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June 27, 2021 - Cases continue to slowly come down: PRESS: Latest thing on Fox News over the last couple of days is that they are accusing me a lying under oath at a house and energy subcommittee hearing when I said That I did not know the precise reason why the president told us to cancel the WuHan grant. The fact is 500,000/602,000 that we were told via mark meadows that we need to cancel the grant and when we told them that there has to be a specific reason the White House said we don't need a reason , just cancel the grant. When doctor Collins and doctor Tabak and indirectly when I said that it was illegal if we didn't have a specific reason , the White House came back and said make up a reason. Therefore, what I said under oath at the hearing is absolutely true. From a review of Jasmeen Abutaleb's and Damian Paletta's book by William Hanage of the Washington Post: Over and over again, whenever public health and public relations came into conflict, public health lost out. Trump's complaints directed at "the Doctors" kept coming back to the same charge -- negativity -- including a remarkable, petulant presidential Oval Office outburst roughly halfway through the book. "I am sick and tired of how negative you all are. . . . I spend half of my day responding to what Tony Fauci has to say, and I'm the president of the United States!" Later in the same exchange, Trump told coronavirus response coordinator Deborah Birx: "Every time you talk, I get depressed. You have to stop that." As if the pandemic could be defeated by the power of positive thinking, and Birx should just cheer up and promote policies that she knew would lead to more illness and death than the alternatives. I received a call today from David Wilman, who I thought was a friend and who has been having a conversation with me regularly every Sunday for the last several months in order for me to keep him up to date on what is going on with COVID. He was hinting early on that he was working on a story on gain of function research. He never interviewed me at all on the details of this but today he calls me up telling me how much he respects me, but he has a heads up for me that he is doing a story on gain of function and that I am in the story. He then went on to describe how much he respects me and that my favorite saying "precision of thought, economy of expression " is one that he lives by and has it pasted on his computer. This looks to me like a hatchet job on me is coming and he is telling me what a great person I am before he drops the bomb. We shall see.
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June 28, 2021 - Global - 181, 000,000/3,900,000; USA - 33,500,000/602,000 PRESS: BET Instagram with Mark Tallman and Ronreaco Lee; Month of Action Zoom with Partner organizations;
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June 29, 2021 Delta variant swarming globally. It definitely is a more efficient transmitter. WHO is now recommending that even vaccinated people wear masks. Vaccinated people are getting infected, but without serious disease. FLOTUS sent Chris and me and the family a beautiful basket of vegetables grown in the White House Garden: Scanned from a Xerox Multifunction on Dear Sir, Many in Australia, self included, have admired your steady hand in heavy and often dangerous seas. I saw this cartoon recently ... and I hope you like it ... in the nicest possible way! Regards, Brian Dawes, Perth, Western Australia. PRESS: Constituency Hispanic TV (x3); NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt; ABC World News Tonight; PBS NewsHour with Judy Woodruff; PSAs; CNN with Don Lemon; See below: This is the Hearing that the GOP called with crazy witnesses and they wanted Francis Collins and I to testify. Pelosi and WH said no way FOX: House Republicans hold own hearing on COVID-19 origins GOP lawmakers claim Pelosi is holding up full committee hearings: Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, said that Fauci "didn't have the courage" to "come defend himself" at the hearing. "I'm convinced these guys knew right from the get-go what the truth was and they misled the American people," Jordan claimed, citing a slew of Fauci emails made public in early June. "He showed up everywhere for a year and a half. You couldn't go a day and not see Dr. Fauci somewhere, he was everywhere and now when we have emails... all this evidence suddenly you can't find him." NSIBILITY, Tee on the Lalance of probabilities me. a ; A 3 i ae. FAUCT ano te WEIGHT of Resfo 500,000;602,000 Kate Messner's Children's Book - "Dr. Fauci" has come out. It is beautifully done and obviously well-researched.
