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July 22, 2021 - Global - 192,000,000/4,100,000; USA - 34,000,000/608,000 Daily cases continue to climb: Had my usual weekly meeting with the POTUS today at 1:00 PM in the Oval Office. Also present: Jeff Z., Natalie Quillian, Mike Donilon, Jake Sullivan (NSC). When I walked into the Oval the POTUS put his hands on my shoulder, brought me close and said: "You did a great alie, and Marcella Ninez-Smith Daily new confirmed COVID-19 cases per million people Shown is the rolling 7-day average. The number of confirmed cases is lower than the number of actual cases; the main reason for that is limited testing. Wee] United Kingdom United States
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July 23, 2021 I had a very productive conversation in my regular every two week call with our UK colleagues - Chris Whitty and Patrick Vallance, this time accompanied by Thomas Waite. I explained to them the situation that we have here in the United states with the delta variant. The UK seems to be a couple of weeks ahead of us in every way. They have vaccinated a slightly larger proportion of their population than we have and the surge in delta that they are experiencing is much steeper then what we have at this time. The efficacy of the vaccine against hospitalization and death continues to hold. They are a skeptical about the Israeli vaccine efficacy data for asymptomatic and mildly symptomatic disease as we are here in the United you right States. The UK has made the decision similar to us that they will try to get all the children back to school in person by the fall. However unlike us, the unvaccinated children will not be required to wear masks when they go back to school. They have essentially decided that since you cannot vaccinate the younger children yet and since they generally have very mild disease, that you should accept the fact that sooner or later these young children are going to get infected and so be it. They do not want to close the schools or go to virtual learning. I will continue to follow the situation with them since it is very helpful to us here to learn what the UK is doing. Of note, both Chris and Patrick wanted me to know that I am held in extremely high regard in the UK by virtually everyone on the basis of my standing up to Rand Paul and his nonsense in the Senate Right-wing attacks on me intensify - North Carolina GOP Congressman Madison Cawthorn - "I thank Rand Paul for bringing it up and I will tell you right now Anthony Fauci does not have the best interests of the American people at his heart," he said. "I believe he is a pawn for the Chinese government by giving them funding to do militaristic funding to try and figure out how they can make an animal virus more transmissible to humans. It's disgusting, it's wrong, and 4 million people are dead all around the world because of it." Did my usual weekly briefing of the Cabinet ("Principals") together with Rochelle, Natalie, Jeff, and Vivek. Brought them up to date on Delta variant becoming dominant. PRESS: CBC (Canadian) "Power and Politics; FOX with Neil Caputo; rniy ror- ANthony Fauci Once Again Forced to Basically Call Rand Paul a Sniveling Moron It's fair to say they won't be splitting a milkshake with two straws anytime soon. BY BESS LEVIN
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July 24, 2021- Global USA Cases continue to surge: Confirmed Cases (Thousands) = Ba he ww Lak oa ia] oa (a I o & ini oS Global New Daily Confirmed COVID-19 Cases in the U.S. 2020/2021 LA Times by Melissa Healy: USA a/14 ch funds. feo Wiz PRESS: Very good article in the LA Times by Melissa Healy: LA Times: Fauci: 'There's no way' the coronavirus was made with U.S. research funds. Here's why https://lat.ms/3ruPOC6
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July 25, 2021 - Global USA The USA is not doing so great in vaccinations compared to other developed countries: Share of people who received at least one dose of COVID-19 Our World vaccine, Jul 23, 2021 Share of the total population that received at least one vaccine dose. This may not equal the share that are Tully vaccinated if the vaccine requires two doses. This data is only available for countries which report the breakdown of doses administered by first and second doses. in Data © Add country Chile [mm 71.2% (ui 20,2021) United Kingdom [68.596 (Jul 22, 2021) (sree a 55% Spain 65.296 (Jul 22, 2021) ay a 61.526 Cerrar a 60.2% (Jul 22, 2021) France a 57.2% (Jul 22, 2021) United States |e 56,19; Brazil I mma uma I Se 2, World Ty 27.1% nis a 24 2:6 Russia ST 23.6% 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% Source: Official data collated by Our World in Data - Last updated 274 July 2021, 10:40 (London time) OurWorldinData.org/'coronavirus * CC BY B® Dec 2, 2020 <--) Jul 23,2021 People Vaccinated At Least One Dose Fully Vaccinated Total Vaccine Doses Total 187,982,826 162,725,812 Delivered 394,936,815 ate besaseeiek 341 039,972 % of Total Population 56.6% 49% Learn more about the Population 2 12 Years of Age 187,760,175 162,596,504 distribution of vaccines. % of Population 2 12 Years of Age 66.2% 57.3% Population > 18 Years of Age 177,679,626 154,699,914 % of Population = 18 Years of Age 68.8% 59.9% 1 6 Z ba 7 M Population = 65 Years of Age 48,895,713 43,603,269 People fully vaccinated % of Population = 65 Years of Age 89.4% 79.7% © sour these dace CDC I Data as of: July 24, 2021 6:00am ET. Posted: Saturday, july 24, 2021 2:26 PM ET Fully vaccinated people: PRESS: CNN "State of the Union" with Jake Tapper; MSNBC "Sunday Show" with Jonathan Capehart;
