepalm
version, and when the original bobblehead sold out, we wanted to give a few options for the
many people out there just finding out that a Dr. Fauci bobblehead exists,” said National
Bobblehead Hall of Fame and Museum co-founder and CEO Phil Sklar. “We look forward to
raising more funds and awareness for the Protect the Heroes Campaign during these
unprecedented times.”
Fauci, 79, is the executive director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. A
central figure on global health issues like HIV/AIDS, Ebola and Zika, Fauci has been the medical
expert at the forefront of the U.S. battle against coronavirus.
The “facepalm” theme of the one new bobblehead arises from a press briefing in March in
which Fauci appeared to chuckle and cover his face with his hand in reference to something
President Donald Trump said. Fauci said he was only covering his face because a lozenge was
stuck in his throat, but the image went viral.
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29The problem is that now I am one of the most recognizable and well-known people in the
world.   This is very strange; however, it is triggering increased hate mail and threats.   My
security detail (Brett Rowland, Andre Jacobs, Mike Salva, Ken are getting more careful and
concerned.
Outbreak still roaring:
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30PRESS: None
August 16, 2020 (Sunday) – No Sunday shows for me.  They are putting out Scott
Atlas and Brett Giroir.   New emphasis is that we do not need to widely test, we
just need to protect the vulnerable in Nursing Homes by testing personnel often
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31and occupants.  They are forgetting about the many vulnerables in the community
(diabetics, obese, HT, elderly) who will get infected by community spread.
PRESS:   Glenn Kessler (fact checker for Washington Post) wrote a piece in
todays Post indicating that Trump was incorrect in his statements that I was
wrong on: 1) saying that everything is OK and we do not need to worry; 2)
that I opposed China travel ban;  3) that I was against masks.
August 17, 2020 – Global     USA
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32•Did Fireside chat with Gallaudet University
•Discussion with Cong. Sanford Bishop (D-GA) – member of CBG –
particular interest in Vets.
•Gave COVID lecture to ASM Microbe meeting.   Afterwards did fireside
chat with Peggy Hamburg
PRESS: Taped interview with J.J. Green, national security correspondent for
WTOP radio;
August 18, 2020 – Global – 22,000,000/773,000;    USA – 5,400,000/170,000
I continue to be kept out of the classic press but am getting in through indirect
ways.   Still have >1000 deaths per day.   Scott Atlas now the main person that
Trump listens to.   I have reached out to Scott to give him a fair chance to explain
to me exactly how he feels about children getting infected and the issues with
letting community spread happen.  We obviously differ here.   He and White
House feel that we can let children get infected in schools since they do not get
sick and we just need to protect the vulnerable in Nursing Homes.   Fallacious
thinking since there are many not in Nursing Homes who are vulnerable such as
obese people, diabetics, hypertensives, etc.   ALSO, many reports coming out now
about long term cardiovascular and brain effects in younger people who were not
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33even sick enough to go to the hospital, and who were merely home in bed for a
couple of weeks.  ALSO, more younger people dying.
Of note, I was the only one of the Doctors in the TF who was noit invited to be
present in the Sit Room for the Governors’s call today.
Joan Baez texted me saying that she now has 3,000,000 views on her Face Book
note to me.  Her  comment was:  “Over three million views.   Is this fun or what?”
PRESS: Healthline Town Hall; Commonwealth Club of California Fireside
Chat; Bloomberg Quicktake Live
August 19, 2020   Global – 22,000,000/776,000;    USA – 5,500,000/171,000
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35Interesting that Scott Atlas announced at a Doctor’s Huddle that I was on board in
seeing the rationale for his statements.
Joan Baez Face Time now has 4,000,000 views re: my portrait and her words about
me.
POTUS called up Collins and started ranking that Francis and I are hurting him
by getting in the way of the EUA for convalescent plasma   he was yelling at
Francis saying that he and I (and Cliff to some extent) are undermining him.   See
article in the NY Times today as well as Politico that said that Trump feels that
Francis and I are pushing back on the EUA for “political reasons”.
PRESS: “60 Minutes – Australia” TV; Radio Lab – NY Public Radio – Tracy
Hunt; Podcast with Frank Sesno – covered on C-SPAN; IDSA Podcast with
Carlos Del Rio; Interview with Der Spiegel  (German print); New York Times
article by Noah Weiland reports that Francis Collins and I and Cliff Lane are
pushing back on the possibility of an EUA for convalescent plasma until more
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36data come in since we feel the current data does not justify an EUA at this
point.   It reports that we are working with the FDA on this.   However, some
are interpreting that we are pushing back against the FDA, which is not true.
Peter marks is on board with us.
August 20, 2020 – Global    USA
•Surgery today to remove polyp from vocal cord at GWU Hospital by Dr.
Steven Bielamowicz.
