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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
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April 10, 2021 - Global - 143,300,000/2,900,000; USA - 30,900,000/558,000 • Spoke again with Ari Emanuel and his team of Don Walker (lawyer, represents Obama and Clinton) and Jay Mandell (Mostly involved with books). They just wanted to check in to see if IU needed anything. I mentioned the situation with Robert F. Kennedy, Jr who is writing a book about me entitled "The Real Dr. Anthony Fauci", which undoubtably will be a very scandalous book. Don Walker was adamant that we should do nothing about this since Bobby Kennedy has absolutely no credibility over the past several years. because of how crazy he has been acting Over the past several years. His strong recommendation is to just let it go. Don emphasized again how much money that I would be making with my lectures. I re emphasize to him that although I like the idea about making money, my most important goal is to do good , and that I would prefer to do several speeches pro bono depending upon who asks me. • Joan Baez will receive the Kennedy Center Award and there is a reception at the State Department on May 19th. She has invited me as her guest. What fun! Just spoke with her over the phone to check if there will be mask wearing since the press will have a field day if they saw me with Joan and we did not have masks. • We vaccinated 4.6 million people today Daile cases continue to rise - 81,400: A A
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April 11, 2021 - Global - 135,000,000/2,900,000; USA - 31,000,000/558,800 Global USA Sunday -quiet day. Catching up on writing Commencement address. Heard during my interview with MSNBC (see below) that Trump, while on FOX with Laura Ingraham said I was "full of crap" and that he never listened to me. Hasan came back on MSNBC and said that is why hundreds of thousands of people died, because he did not listen to me. Appasrently, Trump also made this comment during a fundraiser at Mar-a-Largo where he sharply attacked 2 people: me and Mitch McConnell. PRESS: MSNBC with Mehdi Hasan;
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April 12, 2021 - Global USA The Daily Mail in their reporting of the removal of Father Lahart from his position of President of Regis High School made sure to mention that I was an alumnus of the school (of course) (see below under Press. • Had a good Zoom meeting with Hon. Luigi Di Maio, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of Italy. He is in the USA to celebrate the 160th anniversary of Italian relations with USA. Good conversation. He wanted advice of the COVID-19 situation in Italy and Europe. Interesting how these foreign leaders want my opinion on these issues that have policy as well as public health implications. • Got call at 10:00 PM from Rochelle Walensky that the CDC and FDA had called a pause of the J & J vaccine due to 6 cases (all women - ages 18 to 48) of Cerebral Venous Sinus Thrombosis (CVST). I died, 3 hospitalized (2 in ICU), 2 discharged. Events occurred from 6 to 13 days after vaccination. CDC/FDA will do press conference tomorrow at 10:00 AM. PRESS: Daily Mail: Jesuit priest, 59, is removed as president of Manhattan's prestigious Regis High School - that Dr. Fauci attended - for 'non-consensual sexual misconduct with adult subordinates'; BBC radio interview (2 part series) on 40th Anniversary of recognition of AIDS pandemic; BBC - Radio "The Today Programme"; CNN "Situation Room" with Wolf Blitzer. I have been speaking about this all the time: ,100,000/559,700
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April 13, 2021 - Global - 136,200,000/2,900,000; USA - 31,100,000/559,700 Jeff Z. calls me at 5:46 AM telling me to clear my calendar since the WH wants me out there with the press. See below - I engaged in the Jen Psaki Conference in the White House press room with Jeff Z. Obviously, this is a big deal even though it is a very rare event 6 cases in 6,850,000. I was on the Governors call with Rochelle and Jeff to explain the situation to the Governors. ,200,000/560,600 PRESS: White House Press Conference with Jen Psaki and Jeff Z.; CBS Evening News with Norah O'Donnell; NBC Evening News with Lester Holt; ABC Evening News with Linsey Davis; MSNBC with Chris Hayes
