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July 10, 2022 Preprint (MedRXiV): Asymptomatic monkeypox virus infections among male sexual health clinic attendees in Belgium We need to be careful that we do not fall into the same issue that we did early on with COVID, i.e. not appreciating the importance of asymptomatic spread. Follow-up Chest CT - Unchanged!!!
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July 11, 2022 On our weekly call with the secretary, I brought up the issue that we need to be much more proactive in warning people about the spread of infection and that we have to be pushing the wearing of masks and getting people vaccinated and boosted. The secretary agreed and we're going to discuss this even more with Ashish tomorrow. ing this surge of Washington Post article describes my pushing to be more aggressive during this surge of BA.5 variant:
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2022-07-12 00:00
Anthony S. Fauci
July 12, 2022 Was called to the White House for a meeting with Ron Klain, Ashish Jha, Sec. Becerra, Richelle Walensky and Dawn O'Connell. Ron was really ****** that he is getting a lot of Flack from New York City who feels that they are not getting enough doses of monkey pox vaccine. Ron is upset with the formula of distribution among the states. He feels that doses are being sent to places with few cases and not being used and there are lines of people waiting to get vaccinated in New York City and they are making a big stink about this causing what may turn out to be a political problem for POTUS. I kept quiet through most of the discussion which was pretty tense between secretary Becarra and Ron. However, it became clear to me that the lesion was that the contractor who is shipping the doses from Denmark to the United States do not appear to realize that this is an emergency and they're talking about sending one plane per week with about 140,000 doses per plane. I brought up the point when Ron mentioned that I was being very quiet and he wanted to know my opinion. I said that it is inconceivable to me that we cannot do better than 140,000 doses shipped per week when we have about a million doses in Denmark sitting ready to be shipped. I believe that this is an example of people not pressuring to get things done during an emergency and accepting business as usual. The astounding fact is that they said that the reason they have to rely on the plane flying back from the United States to Denmark to reload with another bunch of vaccines is that they only have limited carriers to put the vials in when they are shipped on the plane. What are they talking about?? One can make carriers with 3D printers. In addition, I don't understand why they can only do 140,000 at ran , but Vhite House warns a time. After the meeting I emailed Dawn and expressed to her my astonishment that we can't do better than this. She checked and found out that all of a sudden they could now ship 400,000 doses of vaccine per plane instead of 140,000. In addition I encouraged her to work with the Department of Defence to get more planes in the air. This is another example of a serious logistic snafu that could have easily been solved if somebody was just thinking with a clear head. ------------------------------------------------------------ Good coverage of the White House press conference where I emphasize the need to take the current situation seriously without letting it disrupt our lives: The Hill - Fauci: Take new subvariant seriously, but don't 'let it disrupt our lives' by Peter Sullivan - 07/12/22 11:10 AM ET NY Times - Sheryl Stolberg As BA.5 spreads, the White House warns that Covid is not over. : "Variants will continue to emerge if the virus circulates globally and in this country," Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, Mr. Biden's chief medical adviser for the pandemic, said at a White House news briefing. "We should not let it disrupt our lives. But we cannot deny that it is a reality that we need to deal with." PRESS: White House Press Briefing; MSNBC with Chris Lansing; Nexstar with Don Kauffman; Interview with Eileen O'Reilly for Axios; Fox TV with Neil Cavuto;
