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June 1, 2022 Global 527,603,107/6,290,452; USA - 83,949,036/1.002.067 It is becoming very clear that there is a different dynamic now that Ashish Jha has taken over from Jeff as the COVID coordinator. He clearly likes very much and wants to be the primary person dealing with the press. And for the first time we're seeing him wanting to do the White House press briefing alone without anyone else when it was always with Rochelle and I and sometimes Vivek. Also, it is clear that when calls are coming in for Sunday shows that the White House is putting him on instead. Since he is the boss of the coms people related to COVID, it is clear that he is telling them to do that. I do not begrudge him that because I know that he does want to be on TV a lot (and he is good at it) as he was before he took the job. But this is certainly a change in the dynamics. I'm still doing a lot of TV during the week but when it comes to things like the White House press conference and Sunday shows it is very clear that he is promoting himself above me and the rest of the team. Emily Bass wrote a terrific "Guest Essay" in the NY Times today both praising and criticizing the Biden administration or not taking a strategic approach globally towards COVID the way George W. Bush and I took towards aids with PEPFAR. It is a really good article to read for historic purposes: Guest Essay America Led on Global Health Before. It Must Do So for Covid.
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June 1, 2022, 5:00 a.m. ET es, nations, Total Most recent 7-day daily Week-on-week il to date day* average change Cases 84,176,694 183,383 103,687 admits 4,742,127 3,429 3,833 Deaths 1,002,422 ted** 890,273,018 anutied dua fo 793,290** -8.0%** 'ivity** 9.1% reporting lag 12.5% +1.4 pct. pts. A day or two ago Ashish, David Kessler, Rochelle, Vivek and I had an important meeting with Andrea Palm and Dawn O'Connell regarding the fact that we are running out of money and have no money left to purchase anymore monoclonal antibodies. If we do not purchase any the company will stop making it and an important tool in our toolkit will now be missing this could be disastrous for people who are immunocompromised and who do not have the capability of making anybody in response to vaccines. We pushed really hard but Andrea and Dawn had no solution for us since the Congress is still not granting us the supplement that we've been asking for for some time. We pushed hard and there was a bit of tension in the room, but we found out today have we made an impression on them since they have found some extra money to keep the antibody production going for at least a few weeks. The company, Lilly, does not want to commercialize the antibody (Bebtolivumab) and will only make it if the government pays for it. It looks like we had an impact on them when we stood together and insisted that we needed the money. Today, we had another important conversation among the team.I have been pushing and I was very explicit about it that we should make vaccine available to anyone younger than 50 years old who wants it. The emergency use authorization does not allow this right now but we are trying to find a way around this by setting up a meeting with Rob Califf to see if there is any mechanism that would allow us to make vaccine available. The reason we want to do that is that we have plenty of vaccine that we're not using and even though a fourth dose does not substantially increase the protection against severe disease (it does it a little bit), it could prevent symptomatic infection which could in the long run diminish the amount of long COVID that we experience. I came on very strong with my opinion that we should make vaccine available to anyone who wants a fourth dose at any age. Rachel was uncomfortable with this because she did not think we could get it through the FDA or the ACIP. I still insisted that we should go ahead and try. Had a very important meeting on Monkeypox today organized By Raj Panjabi (NSC pandemic preparedness leader). The meeting was attended by Rochelle Walensky, Harold Phillips of the White House AIDS office and a whole bunch of activists including Peter Staley, David Barr, and a wide range of others. Emily from my group was present as was several CDC folks. We all agreed that we need to put all our resources together and engage the LGBTQ community in our planning about testing, treating and vaccinating people with monkeypox. It was a wonderful meeting because it showed right from the beginning of what could be an important outbreak that the White House was working with the health authorities like myself and are Rochelle as well as with the activist community. We vowed to continue to work together to try and make sure that this disease gets properly addressed and we do not underplay it or overplay it. There obviously is a danger of stigma generating from this disease because of its propensity to be infecting gay men. More to come on this new partnership. The New York Post is truly fabricating This has to do with the proposed "Pandemic treaty": Beware Fauci's scheme to empower the World Health Organization By Betsy McCaughey May 31, 202 PRESS: FOX with Neil Cavuto; "Life Itself" with Sanjay Gupta and interviewed by Seth MacFarlane (Virtually - I received a standing ovation from the audience at the Coronado Hotel in San Diego).
