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April 8, 2020 - Global - 1,300,000/73,000; USA - 398,000/13,000 As we predicted, yesterday was the most deaths in single day in USA. However, indications from NYC aree that cases, hospitalizations, intensive care and intubations have been down for past few days. Remember - deaths always lag by about 2 weeks behind new cases. Could be first clear sign of turnaround. Now focusing on how to "re-open" the country safely (see meeting last night) Bobblehead raising money: Fauci bobblehead raises $100,000 for American Hospital Association Anthony S. Fauci's bobblehead likeness has eclipsed a nun's to become the best seller in the six-year existence of the National Bobblehead Hall of Fame and Museum, raising more than $100,000 to provide protective masks for health-care workers. In less than a week since the museum announced the sale, preorders topped 20,000, quickly outselling the thousands of the museum's other releases, according to co-founder Phil Sklar. The polyresin likeness of the country's foremost epidemiologist dethroned that of Jean Dolores "Sister Jean" Schmidt, the courtside superstar and now 100-year-old chaplain of the Loyola University of Chicago men's basketball team, which powered improbably to the NCAA tournament's Final Four in 2018. Five dollars from each $25 sale of a Fauci bobblehead goes to the American Hospital Association's 100 Million Mask Challenge. Sklar said the individually numbered bobbleheads will ship in July. Crazy stuff on Internet: 'Cuomo Crush' and 'Fauci Fever' -- Sexualization Of These Men Is a Real Thing on The Internet Talent Recap x= The coronavirus pandemic has led brothers Andrew and Chris Cuomo and Dr. Anthony Fauci to the forefront COVID news and updates, but it also ... Phone call with Gov. Gary Herbert (R-Utah) and Kristi Noem (R- SD). Same issues as described above for Iowa and Nebraska. I explained that I would publicly clarify when given he opportunity. They are against "one size fits all". I will correct any misunderstanding. Tests -- Abbott ID Now machine Did teleconferences with House Republicans and Democrats moderated by VP Pence. Nancy Pelosi still showing simmering hostility towards me. In particular, she did not like my answer that we really cannot enforce price controls on companies to which we license vaccine platforms such as Moderna with the mRNA. The fact is that we cannot. Global -1,400,000/80,000; USA-- 430,000/15,000; Growing concern about fact that African-Americans are dying much more than other racial/ethnic groups. Certainly due largely to the increase in underlying conditions among them such as hypertension, diabetes, obesity, asthma PRESS: FOX TV - America's Newsroom; Eric Bolling Sinclair TV; White House Press Conference.
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April 8, 2020 t he described as a "potentially major Donald Trump COVID-19 as Photograph by Lo Scalzo / Bloomberg / Getty WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)--In what he described as a "potentially major breakthrough," Dr. Anthony Fauci has convinced Donald Trump to attack COVID-19 as if it were an inspector general. Fauci, who has been frustrated in his efforts to get through to Trump, compared the global pandemic to an inspector general while in a closed-door meeting with the President on Wednesday. "What do you hate more than anything, Mr. President?" Fauci asked. "Jim Acosta," Trump immediately replied. "O.K., fine. But, besides Jim Acosta," Fauci said, "it would be an inspector general, right?" "You're right, Tony," Trump agreed. "I hate those losers." "Well, think of COVID-19 as the worst inspector general in the world," Fauci continued. "It's overseeing everything you do and making you follow the law. It's keeping you from spending taxpayer money on anything you want. You wouldn't stand for that, would you?" -- 465,000/17,500 Reportedly, Trump appeared shaken by Fauci's analogy. "Damn it, Tony, when you put it that way, we've got to do something about COVID-19," he said. Speaking to reporters, Fauci said that he was "cautiously optimistic" that his inspectorgeneral analogy would finally spur Trump to action, but added, "Jared could still screw this up." .................................................................................................... Again, countless print press stories about me directly or indirectly. Far, far too many for me to even think about reading. Some day, maybe, go back and read. Eveyone asking about the plasn for re-opening the ountry PRESS: ABC -Good Morning America with George Stephanopoulos; NBC Today Show with Savannah Guthrie; CBS This Morning; WH Press Conference coverage
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April 9, 2020 (Thursday) - Global -1,400,000/80,000; USA- 430,000/15,000; Getting ready to submit the COVID-19 Treatment Guidelines that Cliff led. Briefed AZAR by phone he liked it but wanted to make sure that Nancy Messonnier was OK with it since we did not want CDC to be coming out with objections. I called Nancy and found out in a poignant call that she no longer is involved in the COVID response. I do not believe that Azar knows this. Who removed her??? Tim Uyeki is representative for CDC on the Guidelines Panel. TF Conference call with Senate GOP and Dems - usual questions about when to re-open the country Another example of craziness. This below in the New Yorker:
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April 10, 2020 - Global - 1,440,000/85,000; USA - 465,000/17,500 Concern building about the economy and when we can open the country. 17 million jobs lost within the past 4 weeks. Larry Kudlow and Steve Mnuchin are concerned that even with the massive infusion of relief dollars that we may o irreparable damage to the economy if we do not open soon. Call with Randell Stephenson - CEO of ATT wanting counsel on how to get his workforce back towork safely Call with Gov. Asa Hutchinson of Arkansas - doing a good job in AR; want counselon retunring to normal Call with Gov. Mark Gordon of Wyoming - same discussion. What advice and counsel of returning to normal. Call with Gov. Doug Burgum of North Dakota All these Governors are calling me because of my credibility and reputation to run their plans by me and ask for my opinion and help (message back to TF and POTUS). Unfortunately, I really cannot do much but get their messages back. Very frustrating Less POTUS actually joined the TF meeting right at the beginning andstarting talking about ratings of the press conferences being the best ratings on all of TV. Yikes! POTUS was again rambling at the press conference with stream of consciousness not really answering questions and spouting how well we are doing. Press focusing on whether we are prepared to re-open. Press keeps dwelling on fact that we likely do not have enough testing capability. POTUS mentioned (to my and Birx's surpise) that he has already asked some people to be on another Task Force to help him decide on re-opening. He even mentioned that there would be prominent physicians on the call. Deb is worrie d about this. I am not surprised. During press briefing reporter asked PTUS a question about Gov. DeSantis (RFL) wanting to open his schools in May and would not that endanger lives of people since there are many cases in Florida. He did not answer and then the reporter asked what my opionion was. I spoke generically saying I am not aware of the situation in Florida, but in general, if there are active cases in community, children in school could spread the virus. Later that afternoon DeSantis called my cell and explained that he wa evaluating the situationon a week by week basis and did not make any definitive decisions and the districts that he was considering opening the schools were districts with very few infection. PRESS: CNN New Day with Alisyn Camerota and John Berman; Sirius Doctor Radio - Marc Siegal; Press conference (see above); FOX Martha McCallum; FOX Jesse Watters; Brian Williams - MSNBC
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April 11, 2020 - Light day. TF, but no press conference. Important discussion about the fact that the sensitivity of the Abbott ID Now (15 minute test) machine is queationable. We have not had a single positive at the WH with press and secret service and staff. We will bring a machine to NIH to use on people with documented COVID-19. I am still concerned about our ability to dothe tsting that we keep reassuring the public that we can do. Deb very much suspicious and restrained hostile towards Brett Giroir whom she does not trust. Gave extra copies of the HHS Guidelines to Marc Short. They plan to have me present it to POTUS on Monday, April 13. > USA
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April 12, 2020 (Easter Sunday) - Global - 1,800,000/110,000; USA 500,000/20,000. In general, early indications of leveling off. Print news (NY Times especially) writing multiple articles about howTrump was late to respond/slow to act even thugh he was given warnings by many people. I look good to neutral in the reports. Big article in New YorkTimes today by Eric Lipton, David Sanger, Maggie Haberman, Michael Sherar, Mark Mazzetti and Julian Barnes. I was spoofed last night on Saturday Night Live (SNL). Media buzz in my answer to Tapper's question whether lives would have been saved if we had shut down earlier. I said yes with a lot of qualifiers; however, the press is not reporting the qualifiers. Such is life..... PRESS: CNN State of the Union with Jake Tapper; MSNBC TV with Rev. Al Sharpton
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April 13, 2020 - Potential big problem (we shall see). NY Times reporting on an answer to a question that I gave on CNN yesterday (see above). Jake Tapper asked me if we had closed down earlier, whould that have saved lives. I said it is complicated; he persisted and I said obviously, if you close earlier there would have been lives saved, but the decision was complicated. I could have answered the question better and with more clarity, but the Times is now saying that I was implying that the POTUS was to blame for additional deaths according to me. The far right is tweeting to fire me. The POTUS even re-tweeted the tweet that said to fire me. We shall see how the day goes....... I called up Marc Short and explained that I was answering a hypothetical question and I told the truth. Marc was very supportive and said the POTUS was not upset and understood. I met with VP - he called me to his office 15 minutes befor the TF meeting and we discussed this. He was terrific. I said I was angry at having been put into this position, I am completely apolitical, and I am loyal to the people that I work with. I offered to explain to the press at the daily White House press conference. Right before I walked in, I huddled with the POTUS and told him what I would do. He was very relieved and grateful saying that his right wing base is causing a lot of trouble and he was total OK with me. I went out and explained that I was being hoest in my answer to Jake, but that I was not implying ton that anyone was responsible for more deaths. I explained that the 2 times I recommended to the POTUS to go to 'mitigation" (15 day, then 30 day) he took my (and Deb's) advice and started to mitigation guidelines despite the fact that some people were pushing back (did not mention any names) Right after that, he went on an anti-media rage showing a filiming recently put together that day by staff showing how he was on top of everything and responded swiftly. Again, repetitive stream of consciousness. I was uncomfortable sitting there. Phone call with Jake Tapper. Jake wanted to make sure the interview did not cause me any problems. Global - 1,700,000/106,000; USA - 560,000/22,000; PRESS: C-SPAN TV;
