Feb 9, 2022

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1. 2021-11-28 00:00 Anthony S. Fauci open
   November 28, 2021 • Statements and Releases Following up on the regular briefings he had on COVID while traveling, the President met in person today with his Chief Medical Advisor, Dr. Anthony Fauci, and members of his White House COVID Response Team. Dr. Fauci and members of the COVID Response Team updated the President on the latest developments related to the Omicron variant. Dr. Fauci informed the President that while it will take approximately two more weeks to have more definitive information on the transmissibility, severity, and other characteristics of the variant, he continues to believe that existing vaccines are likely to provide a degree of protection against severe cases of COVID. Dr. Fauci also reiterated that boosters for fully vaccinated individuals provide the strongest available protection from COVID. The COVID Response Team's immediate recommendation to all vaccinated adults is to get a booster shot as soon as possible; all adults are eligible for a booster if they were vaccinated six months ago or more with Pfizer or Moderna, or two months ago or more with Johnson & Johnson. Importantly, those adults and children who are not yet fully vaccinated should get vaccinated immediately. The President will provide an update about the new variant and the U.S. response on Monday. PRESS: ABC "This Week" with George Stephanopoulos; NBC "Meet the Press" with Chuck Todd; CBS "Face the Nation" with Margaret Brennan - she played an extensive taped interview with me that is worth viewing since I pushed back on some of the nonsense that is going on. I called out Rand Paul, Ted Cruz and the far right Republicans that have been slamming me.
2. 2021-11-29 00:00 Anthony S. Fauci open
   Nov. 29, 2021 GLOBAL USA POTUS Press Briefing - I was called to the White House to help to prepare the President for the press briefing that he would give this morning at 11:45 AM. I got to the White House at 10:00 AM and went over his speech with Jeff and Natalie and went over the Qs and As that the President would need to prepare him. We then went to the Oval Office and directly briefed the President . In the Oval Office were Natalie, Jeff, Jake Sullivan, the vice president, Ron Klain, Jen Psaki, and a few others. We tweaked the Qa and As and helped him answer them in his own mind and then the President, the vice president, and I went out to the press briefing which took place in the Roosevelt Room. They only needed me to answer one of the questions that was asked of the President and that related to the travel restrictions on southern Africa and what we were doing right now to prevent people from other countries who might be infected with Omicron from coming into our own country. I explained that now anyone coming into the country who is not an American citizen needs to be vaccinated as well as having a test before they get on the plane whereas American citizens and LPRs need to be tested before they get on the plane and when they get off the plane they are quarantined voluntarily for seven days and must get a PCR test within three days. PRESS: ABC "Good Morning America" with George Stephanopoulos; CBS "Mornings" with Gayle King and Tony Dokoupil; PBS NewsHour with Judy Woodruff; CNN "The Lead" with Jake Tapper; MSNBC "The Reid Out" with Joy Reid; Peacock TV with Mehdi Hassan
3. 2021-11-30 00:00 Anthony S. Fauci open
   Nov. 30, 2021 - Global USA There's been a lot of concern and discussion about the decision to block travel from southern Africa. The Africans are feeling like they're being punished as a result of their transparency in getting this information out quickly. I totally understand their concern and I do hope that this travel ban will be quite temporary. On the other hand in typical fashion the far right is now criticizing me together with President Biden for using the Omicron variant as a political tool against the Republicans. I have no idea how they make this connection, but they are totally crazy. In addition, I got criticized by the New York Post for being too slow in considering a travel restriction and therefore likely caused loss of life. Obviously, this is a lose lose situation. Had a very important conversation with Trevor Bedford last night. Trevor is a computational biologist in Seattle. He discussed some models for John Mascola, Larry Corey, and others by zoom at 8:00 PM last night. He is concerned about the immune evasion capabilities of this virus but admits that it is too early to tell what the ultimate impact will be. He believes that in a delta-immune population such as in the United States that it is very likely that this new variant will spread widely and be dominant by the time we get to the end of February. However, he underscores that this is purely an estimate on his part based on his model and may not turn out to be the case. We still do not know with the level of severity of his viruses and only time will tell. By assaying on whole virus and pseudovirus, we will have a determination in the next two to three weeks regarding the degree of immune evasion. PRESS; MSNBC with Craig Melvin; NPR with Rob Stein; nection Part 6 - Continued from Part 5
4. 2021-12-21 00:00 Anthony S. Fauci open
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8. 2022-04-03 00:00 Anthony S. Fauci open
   April 03, 2022-July 30, 2022 (27 U.S. jurisdictions) Unvaccinated - -- -- Primary series only Primary series and 1 booster dose* ------Primary series and 2+ booaste... Incidence per 100,000 population May 2022 Jun 2022 Jul 2022 Positive specimen collection date by start of week In July 2022, among people ages 50 years and older, unvaccinated people had: compared to people vaccinated with a primary series and two or more booster doses.* Among people ages 50 years and older, vaccinated people with a primary series and one booster dose had: 2X Risk of Dying from COVID- 19 Source: CDC COVID-19 Response, Epidemiology Task Force, Surveillance & Analytics Team, Vaccine Breakthrough Unit compared to people vaccinated with a primary series and two or more booster doses.* The Atlantic Festival (see above) PRESS: Fireside chat at The Atlantic Festival (see above)
9. 2022-04-03 00:00 Anthony S. Fauci open
   April 03, 2022-Octaber 22, 2022 (21 US. jurisdictions) Deaths @ Cases OUnrwvaccinated O Vaccinated without updated booster @ Vaccinated with updated booster Date 4/3/2022 10/16/202: O--O Incidence per 100,000 population May 2022 Juni 2022 Jul 2022 Aug 2022 Sep 2022 Positive specimen collection date by start of week People aged 12 and older vaccinated with an updated (bivalent) booster had: in September 2022, and 3.2K lower risk of testing positive for COVID-19 in October 2022, compared to unvaccinated people. Oet 2022 [t PRESS: White House Press briefing from White House Briefing room. Major coverage of my "final" appearance in the WH press room today and over the next 2 days

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