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June 30, 2021 - Global 182,000,000/3,900,000; USA - 33,500,000;602,000 I just received an assembly concurrent resolution number 195 of the 219th legislature of the State of New Jersey it is a concurrent resolution honoring the life and the work of Dr. Anthony Fauci. (see below) Scanned from a Xerox Multifunction Parting note to me from General Gus Perna upon his retirement: Tony, thank you for your note and very kind words! It truly been my honor and pleasure to work with you! I brag to my circle of friends about you - 'always had time to say hello or explain anything to me, as well as, impeccable moral courage to do the right thing'. Thank you for all that you have done for our Nation - you are one of my personal heros!!! Best of luck with all your future endeavors!!! Vr Gus PRESS: MSNBC "Morning Joe" with Joe Scarborough; WTOP Radio;
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July 1, 2021 It is becoming very clear that the extreme far right in the press with Fox News, in social media but the far right crazies, and especially in the Congress with the senators and congressmen who are frightened of former president Trump and who are using attacks on me to show their loyalty to Trump. The issue that they are focusing on mostly in recent days is saying that I perjured myself in front of the House and Energy Subcommittee Hearing by saying I did not know why we were asked to cancel the Wuhan subgrant. In fact, I had checked with Francis Collins and Larry Tabak just to be sure , and there is no doubt that we were told by the White House to cancel the grant and not ask any questions about it. When we said that we had to have a specific reason for canceling the grant since it would be illegal for us to cancel it without a specific reason , the word came down from the White House predominantly via Mark Meadows that we should just go ahead and make up a reason but we definitely had to cancel the grant or else. The general counsel of HHS under Bob Charrow agreed that we had no specific reason to cancel the grant and so we had to reinstitute the grant but withhold funding until they met certain conditions which would be very difficult for them to meet anyway. It really was a work around to prevent us from funding the grant. Therefore, I was completely honest in saying that I did not know why the grant was asked to be cancelled since they never gave us a specific reason to do so. The pressure on me is extreme!!! They "bad guys" are taking everything I say and quoting it out of context. Really trying to destroy my credibility. Cases starting to go up a bit in the unvaccinated areas. Must watch closely ion rates Global USA PRESS: Axios - Fauci: Divergent vaccination rates could create "two Americas" I taped the Sunday "Meet the Press". It will be a 4th of July Special.
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July 2, 2021 - Global USA COVID-19 cases in UK increase 67%, but hospitalizations are not going up indicating that vaccines are preventing severe disease. COVID plummets as leading cause of death in the U.S. AV Tina Reed, author of Vitals Average daily deaths in the United States, by cause March 7020 to June 7071 ak 2.8k 2.6K 2.4K 2.2K 2k a ee 1.8k disease 1.6K Cancer 1.4k 1.23k ik - Stroke ~~" Respiratory COVID-19 "es Alzheimer " Diabetes March April May June July Aug. Sept. Oct. Nov. Dec. Jan. Feb. March April May June PRESS: Regional media TV with: WRAL NBC Raleigh-Durham; WSB-TV - ABC Atlanta; WREG-TV - CBS Memphis;
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July 4, 2021 Global USA Table 3. Vaccine effectiveness against Alpha (B.1.1.7), Beta (B.1.351)/Gamma (P.1), and Delta (B.1.617.2) variants of conce by outcome, vaccine product, and number of doses received for those tested for SARS-CoV-2 between 14 December 2020 a 30 May 2021 in Ontario, Canada. Outcome Adjusted VE' (95% CI) Non-VOC Alpha Beta/Gamma* Delta' Symptomatic infection BNT162b2 (Pfizer-BioNTech) =14 days after dose 1 only: 61 (54. 68) 66 (64. 68) 60 (52. 67) 56 (45, 64) >7 days after dose 2 93 (88. 96) 89 (86, 91) 84 (69, 92) 87 (64, 95) mRNA-1273 (Moderna) =14 days after dose 1 only: 54 (28. 70) 83 (80, 86) 77 (63. 86) 72 (57. 82) =7 days after dose 2 89 (65. 96) 92 (86, 96) - " ChAdOx1 (AstraZeneca) =14 days after dose 1 only: 67 (38. 