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June 15, 2021 - Global - 176,000,000/3,800,000; USA - 33,300,000/598,000 Cases continue to come: PRESS: NBC "The Tonight Show" with Jimmy Fallon
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June 16, 2021- Global - 176,000,000/3,800,000; USA - 33,300,000/600,000 ● Bob Redfield is out there spouting incorrect information saying that he feels strongly that this was a virus that leaked from a laboratory. The basis of his saying this is that he feels that the virus was so well adapted to humans right from the beginning that it had to have ichelkazatchkine.com 54 AM @niaid.nih.gov> d Central Asia leaked from a lab. Any respectable virologist would know that this is total nonsense since the virus clearly could have jumped species as a less efficient spreader and causer of serious disease and had been circulating in the human population beneath the radar screen gathering efficiency in transmission and pathogenesis until it was finally recognized in the middle of December of 2019 when many people were getting seriously ill. This is the way viruses evolve from nature. In fact, we are still seeing that to this day in what we are currently experiencing in that variants are developing greater capability of spreading and gaining even greater pathogenesis. Another example of Bob Redfield being dead wrong. I am surprised and disappointed that he is out there spouting such nonsense. I guess that he wants to feel relevant now that he is no longer CDC Director. ● Email of support fro Michel Kazatchkine:
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June 17, 2021 - Global USA Participated in Faith Vaccine Roundtable - young Muslim messengers PRESS: NPR "Morning Edition" with Leila Fadel; did the White House Press Conference - I announced the new $3.2 billion Antiviral Program for Pandemics, which a 2 pillar program for Development and Discovery of antivirals for COVID-19 and other viruses of pandemic potential; Great Article in Politico that describes the lies of the Trump people about the "lab leak" theory: Top Trump officials pushed the Covid-19 lab-leak theory. Investigators had doubts. New documents and interviews show how the president and his senior aides cherry-picked evidence and sidelined the government's own virus sleuths. faim. =k -- nd DANIEL LIPPMAN Politico:
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June 18, 2021 - Global - 177,000,000/3,800,000; USA - 33,300,000/600,000 Received important e-mail with attachment from Jesse Bloom: Hi Francis, Stephen, and Toni, I'm just writing to give you a heads up that I identified a data set of early Wuhan SARS-CoV-2 sequences that has been deleted from the NIH's Sequence Read Archive (SRA). I was able to recover the deleted files from the Google Cloud and analyze the sequences, and have attached a pre-print on the analysis that I just submitted for posting by bioRxiv. Since SARS-CoV-2 origins and early spread has become a hot-button topic, I wanted to give you a heads up. I made sure to emphasize in the discussion that the SRA has many sequences and so isn't in a position to vet all deletions. Nonetheless, I think it would be highly worthwhile to do a comprehensive analysis of SRA (and other NIH) data that might be relevant to this topic that could have been deleted or otherwise overlooked. If I can be of any assistance, let me know. I have been running a pipeline to identify additional deleted SRA data using various heuristics including those in described in the attached pre-print, but have not yet completed the analysis enough to know the extent that the data I have recovered is relevant to SARS-CoV-2's origins or early spread. But as I mention in the pre-print, there are two known SRR deletions that are worth looking at. I definitely think it would be good to perform a SRA side search as well, since that will obviously be easier and more efficient, and could identify deleted data not on the cloud. Anyway, I hope overall this can be a good opportunity for the NIH to take the lead by using its remarkable data archives to make progress in resolving some of the important questions about the virus's origins. Thanks, Jesse ---- Jesse Bloom Associate Professor, Fred Hutch Cancer Research Center Affiliate Associate Professor, Genome Sciences & Microbiology, University of Washington Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute paper.pdf I believe that it was somewhat imprudent on the part of Jesse bloom to make statements such as he has that indicate nefarious motives on the part of the Chinese when we have no idea why they deleted the sequences. He used words such as "obscure" and "surreptitious" which will certainly create a firestorm when conspiracy theorists read it. The best thing to do is to have Frances and I again convene a group of evolutionary virologists to discuss the potential meaning of this . We will do this two days from now on Sunday June 20. See below. Cases at around 12,000 per day NIH helped fund research involving donated fetal tissue, but Fauci was not directly involved PRESS: Excellent refutation of the lab leak hypothesis in The Guardian: Though it is newly respectable, the Wuhan lab theory remains fanciful David Robert Grimes
