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July 7, 2020 - Global - 11,300,000/532,000; USA - 2,900,000/130,000 Did press briefing via Zoom in Alabama with Sen. Doug Jones (D-AL) - went very well. Here we go again. Got call from Francis Collins who got a call from Marc Short who said the WH is upset with me because I gave the interview with Sen. Doug Jones (see above) and he is a Democratic Senator is a tight race with a Republican and they are suspicious that I am favoring the Dems. BTW, the interview was approved by HHS Leg and ASPA. Caputo called saying that the WH was just going to approve the requests for me to appear on NewsHour and CNN, but because I said that relying on decrease deaths to say that all is well with COVID-19 is a "false narrative" and we should not be complacent ... I said this on the Sen. Jones interview. Now the POTUS is also tweeting that I am wrong on this as I have been wrong on many things including masks and closing down travel, which is complete bullshit. PRESS: Interview with Denise Grady of New York Times regarding Moderna tension; Corriere della Sera Italina newspaper - Giuseppe Sarcina; ABC News FiveThirtyEight Podcast - Anna Rothschild; )0,000/131,100
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July 8, 2020 - Global 11,500,000/536,000; USA - 3,000,000/131,100 TF meeting at the Dept. of Education - I was in Sit Room and not part of the press conference that followed. Purpose of the TF was to push for opening of schools. Good thing that I was not part of the press conference (Deb, VP, Sec. DeVos) since much negative public response. Clearly Trump is pushing to open the schools no matter what. There is concern about the safety of the children and teachers. Yet, Trump together with Redfield (being pressured) is saying that the CDC guidelines should not stand in the way of opening schools (what???). Glad that I am not involved in that discussion. Spent 1 hour on Zoom with Sean Penn and his organization - CORE - coronavirus relief. Great conversation. They provide testing in various cities and wanted my opinion of how they can optimize their impact. I strongly advised them to focus on a process that has an impact and endpoint, not just testing to increase the numbers. I recommended that they work with cities (like LA, Atlanta) that can utilize their efforts to actually do effective identification, contact tracing, and isolation. Sean and his group were very grateful for the time that I spent with them. Tension building up with the press (especially CNN) stressing Trump versus Fauci. Trump tweeting negative things about me. When asked about my comment of "false narrayive", he said I am wrong on a lot of things. He said that I said not to shut down China (this coming from Peter Navarro) (when I actually said to shut it down). He is also saying that I was against masks before I was for them. Someone is obviously feeding him this shit. Caputo told me that I am being kept off TV (even though they were leaning to approve requests) because of my comment about "false narrative" concerning relying on deaths going down. Even some crazy stuff on the Dark Web about Chris saying that she is Ghislaine Maxwell's sister: The debunking is under way! @) PolitiFact @ Anthony Fauci is married to Christine Grady who, for the record, is not Ghislaine Maxwell's sister. SE PolitiFact - No, Fauci isn't m... , A Global USA augh; Sirius Radio "Doctor PRESS: Wall Street Journal podcast - Kate Linebaugh; Sirius Radio "Doctor Radio" - Marc Siegel
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July 9, 2020 - Global USA >60,000 new cases yesterday! Things not going in the right direction at all, yet continued happy talk from the VP and the White House. Clearly I am the "skunk at the picnic". New Dally Confirmed COVID-19 Cases in the U.S, g h i= Fy y vi Lf ' haf LTT I] f : Mal Set A ( ia a PISS SLE SPEC SS Se ee Ie SEL SF TS IS TEST ESI SSE SPEDE SES SL EL LSS OL LA ME Daily ee? Day Mowing Araga NATIONWIDE COVID-19 METRICS. 7-DAY AVERAGE LINES Apr1- Jul8 Daily Tests Daily Cases Currently Hospitalized Daily Deaths Jul 8: 654,730 Jul 8: 62,197 Jul 8: 43,004 Jul 8: 808 60,000 700,000 60,000 600,000 50,000 50,000 500,000 aun 40,000 40,000 400,000 30,000 30,000 300,000 20,000 20,000 200,000 100,000 10,000 0,000 t¢) Apr1 = May1 Jun Jul 1 Apr1 = May1 Jun Jul 1 Source: The COVID Tracking Project Bob Redfield defending the fact that Trump forced CDC to change guidelines that Trump felt was too strict to open the schools. Bob is losing a lot of credibility. Trump wants to open the schools at all costs. Clearly he does not care about the safety of the chidren, 110,000/133,000 ers still soaring PRESS: Hill TV with Steve Clemons - The Future of Healthcare; Press conference at IAS on COVID-19; CNN continues to quote me in opposition to Trump and as the ony person telling the truth. July 10. 2020 - Global - 12,000,000/546,000; USA - 3,110,000/133,000 Another record day with 68,000 cases. Approaching my prediction of ~100,000. Important meeting with Pence who asked to see for 20 minutes before today's Task Force meeting. He obviously is concerned over the press making an open conflict between me and Trump. He explained how much respect and affection he had for me. He then asked me for advice about how we are doing. I said that I would be coldly honest with him. He agreed to accept that. I then told him that he is completely losing credibility when we have >60,000 new cases with increased hospitalizations and deaths and he starts off at the Pressers saying "We are in a good place". I stressed that it would be best to establish credibility first by coming out right off and saying we have a big problem, but we are trying to address it in the Southern states that are involved as well as prevent such resurgences in other states. Then and only then could he say that we are in a better place and shape to respond than we were before. BUT, you must admit the problem first. He agreed and was clearly grateful that I was open and honest with him. I then told him that 19 years ago in this same room I sat with VP Cheney to discuss the Anthrax attacks. I have a photo of Cheney and me right here Pence asked where in the room I did this with Cheney and where was the picture taken. He then called in the WH photographer and took a photo of exactly where Cheney and I were sitting. He seemed to really enjoy that historic context. At the end of the TF meeting, he again thanked me for his conversation. Also, Mark Meadows called me and asked that we meet next week to straighten out the conflict between me and Trump. We shall see how that meeting turns out. I see him on Monday. PRESS: Podcast with American Dissected; CNN (especially Don Lemon, but also several others at CNN) hammering away at the Fauci versus Trump issue.
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July 11, 2020 - In USA - 3,300,000 cases and 136,000 deaths. Numbers still soaring with ICU beds filling up in Florida. Heard from Washington Post (Jasmeen Abutaleb) that she is writing a big article for tomorrow (Sunday) about the conflict between me and the POTUS. Yikes! Let us see how that turns out. la >13.500 today REGIONAL CURRENTLY HOSPITALIZED. 7-DAY AVERAGE LINE i i Northeast Midwest South West Jul 11 3,081 (6%) 5,303 (10%) 29,495 (57%) 13,711 (27%) 35,000 30,000 25,000 20,000 15,000 10,000 5,000 Mar 1 May 1 Joll Marl May 1 Joll Mar] May 1 Tull Marl May 1 jul The COVID Tracking Project C Had call with Marc Ghaly Heath Commissioner from California (Los Angeles) wanting advice about how to respond to the surge of cases in California.
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July 12, 2020 - Cases still soring. Florida >13.500 today Big firestorm over the Post article and the fact that unspecified White House officials have compiled a list of things I said that were incorrect. This is oppositional research agsinst one of their own (me). The blowback has been incredible. I have been contacted by virtusally every reporter (Post. NY Times, mutiple CNN - Sanjay Gupta, Jim Sciutto, networks) that I have ever dealt with and they are consistently outraged by the disinformation campaign of the WH against me and the attempt to discredit me. They all want to help. I called up Marc Short (whom I trust) to ask his take on this. He was "embarrassed" and disturbed by this action by the White House. He believes that it could not have happened without Mark Meadows's buy in and approval. This shows the schism between the VP's people and the POTUS/Meadows people. Marc was quite disturbed that this is going on. Also, Brett Giroir tried to throw me under the bus on Sunday TV saying that I am not always correct - playing into the discrediting scheme. Sign (below) photo sent to me from Sylvia Burwell. lines an Global USA a PRESS: Big deal - Front page story in Washington Post: "White House sidelines an increasingly candid Fauci" by Yasmeen Abutaleb, Josh Dawsey, and Laurie McGingle - much comment about this on the Sunday Shows.