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July 26, 2021 Humor: iI hyd if i \y\ Me, So you think politicians know more about medicine than Dr. Fauci? Well then, Zeb here from the town council, will be doing your colonoscopy. Important stuff going on!!We had at least two zoom meetings today with Jeff, Rochelle, Vivek, and Bechara to discuss the upcoming change in masking guidelines that the CDC will be proposing. It relates to the fact that data or showing that the level of virus in the nasopharynx of vaccinated people with asymptomatic breakthrough infections is similar according to CT values to that in individuals who are infected asymptomatically and who have not been vaccinated. These data are strongly suggestive that individuals who are vaccinated and who get infected can't transmit the virus two others as easily ask an unvaccinated people. This is triggering the need to tell vaccinated people that when they go to situations that are indoors that now they have to wear a mask or should at least seriously consider wearing a mask depending on the level of infection in the community where they are living. Rochelle is really having a very tough time in negotiating this with Jeff in the context of "her team" at CDC that seems to be operating in their usual manner independently of running things by the White House. For example at the end of a long and tortuous discussion about getting the wording correct in the new guideline, Rochelle let us know that two days from now (Wednesday) the CDC will be coming out with an MMWR that will overlap with what we have been wordsmithing for the guideline. Jeff and everyone else was blown away that these two parallel things were going on and we did not even know about it. I feel badly for Rochelle since she is dealing with an ingrained CDC system that has been that way 500,000/609,000 e Over Gainfor the decades that I have been dealing with them. Jeff and the White House Comms people (Courtney Rowe) are very concerned about mixed messaging. We decided that we would sleep on this and address it again in the morning.
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July 27, 2021 - Global - 194,600,000/4,200,000; USA - 34,500,000/609,000 Just got a call from Jeff that he wants me to brief the President today about the issues discussed above. It is very clear and unfortunate that confidence in Rochelle is very low within the White House team of Jeff, Courtney Rowe, and others. STAY TUNED Had a good conversation with the President in the Oval Office this afternoon at 12:30. I explained to him the new CDC guidelines for wearing masks indoors even if you are vaccinated given the fact that the delta variant is causing breakthrough infections in vaccinated individuals and vaccinated individuals with breakthrough infections can transmit the virus two uninfected individuals. In addition, I explained to him the data that the level of virus in the nasopharynx of vaccinated people with breakthrough infections is similar to the level of virus in the nasopharynx of unvaccinated infected people. We had a good conversation; he asked a lot of good questions. Right before the discussion he was on the phone with former senator Barbara Boxer who had just been mugged outside of her house. She asked to talk to me when she heard that the president would be meeting with me and we had a good conversation. She relayed that she felt very badly that idiots are attacking me and that she always has had the highest degree of regard for me. She recalled back in the days when we were fighting HIV together. I asked the president if Jill had come back from the Olympics in Tokyo. The President informed me that she had and so I sent her my regards through him. As Jeff , Natalie Quillian, and I were sitting in front of the Resolute Desk, I had a very strange, almost out of body experience. I just recalled at that time so clearly the bizarre situations that I had been through in the past when I sat in front of the desk trying to brief President trump. I recalled his incredible lack of concentration ability where his attention span was measured in seconds rather than minutes. This is in stark contrast to the seriousness, dignity, and integrity that now permeates the entire White House, particularly the Oval Office. Only now in retrospect do I fully appreciate what a disaster Trump was as President. This applies not only to his policies, but to the fact