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July 13, 2022 Hospitalizations going up. Deaths stable at ~300/day. BA4/5 >80% of isolates with BA5 >50% Europe having a big surge of BA5. Met with Bob Barnett again last night planning the announcement of my stepping down and the subsequent linking up with publishers and speaking bureaus after I actually leave. Cases sp. admits Deaths eported** ositivity** Key MetrICS Total Most recent to date day* 88,782,908 185,786 4,941,848 5,451 1,017,391 918,921,058 omitted due to 9.3% reporting lag 7-day daily average 123,365 5,775 497,488** 17.6% Week-on-week change +14.2% +12.0% +10.1% -9,4%** +0.6 pct. pts. x O 8 GOP in Congress inappropriately trying to shut down all research collaborations with China: Draft bill would ban CDC, NIH from funding lab research in China House of Representatives measure catalyzed in part by suspicion that pandemic virus escaped from Wuhan laboratory • 12 Jul 2022 • 6:00 PM • ByJocelyn Kaiser PRESS: CNN "New Day" with John Berman
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July 14, 2022 Global - 5546,897,312/6,356,812; USA - 88,932,987/1,018,035 Cases, hospitalizations, and deaths now going up: Rochelle called me up tonight and arranged to have a zoom with me to get my advice about pressure she is getting from the White House who is responding to New York pressuring them to get more monkey pox vaccines (see above on July 12). This relates to the meeting we had a couple of days ago with Ron Klain where he was very concerned that we are being Primary Series Completion, Booster Dose Eligibility, and Booster Dose Receipt by Age, United State: 5-11 Years 28,744,500 12-17 Years 25,304,508 18-49 Years 139,763972 50-64 Years US 63,659, 65+ Years 54,792,626 Fully Vaccinated 30.0% (8.63M) ---------- E18 LLL LLLLLILIIIIINL) 25% 0236 Received 'ia 2.5% (721k) Fully Vaccinated 60.1% (15.2M) Ens LLL LLLLLLLIIIIITILILILILILILILLLLL TILL LI TILL, 57.7% 45% ae Received 16.5% (4.18M) Fully Vaccinated 68.9% (96.3M) aes //// LLL rece rr 27.1% (37.9M) 1st Booster 1st Booster ist Booster Fully Vaccinated 82.0% (52.2M) Se tx Boone Ene © LLL LLL LL LILI TILL LILI LLL LI LLL LILI TILL LLL LI LLL LLL LIL Li 204% 51.26) Received 45.2% (28.7M) ene MMMM LLU LL fos i 9.1% (5.79M) 2nd Booster Fully Vaccinated 91.7% (50.2 _------------------------------e| ist Boose LLL LLL Received 64.5% (35.4M) Sorel eed LLL races 22.7% (12.5M) --- ® » x» a © » #0 » Percent perceived as being unresponsive with regard to vaccines and the POTUS is getting a lot of pressure from NYC for more vaccines. The White House wants her to distribute the vaccine according to the number of cases and she feels correctly that that is not a totally fair way since there is a consideration for the at-risk population in certain locations that don't yet have a lot of cases. Also, southern states with black MSM are not really tresting since they are stigmatized and cases are not being recognized. I counseled her that it is a battle she will lose if she insists on distribution other than just by case numbers. She will lose the fight with the WH. In 1 to 1 and 1/2 weeks there will be hundreds of thousands of vaccines shipped from Denmark. At that point we can do what I would strongly suggest is to blanket the at risk community with vaccines for everyone who is at risk particularly those who are on prep for HIV or who are infected with HIV and are suppressed with their viral load due to antiviral drugs. Those are the ones that are out there having sex and not feeling vulnerable because they are on antiviral therapy. I told her to hang tight for week or so and the problem will solve itself. PRESS: Rickey Smiley Radio Show; KAMR TV Amarillo, TX; NBC Livestream News with Phil Lepof; CNN with Erin Burnett;
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July 15, 2022 Global USA After talking with Ashish this morning, Rochelle decided to allocate vaccines for monkeypox at 75% according to the number of cases and 25% for the level of risk and a given community. That seems like a reasonable compromise which I agree with and will back Rochelle on. As mentioned above, in two weeks this will be a moot point since there will be hundreds of thousands of doses of vaccines arriving from the outside. We are not keeping up very well on booster shots: PRESS: Univision Digital with Borja Voces; Skimm TV ONLINE with Maria Corpus; Bloomberg TV "Balance of Power" with Joe Mathieu
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July 16, 2022 PRESS: CNN with Laura Coates