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July 13, 2020 - Global USA Yesterday Florida had >15,000 infections - most for any state since the beginning Met with Mark Meadows. He denies knowing anything about the WH drive to discredit me. This is tough to believe in that multiple nerws outlets (networks and Cables0 have been given a list of my "mistakes and errors" directly from the White House. No way that he did nt knw abut it. Nonethelerss, he said he will make sure that it stops. Too late, they already did the character assassination. Major, Major show of support for me for multiple and varied sectors. Most peole expressing outrage that the trump administration woud be so bumbling and incompetent to try to discredit the most credible scientist in the world. Gave Fireside Chat Podcast for Stanford Univerity MC'd by Lloyd Minor, dean of Stanfod Medical School. Met virtually with Mark Lerner and officials from Washinfgton Nationals to discuss potential obstacles to their opening at Nats Stadium on July 23. I will throw out the first pitch. Another all with Dionne Warwick about COVID-19. She is advising Biden people. Chris Cuomo on the top of his show blasts Trump administration regarding trying todiscredit me. Peter Staley blasts Trump regarding me on Anderson Cooper 390 (CNN) PRESS: TV and print have flooded the media in support of me and condemnation of the Trump administration. Opinions Fauci has been an example of conscience and courage. Trump has been nothing but weak. ,400,000/136,000 DR. FAUCI, MELINDA GATES AND BARACK OBAMA AT THE WUHAN LAB IN 2015...!!! Ginny McGonigle @qmcgonigle » 20h v Replying to @JoeBiden You mean this Or Fauci who was with Obama in 2015 in the WuHan lab where they paid the lab 3.7 million for a 'bat' project? We know that we'll now right? He is of the deep state you get instructions from him, Cut the crap! All to take Trump down! we, A sign outside a home in Rockport, Mass., reads "In Fauci We Trust." (Brian Snyder/Reuters) Opinion by Michael Gerson Columnist
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July 14, 2020 - Global - 12,800,000/568,000; USA - 3,400,000/136,000 Outbreaks still raging in Florida - records being broken. >60,000 cases yesterday Deep state is going more crazy than ever in attacking me as the academic community is mobilizing to defend me. Real crazy. See below: {> Alan He @ *" GRAHAM defends Dr. Fauci: "We don't have a Dr. Fauci problem. We need to be focusing on doing things that get us to where we need to go. So I have all the respect in the world for Dr. Fauci. I think any effort to undermine him is not going to be productive, quite frankly." > ever said was I did a fireside chat online at Georgetown hosted by John Monahan. It was taken up my multiple press including C-SPAN, which then fed into CNN and other networks. It was a good venue for my getting the message out. Phone call with Alyssa Farah. She apologized profusely about the "screw up" with her junior staff who put out the list of how I got things wrong. She admits that it only hurts the POTUS to disrespect me and question my credibility. I told her that the White House (either Meadows or the POTUS) need to shut up Stephen Moore and stop his publication of "Dr. Wrong" paper. If he does not the entire academic community will dump all over the POTUS. Peter Navarro wrote OpEd in USA Tosday saying everything that I have ever said was incorrect. I went on a Goergetown Fireside chat (see above) and in ashort sentene I said that the current outbreak was "comparable to 1918". I did not mean in numbers, but for a sensitive person, it could mean that I wa predicting 50 million deaths. Well, tonight Francis Collins called me up saying that he just got off the phone with Mark Meadows who was screaming at him about what I said. Mark wanted this "walked back". Clerly Markis vey sensitive about playing down the pandemic because of the ucoming election and anything that indictes that this is a big problem drives him nuts. I got on the phone with Mark (he was still very angry), but I calmed him down and said that I would clarify this on my next TV appearance. He then indicated that he really liked me very much and respected me and values ou relationship. I apologized for what happened and he accepted the apology. Just an example of the tension that the pandemic in the context of the upcoming election is causing. PRESS: Trevor Noah https://bit.ly/2CyI0tH ; CNN - see above at Georgetown again strongly pitted me against the POTUS regarding a particular statement when I was Global USA is://bit.ly/2ZA YJAEy asked about "who can we trust". I said "medical and public health experts who speak based on science and data and who tell the truth". I said "trust me". CNN took that as strongly implying "do not trust Trump"
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July 15, 2020 - Global USA Continue record-breaking numbers of cases with increased hospitalizations and now even deaths. The press are all over the issue of the White House trying to discredit me. Alyssa Farah put out tweet saying that the USA Tody OpEd by Peter Navarro was never cleared or approved. Adm. Michael Mullen, former Chairman Joint Chiefs called me to empathize and give me encouragement and support. Very nice of him since I had never met him. Very nice conversation The Lincoln Project put out a vewry provocative Fauci versus Trump link: Lincoln Project ad https://bit.ly/2AYJAEy Dan Scavino retweated this cartoon mocking me. This caused outrage among my supporters: Letter from Congressman Krishnamoorth to AZAR regarding attackes on me: New Yorker Magazine on 2020.07.15 Letter from Krishnamoorth Amazing Day!! The setting is the extreme tension in the press and in the White House about the USA Today OpEd by Peter Navarro and the "list" of my mistakes sent out by WH Comms. On my way by car to the WH for the TF meeting, I received a call from the POTUS. He started off by saying that this tension of me versus him is terrible and needs to stop. He "loves" me and know we have a very special relationship and have bonded right from the beginning. He is furious about the Navarro OpEd and said (as Mark Meadows walked into the room and he put me on speaker phone): "I am going to tell Navarro if he says or writes one fucking word against you I am going to kick his fucking ass out the fucking door. Mark, make sure Novarro understands, one more word and he is out the fucking door and he won't come back". He then started to talk to me about how bad or not things were. He wanted me to be "positive". I took the opportunity to say" "Mr. President, with your permission, can I be absolutely frank with you? We have a problem and we need to own it. We need to admit that the situation is serious, otherwise we completely lose credibility. We should own the problem and then emphasize how we are going to fix it as opposed to denying the problem". He was not entirely happy with this but said that he understood the point that I was making. It was a very good conversation. Then after the TF meeting ended, I got a note from the Sit Room staff that Mark Meadows was on the phone from Air Force One and wanted to speak with me. He had seen the interview from The Atlantic and was angry that I had not "walked back" my statement about the 1918 pandemic on that interview. He was again angry and said he thought that I agreed that I would walk back the statement today. I told him I was going to wait until tomorrow when I am on the NewsHour with Judy Woodruff. That was not good enough for him. He wanted it done today. He was also pissed that I had mentioned to the press that we had met and I spoke about the nature of our conversation. He was clearly over-reacting since even he admitted the press knew about our meeting, but I do not think I said anything else to them except that we had met. Anyway, on the way back to NIH I called Sanjay Gupta and asked him to quote me tonight on his TV hit on CNN and say that I wanted to clarify that on the Georgetown interview, I did not mean to imply that COVID-19 would be as bad (50-100 million deaths) as was 1918. Sanjay agreed to do this. I texted this information back to Mark on Air Force One and he replied: "Thanks for getting back with me. We are going to make this work." The media is totally buzzing about the tension between me and White House. Amazing support for me and blowing off of Navarro and the "list" PRESS: The Atlantic Pulse with Ed Yong; Interview with New Yorker Magazine on COVID vaccine with Dhruv Khullar; ases yesterday. ',600,000/138,000