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June 19, 2021 - Global USA Horrible roller coaster day Global USA avirus vaccine appeal comes LZ m ● Chris and I viewed the "FAUCI" documentary doe by Nat/Geo together with the leadership of Nat/Geo films at the national geographic headquarters on 17th Street, NW. Very impressive film. ● At the request of the White House I did a walking tour of the Anacostia neighborhood Of Washington DC together with Mayor Muriel Bowser. we started off at anacostia high school where we thanked the volunteers in the basketball gym who were administering vaccines to people in the neighborhood . We then went on and addressed the volunteers in the schoolyard of Kramer Middle School. After that, the mayor and I went door to door knocking on the doors and encouraging people in the neighborhood to get vaccinated. We did that for about an hour and 15 minutes. it got written up the next day in the Washington Post (see below). PRESS: Washington Post: "For Ward 8 residents, coronavirus vaccine appeal comes with a touch of celebrity: 'It's Fauci!" https://wapo.st/3vFzhLZ
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June 20, 2021 - Global USA Uneventful and somewhat relaxing day . Still trying to process the news from yesterday. Will have to live with uncertainty for the next three months. As indicated above, Francis Collins organized a zoom call for today with a group of evolutionary biologists as well as Steve Sherry from the NIH databank in order to discuss this issue. Jesse bloom was also on the call. See email below from Francis having organized the meeting:
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June 21, 2021 - Global -178,000,000/3,900,000; USA - 33,400,000/600,000 Did an Instagam live with FGOTUS Doug Emhoff and Dikembe Mutombo to encourage people to get vaccinated. We are putting a full-court press in encouraging people to get vaccinated. Did TIKTOK interviews (rapid fire questions) from 8 young TIKTOK "influencers who amazingly have millions of followers FOX News is blasting me for saying that an attack on md is an attack on science. I am going to go on the offensive against them. To me, it is a badge of honor to be criticized by FOX. Important article in the Post today by Joel Achenbach (see below) PRESS: NY Times by Carl Zimmer and James Gorman: Fight Over Covid's Origins Renews Debate on Risks of Lab Work Excerpt from above NY Times article: {EXT WAR Daily Beast "When questioning Dr. Fauci last month, Senator Paul brought up one of the most cited examples of gain-of-function research, a study of coronaviruses done by Ralph Baric at the University of North Carolina published in Nature Medicine in 2015. Working with data sent from Shi Zhengli, the director of the Wuhan Institute of Virology, Dr. Baric and his colleagues built a new coronavirus from an existing one. All of the work was done in the North Carolina lab, and neither Dr. Zhengli nor members of her lab participated. The so-called chimeric virus that resulted was not more pathogenic than the parental virus, Dr. Baric said. "This work was approved by the N.I.H.., was peer-reviewed, P3CO reviewed and approved," Dr. Baric wrote in an email last month. The work also "involved a very different strain of beta coronavirus than the one that causes Covid-19," he said, and was considered low risk because of the particular strain in question. In the paper, he and his colleagues cautioned others about similar research. "The potential to prepare for and mitigate future outbreaks must be weighed against the risk of creating more dangerous pathogens," they wrote." Peter Hotez writing in the Daily Beast: The Unique Terror of Being a COVID Scientist After Jan. THE NEXT WAR It's no coincidence that one of the first guilty pleas in connection with the Capitol riot was of an anti-vaxxer. a Peter J. Hotez Updated Jun. 21, 2021 4:43AM ET / Published Jun. 21, 2021 3:35AM ET Alex Wong/Getty Being a scientist was not exactly fun during the height of the coronavirus pandemic in America. But somehow, even as cases and deaths are way down in the United States, the attacks on us are worse than ever. Take Anthony Fauci, a punching bag for the far right since the earliest days of the outbreak. The "Fire Fauci Act," a twisted piece of legislation first introduced by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene in April, gained additional Republican support this past week, now reaching at least a dozen House members. That leaders of the GOP would go out of their way to reduce Dr. Fauci's salary to zero and ultimately force his retirement must be examined for what it really is. This is no simple beef with someone who was frequently targeted by the administration and its allies under Donald Trump. It is, instead, a piece of a much larger and systematic anti-science project on the far right, one that is increasingly hard to separate from the Stop the Steal myth powering the right-wing fringe. CNN: 'Let me give you a flash': Hear Dr. Fauci fire back at critics https://cnn.it/35FZOy9 Washington Post % of Total Population Learn more about the distribution of vaccines. Population 2 12 Years of Age % of Population 2 12 Years of Age Population > 18 Years of Age % of Population > 18 Years of Age Population 2 65 Years of Age % of Population > 65 Years of Age Health Scientists battle over the ultimate origin story: Where did the coronavirus come from? By Joel Achenbach
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June 22, 2021 - Global USA ● Had podcast with the Conference of Mayors Vaccinations coming along very well: PRESS: BBCTV with Katty Kay; CNN "The Lead" with Jake Tapper; MSNBC "All In" with Chris Hayes Very good interview on New York Times "Sway" with Cara Swisher: NYT/Sway: Anthony Fauci on the Lab Leak Theory and Emailing Mark Zuckerberg https://nyti.ms/2UfIr4K The Hill: Poll: 61 percent say Fauci has been truthful to the best of his knowledge on COVID19 origins; Hitt 400,000/600,000 NPR Radio - 1A; The New Yorker: