--- type: Conversation title: Journal — fauci_diary description: "diary conversation, 1031 messages, 2000-02-05." tags: - conversation - diary medium: diary message_count: 1031 started_at: "2000-02-05T00:00:00" ended_at: "2025-08-25T00:00:00" duration_seconds: 806371200 sources: - { id: fauci_diary, resource: /sources/fauci-diary.md, title: Tony's Diary Package, author: "process:senate-hsgac-release", last_modified: 2026-07-24 } generated: { by: randpaul-corpus-pipeline/1.0, at: "2026-08-06T03:22:13Z" } status: stable --- A diary conversation of 1031 messages spanning 223992h 0m. # Metadata - **Started:** 2000-02-05T00:00:00 - **Ended:** 2025-08-25T00:00:00 - **Duration:** 223992h 0m - **Participants:** 0 - **Source:** [fauci_diary](/sources/fauci-diary.md) - **Pages:** 2-1141 # Participants * [Anthony S. Fauci](/people/anthony-s-fauci.md) # Transcript **[] Anthony S. Fauci:** Feb 24, 2071 **[] Anthony S. Fauci:** Jun 19, 2037 full ¥, 2037 Aug TO, AU? Show ce: Ohare perdkeneed bey bree Chobe ee Leen = eyciiebe of: pbb eer plaid bee ccoer Had a wonderful trip to Seattle where I received the honorary "Hutch" award from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research center and the Seattle Mariners baseball organization. I did a fireside chat at the Medical Center with Larry Corey and then threw out the first pitch that evening for the Mariners and New York Yankees baseball game. In contrast to the disastrous pitch at the Washington Nationals game two years ago, this was a perfect pitch to the manager of the Mariners, Scott Servais, who served as the catcher. Sat in the "owner's box" at the stadium and watched the… **[2000-02-05T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** Feb. 5, 2000 - Spenty the day on the Hill as part of the President's Coronavirus Task Force led by Alex Azar and Mick Mulvany to brief first the Senators in the Dirksen Building led by Lamar Alexander and Patty Murray and then the House led by Rosa DeLauro and Tom Cole in the Capitol Visitor's Center. Also, spent time in the SCIF planning for tomorrow when we may be briefing the POTUS again. 25,000 cases/479 deaths. President was acquitted today by the Senate on a partisan vote. Much print press about every aspect of nCoV, particularly the controversy about asymptomatic transmission. In the Washington Post today, Nancy Pelosi, when asked whether she feels the administration is doing a good… **[2019-01-28T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** Jan. 28, 2019 - Big day at White House. Major discussions at Deputies on how to handle the 200 US Citizens (diplomats and families and others) who are being airevaculted form Wuhan. They are on a plane from China to Alaska to California. Concern about whethernor not to quarantine them for 14 days when we did not and do not quarantine Chinese who pass screening on entry. Marty Cetron had argued that the American were very recently in the "hot zone" whereas the chines who are coming in now are not really coming from Wuhan since Wuhan has been shut down by the Chinese. Also, political concern of what it looks like to quarantine or "imprision" US citizen versus what happens if we let them in… **[2019-02-03T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** Feb. 3, 2019 - Task Force meeting daily. Repatriated people from Wuhan 150 tested negative; no positives thus far. Cases = 17,205 with 361 deaths; 26 countries have 180 international cases and within that there are 20 human to human transmission transmissions with no sustained transmission yet. Complicated issue with border crossings of Chinese at Canada and Mexico. Many come over, but screening capabilities are not like we have at airport. Travis AFB, Miramar, Lackland AFB are landing destinations for US Citizens coming from Wuhan so that we can implememnt institutional quarantines and medical care if needed. Spoke with George Gao tonight in China. George is the Director General of the… **[2019-12-30T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** Dec. 30, 2019 -- Ratchford and in Surgery Dr. James Hamilton Black. Als wanted me to put on my calendar for June 13, 2020 a ceremony at where they are dedicating a building to They want me there as their guest. Also, Jon laPook was interviewed on CBS Morning News and mentioned me several times since he e-mail me over the weekend to prep him for his interview on Universal Flu vaccine and HIV vaccines. **[2019-12-31T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** Dec 31, 2019 Mar 11 Apr 30 Jun 19 Aug 8 **[2020-01-01T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** Jan 1, 2020 Mar 11 Apr 30 Jun 19 Aug 8 Sep 27 **[2020-01-01T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** Jan 1, 2020 Mar 11 Apr 30 Jun 19 Aug 8 Sep 27 Nov 16 Jan5 Feb14,2021 ( Times TV; NPR -- "Science Friday" with Cases continue to come down globally: Media trying to show discrepancies in the Biden team response. CDC and Walensky under criticism for their recent guidelines for opening schools since they are really quite confusing. They say open the schools but the guidelines show that 85-90% of the country is in the "red" zone and therefore, should hold off on opening. I believe that this is typical CDC confusion and lack of clear crisp guidelines no matter who is CDC Director. Also, the are pitting (a little) what I am saying against what VP Harris is saying. VP saying that we have to… **[2020-01-02T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** Jan. 2, 2020 -- Met in my office with Dr. Olivier Tshiani who was and is a main player in our PALM trial in DRC. Also present were Cliff lane, Rick Davey and Lori Dodd. Olivier was right there on site when the Mai Mai burned the ETUs at Katwa and Butembo and his car was stoned as he was travelling at night from the ETU to his compound where he was living in Butembo. He related stories of the very difficult security issues while doing the PALM study. He is areal hero. He had also previously spent 5 years in Nancy Sullivan's lab. Here at VRC. Did TV interview with Cox TV this year's influenza situation. Interviewed by Samantha Manning **[2020-01-03T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** Jan. 3, 2020 -- Influenza is heavy in the media. Did an interview with Elizabeth Cohen of CNN for her Blog. Also, did a live radio interview with John Catsimatidis for his "Cats Roundtable" from NYC. Also, yesterday the US via a precise drone strike in Iraq outside of Baghdad airport killed the leader of the Iranian Quds Force General Quassim Souleimani. There has been over the past few days attacks on the US Embassy by Iranian backed Iraqi militia as a result of the fact that the US armed forces attacked and killed 25 Iranian backed Iraqi inilitia who had killed a USA contractor and wounded several USA soldiers in Iraq. This will certainly lead to major escalation of tension and even… **[2020-01-04T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** Jan. 4, 2020 - 20,680 cases and 27 deaths. No sign of diminishing. We are hearing the obvious conflicting opinions of the benefit or harm of travel restrictions. A lot of interest in the revealing that the NEJM paper claiming in one Chinese to German transmission that it was symptomatic transmission, when it probably was not. I quoted that paper (now flawed) in the WH presser. One death in Hong Kong (total of 2 with Phillippines for non-China deaths) 20,680/426 - 2% mortality Continuing to evacuate USC from Wuhan. 4 individuals from Hubei Province under quarantine (2 LAX, 1 ORD, 1 NY) Chinese officials criticizing USA for travel restrictions. WHO also adding muted criticism. Got urgent… **[2020-01-06T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** Jan. 6, 2020 - Chris and I went to a book party for our friend Ruth Marcus (Washington Post columnist), fo her book "Supreme Ambition" about Justice Brett Kavanaugh. Party at the home of David and Katherine Bradley at 2211 30th Street, NW. Elegant home. Super A list at party: Senator Mark Warner, Kellyanne Conway, Andrea Mitchell, David Ignatius, David Frum, Zeke Emanuel, etc., etc. Rafe Sagalyn is Ruth's agent and was there. Also, ran into Sylvia Burwell. Really great to see her. Realized how much I miss working with her. Nice evening. **[2020-01-07T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** Jan. 7, 2020 - Just because of the sudden preduction of 1-3 inches of snow, OPM shut down the USG at 1:00 PM and everyone rushed to get off campus at the same time that Walter Reed personnel are trying to leave. This has created a total nightmare traffic jam on campus. It is taking almost 1 hour to get off campus from time you get in your car. Did TV interview with Canadian TV (CTV) on the viral outbreak in Wuhan, China. Did interview (print) with HealthDay on the influenza season **[2020-01-10T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** Jan. 10, 2020 (Friday)- Infleunza is hot and heavy. Vaccine match is OK for H1N1, but not so good for B and H3N2. Did WUSA local TV on flu as well as interview with Elizabeth Cohen of CNN that went on her blog with multiple references to our conversation. Appeared on Voice of America to discuss the new Wuhan virus documented to be a novel coronavirus. Interesting that ovewr the past several years we have had 3 emerging novel coronaviruses that have caused serious disease in humans: SARS, MERS, and now the Wuhan virus. Chinese publish sequence of the virus on public data base **[2020-01-11T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** Jan. 11, 2020 (Saturday) - Barney Graham ordersd the constructs using credit cards. **[2020-01-13T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** Jan. 13, 2020 - Went to a function at the National Cathedral where David Rubenstein was interview in the naïve (similar to my interview a few years ago) by the Dean of the Cathedral in association with David's book - "The American Story". David was his usual hilarious self. **[2020-01-14T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** Jan. 14, 2020 - Barney Graham's team starts work on GMP vaccine in collaboration with Moderna Did taped interview for the Islam Radio Breakfast Show about anti-vaxx movement. Very good interview. Also, did another interview with Eileen Reilly of Axios ewsHour segment on Ebola with considerable Apparently, CDC is upset because I am saying that this is on a course to be as bad a year as 2017-2018 and 2014-2015. In fact, the flu infection "numbers" are exactly on tract with those years. However, there are less total deaths and hospitalizations. This is due to the fact that Influenza B has predominated early that this hits kids more severely. Since the elderly account for most of the deaths… **[2020-01-15T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** Jan. 15, 2020 - Did interview on WTOP Radio on the number of pediatric flu deaths. I explained the issue of predominance of Influenza B and children and the poor match of the vaccine to circulating virus with Influenza B Victoria. **[2020-01-16T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** Jan. 16, 2020 - The situation in Wuhan, China continues. Now have 2 deaths and 2 cases in Thailand and 1 in Japan. Was in on a PCC meeting via the NIH SCIF with the NSC chaired by Anthony Ruggiero. CDC and DHS have decided to do entry screening at 3 USA airport in people coming directly and indirectly from Wuhan: Kennedy in NYC, LAX, and SFO. Tomorrow night at 10:00 PM a 747 from Wuhan will arrive at Kennedy and will be the first to get screened. nCoV_PCC_SOC_FIN AL.docx I appeared this evening on a PBS NewsHour segment on Ebola with considerable exposure in the piece. **[2020-01-17T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** Jan. 17, 2020 - appeared on radio with NPR "Here and Now" on the pediatric Influenza B situation. Influenza B predominating yet the Victoria B in the vaccine is only a 58% match and so children are getting a double whammy with B predominating early in the year and continuing and the vaccine is not well matched. In this regard, there are more pediatric deaths (39) thus far at this point in the season compared to most other years. The infection slope is high for all infections yet the total deaths and hospitalization are not that high, likely because there is little H3N2 and that is the virus that affects the elderly the most and the elderly accound for most of the hospitalizations and… **[2020-01-18T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** Jan. 18, 2020 - Situation starting toheaten up re: 2019nCoV. There are now 17 more cases in Wuhan and the LSTMH has estimated that there may actually be several hundreds of cases that have not yet been recognized. It is starting to look like there is some low grade close contact transmission person to person. I appeared on CNN Newsroom with Fredricka Whitfield to discuss the 2019 nCoV situation and the recent screening at 3 airports. **[2020-01-19T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** Jan. 19, 2020 - Things evolving rapidly with the 2019 nCoV. Now there are 198 confirmed cases, all in China except for 2 in Thailand and 1 in Japan. Cases now in Guangdong Province with suspected cases in Beijing and Shanghai. Did TV interview (pre-taped) for CNN International at 10:00 PM to be shown internationally through the night and