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July 8, 2021 - Kristian Andersen, Bob Garry and many others came out yesterday with on a preprint server a paper strongly arguing with good evidence for a natural emergence of SARS-CoV-2 rather thsan a lab leak: The Origins of SARS-CoV-2: A Critical Review https://bit.ly/3jSK1Ep CNN: "Coronavirus almost certainly came from an animal, not a lab leak, top scientists argue" I had a very useful and enjoyable conversation with the President of Chile - President Sebastian Pinera. He was very gracious and wanted advice from me about how to handle the outbreak in Chile looking forward. He was very complimentary to me in many waves and asked a number of very intelligent and important questions relevant to his country. He seems like an extremely engaging person and it was an enjoyable half an hour that I spent speaking with him via zoom. PRESS: NPR - "All Things Considered" with May Louise Kelly;
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July 9, 2021 - Global - 185,000,000/4,000,000; USA - 33,600,000/604,000 is waning after a period of several months. This created a lot of confusion and we all gathered on multiple phone calls yesterday evening in order to come out with a statement jointly from the Confirmed Cases (Thousands) fe) Li S wu a2 oa he Li (a ] id a ao = if o H = a Li a ais a ajiz aie 5/19 Sta aft Giz] iS New Daily Confirmed COVID-19 Cases in the U.S. > s # £ R RF = & = a a 2020/2021 aid ate asd ae afl ais a Sie 6s Gao CDC and FDA indicating that at this time if you are fully vaccinated you do not need a booster shot. In the middle of all of this I called up Mikael Dolstein and try to find out what was going on. He said that their statement was based on the Israeli data as well as data from their original phase three study which showed a modest degree of waning immunity after several months. Later in the evening I received a phone call from Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla who was very sorry and apologetic that he did not Alert me about the Pfizer announcement ahead of time. We will be arranging a meeting next week likely on Monday July 12 to discuss all of this with the visor people. PRESS: Instagram with Ana Navarro; NBC Evening News; CNN "Situation Room" with Wolf Blitzer
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July 10, 2021 Wasting a lot of time responding to letters from Congress and Senate about Wuhan. Egregious waste of time!! Much concern about the Delta variant. Cases coming up in USA: Daily new confirmed COVID-19 cases per million people rutile The number of confirmed cases is lower than the number of actual cases: the main reason for that is limited testing. LINEAR LOG a0) larael Singapore wpr 30, 2024 May 15,2021
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July 11, 2021 - 33,000 cases yesterday. Clearly the unvaccinated are getting infected Lab Studies Protection vs Protection vs Symptomatic Hospitalizations infections and Deaths Pfizer/BioNtech Jf 79-88% 96% I Moderna v 72%* 96%* Astra Zeneca V 60-67% 92% Bharat Biotech V NA NA J&J v NA NA *Only 1-dose data available for Canada and UK studies, NA-not available, no data for SputnikV, CoronaVac or Sinopharm Global USA PRESS: ABC "This Week with George Stephanopoulos"; CBS "Face the Nation" with John Dickerson; CNN State of the Union" with Jake Tapper;
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July 12, 2021 - Global USA It is important to point out how many hours we are all wasting in responding to the multiple letters from senators and congressmen fundamentally driven by conspiracy theories that the NIH has funded work at Wuhan institute of virology that lead to SARS-CoV-2. For example, over the weekend I was on multiple zoom calls with my staff fine tuning the letters in response to the multiple questions from people like senators Rand Paul, Marshall, Burr. I am somewhat surprised that's senator Burr was part of this since he generally is a friendly person to me. We had a very important meeting today by zoom with Mikael Dolsten and others from Pfizer with members of HHS including myself, Rochelle Walensky, David Kessler, Francis Collins, Janet Woodcock, all of the people from ASPR such as Dawn O'Connor. The Pfizer people present the data from the Israeli study which we already knew showed a decrease of efficacy against all infection down to 64%. In addition they showed some of the follow-up data from their phase 3 trial which showed a decrease in efficacy down to 83%. Clearly, Pfizer is intending to suggest boosts particularly for those who are elderly and with underlying conditions . In Israel they are already boosting some of the elderly and those with underlying conditions. There was a big debate in our own country and worldwide about giving a third shot to fully vaccinated people when most of the world is completely unvaccinated. This is a debate that will intensify. I believe we need to go ahead and explore the possibility of needing a boost at the same time as we provide vaccines for people in low and middle income countries. I have been emphasizing in my public appearances that the requirement for a boost does not mean that the vaccines are not highly effective. A boost relates to the durability of the protection not to the effectiveness of the protection. This is a concept that is often missed by the public. Global USA '00,000/605,000 of PRESS: CBS "This Morning" with Gayle King; NPR Baltimore - WYPR with Tom Hall; CNN with Chris Cuomo
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July 13, 2021 - Global - 187,000,000/4,000,000; USA - 33,700,000/605,000 New cases are increasing in at least 41 states. This is particularly true among seven states in the South where the percentage of people who are vaccinated is very low. It is clear that we are entering into a period where the steady decline in cases has now stopped and we are seeing an increase in cases with daily cases hovering around 33,000. There is a war of words going on between the Fox News TV hosts and democratic senators such as Richard Durbin. The attacks on me by the far right and Fox News (Tucker Calrson and Laura Ingraham) are relentless and occur on a daily basis. Marsha Blackburn, Marjorie Taylor Green, and all of the other nut cakes attack me on a daily basis . PRESS: CNBC "Squawk Box"; NPR "Here and Now"; MSNBC "Andrea Mitchell Report"
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July 14, 2021 I had a very pleasant experience today down at the White House where I engaged in a number of Instagrams, PSAs, and YouTube videos with the new sensational young entertainer Olivia Rodrigo. The purpose of the interaction was to encourage young people who are followers of Olivia to go out and get vaccinated. I was amazed to learn that with all her social media Olivia has 25 million followers. She is a very down to earth sweet 18 year old woman. The White House comms team for digital we're delighted with the interaction. • I'm spending a lot of time with the team in preparing for the July 20 HELP Senate hearing. This is all a colossal waste of time in which the far right is trying to link the COVID pandemic with work supported by NIAID In a sub award to the Wuhan institute of virology. I would likely get attacked by Senators Rand Paul , Marshall, Kennedy come on and Rubio among others. We shall see.