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June 2, 2022 Global USA Monkeypox continues to spread now involving over 23 countries with 800 cases. There are 19 documented cases in the USA but this is likely a very significant undercount at this point. PRESS: South Florida PBS interview for Town Hall with Michael Zinner; USA Today interview on HEROS study (food allergy and COVID)
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June 3-6, 2022 -Global - 528,816,317/6,294,949; USA - 84,424,159//1,003,308 I had an idyllic weekend at Jeff Zients's palatial estate in Annapolis. Chris and I (together with Brett and Tony....) had a spectacular weekend. The weather was absolutely perfect at 85 degrees with a cool breeze and not a single cloud in the sky for the entire 2 1/2 days that we were there. We did everything: swim, boat, fish, basketball, tennis and most importantly - birdwatching. There were osprey all over the place with a nest in a tree in his back yard. There were 390lafa copious varieties of birds that we saw and heard. Gave me the opportunity to return, however briefly, to some form of "normality". it was entirely refreshing. I received an important call during my stay in Annapolis. Secretary Becerra wanted to speak to me to get my advice about whether we were doing all we can as a department to address the emerging monkeypox challenge. He was calling upon my experience in previous outbreaks to make sure that HHS (particularly CDC) was doing everything that they could. This was triggered by the fact that Ron Klain is very concerned about whether the CDC is up to the job and would not drop the ball again with regard to things like making a number of tests available. The secretary asked me what I thought the potential vulnerabilities were and I emphasized the fact that we cannot accept the CDC saying that they are the only ones that can do a test for monkeypox. We've got to convert this to a commercialization as quickly as we possibly can so that we don't have the same problem with not enough tests to understand whether or not we are dealing only with the tip of an iceberg. I offered up the cohorts of stored server that we (NIAID) have from the days of HIV/AIDS to see if there was smoldering below the radar screen infection with monkey pox among the gay population for some time before we even recognized it. Right now, as the results are coming in, it is clear that overwhelmingly the cases in the non-endemic areas of the United States, Europe, and other continents are predominantly among gay men. It is striking that the secretary "hinted" that Ron Klain is on the verge doing something dramatic with the CDC, such as removing Rochelle, which I believe would be a mistake since it is not her fault; it is the institutional rigidity of the CDC that has been the problem for decades. I explained this to the secretary and told him that it was not Rochelle that was the issue it was the structure beneath it. I got the impression that he completely understood this and was asking for my help and making sure things get done correctly.
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June 6, 2022 - Angela Rasmussen did an excellent job of blasting Jeffrey Sachs (and also co-author Richard Ebright) for their article claiming that COVID was due to a lab leak. See link and some selected excerpts from Angie's tweets: Link - https://bit.ly/390lafa Not overlooked, but ignored because I don't wish to further amplify it. But here's a quick summary: Like many of his fellow economists with Ivy League credentials but no specific expertise in biology, he suffers from the delusion that he knows what the fuck he's talking about. Jeff Sachs is the chair of @TheLancet COVID-19 Commission. This isn't an official government board with any real mandate. It's just a prestigious medical journal deciding to make up a task force of prestigious people to write more prestigious content for said prestigious journal. The Lancet COVID-19 Commission will issue a bunch of reports that are glorified opinion pieces stating the obvious: we weren't prepared for the pandemic, there are massive inequities, it had huge global impact, need more vaccines/infrastructure, etc. This includes Richard Ebright, the human manifestation of Pepe the Frog, who spends his days squatting on his Twitter lily pad croaking at everyone who disagrees w/ his uninformed views on biosafety, virology, & evolution that they are shills, stooges, & thralls of the CCP. Feel free to lecture me about professionalism here & get blocked w/ a quickness. I gave a talk on Twitter disinfo & had an entire slide cataloguing every time he called someone (inc me) a stooge in the prior 2 weeks. He's an abusive bigot & I don't owe him professional courtesy. Cases starting to come down in Northeast, but still cases going up in undervaccimated areas, mostly in the South Monkeypox problem growing: Global.health tracker -- 921 confirmed MPX cases, 70 suspected (non endemic countries) https://bit.ly/392v2F1