82) 64 (60. 68) 48 (28. 63) 67 (44. 80) =7 days after dose 2 -" -" - -" Hospitalization or death BNT162b2 (Pfizer-BioNTech) =14 days after dose 1 only: 68 (54. 78) 80 (78. 82) 77 (69. 83) 78 (65. 86) =7 days after dose 2 96 (82. 99) 95 (92, 97) 95 (81. 99) -! mRNA-1273 (Moderna) >14 days after dose 1 only: 57 (28. 75) 79 (74. 83) 89 (73. 95) 96 (72. 99) >7 days after dose 2 96 (70. 99) 94 (89. 97) -1 ChAdOx1 (AstraZeneca) >14 days after dose 1 only: - 85 (81. 88) 83 (66, 92) 88 (60, 96) >7 days after dose 2 a oe a s Today is the celebration of the independence from the virus. There was the most beautiful display of fireworks on the mall that I have ever seen. Let us hope that the congregation of people at the celebration does not lead to a discernible surge in cases . As I have said on various TV shows including on Meet the Press this morning, there is a possibility of being two Americas, one that is vaccinated without any surge of infections and one that is unvaccinated leading to regional surges such as in those southern states with 35% or less of their population vaccinated. This includes places like Missouri , Alabama , Mississippi , Louisiana, Wyoming , among others. PRESS: appeared on NBC "Meet the Press" 4th of July Special with Chuck Todd
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July 5, 2021 - Global USA Cases increasing in certain regions. Will watch carefully to determine whether this has impact on hospitalizations. We will brief the president tomorrow about the role of Delta variants with regard to vaccine protection. Virus lab leak theory dogs Democrats eager to keep focus on Trump's Covid failings )0,000/604,000 Democrats worry that murky conclusions that don't identify the origin of the virus could play into the Republicans' hands.
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Jul 5, 2021 aL See below. It is very clear that the Israelis are increasing greatly their testing that could explain their results on asymptomatic infections in vaccinated people (see above and figure below): I had a very important meeting today with the NSC led by Beth Cameron and Maher Bitar who is the senior director for intelligence programs at NSC. We met in the EEOB SCIF and discussed the briefing document that the NSC had presented to the President a week or so ago. Beth wanted me to have an official briefing because of the catastrophic briefing that the amateurs from the CIA gave me several weeks ago. There were no new surprises for me in the briefing )0,000/604,000 except that it became clear that the FBI has no idea what they're talking about since they are convinced that the origin of COVID-19 is from a laboratory leak. The reasons that they give do not make any sense. In contrast the NSA gave some reasonable hypotheses leaning heavily towards a natural jump of species in the environment. I spent some time explaining to Maher and Beth my own theories that the Chinese act like they're covering up something even when they have nothing to cover up. They manifested this in their response to the original SARS-CoV-1 when they insisted this was just an atypical influenza when in fact it was the beginning of a coronavirus pandemic. In addition, they likely shot themselves in the foot when they denied the presence of wild animals in the market when we know they were present and the Chinese cleaned out the market before adequate testing of animals could occur. In essence, they clouded the possibility of proving a natural emergence. I urged the NSC folks to work closely with qualified card-carrying evolutionary virologists such as Kristian Andersen, Eddie Holmes, Bob Garry, Andy Rambaut, among others. I also explained to them the multiple reasons epidemiologically and molecularly why it is almost certain that the virus evolved naturally from a species jump, even though I emphasized that I keep an open mind about the possibility of a lab leak . However, in this regard , I emphasized that just because two alternatives are possible that does not mean that they are equally probable. I believe that they understood where I was coming from and that it turned out to be a very good meeting. PRESS: Interview with Frank Bruni for his book on aging; interview with Betsy McKay of WSJ on GoF; Sirius XM Radio with Marc Siegel; MSNBC with Chris Hayes;