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Feb. 9, 2015 - Give Inaugural John Ring La Montagne Lecture at University of Texas. John did undergraduate and Masters at U of T. His widow Elaine was present and his brother Greg. Freezing weather in DC and major historic snow storms in New England (Jenny getting it in Boston); however, absolutely beautiful in Austin at 74 and bright sun. These trips are starting to wear me down. No fun anymore. I hate airports and my back is bothering me. Made worse by flying.
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Feb. 10, 2015 -- Went to BBC Studio in DC to tape an interview with Peter Staley about our relationship during the AIDS activist era. This will be part of a larger BBC program on the history of AID in which they have me playing a major role in the program. Did WUSA local TV Channel 9 on measles
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Feb. 11, 2015 -- Visited White House today at 1:20 PM. The South Court Auditorium. Bright sunny and cold day in DC. The POTUS thanked all of the EROLA HCWs, USG officials, and others for our work on Ebola. He called out several people -- Tom Frieden, Raj Shah for Ebola response, me and Nancy Sullivan for vaccine development among others in the room. Nancy was up on the stage with the POTUS together with others from USPHS, DoD, State, etc. He gave a good speech. Met all the team there with Leslie Dach, Sylvia Burwell. Leslie remarked how many people I have trained -- Cliff Ron Klain's last day as the Ebola response Coordinator. I will miss him.
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Feb. 14, 2015 -- Was supposedto go to San Jose today for the AAAS Annual meeting to speak on Ebola. I backed out due to too much travel. However, they wanted me to and I did participate by video-link in the Press Conference after the session. The situation with Ebola continues to decrease with very few cases in Liberia. Sierra Leone and Guinea still smoldering. Was planning on going to Liberia with Cliffi on feb. 22-26. However, decided to cancel since my back is very painful and the trip would be horrible with the latovers and connection. Measles sill an issue, but as expected much less press interest.
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Anthony S. Fauci
Feb. 19, 2015 --I had a framed certificate made for Ron Klain that I delivered to his office (Revolution LLC) on 1717 Rhode Island Avenue, N.W. I really like Ron and think that he did a great job as Ebola response Coordinator. He wrote me a wonderful email after I dropped off the certificate since he was not there when I dropped it off: See e-mail below: ----- Original Message-----
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Feb. 20, 2015 - Outbreak of CRE (Carbapenem-resistant enterobacteriaceae) infections at UCLA related to a contaminated duodenoscope for ERCP (endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography). Went on WTOP to discuss the CRE situation at UCLA. Never a dull moment!
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Feb. 21, 2015 - Went on CNN to discuss the 7 cases of CRE that occurred with 2 deaths at UCLA in association with contamination of duodenoscope used for ERCP. Press is trying to blame FDA since FDA knew about the problem with duodenoscope contamination for a few years. I did not throw FDA under the bus since there is not much they can do about it except to alert hospitals to clean the instruments as best as possible. Cannot pull the 20,000 or so instruments (made by Olympus) since 500,000 procedures are done in the USA each year and many are life-saving and avoid serious surgery. It is a risk/benefit issue. Peggy Hamburg ran into Chris in Safeway and Peggy must have seen the CNN interview since she told Chris to thank me for not throwing FDA under the bus.
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Feb. 23, 2015 - I am finally convincing Tom Frieden not to oppose the therapeutic RCT for ZMapp that Cliff wants to expand from Liberia to Sierra Leone since there are very few cases of Ebola in Liberia and still several new cases each day in Sierra Leone. The RCT for the vaccine trial is coming along well in Liberia. I was supposed to go to Liberia yesterday, but have postponed the trip since my back is hurting badly and also because the president of Liberia (Ellen Johnson Sirleaf) is visiting HHS and I need to be there to help greet her. Measles still in the press. Will discuss live tonight on BBC TV with Katty Kay
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Feb. 24, 2015 - Went to NYC for the DDCF Board of Trustees Meeting. Good to see the Board. Have missed a couple of meetings due to the Ebola crisis. few days ago it Big breakthrough in food allergy published in the NEJM. NIAID funded the study. Showed that early age consumption of peanut products in children with diathesis for allergic reaction significantly decreases incidence of peanut allergy after 60 months. I appeared and was interviewed by Jeff Green on The NewsHour to discuss it.