that he diminished the dignity of the presidency enormously. The feeling in the Oval Office now is very similar to what I experienced when I was in the Oval Office with presidents George HW Bush, George W Bush, Bill Clinton, and Barack Obama. This is such an entirely different feeling and vibration that I have when I enter the room and sit down either on the couch or in front of the desk. There was always that feeling of anxiety with Trump where I was anticipating that he would say or do something outlandish. PRESS: Big announcement from CDC about masking for vaccinated people indoors attracting much media - Print interviews with NY Times and Washington Post. The Intercept: Rand Paul's Attack on Anthony Fauci Chills Scientific Debate Over Gainof-Function Research https://bit.ly/3iR7zHP 'ws Reporter The Black News Channel "The World Tonight"; NBC "Nightly News" with Lester Holt; NPR "All Things Considered" with Ari Shapiro; PBS "NewsHour" with Judy Woodruff; Univision National TV; Telemundo TV; CNN with Chris Cuomo; MSNBC with Chris Hayes; A Man Was Arrested For Allegedly Threatening To Kill Anthony Fauci And His Family The 56-year-old sent emails with a long list of threats, including to beat Fauci and his family to death, prosecutors said. Nicole FallertBuzzFeed News Reporter Posted on July 27, 2021, at 6:35 p.m. ET J. Scott Applewhite / AP Anthony Fauci addresses Sen. Rand Paul on July 20. A 56-year-old man was arrested for allegedly sending messages threatening Anthony Fauci, the nation's top infectious disease scientist, and his family, saying they would be "dragged into the street, beaten to death, and set on fire." Thomas Patrick Connally Jr. of Greenbelt, Maryland, was charged with threats against a federal official and interstate communication containing a threat to harm, according to a federal criminal complaint filed Monday. ADVERTISEMENT "We will never tolerate violent threats against public officials," acting US Attorney Jonathan Lenzner said in the complaint. "Our public health officials deserve our thanks and appreciation for their tireless work, and we will not hesitate to bring charges against those individuals who seek to use fear to silence these public servants." Connally allegedly sent threatening emails from December 2020 to July 2021 telling Fauci to "blow your own fucking brains out" and referred to the doctor as a "liar" and a "fraud." The threats to Fauci and his family were sent from an email account via a provider of encrypted services based in Switzerland, according to investigators. "Hope you get a bullet in your compromised satanic elf skull today," the subject line of two emails Fauci received in December 2020 states. On April 24 alone, he received seven emails from the encrypted email account, according to the affidavit filed in support of the criminal complaint. The emails also encourage Fauci to kill himself and contain death threats against him and his family. If convicted, Connally faces up to 10 years in federal prison for threats against a federal official and a maximum of five years in federal prison for interstate communication containing a threat to harm. ADVERTISEMENT Twitter: @MacFarlaneNews This isn't the first time Fauci and his family received death threats amid the coronavirus pandemic, and it's only gotten worse as conservatives manifest their frustration over COVID-19 restrictions into more vitriol. Just last week, Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida announced drink koozies and Tshirts reading "Don't Fauci My Florida" as part of a campaign, the Washington Post reported. Fox News host Tucker Carlson has called Fauci -- now a White House medical adviser -- a "fraud" and has pushed for an investigation of the doctor's role concerning the origins of COVID-19. Republican members of the House filed a "Fire Fauci Act" in April. Fauci's strained relationship with former president Donald Trump has also made him a target for conservatives. The doctor told the New York Times earlier this year of his difficulty to get Trump to listen to his scientific recommendations. "I would try to express the gravity of the situation, and the response of the president was always leaning toward, 'Well, it's not that bad, right?' And I would say, 'Yes, it is that bad,'" Fauci told the Times. ADVERTISEMENT Fauci has been vocal about the death threats directed at him and his family, which he told the Times started as early as March 2020. In one instance, he received a letter containing powder that exploded all over his face and chest. Confirmed Cases (Thousands) xios, Forbes, Newsweek, CNN, The Global USA New Daily Confirmed COVID-19 Cases in the U.S. 80,7 oO " #8 8@ 3S & & &@ ® A =" & S&S B&B 3S Bs fF & a = BR = B Rh © £ Ss eo of fom aw " & = £ = & & os f @ & S Ww ow # F &¢ F fF G * 2020/2021 "Getting death threats for me and my family and harassing my daughters to the point where I have to get security is just, I mean, it's amazing," Fauci said during an online forum last year. At that time, he called the threats "unseemly things that crises bring out in people." Fauci told CNN this week that the US is "going in the wrong direction" in terms of COVID-19 cases. He blamed unvaccinated Americans for the surge in infections, particularly with the more contagious Delta variant. Connally is due to appear in a federal court on Wednesday. Story also covered in other media - New York Post, Axios, Forbes, Newsweek, CNN, The Hill