tomorrow, **[2020-01-20T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** Jan. 20, 2020 - Now there are >220 cases of n-CoV with a travel case in South Korea and 14 transmissions to health care providers. Clearly, this is a rapidly expanding situation with no question about person-to-person transmission. Did print interview for Caixin Media Company, which is the most influential political and business news organization in China. Also did interview for CBS Evening News and for FOX 5 Local TV Also, conversation with Elizabeth Cohen of CNN. Problem with her is that she tends to dramatize things, which can get me in trouble not matter how many caveats I give her. **[2020-01-21T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** Jan. 21, 2020 - n-CoV situation continues to evolve. Now 298 cases with 6 deaths. Very fluid. Did ointerview with Eileen O'Reilly for Axios Interview with Chinese Radio Free Asia CDC announced today that the first case of n-CoV has been identified in Seattle. A 35 year old otherwise healthy Chinese man visited Wuhan, came to USA on January 15 (before airport screening), developed sxs on Jan. 16, tested on Jan. 19, test sent to CDC and positive on Jan. 20. He walked into a clinical with fever and respiratory sxs and was smart enough to mention that he just came from Wuhan. Other press today - VOA News; WSJ with Betsy MacKay; WCBS Radio; TV NewsMAX; TV FOX Business with Lou Dodd; Biocentury… **[2020-01-22T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** Jan. 22, 2020 - Now 400 cases and 9 deaths. Chicago ORD and Atl airports added to entry screening with JFK, LAX, and SFO. Soon to funnel all flights with people from Wuhan (indirect) through these 5 airports. Another PCC with Anthony being hostile that the orgs (CDC, DHS, CBP) have not worked out how to get 100% of people coming from Wuhan screened. We are in Phase 1 (Screening at JFK, LAX, SFO). We are almost fully ready for Phase 2 (add ORD and ATL). Phase 3 is to funnel people who originate at Wuhan and want to go to USA through one of the 5 airports. Phase 4 is to screen individuals coming from many cities in China. Big argument between CDC (Redfield) and CBP/DHS regarding have 5… **[2020-01-23T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** Jan. 23, 2020 - China shuts down public transportation in 3 additional smaller cities - Huanggang, Ezhou and Chibi. After 2nd Advisory Committee meeting WHO still does not declare PHEIC. Very controversial decision. They are getting some criticism about this. On several of the media that I did (see below) I was asked my opinion of this. I said I did not want to outguess the WHO and demurred. Press still heavy. Did FOX Business TV (Varney and Company); FOX News (Sandra Smith); CBS Radio;Shanghai Media TV via Skype; Politico (Sarah Owermohle); Shanghai Media TV; Science News print; CNN Newsroom (clip shown by Sanjay Gupta); FOX News Rundown (Radio); COX Media TV; John Catsimatidis Radio Show… **[2020-01-23T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** January 23, 2020 - Global - 97,000,000/2,000,000; USA - 24,700,000/413,000 PRESS: Vaccine Town Hall with Ebro Darden & Kizzy Corbett; MSNBC with Alex Witt; Interview with Donald McNeil for the New York Times on my experience with the Trump administration; MSNBC "Politics Nation" with Rev. Al Sharpton; Stat: The 10 Biden officials to watch on the Covid-19 response By R A C H E L C O H R S @rachelcohrs J A N U A R Y 2 1 , 2 0 2 1 ; USA -- 25,000,000/4 16,000 as -25,000,000/418,000 25,200,000/420,000 ff. She and I did a PSA **[2020-01-24T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** Jan. 24, 2020 - More cities shut down by the Chinese. Now >800 cases and 26 deaths. State Department issued Level 4 (no travel at all) for Wuhan. Had meeting at EEOB381 (Anthony's office) to discuss the evolving siautaion with 2019-nCoV. Derek Kan (Deputy Director, OMB) was there with other OMB folks to determine what the budgetary needs would be for our response. I will put together some budget numbers. I was supposed to be on this coming weekend (it is now Friday) This Week With George Stephanopoulos and Face the Nation; however, these were bumped because of impeachment trial that is onging. Call from Lena Sun (Washington Post) trying to verify (I said I knew nothing of this) that people… **[2020-01-25T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** Jan. 25, 2020 - now more than1400 cases and 42 deaths. President Xi Jinping essentially sutting down the entire country. Schools closing in Beijing. Suspicion that the Chinese are telling us everything that is going on in China. Why are the Chinese reacting so dramatically by essentially shutting down the entire country? State Department evacuating all USA personnel from consulate in WUHAN New York Times interview; CNN International **[2020-01-26T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** Jan. 26, 2020 - GAME ON!!! Things are changing rapidly. Dr. Ma Xiaowei, the Chinese Minister of Health gave a press statement saying that the incubationperiod of nCoV is 1 to 14 days and that the virus is being transmitted when people are asymptomatic! This has enormous implications for how we handle people from Wuhan (like our diplomats who are now on the way back from WUHAN, having been ordered to evaculate). Should we quarantine them. I am very skeptical about the Chinese interprepation of their data. I spoke with Mike Ryan (WHO) from Geneva and he and Tedros are going to Wuhan soon. Mike is very skeptical that aymptomatic spread is present or at worst is a major driver of spread. Mike… **[2020-01-26T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** January 26, 2020 - Global - 99,000,000/2,100,000; USA - 25,200,000/420,000 VP Harris visited NIH for her booster shot with Husband Greg Emhoff. She and I did a PSA together. Had moving conversation with Moncef Slaoui who felt that the Biden people were discrediting and bad-mouthing OWS that Moncef led. In fact, Moncef did a fabulous job in getting 2 vaccines (Moderna and Pfizer) approved (EUA) that are highly efficacious with other candidates (Janssen, AZ, Novavax) not far behind. He feels badly for the OWS team and for himself. I told him that he has done a fabulous and historic job in what he accomplished. I told him that to me and many others, he is a hero. He was very touched by the… **[2020-01-27T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** Jan. 27, 2020 - Packed day today. Council and multiple important non-corona-virus meetings. Busy day - two meeting with White House via SCIF. First at 11:00 AM led by Deputy Director NSC Matt Pottinger who still wants to stop all incoming from China. Bob Redfield, Phil Ferro, Mart Cetron, Peter Marks etc. Second White House meeting via SCIF was on same subject withMick Mulvaney Chairing and visit to meeting by VP Pence. Still discussing the pros and cons of shutting off China. I tried to squeeze in my opinion, but it was touch since I was remote. I briefed Azar beforehand by phone as to the down side (historically) in shutting out a country. Also at the meeting were Joe Grogan, Matt… **[2020-01-27T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** January 27, 2020 - Global USA Really good relations developing with the WH Comms team led by Jen Psaki and particularly Courtney Rowe. Dramatic difference from Trump WH Comms Did "Fireside Chat" with NEJM - Eric Rubin and Lindsey Baden • 315 cases of the B.1.1.7 lineage (UK) in 28 states; RSA lineage B.1.351 is worrisome as it is evading mAbs and diminishing neutralizing caoacity of Abs from vaccines. Very important historical review in USA Today about the development of the Moderna vaccine: USA Today: Luck, foresight and science: How an unheralded team developed a COVID-19 vaccine in record time https://bit.ly/36i7ffM PRESS: White House Press Conference with Walensky, Fauci, Slavitt, and… **[2020-01-28T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** January 28, 2020 - Global - 100,200,000/2,200,000; USA - 25,500,000/428,000 Tedros called me up and aske me to help him connect with the Biden people, i.e. Sec Becerra, Jeff Zients, the VP, etc. Stewart Simonson willing to help me since I am ultra busy. Had confidential conversation with the Janssen people - Paul Stoffels et al about the Ad26 vaccine data. Not that great. 77% VE in USA and ~50% in RSA. Will get more details later. Data better against severe disease but this will be a messaging problem. Novavax and Janssen came out with their embargoed (until tomorrow) results of their trials: Novavax phase 3 in UK - 90% VE; Phase 2b in RSA - 50% VE. Janssen phase 3 in USA/RSA/Brazil - 72%… **[2020-01-29T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** Jan. 29, 2020 - Got a call this AM from Lou Dobbs who told me that President Trump will be calling me. Lou spoke with the POTUS andf told him that I was the "smartest person" around and he should speak with me. Amazing day today! Bob Kadlec, Bob Redfield, Karin King (State), Ken Cuccinelli (DHS), Jonathan Fritz (State) briefed the House members led by Nancy Pelosi who was her usual self with me (big hug, kiss and telling everyone how great I am - little embarrassing. Diane DeGette did the same thing. At the Deputies Meeting in the Situation Room (4:00 to 5:15 PM) - big surprise. Mick Mulvaney led the meeting and after about 1 hour the President came in and the first thing he said as he… **[2020-01-29T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** January 29, 2020 - Global USA • Fireside Chat with NYC Health Commissioner David Chokshi Confirmed Cases (Thousands) ay am 2m 1" 25,900,000/435,2000 New Confirmed COVID-19 Cases in the U.S. 2020/2021 Day ee ety Mowing Avirage = eed Day Mowing Average Met with Jeff Zients and Team to discuss what to do with 2nd dose of vaccine, i.e. hold it back completely, hold it back 90%?? PRESS: Did press conference at NIH for the release of the Janssen data; Did White House press conference for COVID-19 in general; PBS NewsHour with Judy Woodruff; NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt; WUSA TV with Gabe Cohen; New York Press Club Fireside Chat with Steve Scott; Filming with Sanjay Gupta for CNN Documentary; **[2020-01-30T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** Jan. 30, 2020 - Another amazing and difficult day. Briefed the House Energy and Commerce Committee members in Rayburn 2123. All my friends kept saying I was a national hero and they "....felt safe in my arms (Eschoo)". Testifying with me were Bob redfield, Bob Kadlec and denise Hinton (FDA). The chaos: We had 2 PCCS led by Ruggiero and one Deputies lead by Mick Mulvaney with the usal cast of characters. Case in point. Mart Cetron who was listening in on the WHO call said that the epidemic was accelerating that this is was clear that the incubation period was shorter (2-5 days than was previously felt and that asymptomatic transmission was occurring. Thus, it was agreed to present to the… **[2020-01-31T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** Jan. 31, 2020 - Another truly amazing day. Sequested in the White House essentially all day working out a proposal to put before the POTUS that would restrict travel from China. The proposal was driven largely by CDC (Marty Cetron) who felt that given the volume of people coning in from China by direct and even more importantly indirect flights it would be logistically impossible to effectively screen people at many, many airports and the diversion of people from their place of origin to selective airports would further complicate things. Also, the cases continue to sharply rise with 12000 cases and 259 deaths. Also, a NEJM report from Germany indicated that a Chinese woman came from… **[2020-02-01T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** Feb. 1, 2020 - Conference call at 2:00 PM with Jeremy, Francis and several other scientists gathered by Jeremy (see below). Participants in the Feb., 2020 call included: • Francis Collins, Director of the U.S. National Institutes of Health, U.S.; • Anthony Fauci, Director of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, U.S.; • Jeremy Farrar, Director of the Wellcome Trust; • Patrick Vallance, U.K. Chief Scientific Adviser and Head of the Government Science and Engineering; • Kristian Anderson, Director of Infectious Disease Genomics, Scripps Research Translational Institute, CA, U.S.; • Christian Drosten, Director of Human Virology at the German Center for Infection… **[2020-02-02T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** Feb. 2, 2020 - Call from Sylvia Burwell asking for clarification of the new policy regarding AU students who are returning fom China. Apparently, the policy is not up on the CDC website. Had daily Task Force call. Discussed the difficult logistics of airport funneling and quarantine/isolation at land crossings with Canada and Mexico. Cases now 14,551 and 304 deaths Now 3 aditional cases in USA = 11 Kansas City Chiefs beat SF 49ers - Patrick Mahomes stars abd comes back from 10 point deficit in the 4th quarter. PRESS: MSNBC; Fox Local TV; NBC Nightly News; CNN with Anna Cabrera **[2020-02-06T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** Feb. 6, 2020 - Cases continue to soare with 28,018/563. Another packed day mostly at HHS and White House. Conspiracy theories still abound. The NAS group with OSTP met (see above) and decided that there was no clear evidence of malfeasance, but it should be looked into (see attachement below): NASEM Response to OSTP re Coronavi HO. Got good Briefed the Asia/East Asia Ambassadors on nCoV in Room EEOB-350. Then had long meeting of Coronavirus Task Force is Sit Room of WH chaired by Mick Mulvany at 4:00- 4:45PM when the core group of Task Force were called to Oval Office to brief POTUS. When we walked in the POTUS was not yet in the room. When he walked in with Melania, the first thing he did… **[2020-02-07T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** Feb. 7, 2020 - Started with 7:00 AM with a multi-party call hosted by WHO. Got good information. See below. 31,211/637. 61 infections on Japanese cruise ship. Chinese are starting to see a slight downtrend in cases. Perhaps we are turning things around in China? I warn on the call that we need to give developing countries the resources to do contact tracing and isolation or else as we decrease China, another country will become like China. Also, need serologies to determine extent of asymptomatic and minimally symptomatic infection so that we can determine the true case fatality rate among other things. Cancelled trip to Florida for Chris's birthday. So sorry. PRESS: Press conference at… **[2020-02-08T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** Feb. 8, 2020 - Numbers today: 34,867/724. First USCit died in Wuhan. Much press about this and the cruise ships in Japan and Bayonne. Infections and quarantine of the Japan ship (61 so far, including some USCits. 10 people under quarantine from airport screening at the 11 airports. People on Japanese ship getting cabin fever with v the quarantine quarantine. People on Bayonne ship have all been released and the Chinese nationals on the ship are going home. Tom Frieden called me this AM and we discussed various aspects of the outbreak. He and I are on the same page in thinking tht this is acting like a bad influenza in its transmissibility and that the denominator is much greater than… **[2020-02-09T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** Feb. 9, 2020 - Sunday, but it goes on. 37,593/814. People on the Japanese cruise ship are being released from quarantine. Outbreak still raging in China. Still only 12 cases in USA (9 travel from Wuhan and 2 spouses of 2 of the 9). Briefed the Governors at the Governors convention at the DC Convention Center PRESS: CNN International (good interview) **[2020-02-10T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** Feb. 10, 2020 - 40,625/910. Outbreak still progressing. I will list below the quarantine centers associated with the various funneled airports: JB Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii (HNL) Great Lakes Training Center Navy Base, Illinois (ORD) Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base, Texas (DFW) March ARB, California (LAX) Travis AFB, California (SFO) Dobbins ARB, Georgia (ATL) Fort Hamilton, New York (JFK) Naval Base Kitsap, Washington (SEA) Joint Base Anacostia, Washington DC (IAD) Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, New Jersey (EWR) Fort Custer Training Center, Michigan (DTW) The Department of Defense already has quarantine centers at Fort Carson in Colorado, Travis Air Force Base and Marine Corps… **[2020-02-11T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** Feb. 11, 2020 - 13th American infected (San Diego). One of the people airevacuated by State to Miramar from Wuhan. Minimal sxs. 43,138/1018 Bob Kadlec offers the Japanese help in providing remdesivir in a compassionate use protocol to the people on the Diamond Princess cruise ship in Yokohama. >=mented. of cases Now 131 people infected and the rest are quarantined. I offer Cliff Lane to help with the protocol. A PCC document that I just read is proposing that even in Phase IV (see below) we should continue INA 212 (f) travel restrictions. I disagree with this since travel restrictions are to delay the entry of disease into your country. Once you have sustained transmission in your country,… **[2020-02-12T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** Feb. 12, 2020 - 45,172/1115 Individual reports are coming out about various clinical characteristics. Unreviewed report now of virus in saliva of infected people. Let us see what kind of reponse that gets. Very busy day today with 4 Congressionald briefings! Also, complicated by wake of Eric Scorce today and funeral tomorrow. Much stress. First we briefed House members at Rayburn led by Rosa DeLauro, Nita Lowey and Tom Cole. Then we went to the Senate Dirksen to brief senators led by Lamar Alexander. Then to Capitol Visitors center to brief House members led by Eliot Engel. Then to Majority hosue leader Steny Hoyer's office to brief members. Steny was profuse in his praise for me, which… **[2020-02-13T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** Feb. 13, 2020 - 60,349/1369 Sharp increase in that they are not using just lab test for DX; they are using chest x-rays and CT scans of lung. Meeting at White House with Chairs and Ranking members of big 4 committees with Anne Schuket, General Paul Friedrichs, Bob Kadlec in Roosevelt Room. Kevin McCarthy, Steve Scalise, Greg Walden. Chaired by Mick Mulvaney. Also, Eric Ueland of WH Lewg there. Good questions. Many compliments PRESS: CBS This Morning (for showing tomorrow); FOX News (Lou Dobbs) **[2020-02-14T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** Feb. 14, 2020 - 64,460/1384 Making plans to deal with Americans on Princess Diamond Cruise ship in Yokohama harbor. Cliff flying to Japan to help design a clinical trial to treat infected people with remdesivir. Then he is off to China as part of the WHO-sponsored delegation. Azar, Redfield, Kadlec and I briefed the entire Cabinet on a teleconference this AM PRESS: FOX Business; Spectrum News TV; Fox News with Dana perino;CBS This Morning ; CNBC **[2020-02-15T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** Feb. 15, 2020 - 67,178/1527. Had White House Task Force conference call at 12:00 noon (Saturday). Big issue was the plan to get Americans off the Diamond Princess in Yokohama harbor. State will charter planes to get them to Lackland and Travis AF bases. Sick people will stay in Japanese hospitals. Uninfected and people whoise status is not clear will be flown out with the proper PPE for those who are thought to be at roisk of being infected. Also, discussed on the call the persistent problem of cruise ships in general, which could derail all polasn for containment since they scatter people from all over the world to all over the world. Important conference call chaired by Bob Kadlec with… **[2020-02-16T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** Feb. 16, 2020 - 69,275/1670 (Sunday) Big discussion on phone with Kadlec, Anne Schuchat and Kevin (ASPR) on whether to remove a person from the evacuation plane who recently showed to be positive. Original plan was that anyone who was infected would not board plane evacuating people from the Diamond Princess. Now Kadlec and Kevin want to board them since people on the bus waiting to board have already been exposed on the bus to several people who are infected. Washington Post story by Jasmeen Abutaleb has me defending Azar against slurs against him (covertly by administration officials). I also say that w need to be fair to the POTUS (see below): "In fairness to the president, someone told… **[2020-02-17T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** Feb. 17, 2020 - 71,438/1775. 454 infected on Diamond Princess cruise ship. Heated discussion last evening (see above) with Bob Kadlec, Will Walters (State Med), Anne Schuchat, Kevin (ASPR) about whether to board people on the evacuation 747 plane who were originally scheduled to come home as "uninfected" after they just found out that 14 of them are in fact infected. The written agreement is that no documented infected people should get on the evac plane. Walters, Kevin and to some extent Bob Kadlec (he was complicit) insisted that since they were already on the bus, we should allow them on the plane. They said that we would not know what to do with them if they stayed since we could not… **[2020-02-18T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** Feb. 18, 2020 - 73,335/1876. More infections appearing on Diamond Princess. Good thing we got our people off the ship. Director of a major Wuhan hospital dies of COVID-19. Liu Zhiming, 51yo neurologist HS Did panel at the Council on Foreign Relations chaired by Fran Townsend. Bob Kadlec was other panelist. Much discussion about Cruise ship issues. Our planes land in Lakeland and Travis with evacuated Americans. Infected people shipped to University of Nebraska for containment; remainder of the uninfected go into 14 day quarantine PRESS: CNN New Day (Jim Sciutto and Alisyn Camerota); BBC Radio; CNN International; FOX America Newsroom; CNBC; FOX News (Laura Ingraham) **[2020-02-19T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** Feb. 19, 2020 - 75,201/2012. On WHO weekly call with Mike Ryan. 1700 health care workers have been infected. Starting to discuss the role of environmental (surfaces) spread of virus, particularly in the context of the Diamond Princess. Mike Ryan makes good point that the stringent control efforts of China are putting pressure on the virus not to spread. This is somewhat artificial. He is concerned that the virus in other countries that cannot be so draconian in control we might see a resurgence of the virus that is being artificially controlled in China. CDC Comms concerned that I am being too hard on the Japanese by sayng publicly that their quarantine failed. They contacted Courtney. Too… **[2020-02-20T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** Feb. 20, 2020 - 75,752/2130. Had major discussions last evening among the HHS team. Some disagreement that we had to sort out between ASPR (Kadlec) and CDC (Cetron/Redfield) regarding when to trigger the transition from containment to mitigation. Kadlec wanted to do it if only 1 location (city, etc) had more than 3 rounds of transmission, whereas CDC wanted to trigger to be >3 rounds in more than one non-contiguous location (city, etc.) . After much conference call discussion we came to a compromise. Azar pissed off at a story in the Washington Post by Lena Sun. Someone leaked the story about the disagreement between CDC and State/ASPR regarding allowing infected Americans to board the… **[2020-02-21T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** Feb. 21, 2020 - 76,775/2247. 1st patient to die from being on Diamond Princess. Had intense "Table Top"=like exercise with the WHTF in the Situation Room from 3:00to 5:00 PM. Discussed the plans and triggers of going from containment to mitigation. Lots of good discussion. Led by Mick Mulvaney. CNBC interview wa slightly hostile questioning the "controversial" decision of putting the infected evacuees from the Diamond Princess on the plane back to USA. After my explanation and after I was off the air, Mike Osterholm and Scott Gottlieb got on and starting spewing forth about the idea that we might be missing people in the UA who are infected. The hosts seemed to be pitting me against them.… **[2020-02-22T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** Feb. 22, 2020 - 77,932/2363. Seeing sustained transmissions in Japan and Korea. CDC issuing travel alert 2 - "consider postponing non-essential travel". This is a bad sign and could be the beginning of the transition to a pandemic. Press (see MSNBC below) still folucing on the decision to board infected people on the plane from the Diamond Princess ity spread now increasing PRESS: MSNBC; CNN with Michael Smerconish; **[2020-02-23T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** Feb. 23, 2020 (Sunday) - 78,804/2463. Cases of community spread now increasing greatly in Japan, South Korea, Italy. Bob Kadlec called me this AM with emerging problem. We need to house some of the evacuees from the Diamond princess who are continuing to convert to virus positive in a place where we can isolate them and have them ready for acute medical care if they become ill. There are about 30 people thus far negative for infection who may soon convert, mostly elderly and frail about whom Kadlec is concerned. It is projected that 1 of 10 will convert and likely will get seriously ill as has been the case with other elderly people from the Diamond Princess who got ill in Japan and went… **[2020-02-24T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** Feb. 24, 2020 - 79,524/2626. Situation getting worse in Italy, Korea, Japan, Iran. More reports of transmissions by asymptomatic people. Lots of discussions of when the WHO will declare this a "pandemic". WHO is saying that they are no longer using the terminology "pandemic" Stock Market plunging today about 1000 points as a result of coronavirus reports. Mick Mulvaney called my office today to give me the cell number of Larry Kudlow who wanted to speak with me. I called and Larry wanted my take on what is evolving with COVID-19 since it is critical to him in his assessment of the potential impact on the economy. He said he trusts my opinion over anyone else. OMB will release