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April 14, 2020 - Press buzz still continues. Feature story in today's Washington Post: "Despite assurances, debate over Fauci's fate continues" by Toluse Olorunnipa, Seung Min Kim and Josh Dawsey. Also, Mike Gerson wrote an editorial in the Post attacking Trump for attacking me (re-tweet that energized Trump's right wing fringe to attack me. Global - 1,800,000/112,000; USA - 580,000/24,000. Daily cases starting to level off over past couple of days. Did not do Presser today. Topic was economic. He rambled on in typical manner. He reversed himself from yesterday when he said that he has "absolute power" to tell the Governors what to do in the "re-opening". He stunned the press with that announcement and people like Caitlin Collins pushed him on saying that since it is not true. He blew it off yesterday. Today he said that he leaves it to the Governors Press still buzzing about the tension between me and the POTUS - multiple articles. It is clear after a meeting that I was called to with the VP at 10:30 AM with Deb. Jared, Brett, and some from Jared's team thsat they have salready decidedthat they will "re-open" the country on May 1 no matter what I or Deb say. Deb (as expected) is totally bought in on this. I am quite skeptical that they have a -- 603,000/25,000 program in place to respond to a rebounbd. CDC certainly in incapable and Bob even admits that his team is mor "academically oriented" as opposed to pandemic emergency oriented. Also, testing is still an issue. PRESS: Good Luck America Snapchat Interview (Skype); Bobby Bones Country Music DJ Skype interview; NBC CoronavirusSpecial tsaped for tomorrow AM
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April 15, 2020 - Global - 1,900,000/120/000; USA - 603,000/25,000 Print media still pitting everything I say as contradicting POTUS. They are also digging into what I said it February indicting that I said the virus would not be a problem; however, when you read my entire sentence, I said at this time (when there were a couple of cases in the USA) there is not a serious threat, but this could change very rapidly and so we need to be prepared. They leave out the last part of the sentence. Peter Nicholas of The Atlantic (Peter Nicholas)wrote a piece saying I was humiliated and "shamed" by getting in front of the cameras and backing off the CNN interview with Tapper. Fuck you, Peter. Has discussion with Chris this AM (in bed) about my considering resigning from the Task Force. The CDC/FEMA, etc in my mind have no idea what they are doing. There really is no plan. Deb is secretive and worried about her job wanting to please the VP asnd POTUS and the press briefings are a total Shit Show with POTUS rambling. I am afraid that if I resign it will be a global explosion and might also look to my many admirers like I am deserting the cause, but this is getting very tough. Phone call with Bill Gates and Trevor Mundel regarding working together on vaccines and therapeutics. Bill, like I, is very skeptical about serologic tests - could be misleading is saying that someone is protective if Ab is positive. He is concerned as I am. He feels that there are ethical considerations. Deb Birx last night put together the plan to re-open based on a combination of the plans put forth by Tom Frieden, Scott Gottlieb, Zeke Emanuel. I edited it today with her. VP asked me to leave the TF and work with her. I edited what she had already done. It was really a done deal before she showed it to me. I emphasized that what was missing was guidelines about what to do if there is rebound. It was almost as if she had not even thought of that. She said she would do this tonight. This is really seat-of-the-pants stuff with patching together https://bit.ly/2 VvCOHP overnight a plan that has enormous implcations for the health and safety of the nation. I will hang in there to help as much as I can. Marc Short is becoming a good rriend. He shuffled me out of the WH before they started asking me to hang around for the endless press conference. I ha told Marc that it would be great if I could go nly to those pressers where I was really needed. He got the message and the VP agreed. And so, I am off today. Clearly the press will ask where I am. Amazing profile of me today on Nightline: https://bit.ly/2VvC0HP Multiple editorials (print news Washington Post, etc.) and opinion pieces (Newsweek) written about me. Cannot keep up or even read all of them. Country needs someone to look up to in the face of Trump presidency. Interesting psychodynamics. Brewery in Georgia named a beer after me "Fauci Spring" Cartoon in thee Boston Globe: 640,000/32,000. yeborah.L.Birx@nsc.eop.gov> PM <afauci(@niaid.nih.gov> ur words