Oct. 23 - 25, 2009 - Things really heating up with the press jumping all over the USG

Diary Prequel Package, pp.220-221 · diary_prequel:entry:00562

Date: 2009-10-23 00:00 (day precision)
Type: diary entry · diary
author: Anthony S. Fauci
Topics: Vaccines Media strategy and public messaging

Oct. 23 - 25, 2009 - Things really heating up with the press jumping all over the USG for "overpromising" the number of doses of vaccine that would be available. In fact, despite my warnings, BAARDA (Robin Robinson - nice guy, but naïve) believed the pharmaceutical companies that they would have 160 million doses by October 15. In fact they had 11 million and instead of ultimately getting 250 million, we are lucky if we get 140 million. Big gap between supply and demand with long lines for vaccine and widespread flu activity in 46 states. Perfect storm. wn (CNN), BBC distribution. Front I have been as much media as in the anthrax days. Just on October 23-25 I was on 11 major networks and cable trying to explain the vaccine supply problem - Today Show, NBC Nightly News, multiple MSNBCs, CNN Situation Room, CNN American Morning, Charlie Rose, NPR, WTOP, Good Morning America, Jim Lehr's The NewsHour, BBC, etc.

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Oct. 23 - 25, 2009 - Things really heating up with the press jumping all over the USG for "overpromising" the number of doses of vaccine that would be available.	quoted / not their view	quoted_external sentence carries quotation marks	asserts
Just on October 23-25 I was on 11 major networks and cable trying to explain the vaccine supply problem - Today Show, NBC Nightly News, multiple MSNBCs, CNN Situation Room, CNN American Morning, Charlie Rose, NPR, WTOP, Good Morning America, Jim Lehr's The NewsHour, BBC, etc.	own voice, substantive	speaker_own	asserts

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Oct. 23 - 25, 2009 - Things really heating up with the press jumping all over the USG for "overpromising" the number of doses of vaccine that would be available.

quoted / not their view

quoted_external sentence carries quotation marks

asserts

Just on October 23-25 I was on 11 major networks and cable trying to explain the vaccine supply problem - Today Show, NBC Nightly News, multiple MSNBCs, CNN Situation Room, CNN American Morning, Charlie Rose, NPR, WTOP, Good Morning America, Jim Lehr's The NewsHour, BBC, etc.

own voice, substantive

speaker_own

asserts

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2009-10-13 00:00 Anthony S. Fauci open

Oct. 13, 2009 - Still extremely intensive media exposure with national media appearances a few times per week and heating up. Had dinner at Zeke Emanuel's home in DC with Chris. Corby Kummer was there as was Rahm Emanuel and his children. Other government people whose names I unfortunately forget.
2009-10-14 00:00 Anthony S. Fauci open

Oct. 14, 2009 - Flew to NYC to give Parker Memorial Lecture to the Dept. of Microbiology and Immunology at Columbia Medical School. Gave the a4B7 lecture that was very well received.
2009-10-16 00:00 Anthony S. Fauci open

Oct. 16, 2009 - Went to White House for top secret meeting and counterintelligence briefing by FBI and CIA. Apparently, Russians are monitoring the evolution of our Biodefense campus at Fort Detrick. As usual, a lot of soft stuff. I certainly would expect that they would be doing this since they suspect that we are doing offensive bioterrorism as opposed to defensive biodefense.
2009-10-18 00:00 Anthony S. Fauci open

Oct. 18, 2009 - Take off to Paris with Patty Conrad for the 2009 AIDS Vaccine meeting of the IAS and Vaccine Enterprise. Extremely successful meeting in many ways. The RV144 (Thai trial) results were formerly presented coinciding with the online publication of the results in the NEJM. There was significant controversy surrounding the role-out of this vaccine a couple of weeks ago (see above). The complete data showed that the effect was modest, but real. Apart from a few remaining skeptics, the issue now is to learn from this by examining any correlates of immunity. I gave the closing talk on Oct. 22 together with Francois Barre-Sinoussi. My talk was extremely well-received as being visionary. I thoroughly enjoyed preparing and delivering the talk. I discuss the Thai trial, but also the need to pursue low-dose mucosal challenge models in the non-human primate (NHP). Also, I spoke about the importance of studying the early events in HIV infection for insight into the type of immune response that we need to elicit. Also, spoke of the differences in the transmitting versus the chronically replicating virus.
2009-10-23 00:00 Anthony S. Fauci

Oct. 23 - 25, 2009 - Things really heating up with the press jumping all over the USG for "overpromising" the number of doses of vaccine that would be available. In fact, despite my warnings, BAARDA (Robin Robinson - nice guy, but naïve) believed the pharmaceutical companies that they would have 160 million doses by October 15. In fact they had 11 million and instead of ultimately getting 250 million, we are lucky if we get 140 million. Big gap between supply and demand with long lines for vaccine and widespread flu activity in 46 states. Perfect storm. wn (CNN), BBC distribution. Front I have been as much media as in the anthrax days. Just on October 23-25 I was on 11 major networks and cable trying to explain the vaccine supply problem - Today Show, NBC Nightly News, multiple MSNBCs, CNN Situation Room, CNN American Morning, Charlie Rose, NPR, WTOP, Good Morning America, Jim Lehr's The NewsHour, BBC, etc.
2009-10-25 00:00 Anthony S. Fauci open

Oct. 25, 2009 - Reception and dinner in Georgetown 1692- 31st Street, N.W., hone of Susan and David Axelrod to view live the "60 Minutes" show about their ordeal with their daughter Lauren's epilepsy that she has had from birth and that now at 28 years old has left her with significant brain damage. They are wonderful people and have started the organization called CURE (Citizens United for Research in Epilepsy) to do research on epilepsy. Typical high-powered DC gathering: Rahm Emanuel, VP Joe Biden and Jill Biden, Gen. James Jones, Mort Kondrake, Al Hunt, Bruce Reed, Linda Douglas (ABC), Bob Bennett, and many, many others.
2009-10-26 00:00 Anthony S. Fauci open

Oct. 26, 2009 - Media Frenzy continues - Lou Dobbs, Campbell Brown (CNN), BBC
2009-10-27 00:00 Anthony S. Fauci open

Oct. 27, 2009 - Extensive interview with Dan Rather for his Cable show "Dan Rather Reports". Very nice person. We related well and he told his producer (Patty heard the conversation) that I was a "superstar".
2009-10-28 00:00 Anthony S. Fauci open

Oct. 28-29, 2009 - Press is jumping all over HHS for delay in vaccine distribution. Front page stuff and all networks. They are calling it "Obama's Katrina".

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