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July 18, 2020 - Global - 13,800,000/594,000; USA - 3,640,000/139,000. Cases continue to surge. News cycle dominated by reports of conflict between me and the Trump insiders (see below) Petitions from multiple scientific organizations going around to sign on in support of me. Comm situation becomes even crazier. Despite Caputo saying that he is now "calling the shots and not the White House (see above), Alyssa Farah called me and said that Jake Tapper wants me this week and she will put me on for Tuesday. I explained to her what Caputo said and she told me not to pay attention to him since he is a big problem. She even said that it would be better if he stopped tweeting about Roger Stine and concentrated on his job, things would work better. Anyway, I am caught in the middle. Let us see how this turns out. Continuing surge PRESS: Article in New York Times by Mark Leibowich - "Whats Happening" to Dr. Fauci is the Buzz. - Description of the tension against me and for me; Long article in Washington Post by Philip Rucker, Laurie McGinley, Josh Dawsey and Yasmeen Abutaleb "Attacks on Fauci undercut response". Also article in CNN blog by Vivian Salama, Pamela Brown, Kristen Holmes and Kate Bennett quite critical of Birx for selling out to trump and compatring me and Deb; Also another New York Times Article by Giovanni Russonello "Most Americans Put Their Faith in Fauci"; Boston Globe by Kevin Cullen: "The Crusader doctor and the non-crusading judge" - comparing me from Holy Cross and Chief Justice John Roberts from Harvard - cute article
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July 19, 2020 (Sunday) - Continuing surge Francis Collins on Meet the Press - did well. They continually ask him if WH has told him to fire me. Francis responded that this is "unimaginable". Many societies are writing statements in explicit support of me. It isvery moving and humbling. Kellyanne Conway called me today saying how angry she was at the unseemly criticism of me by some in the White House. She has spoken to the POTUS about this and he is strongly supportive of me Mark Mradows and I going back and forth regarding his nitpicking every word of mine on interviews. Latest was his concern that I said that NYC did a good job in getting back to basline and opening safely. He says NYC did a terrible job and I should not be setting them as an example. He is incorrect and misunderstood what I was saying. I meant that they went down to baseline and are not opening safely. WEgo back anad forth and finally call a truce. NATIONWIDE COVID-19 METRICS SINCE APRIL 1. 7-DAY AVERAGE LINES Choose Census Region {cam Daily Tests 80,000 Daily Cases Currently Hospitalized Daily Deaths 50,000 40,000 30,000 20,000 10,000 May1 Junl Jull Aprl Mayl Junl Jull Apri Mayl Juni Jull Aprl Mayl Junl 'Jul The COVID Tracking Project >e. USA Today piece by Gov. Larry Hogan: Hogan: Governors like me rely on experts for COVID facts. Dr. Fauci has never let me down. As Trump downplayed COVID, Fauci offered clear-eyed views of the evidence and what we faced. I shudder to think where our country would be without him. Larry Hogan Opinion contributor PRESS: New York Times article by Michael Shear, Noah Weiland, Eric Lipton, Maggie Haberman, and david Sanger entitled "Passing off virus burden, White House fueld crisis" - criticizes Deb Birx a lot. I comme out well; Major 3 page article in Washington Post by Molly Roberts entitled "Anthony Fauci built a truce. Trump is destroying it" - very favorable profile 300,000/140,200; as 73 Slate 00,000/141,000.
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July 20, 2020 - Global - 14,000,000/598,000; USA - 3,800,000/140,200; • Kentucky, Louisiana, Oregon and South Carolina all set new single-day records for new cases on Sunday. Idaho, Nebraska, Iowa and five other states have seen their seven-day averages for daily new fatalities rise by more than 40 percent in the past week. • More than 100 Florida hospitals have run out of ICU beds for adults. The state has reported more than 10,000 new covid-19 cases on 12 different days in July. Had call with Bill Gates (usual call every couple of weeks) Was on Governors' call from the Situation Room today. Made comment about the importance of the "fundamentals" on 1) masks; 2) close bards; 3) limit restaurant occupancy; 4) avoid crowds; 5) personal hygiene - wash hands. The Nats mask that Iwore to the Hearing is being put into the Cooperstown MLB Hall of Fame! PRESS: Nice profile on me in Corriere della Sera - https://bit.ly/2ZIWDU7 ; Slate Magazine "What's Next" podcast; Podcast/Instagram with Maria Schriver
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July 21, 2020 - Global - 14,300,000/604,000; USA - 3,800,000/141,000. Surge continues in Southern States. Florida in trouble. POTUS had press conference on COVID-19 without having me, Deb, or other TF members with him Meadows and now Rand Paul have been actively criticizing me for saying that NYC got it right in that after their peak, they brought the infections down and now have few hospitalizations and few deaths. They are incorrect. See below numbers for NYC: Cases Hospitalizations Deaths 6,000 4,000 2,000 07/01 Cases Hospitalizations Deaths 03/01 04/01 05/01 06/01 07/01 Cases Hospitalizations Deaths 03/01 04/01 05/01 06/01 07/01 New York Times interview 'eport; CNN with Jake ocate Global USA PRESS: NPR Radio - "Morning Edition" Rachel Martin; New York Times interview wih Jennifer Senior; Nice article in U.S. News and World Report; CNN with Jake Tapper - The Lead; Interview with John Casey of The Advocate