•Becoming really nice pen pal with Joan Baez.
•
PRESS:   Much press coverage of my surgery started by Sanjay at CNN and
then went viral
August 21, 2020 – Global   USA
•Washington Post is writing a story that is intended to be a hit job on Pence
and Short. Katie Miller asked me to counter with some statements and I did
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38PRESS:   Continued coverage of my surgery in press.
August 22, 2020 – Global – 22,800,000/795,000;   USA – 5,600,000/175,000
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39•POTUS called my cell at around 7:37 PM while I was outside on back
deck with Chris and Jenny.   It was the White House Operator saying the
POTUS wanted to speak with me.   I could not speak sine Dr. Bielamowicz
said to not utter a word until tomorrow (Sunday), Chris answered and gave
message to WH operator.  POTUS called back and said he hoped I was
doing well.
I was concerned that he might think I was disrespectful for not answering the
phone and so I texted Katie Miller ad explained the situation and asked if
she or Stephen Miller could get the message to the POTUS and explain why
I could not speak.  She teted back and said that VP Pence would take care of
it and tell the POTUS.  I could not figure out why he called.   He could have
read about my surgery and was checking on me.  Or there is a lot of tension
against Francis Collins ad me in the WH because we have questioned the
data supporting an EUA for convalescent plasma.  They re holding it up
until further data are available tomorrow and POTUS is saying the scientists
(particularly FDA) are “deep state”.   He throws that around a lot.  Katie
thinks he was calling to thank me for saying in interviews that we can get
things back without shutting down again.  We may never know.
PRESS: Australia “60 Minutes” TV interview to be shown tomorrow (Sunday
in Australia);
August 23, 2020 (Sunday) – Global    USA
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41Very bad and disgraceful day for FDA and Steve Hahn and Alex Azar – They
caved to pressure from Trump to issue EUA for Convalescent Plasma (CP).
Francis Cliff and I among others a few days ago looked at the data and since there
was no control and the analysis was post hoc with end points that were NOT
predetermined, we could not say that there was any effect.  When they tortured the
data, they came up with a 35% decrease in deaths among people 3 days from dx,
.80 years old and not on ventilator.  Very narrow group.  We had agreed to wait for
further data from the same Mayo Clinic study to do a predetermined end point
analysis to see if it strengthened the original data.   The new data was collected, but
before we could see it, Mark Meadows decided to “break the log jam” and got
Steve Hahn and Alex to cave in and issue the EUA tonight, the night before the
beginning of the GOP convention tomorrow night.   I am afraid that this will
happen with the upcoming vaccine trials.
PRESS:  New York Times and Washington Post coverage of old statements by
me and Francis and Cliff about our skepticism of the EUA data
August 24, 2020 – Global – 23,300,000/806,000;   USA – 5,700,000/177,000
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43•Got call from Albert Bourla (CEO of Pfizer) expressing concern about
AstraZenica likely trying to get an EUA for their vaccine before the big
companies (Moderna, Pfizer, J & J complete their phase 3 trials.   We
discussed what to do.   He suggested that he ask the companies to sign an
agreement that they will all strive for completion of phase 3 studies before
decisions are made.   I suggested that we get the scientific community
involved who should demand to see the data upon which the FDA would
make any decisions.
The Nashville, TN Public Defender has established the “Fauci Award”:
 Introducing the Dr. Fauci Award! This Nashville Defenders Award recognizes staff members
who embody the admirable qualities and character of the Director of the National Institute of
Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Dr. Anthony S. Fauci. Amongst the numerous positive
qualities demonstrated by Dr. Fauci which include a commitment to perseverance in the face
of adversity, compassion, cleanliness, good health, and concern for the education, protection,
and welfare of others above his own personal interests. Dr. Fauci has stood in the face of
power and fought back, maintaining his integrity and keeping his mission in the forefront.
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44PRESS:  Article (online today, print tomorrow) in Washington Post by Ashley
Parker, Josh Dawsey and Philip Rucker quoting me as defending Pence -
Politics
Mike Pence hopes four years of
subservience to Trump will lift his
political future
Interview with Julie Steenhuysen of Reuters on COVID-19 vaccine trials; New
York Times – Sheryl Stolberg is doing a profile on me and my recent surgery
and other things.
August 25, 2020 – Global   USA
Steve Hahn admits publicly that he “exaggerated” the data showing effect of
CP on death rate.   He originally said that out of 100 patients, 35 lives were saved,
which is absolutely incorrect.   He now admits that but he does not back down on
declaring a positive effect.  Data analysis from Mike Lauer and Dean Follmann
show absolutely no effect.
