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April 27, 2021 - Global - 147,500,000/3,100,000; USA - 31,900,000/569,800 Coming down. 2nd day in a row in the 30s: PRESS: Sanjay Gupta podcast; IAS Podcast on 40 years of HIV; White House Press Conference (spoke on variants); WTOP Radio with Megan Cloherty; NY Times Editorial Board; NPR - "All Things Considered" with Mary Louise Kelly; Windy City Times interview - 40 years of HIV; Interview for Research!America with Opray Winfrey; MSNBC with Chris Hayes;
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April 28, 2021 - Global -148,300,000/3,100.000; USA - 32,000,000/570,400 Letter to Dr. Collins from Republican Congressmen Cathy McMorris Rodgers, Brett Guthrie, and Morgan Griffith asking many questions about the origin of SRAS-Cov-2. Clearly trying to dig up dirt and implicate the NIH in collaborating with the Chinese leading somehow (???) to the release or escape of SARS-CoV-2 from the Wuhan lab: SKM_C754e2104280 6490.pdf I am starting to put much more pressure publicly on pushing for a global response to the pandemic by urging us to help low and middle income countries with focus now on Indias. See today's Washington Post: Covid-19 live updatesGlobal pandemic needs a more global response, Fauci says, amid record-breaking deaths in India Latest: How to access the risks of returning to the gym The Fauci "thing" is as thick as ever: • Francis and I were on a Zoom call with Stephane Bancell (CEO of Moderna) and Stephen Hose (President of Moderna). We discussed two things: the fact that we felt that Moderna should be doing more to provide vaccine for low and middle income countries. We wanted them to help out by transferring their technology two nations such as Senegal , Ethiopia, and countries in South America in order to allow those countries to make vaccines for themselves. They felt that this is something that they would likely do but that it would take at least two years for those countries to stand up their plants even if the technology was transferred. Their idea was a two-pronged approach. First, they are ramping up their capability of producing vaccine and by the end of 2022 they feel that they will be able to produce a total of 3 billion doses. They would be happy to make those doses available at a lower tiered price to the developing world. In addition, they 000,000/57 1,300 agreed that they would participate in a longer range plan to transfer technology 2 low and middle income countries to make their own vaccine. In addition, Frances and I spoke about the patent dispute between the NIAID Vaccine Research Center and Moderna. The story is that the lawyers of Moderna feel that the VRC people such as Barney Graham an others technically should not be inventors on the patent for the discovery of the vaccine. We strongly disagree with that an as a matter of fact so do Stephane and Stephen. they realize that it is unfair to exclude us from the patent; also it would be a public relations disaster for them if they excluded us. They promised that they would get this resolved soon. It is clear that Pfizer can do the same thing. In fact, Pfizer can likely produce 3 billion doses by the end of this year and even more next year . If this is possible which I believe that it is, then we could probably vaccinate the entire world that wants to be vaccinated within the next year and a half. PRESS: NBC "Today" with Savannah Guthrie; CNN with Jim Sciutto; Wall Street Journal - Robbie Whelan - Vaccines Appear to Be Slowing Spread of Covid-19 Infections With more than 37% of U.S. adults fully vaccinated, Anthony Fauci expects case numbers to drop significantly
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April 29, 2021 - Global -149,200,000/3,100,000; USA - 32,000,000/571,300 MMWR: Linked Clusters of SARS-CoV-2 Variant B.1.351 -- Maryland, January-February 2021 Back up again to 53,000/day: New Daily Confirmed COVID-19 Cases in the U.S. a ah1 aor Alir Thr eye Tet pie azz Tat byt ile TRIE pert EVt att CUT Oz/ET BLAEE BELT TEsLT ST/IT tt TAT GEAOL TT AST BACT ene 2020/2021 • Did a zoom podcast interview with Quinn Bradlee (son of Sally Quinn and the late Ben Bradlee). He is disabled and Sally asked me to do this. I could not refuse since I admired Ben so much and he was always so gracious and kind to Chris and me. He was so excited to have the opportunity to interview me. Important Issue: Francis Collins forwarded an email to me (see below )which triggered a concern about whether the Indian variant - B.1.617 was resistant two antibodies induced by vaccines. I forwarded this email to the medical team including Jeff Zients and Rochelle Walensky. Rochelle called me up and mentioned that her colleagues in Boston including those at the Broad Institute as well as Dan Barouch were finding that the Indian variant could be very problematic with regard to its resistance to vaccine induced antibodies. In addition, I spoke with Bob Seder and the work that he has been doing with monkeys also indicates that B.1.617 could be very problematic. Then, Jeff Zients called me up together with Natalie Quillian and feels that we should call a temporary halt on travel from India until we sought this out and based on the information that I sent him. This is a critical decision since if we don't block travel from India and things look bad later on we will be sharply criticized for not doing so. However , if we do block travel, there will be those who criticize us for doing so. This is very similar to the deliberations that we had during the Trump administration regarding China, the Eu and the UK. SEE E-MAILS BELOW starting with the e-mail that I sent to the medical team of Walensky, Vivek, Bechara, Slavitt, Zients, Nunez-Smith. (Rochelle subsequently forwarded it to Dawn O'Connell at HHS) Team: 1/NIAID) [E] gov>; Erbelding, Emily vholley@fnih.org>; Menetski, dur View Please see e-mail below from Dr. Venkatachalam to Francis Collins. Although this is still at the level of anecdote, I am hearing from people who are doing studies in vitro that the B.1.617 variant is at least as concerning as the B.1.351. We should discuss this at our next meeting. Best, Tony Anthony S. Fauci, MD Director National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Building 31, Room 7A-03 31 Center Drive, MSC 2520 National Institutes of Health Bethesda, MD 20892-2520 Phone: (301) 496-2263 FAX: (301) 496-4409 E-mail: afauci@niaid.nih.gov The information in this e-mail and any of its attachments is confidential and may contain sensitive information. It should not be used by anyone who is not the original intended recipient. If you have received this e-mail in error please inform the sender and delete it from your mailbox or any other storage devices. The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) shall not accept liability for any statements made that are the sender's own and not expressly made on behalf of the NIAID by one of its representatives.