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June 7, 2022 Global - 5630,266,292/6,299,364; USA - 84,762,952/1,004,260 Note for the memoir regarding my PTSD around memories of my HIV/AIDS experience: I did an interview today (see below) with The Independent", a UK News outlet on the issue of what I described in the NAT GEO book "Expect the Unexpected" talking about my PTSD around HIV/AIDS. The reporter asked me to describe how the PTSD expressed itself in me and what triggered it. In my description of it to the reporter, it became clear to me that it is something that I should include and expand a bit in my memoir. Last night, Stephen Hoge of Moderna explained their booster data using hybrid boosts to a group of us from HHS. The bottom line is that boosting with an omicron together with wildtype bivalent, The response protected against omicron - B.1, but not against BA.4 and BA.5. This has important implications in what decision the FDA and CDC make about what the 4th dose boost should consist of. Should it be an omicron boost or should we steer it towards BA4 and BA5 which does not seem to be protected against by maybe one boost. Met withVidar Helgesen CEO of the Nobel Foundation; Anna Sjostrom Douagi of the Foundation and Dr. Franklin Carrero-Martinez of NAS. They want me to be a lead speaker at the Nobel/NAS Symposium in May, 2023 on "trust and information", a theme right in tune with my commencement addresses on "the normalization of untruths" Interview with Theodora \UCI ee F PrriNeki iIww Total Most recent 7-day daily Week-on-week to date day* average change Cases 84,913,618 149,185 104,512 +0.7% osp. admits 4,770,374 3,638 4,057 +6.3% Deaths 1,004,732 +5.8% reported** 893,514,453 omitted due to 484,117** -33.4%** +0.8 pct. pts. PRESS: Interview with "The Independent" (UK) by Io Dodds; Interview with Theodora Tsoli for "The Bima" - Greek Newspaper;
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June 8, 2022 Global USA Io Dodds piece came out. Excellent historical piece: Exclusive: Anthony Fauci on the AIDS crisis, monkeypox, trans rights and his retirement In an exclusive interview with Io Dodds, Dr Anthony Fauci looks back on his decades-long career in public health Met with a delegation from the UAE on the 6th Floor of Building 31. Leading the delegation was Sheikh Abdulla Al Hamed, Chairman of the Abu Dhabi Department of Health. They are here to try and generate collaborative efforts between their group and our VRC and other elements of our program, particularly Danny Douek and Adrian McDermott In the context of the PREMISE program that was started at the VRC. This would be the first time that we are having any substantial interaction with the UAE. Cases not going down very much over past week although certain regions are plateauing: PRESS: Bloomberg TV Quick Take - "Emma Barnett Meets"; Interview with Robert Gaynes for his book second edition of "Germ Theory" New confirmed cases of Covid-19 in US Seven-day rolling average of mew cases: Omicron BA.1 700,000 400,000 200,000 400.000 300,000 Omicron Ancestral > D614G Subvariants BA.2; BAZ.12.1; BA4, BAS 200,000 100,000 US o Mar 1 May Jul Sep Now hari Mar May Jul Sep Mow Jan Mar May Source: Financial Times analps of data from Johns Hopkins CSSE, World Health Organization, UE Government comonaveus dashboard, Government of Peru, Public Health FINAN LDLAL PLA France, lag Health Manian, Slownian Mieeviry of Health, Feith inatieure for Health ond Wellarg and th Swede Public Heath Agency ote opedated duce 8 2022 3.199m BST, imeractive verice: ficomcovid1 >
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June 9, 2022 Global USA The big discussion items over the past 24 hours have been the growing number of cases of monkeypox which at last count is over 1400 globally and over 70 in the United States. In addition, there was concern about what kind of decision will be made regarding the 4th shot boost with the mRNA vaccines. Although the Moderna data indicate that the bivalent vaccine of wildtype plus omicron gives quite good response to omicron, their data show only a modest protective effect with a three to fourfold decrease in efficacy against BA4 and BA.5. The data from Pfizer are even more dramatic in showing the lack of a good response against BA4 and BA5 when you vaccinate with a bivalent consisting of wildtype and omicron. The real issue is going to be that by the time the Fall comes it is very likely that neither omicron (BA.1) nor BA.4/BA.5 will be dominant since even though BA4 and BA5 are starting to take over dominance, they will likely peak and come down by the time the Fall comes and so we will be making a booster for a virus that very likely does not exist in society at the time that you are using the vaccine. Clearly, this is a major dilemma that we are all facing with the virus that moves so quickly. Good history of the evolving of variants: PRESS: NBC Medical Unit Interview with Akshay Syal;
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