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45See Below from Martha’s Vineyard
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46Spain is starting to “explode:
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47PRESS:
August 26, 2020 – Global    USA
•POTUS holding more briefings with Scott Atlas and others (Dr. Jay
Bhattacharya, Dr. Joseph Ladapo, Dr. Martin Kulldorff, and Dr. Cody
Meissner) to the exclusion of Deb Birx.  Making it very awkward for her.   I
have been out of the briefing loop for some time now.
•We have been seeing surges that follow crowded events – Memorial Day, 4th
of July, and now with Labor Day coming up, there is concern that we will
see another “surge” as people move around, travel and return home from
beaches, etc.   We are playing “whack a mole”
Sign in East Village, NYC:
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50•Big shit show today about the change in CDC testing guidelines where they
said if you are exposed to a documented case of COVID-19 you need not get
tested if you are asymptomatic.   This version was circulated at a TF meeting
a couple of weeks ago and we were asked to look at it and sign on.   I did so
cursorily, made a change but did not grasp the implications of this change
that means we put no emphasis on symptomatic spread.  The guidelines were
further discussed at a Aug 20 TF meeting when I was under general
anesthesia for vocal cord surgery.   When the shit hit the fan and the public
health community went nuts at these changes, Brett Giroir said at a press
conference that the TF, explicitly mentioning me, approved this, it got me
vey upset.  Clearly at the Aug 20 meeting, Deb Birx did not agree (she told
me so).   Also, I did not give it a lot of attention and I was not in the room
for the final discussion when Deb objected.  Sanjay Gupta (CNN) reported
the disconnect between me and Brett which caused a bit of a media storm.
Behind these changes was Scott Gottlieb
•Telephone conversation between Peter Marks, Steve Hahn, Francis Collins,
Cliff Lane, Mike Lauer, Dean Follmann, and Rich Forshee (FDA) about the
basis of their declaring an EUA on CP.  We (NIH) feel that FDA clearly
caved to the White House and we were trying to examine the data that was
the basis for their decision.   Clearly Hahn was very defensive and Peter was
“hurt” because he thought that the NIH was attacking the FDA.   We settled
it, but it is becoming clear that Steve is a bit more political than we are.
Seems to be star struck about being around the White House and likely
caved to Meadows. Who is looking for good news before the election.
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51PRESS:  Shit show about CDC guidelines changing and Brett Giroir saying
that I approved them  (see above)
August 27,2020 –
•I wrote an email to Brett trying to make peace:
-----Original Message-----
From: Fauci, Anthony (NIH/NIAID) [E] <afauci@niaid.nih.gov>
Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2020 6:31 AM
To: Birx, Deborah (nsc.eop.gov) < Deborah.L.Birx@nsc.eop.gov >; Giroir, Brett
(HHS/OASH) <Brett.Giroir@hhs.gov>
Cc: Redfield, Robert R. (CDC/OD) < olx1@cdc.gov>
Subject: RE: Testing
Brett:
   I am sorry that there was so much press seemingly pitting you against me
regarding approval or not of the changes in the CDC guidelines.  I want to make
something clear from my perspective and hopefully we can move on as good
colleagues.  According to the press reporting, you stated that the guideline
change was "approved" by the task Force including and specifically by me.   If
what we did  was the process for "officially approving" as important a document
as the CDC guidelines, then the process is clearly flawed.   There was no official
"group discussion" at any meetings that I was at. The document was passed
around to us individually before or after a TF meeting and indeed I did quickly
look at it.   I considered the document as a done deal that would not change no
matter what we said.   To your credit, you did make one minor change that I
suggested.   Importantly, had I appreciated that Deb, the Task Force
Coordinator,  had such a real problem with it (see her e-mail below), I would have
looked at it much more carefully and discussed her concerns with her in detail,
and re-read it in that context.    I understand from Deb that a discussion did occur
at the Aug 20 meeting (see below) when I was out being operated on at GWU
hospital.    Upon careful examination of the document now, I see why the
community is up in arms about it since that change can and is being interpreted
by many as indicating that we do not believe that asymptomatic spread and thus
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52community spread is important enough to test for it.   We can argue within the
confines of the Situation Room that the intent of the guidelines are clear and crisp
and helpful.  However, the overwhelming proportion of the public health
community are baffled by these changes.  This is an unforced error.  I am happy to
discuss with you.   Again, sorry for the misunderstanding.
Best,
Tony
Powder Attack!!! – Today, I received a letter at home from Jacksonville, FL looking like the
very many letters that I get each day, usually asking me to sign a baseball card or an index card.
The letter had typewritten address as opposed to WORD processor.   It was very thin.  I brought
it o work and around 10:30 AM started opening the “fan mail”.   I opened this one and took out a
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53single sheet of white paper that was folder in 1/3s.   As I opened the folding, fine white powder
essentially shot up for the paper an got on my hands, my tie, shirt ants, face, desk and chair.   I
immediately called Kim and told her not to come into the room but to get George and Brett
(security) who were down the hall.   They came and we put the letter and envelope in a plastic
bag and called NIH Hazmat.   The entire team came and hade me strip naked to spray me down.
I then went downstair to take a long shower and put on my running shots to go home with.   All
my closes and everything that I touched went into a plastic bag for forensics.   George and Brett
took me home and we waited for the analysis that finally showed no protein (anthrax or ricin).
Sheet of paper had typewritten statement: “MANDATORY LOCKDOWNS…MEDICATIONS,
REAP WHAT YOU SOW.   SIC SEMPER MARXUM PRODITORES.  ENJOY    YOUR
GIFT”
Alan Alda and Anthony Fauci Talk Science
in Live-Streamed Smithsonian Associates
Event
PRESS:   GOP convention dominating.   Yet, much press around the CDC
guidelines mess (see above);   New York Times: How Dr. Fauci
Found Himself Talking to Julia Roberts, Lil
Wayne and Just About Any Podcaster Who
Asked
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54By Quoctrung Bui, Margot Sanger-Katz, Sheryl Gay Stolberg , Noah Weil and and Kitty
BennettAug. 27, 2020
August 28, 2020 – Global   USA
•Amazing that there were no leaks to the press following the powder attack.

Still >40,000 cases per day
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55Email exchange with Kellyanne Conway on the announcement of her
leaving the WH:
Dear Dr. Fauci –
What a kind and welcome note. Thank you for taking the time. Indeed, it has been a pleasure
working with and learning from you over the past 6 months in the face of a global pandemic.
You may be “America’s Doctor,”  but you also are accessible and affable. Thank you for your
many kindnesses.
I hope you are feeling better following surgery, and that you will heal quickly and completely.
God bless you. Always here for you, if I may help in any way.
Fondly,
Kellyanne
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56KAConway@gmail.com
202-251-9943
From:  Fauci, Anthony (NIH/NIAID) [E] <afauci@niaid.nih.gov>
Sent: Monday, August 24, 2020 7:22 AM
To: Conway, Kellyanne E. EOP/WHO <KAC@who.eop.gov>
Subject: miss you
Kellyanne:
  I was sorry to read in the Post today that you will be leaving the White
House at the end of the month.  However, your reasons appear to be
quite sound and your usual good judgment seems to have prevailed.   I
really will miss seeing you around the Sit Room and the Oval.   You light
up the room and I always feel a little better when you are
around.   Take care of yourself and I hope that we continue to run into
each other in the future.
Warm regards,
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
Phone: (301) 496-2263
FAX: (301) 496-4409
E-mail: afauci@niaid.nih.gov
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59pandemics, would you want to stay in a role where you were suddenly
constantly criticized and undermined by your current administrator and
were receiving death threats?
Al Jazeera TV (UK);
August 29, 2020 –  Global – 24,600,000/834,000;    USA - ,99,000/181,000
Found out from George Adams and Brett Rowland that similar powdered letters
from the same person (from Jacksonville. FL) also were sent to Nancy Pelosi,
Bernie Sanders, AOC, Bill Gates, among other “liberals”
.
August 30, 2020  (Sunday) – Global – 25,000,000/840,000    USA –
5,900,000/182,000
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60Sunday shows dominated by recent GOP convention and the blatant lies that
Trump spewed forth during the convention.   Also, to hold a conventin event
directly at the White House is a gross violation of the Hatch Act.
Concern now about post-labor day (coming up) surge of cases as people
congregate.
Spoke with Joan Baez today – She wants to use the portrait of me to advertise the
need for science and adhering to public health messages. In essence, she wants to
use the portrait in PSAs.  She really is wonderful.
August 31, 2020 – Global   USA
Trump stoking violence (racial tensions) in Kenosha, WI and Portland, OR
QAnon misrepresenting data from CDC that says that about 9000 out of the
>180,000 deaths reported for COVID-19 had only COVID-19 on the death
certificate.   The remainder also had other underlying conditions.   QAnon is
saying that all the other deaths had nothing to do with COVID-19.   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: confrontation with the people from Moderna, mostly Tal Zaks, aandStephane  Bancel who wanted to push backon the collaboration (mostly do their own thing).    Moncef, John, Larry and I set them straight.   Also Mikael Dolsten and people from  Pfizer also wanting part of our resoruces (clinical sitesd) without joining the  collaboration.   Several conference calls to straighten this out.   It is not going to be easy. Had long conversation on “background” with Bob Woodward who is writing a book on  the early response to COVID in the USA.   I provided him with some history of our  response in early January and into February.   Will tlak more with him tomorow PRESS: Wall Street Journal interview re: Chinese vaccines for COVID; Canadian  Radio re: Larry Kramer; Young Money Radio – Lil Wayne…