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March 30, 2021 - Global USA I remain close to Deb Birx and she still communicates with me about he observations of how things are going. Below is an e-mail she sent me this morning: Testing rates continue to drop reaching under July levels despite substantial increase in number of test and testing supplies available. "Surveillance testing" or testing for this silent spread is so critical. The original rising test positivity in 18-24 is now 25-44 and rising. This is how all the prior surges occurred - due to vaccination level the fatalities maybe be less and the risk to the health system maybe less but the potential for significant increases in morbidity and long term impact of COVID 19 will be most evident in these age groups. Simply repeating the same public health messages without tailoring to specific age groups on specific media platforms where the message will be heard will not have the impact we need at this moment. Please take care of yourself. Deb Age Group Percent of Population National Number of Viral (RT-PCR) Lab Tests by Age per Month 100% + 80% - 60% 7 40% ~ 20% ~ <5 - Number of Tests (100,000) 100 - Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar 2020202020202020202020202020202020202020202120212021 mmm 5-11 mmm 12-17 mem 18-24 mmm 25-44 mm 45-64 mm 65+ Trump furious and being inarticulate in responding to our appearance on CNN Special. He is still talking about my errant pitch on opening day last year. He is rambling on. Meadows and Navarro are attacking me on FOX News. Navarro calling me a pathologic liar and calling the virus the "Fauci Virus'. The Trump team is really acting like a bunch of idiots. Peter Navarro being delusional again: Peter Navarro Slams Dr. Fauci: Virus Came From 'Building' He Built • Had Zoom meeting with Brazilian Minister of Health Dr. Marcello Queiroga. They need help from the USA because they are having a terrible problem and President Bolsonaro is very Trump-like and hurting the country with his approach. I offered to help by collaborating in research and discussing strategies. They really want vaccine from us, but the USA policy is that we will wait until we vaccinate our whole country before we give away excess vaccines. Unfortunately, that is all that I could offer them. They will get plenty of vaccine from Pfizer, AZ and J & J in late May and early June. After the zoom meeting, I received a note from one of their scientists - Dr. Jorge Kalil. He asked me to please help them and hang in their with them sine Bolonsaro in terrible and the Brazilian scientific community and Brazilian people hold me in high regard and they need me to stick up for them nother interesting chat on his r CNN • Had Zoom meeting with Marshawn Lynch former running back for the Seattle Seahawks. Really interesting. A lot of street talk. It was actually a "PSA" for vaccinating African Americans • Had Zoom with D.L. Hughley - famous entertainer - another interesting chat on his show about African Americans and CVID vaccinations • WHO Report is out saying that it is "very unlikely" that the virus originated from a lab accident. There is concern that the Chinese had a lot of influence over what data the WHO group had access to PRESS: Did interview with Phil Rucker about his book on the Trump response to COVID19 Politico: Trump lashes out at Fauci and Birx after CNN documentary The former president released a fact-challenged statement criticizing the former advisers after they criticized his administration's pandemic response. Health Fauci and others look ahead to the holidays: Put another leaf in the table (QuickHoney for The Washington Post)
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March 31, 2021 - Global - 127,900,000/2,800,000; USA - 30,200,000/548,200 Still flat or inching up: New Daily Confirmed COVID-19 Cases in the U.S. a eL7 one alte 2020/2021 • Had my every other week call with Chris Whitty and Patrick Valance of the UK. They are as concerned as we are about the potential for another surge. They are waiting on ordered doses of vaccine. • Did nice interview with Nick News for Children answering their questions about vaccines. • Did interview with Ricky Martin scheduled for Latin Grammy awards. Asked questions about vaccines. • I have been praising David Ho to the White House people regarding his studies of the variants. On that basis they are now probing whether he might be a good choice for FDA Commissioner. Source Dr M Gandhi UCSF: x Studies to date that showed COVID-19 vaccines reduce asymptomatic infection (transmission) » Finding of xx% reductionin Reference asymptomatic or infections including asymptomatic Healthcare workers in England 86% Hall SSRN, February 22, 2021 Healthcare workers in Israel 75% Amit, Lancet, March 6, 2021 Patients in Mayo Clinic health system 88.7% Pawlowski medRxiv, February 27, 2021 Israel Ministry of Health (nationwide) 94% Pfizer press release, March 11, 2021 Israel general population (Pfizer) 90% Dagan NEJM, February 24, 2021 Pre-surgical patients in Mayo Clinic system Tande Clin Inf Dis, March 10, 2021 80% swabbed asymptomatically Healthcare workers in Cambridge University 75% Weekes Authorea, February 24, 2021 Hospitals First-line responders and HCWs in US 90% Thompson A. CDC MMWR, March 30, 2021 300,000/549, • PRESS:WJLA TV - discussed Nats baseball season; CNN with Chris Cuomo; Morning Joe' Trashes Fox News Host for Allowing Navarro's Unhinged Fauci Rant: 'That's Fireable'
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April 1, 2021 - Global - 128,500,000/2,800,000; USA - 30,300,000/549,100 The Trump people including Meadows, Navarro and several other minor figures are going on a rampage on FOX news attacking me. Navarro calling me a psychopath and pathologic liar and Meadows blaming me for not weighing in on Children at the border. Amazing!!! Other news media are criticizing them strongly for doing this. • Had nice Fireside Chat with American Red Cross - Gail McGovern (CEO). The comments on the chat box were uniformly positive lumnist I 100,000/550,200 100,000/552,800 • Had a Zoom with Prize-winning artist Hugo Crosthwaite and Taina Caragol of the National Portrait Gallery. Taina will be commissioning Hugo to do a portrait of me for the National Portrait Gallery Collection. The whole process will take about 1 year. • Majorie Taylor Greene is trying to introduce legislation to fire me. Really!!!!: • Marjorie Taylor Greene: Fire Fauci and ban vaccine mandate and passport by Paul Bedard, Washington Secrets Columnist I PRESS: CBS This Morning with Gayle King; WXYZ TV Detroit; FOX L.A. TV "The Issue Is" with Elex Michaelson; NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt; NATs Podcast with Al Galdi and Mark Zuckerman.
