Jan 1, 2020

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1. 2019-01-28 00:00 Anthony S. Fauci open
   Jan. 28, 2019 - Big day at White House. Major discussions at Deputies on how to handle the 200 US Citizens (diplomats and families and others) who are being airevaculted form Wuhan. They are on a plane from China to Alaska to California. Concern about whethernor not to quarantine them for 14 days when we did not and do not quarantine Chinese who pass screening on entry. Marty Cetron had argued that the American were very recently in the "hot zone" whereas the chines who are coming in now are not really coming from Wuhan since Wuhan has been shut down by the Chinese. Also, political concern of what it looks like to quarantine or "imprision" US citizen versus what happens if we let them in and they start infecting people. Finally decide to do a sft verion of bringin them in to a military airbase - the March Air reserve Base in Riverside County. CA, and consider them all not a low risk. They are either medium or high risk based on their exposure. They all will be tested (nasal swab PCR) and detained at the base for up to 72 hours until the tests come back and then released. The "high" risk people majr get more intense investigation Discussed for hours in the Situation Room. The meeting was chaired by Mick Mulvaney and most Deputies were present together with Matt Pottinger, Kellyanne Conway, Ken Cucinelli, Dr. Navarro, Biegun, Blair, Eisenberg, Szabat, Lidell, Foret (CBP)John Wilson, John Mark (?). Chinese scientists are saying that the epidemic is much worse than is being reported. Dr. Yuan say that 50% of the infections are asymptomatic. However, this is confusing people since he does not say what percent of these are spreading while asymptomatic. A lot of confusion and misinformation while the outbreak accelerates. Azar wanted the POTUS to be briefed by me in the Oval office after the Sit Room, but a fluke prevented this. Brian Harrison called me into a side room for a few questions and Azar was looking for me and could not find me and so he and Redfield went to the Oval without me. Innocent screwup. Press conference with Azar - multiple media reporting with several clips of me; Lou Dobbs FOX; Marc Siegal FOX; CBS This Morning;
2. 2019-02-03 00:00 Anthony S. Fauci open
   Feb. 3, 2019 - Task Force meeting daily. Repatriated people from Wuhan 150 tested negative; no positives thus far. Cases = 17,205 with 361 deaths; 26 countries have 180 international cases and within that there are 20 human to human transmission transmissions with no sustained transmission yet. Complicated issue with border crossings of Chinese at Canada and Mexico. Many come over, but screening capabilities are not like we have at airport. Travis AFB, Miramar, Lackland AFB are landing destinations for US Citizens coming from Wuhan so that we can implememnt institutional quarantines and medical care if needed. Spoke with George Gao tonight in China. George is the Director General of the Chinese Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. He confirmed that infected people can be asymptomatic and that asymptomatic people can transmit. This is important since the recent NEJM paper that said that a Chinese woman who went from Shanghai to Germany and infected a business associate while she was asymptomatic was in fact mildly are hearing the symptomatic and so the NEJM paper is incorrect. However, the fact is still true. Also, George was very sensitive and understandably defensive since he was the one who said early on that there was no human to human transmission and that the original 27 cases in the wet market reported on December 31, 2019 were animal to human when actually human to human transmission was occurring weeks before. The Wuhan health officials did not tell him this and he thus gave out false information. This lapse likely allowed the outbreak to take hold since Wuhan went about their business with 40,000 pot luck festivals without social distancing. Failure of HIV vaccine trial HVTN-702 (Uhambo) conducted in South Africa >5000 participants showed no efficacy at all. DSMB stopped trial due to futility PRESS: WTOP Radio; CNBC; TRT Turkish TV (x2); CGTN Chinese TV; On camera interview with Jennifer Ashton in VRC - ABC News; Lou Dobbs FOX News.
3. 2019-12-30 00:00 Anthony S. Fauci open
   Dec. 30, 2019 -- Ratchford and in Surgery Dr. James Hamilton Black. Als wanted me to put on my calendar for June 13, 2020 a ceremony at where they are dedicating a building to They want me there as their guest. Also, Jon laPook was interviewed on CBS Morning News and mentioned me several times since he e-mail me over the weekend to prep him for his interview on Universal Flu vaccine and HIV vaccines.