the… **[2020-02-27T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** Feb. 27, 2020 - 82,446/2808. Very interesting things evolving. Got phone call from Azar this AM (while in Building 31 cafeteria). Azar is frustrated with the operational incompetence of the CDC and asked me to start thinking abou a possible replacement for Redfield at CDC in case Azar needs to replace him. He prefers a woman, and someone who is not an obvious anti-Trump person. Azar admits that regardless of all the PR, the fact is that Pence is now in charge. Also, Azar told me that Pence ordered the lockdown of all press by everyone including Azar. Azar is trying to turn this around since it is obviously a bad idea. Got phone call fom Tom Bossert (former Deputy National Security Advisor… **[2020-02-27T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** Feb 27, 2020 **[2020-02-28T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** Feb. 28, 2020 - Much community spread in South Korea, Italy, Iran, Japan. Briefed the All House Membership at the Capitol Visitor Center. Question came up of whether I am muzzled and I explained that this was not the case. PRESS: MSNBC - Chris Matthews Hardball; FOX Business with Gregg Jarrett; **[2020-02-29T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** Feb. 29, 2020 - 86,000/2941. Important Day - Went to Situation Room for a Saturday AM (10:00 AM task force meeting) when it became clear that there was several new cases of "community spread" There were already 14 cases (12 from Wuhan and 2 spouses). Then we learned a few days ago that there were 2 cases in California that were community based and both were now on respirators. The NEW information from yesterday is that there are now 6 additional cases - 1 in Oregon of a 45 yo who is now in the ICU and 5 cases near Seattle Washington, one of whom died last night; another one is hospitalized; and a 73 yo in long term care is now in an ICU; one just returned from Korea and so that might be a… **[2020-03-01T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** Mar. 1, 2020 - 87,137/2977. Bob Redfield and Nancy Messonnier telling me that there are now more cases in Chicago, Rhode Island, Florida, Massachusetts. Nancy is frustrated that Bob is not sounding the alarm to start social distancing. She is asking for my help. I will bring it up at the AMA call and the Task Force call. Got call at home this AM (Sunday) from Gov. Andrew Cuomo (NY) asking advice how he should handle the COVID-19 siutation in NYC. Had long conversation in which he stressed a few times, how much his father (and mother) loved me and used to tell Chris and Andrew how much they respected me and how proud they were that I was an ItalianAmerican. Sylvia Burwell appeared on Fareed… **[2020-03-01T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** Mar 1, 2020 **[2020-03-01T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** Mar 1, 2020 **[2020-03-02T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** Mar. 2, 2020 - 89,197/3038. 2nd death in the USA (Washington State man). Several more community based cases plus a NYC case that returned from Iran. We will need to move to mitigation + containment in Washington State, which has declared state of emergency. 89 cases in USA with more cases each day. 6 deaths in USA Deb Birx on board. Had a slight run in with her when she told me that the WH was pissed at me for sayng on n NBC interview today that we have an outbreak and "likely a pandemic". It all go cleared up after I spoke with Katie Miller who is now running the Comms shop for COVID-19. She is the VP's Comms person. Someone trying the hurt Azar by leaking to press (Politico and WSJ)that… **[2020-03-03T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** Mar. 3, 2020 - 91,320/3118. POTUS and VP visit NIH today. Amazing day! Testified with Steve Hahn, Anne Schuchat, Bob Kadlec before Senate HELP Committee chaired by Lamar Alexander. Patty Murray complaining about lack of testing availability in Washington State where there is increased community spreading now with 6 deaths most in nurtsing home. In the middle of the hearing Sen Keane asked me why I was disinvited to the Democratic caucus lunch. It was scheduled that after the Hearing, Hahn, Birx and I should make comments first at the GOP Senate caucus lunch and then the Dem. In reality someone in the VP's office screwed up and felt that I would not get to the NIH in time to greet the POTUS… **[2020-03-04T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** Mar. 4, 2020 - 95,125/3254 Countriesd with cases - 77. South Korera -5328 cases; Italy - 2502. In USA 22 cases travel related + 38 person-to-person (10 deaths) = 60 cases + 3 Wuhan and 45 Diamond Princess repatriated - 48 . total - 108. Testified with my NIH colleagues at the House Approps Subcommittee chaired by Rosa DeLauro and present was Full committee Chair Nita Lowy. Again much praise for my role in coronavirus. Many senators want to speak individually to me. Today spoke with Senators Manchin (D-WV), Gary Powers (D-MI), and Pat Toomey (R-PA) clarifying point about testing, which is the big topic since the CDC and FDA lagged behind. More briefings today of House GOP and Dem caucus in… **[2020-03-05T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** Mar. 5, 2020 - 97,381/3348 Now have 12th death in USA - another of the Seattle nursing home. Total cases in the USA = 152. Seattle seeing community spread (see above). Did Full Senate and Full House briefings in the Capitol Visitor Center with Azar, and some members of Task Force. Some hostility between Azar and Congressman for Texas regarding the issue of the Congressman questioning whether CDC people were properly PPE'd when they brought expatriated people from Diamond Queen. Following the briefings, we did a press conference. Many hostile questions regarding what the POTUS said that AM on Hannity. He said that most people who get infected and do very well and can go back to work. He… **[2020-03-06T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** Mar. 6, 2020 - Nancy Messonnier calls me asking for help in getting the message out that we must protect the vulnerable (elderly with co-morbidities). She wants to say it but she says the VP's staff are pushing back. I promise to bring up at TF meeting. I do and get support to announce it, which I do at the WH press conference this afternoon. I say that people with underlying conditions, particularly the elderly, should start to practice some form of social distrancing as well as avoiding any non-essential travel, particularly airplanes. During task force meeting it became clear that there were at least 21 infections on the Grand Princess out of the 46 tested. All but 2 were in the crew. I… **[2020-03-07T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** Mar. 7, 2020 - 102,969/3511. Meeting at Deb Birx home to hash out issues in preparation for TF meeting today (Saturday) at 4:00 PM. Tom Frieden comes down from NYC, Joe Grogan, Steve Redd (now detailed from CDC to Deb), Matt Pottinger, Olivia Troye. We make decision to recommend that staff of all nursing homes and extended care facilities act as if they are infected and wear masks, wash hands, etc. in dealing with clients. Also, limit visits of family members, and if they do visit, they should do as the staff does. Still have not made decision about whether to ban all embarkment s of cxruise ships for USA. We want to do this, since we do not have the facilities to quarantine thousands of… **[2020-03-08T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** Mar. 8, 2020 - 105,427/3583. 2 cases in DC and at least 3 in Montgomery County. I am going to start social distancing myself - am 7 monhs shy of 80 years old. Today is the Sunday show day. I emphasized on FOX (Chris Wallace) and Meet the Press that people with underlying conditions, particularly the elderly with such conditions should do social distancing, avoid all by absolutely essential travel, do not take long plane trips and absolutely avoid cruise ships. The meetingof the TF today emphasized getting people off the ship. There has been a delay with the union of longshoreman somewhat passive aggressing the USG. Pence to Call Gov. Newsom. Pence tasks Deb and I to put together some… **[2020-03-08T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** March 8, 2020, 3:04 p.m. ET • • Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation's leading expert on infectious diseases, is widely respected for his ability to explain science without talking down to his audience -- and lately, for managing to correct the president's pronouncements without saying he is wrong. President Trump said that drug companies would make a coronavirus vaccine ready "soon." Dr. Fauci has repeatedly stepped up after the president to the lectern during televised briefings or at White House round tables to amend that timetable, giving a more accurate estimate of at least a year or 18 months. Mr. Trump said a "cure" might be possible. Dr. Fauci explained that antiviral drugs were being… **[2020-03-09T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** Mar. 9, 2020 - 111,354/3892. Stock market really crashing. Even though we are saying that 1.1 million tests are out there, and millions (4 mill this week) to follow, we still do not know how many tests have been performed and whether anyone can get a test who needs it. hate to say it, but some incompetence at CDC/FDA. We are geeting killed publicly by this vulnerability. Am now told by CDC that we only have 1 million nasal swabs to collect the specimens. And so now we have more tests than swabs! And the limiting factor is the swabs. Gov. Cuomo calls me up and asks my advice on whether to close schools in the orthodox Jewish section of Westchester where they have 90 cases (more than rest of… **[2020-03-10T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** Mar. 10, 2020 - 116,588/4090. USA cases now 712. Deaths 29 Just signed off on a Level 3 State ("Reconsider Travel") and a Level 3 CDC ("Avoid non-essential travel) for the European Schengen Area This measn that all travelers from this area are required to enact a 14 day voluntary quarantine after arriving to USA. Also will consider an INA Section 212(f) Proclamation banning travel to USA bu any foreign national, with limited exceptions, who has been physically present in Italy in the last 14 days I push hard with Jerome Adams to expand community mitigation. One topic was whether there should be campaign rallies. I insiste that we say all large crowds should be avoided. Marc Short pushes… **[2020-03-11T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** Mar. 11, 2020 - 121,098/4366. >1000 cases in USA - 29 deaths (WHO numbers). Congressional House Energy and Commerce Oversight and Reform Hearing today - Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) Chair AMAZING DAY!! Before Hearing we were told that the POTUS wanted me at the White House at 12:30 PM for a meeting about travel restrictions that we had been discussing and the Hearing was supposed to end at 12;30PM .. I obviously had to leave at 11:45 AM. I left. The chair and committee was very annoyed. The twitter feed blasted that since I was being very forceful in saying that :"Things were going to get worse before they got better" and gave a very serious warning about what was ahead, that the POTUS yanked me… **[2020-03-11T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** March 11, 2020; **[2020-03-12T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** Mar. 12, 2020 - 129,846/4931. 1267 cases in USA, 38 deaths. Cases in 44 states. Italy continues to surge Has House briefing in Capitol and Senate briefing in Dirksen. Then continuation of House Energy and Commerce Hewaring from the other day with Malonet as Chair. Again, they hammered us about testing. The Senators and Congressperrdsons were enraged, especially Patty Murry (D-WA). Steve Redd during the briefings and Bob Redfield during the Hearing continued to be incoherent in explaining about the difficulty regarding testing the "Public health" system that the CDc set up works well in individual small numbes of patient/physician related requests. However, it is not suited to mass… **[2020-03-12T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** March 12, 2020 at 5:32 p.m. EDT A virus that is deadly and little understood. An administration in deep denial. Anthony S. Fauci has been here before. As the coronavirus epidemic escalates, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) has become a familiar media presence. Fauci's expertise and credibility shine against the contradictory and false messages coming out of President Trump. The administration has at times sounded more concerned with protecting the president politically than stopping the spread of a potentially lethal disease. While Trump tries to play down the severity of a public health crisis that might affect his reelection prospects,… **[2020-03-12T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** Mar 12, 2020 - Feb 17, 2021 15,000 10,000 5,000 Weekly Tests Weekly Cases Avg. Weekly Hospitalized -8.7% From Last Week -25.8% From Last Week -17.6% From Last Week 14.0M ueM 120,000 12.0M 1.4M 100,000 10.0M 1.2M 80,000 8.0M 1.0M 0.8M 60,000 6.0M 0.6M 4.0M 40,000 0.4M 2.0M 20,000 0.2M I cow lil = ete a oe = > -- fae a bo = = a a EST ERESCE CIOS OF STORE SL ST Lee ae 325957235 3523235 Source: The COVID Tracking Project °o Weekly Deaths -20.9% From Last Week " a Apr9 Juni Jul 2 Jul 23 Aug Sep Oct 15 Nov Nov Dec Jan? Jan May Mar stick with the 2 dose since we know from our studies that the 2nd dose increases the response 10fold over the 1st dose. This height of response gives a cushion against… **[2020-03-14T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** Mar. 14, 2020 (Saturday) - CDC numbers (less than WHO numbers. 142,320/5388. 129 countries involved. China numbers going way down - only 11 new infections. Koreaa flattening out. USA - 2226 cases, 50 deaths, 532 new cases. POTUS came into the TF meeting with "USA" baseball cap on. We spent a lot of time talking about "ratings' of yesterday's press conference and its effect on the stock market. He dwelled on doing more press conferences and how the ratings would be even better than the best fake news TV ratings. He made the right decisions about now doing travel restrictions in UK + Ireland and so what I ma seeing is someone who actually makes decision that are bestr for the public health… **[2020-03-15T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** Mar. 15, 2020 (Sunday) - BIG DAY! 142,539/ USA = 2888 with 58 deaths and 662 new I did all 5 Sunday Shows today (my 3rd Fauci 5") with This Week on ABC, Meet the Press on NBC, Face the Nation on CBS, FOX with Chris Wallace and CNN. All went very well Had press conference at White House. POTUS made intro and then left for us to take Questions. Brett Giroir brought a bunch of USPHS officers with their dark blue work uniforms and told the press how great they are. I spent an hour before the press briefing in the VP's office. In preparing for the briefing which was geared to rolling out the high throughput tests in collaboration with the States and the private sector that will be operational… **[2020-03-16T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** Mar. 16, 2020 - Came out with the guidelines that reflected my pushing for a more aggressive mitigation 15 day strategy → If you are elderly, self-isolate; do not congregate in groups >10 people; stay away from bars, restaurants, theaters, sporting events; if a community has community spread CLOSE the bars, restaurants and places of congregation; close schools where there is community spread; no visitors to nursing homes; if family member is sick, others in family should take extra percautions; only necessary travel, telework as much as possible. Press conference after was highly attended. Stock market dropped byu 3000 points, the biggest percentage drop in history. PRESS: ABC 20/20… **[2020-03-17T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** Mar. 17, 2020 - 168,000/6700; 151 countries; USA 4529 cases (903 news); 84 deaths (16 new). At TF discussed supply chain issues; also testing still somewhat of an issue. Press conference with POTUS. He is now coming around (largely through my efforts) to say thatr this is really a serious problem, but he still always brags about how well we are doing as opposed to emohasizing the challenges ahead. I gave some support to Gov. Cuomo during a question of me. Issue arising of clains from France that hydroxychloroquine is effective in decreasing the duration of viral shedding and also is used as a prophylaxis in exposed people. All uncontrolled studies. PRESS: Press conference after TF. I was… **[2020-03-18T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** Mar. 18, 2020 - WH wanted me to not wear myself out. Have had private car and driver since Mar. 13 (Friday). I will stay at NIH today and do some press tonight from truck at home. Very positive press with Laura Ingraham on FOX last night On WHO call, Dale Fisher (Australian working in Singapore) gave warning to other countries that after you lift the lock down, be prepared for a rebound and use the lockdown period to stock up on supplies, prepare alternative hospitals (gyms, schools, etc.) preserve PPE and not use them for unnecessary things. Also, from Italy, 12% of ICU patinets were 19-50 years od and ~30% were 50-70 yo; 50% of French patienets in ICU are under 60 yo. Bloomberg report on… **[2020-03-19T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** Mar. 19, 2020 - >200,000/~10,000; USA - 9026/150; 2900 new. Italy >31,000 In the USA testing: ~70,000 tests with ~10% positive Met yet again with POTUS right before the press conference, which did not include me since it was predominantly an FDA issue with Steve Hahn. POTUS excited about making drugs (Chloroquine, Remdesivir, etc.) more accessible. Therapy was the theme of the day. They actually were going to go too far (see above) and make them all available on compassionate use. I convinced them not to. POTUS was hot to give out chloroquine or hydroxychloroquine since Jeff Ellison thinks that it is a great drug. Steve Hahn did a good job in stressing the need for safety and efficacy… **[2020-03-20T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** Mar. 20, 2020 - Another day at the WH. Important TF meeting and press conference. During the day, Gov. Cuomo had a press conference that he wanted me on to join him, but I could not since I did not want to do a press conference outside of USG and the WGH would not let me do it anyway. Cuomo took a gigantic step forward. 90% of the new infections in the USA are now coming from NYC and Westchecter, but mostly NYC. Cuomo is essentially shutting down all non-essential activity in the city.. 100% of non-essential workers must stay at home and not intermingle. I strongly praised Cuomo for doing this at the Presser after the TF. We met with the POTUS (as usual) in the Oval. The theme of the… **[2020-03-22T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** Mar. 22, 2020 (Sunday)- Cases continue to soar. 30,000 in USA with 400 deaths; Italy still escalating. My please to the TF regarding needing desparately to get PPEs and other supplies to NYC seems to be working since FEMA in pusing stuff to them. 250,000 tests now done not counting those from hospitals and medical centers Press is going wild with me. Front page in Washintgton Post yesterday and Op Ed by Maureen Dowd in NY Times today about me and my relationship with the POTUS. Profile by Peter Nicholas on me in The Atlantic. I am trying in several articles and on TV to clarify that the POTUS is tsalking about hope for therapies although there are no good data, while I must stick to the… **[2020-03-24T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** Mar. 24, 2020 - 392,000/17,000; 45,000/550 in USA. Cases still soaring in NYC. COVID Cases 3.24.20 powerpoint Incredible intrigue going on with people (likely WH staff) feeding total lies to media about the frayed relstionship between me and the POTUS. This is really bad stuff. I am getting calls from media (Reuters) saying that a source told them that the POTUS was screaming at me and being abusive about the issue of HC treatments. Total nonsense. See below. Typical of many aryicles over the past few days: In order to save Dr. Fauci, we must destroy him Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, is a study of calm and competence in the middle… **[2020-03-25T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** Mar. 25, 2020 - 435,000/20,000; USA - 54,622/749. On WHO weekly call. China removing restrictions - critical to watch this closely to determine what happens in light of what POTUS is trying to do in reducing restrictions by Easter . Giuseppe Ippolitto reporting from Italy - major restrictions of non-essential industries. Good control in Central and Southern Italy. Lombardy still very bad. People moving from North to South bringing cases to South. Contact tracing impossible in major outbreak areas. Deaths mostly in older (>60 yo) people. From Italy - no evidence of bad effects of ACE inhibitors on COVID-19, hence no need to change meds. CHINA - in regions where they have gone doen to no… **[2020-03-26T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** Mar. 26, 2020 - Global - 414,000/18,400; USA - 68,600/1000; NYC 20,000/280. Continued pressure regrding POTUS aspitational goal of wanting to open up on Easter Sunday. Cases now coming into NIH with several staff infected. Admissions to the SCSU Received another of now several calls from Gov. Andrew Cuomo wanting guidance on interpreting the trend of new cases/day and what this means to predictions of where the outbreak is going in NYC. Had the usual good and warm/friendly conversation. He and Chris Cuomo are becoming friends. Also, we discussed his and my relationship with Trump. CRAZY, CRAZY - donuts are being named after me; T shirts have my picture on them and are being sold; San… **[2020-03-27T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** Mar. 27, 2020 - USA now has more cases than any country in the world Global - 542,788/24361 To my surprise yesterday, the POTUS sent a letter to Governors outlining a plan to reopen county by county while moniroring the spread of virus in the low risk counties. This was half-baked and never shown to Deb or I before it was sent out. It was derived by Jared and Kevin Hassett (modeler) and I cannot see how it can be implemented. I am surprised at Jared, who is usually very measured. This is reckless since it would require monitoring with much testing by CDC and they do not even know about it. Poor Bob Redfield is totally out of it. IMPORTANT DAY - There has been a disconnect between what we… **[2020-03-28T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** MAR. 28, 2020 (Saturday) - 509,000/23300; USA 104,200/1700; NYC - 26700/450. Cases still escalating. First day with full sceurity Lindsey Graham trying to help. Will go on TV and opush my message of holding off the POTUS to pull the plug too soon. Gov. J.B. Pritzker called with report of death of a 9 month old from COVID-19 in Chicago. Prtiztker concerned that this will generate panic in mothers throughout the USA. May be 1st infant in USA to die of COVID-10 The USNS Comfort taking off from Norfolk, VA to NYC to supply beds and treatment for non-COVID-19 patients in order to free up on shore beds for COVID. Also, the USNS Mercy has already arrived in LA for same purpose The "swag" around… **[2020-03-29T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** Mar. 29, 2020 (SUNDAY) - Cases continue to soar. BIG DAY AT WHITE HOUSE Spent several hours with the POTUS. Bottom line. Deb and I pushed hard to have the POTUS extend the 15 day guidelines for another 30 days to end of April even though Mark Meadows and Kevin Hassett were against this. They wanted to just go to 15 days extra and then re-evaluate. We pushed and said that we would leave to the POTUS. We met with the POTUS in OVAL and Deb and I presented the case for 30 days. He accepted that right away (he really trusts me very much). He decided that he did not want to wait three days to Tuesday to announce and so we Chaotically and quickly wrote into his speech the announcement that it… **[2020-03-29T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** March 29, 2020 "Chief Scientist Draw Venom From the Right" by Davey Alba and Sheera Frankel. Also, article in NY Times on "Testing Blunders...." By Michael Shear et al. GOOD ARTICLE: March 29, 2020 article by Jenny Jarvie AIDS crisis shaped Anthony Fauci, disease expert at front lines of coronavirus pandemic Los Angeles Times You're making me feel guilty," President George W. Bush said in 2008 when he awarded Fauci, the longtime director of the National Institute of Allergy ... Flag as irrelevant nth 2w admissions in Great areticle in WSJ by Ben Cohen - March 29, 2020: WSJ: Dr. Fauci Was a Basketball Captain. Now He's America's Point Guard. https://on.wsj.com/33TOug3 PRESS: CNN State of… **[2020-03-30T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** Mar. 30, 2020 - Cses still soaring. Spent another entire day at the WH. Met with the POTUS and had Press conference in Rose Garden. Today most attention o CEOs and companies coming to indicte that they would help in any way. Discussion at theTF meeting about Ad Bax (I brought it up) and the issue of aerosol merely by speaking and whether we should now seriously think about recommending that everyone wear a mask. More to come. Also, I am continuing to push that we onnect the dots about how we are going to handle the inevitable flares that we will soon see in other smaller cities. There needfs to be the capasbility of testing, identification, isolations and contact tracing. No one seems to… **[2020-03-31T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** Mar. 31, 2020 - Perhaps some early indication of leveling of new admissions in NYC. Careful. Complete craziness with this Fauci cult hero stuff. See below in Washington Post today: Fauci socks, Fauci doughnuts, Fauci fan art: The coronavirus expert attracts a cult following r day, (0 ship ree CNN. "We didn't know Doughnuts bearing the likeness of Anthony S. Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, rest on a plate at Donuts Delite in Rochester, N.Y., on March 25. (Shawn Dowd/Rochester Democrat & Chronicle/AP) By Antonia Noori Farzan **[2020-03-31T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** March 31, 2020 at 5:15 a.m. EDT Early last week, Nick Semeraro wanted to find a way to honor Anthony S. Fauci. As the owner of a small doughnut shop in Rochester, N.Y., he had been closely tracking the latest news about the coronavirus pandemic. And night after night, he'd been impressed by how Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, approached the crisis in a calm, knowledgeable manner. So, as a tribute, Semeraro put the renowned immunologist's face on a doughnut. Expecting to sell a few hundred, he was shocked when the store sold out day after day, with thousands flying off the shelves. Donuts Delite was besieged with requests to ship the… **[2020-04-01T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** April 1, 2020 - Cases still going up. USA - 188,000/3700. Global - 751000/36400 NYC- 43100/1100 Some very early signs in NYC that the number of "new cases' in starting the stabilize. However, the deaths always lag and these will continue to increase over the next week or two. Did major briefing of the GOP House leadership organized by Liz Cheney and Kevin McCarthy Continued crazy stuff: Petition to name me "Sexiest Man Alive"; videos games named after me; Fauci Bobblehead; dishes in redstaurants named after me, and on and on. Had good conversation with Bill Gates tonight who wants the BMGF to partner with me (NIAID) and BARDA in the advanced development and scaleup of vaccines,… **[2020-04-01T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** Apr 1, 2020 - Mar 6, 202' Daily Tests Mar 6: 1,409,138 7-Day Avg: 1,437,872 325,000 Daily Cases Mar 6: 59,620 7-Day Avg: 59,631 Mar 6: 41,401 7-Day Avg: 44,865 Currently Hospitalized Daily Deaths Mar 6: 1,674 7-Day Avg: 1,752 4,500 -_ 130,000 2.2M 300,000 2.1M 4,000 2.0M 275,000 20,000 1.9M 110,000 1.8M 250,000 3,500 1.7M 100,000 1.6M 225,000 4 5M 90,000 3,000 . 200,000 1.4M 80,000 1.3M 175,000 2,500 1.2M 70,000 1.1M 150,000 1.0M 60,000 2,000 roe 125,000 50,000 ' 1,500 0.7M 100,000 40,000 0.6M 0.5M 76,000 30,000 1,000 oe 50,000 20,000 0.3M , 0.2M 25,000 10,000 0.1M ' . . Apri Jul 1 Oct 1 Jan1 Apri = Jul1 Oct 1 Jan1 Apri Jul Oct 1 Jan1 Apr1 Jul 1 Oct 1 Jan1 PRESS: Black News Channel Morning… **[2020-04-02T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** April 2, 2020 - USA - 215500/4600; NYC - 47400/1400 45 minutes similar to House briefing Global - 824000/41000; Washington Post now reporting that I have a security detail (George Adams). Also, DC police now guarding my house 24 hrs/day. Gave briefing to the GOP Senators for 45 minutes similar to House briefing yesterday. Terrific Sirius XM - Coach K podcast - wonderful person who was so generous and complimentary in his comments to me. He called me "the point guard for the world" Spoke with Gov. Phil Murphy of New Jersey who wanted to run by me his approach to COVID and see if I thought that he was doing all the right things. He was. He is frustrated that some people still do not adhere… **[2020-04-03T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** April 3, 2020 - Global - 879000/46000; USA 245000/5500; (real numbers are probably more; these are CDC numbers - global is 1,000,000/50,000) Deaths and cases still soaring. Meeting today virtually (Francis Collins leading) with the Public Private Partnership to address research and development for COVID-19. Mikael Dolstien (Pfizer); Paul Stoffels (J & J), etc. Intense media blitz on me continues. Mentioned by all Late Night TV Shows. Question of universal wearing of masks dominating conversation Press conference today: I was originally supposed to be sitting on the side for questions and at the last minute, they told me that I was not needed. This was not unreasonable since the presser was… **[2020-04-04T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** April 4, 2020 - Global 972600/50300; USA 277200/6600; Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas - questions about my statements recently that all states should do stay at home. He was vey nice ad wanted clarification of what that meant forTexas and was he already doing what I was saying. In fact, he was for the most part. Also, spoke with Gov. Ned Lamont of Connecticut. Same issues as Gov. Abbott Washington Post had article ridiculing Jared for his appearance at the Press conference. They are being a bit unfair. Thick politics going on fueled by POTUS ridiculous behavior of blaming people for things. He keeps talking about TV ratings of the press briefings, which fuels the press backlash at him. In Task… **[2020-04-05T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** April 5, 2020 - (Sunday) - Major news-outlets (Wash Post, NY Times) starting to write detailed stories of how the USG (esp. Trump) dropped the ball in response to COVID-19. CDC getting bashed (in some respects rightly so). Much Monday morning quarterbacking. Thus far, I am coming out OK, but the response in general in being bashed. Global - 1,100,000/57000; USA - 311000/7700; Cases predicted to continue to rise and deaths increase over next week. Nice article in Washington Post on the relationship between Deb Birx and me. Beautiful profile of me on BBC audio featuring Chris and Peter Staley. I was sitting on steps of EEOB on a conference call reviewing countermeasure portfolio (BARDA) when… **[2020-04-06T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** April 6, 2020 - Global - 1,100,000/63,000; USA - 338,000/10,000; Today did call with Governors (me, Deb, Redfield, Giroir et al). Turned out it was mostly Governors's staff and health people as opposed to actual Governors. Individual Calls with Gov. Ricketts (NE) and Gov. Reynolds (IOWA). They were concernced about my comment that "I cannot understand why all states have not done stay at home orders". They are really already doing as much or more than some states that have officially issued stay at home orders and they are being criticized as a result of my comments. We worked it out over the phone. I will support them and clarify where I can to support them. -369,000/11,000 At the Press… **[2020-04-07T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** April 7, 2020 - Global - 1,200,000/68000; USA - 369,000/11,000 Press still hot and heavy about me. Multiple stories per day directly or indirectly involving me. The debate about the use of HC still dominating the discussion. Big article in the Washington Post about the long relationship between Deb Birx and me. Big challenge today is to firm up a plan on how to approach to re-opening of the country. I am concerned that there really is no plan and no one is really in charge. Off-hand mention of "another task force". Jared is getting involved with us. Deb supposedly leading it. Deb unhappy with Brett Giroir and bad-mouthing him a bit as he goes his way continually reporting about how many… **[2020-04-08T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** April 8, 2020 - Global - 1,300,000/73,000; USA - 398,000/13,000 As we predicted, yesterday was the most deaths in single day in USA. However, indications from NYC aree that cases, hospitalizations, intensive care and intubations have been down for past few days. Remember - deaths always lag by about 2 weeks behind new cases. Could be first clear sign of turnaround. Now focusing on how to "re-open" the country safely (see meeting last night) Bobblehead raising money: Fauci bobblehead raises $100,000 for American Hospital Association Anthony S. Fauci's bobblehead likeness has eclipsed a nun's to become the best seller in the six-year existence of the National Bobblehead Hall of Fame and… **[2020-04-08T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** April 8, 2020 t he described as a "potentially major Donald Trump COVID-19 as Photograph by Lo Scalzo / Bloomberg / Getty WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)--In what he described as a "potentially major breakthrough," Dr. Anthony Fauci has convinced Donald Trump to attack COVID-19 as if it were an inspector general. Fauci, who has been frustrated in his efforts to get through to Trump, compared the global pandemic to an inspector general while in a closed-door meeting with the President on Wednesday. "What do you hate more than anything, Mr. President?" Fauci asked. "Jim Acosta," Trump immediately replied. "O.K., fine. But, besides Jim Acosta," Fauci said, "it would be an inspector general,… **[2020-04-09T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** April 9, 2020 (Thursday) - Global -1,400,000/80,000; USA- 430,000/15,000; Getting ready to submit the COVID-19 Treatment Guidelines that Cliff led. Briefed AZAR by phone he liked it but wanted to make sure that Nancy Messonnier was OK with it since we did not want CDC to be coming out with objections. I called Nancy and found out in a poignant call that she no longer is involved in the COVID response. I do not believe that Azar knows this. Who removed her??? Tim Uyeki is representative for CDC on the Guidelines Panel. TF Conference call with Senate GOP and Dems - usual questions about when to re-open the country Another example of craziness. This below in the New Yorker: **[2020-04-10T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** April 10, 2020 - Global - 1,440,000/85,000; USA - 465,000/17,500 Concern building about the economy and when we can open the country. 17 million jobs lost within the past 4 weeks. Larry Kudlow and Steve Mnuchin are concerned that even with the massive infusion of relief dollars that we may o irreparable damage to the economy if we do not open soon. Call with Randell Stephenson - CEO of ATT wanting counsel on how to get his workforce back towork safely Call with Gov. Asa Hutchinson of Arkansas - doing a good job in AR; want counselon retunring to normal Call with Gov. Mark Gordon of Wyoming - same discussion. What advice and counsel of returning to normal. Call with Gov. Doug Burgum of… **[2020-04-11T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** April 11, 2020 - Light day. TF, but no press conference. Important discussion about the fact that the sensitivity of the Abbott ID Now (15 minute test) machine is queationable. We have not had a single positive at the WH with press and secret service and staff. We will bring a machine to NIH to use on people with documented COVID-19. I am still concerned about our ability to dothe tsting that we keep reassuring the public that we can do. Deb very much suspicious and restrained hostile towards Brett Giroir whom she does not trust. Gave extra copies of the HHS Guidelines to Marc Short. They plan to have me present it to POTUS on Monday, April 13. > USA **[2020-04-12T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** April 12, 2020 (Easter Sunday) - Global - 1,800,000/110,000; USA 500,000/20,000. In general, early indications of leveling off. Print news (NY Times especially) writing multiple articles about howTrump was late to respond/slow to act even thugh he was given warnings by many people. I look good to neutral in the reports. Big article in New YorkTimes today by Eric Lipton, David Sanger, Maggie Haberman, Michael Sherar, Mark Mazzetti and Julian Barnes. I was spoofed last night on Saturday Night Live (SNL). Media buzz in my answer to Tapper's question whether lives would have been saved if we had shut down earlier. I said yes with a lot of qualifiers; however, the press is not reporting the… **[2020-04-13T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** April 13, 2020 - Potential big problem (we shall see). NY Times reporting on an answer to a question that I gave on CNN yesterday (see above). Jake Tapper asked me if we had closed down earlier, whould that have saved lives. I said it is complicated; he persisted and I said obviously, if you close earlier there would have been lives saved, but the decision was complicated. I could have answered the question better and with more clarity, but the Times is now saying that I was implying that the POTUS was to blame for additional deaths according to me. The far right is tweeting to fire me. The POTUS even re-tweeted the tweet that said to fire me. We shall see how the day goes....... I called… **[2020-04-14T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** April 14, 2020 - Press buzz still continues. Feature story in today's Washington Post: "Despite assurances, debate over Fauci's fate continues" by Toluse Olorunnipa, Seung Min Kim and Josh Dawsey. Also, Mike Gerson wrote an editorial in the Post attacking Trump for attacking me (re-tweet that energized Trump's right wing fringe to attack me. Global - 1,800,000/112,000; USA - 580,000/24,000. Daily cases starting to level off over past couple of days. Did not do Presser today. Topic was economic. He rambled on in typical manner. He reversed himself from yesterday when he said that he has "absolute power" to tell the Governors what to do in the "re-opening". He stunned the press with that… **[2020-04-15T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** April 15, 2020 - Global - 1,900,000/120/000; USA - 603,000/25,000 Print media still pitting everything I say as contradicting POTUS. They are also digging into what I said it February indicting that I said the virus would not be a problem; however, when you read my entire sentence, I said at this time (when there were a couple of cases in the USA) there is not a serious threat, but this could change very rapidly and so we need to be prepared. They leave out the last part