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Apr 29, 2021 Jeff called me this morning and said that it would be best for them to arrange for me to speak one on one with the president over the next couple of days concerning the India issue . I believe that this is the best way to go. • regarding the situation at the Texas-Mexico border. The congressman has an interesting problem and an issue. Apparently, people coming from Mexico to the United states who are holding valid visas are not being allowed to come in through land crossings. Most of these people are poor and cannot afford to fly in. However, the wealthier people who can fly into the United states but who are required to have a test before they get on the plane are allowed to come in. This becomes an economic issue for the border towns in the United states such as Laredo. Visa-carrying Mexicans spend about $19 billion per year in the border towns. It becomes a serious economic issue if they are not allowed in. The congressman wants my help since Homeland Security says that this is a medical issue and the congressman points out that it is not a medical issue; but it is an economic issue. I explained to the congressman that I believe that Homeland Security thinks it is a medical issue because the people who come over on land crossings do not have testing readily available to them and so given the possibility that some of them are infected, Homeland Security considers this a medical issue. My suggestion for a solution is to figure out a way to get the United States side of the border to provide rapid testing for the visaholding Mexicans as they enter the country , and if they are negative, they are allowed to enter. I promised to check with the medical adviser to Homeland Security to see if we can straighten this out. I will have our staffs connect us. • Two countries that have done things differently from us - UK and Israel. They both locked down completely until their number started to come down sharoply and then they ramped up vaccinations and now their test positivity is 0.1%. See the results below: he New York Times: 00,000/574,700 The far right continues to accuse me of fostering dangerous gain-of-function research. The letter to the editor of the National Review refutes this: Letter to the Editor NR.pdf PRESS: Interview with Press Trust of India Washington Correspondent (print); Seattle NBC TV (on the "Fauci effect" in med schools); Science News interview with Aimee Cunningham; WBAL radio and TV (Baltimore); King TV (Seattle) - interview together with Larry Corey; Sheryl Stolberg in The New York Times: Pressure Mounts to Lift Patent Protections on Coronavirus Vaccines Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, Mr. Biden's chief medical adviser for the pandemic, said in an interview Monday that the drugmakers themselves must act, either by greatly expanding their manufacturing capacity to supply other nations at "an extremely diminished price" or by transferring their technology to let the developing world make cheap copies. He said he was agnostic on a waiver. "I always respect the needs of the companies to protect their interests to keep them in business, but we can't do it completely at the expense of not allowing vaccine that's lifesaving to get to the people that need it," Dr. Fauci said, adding, "You can't have people throughout the world dying because they don't have access to a product that rich people have access to."