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April 14, 2021 - Global -137,000,000/3,000,000; USA - 31,200,000/560,600 There is a very important issue going on regarding a dispute between the vaccine Research Center an Moderna regarding the inventorship of the patent associated with the confirmation of the spike protein. For some strange reason Moderna wants to give us Co ownership of the patent but not inventorship of the patent. The VRC insists with good reason that we are true inventors of the patent. We had a conversation this morning among Francis Collins , myself , John Mascola, and Mark Rohrbaugh concerning any leverage that we might have over Moderna to pressure them in sharing the expertise of their technology with developing countries particularly in southern Africa. They have made a public statement that they will not interfere with any countries that want to use their technology. However, given the complexity of the technologies it is important that they pitch in and help the companies transfer the technology. Peter Staley and his activist friends are understandably pushing us to exert pressure on Moderna to transfer their technology to the developing world. The reason why the patent issue becomes relevant here is that the more control we have over what Moderna does the better we will be able to pressure them into the above. We decided that the best approach would be for Francis Collins and I to have a telephone call with the CEO of Moderna , Stephane Bancel and the POresident of Moderna, Stephen Hoge. Had call with Chairwoman Rosa DeLauro of the House Appropriations Committee. She wants to know what I think she should do with the $6.5 billion that they want to give to ARPA-H that would go to NIH. There is a fear among NIH grantees that the regular increases that NIH usually receives on a yearly basis will be diminished be 'cause the Congress is now giving the NIH $6.5 billion for "special projects". They were thinking of giving the NIH $2.5 billion for the regular appropriation plus $6.5 billion for the special projects for a total of $9 billion, which is a lot. I suggested to Rosa that she called some of the money off the $6.5 billion and add it to the regular appropriation for the NIH. She seemed OK with this. I had recently received a letter from senator Lindsey Graham essentially demanding that as the chief medical advisor to president Biden, I go down to the border and look at the difficult health conditions there regarding the SARS coronavirus. Subsequent to that I received a letter from about 8 or 9 congressmen asking me to do the same thing. In fact, in his letter to me senator Graham said I was neglecting my responsibility as the adviser to the president if I did not go down to the border and report back on the "terrible conditions" on the border. This is clearly a set up trying to embarrass the president. Tomorrow I testify before the house Energy and Commerce Select Committee on COVID-19. Two congressmen who signed the letter will be there. I anticipate that they will ask me the same question about going to the border. Today I asked Jeff Zients to ask Ron Klain and the president if it is OK for me to say that since I am the chief medical advisor to the president I would be happy to go to the border if the president ask me to. However, with all due respect I am not the adviser to the Congress but to ,200,000/56 1,400 New Daily Confirmed COVID-19 Cases In the U.S. a0 ra La = Tyr ans Tee PI ce ane THe pIfz ile TEIT prt LWT Ont LEAT HEAET ELATE O/T BEsTT EEALL SIT ATT TALL SEAT aTOT THEE PAT bial Ene wo DES oe eff za ozs Bly zWi 2020/2021 the president. I will do what he asked me to do, and again with all due respect not what the Congress asks me to do. Ron Klain and the president are OK with this approach. • Got call from Jeff that the Oxford group were coming out with a paper tomorrow saying that in a large data base they found that mRNA vaccinbes had even more thrombosis than AZ. Obviously, bullshit. They did not look for thrombocytopenia and so the observation is invalid. Also, not surprising fr the Oxford group sine their vaccine is in trouble and I would not be surprised if they were trying to disparage the other vaccines. PRESS: MSNBC - "Morning Joe" with Willie Geist; CNN "New Day" with John Berman; NBC "Today" with Savannah Guthrie; White House Press Conference (regular 3x/week). Did 4 separate Local TV hits with Cameron Webb in Mississippi Stations
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April 15, 2021 - Global - 137,900,000/3,000,000; USA - 31,200,000/561,400 Still hanging around 70,000/day: Major clash with Rep. Jim Jordan during the House Energy and Commerce Select Committee on COVID-19 chaired by Jim Clyburn and Steve Scalise as Ranking Member. Jordan did his usual aggressive asking me multiple questions without giving me a chance to answer. He was harping on my giving him a definite date when he can get his "liberty and freedom back" that I was restricting him from. I insisted that this was not a matter of liberty and freedom, but was a public health issue.We had a heated discussion. I finally told him that he was "ranting". In addition, I told him that he was making this a personal issue. He denied that, but I insisted that he },700,000; USA - 1 of me he was as he watched me respond to Jim ,400,000/563,200 was indeed making it a personal issue. Finally, when his time was up he kept on talking and representative Maxine Waters told him to shut up. PRESS: All over TV in my clash with Rep. Jordan at the E and C Hearing - CNN covered it extensively and Jimmy Kimmel had it in his monologue; Reuters TV interview with Julie Steenhuysen; Had conversation with member of NY Times editorial board member Jeneen Interlandi about 1 dose versus 2 doses. She seemed to side with me.