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Oct. 10, 2022 Mike Gerson wrote an amazing piece on me in the Washington Post: Opinion Anthony S. Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, on Capitol Hill on Sept. 14. (Evelyn Hockstein/ Reuters) a Why Anthony Fauci is the greatest public servant I have known
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October 10, 2022 at 1:08 p.m. EDT American political disagreements have often come down to us in the form of vivid dyads. Alexander Hamilton vs. Thomas Jefferson. Stephen A. Douglas vs. Abraham Lincoln. Franklin D. Roosevelt vs. Arthur H. Vandenberg. One such conflict over the past few years has been Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) vs. Anthony S. Fauci, the longtime head of the department of infectious diseases at the National Institutes of Health. I am not referring here to any moral or intellectual equivalence between the figures. Their inequality, in fact, is a central part of the story. Paul's contempt for expertise, his spread of conspiracy theories, his use of oversight as ambush -- all this indicates a performative approach to governing. Reality does not ultimately count; the play is the thing. And Paul has found an audience among ideologues who demonstrate their fidelity by taking some extra poison in their pudding. The single most shocking fact to come out of the recent pandemic has been the unfair selfapportionment of pain and death. People in majority-Republican counties experienced 73 more deaths from covid-19 per 100,000 people than those in majority-Democratic counties. There are a variety of explanations. One is certainly the use of high office to discourage the most basic means of selfpreservation during a deadly disease outbreak. Imagine if it had been Democratic public authorities encouraging Republican self-victimization. But it was Republican officials who did it -- and found it an effective method of self-publicization. On the other side has stood Fauci. In more than 50 years at the NIH, Fauci has been accustomed to scientific debates in which disagreements emerge as the result of seeking different methods in the pursuit of the same goals. But Paul and his co-ideologues have left the assumption of shared objectives in tatters. And this has constituted an attack on the very idea of public service -- the notion that true experts can make a career in seeking the common good. For Fauci, it has been a professional and moral commitment that politics should stop at the human biome's edge. This does not imply that scientific experts are perfect. To the contrary, the purpose of the scientific method is to organize failure into deeper insight. But it does mean that scientific truth is not relative -- or determined in the political realm. In attempting to demonize Fauci, his critics gained a fundraising target. And that, by their own lights, is the definition of political success. But seldom has the choice of an attack been more of a self-indictment. Fauci is not only a symbol of public health orthodoxy; he has done as much as any scientist to turn medical innovation into humanitarian progress. For generations, Fauci has applied a low-key excellence to fighting domestic AIDS, tropical infectious diseases, global AIDS and Ebola. His role in the creation of the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief has helped save tens of millions of lives and built medical infrastructure across the developing world. His focus and public investment have brought us to the verge of vaccines against malaria, one of the world's deadliest parasites. Fauci is a symbol of sorts. He demonstrates what can happen when a nation at the height of its power employs the finest scientific minds of their generation to the pursuit of public health goals few believed were possible. The result has been a golden age of public health, motivated by an American belief in human dignity. This is not the kind of reputation to be dented by political attacks or internet rumors. It is a legacy praised each day by the chorus of millions of breaths that would otherwise be silent. A vast chorus of the nearly lost. As someone who worked for a few years with Fauci during George W. Bush's administration, I saw how he pushed for new ideas and new funding: by expressing his passion for the scientific project itself. He is the ultimate explainer. In briefings, he did not conspire to make himself seem smart. He made those he briefed feel they had spent a few minutes looking out on a vast landscape of innovation. Robin Givhan: Fauci carried all our angst and anger with patience and decency Fauci assumes that everyone is rational and thus persuadable. That is not quite true. But when he described to me the shifting shell of sugars that surround and protect the AIDS virus, or how mRNA vaccines work, it left a few impressions. First, how something that can kill you can be so fascinating. But also how much Fauci's friendship felt like mentorship. The greatness of his calling rubbed off a bit. And one was left with the infection of his mission. Fauci's forthcoming retirement as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases will cost Americans, and people around the world, far more than they realize. But he will ever remain the greatest public servant I have known.