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April 30, 2021 - Global - 150,100,000/3,200,000; USA - 32,100,000/572,200 We shut down travel from India - See above. Travel from India will cease for all non-USA citizens. Will start on Tuesday May 4. I am concerned that by delaying the actual shutting down we will be faced with the same situation that we faced with China and the European Union. In those circumstances there was a rush of people trying to get to the United states who are noncitizens, and so a large number of people who were likely infected in fluxed to this country. • Senator Lindsey Graham has written 2 letters to me telling me that I must go to the border and see the seriousness of the situation since I am the chief medical advisor to the president. Obviously this is a political ploy to embarrass president Biden. I just wrote back to senator Graham and told him that my job is to develop vaccines and drugs and to be involved in strictly medical issues, and that the border problems are the CDC, the Department of Homeland Security, or the Department of State. PRESS: Interview with India Express (print); White House Press briefing (discussed 2nd shot); Canadian Broadcasting Company (CBC) - TV; Fireside Cat Online with Canadian Genomic Forum; WBUR (NPR) - "On Point" with Meghna Chakrabarti; Instgram with Eva Longoria; Local TV for Memphis, TN and New Orleans, LA; 300,000/598,000 New Daily Confirmed COVID-19 Cases in the U.S. m KE my TH Le I im bm eta ] fos SLs a as Sb eLie Ttfe rie RYE CEE FL/E LE Eve Cove FEE diz Test ft OL/T eT f2R0 OZEL ELT MET Bz/ET TEyET STAT B11 [TT aro TT8C r/0T bt6 fatal) Pati oe /e Ez/o Ste aa ae Bile ca St tag Pfs "fg Tes Fag furs ots eg Pal) Stie cat VE THE SIE 2020/2021 00,000/600,000 Institute), Torrian Baskerville of NASTAD, Edward Bitarakwate, Uganda Country Director for EGPAF, and Joyce Ouma of National Empowerment Network of PLWH in Kenya, and Maureen Goodenow of OAR ● Had usual Zoom meet with Sec Becerra. I informed him of Novovax results. ● Had SCIF meeting with Deputies regarding global distribution of vaccines PRESS: Andy Slavitt tweets a strong defense of me; Health Care Radio Interview
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May 1, 2021 - Global - 151,000,000/3,200,000; USA - 32,100,000/573,000 I am going public that pharmaceutical companies should share their technologies with developing nations to allow them to make their own vaccine developed by the companies. Also, they should receive vaccines while the plants are gearing up in their own countries to start making product (see below) PRESS: MSNBC with Jasmeen Vossoughian; Washington Post - Dan Diamond: White House is split over how to vaccinate the world - The proposal was discussed last week by Anthony S. Fauci, a top coronavirus adviser to President Biden, and Katherine Tai, the U.S. trade representative, who spoke about ways to help the developing world as it reels from a worsening crisis. Fauci briefed Tai on the benefits of sharing technologies from companies that hold vaccine patents -- a position that he supports, arguing that it would allow developing countries to rapidly produce their own vaccines, said people with knowledge of White House deliberations who spoke on the condition of )0,000/573,800 New Daily Confirmed COVID-19 Cases In the U.S. a0 ta aly+ Thr rie ane THe Pre fri ane Tez Prt TEIT PEF EvT ont =f f2RT Beat ETAT SEE BE/TT bata STAT BET TTT tad TAL PAST fata) ons EWG nes ene ats Ga tye Eta Bie bata ae ane TAS Pris a TESS PES Lys os Er] Sere oitr Efe ote gz one ale 2020/2021 00,000/574,200 anonymity because of the conversations' sensitivity. Tai separately told colleagues that she's considered advocating to lift some patent protections but is still gathering information, said two of those people.
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May 2, 2021 - Global - 151,800,000/3,200,000; USA - 32,200,000/573,800 • Had dinner over Jeff Zients's house with wife Mary, Bob Seder and Deb Harman, Denis McDonough and wife Kari. Terrific time. Jeff is as wonderful on a personal basis as he is professionally. His home at 4500 Garfield Street, NW is absolutely magnificent. • Jeff Zients Called me this evening giving me a heads up that he might want me to write a one page memo the president Biden explaining to him the situation in India particularly with regard to the variants. I convinced him that it might be better to arrange for a phone call between me and the president so that I could respond to his questions rather than have him receive a memo that he would have questions about. Jeff said we could think about it overnight and decide tomorrow. PRESS: Connecticut Public Television "The Jane Whitney Show"
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May 3, 2021 - Global - 152,500,000/3,200,000; USA - 32,200,000/574,200 Daily new confirmed COVID-19 cases fa Shown is the rolling /-day average. The number of confinmed cases [s lower than the number of actual cases; the main reason for that is limited testing. Cunear I 10G = Add country Ire ai 350,000 300,000 250,000 200,000 150,000 100,000 50,000 fs) Mari,2020 Apr 30,2020 Aue 8, 2020
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May 4, 2021 - Global - 153,200,000/3,200,000; USA -32,300,000/574,700 Lower numbers - 32,500: New Daily Confirmed COVID-19 Cases In the U.S. a0 ra La = az sof BTS Thi re Tee PIs Efe ant Tet pie TEIT PEF EVE Ot E/T cuee MEET ETAT oEt BET ett ST/tt BITTE TAT ScAOL ATE TT AST Bot cote ozs ETS chan BT EW oe aes Tas PLS ua Tess tla 2020/2021 headline wrong • I did the Governors' call and did the epi update since Rochelle was not able to be on the call. I clarified with Governor Cuomo why we should not get hung up on the "elusive" concept of herd immunity threshold since no one knows what that is. We should just focus on getting as many people vaccinated as quickly as we possibly can and for sure the number f cases will come down. • I did the briefing for the "TV Docs" in preparation of the POTUS speech on the goal of 70% of adults vaccinated by July 4 • Spoke with Indian Ambassador to the USA (Taranjit Singh Sandhu) about the situation in India. PRESS: BBC Worldwide Radio (interview on India); MSNBC - "Deadline White House" with Nicole Wallace; CNN - Situation Room" with Wolf Blitzer; NBC@Peacock with Mehdi Hasan; ABC - Jimmy Kimmel Live Financial Times got the story right, but the headline wrong: Fauci warns against discarding trade rules on Covid vaccines Biden senior adviser says move would spark legal disputes and delay inoculation campaigns 00,000/575,500 00,000/576,200