4. 2019-12-31 00:00 Anthony S. Fauci open
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   Jan 1, 2020 Mar 11 Apr 30 Jun 19 Aug 8 Sep 27 Nov 16 Jan5 Feb14,2021 ( Times TV; NPR -- "Science Friday" with Cases continue to come down globally: Media trying to show discrepancies in the Biden team response. CDC and Walensky under criticism for their recent guidelines for opening schools since they are really quite confusing. They say open the schools but the guidelines show that 85-90% of the country is in the "red" zone and therefore, should hold off on opening. I believe that this is typical CDC confusion and lack of clear crisp guidelines no matter who is CDC Director. Also, the are pitting (a little) what I am saying against what VP Harris is saying. VP saying that we have to "start from scratch" in the vaccine roll out and I have been saying that some things were done well such as the mechanism for shipping vaccines. I reconcile this by saying that the mechanisms for getting doses into people's arms were in bad shape when the Biden team came in. The press are accepting this. Briefed (together with Francis Collins, Rochelle, and Janet Woodcock) the House and Senate Caucuses on COVID-19 variants PRESS: CNN with Jim Sciutto; LA Times TV; NPR - "Science Friday" with Ira Flatow; New York Post: -- 27,600,000/486,400 New Daily Confirmed COVID-19 Cases In the U.S. a0 o = ra SB. tee oe tes, ors "Op Ob, & <= oy i, fi, a fe, he: Shy, f ie, Ft, te, Lp, Si ee Ph a earn %y a Ree a, te Phe te Sy 'Sy "ey tf #24. 2020/2021 Everything you need to know about Fauci-ing, the new COVID dating trend
7. 2020-01-02 00:00 Anthony S. Fauci open
   Jan. 2, 2020 -- Met in my office with Dr. Olivier Tshiani who was and is a main player in our PALM trial in DRC. Also present were Cliff lane, Rick Davey and Lori Dodd. Olivier was right there on site when the Mai Mai burned the ETUs at Katwa and Butembo and his car was stoned as he was travelling at night from the ETU to his compound where he was living in Butembo. He related stories of the very difficult security issues while doing the PALM study. He is areal hero. He had also previously spent 5 years in Nancy Sullivan's lab. Here at VRC. Did TV interview with Cox TV this year's influenza situation. Interviewed by Samantha Manning
8. 2020-01-03 00:00 Anthony S. Fauci open
   Jan. 3, 2020 -- Influenza is heavy in the media. Did an interview with Elizabeth Cohen of CNN for her Blog. Also, did a live radio interview with John Catsimatidis for his "Cats Roundtable" from NYC. Also, yesterday the US via a precise drone strike in Iraq outside of Baghdad airport killed the leader of the Iranian Quds Force General Quassim Souleimani. There has been over the past few days attacks on the US Embassy by Iranian backed Iraqi militia as a result of the fact that the US armed forces attacked and killed 25 Iranian backed Iraqi inilitia who had killed a USA contractor and wounded several USA soldiers in Iraq. This will certainly lead to major escalation of tension and even retaliation from Iran. Also 44 unusual cases of pneumonia in Wuhan, China opver the past couple of days. Etiology still unknown. Said to be a "viral pneumonia' of unknown etiology. Flu ruled out. Cases linked to a seafood market. No human-to-human transmission documented at this time. 1, China. Day on the influenza season e match is OK for HIN1, u as well as interview with > references to our lam Radio Breakfast Show about anti-vaxx movement. n Reilly of Axios
9. 2020-01-04 00:00 Anthony S. Fauci open
   Jan. 4, 2020 - 20,680 cases and 27 deaths. No sign of diminishing. We are hearing the obvious conflicting opinions of the benefit or harm of travel restrictions. A lot of interest in the revealing that the NEJM paper claiming in one Chinese to German transmission that it was symptomatic transmission, when it probably was not. I quoted that paper (now flawed) in the WH presser. One death in Hong Kong (total of 2 with Phillippines for non-China deaths) 20,680/426 - 2% mortality Continuing to evacuate USC from Wuhan. 4 individuals from Hubei Province under quarantine (2 LAX, 1 ORD, 1 NY) Chinese officials criticizing USA for travel restrictions. WHO also adding muted criticism. Got urgent e-mail from Lindsey Baden from NEJM to review in 2 hours a pape from Germany showing that an asymptomatic person can harbor replication competent virus in nasal passages. State of the Union address tonight and vote on conviction after impeachment tomorrow - weird! PRESS: Bloomberg Radio;Vox print; Marc Siegal Doctor Radio - Sirius; NPR - "All Things Considered"- Richard Harris; Good Morning America - ABC; Yahoo Finance TV; NY Times - Roni Caryn Rabin; Reuters print; Israeli TV - i24 LIVE; Picture in Washington Post; BBC Radio interview 020:

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