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Sept. 17, 2022 Chris and I had dinner over Ellen Sigal's home together with Diana DeGette and her husband Judge Lino Lipinsky. It was an interesting conversation and part of the discussion was the fact that the GOP will probably haul me before their oversight committees and make a spectacle of the Wuhan, gain of function situation. Diana is the current Chair of the Energy and Commerce oversight committee and if the GOP wins the House, she will be the ranking minority member. This is very good for me but it doesn't completely shield me from there attacks which I need to be prepared for that will come either in the House with Jim Jordan et al or in the Senate with Rand Paul et al. They will likely treat me like they treated Hillary Clinton during the Bengazi Hearings.
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Sept. 18, 2022 - Met John Podesta and Leslie Dach at an award ceremony for me at Georgetown Prep where Chris and I received the Pedro Arrupe, SJ award for Exemplary Public Service. They were both aware that I will be attacked by the GOP after the election and I will likely need legal assistance. John offered to put together a program to develop a fund to pay my legal bills.
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Sept. 19, 2022 I had to help clean up a bit of a mess today when the President casually said on a "60 Minutes" interview that the pandemic was over. I had a number of press today and certainly I got asked the question particularly on NPR about how this relates to the fact that all of us have been saying that we are still in the middle of a pandemic and 400 people are dying each day. I gave the explanation that it really is a matter of semantics and that the president was referring to the fact that the fulminant stage of the outbreak is no longer present since we were experiencing 800,000 cases a day and over 3000 deaths per day several months ago and the situation is very different now. However, I did emphasize that we are still in the middle of a pandemic. It is likely that there will be another wave of infections in November: Variant report 2022-09-14 A variant wave is likely to start in at most 3 months The BA.2.75 sublineage BA.2.75.2 (S:346T, S:486S, S:1119N) currently doubles in share every week (+80120%). It made up between 0.1 and 0.5% in samples from two weeks ago in Europe (in Asia, North America and Oceania, the share is higher at between 0.5-5%). • Global Cov-Spectrum query • Europe Cov-Spectrum query If this growth trend continues, this variant will dominate in about two months. At this point, the growth advantage would manifest in increased overall growth in incidence and a variant wave would start around November - on top of the expected seasonal acceleration of transmission. The growth advantage over resident BA.2 or BA.5 lineages is of the same order of magnitude as was the case when BA.5 displaced BA.2, which was sufficient to cause a summer wave. Currently, BA.2.75.2 is the fastest growing lineage with more than 350 sequences available. The rest of this report will focus on other lineages that may end up growing faster than BA.2.75. PRESS: Canada TV "The Agenda" with Steve Paikin; NPR "The World" with Marco Werman;Podcast with Steve Morrison at CSIS; MiddleEast Broadcast Interview (TV); Rural Health Matters TV with Dr. Jeffrey Gold;
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Sept. 21, 2022 Nice Q & A with Erin Durkin in the National Journal about my relationship with Congress and different administrations: Wednesday Q+A with Dr. Anthony Fauci The infectious-disease expert-turned-political lightning rod discusses his next chapter, the high points of his work for seven presidents, and the lessons learned from the COVID outbreak. I had a very enjoyable interview for 45 minutes at the Atlantic Festival held at the new Wharf section of DC right off Main St. It was a very successful interview with an extraordinarily enthusiastic crowd then gave me the opportunity to explain in detail some of the nuanced issues associated with COVID and the interviewer Ross Anderson (Deputy Editor of The Atlantic also asked a lot about my history dating back to my very early years at NIH. Will receive Fulbright Prize on April 19, 2023: 2022 Fulbright Prize to Drs. Kizzmekia Corbett and Anthony Fauci Benefits of vaccination and boosts: Rates of COVID-19 Deaths by Vaccination Status and 2+ Booster Doses* in Ages 50+ Years
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Sept. 22, 2022 United States • Total Cases: 95,700,347 7-Day average: 54,186 (-10.6%) • Total Deaths: 1,049,864 7-Day average: 314 (-12.2%) • Total new hospital admissions: 5,327,014 7-Day average 3,971 (-9.9%) Worldwide [Source: WHO] - most recent day • Total Cases: 610,866,075 (428,321 new) • Total Deaths: 6,510,139 (1,395 new) Russia threatening nuclear attack on Ukraine as their forces are now losing to the Ukrainians I testified before the Bipartisan Commission on Biodefense held at the Hudson Institute (Scooter Libby is Senior VP). The group that I testified before was Joe Lieberman, Donna Shalala, Rep. Susan Brooks, Jin Greenwood, Tom Daschle, The Commissioners all congratulated me on my career and praised me for my decades of public service. I gave a very energetic and passionate plea for support in the long term and consistently of our research component of the pandemic preparedness plan. I also