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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
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May 5, 2021 - Global - 154,000,000/3,200,000; USA - 32,300,000/575,500 • Daily cases today at 41,000 In discussions with the medical team and with the White House comms group, I made it clear but I really do have a problem defending the ultra-conservative approach of the CDC regarding the wearing of masks outdoors. In particular, I was on an interview on the Today show with Savannah Guthrie and she pushed me on how inflexible the guidelines were for children in camp, where we have kids wearing masks all the time in 90 degree weather playing outside. I admitted that the CDC guidelines were "conservative". Savannah try to get me to say that they were excessive but I stuck with my original characterization. We really do need to get the CDC to loosen up on some of their guidelines because our credibility is going to be attacked if we do not do that. I had a very interesting conversation with Nancy Messonnier last night. I called her up to ask her advice about how we can get some clear metrics from the CDC regarding when cities in states could start relaxing their restrictions. She surprised me by telling me that she was no longer part of the COVID response group and that she has essentially been fired by Rochelle Walensky. Something strange is going on here since it is very difficult to fire anybody in government even when they do something awful , and certainly Nancy has not done anything awful. In fact, she even thought that maybe I was involved in her removal but was very pleased to see that I did not know anything about it. POTUS announced that the USA would waive the TRIPS and lift patent restrictions!!! PRESS: NBC "Today" with Savannah Guthrie; Israeli TV; MSNBC with Stephanie Ruhle; Met with the Politico Editorial Board (on the record); Interview with The Hill with Steve Clemons; Israeli Public broadcasting Corporation; Sky News Australian TV;
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May 6, 2021 - Global - 154,800,000/3,200,000; USA - 32,400,000/576,200 I had an important conversation this morning with Rochelle Walensky who wanted my input on putting together some specific metrics for when the country can open up and stop wearing masks. I have been encouraging her to do this over the past several weeks since many members of the press and the public have been pushing us to give some sort of a metric regarding the number of cases as well as the percent of the population that is vaccinated that can be used to allow states, cities, towns, and counties to know when they can open up and stop wearing masks. She showed me a bunch of slides which proposed a color-coded system County by County that would provide some form of metrics. She proposed that if a County gets to less than 50 cases per 100,000 population over seven days and has 70% of its population receiving at least one dose of the vaccine that this could be the metric for opening. I am very pleased to see that they are moving in this direction since this is what I have been encouraging them to do now for several weeks. I believe it would counter the intense criticism that the CDC and I are receiving because of a lack of definitive metrics. Washington Post; CNN Interview from Global USA 1% 154% I had a terrific experience today, which is Nurse's Week. A couple of nurses from the different wards had written emails to me asking me to drop by and say hello to nurses on the occasion of Nurse's Week; they felt that the nurses would really appreciate seeing me and being able to take pictures with me. And so, today with the help of the head of nursing at the NIH Gwen Wallen and the various Ward supervisors, I visited every nursing unit in the NIH Clinical Center to congratulate and thank each of the nurses on Nurse's Week and to take literally hundreds of photos both as groups and as individual selfies. The nurses went absolutely wild to see me they were squealing and laughing and clapping. It was something to behold. The hour and a half that I invested in doing that was well worth the time in that it had to have been an extraordinary morale builder for the nurses. • I did a bunch of ceremonial social things virtually at Vanderbilt University where I taped my commencement address today to be given as a taped version next week. The Vanderbilt community was very excited to help me with them even though it was virtual PRESS: Interview with Joel Achenbach of the Washington Post; CNN Interview from India;