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Oct. 11, 2022 Met with the Indian contingent for the VAP program (Vaccine Action Plan), a program I started with India 34 years ago. We signed an updated MOU to continue the program. Dinner tonight at the Indian Ambassador to USA (Taranjit Singh Sandhu) at his home together with the Indian Finance Minister tonight PRESS: NBC News Medical Unit with Ashkay Syal;
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Oct. 12, 2022 Met in Building 31 with Stella Kryiakides, Commissioner of EU for Health and Food Safety and Peter Piot to discuss COVID and other issues including Monkeypox. Enjoyable meeting. She told me how much all of Europe relied on my advice on COVID, particularly during the 1st year. Source: 1SGlobal, https://bit.ly/3MnLerD Evolution of Omicron Subvariants
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Oct. 13, 2022 Had a very disappointing conversation today with Dep Sec Andrea Palm, Kevin Barstow and the HHS General Counsel Samuel Bagenstos. They essentially told me that they will not be able to help me at all after I leave government service on December the 31st. In terview with spaper particular, they will not be able to provide me with legal backup if I get called before oversight committees if the GOP takes over the Congress. In addition, they are going to discontinue my protective service that has been given to me for the past 2 1/2 years. They even went on to suggest that I could hire a private security firm to protect me. I would say that this is a relinquishment of their responsibility to me since everything that I've done that has put me into this position I've done in my service to HHS and the US government. PRESS: Interview with Rodney Russel for the journal Viral Immunology; Interview with WHO Bulletin; Interview with Ed Randell "Fans for the Cure" Radio Show;
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Oct. 14, 2022 United States • Total Cases: 96,640,059 7-Day average: 38,949 (-11.9%) • Total Deaths: 1,058,692 7-Day average: 328 (-8.5%) • Total new hospital admissions: 5,400,083 7-Day average 3,268 (-4.4%) Worldwide [Source: WHO] - most recent day • Total Cases: 620,301,709 (417,329 new) • Total Deaths: 6,540,487 (1,094 new) I had a delightful zoom conversation with a 3rd year student at Bronx High School of Science - Ayshi Sen, an immigrant from Bangladesh. She is writing for her school newspaper and she asked for an interview. She was over the moon that I agreed to do the interview Considerable concern that is growing about the impact of new variants that have a transmission advantage and that evade the critical monoclonal antibodies such as Evusheld: It's the BQ.1 and 1.1 that we should be terrified about. I'll talk about it on the call, but here's what it means: Omicron os 2 dr len eat Sotrovimab I Bebtelovimab enituinee BA.1, BA.1.1 > 4 x J J ? BA.2 x x xX J JY BA. x x x< J JV BA.4.6 > 4 x x Vv x BA.2.75 xX x Vv? Vv v BQ.1.1 x< x x x< x XBB x x x Politico; Interview with The Guardian with David oy John Erickson: PRESS: Interview with Erin Banco of Politico; Interview with The Guardian with David Smith
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Oct. 16, 2022 Did a panel at the Annual meeting of the NAM. Panel chaired by Salim Abdul Karim. I spoke on "Lesson Learned from COVID-19". Has a brunch at "Founding Farmers" restaurant with Salim and Quarraisha. Still very tough going out in public since I get swamped by people wanting selfies. The agents do not like that since if I say yes to one then a whole crowd forms. Washington Post Opinion piece by John Erickson: Opinion Anthony Fauci's work saved countless lives
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October 16, 2022 at 12:15 p.m. EDT Nice 50th Anniversary Gala of NAM at the Building Museum. I was individually recognized and got a prolonged standing ovation. Heartwarming as I as totally mobbed by my colleagues wanting selfies. I must have done at least 100 (no exaggerating!) PRESS: ABC "This Week" interview with Jon Karl; at a Rooftop Reception by the