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2021-04-02 00:00
Anthony S. Fauci
April 2, 2021 - Global - 129,3000,000/2,800,000; USA - 30,400,000/550,200 • Had nice Fireside Chat with Rep. Doris Matsui. • Am still being attacked by the far right wing including Senators (Lindsey Graham) and media (FOX). Interesting that they are asking me to explain the "crisis" at the border when that has nothing to do with me. • Had great interview with Neal Cavuto of FOX (see below under "Press") in which he allowed me to counter all of the criticisms of people like Mark Meadows, Lindsey Graham, Navarro, etc. Navarro is calling me a pathological liar saying that I had nothing to do with the vaccine. He said this in response to my saying that one of the best choicesI made was to push ahead with Barney Graham's collaborationwith Moderna. Obviously, Navarro has no idea about this and so has no idea what he is talking about • Another important issue - Robert F. Kennedy, Jr has written a book about me entitled "The Real Anthony Fauci", which will almost certainly be a slanderous book. Am undecided about whether I should get lawyers involved PRESS: NPR Morning Edition with Noel King; NBC TV Detroit with Dr. Frank McGeorge; White House Press briefing; Politico Podcast with Jeremy Siegel; Interview with Business Insider; Interview with The Guardian; FOX News with Neal Cavuto.
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April 3, 2021 - Global - 129,900,000/2,800,000; USA - 30,400,000/552,800 New Daily Confirmed COVID-19 Cases In the U.S. a0 3a ans TE pris Pri ant THe BLE ale TEE Brt eve Ont E/T fata OFT ETAT SET BELT cee STALL a/TT TTT ScAOL aTOT LTfat rai ans EV HG ons Eafe ate oa 2a Eta oie eWi ane THs PIS fg TES brs ys ons 7/5 zie oir Elf are mole SWE 2020/2021 00,000/553,700 Went to a "Spring celebration" at Bob Seder's house to observe the Cherry Blossoms at Kenwood. I am a little nervous sine people were hugging and not wearing masks, although virtually everyone had been vaccinated. Still lingering at ~60,000 new infections/day: PRESS: CNN with Jim Acosta;
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April 4, 2021 - Global - 130,400,000/2,800,000; USA - 30,500,000/553,700 Things getting a bit scary. As B.1.1.7 becomes more dominant, we re seeing surges in some areas with younger people (even school kids) getting infected and hospitalizations increasing in relatively younger people. See below: % of total Virus Count Lineage % Total 95% Cl Type Most B.1.2 15.5 12.3 - 19.3 Seeereee B.1.429 8.2 5.9-11.4 voc @ B.1.2 lineages B.1.1.7 32.0 27.7 - 36.6 voc -- B.1.596 3.7 2.7-5.1 = B.1 4.7 3.3 -6.6 ia B.1.427 4.2 2.9-6.1 voc ® B.1.526 6.2 3.5 - 10.6 voi © B.1.1.519 3.4 2.5-4.8 a B.1.243 1.2 0.8-1.8 a B.1.234 1.6 1-2.6 Additional --p.2 0.5 0.3-0.9 voi @ VoI/VOC ---g.1.351 0.7 0.4-1.3 voc ® lineages B.1.525 0.1 0-0.4 vol P.1 0.4 0.20-0.8 voc @ Other* Other 17.6 13.8-22.1 a Percentages represent the proportion of viruses belonging to the indicated lineage, based on two weeks of data with collection dates ending March 13. *Other represents >200 additional lineages, which are each circulating at <2% of viruses. Confirmed Capes (Thousands) a0 6/28 ** Most recent data (shaded) are subject to change as samples from that period are still being processed. New Daily Confirmed COVID-19 Cases in the U.S. rhe m26 20202021 Oy LL Lo Le 14/25 iw20 i] 0,000/554,100 FFs! 2/28 ay? Hal seu Race between the vaccines (4 million shots administered yesterday!!!) and a new surge:
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April 5, 2021 - Global -131,000,000/2,900,000; USA - 30,500,000/554,100 Still putting pressure on me to switch to a single dose. Mike Gerson wrote an amazing column in the Washington Post about me: Opinion: Why tearing down Fauci is essential to the MAGA myth Opinion by Michael Gerson Columnist
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April 5, 2021 at 4:35 p.m. EDT MAGA political philosophy is not systematic, but it is comprehensive. Right-wing populism offers a distorted lens to view nearly all of life. Through this warped lens, progress toward equal rights is actually the oppression of White people. Free and fair elections, when lost, are actually conspiratorial plots by the ruthless left. But perhaps the most remarkable distortion concerns the MAGA view of covid-19. We have all seen the basic outlines of pandemic reality. Experts in epidemiology warned that the disease would spread through contact or droplets at short distances, which is how it spread. The experts recommended early lockdowns to