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June 29, 2020 - Global - 10,000,000/500,000; USA - 2,550,000/127,000 47,000 new cases yesterday. 50% of all new cases from CA, AZ, TX, FL. Clearly big problems with resurgences very likely related to young people at bars and in big parties related to opening, Memorial Day and crowds. Mostly young people with average 1.5 decades younger than a couple of months ago. Governors' call in Sit Room with VP leading the call. Clearly, they get it now and are worried. I spoke about making the public health response to vehicle to re-opening as opposed to the obstacle to re-opening, i.e. obey guidelines and always use mask and physical distancing even when opening. Gov Ray Cooper (D-NC) called me and spoke for 45 minutes on his dilemma about whether to open the Charter Schools that are scheduled to open in 2 weeks, right after 4th July. He was agonizing since he wanted to do the right thing. Since this is the first decision among Governors regarding opening for the Fall term, he feels that he will be the example. He is seeing an uptick of cases and he is near FL and so is worried that if he opens, he may have to lose again if he gets surge like FL and TX, I recommended that he delay decision for 2 weeks. His health officer is Mandy Cohen. Had important conversation with Pence right before the afternoon task Force meeting. I came early and walked up to VP suite and luckily he was sitting in his office with Marc Short and ? Natalie. I told him that I am being blocked from TV and I needed to get on TV to give the 'risk reduction" message and that I would avoid being pitted against him or the POTUS merely by not playing that game. I mentioned the recent interview on NPR with Michel Martin where she asked a Fauci versus Pence/Trump question and I responded that this was not helpful and I was there as a health official and not to get into politics. Michel gracefully backed down. I also told him about the dangers of having me and others on stage with him when he talks happy i.e. glass half full as opposed to glass half empty. He got it, but still wanted to do press conferences with us. He did promise that he would get me out there on TV since he really liked my message. First time anyone ever spoke that way to VP. He truly likes me a lot (and vice versa). Now we have to get the POTUS press people to agree. Interesting intrigue in the White House. POTUS people versus VP people. Katie and Marc are all with me. PRESS: FOX Radio and podcast (National)
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June 30, 2020 - Global - 10,000,000/500; USA - 2,600,000/127,000. 37,000 cases yesterday. Multiple other states (total of 31) are showing increased cases and several showing increased hospitalizations. Testified at the Senate HELP Hearing chaired by Lamar Alexander (R-TN) and ranking minority Patty Murray (D-WS). Focus was on opening schools, but it became free-wheeling. Elizabeth Warren was her usual muted hostility towards me, probably since she is aiming to by Biden's VP and she wants to she she is tough on administration. Also, Rand Paul was his usual self obliquely accusing me of arrogance and conceit in making projections without data. He referred to my discussing whether Sports could open. Actually my responses won him over and he gave me a big wave and smile when he left the hearing room. Rest of the hearing went very well. I predicted that if we do not do something about the recent surge that the entire country is in danger and we could reach 100,000 cases in a single day. This made NY Times immediately online. I said "Bars are bad news". Outdoors better than indoors. In a speech today, Joe Biden said that if he is elected POTUS one of the first things he would do in addressing COVID-19 is to reah out to me and ask me to continue my leadership role in this effort and "join his administration". Clearly, this will piss off Trump and the White House. Mike Memoli @ i - Ahead of remarks later today, camp says that within "minutes" of being declared winner in November, one of his first calls would be to Anthony Fauci, to "ask him to extend his unprecedented record of service to six Presidents by serving one more." Gl Mike Memoli @ "Dr. Fauci will have full access to the Oval Office and an uncensored platform to speak ey to the PRESS: Much media coverage of the Hearing today.
