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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
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Sept. 29, 2022 I had a terrific meeting with Jeff Zients this morning on the back deck of my house in our usual breakfast meeting, of which we have had many over the last almost two years. Jeff was following up with me to see how I was doing following the announcement of my retirement. He has been extremely helpful in guiding me about the proper steps to take in the transition to non-government life. It is also noteworthy that he and his former deputy Natalie Quillian have been asked by President Biden to line up names four people to occupy leadership positions in the administration at the end of the second year and as the new Congress comes in. In addition to details about what I am going to be doing over the coming months, Jeff asked my advice about names of people who could fill senior positions particularly in the arena of health and science. Ebola is starting to heat up in Uganda. Deputies meeting tomorrow via SCIF to scope out the situation. I will attend. About 50 cases in rural Uganda
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Sept. 30, 2022 United States • Total Cases: 96,052,716 7-Day average: 47,112 (-13.1%) • Total Deaths: 1,053,173 7-Day average: 344 (-6.7%) • Total new hospital admissions: 5,353,767 7-Day average 3,733 (-7.4%) Worldwide [Source: WHO] - most recent day • Total Cases: 613,942,561 (460,497 new) • Total Deaths: 6,520,263 (1,248 new) We had the deputies meeting in the SCIF today on Ebola in Uganda led by the White House National Security Council. This was preceded by a preparatory meeting among the HHS team led by Andrea Palm. During that meeting Andrea got very upset with Henry Walke and Rochelle of CDC Because they were falling into the same trap as they did with COVID USA VHO label Lineage # US Class % Total 95%Pl Omicron BAS VOC 81.3% 79.6-83.0% BA4.6 VOC 12.8% 11.5-14.1% BF.7 VOC 3.4% 2.6-4.4% BA.2.75 VOC 14% ~~ 1.1-1.9% BAA VOC 1.1% 1.0-1.2% BA.2.12.1 VOC 0.0% 0.0-0.0% BA.2 VOC 0.0% 0.0-0.0% B.1.1.529 VOC 0.0% 0.0-0.0% BA.1.1 Voc 0.0% 0.0-0.0% Delta B.1.617.2 VBM 0.0% 0.0-0.0% Other Other* 0.0% 0.0-0.0% Enumerated lineages are US VOC and lineages circulating above 1% when they were indicating that they will likely go into slow walk the availability of diagnostics. It seems that the CDC just has not learned a lesson at all about the catastrophe regarding the availability of diagnostics during COVID. During the meeting with the deputies, my role was to tell them about the 100 doses of the Sudan ebola vaccine that we have at the VRC. it was a lot of discussion about everything from isolation to travel to availability of interventions to dealing with the Ugandans. There are currently no cases outside of Uganda in cases have been confined to four provinces in Uganda. There was a concern that the neighboring countries of Rwanda and DRC are vulnerable. Also, there was considerable discussion about how we would handle the entry of potentially or actually infected patients from Uganda into the country. Approximately 140 people a day fly in to the United states indirectly from Uganda since there are no direct flights from Uganda to the United States. JAMA news article by Len Strazewski: Dr. Fauci stood up for science when it counted. What's next? Other variants are starting to evolve such as BA.4.6, BF.7 and BA.2.75.2:
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Oct. 1, 2022 - We had a 1 hour meeting today with all the relevant members of HHS (CDC, NIH, BARDA, ASPR, etc. ) led by deputy secretary Andrea Palm to work out the departmental approach towards the Ebola outbreak in Uganda. The NIH's (NIAID) major role will be to provide 100 doses of the Sudan specific ebola vaccine from our VRCfor Uganda. In order to go through the proper diplomatic channels, Dr. Tedros (DG of WHO) wrote me an official letter requesting that I send our hundred doses to Uganda (see below): Director_National Institute of Allergy a
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Oct. 2, 2022 We had multiple zooms today (with HHS folks) that will culminate with a briefing of secretary Becerra on the evolving situation of Ebola in Uganda. I brought up in the premating the consistent difficulties that we have with WHO who always want to actually design the protocols and then have organizations like NIH or CDC be the implementers of their protocols. This arrogance lies fundamentally with Anna Maria Restropo who has clashed frequently with Cliff Lane in prior Ebola situations dating back to 2014. We shall see how all of this plays out. Currently, there are 30 confirmed cases of Ebola in Uganda and more than 20 probable cases. In the zoom meetings we discussed all of the things that we discussed in the past when ebola struck West Africa and DRC. This has to do with the availability of testing, with the issue of travel into the country of people who might be infected with ebola, as well as our role in supplying vaccines testing and therapies in the form of monoclonal antibodies and other drugs to the Ugandans. More to come. Becerra backs my concern about the WHO trying to dictate the design of clinical trials. I referred to Anna Maria Restropo without mentioning her name. Becerra gets it.
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Oct. 4, 2022 Starting to get significant uptick in cases in the UK. This is troublesome since we usually follow them by about four to five weeks.
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Oct. 5, 2022 An example of the White House over ruling CDC. Rochelle and the CDC do not want to require entry screening of people coming in from Uganda in the context of ebola; however, the White House is very hyper about covering all the bases and on demanding a modified form of entry screening even though Uganda is requiring exit screening. PRESS: CBS "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
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