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July 28, 2021 - Global USA Cases continue to surge: PRESS: MSNBC - "Morning Joe" with Joe Scarborough; Joe Madison Radio Show; Morning Hustle Radio Show;
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July 29, 2021 ff There are a lot of important things going on that I do not have a chance to comment on in my daily diary. Some of these are the continual conversations that I have been having with Jeff about who should be the FDA Commissioner. Jeff and Ron Klain continue to run by me names of potential candidates. Today for example, David Kessler came to me with a surprising request that I float his name to Ron as a possible candidate. David is currently the head of the countermeasure acceleration group (CAG) of HHS. He is a former FDA commissioner and would likely do a very good job. I will float his name and see what happens. In another vein, I continue to get harassed by letters from far-right congressmen and senators who are cherry picking my FOIA'd emails and trying to establish that I have lied under oath when I said that the NIH has never done gain of function research at the Wuhan institute of virology. In addition, Tucker Carlson and others at Fox News continue to attack me virtually every night. Carlson saying multiple times that I created the virus. This is an extremely stressful situation but I will have to push on with the job that I have as director of NIAID and as chief medical advisor to President Biden. Another issue that is percolating it's a growing discontent with the CDC and with Rochelle's difficulty in clearly articulating their somewhat shifting positions such as that of masking indoors. I do not believe that it is Rochelle's fault but it is a fundamental lesion in the CDC. One of the problems is the typical CDC mentality that antedated Rochelle. Rochelle and the CDC are hesitant to show anyone data that backs up their policy because it is supposedly "embargoed. The problem is that the embargo relates to the MMWR, which is the CDC's own publication. Therefore it seems that if they wanted to break the embargo they could easily do it. Again, this is a recurrent problem with the CDC keeping data close to their vest and making policy without allowing outside experts to weigh in. It was an evolving situation here. Got a call from Jeff just now reading a sentence from the President's speech that he will give today in which he said that children do get infected, but a serious outcome is "extremely, extremely rare". In my meeting with my office team this morning someone pointed out that in Arkansas on Wednesday there were 24 infections in children; seven of them wound up in the ICU and two of them are on respirators. I had originally told Jeff to get rid of one of the "extremelies" and just say "extremely rare". After hearing about the infections in Arkansas I called back Jeff and told him to get rid of both "extremelies" and just say "rare ". We actually do not know the full impact of this virus on children at this point and so we really need to be careful about what we say and what we allow the POTUS to say. We are on a similar track as UK but a few weeks behind (as is usually the case): ar: tH 1s Days Very important essay by Peter Hotez: PLoS Biol/Hotez: Mounting antiscience aggression in the United States https://bit.ly/3lbsKXF We had a briefing today from the house Select Committee on COVID-19 chared by representative Clyburn. It was supposed to be limited to a discussion on the delta variant. However, it was clear that when the Republicans were allowed to ask questions they went off the subject and started to ask questions about infections coming over the border from Mexico. In typical fashion Jim Jordan asked me if I was a member of the P3CO oversight committee when in fact there is no such a thing as a P3 CO oversight committee. We have an executive committee of which I am not a member. Fortunately, even though I did not know what he was talking about, I said that I was not a member. He then asked for a list of the members. Since I really didn't know what he was talking about I said that I would get him that list. As it turns out, this is a list that HHS does not want to make public. HHS will get back to him and explain that to him. Obviously, he will make a big deal about this publicly. The Republicans in the Congress as well as Fox News continue to attack me viciously. I was particularly disappointed today to read Newt Gingrich whom I have always liked and respected came out and said that it was time for me to retire. He said that although I have had an illustrious career, I am trying to defend the indefensible. I am really not sure what he meant by that. Did he mean that I was defending gain of function research or did he mean that I was defending the CDC's masking guideline? As Peter Hotez said in the article above, no one is stepping up in the scientific community to defend me since they are afraid of being threatened by this extreme group that seems to be very well organized. Went to a book signing party add the home of Adrienne Arsh. The book is "I alone can fix it " bye Phil Rucker and Carol Leonnig. The Super a list from Washington DC was there. It was a little bit uncomfortable since I was wearing a mask with the new guidance from the CDC and almost everyone else was without a mask. When they saw me with a mask , several of them put a mask on. fidence Global USA One of the things for discussion in the book for this time frame is the extraordinary confidence that the president, Ron Klain, and especially Jeff is placing in me. When I briefed the president before his speech a couple of days ago , Jeff did not want Rochelle to brief the president even though the discussion was strictly about CDC guidelines. PRESS: South African TV - Bhekisisa Center for Health Journalism with Mia Malan; Ken Jeong Instagram; WTOP Radio; NBC LX TV;
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July 30, 2021 - Global USA There is growing frustration fall apart of Jeff with the CDC and particularly with Rochelle. I love her but she does not seem to have control over organization. We were being briefed the other night about what we were going to be saying about boosters and about the effect of the delta variant. In the middle of the conversation we found out that an MMWR was already written that could possibly be in conflict with what we were discussing. (see above). Now we have a situation where a slide set that was for internal discussion within the CDC was leaked by the CDC to the Washington Post including a discussion of things that we had not vetted out with the Medical Group. Jeff was extremely concerned that we are now on the defense trying to explain or defend things in an internal document that is now public. He called a special zoom meeting with himself , me , and Rochelle to try and sort this out. It became clear during the discussion that Rochelle herself was somewhat unaware of what her own CDC people were doing. I felt very bad for her because she is clearly very competent. we will have another zoom meeting later today since Jeff tasked me to review the papers upon which the CDC conclusion that the delta variant causes more severe disease was based. I will have myself, Andrea Lerner, Cliff lane, and Dean Follmann review the papers. After review by my "team" we found that the Singapore data was very weak but that the Scotland and Canada data suggest that there is an increase in severity with the delta variant. I communicated this both to Jeff and to Rochelle. I had a very interesting conversation with the Prime Minister of Israel, Naftali Bennett, who requested a zoom call with me. Based on the diminishing efficacy of the Pfizer vaccine in Israel, the Prime Minister together with his health ministers have decided that they will give a third booster shot to individuals older than 60 years old. They are already giving a booster to people who are immunosuppressed. the Prime Minister wanted to get my opinion and ultimate support of what he is doing. with my permission he taped our discussion so that he could put it on his Instagram to show to the people of Israel. I pointed out to him that there will be some concern that he is boosting people in his own population while much of the world has not yet received their first dose. He understands that but pointed out to me that is real is a country of almost 9 million people and they have just enough doses to take care of their own people , and unlike the United states, they do not have the resources to supply the rest of the world. He asked for my cell phone number so that he might intermittently call me for advice. With the approval of the State Department I gave it to him. It seems that we have developed a very good rapport on the basis of this first meeting. It turns out that the Prime Minister is an extremely interesting man who was a combat commander (Major) in the Israeli Defense Forces in a Special Forces 300,000/610,000 Naftali Bennett 012 © @naftalibennett Had great discussion with Dr fauci about dealing with the Delta pandemic. We'll be sharing data and methods on booster shot and course of action. The only way to face COVID is by working together! = 12:18 PM - Jul 30, 2021 from Israel - Twitter for iPhone 132 Retweets 39 Quote Tweets 1,147 Likes 100,000/611,000 unit. He led many Special Forces operations. In addition, he has spent many years in the United States and has made millions of dollars as a software entrepreneur. PRESS: Global National TV - Canada; Spectrum News TV - California; NPR - "All Things Considered" with Ailsa Chang