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June 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.
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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: 110, 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. Global USA Spoke 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;
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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. re -- Heidi Ledford; WAMU '; Jesuit Conference podcast; MILB opening; WCBS Radio, Global USA Global USA PRESS: 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
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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/borowitzreport/white-house-staff-seething-with-envy-after-fauci-reveals-he-has-not-spoken-totrump-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;
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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 <Deborah.L.Birx@nsc.eop.gov> AM 3] <afauci@niaid.nih.gov> afauci(@niaid.nih.gov> On 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 from your mailbox or any other storage devices. The National Institute of Allergy and 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.
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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. Or. Fauci street art on the Lower East Side ERIK PENDZICH/SHUTTERSTOCK Last 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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June 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 textpinged 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. Tam 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. 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 Iam 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 113 to 20 states. Global -- 300,000/120,000 "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 COVID19 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:
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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.
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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. The historical Piazza della Signoria square in Florence, Italy, in early June. I Andrew Medichini/AP Photo