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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;
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July 17, 2021 No change. Cases continue to rise. Gov. DeSantis has made anti-Fauci T-shirts. Amazing!! PRESS: CNN with Jim Acosta;
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July 18, 2021 Confirmed Cases (Thousands) w Pl oa i) S S Bi wa ao hb S S = wa o = oS a wa o HLS ay'l2 af26 S/io Sfaa ree New Daily Confirmed COVID-19 Cases in the U.S. 2020/2021 about the spread of the Delta variant. Cases continue to increase. The question that is being asked is whether fully vaccinated people who have breakthrough infections can transmit the infection to others. Still no direct data either way:
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July 19, 2021 Jeff Z. called me early this AM (6:45 AM) concerned about the breakthrough infections of vaccinated people and waned my opinion about moving towards masking of vaccinated people who are in hot zones. I think that we should. Jeff called again at 10:00 AM concerned about the time FDA is taking to grant a full BLA for the vaccines. He is acutely aware of the sensitivity of not interfering with or pressuring the FDA, but we need the BLA since many people are not getting vaccinated until the vaccines are "fully approved". Also, Jeff want me to get firm information on how long it will take for the peds (11 years old and younger) approval to come. Stock Market plunging >700 down due to concerns about the spread of the Delta variant. Mayor Bill Di Blasio called and ask my opinion about a strategy that he would like to do to try and get more people vaccinated and safe from the delta variant. He is proposing to give the people of New York City two alternatives if they are not vaccinated: 1) get vaccinated or 2) be required to get tested with a nasal swab at least once a week. The mayor feels that people will likely get tired of getting tested every week and my opt to get vaccinated purely for the convenience of it. Even though the requirement for a nasal swab is indeed a mandate, the mayor feels that this is much less intrusive they mandate for a vaccine. )00,000/607,000 PRESS: CNN with Kate Boldun; Bloomberg TV "Balance of Power" with David Westin; PBS NewsHour with Judy Woodruff
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July 20, 2021 - Global - 191,000,000/4,100,000; USA - 34,000,000/607,000 Testified today before the Senate HELP Subcommittee - There was the expected big splash at the hearing today As Senator Rand Paul accused me of lying under oath at a prior hearing and asked me if I wanted to retract my statement when I said that the NIAID has never funded nor does it funds now gain of function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. He referred to the Plos Pathogens paper of 2017 and insisted that there was gain of function in those experiments and said I therefore lied. He quoted Dr. Richard Ebright as saying that those experiments were definitely gain a function. I exploded right back at Senator Paul and told him that he had no idea what he was talking about. I told him that I did not lie and have never lied certainly not before the Congress and then I would not at all retract anything I previously said before a congressional committee. He then implied that the work that we were doing may have been the cause of thousands of deaths. At this point I blasted back at him that if that is what he is implying he has no idea what he is talking about because the viruses that we were dealing with and that were in the progress reports and that are in the literature in no way could become SARS-CoV-2. I went on to say that it was molecularly impossible for the viruses that we were dealing with to become SARS-CoV-2. I finished by looking him in the eye and telling him that if anybody is lying here it is he. Several of the other senators on the democratic side after the discussion between Paul and me was finished made statements saying how confident they are in my integrity and in my service. Senator Marshall later asked questions about the furin cleavage site and the CGG codon. Then he started talking about the S1 segment of the spike protein and had absolutely no idea what he was talking about. He rambled on until I told him that I had no idea what he was saying; it make no sense. He made a fool of himself. Cases continue to climb: Confirmed Cases (Thousands) Confirmed Cases (Thousands) fe) Li S wu a a he Li (a I eB =] oa = in oS me =) oa ini oS tab in a wu a a lind Pil a id a a = imi o e =] a Ln a ais ais ae aS aflz aylz aie ae 5/10 5/10 Sa Bir el New Daily Confirmed COVID-19 Cases in the U.S. a ra ay mh iat rt wi ia = ari a A & &§ S&S ££ S&B B BR S HE SB A r = cI ca a a a a cal = at = af ) mn 2020/2021 )00,000/607,000 New Daily Confirmed COVID-19 Cases in the U.S. fF 8 HR Se # Se Sa ws ES re os mf mf € F A F 4a F 3+ Ss SF FT st «ff 2020/2021 BA a tM ae PRESS: CBS "This Morning"; Multiple stories on TV about my encounter with Senator Paul