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Oct. 23, 2012 - Met with Howard Koh (Assist. Sec. for Health) and Deputy Ron Valdesarri in my conference room 7A-24. They wanted to discuss and were actually putting pressure on me/us at NIH to put together a guidelines panel for treatment of HCV. They clearly are getting pressure from constituents. Since we (NIH) have done such a great job on the HIV treatment guidelines for HHS, they wanted us to do the same for HCV. Problem is that if we start doing guidelines for HCV, then other diseases would want us to do guidelines and we should not be in the guidelines business. Howard was friendly and somewhat fawning over me. Ron Valdesarri in my opinion is somewhat of a jerk.
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Oct. 26, 2012 - Participated in a panel on Global Health and award ceremony at Georgetown. Mark Dybul was given the Timothy Healy Award. Panel consisted of me, Mark, Eric Goosby and Barbara Bush (daughter) with Marty Federov moderating. Good time and enjoyable to do this with good friends. lection handily
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Oct. 27, 2012 - Spoke at Panel of the Annual Meeting of the Academy of Achievement. Panel held at Top of the Hay Adams in the Hay-Adams Hotel. I led off the panel speaking on Ending the AIDS Pandemic and an AIDS-Free Generation. Followed by Pulitzer Prize winning Poet Louise Gluck and Nobel Laureate Roger Tsien. Night of Oct. 27 went to Gala Dinner of the Academy at the Willard Hotel - Reception is Crystal Room; Black Tie Dinner in Willard Room. Typical classy Catherine and Wayne Reynolds Affair. Great entertainment topped off by Aretha Franklin. Again, Catherine and Wayne gave Chris and me the best tables right in front of the stage. Usual terrific guests. Wolf Blitzer MC'd. Colin Powell was dancing on stage with Aretha Franklin. Lots of fun. At my Table - Chris and Kathleen Matthews, Bill Cohen and wife Janet Langhart; current USA Poet Laureate Natasha Threthewey, economist (?) and his girlfriend Heather Hughes (29 yrs old and amazingly beautiful and friendly), Attorney General Eric Holder and wife Dr. Sharon Malone.
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Oct. 29, 2012 - Beginning of monster hurricane "Sandy". Supposed to be the worst storm in memory with convergence of a true Atlantic Ocean Hurricane with a Nor-Easter coming from Canada and the West. All airports (DCA, IAD LGA Kennedy, etc) and public ground transportation (Amtrack, METRO, NYC subways) up the entire East Coast of USA pre-emptively closed prior to the storm. Storm scheduled to peak here in DC tonight and into tomorrow. I came to work since there is an almost 100% chance that my house will lose power since even lesser storms cause power outages in my neighborhood. Likely will sleep here at NIH tonight. Stay tuned...... Oct. 30 - Nov. 3, 2012- "Sandy" totally devastated parts of the East Coast, particularly NYC and New Jersey shore. One of the worst, if not the worst "natural" disasters to strike NYC. Wall Street under water. Flooding of the Brooklyn-Battery tunnel and all NYC subway tunnels. Con Ed plant exploded and all of lower Manhattan without power. Had to evacuate Bellevue-NY University Hospital. Atlantic City destroyed. Truly historic.
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2012-11-06 00:00
Anthony S. Fauci
Nov. 6, 2012 - As I had predicted over and over again, Obama won re-election handily with 330 electoral votes.
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Nov. 7-8, 2012 - Went to San Francisco to give Keynote at 25th Anniversary of CFAR and 25th Anniversary of FDA approval of AZT. Great trip. Went to Stanford during the day to see Ali before going to SF.
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Nov. 19, 2012 - Appeared on ABC's ONLINE TV show hosted by Christianne Amanpour on the subject of the ongoing dengue epidemic in India as well as in Madeira and Puerto Rico. These ONLINE shows are fast becoming the new type of news outlets. A cross between regular TV and a blog.
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Nov. 27, 2012 - I present the C. Everett Koop HIV/AIDS Public Health Leadership Award to Rep. Henry Waxman at the Mayflower Hotel. The award is given by the Forum for HIV/AIDS chaired by Veronica Miller. I gave a nice laudation with slides praising Henry who has become an old "warrior" friend of mine over the years. I have testified before Committees that he either chaired or was minority about 25 times over the past 28 years. He was very appreciative of my presentation.
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Nov. 29, 2012 - Big day today. It was the official celebration of World AIDS Day (WAD) and there was a celebration at the State Department from 10:30 to 11:30 AM. Hillary Clinton unveiled the "Blueprint" for PEPFAR to end the AIDS Pandemic. It took place in the Franklin Room of the State department. She called me out from the audience and thanked me for being the scientific leader that got us to where we are. Beautiful chilly Fall day with bright sun. After the State event, went to the White House to celebrate WAD. Program of several speakers. I was the final speaker giving a talk about the scientific basis of being able to end the AIDS pandemic. Extremely well-received. Other speakers include: Valeria Jarrett; Michel Sidebe; Eric Goosby; Sec. Sebelius; a panel chaired by Rosie Perez.