keep health systems from being overwhelmed, and the lockdowns generally worked. The experts said Americans could influence the spread of the disease by taking basic measures such as mask-wearing and social distancing. The disease was controlled when people did these things. The disease ran rampant when they did not, killing a lot of old and vulnerable people in the process. There were, of course, disagreements along the way about the length of lockdowns and the form of mandates. But on the whole, American citizens have witnessed one of the most dramatic vindications of scientific expertise in our history. We have been healthier when we listened to the experts and sicker when we did not. This is the context in which the MAGA right has chosen to make Anthony S. Fauci -- the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases since 1984 -- the villain in their hallucinogenic version of pandemic history. It is worth disclosing when a columnist has a personal connection to a public figure. I have known Fauci since I was in government during the early 2000s and watched him help create the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief. He is the best of public service: supremely knowledgeable, personally compassionate, completely nonpolitical, tenacious in the pursuit of scientific advancement and resolute in applying such knowledge to human betterment. He has no other ambition or agenda than the health of the country and world. Yet slamming Fauci was a surefire applause line at the Conservative Political Action Conference in February. Former Trump administration officials continue to target him. Republican members of Congress vie with one another to put Fauci in his place. For Trump officials, including Donald Trump himself, this makes perfect sense. If Fauci has been right about covid, then playing down the disease, mocking masks, modeling superspreader events, denying death tolls, encouraging anti-mandate militias and recommending quack cures were not particularly helpful. If Fauci has been right, they presided over a deadly debacle. When former Trump trade adviser Peter Navarro claims that Fauci is "the father of the actual virus" or former chief of staff Mark Meadows complains about Fauci's indifference to the (nearly nonexistent) flow of covid across the southern border, the goal is not really to press arguments. It is to create an alternative MAGA reality in which followers are free from the stress of truth -- a safe space in which more than half a million people did not die and their leader was not a vicious, incompetent, delusional threat to the health of the nation. Metaphorically (but only barely metaphorically), there is a body on the floor with multiple stab wounds. The Trump administration stands beside it with a bloody knife in its hand. It not only claims to be innocent. It claims there is no blood. There is no body. There is no floor. Congressional Republicans who criticize Fauci to prove their populist manhood are even more pathetic. Their self-abasement is voluntary. Watching Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) debate science with Fauci during committee hearings is like watching Albert Einstein being disputed by his dry cleaner. Fauci is often reduced to making obvious points in a patient voice. Fauci deserves his Presidential Medal of Freedom just for his heroic forbearance. All these critics of Fauci have chosen to attack the citadel of science at its strongest point. With squirt guns. While naked and blowing kazoos. This useless exertion is somehow wrapped in the language of freedom. Freedom from the servitude of a piece of cloth on your face that might save your neighbor's life. Freedom to light off fireworks below a potential avalanche. Freedom to store uranium in your backyard. Freedom to set fire to a crowded theater. Here is the reality of covid. It is not an easy thing to persuade hundreds of millions of people who feel perfectly healthy to wear masks, socially distance and get a vaccine injected into their arms. Fauci is dedicated to these goals. Anyone who purposely undermines them is a danger to the health and safety of their fellow citizens. 0,000/554,400 New Daily Confirmed COVID-19 Cases In the U.S. a0 ra La = ane Ts PILE ce anit Tez PHE TET prt cut ont fpf ERAT SET BELT ceyet STALL BATT Tftt GEAOL TTAt cee bil Ey Wh nee ols ya ont aye ET Sit ans THs BTiS cg TES brs eys ons fS ante Bir tyr sfe mole SWE 2020/2021 Fauci is practicing epidemiology. His critics are practicing idiocy. Both are very good at their chosen work. PRESS: PIX 11 TV - New York City;