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July 1, 2020 - Global - 10,200,000/504,000; USA - 2,620,000/128,000. Most involved states now pulling back on opening and closing bars and cancelling events for the upcoming 4th July. Spoke yesterday with Marc Khaly from California (see above). He is going to cancel all crowding activities over the weekend. He calls me regularly for advice. News reporting that there is now a schism in the White house with Trump, meadows, Kayleigh and Hope leaning towards economics and deeply suspicious of me versus the VP and his team (Katie, Fevin O'Malley) favoring me and being much more realistic with the VP for the 1st time wearing a mask regularly. Media speculating that Penceis now thinking about his own political future and wants to be on the right side of history. My relationship with Pence getting much stronger. ) Marc Caputo @ M @MarcACaputo With Covid-19 keeping folks indoors, Rep @DonnaShalala's getting a Yorkie-mix rescue dog that ran into Strada In The Grove restaurant in Miami. Paws for 4 You Rescue said she should give it an Italian name The former HHS Secretary thought of her old friend "! named him Fauci" 12:41 PM - Jun 30, 2020 - Twitter Web App Laura Ingaham (FOX) is now spreading conspiracy theory (Huff Post) that I am actually "Medical Deep State" and am actually going to be Joe Biden's running mate: Laura Ingraham Spews Yet Another Wild Conspiracy Theory About Anthony Fauci The Fox News personality called the nation's top infectious disease expert "Dr. Doom" and criticized him for "undermining Trump's agenda." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ I reached out to Congressman Joseph Kennedy (D-MA) since we had a garbled interchange at the House Hearing last week and it looked like he was annoyed with me. I wanted to set the record straight and develop a relationship with him. I was good friends with great uncle Teddy. We had a Zoom conversation today for 30 minutes and it was terrific. I believe that this is the beginning of a friendship. He was very gracious on the Zoom. Had dinner over Jake Tapper and Jen Tapper's home in DC. Terrific couple. Friendship building. Global USA 50,000/129,000 PRESS: Front page Washington Post story on my statement that we could get 100,000 cases/day if we do not control the outbreak. NPR - All Things Considered - Mary Louise Kelly; BBC Radio Morning Show
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July 2, 2020 - Global USA Big problems - >53,000 cases yesterday. Highest ever for a given day. I am concerned that we might be on "exponential" increase as we enter into the 4th of July weekend. POTUS and his people have essentially dropped out and do not even recognize that an outbreak is ongoing on. They are denying all requests for me to appear on any major TV programs. Caputo is a con man who is completely full of shit. He says he wants me out there on TV and yet I am being blocked, very likely by him who knows nothing about public health. He is a close friend on Roger Stone, for goodness sakes! Got call from Ross (POTUS speechwriter) who wants to include in a speech the beneficial effects of remdesivir and dexamethasone in advanced disease and even mortality. Phone Call with Rev. Jesse Jackson, Sr. PRESS: BBC The World Radio Program; SiriusXM NFL Radio; Multiple outlets quoting things that I said on BBC, Harvard Business Review and other podcasts
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July 3, 2020 - Global - 10,5000,000/513,000; USA - 2,750,000/129,000 More daily record being broken with cases now at 57,500. New Dally Confirmed COVID-19 Cases in the U.S. Day Micwing Avcraga i Daily Caputo (sleezebag) and White House comms playing games with me in that they are not allowing me to go out on TV as we enter the 4th July weekend to instruct people on how to avoind infection. They do not respond to multiple requests for me to appear. I spoke yesterday to Judy Woodruff (PBS NewsHour) and Andrea Mitchell (NBC News), bot of who want me on their show as does Jim laCosta (CNN). Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) and LtGov Dan Patrick (TX) attacking me for what I am saying about how to avoid infection. Dan Patrick denying that TX skipped over checkpoints in opening and accused me of lying about this. I never specifically said they did. I said "some states" skipped over guidelines" Guilty conscience?? CNN did a fact check and called him out as completely incorrect. Interesting exchange involving Michael Caputo, me an Alyssa Farah. Michael is full of shit, for sure. He claims to be trying to ge me on TV saying that the WH is blocking. And so I wrote an e-mail to him with copy to Alyssa today: Michael: I am sorry to disturb you on this holiday weekend, but I feel compelled to again reach out to you. As you are painfully aware, our country is in a very serious situation with resurgences of COVID-19 cases in multiple states at record levels. I believe that it is our moral responsibility to get out the public health messages about personal and societal responsibility to urge people (particularly young people) to protect themselves and others from getting infected as we enter the holiday weekend. Messages from public health officials like myself and my colleagues are critical to this effort and will save lives. As you know, I have been asked by virtually every network '(00,000/130,000 and cable outlet to get out there and deliver this potentially life-saving message. Yet every single one of these requests of late, which we re-submit every day, has been ignored or denied. We are missing an opportunity to save lives. Please consider this. Best regards, Tony Alyssa immediately texts me with the following: "Hey, Dr. Fauci, just getting up to speed. WH comms is supportive of you going out, which I'll convey to Caputo. What programs do you think make sense? I think it would make sense to add you into the Sunday shows and then look at network TV next week". I tell her my choices and then she texts back: "I'll get with your team and lock some of these in. Apologies for this happeneing again". I had told her that my choice would be Meet the Press. They then tried toget me on MTP, but they were already booked up.
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July 4, 2020 - Global - 11,000,000/525,000 USA - 2,800,000/130,000 Andrea Mitchell called my cell very apologetic about not being able to have me on the show since they already booked a couple of governors who were giving exclusives to NBC. I mentioned to her my concern about them keeping me off the air. She was shocked and thought that when I did not come on after requests that it was because I did not want to go on a show. It is clear that Michael Caputo in totally full of shit. The WH is now saying that they are giving the ball back to Pence to decide what happens with COVID-19 and that there will be more media appearances from health experts. We shall see. Florida had 11,000 cases yesterday. Everything is surging.
