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October 3, 2021 - Got a really nice note (see below) yesterday from Barney Graham thanking him for my support of him over the 21 years that he has been at the NIAID vaccine Research Center. of note he has won a number of prizes already for his work on developing the optimum immunogen for the COVID-19 vaccine . He has one the Albany prize as well as a number of other prizes. In addition , drew Weissman , my former fellow, has already won a number of prizes including the Lasker award. It will be interesting to see who wins the Nobel Prize this coming Monday. Thank you note_Fauci .pdf d0ut > -Fenson@dhsc.gov.uk While all of this is happening , I must comment that the country is headed to or might already be in a constitutional crisis with the far right clearly indicating that they're going to try and disrupt elections and essentially destroy the democracy. The attacks on me I believe are all a tangential part of that process . I speak of the big lie of which I unfortunately have been drawn into being a target of the far right because I represent something that is antithetical to them , namely, the truth. It is stunning how much time is consumed on warding off the egregious lies about the NIID grant that funded hey small project in the Wuhan institute of virology. They claim that we created the COVID virus. Among the scientist who fall into this trap are the usual suspects of Richard Ebright and David Relmann . However , Jesse bloom has really surprised me claiming that a lab leak is highly probable when there is absolutely no evidence whatsoever that a lab leak has occurred the only issue is that it occurred in a city that happened to have a laboratory that studies bats. Amazing that he has come to this conclusion. PRESS: ABC "This Week" with Jonathan Karl; CNN "State of the Union" with Dana Bash; CBS "Face the Nation" with Margaret Brennan
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Oct. 4, 2021 Very interesting link showing the evolution of cases throughout the United states from the very first months of the pandemic using a heat map approach: https://bit.ly/3uE40dF I participated in a zoom Q&A regarding the Columbus Citizens Foundation scholarship that is given to an Italian-American medical student and that was given in my name as the Fauci scholarship. The recipient was Danielle Rinaldi who graduated from Boston College and who just entered the University of Virginia medical school. We had an interview with Danielle and I wished her luck in her career E-mail from Chris Whitty (UK) together with attachment bringing up important point about people in vaccine clinical trials counting as "vaccinated" for "vaccine passport" purposes.
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Oct. 5, 2021 - Case and hospitalization continue to come down; however less sharply down than other surges Hospitalizations and cases continue to come down. Deaths still up somewhat as a lagging indicator. The big question that is being debated by everyone as we go into the fall is whether or not we're going to have another surge as we get into the winter . I keep saying that that will depend on whether or not we get vaccinated a large proportion of the 70 million people who are unvaccinated who are eligible to be vaccinated. Francis Collins retirement. Francis and I tried to keep the announcement confidential until the time when he wanted to announce it which was yesterday . However, as expected in Washington DC it leaked and all the press were bombarding me and others about comments. Justifiably and appropriately I gave glowing comments to the press. The leak was probably through congressional staff after Francis notified the chairs and minority of the various committees. although I will miss Frances greatly , it is good that he is leaving now while the Senate is under democratic control and we have a democratic president . Otherwise it could be a disaster is the Republicans take over the Senate whereby they would unlikely approve a good candidate. In addition it would really be a disaster if he stepped down on the Republican president particularly Donald Trump. I recalled in all of the interviews about his retirement that I had pleaded with him when he was trying to step down during the trump administration. I knew that if he did that trump would hire an unacceptable person. Francis listened to me and waited until Biden became President and we had a Democratic Congress. PRESS: ABC "The Breakdown" ONLINE with Terry Moran and Kyra Phillips; MSNBC Peacock with Zelinda Maxwell;
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Oct. 6, 2021 lugh Hewitt '36,000,000/4,800,000; USA -- 43,900,000/707, 's serving 37% of students Hugh Hewitt (see below with PRESS) - As a follow up of the interview with me in which Hugh Hewitt suggested that I stepped down, he has written an op Ed in the Washington Post saying the same thing. It is extraordinary how he can blame me for everything that has gone wrong with the CDC the FDA and HHS. It is becoming very clear that this is part of a truly concerted effort to discredit me. Call from Barbra Streisand. Barbra Called me on my cell phone today and they asked me questions about her booster shot she and her husband James Brolin are going on a trip and they both had two shots of Pfizer and was asking about whether she should get a boost. apparently their antibody levels are not particularly high and she was concerned about boosting since she was a little bit confused about it. Since she and James are both older than 65 years old , I recommended that they both get boosted. We had some fun on the phone joking about our mutual Brooklyn accents. It is always good to hear from her. PRESS:Bloomberg TV with David Westin; Opinion: Is it time for Anthony Fauci to step aside? Opinion by Hugh Hewitt Contributing columnist Today at 8:00 a.m. EDT
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Oct. 7, 2021 - Global - 236,000,000/4,800,000; USA - 43,900,000/707,100 102,000 case today. All parameters continue to come down slowly Mandates are working - 25% businesses, 40% hospitals and colleges serving 37% of students are using mandates The nonsense still goes on regarding EcoHealth Alliance and the Congress probing as to the gain of function issue. We now find out that Eco Health was late in the submission of a progress report which showed some increased pathogenicity in a mouse model. There will 30,000/708,800 certainly be a conflation of their administrative failings with the proposal that many of the far right are pushing that the grant created the virus which as we've said multiple times is molecularly impossible. However, anything that is even a minor infraction of that grant will be conflated with the issue of the origin of the virus. In fact, Eco Health should have let the NIH know that in some of the mouse experiments there was an increase in pathogenicity associated with the chimeric virus. However what people will not appreciate is that even with that increase in pathogenicity, the experiment and the result still does not fall under the category that would trigger P3CO. In other words, According to the operable definition of gain of function of concern at the time, this was not gained a function of concern. Namely, it was not an experiment that would increase the transmissibility and pathogenicity a virus that would likely cause widespread transmission and morbidity/mortality IN HUMANS. Some people may not like that definition under which we were operating, but that is the definition that was established by outside groups after a 3 year deliberative process. As I have said in the past if they don't like the definition then they should change the definition. However, what was done was done according to the existing definition at the time. PRESS: Gray Media TV "Full Court Press" with Greta van Sustern;