of the sentence. Peter Nicholas of The Atlantic (Peter Nicholas)wrote a piece saying I was humiliated and "shamed" by getting in front of the cameras and backing off the CNN interview with Tapper. Fuck you, Peter. Has… **[2020-04-15T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** Apr. 15, 2020 1:30 PM EDT Italian Virus Hospital Offers Fauci Work If Trump Fires Him **[2020-04-16T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** April 16, 2020: Global - 2,000,000/125,000; USA - 640,000/32,000. Today is day when newe Guidelines for re-opening will be announced. I was shocked last night when she e-mailed me and said that all my edits had been accepted by the "Comms people". However, they wanted to take out the part about recommending masks. I wrote back (see bold below): Okay. Great. If we explicitly say follow CDC guidelines regarding use of masks and use during mass transit, then I cannot see how there can be any objection. **[2020-04-17T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** April 17, 2020 - Global - 2,000,000/132,000; USA -660,000/34,000; Did briefing with the VP and Deb and Steve Hahn and BobRedfield and Brett Giroir to the Dem Senate Caucus led by Chuck Schummer. Very hostile. Kept coming at us abut testing and how inadequate it is. I have been telling the TF that this is an issue that will not go away. Angus King (Maine) tee-ed off on VP about the fact that we are unprepared. Patty Murray was her old self wanting a testing plan, etc. etc. This rompted us to devope the entire TF to testing and decided to do a presser. I took over and chided the group that we cannot be telling people that we have more test and materials than we need since this would be… **[2020-04-17T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** Apr 17, 2020, 5:56 pm* Tech Claire Goforth The White House/Flickr The coronavirus outbreak has made Dr. Anthony Fauci, longtime director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, a household name. As beloved as he is in some corners, Fauci is loathed in others. He has increasingly from conservatives and who disagree with his cautionary approach to the deadly virus and view him as a " " enemy of President Donald Trump. '@RaySkywaahker Derp State fool Anthony Fauci, your time is running out. THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON 4:57 PM - Apr 13, 2020 Twitter Ads info and privacy 64 people are talking about this Last month, as the threats escalated, Fauci was assigned a security… **[2020-04-18T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** April 18, 2020 - Global 2,100,000/140,000; USA - 700,000/36,000 Far right agitating to get back to work. Much agitation! Daily articles involving me continue to appear. Article in Today's Washington Post. Talks about my one hour call with the Congressional Black Caucus and how they trust me,but do not trust Trump to help them. They are afraid that I will be fired. I am getting worn down with all this PLUS my PMR, prednisone and now I have lost 8 lbs over the past couple of months Mary McNamara column in Los Angeles times: 1e Column: Is Anthony Fauci the Sexiest Man Alive? Who the hell cares? Dr. Anthony S. Fauci speaking at the White House Friday. (Carolyn Kaster / AP) **[2020-04-18T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** APRIL 18, 2020 6 AM For the love of God, can someone please tear up the petition to make Dr. Anthony Fauci People magazine's Sexiest Man Alive? If not, can we please at least stop talking about it? I get that it's a compliment; for some, heaven help us, the ultimate compliment. Fauci's unflappable and highly competent demeanor has been a beacon of strength and surprise amid the squishy, tweet-driven, ass-covering, daily-contradictory triumph of personal feelings over irrefutable facts that has been the Trump administration's reaction to this pandemic. Let others voice outrage about churches closing down, or sputter about the indignity of wearing masks; express concern about the Dow Jones… **[2020-04-19T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** April 19, 2020 - Global - 2,200,000/150,000; USA - 725,000/38,000 Much agitation (spurred by the POTUS's stupid "Liberate Michigan, VA, etc) about people wanted to open up. Rallies with chants of "Fire Fauci" Had conversation with Jake Tapper who is asking where the 27 million tests by end of March came from (Brett Giroir). Fact is I have no idea how he got that number. Deb Birx has no confidence in Giroir, nor do I. We are saying that we have 1.5 to 2.0 Million tests per week available. I hope so. Still there is the reality and perception that we do not have enough tests. Sunday shows kept focusing on testing, testing, testing Mark Meadows approved our putting out Guideliens for Clinical… **[2020-04-20T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** April 20, 2020 - Global - 2,250,000/153,000; USA - 745,000/35,000 Goodday for me since for the 3rd day in a row, I do not need to be at press conference and stand (or sit) there and listen to his stream of consciousness. I had a major pushback (raising my voice) to Deb and Bob and Steve and Joe Grogan in the Sit Room before the TF meeting (mostly Deb) that we are relying on numbers from from Bret and Deb has absolutely no confidence in Brett. Everyone in the country and the world is saying that we do not have enough testing and Brett keeps saying that we do when the people in the trenches all so no. We are looking like idiots and I told the group that. Deb is weak!! She says that she has… **[2020-04-21T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** April 21, 2020 - Global - 2,300,000/158,000; USA - 780,000/41,000; VP is travelling and so no TF meeting today. Big stir on TV shows last night about some states wanting to open and violating the guidelines for "Opening America Again". POTUS making things worse by hiscrazy pronouncing "Liberate Michigan, Liberate Virgina". Really crazy - he himself and us (me, Deb) are stressing to abide by the guideliens and he is rabble-rousing by his statements. Typical Trump. Stir a lot of "Fire Fauci out there among the far right. Call from Sem Lindsey Graham saying that he spoke with POTUS today and Graham is afraid that POTUS will not push back against what Georgia Governor is doing by "opening up"… **[2020-04-22T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** April 22, 2020 -- Interesting day - Rick Bright has gone rogue. Due to his poor performance as head of BARDA, Alex (+/-) Kadlec removed him from his post. We (Francis and I) thought that he would stay at BARDA and spend 50% of time at NIH in order to coordinate BARDA with NIH vaccine activities, We all had always felt that he was making bad decisions in his giving hundreds of inillions of dollars to Phartma companies without any requirements to coordinate with NIH and his choices were poor to begin with. HOWEVER, in what turned out to be the most incompetent and botched HR move, they fired him by just taking his name and picture off the HHS/BARDA website without even telling him. They then… **[2020-04-23T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** April 23, 2020 - Global - 2,500,000/170,000; USA - 827,000/47,000; Interesting day. Was asked to come to Pentagon (with Deb Birx) by Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley. He had Deb and I brief him and his immediate staff on how the Armed Forces could best prepare for the future wave (in the Fall and beyond) of COVID-19. All about "force protection". We did this in the famous "Tank". Howver, before we did that he wanted to take a bunch of photos with him, his wife, and Vice Chair Gen. John Hyten and Gen.Paul Friedrichs. Also, he had me sign his surgical masks and a basketball that was originally signed by Coach K of Duke. I had a wondeful time!! TF was uneventful. I was not at… **[2020-04-24T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** April 24, 2020 - Global - 2,600,000/177,000; USA - 860,000/49,000. TF at the WH today. No press Press having a field day trashing the POTUS for his statement about "drinking bleach". Consuming the press. Will brief Governors today with the POTUS. Governor talk went well. Cuomo stated what I had been saying all along that we need a "partnership" between USG and States. Note the POTUS goes back and forth and has often said that the States are on their own and when I say "partnership" there was some concern that I was contradicting POTUS. Fir first time the POTUS had a presser and walked out without answering any questions. Axios wrote that he may greatly diminish pressers. He used to love… **[2020-04-25T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** April 25, 2020 - (Saturday) - Very brief TF at the WH today. No press conference. Much discussion about the plasn of the states to open. A lot of buzz in the media about Azar very likely getting fired. Reuters wrote a smear piece on him and attacked Brian Harrison (his COS) for be a dog breeder since he raised labradoodles at some ime in his life. Very unfair. Also, it is clear that theyare gradually keeping me off the press conferences with the POTUS and not allowing me on TV/radio nearly as much. NBC reported that of the last 7 press confercens, I was at 1 and I usually get 2-3 media hiots per day and I have only done 2 last week - FOX with Laura Ingraham and GMA with Stephanopoulos.… **[2020-04-25T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** April 25, 2020, 3:22 PM EDT / Updated April 25, 2020, 4:14 PM EDT **[2020-04-26T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** April 26, 2020 - (Sunday) - Global - 2,750,000/190,000; USA - 930,000/53,000 I was not on Sunday shows. Deb was on CNN with Jake Tapper and did not answer the question of whether it was a mistake for the POTUS to talk about injecting or swallowing bleach. Jake wrote me a text afterwards and said: "Birx has lost her way I fear. She has chosen to focus on defending the president and attacking the press. Odd." Had very important teleconference that I called for , but was chaired by Francis Collins and Bob Kadlec. The entire call was to align BARDA with the mission of NIH. Up to now, BARDA did what they wanted as a "parallel" component to NIH in HHS without any real consultation or… **[2020-04-27T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** April 27, 2020 - Global - 2,800,000/195,000; USA - 955,000/54,000 Stay heads up to a marked decrease in WH Comms allowing me to go on national media compared to 2 weeks ago. Let us see what happens. Big topics this week is the opening plans of various states and how they align with the "Opening America Again" Guidelines Briefed the Governors on the "Blueprint for Testing to Open Ameica Again". They all sounded like everything was fine with testing and praised the POTUS (at least the GOPs did), and Brett gave his usual overly optimistic report on how many tests we will have out there. However, when the press asked the Governors about their ability to test, many (mostly DEMS) still… **[2020-04-28T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** April 28, 2020 - Global - 3,000,000/200,000; USA - 1,000,000/56,000 .,100,000/58,000; Meeting with Joe Grogan group in Roosevelt Room. Joe is pissed that the individual guidances for special situations, i.e. restaurants, Child care centers, etc, do not align with the various phases of re-opening. Also, CDC again were late and off on their own regarding guidelines for surveillance. CDC is tone deaf to how everyone feels that they are not up to the task. Briefed Kayleigh McEnany and Mark Meadows about the Remdesivir trial. Mark and Kaylee agree that I should announce this at a presser tomorrow. I warn Mark that we cannot allow the POTUS to ad lib and over-promise since I will be very… **[2020-04-29T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** April 29, 2020 - Global - 3,000,000/203,000 USA - 1,100,000/58,000; Eventful day. Was supposed to present the Remdesivir findings at the usual 5:00 PM press conference at the WH. Marc Short called me when I was at NIH office and said to rush down to Wh since the POTUS was going to have a press availability with John Bell Edwards (Democratic Governor of Lousiana). George Adams drove me down to Wh with lights flashing and we got there in 17.5 minutes (Yikes). I present the data to multiple cameras in the Oval Office with POTUS sitting there. POTUS took me aside and said"Be enthusiastic, Tony. Be Optimistic, we need to open up the economy. It is very important". I told him that I would tell… **[2020-04-30T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** April 30, 2020 - Global - 3,020,000/210,000; USA - 1,030,000/61,000; New York Times had my picture and front page of Sports Section today with the headline saying that I believe that professional sports may need to be cancelled this season. That was not what I said. Like I said clearly in the Ryan Zimmerman interview, it would depend on the status of the virus in any given City. We could do sports only on TV or we could have the stadiums half full or completely full or not at all. They headlined the latter. The media frenzy continues on and on with me: We Tl COMIMTMIMITY Gaps Ca Tee CCL (AL. POLE WEL STTIMETAL fi mon tangible needs. Healthy Living and Social Respon- about the YMCA al warw… **[2020-04-30T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** Apr 30, 2020 Jun19,2020 Aug8,2020 Sep 27,2020 **[2020-04-30T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** Apr 30, 2020 **[2020-05-01T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** May 1, 2020 - Global - 3,090,000/218,000; USA - 1,100,000/63,000 Mike Caputo is delighted with the event last night. It is interesting that he is one of my greatest fan and he is sincere. So different from some of the shit I took during the esarly years of the Obama administration with that asshole Jenny Bacchus who always hesitated to put me on TV until Denis McDonough and Lisa Monaco of the White House intervened. And the media blitz goes on: Dr. Anthony Fauci And Andrew Cuomo Remain The Most Trusted Leaders On Coronavirus, While Donald Trump And Jared Kushner Are The Least Trusted. Grace Panetta writes for Business Insider (4/30, 3.67M) that NIAID Director Dr. Anthony Fauci "and Gov.