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July 15, 2021 - Global USA The republican Party has gone completely crazy. See letter below where Congressmen are accusing me of collaborating with the Chinese Communist Party: Follow Up NIH Re. Emails 71521 (2).pdf There are a few things to point out. For example, tonight we had a meeting that we generally have prior to briefing the president . Tomorrow we will be briefing the president and tonight at 9:00 PM we had a zoom meeting with me, Rochelle, Jeff , and Natalie to go over the plans for how we were going to breathe the president tomorrow (Friday). We divided the responsibility between Rochelle and me. Also, we had another one of the unusual experiences with the United states Congress. A group of 20 Right Wing Republican Congressman wrote a letter to Francis Collins and me asking a number of ridiculous questions in an accusatory manner as they have been for the last several weeks. In fact, the letter was first sent to the right wing publication the Daily Caller who then called us up and asked us what our response to the letter was when we had not yet even received the letter. And so, it was quite obvious that they were doing it mostly as a publicity stunt. In any event, one of the most amazing parts of the letter was the part where they made the statement: "Doctor Fauci was working closely with the CCP (Chinese Communist Party)". They gave a reference for that statement that was an email sent to me from George Gao on March 28th 2020. In fact, that email was George apologizing to me for seemingly contradicting me in an article in Science in which he said that the United States was making a mistake by not recommending that people universally wear a mask. He did not want that to be interpreted that he was criticizing me and he apologized. In addition, George was saying how concerned he was about the outbreak and that he was worried about me and hoped that I was doing well. I wrote back to him and said "Thank you for your kind note I hope that all is well with you." If anyone can construe that exchange as my working closely with the Chinese Communist Party, they have to be out of their mind. For that reason, it is clear that these types of letters are nothing but a bunch of unmitigated bullshit. PRESS: Local print media - Las Vegas Review Journal, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Gannett Missouri;
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July 16, 2021 I briefed the President in the Oval Office today about the Delta variant and its impact on our country. Present at the briefing were: Ron Klain, Susan Rice, Natalie Quillian, Jeff Zients, Anita Dunn, Brian Reese, Mike Donilon and Rochelle Walensky virtually. Given the increasing number of cases in the United States, even though the hospitalizations have not increased, the President was concerned that his message that by July 4th we would be seeing an independence from the virus here in the United states might actually be now subject to question. We spoke to him about the importance of emphasizing that vaccinated people do not get severe disease even from the Delta variant . In addition, we pointed out the possibility that we may need to give booster shots , namely a third dose following the two doses of the mRNA vaccine. The President was concerned that people would say that he was giving a mixed message when he asked everyone to get the standard regimen of vaccination and now we are telling them that they may need to get an additional dose. I pointed out to him that most people who are vaccinated would be quite amenable to getting a third dose so long as they thought it would increase the duration of their protection and or make them more highly protected. It is the people who do not want to get vaccinated to begin with who are going to be in trouble because they will get infected and they will need hospitalization. The POTUS and Jeff kept asking whether I thought that it would Confirmed Cases (Thousands) Loo ais ae and mocking our attempts to get people ally raising money by trying New Daily Confirmed COVID-19 Cases in the U.S. a3.0 H # 8B & & & " § - S&S & & FH S$ F&F $$ & & & vw S&S B&B BS E B&B HK SS & BB SF = ~ B @ & + a2 fF _ = ff © fy S un & we & = co + ni wi = rs a mi m o a = i" = a = a ri ri m mi + Ca = 2020/2021 get as bad as the winter of 2020/2021. I said no since we did not have vaccinated people back then. Fox News hosts Tucker Carlson and Laura Ingraham and mocking our attempts to get people vaccinated likely leading to loss of lives. Rand Paul and Jim Jordan tweeting about me all the time and actually raising money by trying to discredit me Cases continue to climb: PRESS: MSNBC - "The Reid Out"; Peacock MSNBC - Joshua Johnson; CBS Evening news; NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt;