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Nov. 17, 2021 - Global -253,640,693/5,104,899; USA - 47,244,379/762,994 I went to a book party last night for Jonathan Karl's new book about Trump. It took place at the Cafe Milano. The place was incredibly crowded and I was almost forced to take my mask off for 2/3 of the time I was there since they were serving drinks and people were talking and taking selfies. I was totally swamped all night by people wanting to say hello, shake my hands, and take pictures with me. I could not get away from it . Although some people may think that this is great to have people treat you like Elvis Presley , but it was really very unnerving. Jon was very gracious to me being very excited about my meeting his family . We took hundreds of pictures with each member of his family, as well as one big family photo. It turns out that his father-in-law grew up in Bensonhurst and knew about my father's pharmacy on 13th Ave. The book party event was punctuated by doctor Bill Hughes whom I know for years and who is married to Ann Compton getting a vaso-vagal attack and I tended to him at the bar. We called an ambulance, but Ann took him home after we documented that he was stable. When I went home that night I was nervous all night looking at the ceiling concerned about having gotten infected in that very crowded restaurant despite the fact that vaccination proof was required to get in. I'm well aware that many people who are vaccinated are still getting infected and that worried me a lot. I'm supposed to go to an even bigger black tie affair at the home of the French ambassador tomorrow. I think I am going to cancel out since I don't want to go through the nerve-wracking experience that I did last night worrying about having gotten infected. Of note, there are more than one congressional bills that have been proposed with my name on it . One is the "Fires Fauci Act" which was written by Marjorie Taylor Greene. Another bill floating in the Senate (proposed by Senator Joni Ernst) is forbidding gain of function research and that bill is called the "Fauci Act" PRESS: NBC Now TV with Hallie Jackson; Did an interview with Margaret Brennan today to be shown two weeks from now on Face the Nation. Curiously she spent most of the time asking me to justify the many "mistakes "that have been made by the CDC during this outbreak both during the trump administration and the Biden administration. I was we did not know that masks trying to defend the CDC to the best of my ability, but this was not easy since in many respects she was right. I try to steer the conversation so with discussion of what I am responsible for namely the development of vaccines and therapeutics. She responded by saying I am "America's doctor "and so I should have to answer these things . She was not being mean since Margaret is tough but she's a very fair and good person.
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Nov. 18, 2021 Global USA Call from Jeff Zients today with a message from Ron Klain - It is noteworthy that in prior demonstrations it was always a concern when you give a message about a public health issue that the administration is always afraid get the public to concern we're not concerned enough to be incompatible with the message that they're trying to get. This was brought to the far extreme trump administration in fact the message was completely garbled and riddled with allies from the president , which I had to rectify. However, I was a bit surprised when I got a phone call from Jeff saying that Ron thought I was doing a terrific job with the messaging but he was a little concerned that I might be saying that we might have a tough time this winter pressing message. However I was being perfectly truthful since in fact we are seeing the beginning of a surge and when you look at what I said I was actually quite certain spectrum said that we can do something about preventing surge and you just pull up to us if we want to blunt but could be an inevitable surge of people continue to not getting vaccinate just the thought that there is some contact commonality among all the ministrations but messages even the terrific ones like we're dealing with now. Phone call with Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS) - Roger wanted information regarding global COVID since he is going to a conference in Halifax about global response to COVID. He asked good questions and then he asked about GOF and I explained the entire situation to him. He seemed not hostile and understanding. Clearly, not all GOPs are jerks. Interesting article in Axios that goes along with my saying that we did not know that masks work until later on. This article came out today!!! - Mask-wearing reduces COVID incidence by 53%, study shows PRESS: Interview with Carl Zimmer of New York Times an the antiviral program for COVID and other viral families; NPR "Morning Edition"/All Things Considered" with ere and Noah Weiland Alison Aubrey; Russ Parr Morning Show (Radio); The Laura Coates Show (Radio); The Ryan Cameron Show (Radio Atlanta); MSNBC Peacock - Mehdi Hassan;
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Nov. 19, 2021 - Global - 255,324,963/5,127,696; USA - 47,587,441/770,461 PRESS: Fantastic article in the Washington Post online today by Yasmeen Abutaleb the bunking in an incredibly efficient manner the false claims against me by the right wing motivated White Coat Waste project regarding the Beagle experiments : https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2021/11/19/fauci-beagle-white-coat-waste/ Investigations Fauci's office flooded with attacks over beagle experiments Covid chief's phone line rings 3,600 times in 36 hours after campaign by little-known animal rights group New York Times article about my advocating boosters:
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Nov. 19, 2021, 8:31 a.m. ET WASHINGTON -- The Food and Drug Administration on Friday authorized booster shots of both the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines for everyone 18 and older, opening up eligibility to tens of millions more fully vaccinated adults. Moderna and Pfizer both announced that regulators had broadened the authorization for their booster shots. The move simplifies eligibility, fulfills a pledge by President Biden to offer the shots to every American adult and formally allows a practice already in place in at least 10 states. Fearful that waning protection . "We know what and the onset of winter will set off a wave of breakthrough infections, a growing number of governors had already offered boosters to everyone 18 and older ahead of the holidays. Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, the federal government's top infectious disease expert, has argued relentlessly over the past month for booster shots for all adults, a position shared by most of Mr. Biden's other health advisers. Dr. Fauci has said that a dip in antibody levels in fully vaccinated people was a clear sign that booster shots were needed. Public health experts who argue that healthy younger adults do not need them, he has said, are ignoring the risks of symptomatic Covid-19. "Enough is enough. Let's get moving on here," he said at an event Wednesday night. "We know what the data are." Politico "Playbook: • Mask on, mask off. That as the name of the game for ANTHONY FAUCI at JONATHAN KARL's book party Tuesday night at Café Milano. As gawkers tried to snap pictures of him indoors not wearing a mask, America's doc would put it on and take it off depending on whom he was around. SALLY QUINN -- who's known Fauci since his days as a young NIH doctor, when he inspired a love interest in one of her erotic novels -- asked him why he was at a party with a mask in hand, not on face. "I said, 'You seem pretty ambivalent about your mask' because no one else was wearing one," Quinn told Playbook. "He said, 'I just decided that if anyone came up that I didn't know, I would put my mask on.'" Quinn added that "paparazzi" were surrounding Fauci trying to get that "gotcha moment" of the Covid czar without a mask on. Guests had to show proof of vaccination to enter the party. "He was being safe," Quinn said in his defense. "He knew everyone was vaccinated. If it was someone we knew, he would trust them, and if it was somebody else, he didn't." Another guest observed Fauci's mask on/mask off dance, but said that the mask was firmly on when he came to the rescue of a guest who had collapsed. We reached out to Fauci via NIH but didn't hear back Thursday night. NY Times: Dr. Anthony Fauci has become "a very, very relentless advocate" for boosters, The Times's Sharon LaFraniere, who covers the federal government's response to the pandemic, told us. "He keeps pointing out that the data is getting stronger."
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Nov. 20, 2021 - Global - 254,847,065/5,120,712; USA - 47,471,270/768,619 On both of these TV shows we discussed the authorization of boosters for everyone over 18 years of age and the EUA for Pfizer for 5 to 11 yrs old and what we have to look forward to for the Holidays (see below). The major conversation topic over the last several days has been the recent approval (finally) by the FDA and recommendation by the CDC to give booster shots to people 18 years of age or older. However the CDC continues to abide by there ACIP recommendations which confused the issue some what by talking about different categories that 'al are still either "should" or "may" be vaccinated with the booster shot. I clarified unambiguously on TV that we should not let that confuse us and that everybody should go ahead and get a booster shot if they have had get full vaccination. I also made it very clear that although the cases very well may surge in the upcoming cold months that the people who are vaccinated and preferably boosted can enjoy a comfortable safe holiday with their family indoors without wearing masks. I was very explicit about that because every time I even hint that people need to be careful over the holidays the far right radical idiots take things out of context and have a field day. There is some buzz around regarding the Justice Department moving against not only Steve Bannon , but also Mark Meadows, and Peter Navarro. The reason for the subpoenas or that they refuse to abide by the house subpoena to appear before the committee. Peter Navarro continues to claim that I am responsible for causing the death of over 4 million people worldwide because I created COVID-19 More and more papers are appearing in the medical literature making it very clear that the outbreak was almost certainly a natural occurrence and not a lab leak. The most recent paper was one by Michael Worobey that appeared in Science 3 days ago: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abm4454 Also, commentaries by Eddie Holmes (Australia) and others are nailing down the natural origins story. Yet, the 3 stooges (Richard Ebright, David Relman, and Jesse Bloom) are still pushing the lab-leak hypothesis literally based on absolutely no solid evidence, but only conjecture
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Nov. 21, 2021 - Global USA Mike Osterholm and Eric Topol wrote an editorial in the New York Times sharply criticizing the CDC and the ACIP for not giving a clear message that everyone over 18 years old should get a boost. This is something that I have also felt strongly about in that the ACIP is being very rigid and overly careful and give a confusing message of who "should" get vaccinated versus "who" may get vaccinated. Mike called me up after that and told me that Rochelle called him and was very pissed off at him for writing the editorial; however, as much as I love her, Mike and Eric were correct. The editorial got Jeff concerned since it did point out the reality of the problem with the CDC, but it also reflects poorly on the federal government responds . Jeff was extremely pleased as was Ben Wakana about the strong response that I gave on the TV shows today ; however, Jeff wanted me to call Mike and ask him to tone down the criticism since it reflects badly on the USG response. I gave Mike a call and we discussed the situation and ne promised to make sure going forward that he separates the CDC response from the total government and Tony Fauci response. I don't know what I can do to get the CDC and particularly Rochelle to move away from that overly careful, slow, rigid approach that the CDC and the ACIP had been taking for so long; it leads to nothing but confusion. On the Sunday shows today I was very clear that we should not worry about "should" or "may" and that everybody who is 18 years of age or older whose been vaccinated absolutely should get a booster. Another example of the real problem we have with the CDC and its current mindset. I should make sure that I spend considerable time on this in the book. PRESS: CNN "State of the Union" with Dana Bash; ABC "This Week" with Martha Raddatz; Yasmeen Abutaleb and Beth Reinhard's Article in the Washington Post calling out the lies about me regarding the Beagle experiments came out in the print form today , front page Sunday. This was online a couple of days ago.
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Nov. 22, 2021 - Global USA I had another very helpful conversation with my UK counterpart Chris Whitty discussing the upcoming challenges of the winter in the UK versus the USA. They are seeing a surge of cases similar to what we're seeing and they're seeing it even among vaccinated people underscores even more strongly need to boost everybody since boosters clearly protect better just the two doses. Got a call from Kathy Hochul - Governor of New York - She was asking for some help and support in her upcoming decision of reinstituting the indoor mask mandate for the state of New York. She wants to exclude New York City from this mandate since they are doing a good job of keeping their infections down. However, since the rest of the state is surging, she wants to make sure that she doesn't let the surge get even greater. I supported her and told her that that was the right thing to do and that she should distinguish New York City from the rest of the state even though it is likely that this is going to get a lot of Flack. PRESS: NPR "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep; MSNBC "Morning Joe"; CBS Mornings with Gayle King; Print interview with Alice Park of Time Magazine; ABC Australia TV - News Breakfast;
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November 22, 2021, 20:24 GMT Based on COVID-19 data, Dr. Fauci has provided the world with sound advice on preventing the virus from spreading, identified the importance of vaccinations, and advised on executing a plan for distributing COVID-19 vaccines. NBCI, along with Conversation's Newsletter (December 2020), agrees that Dr. Fauci was well-positioned to be the face of the COVID-19 pandemic. His preparedness stems from following from his possession of the following qualities: * Intelligence - He is brilliant and knowledgeable, with a background in science and humanities. * Integrity - He has said that he has a personal responsibility to make a positive impact on society. * Empathy - He has concern for others' well-being. * Flexibility - He can redirect his work as needed. * Energy - He has several meetings throughout the day that he attends and responds to emails daily. * Trustworthiness - He is credible through his research and publication. * Connections - He has been the adviser to seven U.S. presidents where his work has been covered by science reporters since the 1980s. * Communication - He is a clear communicator and listens before speaking. * Recognizability- He has a distinct name, voice, and look. * Team Building - He shares the importance of doing things as a team and being a part of a team. PRESS: PRI Radio - "The World"; Philadelphia Radio "Reality Check" with Charles Ellison; Univision TV with Andrea Linares; "The Grio" Online TV with April Ryan; CNN "AC360" with John Berman
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Nov. 23, 2021 - Global - 256,966,237/5,151,643; USA - 47,813,785/772,180 I continue to do the Governor's calls as well as the Principal's calls once a week. I do not comment on them regularly but each time Jeff asks me and Rochelle to give an update on the epidemiology and the latest science . For example, today I briefed the governors and the principals on the science behind the necessity for an the efficacy of boosters. Dr. Markey is trying to help us get money for the development of a universal coronavirus vaccine. See his letter: (11.23.21) NIAID Update on Universa Important interview with Ari Melber on MSNBC tonight where I hit back at criticisms by the far right particularly Ticker Carlson and Peter Navarro. It is a must to listen to: https://bit.ly/32j3EPg https://www.msnbc.com/the-beat-with-ari/watch/dr-fauci-tucker-carlson-s-personal-attacksare-a-badge-of-honor-127012421649 PRESS: BBC World News TV; WBAL Baltimore Local TV; MSNBC "The Beat" with Ari Melber;