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July 5, 2020 - Sunday - Hahn on 2 Sunday Shows. I am blocked (see above). Surges continue in multiple states with new records every day. Particularly FL. In NY Times this AM, comment about people in some states, particularly TX (Dan Patrick - Lt. Gov as an example) are making me the symbol of what they are tired of. Theyare saying to hell with the outbreak, "we are done with it", even though people are getting sick and New Daily Confirmed COVID-19 Cases in the U.S. a mn 7 Oey Moving Average a ty rump vrote column in Washington Post: hospitalized. POTUS had 4th Juy celebration on South Lawn (I and Chris were invited) that was crowded and no one wearing masks. I did not attend. Not just USA, there are major outbreaks in Brazil, Mexico, Asia (Japan, North Korea, etc). I have been having several 30 minute deep background conversations with Bob Woodward who is writing a book on the Trump response to the outbreak. Margaret Brennan on "Face the Nation" came out and explicitly said that the Trump administration was blocking my appearing onTV including their show where they continually ask for me and have been refused. This clearly triggered a response either/or in HHS and the WH because Caputo texted me in the afternoon and asked what my priority shows would be for next week. I said NewsHour with Judy Woodruff and Today with Savannah Guthrie. Savannah would be on vacation and so we went with CNN Town Hall with Sanjay Gupta and Anderson Cooper. We shall see what actually happens. Jennifer Rubin wrote column in Washington Post: Distinguished person of the week: Fauci finally breaks through Opinion by Jennifer Rubin Columnist
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July 5, 2020 at 7:45 a.m. EDT In Senate testimony and interviews, Anthony S. Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, sounded the alarm: We are not winning in the battle against the novel coronavirus. Even more important than that was his insistence that we all wear masks in public. Consider what he told the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions on Tuesday when Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) asked if masks should be given away for free: "There's no doubt that wearing masks protects you," Fauci said. "Anything that furthers the use of masks, whether it's giving out free masks or any other mechanism, I am thoroughly in favor of." President Trump has been the main impediment to mask-wearing, choosing to turn a vital public health measure into a sign of tribal identity. Fauci nevertheless has persisted in his message. This is hardly the first time Fauci has tried to get Americans to adopt the simple, lifesaving practice. ("Everybody should wear a mask when out [in] public," he said in June. In late May he told CNN, "I want to protect myself and protect others, and also because I want to make it be a symbol for people to see that that's the kind of thing you should be doing." The advice took on fresh urgency as he warned that the country could experience as many as 100,000 new cases a day. The Post interviewed Fauci and other health experts about wearing masks. He was unequivocal. "It dominates everything I do. The only time I don't wear one is when I am alone, when I am home with my wife, or when I am speaking in public -- provided there is 6 feet between me and the people to whom I am speaking, as was the case when I answered questions at the recent congressional hearings." Last week the rate of infections spiked past 55,000 in a single day, and suddenly Republicans who had pooh-poohed mask-wearing and echoed Trump's disdain for masks were speaking up. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) finally proclaimed, "We must have no stigma, none, about wearing masks when we leave our homes and come near other people. Wearing simple face coverings is not about protecting ourselves, it is about protecting everyone we encounter." Too bad he didn't say that months or weeks ago -- or tell Trump to stop discouraging mask use. We seemed to reach a tipping point when Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) finally put out a statewide order requiring masks. Other states fell into line as the infection and hospitalization rate soared. Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey (R) issued a shutdown order and Global USA Ipree ie encouraged mask-wearing as the virus threatened to overwhelm his state's hospital capacity. Pennsylvania, Oregon and Kansas also implemented state mandates on maskwearing. Even Vice President Pence -- who refused to wear a mask when visiting the Mayo Clinic in late April -- during his visit to Arizona called on Americans to wear masks. If only Republicans had listened to Fauci months ago, the U.S. death count might not be roughly 130,000 and the pandemic might not be surging in states where leaders shrugged off mask-wearing and prematurely opened. This is, however, a case of better late than never. By successfully cajoling lawmakers and ordinary Americans to wear masks, Fauci will save thousands of lives before a vaccine is ready. For his constant efforts, defying and ultimately breaking through the deadly fog of the Trump cult, we say, "Well done, Dr. Fauci."
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July 5, 2020 at 10:14 p.m. EDT Texas COVID-19 hospitalizations: An alarming trend June 29 July 4 I 8,000 Abbott orders restaurants back to50% I 7,890 5,913 June 26 7,000 Abbott orders bars closed again June 12 9,102 Restaurants open to 75% 6,000 2,166 4g June 3 Bars and other businesses increase to 50% capacity nF 5,000 1,799 May 29-June 2 George Floyd protests 4,000 1,701 - 1,773 May! May 25 Reopening I May22 I wemorial begins Bars Day 3,000 1,778 reopen L511 1,578 . 2,000 i b Oo 1,000 5/2. 5/9 = 5/16 5/23 5/30 6/6 6/13 6/20 6/27 7/4 Confirmed Cases (Thousands) z ma = I o - En a8 ayES afez ayea "Represents partial week data Bue afd a Week of 3/10 1a? New Weekly Confirmed COVID-19 Cases in the U5. aa77 258.1 pi Beg aan 142.9 ae 5/24 5/9E af of14 of21 6/23 it Radio The )0,000/130,000 PRESS: Profile interview with the Financial Times; Philly Beaumont Radio The Times of London; KCBS Radio San Francisco; Clips of me on CNN