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May 6, 2021 - Global USA Daily cases at 44,000 Incidence and vaccine coverage • US (13/100K) 1st dose 45%I 2nd 33% • UK (2/100K) 1st dose 52%I 2nd 24% • Israel (0.7/100K) 1st dose 58%I 2nd 54% 00,000/578,500 The issue of the escape of the virus from the Wuhan Chinese lab is starting to heat up again. The usual cast of characters that had been bugging us about gain of function research or add it again claiming incorrectly that we have funded gain of function research for the Wuhan lab. Somehow or other they're trying to connect funding gain of function with a Chinese investigator getting infected with the spread of COVID-19 throughout the world. They seem to be hung up on the fact that they believe that we have funded gain of function research for the lab when in fact we have not. Nonetheless, they will certainly be up to mischievous behavior. In this regard Francis Collins has received an 11-page letter from right wing Republican Congress person Cathy McMorris Rodgers, cosine by congressman Brett Guthrie Ann Morgan Griffith. They have 29 questions concerning the conspiracy theory that the virus originated from the Wuhan lab. See attachment below. In addition, on March 5th I received a letter from congressman Mike Gallagher (see attachment below) with similar questions about gain of function research and the possibility of an escape of the virus from the Wuhan lab. It is inevitable that they will be hassling me about this for some time. SKM_C754e2105071 2531.pdf SKM_C754e2105071 2540.pdf • Nancy Messonnier resigns (see above) PRESS: White House press conference; Times Now Indian TV;
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May 7, 2021 Friday 12:30 PM AEDT This just does not make any sense since why would someone want to make an agent that could equally infect your own population. Something is wrong with this report . I will have to follow up on it. In the meantime, senator Rand Paul has introduced an amendment to ban gain of function research in China. In the statement they say that I am a strong advocate of gain of function research, which in fact I am not. I have been very clear that it should only be done on the very special circumstances when the public health need requires it and that it needs to be done on the very restricted conditions. The complete distortion of what I have been saying continues on the part of the radical right.
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May 8, 2021 - • Weekly (weekend) touch bases with media team (11:00 AM - Saturday) in anticipation of Sunday shows.
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May 9, 2021 - Global - 157,300,000/3,300,000; USA - 32,500,000/578,500 COVID Cases 05.09.21 powerpoin Cases still hanging around 30-40,000/day The Indian variant subtype B.1.617.2 is spreading faster in the UK than other imported variants Each variant's share of all sequenced UK cases of Covid-19 15% B.1.617.2 10% 5% B.1.617.1 Mar Apr May Source: FT analysis of COG-UK data © FT The anti-Fauci stuff continues with individual articles and FOX news continually implying that gain of function research funded by NIAID (which never occurred) was related to escape of virus from Wuhan Institute of Virology. Typical conspiracy theory. (see below) From Jane Whitney: Dear Dr. Fauci, Rarely are we at a loss for words. But we're hard pressed to adequately express how grateful we are for your extraordinary appearance during our season premiere of "Common Ground" last Sunday. The rave reviews for your "Human Google" pandemic database and your candor continue to roll in. But, it was your earthy sensibility that lifted the broadcast to a visceral level which resonated with so many. During this chaotic chapter when we're trying to cope with the pandemic plus a bitterly divided country, you give people hope that leadership, integrity -- and humanity -- can lift us to better days. Your friend and WaPo columnist Michael Gerson captured your gestalt when he observed that you have "no other ambition or agenda than the health of the country and the world." Origins of 500,000/579,000 Not since I interviewed former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright last summer had the phrase "national treasure" popped into my head. But, your constancy and commitment to leading our nation through the scourge of the coronavirus, warranted using that phrase again during the close of our interview. On behalf of our entire "Common Ground" team, we are especially thankful that you were willing to donate your talent and considerable time to join us for our series launch on national television • Had call with Jeff Zients who (like me) is concerned that the CDC and Rochelle are being too conservative with regard to not loosening up restrictions for people who have been vaccinated. The CDC is beginning to lose credibility. Jeff realizes this and because of my close relationship with Rochelle, he wants me to get her to understand that. She is sticking closely with the advice of her career people who are often behind the real world. • Followed up with Rochelle and told her in a fatherly advice that the CDC is loosing credibility by being so rigid with the guidelines for vaccinated people. Peter Navarro slandering me on his twitter account: PRESS: NBC "Meet the Press" with Chick Todd; ABC "This Week" with George Stephanopoulos; MSNBC with Joshua Johnson; Wall Street Journal: China, Fauci and the Origins of Covid Did the virus come from a Chinese lab funded by the celebrated doctor's U.S. government institute?