spoke about the importance of major funding to modernize the CDC and their surveillance efforts. All in all, it was a very good appearance before an important Commission. My old friend Joe Lieberman wished me "Cent Anni" and made a great joke: "In every 75 year old person is a 35 year old that wondered what the heck happened." The White House MPX coordinators (Bob Fenton/Demetre Daskalakis) are trying to micromanage (Project by project) our and the CDC's portfolio. Bad news!! They mean well, but this is unprecedented for any WH element to micromanage a research portfolio. I received a delightful call today (pre-arranged) from former Congressman Joseph P. Kennedy III informing me that I have been chosen to be honored at a gala in Boston with by the Edward M Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate. The award is given for service to the country and the co-awardee with me would be basketball legend Bill Russell formerly of the Boston Celtics. I had a wonderful conversation with Joe over the phone in which he expressed extraordinary admiration for me for what I have been through and the attacks against me by the far right. On my way tomorrow to Aspen for "The Weekend" where I will do a "fireside chat" on COVID. Monkeypox cases declining: Daily New Cases This char shows the number of monkeypox cases thal have been diagnosed ach day gnoe ihe NYC outbreak began in June, The below data will ba updated avery weekday Daun ior the most eecent dink ane moomplnte, The meeting Marc Tessier-Lavigne Whitty and Sir Patrick Valance from Sept. 23-25 I had a wonderful weekend in Aspen Co where I attended "The Weekebnd" hosted by Mukesh Ambani (Reliance; Edythe Broad (The Broad Foundation); John Doerr (Kleiner Perkins); Ari Emanuel (Endeavor); Robert Kraft (New England Patriots); Yuri Milner (DST Global); Eric Schmidt (CEO Google); Patrick Whitesell (Endeavor). The meeting coincided with the wedding in Aspen of my niece Carolyn Huskey. The participants in the meeting were the typical AAA crowd of politicians, economists, journalists, sports figures, among others. On the side I had a very nice conversation with Alex Rodriguez (A-Rod) who proved to be a very intelligent thoughtful person. There were also very interesting discussions about Ukraine and Russia and cyber security. I did a fireside chat with David Agus on COVID. Many people including Ash Carter of Harvard Kennedy School and Marc Tessier-Lavigne (President of Stanford) were approaching me about my post-NIH life. As usual, I said no discussion until 2023.
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Sept. 26, 2022 I had another of my very regular zooms with Sir Chris Whitty and Sir Patrick Valance from the UK and compared notes on COVID and Monkeypox In the GE Hatchett newspaper: /The Hill/Bloomberg 'Work from the shadows': How Trump's COVID response ties to a former professor's GW email Emails and documents obtained from the subcommittee found that Hatfill devised a plan for Navarro to call on the Department of Justice to investigate Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, his staff and other officials like former FDA Commissioner Steven Hahn to "shut them up for a bit."
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September 26, 2022 at 9:35 PM EDT Rick Bright, a former US health official who condemned the Trump administration's Covid-19 response, is leaving a Rockefeller Foundation pandemic prevention effort just over a year and a half after being tapped to lead it. https://twitter.com/RanBalicer/status/1574742090797522944/photo/1 Omicron severe illness rates among infected: Maximal risk stratum, age 70+, Jan-Aug 2022 3.1% 1-7 GOSe5 Unvaccinated Spectrum News: Rand Paul pushing back against additional COVID funds that I and our HHS/WH colleagues are asking for: Sen. Rand Paul introduces bill to divert COVID19 funds toward disaster recovery efforts Vaccine effectiveness from Israel:
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Sept. 27, 2022 I did not think that Rick Bright would last at the Rockefeller Foundation. They may have caught on to him. He is probably the "former BARDA official" who said nasty things about me to the WSJ. Former Health Official Bright to Leave Pandemic Prevention Post Rick Bright in 2020. Photographer: Greg Nash/The Hill/Bloomberg
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Sept. 28, 2022 Had a great dinner last night at my home with Tom Frieden and Chris. Tom is the president and CEO of Resolve to Save Lives, In the organization he formed with the financial help of Michael Bloomberg and Mark Zuckerberg. It was a very interesting evening and I got a lot of information of what it is like to leave the federal government as he did when he left the CDC and to go out on your own in a new adventure. Tom has always been a good friend and emphasized how much I helped and supported him in the CDC when he was the director. Amazing that Mbeki is still spoutin AIDS-denialism. He is currently Chancellor of a university in RSA (Unisa): - tomorrow via SCIF to scope out TAC slams Mbeki for repeating his 'HIV denialist' views, demands apology Terrific podcast of TWIV with Vince Racaniello who interviews Eddie Holmes who vigorously defends me regarding the famous Feb. 1, 2020 teleconference. He says that I have been terribly unjustifiably vilified when I should be commended for my behavior during that phone call: TWiV 940: Eddie Holmes in on viral origins