Sept. 4, 2022
Tony's Diary Package, p.1055 · fauci_diary:entry:00915
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- Date
- 2022-09-04 00:00 (day precision)
- Type
- diary entry · diary
- author
- Anthony S. Fauci
Sept. 4, 2022
MPX stabilizing globally and in USA:
In context
A single line often inverts meaning once you see what it answers, so neighbouring messages are always shown.
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Sept. 1, 2022 United States • Total Cases: 94,385,669 7-Day average: 85,762 (-6.6%) • Total Deaths: 1,041,280 7-Day average: 404 (-5.4%) • Total new hospital admissions: 5,235,025 7-Day average 5,106 (-5%) Worldwide [Source: WHO] - most recent day • Total Cases: 600,555,262 (670,371 new) • Total Deaths: 6,472,914 (2,676 new) Very telling graph about the role of vaccination in preventing death: United States: COVID-19 weekly death rate by vaccination status, 65+ Ne Death rates are calculated as the number of deaths in each group, divided by the total number of people in this group. This is given per 100,000 people. LOG + Change age group Unvaccinated Primary vaccination only Primary vaccination + 1 . eee booster -- ---- ee ---- _-- Primary vaccination + 2 0; --~-- ta boosters
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Sept. 2, 2022 There is a very interesting situation that has emerged from the White House particularly involving Ron Klain and Ashish Jha in the context of the BA.5 bivalent booster shot. The FDA has authorized and the CDC has approved the use of the bivalent BA.5 booster for individuals 12 years of age and older. The concern of Ron and Ashish is that we need to sell it to the American people in a manner in which they feel this is something "new and different" that they really should partake of. However, even though we all feel that people should be getting a booster shot, to sell it as something that is going to be much better than the prototype boost would be somewhat of a stretch since although one can project that there would be an advantage of a variant specific boost, early indications from an immunological standpoint indicate that although it is likely going to be somewhat better it is not going to be a lot better. In addition, there is the push back from some in the scientific community that we are doing this with very little human clinical data. One can extrapolate from clinical immunological data using a BA.1 bivalent variant boost where the data are plentiful. In addition, we have extraordinary amount of data on the safety of using this type of vaccine in billions of doses and billions of people worldwide. Also, the preclinical mouse data with the specific BA.5 bivalent vaccine indicates that it gives an anti-BA.5 response much higher then the prototype vaccine does. Ron and Ashish are struggling with ways to sell this and the latest thing they're trying to do is to say that it could be part of a yearly booster similar to what we do with flu. All of this is fine except that they're straining to get a message so that a lot of people will get boosted when in fact this is unlikely going to be the case. No matter what we say, the message will not change the facts and we're getting close to the line of overselling something. In one instance today, Ron was upset that Vivek had said that this was an updated "boost" instead of an updated "vaccine" because he felt people don't want this to be yet again another boost whereas if we sell it as an updated vaccine in the context of making it a yearly occurrence then that would be perceived as something that is truly new. PRESS: NPR with Rob Stein; MSNBC with Yasmeen Vossoughian; CNN with Ericka Hill; PBS NewsHour with Judy Woodruff; afauci@niaid.nih.gov> wrote:
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Sep 2, 2022 Source: Data produced by the 'Global health' team -- available at github_com/globaldothealthimonkeypox CC BY Anthony S. Fauci, MD Director National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Building 31, Room 7A-03 31 Center Drive, MSC 2520 National Institutes of Health Bethesda, MD 20892-2520 Phone: (301) 496-2263 FAX: (301) 496-4409 E-mail: afauci@niaid.nih.gov
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Sept 3, 2022 Email exchange between Ron Klain and me regarding the above:
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Sept. 4, 2022 MPX stabilizing globally and in USA:
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Sept. 5, 2022 https://bit.ly/3e03286 Washington Times: Very nice counter and fact check about the misinformation spread about me by ther Annenberg Public Policy Center: FactCheck.org: Correcting Misinformation About Dr. Fauci https://bit.ly/3eo3g86 Nature Medicine: • Published: 05 September 2022 Long-term cardiac pathology in individuals with mild initial COVID-19 illness
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September 5, 2022 at 5:11 p.m. EDT ---------------- Crazy Peter Navarro in the Washington Times:
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Sept. 6, 2022 Washington Post/Bloomberg: So Long to Anthony Fauci, Unlikely Avatar of Polarization Analysis by David A. Hopkins I Bloomberg
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September 7, 2022 From Government Executive interview: Dr. Fauci to Young Scientists: Follow the Science and 'Stay out of Politics' After nearly six decades of civil service, Dr. Anthony Fauci hopes his post-government life will focus on inspiring the next generation of public servants. I had an interesting evening last night. I went over Zeke Emanuel's together with Chris to celebrate a surprise 65th birthday party. At the party was Rahm and Ari Emanuel Together with some of Rahm's children. The dinner was catered by Pineapples and Pearls restaurant. The dinner took place is Zeke's almost renovated amazing new home at 3303 Highland Place, NW MPX - 55,000 globally and 21,000 in USA PRESS: Sinclair News "The National Desk" with Jan Jeffcoat; Florida PBS Town Hall; "Positive Living" Fireside Chat with Kurt Goodman and Butch McKay