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July 22, 2020 - Global USA Death threats are ramping up again and so my security with George Adams is coming back. George will take Christine and meto the game tomorrow night and provide security. Had a great Zoom conversation with Ryan Zimmerman (Zim) who gave me tips on throwing out the first ball on Thursday. He was wonderful. Very nice man. Interesting day at the Task Force. Called the POTUS I mentioned to the VP that the POTUS did a good job on the solo press conference yesterday. I told VP to tell the POTUS that I said so. The VP told me to call him myself since he has such great respect for me. Katie Miller gave me the phone number of the POTUS's personal secretary, Molly Michael. I called her and she ultimately (30 minutes later) connected me. I told him it was a good idea (like I had told him last Thursday) to own the problem, admit that things are bad and describe how he is going to do something about it. I also told him that it was good that he did it solo and kept it to 30 minutes. He was very glad to hear from me and said it was"a really great call" Gov. Andrew Cuomo called me asking how I was. I told him that I was upset that the far right was trying to discredit me. He strongly suggested that I resign; he does not seem to appreciate the difference between resigning from TF and resigning from NIAID. He said I will lose credibility if I stay and that my legacy needs to be preserved. He said if I quit he will make sure that I am hired as an uber-consultant and could do very, very well in the private sector. Sorry, not for me. Nearly 3,500 Public Health Experts Signal Support for Fauci Current and Former Health Officials, Physicians, and Scientific Experts Sign Letter Denouncing White House Attacks on NIAID Director
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July 22, 2020 ShareThis Nearly 3,500 of the nation's leading public health experts are speaking out against White House attacks on National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease Director Dr. Anthony S. Fauci and are calling on President Donald Trump not to sideline science or scientists as the country continues to reel from the COVID-19 pandemic. The signers include two former Commissioners of the Food and Drug Administration, two former directors of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a former Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, a former Surgeon General, several leading medical journal editors, and hundreds of the nation's most prominent physicians, researchers, and public health experts. ner The open letter to President Trump was drafted by former FDA Associate Commissioner Dr. Peter Lurie, now President of the Center for Science in the Public Interest, and epidemiologist and longtime AIDS activist Gregg Gonsalves, now of Yale School of Public Health, who began circulating the open letter on Friday evening. "This week and last, the White House mounted a campaign to discredit one of our nation's leading scientific experts, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, who has advised six Presidents on epidemics from HIV to SARS, from Ebola to H1N1 influenza," the letter reads. "Since the beginning of the pandemic, he has remained one of the world's most trusted scientists on COVID-19, daily explaining in lay terms the complexity of an illness we still don't fully understand. And he has done so by placing science front and center in the public discourse. Attempting to marginalize highly respected researchers such as Dr. Fauci is a dangerous distraction at a time when we most need voices like his." In mid-July, the White House circulated a set of talking points criticizing Dr. Fauci to journalists, and Trump administration trade advisor Peter Navarro penned an op-ed in USA Today claiming that Dr. Fauci was "wrong about everything I have interacted with him on." USA Today retroactively said that Navarro's op-ed had claims that were misleading or lacked context, and thus did not meet the paper's fact-checking standards. Though the White House eventually distanced itself from the Navarro op-ed, Dr. Fauci was not invited to participate in yesterday evening's White House coronavirus briefing, the first since April. Signatories to the open letter include former New England Journal of Medicine Editors Dr. Marcia Angell and Dr. Jerome Kassirer; current New York City Health Commissioner Dr. Oxiris Barbot and former Commissioner Dr. Mary Bassett; former NBC News science and health correspondent Dr. Robert Bazell, now at Yale; American Public Health Association President Dr. Georges Benjamin; Dr. Luciana Borio, former Director for Medical and Biodefense Preparedness at the National Security Council; New York University bioethicist Dr. Arthur Caplan; former US Surgeon General Dr. Joycelyn Elders, former HHS Deputy Secretary William Corr, former CDC Director and current President and CEO of Resolve to Save Lives Dr. Thomas Frieden; former EPA official and current Dean of the Milken Institute School of Public Health at George Washington University Dr. Lynn Goldman; former FDA Chief Scientist Jesse Goodman, now with Georgetown University; former FDA Commissioners Dr. Margaret Hamburg and Dr. Jane Henney; Dr. Shelley Hearne of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; The Lancet Editor-in-Chief Dr. Richard Horton; Ruth J. Katz of the Aspen Institute and former Dean of the Milken Institute School of Public Health at George Washington University; former CDC Director Dr. Jeffrey Koplan of Emory University; Yale cardiologist Dr. Harlan Krumholz; former HHS Assistant Secretary Dr. Nicole Lurie; Federation of American Scientists President Dr. Ali Nouri; former HHS official Dr. Anand Parekh of the Bipartisan Policy Center; former JAMA Deputy Editor Dr. Drummond Rennie of the University of California San Francisco; former HHS General Counsel William Schultz; former Kansas Governor and HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius; former FDA Deputy Commissioner and current Vice Dean for Public Health Anthony Fauci 950,000/143,000 Practice and Community Engagement at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Dr. Joshua Sharfstein; and Editor-in-Chief of the Science family of journals Dr. H. Holden Thorp. "As current and former public health officials, researchers, and public health professionals, we call on our political leaders, members of the media and all Americans to reject the sidelining of science, to speak out against the silencing of scientists, and to champion open and public scientific discussions of the issues facing our country as we struggle to make progress against the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic," the letter continues. "For that, we need the clear voices of government experts, including Dr. Fauci, to be available to the American public without limitation. That is the only path that can bring success in our efforts to control the virus." "Science and scientists had been under relentless assault during the Trump administration before the COVID-19 pandemic, and that assault has not let up," said Lurie of the Center for Science in the Public Interest. "We must reverse the administration's hostility to science and certain scientists if we're to deploy the public health measures and develop the treatments and vaccines that are our only hope for bringing the pandemic under control." "We have so much work to do to end the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic in the United States. We've seen too much death, too much economic devastation already. Public health and science offer us a way out, a way to vanquish this virus. But to do that we have to embrace the best science and scientists this country has to offer, not denigrate the very expertise that is vital to our survival at this moment," said Gonsalves of Yale School of Public Health. Topic: COVID-19 Integrity In Science Anthony Fauci Contact Info: Contact Jeff Cronin (jcronin[at]cspinet.org) or Richard Adcock (radcock[at]cspinet.org). Telephone call with Marc Ghaly fro CA again asking for advice on how to control the surge in CA. A problem is that even when you close the bars, people have backyard barbecues that are as bad as bars. He is also concerne about the upcoming harvest season with migant workers. 75% ofinfection are among LatinX PRESS: Randy Rainbow Pleads for Dr. Fauci's Help to 'Gee, Officer Krupke' https://bit.ly/3jtogIN;
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July 23, 2020 - Global - 14,800,000/612,000; USA - 3,950,000/143,000 Wall Street )20,000/144,000 Global USA 'Ss network Uneventful day with usual NIH meetings. Did not go down to White House. Getting nervous about throwing out the first ball at Nats stadium tonight in the Opening Day ceremony of Nats versus Yankees game. Amazing night at NATS Stradium where I threw out the first pitch to open the 2020 Baseball season with Nats - NY Yankees game. Unfortunately, I threw a "bouncer" to the right of the plate. I felt really badly but the overwhelming public reaction to it was sympathetic and positive. Mark Lerner (owner of Nats) had me sign dozens of baseballs to be given out to people and one that will go into the Baseball Hall of Fame together with 2 Louisville Slugger bats. I signed a Nats Jersey that will hang on the wall in Nats stadium next to a similar shirt signed by President Obama. Game got rained out in the 6th inning and we went home. Yankees were leading 4-1. PRESS: Interviewed with David Axelrod for "The Axe Files" podcast; Wall Street Journal Article on AIDS activism;
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July 24, 2020 - Global - 15,000,000/619,000; USA - 4,020,000/144,000 Routine day. Went for my "annual" physical with Ted Li. All is well. PRESS: FOX News with John Roberts; On front page picture of me glove tapping with Sean Doolittle; Podcast with CSIS (Steve Morrison); Interview with Ben Cohen of Wall Street Journal; podcast with Khan Academy; WINS NYC Radio;
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July 25, 2020 - Global USA Texas now have to triage who gets into intensieve and who does not (too far gone and/or too old. Very difficult situation. California takes over from NY as state with the most cases. Florida still surging. Deaths in the USA up to 1000/day for 4th day in a row. They have created a baseball card with a photo of me throwing out the first pitch. Judy Mikovits is planning to be on conspiracy TV shows via Sinclair news network saying that Fauci created the coronavirus in China and brought it to the USA Over the past week POTUS has done 3 press conferences alone. I have commented to the press that I think that this is good since he is now giving a sober message that things will get worse before they get better and that people should wear masks and avoid crowds. He has cancelled the GOP Convention in Jacksonville Florida. I commented 200,000/147,000 that I liked the fact that the pressers were short and concise. CNN sarcastically commented that I really giving a vailed criticism of his prior pressers.