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Oct. 8, 2021 - Global - 236,600,000/4,800,000; USA - 44,100,000/708,800 Hatred on twitter!! I have not been commenting on this in my daily notes . However, the vitriol and outright hatred towards me by the far right on Twitter is accelerating and is really extraordinary. Greg Folkers describes it as a cesspool of hate against me. This is amplified by the Fox News network who uses every opportunity particularly with Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity, and Laura Ingraham who almost every night say something about me that is a total lie and would under other circumstances be extremely libelous. This is part of the total movement of the "big lie". CNN with Don Lemon last night showed clips of former Vice President Pence, Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, and Lindsey Graham condemning former president trump for being the instigating force behind the January 6th insurrection and insisting that he be held responsible for this. Then Don Lemon fast-forwarded to their statements recently in which they acted like January 6th never occurred. For example, former vice president Pence said that January 6th was a creation and fabrication of the media . This is astounding that these lies can be said without blinking an eye. I am concerned in some respects about myself and my safety even though I have security. However, I am even more concerned about whether our democracy will survive. There had been some talk that countries such as the UK, EU, and Israel we're allowing people who have recovered from COVID infection to be considered as equivalent to being vaccinated and hence would be allowed to have a "green pass ". As it turns out that certainly is not the case for the UK (see above - Chris Whitty) and recently Israel has also denied that that is the case for them. However, post-infection people will need 1 dose of vaccine for a green pass. The new measure will be introduced on the same date that anyone who has not received a booster shot six months after getting a second vaccine dose will have their Green Pass revoked. There has been considerable disagreement and discussion about whether the delta variant is more severe in children compared to other variants. Certain studies showed that delta variant appears to be more serious in adults compared to other variants; however, there is disagreement about children. A recent study came out from the UK showing that severity of illness was similar in children who were infected with the alpha variant compared to the delta variant . See link below: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.10.06.21264467v1.full.pdf As booster discussions and disagreements continue, the Israeli data more and moire show that my stance on boosters is correct. For example, it is becoming clear that boosters protect against the waning immunity for infection and severe disease for individuals as young as 40 years old and not just for individuals who are 65 years of age and older . See recent paper in preprint server: Protection Across Age Groups of BNT162b2 Vaccine Booster against Covid-19 Yinon M. Bar-On*, M.Sc., Yair Goldberg*, Ph.D., Micha Mandel, Ph.D., Omri Bodenheimer, M.Sc., Laurence Freedman, Ph.D., Sharon Alroy-Preis, M.D., Nachman Ash, M.D., Amit Huppert*, Ph.D. and Ron Milo*, Ph.D. *Contributed equally Had very successful leadership forum today. Somewhat sentimental since it is Francis Collins's last leadership forum
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Oct. 10, 2021 - Global USA Had a rather slow relaxed day (Columbus Day holiday). Also Chris went to New Orleans to help Megan and Melissa move into their new home. I spend time reading in depth certain articles including the frightening article in the New York Times by Robert Kagan on the danger to our democracy. In addition I read a bunch of scientific stuff that felt good since I usually AM 1/2 an inch deep and five miles wide. I'm trying to put out of my mind the continual attacks by the far right dark web, Fox News, and the lying senators and congressmen who keep harping on the gain of function nonsense. I'm trying hard to not let it distract me, but it clearly is an organized assault on me PRESS: CNN "State of the Union" with Dana Bash
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Oct. 11, 2021 Over the past few months and more intensively over the past several weeks there has been considerable discussion between Peter Staley, James Krellenstein, and David Barr and Jeff [E] .zients@who.eop.gov 1 of Poor Zients, David Kessler and me concerning the activists' desire to get the federal government to pre-emptively increase the capacity of companies, particularly moderna, to make more vaccines for low and lower middle income countries. the activists want us to invoke the defense production act (DPA) to force moderna to allow Lonza to increase their capacity for vaccine production for LMICS. below is just one of a series of emails reflecting the frustration on the part of Peter and colleagues with our inability to do that right now . What they do not completely understand is the complexity of the issues involved , although their ultimate goal as is mine is laudatory namely equity for vaccines for the rest of the world . See below emails :
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Oct. 12, 2021 - Global - 237,400,000/4,800,000; USA - 44,400,000/714,000 Senator Rand Paul continues his assault on me. His latest rant is that I owe and apology to the 100 million people in this country who he believes had been infected. He claims that I am in favor of mandating that they get vaccinated even though they are now protected and so given the fact that recent data indicate that there is reasonably good protection following infection, now all these people deserve an apology. I never said that they are not protected. I only said that they can be more protected if they get vaccinated. Another example of his gross distortion of the truth. Had a Nice fireside chat but the Council on Government Relations talking about COVID-19 in general. The people with whom I spoke were David Norton and Wendy Streitz PRESS: WJLA Locel TV "Corona Special" with Lindsey Mastis;