Jul 9, 2022
Tony's Diary Package, p.1047 · fauci_diary:entry:00891
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- 2022-07-09 00:00 (day precision)
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- diary entry · diary
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- Anthony S. Fauci
Jul 9, 2022
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July 9, 2022 People are acting like and hoping that COVID is over, but it is not. There are still >100,000 cases/day which is likely a gross undercount since many cases (perhaps x5) are not reported and deaths are stuck at ~300 with hospitalizations increasing: I had a conversation with Rochelle and Vivek about this today (Saturday) indicating that I believe we are not doing enough in a proactive way of getting out there with the press and in other venues talking up how we need to increase mitigations such as reminding people about the importance of wearing masks as well as pushing to get people vaccinated and boosted. Also, as I have said in the recent discussion with Dan Diamond of the post in which he tweeted I would discussion that we need to be more liberal in getting people a fourth shot who are less than 50 years old but might have some underlying conditions without necessarily being Some U.S. officials have signaled that more people should have access to another booster. Anthony S. Fauci, the government's top-infectious disease expert, said he's "leaning toward flexibility" for adults younger than 50 who got their last booster many months ago, and whose immunity is waning. "Safety doesn't appear to be an issue," Fauci told The Post, listing other considerations too, like expiring supply. "We got a lot of doses, if we don't get them into people soon, they're going to be wasted." ported cases. Likely immune compromised. Bottom line is that I am pushing that we be more aggressive. I am disappointed that I have not been out in the classic media of TV and radio either because the media are not interested or because the White House is not sending them my way. The same holds true for Rochelle and Vivek. They are not being out there as much as I believe we all should be. Dan Diamond tweet: Officials have been debating, for months, whether to recommend a 2nd booster, especially because so many Americans haven't gotten their 1st. But TONY FAUCI told The Post he's "leaning toward flexibility" for more younger Americans to get another booster shot. MPX still increasing in USA and around the world. In USA 790 reported cases. Likely and undercount. enerics. Global.health 9060 confirmed MPX cases in 71 non-endemic countries, 40 suspected Politico - Story about BARDA contract to company Phlow to make continuous generics. They did not fulfill their contractual responsibility. Trump-era federal Covid contract recipient has yet to meet major deadlines Two years in, Phlow Corp. has not delivered on high-tech methods to domestically manufacture cheap generic drugs. Peter Navarro was likely influential in picking the company that was not even a company yet when BARDA gave them hundreds of millions of dollars: "Evidence uncovered by the Select Subcommittee raises questions about whether White House officials, including Mr. Navarro, exercised inappropriate influence over contract awards for [personal protective equipment] and medical supplies that should have been handled by career procurement staff," the letter continued.
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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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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;