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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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Anthony S. Fauci
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;
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April 6, 2021 - Global - 131,500,000/2,900,000; USA - 30,600,000/554,400 Had Zoom call with Pascal Soriot, CEO of AstraZeneca. He wanted to apologize for the miscommunications concerning the interactions between AZ and the DSMB a couple of weeks ago. He wanted my advice as to the best way forward. I explained to him that the most important thing for him to do would be to wait until the United States FDA comes out with their EUA. This would give the AZ product the validity that he is hoping for. I also mentioned that the confusion associated with the mixed up dosing situation associated with the Oxford group added a degree of skepticism about the entire AZ product. Best thing to do is to wait to see but the FDA says about the product. We seem to be stuck at around 60,000 per day: PRESS: ABC - Good Morning America with George Stephanopoulos; MSNBC - Morning Joe with Joe Scarborough; National Press Club Interviews; Fox Local TV Stations 700,000/555,200 0,000/556,100 Interesting
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April 7, 2021 - Global -132,000,000/2,900,000; USA - 30,700,000/555,200 Terrific experience tonight - On my walk tonight with Christine through American University campus, on the way back we were met by throngs of American University students who illegally sitting on the grass enjoying themselves. In groups of three to five people they kept coming up to me wanting to get photographs and selfies. It was truly amazing as it went on for group after group after group. I must have posed for photographs with over 50 young kids from American University. Then, on the way down past Al Dente restaurant where we stopped to pick up a pizza, customers outdoors and inside the restaurant kept coming up to me asking to be photographed with me. My pizza took a long time to be ready and so I must have spent 15 minutes at the door of the restaurant allowing people mostly young kids but some adults to have selfies with me. The entire situation was culminated when I walked out of the restaurant with Andre Jacobs, my security man, and the entire population of people who are eating outdoors at Al Dente and Chef Geoff's burst into a prolonged round of applause. It was really quite charming. Andre had gotten nervous throughout the entire situation since some people just ran up to me with their camera in their hand to get a selfie. Andre does not like people just running up to me an almost body slammed a man who meant well but who didn't realize that he had charged up to me. A memorable experience! PRESS: CBS "This Morning" with Gayle King; White House Press Conference (I discussed durability of vaccine-induced response; CNN with Anderson Cooper 360;
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April 8, 2021 - Global -132,700,000/2,900,000; USA - 30,700,000/556,100 Spoke with Olive Shisana and Morena Makhoana (Biovac) about setting up capability to manufacturing mRNA vaccines in South Africa. Olive claims to be the special advisor to President Cyril Ramaphosa of RSA. They want me to help to get Moderna to assist RSA in the form of Makhoana's company Biovac to make mRNA vaccines for RSA. I taped my NAS remarks receiving their Public Welfare Medal. I spoke of my relationship with 7 Presidents including the difficult relationship with Trump. Met virtually for our regular weekly meeting with the POTUS and VPOTUS. Interesting situation. In addition Vivek was zooming from Miami and in the middle of the discussion a Peacock outside his window started making noise. What a scene. Daily cases still going up - 74.5 million yesterday: New Daily Confirmed COVID-19 Cases In the U.S. a0 ra La = ie age Tile PIs ETE age Tet BLE ale TEE best Eye ont EDAEE OFT ETT SET GOCE ERAT GILT B/tT TT GzyoL BT ARE TTA fal-] Ebay aT EW or Bais TES prs "fa TESS cys as =f Elaa Gtr tir ate mole SWE 2020/2021 300,000/557,100 PRESS: RAI Italian TV; France 24 TV Interview New York Times (-- Isabel Kershner): Israel marks Holocaust Remembrance Day with a virtual march and remarks by Dr. Fauci. Held virtually for a second year because of coronavirus restrictions, the event featured recorded remarks by two prominent figures in the battle against the coronavirus: Dr. Albert Bourla, a son of Holocaust survivors who is the chief executive of Pfizer, the pharmaceutical company that, together with BioNTech, produced a leading coronavirus vaccine; and Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, the leading infectious disease expert in the United States.
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April 9, 2021 - Global - 133,600,000/2,900,000; USA - 30,800,000/557,100 • Bad day - Chris brought her right arm (distal radius0 playing basketball with me for filming for Nat/Geo. Happened on the last 10 seconds of playing PRESS: Stephen Colbert had a skit about me and "the 4th Wave" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xb0fB13xYYg Confirmed Cases (Thousands) a0 ,900,000/558,000 New Daily Confirmed COVID-19 Cases In the U.S. nom oo 2020/2021 ,000,000/558,800