… **[2020-05-01T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** May 1, 2020 at 5:34 p.m. EDT Biden accused of groping a woman (Tara Reade) in his Senate office decaades ago. Yesterday Peter Staley called me up and said that some (? how many) members of the scientific and old activist community are disappointed in me for appearing in the Oval Office with the announcement of the Remdesivir results, making it a political thing used by Trump. I can see theor point, but I had not choice (see above). I rectified that yesterday (later in the day)( when at the TF meeting, Jared Kushner arranged to have a photo op in the Oval Office celebrating the domnation of >1 million doses of Remdesivir to the USG to distribute to people who needed it. They wanted me, Bob… **[2020-05-02T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** May 2, 2020 - Global - 3,200,000/225,000; USA - 1,100,000/65,000' Big push on the part of states >32 to rush to reopening, some like Texas and Georgia more than others. Militia-types in Michigan going to the Capitol armed and demanding of the Governor to "open up" Michigan. Much stress about the economy being destroyed. White House not allowing me to respond to request from Rosa DeLauro to testify before the House Committee. Makes front page news everywhere together with tweet storm. WH will allow me to testify before the Senate Help Committee. Situation very tense: Economic Policy White House blocks Fauci from testifying before House panel, committee spokesman says An Appropriations… **[2020-05-03T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** May 3, 2020 (Sunday) - Global - 3,300,000/230,000; USA - 1,130,000/66,000 Continued big push tio re-open despite many states lacking the criteria to do so. Not on any Sunday shows. Washington Post article today states that the administration is cutting down media appearances by Deb and me and giving more to the economists, Kudlow, Mnuychin and Hassett. Theyare cutting me more than Deb. Fauci-maddness continues with multiple articles and every sort of paraphernalia and restaurant and foods named after me. Amazing aryicle in USA Today: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/05/03/coronavirus-white-houseexpert-dr-anthony-fauci-americans-trust/3042991001/ Straight-talking Dr. Anthony… **[2020-05-04T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** May 4, 2020 - Global - 3,350,000/239,000; USA - 1,142,000/67,000 Continued tension in GOP states wanting to re-open in defiance of many of the recommended guidelines and Dem states the opposite. It is almost a political and ideological dichotomy CNN - Jake Tapper did a segment last night on the inadequate response of the Trump administration to the pandemic. I came out relatively well. VP Call with Governors from Sit Room. Again, it seemed like a lot of happy talk, particularly from GOP governors saying that they are doing well and 40 states have submitted their plans for re-opening. They seem to indicate that most have what they need regarding tests, etc. Yet, when you spek to the locals,… **[2020-05-05T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** May 5, 2020 - Global - 3,500,000/240,000; USA - 1,200,000/69,000 OMG! This is really getting nutsy. Sally Quinn evidently wrote a book some time ago about a character that is me: https://www.washingtonian.com/2020/05/05/sally-quinn-modeled-the-erotic-hero-of-her1991-bestseller-on-anthony-fauci/ The Maureen Dowd sends me an e-mail: "I can see it" Did a TF meeting today in the Sit Room (see above) displaying the NIH (esp. VRC) vaccine effort. I took Barney Graham, John Mascola (who presented) and Francis Collins. We successfully got VP to understand the NIH intramural and extramural. Got call from Paula Reid asking about a story in the New York Times that the WH is disbanding the Task Force.… **[2020-05-06T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** May 6, 2020 - Global - 3,53,000/245,000; USA - 1,200,000/71,000 Begin day with uncertainty about the fate of the TF as well as the fact that there is great discord in the country regarding opening abruptly versus continued careful mitigation. It is clear thsat Trump and advisors are concentrating only on opening and saving the economy for the election in November. To be fair, we should consider that there are unintended consequences in my area of health. Had conversation with Bob Redfield lastr night about the fact that >1 million children world-wide have missed their measles vaccinations because of the shutdown. This is terrible and needs to be addressed since on that basis alone, there… **[2020-05-07T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** May 7, 2020 4:09PM (UTC) Media blitz, stories (mostly good, but some critical) abound with dozens per day. Truly unbelievable. People naming their dogs after me. Sally Quinn saying that I was the erotic lead male in a book she wrote in 1994. She had met me at a dinner that year. And on and on. Still press is fixating on my not being allowed to testify before the Dem House but testifying before the GOP Senate **[2020-05-08T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** May 8, 2020 - Global - 3,670,000/254,000; 1,240,000/75,200; COVID-19 hits the White House!! . We had our pre-brief for the Senate HELP Hearing on May 12 and we are trying to decide whether to call off the Hearing or do it virtually. If we postpone hearing, there will be political blowback from the Dems. If we do it, people will say we are violating our own public health recommendation. Tough situation. It is my impression that there will be several more infections in the WH over the next few days. They should do everything virtually. Mark Meadows wants to delare TF members as essential workers and test us every day for 10 days and wear masks, 6 ft distance and come to work. CDC people… **[2020-05-09T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** May 9, 2020 - Global - 3,760,000/260,000; USA - 1,270,000/77,000 Trying to figure out policy for addressing the infection on WH complex. Big breaking news tonight! Steve Hahn who was closest to Katie is going into strict 14 date home quarantine. Bob Redfield who had a moderate exposure is also saying he is going itnom14 day quarantine (when in fact he will gointo his office). Jake Tapper called me and asked whether I was going inot quarantine. I explained to Jake that I would do a "modified quarantine" since I was a low risk exposure to Kstie. Thid merans that I will get tested every day, would wear a mask ontinually, and would spend most of my time either alone in my home office or alone… **[2020-05-10T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** May 10, 2020 - Global - 4,150,000/283,000; USA - 1,290,000/79,000 Much flurry over the press wanting to understand the difference between a modified quarantine and a total quarantine. I am explaining. Also, I do not want to do the Hearing in person on Tuesday, but Mark meadows is getting pressure from the POTUS and others in WH to have me do it in person. It would give mixed signals given my statement of Modified Quarantine. It would be an unforced error if I did. We finally decided that all 4 witnesses (Giroir, Fauci, Hahn and Redfield would do it virtually. President Trump called my cell while I was at home to check and see if I was OK, having heard that I was in semi-quarantine. Reports… **[2020-05-11T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** May 11, 2020 - Global - 3,930,000/275,000; USA - 1,320,000/79,500 Some press bugging Courtney as to the precise nature of my "modified quarantine". This is related to the fact that there is major inconsistency in the White House. Marc Short (whom I resally like) practically sits on Katie's lap and he is vey close to the VP. Yet he is not even wearing a mask. He actually should be self-quarantining. He was at a much greater risk than I. Got phone call from Alex Azar as I wa leaving my house with Security to go to NIH at ~7:45 AM. Alex was concerned that the WH wanted him tosit in the Situation Room without a mask with the POTUS on the csall with the governors. Also, they went him to sit… **[2020-05-11T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** May 11, 2020 https://www.gocomics.com/lio/2020/05/11 **[2020-05-12T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** May 12, 2020 - Global - 4,000,000/280,000; USA - 1,350,000/81,000 ,400,000/82,000 Mark Meadows called this AM (7:15 AM) before the HELP Hearing checking on how I was and thanking me for "taking flak from both sides". He is a good guy, but I think that the call was prompted somewhat by a NY Times story this AM (Sheryl Gay Stolberg) that reported my saying to Sheryl when she asked what I hope to accomplish at the Hearing, I said to let people know that they must be careful in opening the country and not go too fast or prematurely since we risk the problem of rebound. Hearing went well by virtual. I was in my home office. Had a little scuffle with Rand Paul who said that I am not the end all… **[2020-05-12T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** May 12, 2020 https://www.gocomics.com/lio/2020/05/12 **[2020-05-13T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** May 13, 2020 - Global - 4,100,000/285,000; USA - 1,400,000/82,000 Press today and yesterday afternoon reporting heavily on the Senate Hearing from yesterday. Playing up that I am the voice of reason. However, I am obviously causing conern among GOP who want to open quickly. FOX News blasting me - Hannity, Carlson, Ingraham. See Politico piece about GOP getting "Fauci Fatigue: https://www.politico.com/news/2020/05/12/anthony-fauci-republicans-coronavirus251919 Had a wonderful Instagram discussion organized by the ONE Campaign with Julia Roberts. She was absolutely fabulous. She embarrassed me somewhat when I sat down in the chair and appeared on the screen through Zoom, she put her hands in… **[2020-05-13T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** May 13, 2020 https://www.gocomics.com/lio/2020/05/13 **[2020-05-14T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** May 14, 2020 - Global - 4,170,000/288,000; USA - 1,380,000/84,000 ing that I disagreed with his decision to ith the POTUS and the y reaching out to him. ,410,000/86,000 POTUS on FOX this AM blasting me saying that I disagreed with his decision to stop travel from China. Big buzz in media about the POTUS feud with Fauci I spoke with Mark Short by phone and he is very much OK with me. He suggested that I speak with the POTUS and explain exactly what I said. I have been trying to connect with Mark Meadows by phone and text, but no response thus far. Moncef Slaoui joins the team as the "Czar" for Vaccines/Therapeutics/Diagnostics. Mark Meadows called me back and confirmed that the POTUS is… **[2020-05-15T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** May 15, 2020 - Global - 4,200,000/3295,000; USA - 1,410,000/86,000 ,300,000/298,000 USA846 IMPORTANT DAY AT WHITE HOUSE: Wen to White House as usual, but today was a Rose garden ceremony announcing the "Operation Warp Speed", which is the interagency plan to develop a COVID-19 vaccine by the end of the year and have 100 million doses by November and 300 million by Jan. 2021. This is the plan that we have been working on for some time at NIAID. In addition, the occasion was to introduce Moncef Slaoui as the "Czar" for the project and General Gus Perna as the COO or logistic person for the supply of vaccine doses. Important event was my meeting with the POTUS in the context of our ongoing… **[2020-05-18T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** May 18, 2020 - Global - 4,500,000/308,000; USA - 1,500,000/90,000 ,500,000/9 1,000 The Moderna/VRC data on the high levels of neutralizing Abs in the two doses (25 microgram and 100 microgram) given in phase 1 trial are being released today by Moderna. I have been asked by Jim Sciutto of CNN to discuss this on his show and have requests from NY Times (Denise Grady), WSJ, and STAT to comment. We are getting the same stonewall from WH COMMS. They do not answer our requests for clearance. This in the background of not allowing me out in the press for the past 2 weeks under any circumstances. Jim Sciutto called the WH Comms and they told him no and Jim wrote back to me by text message:… **[2020-05-19T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** May 19, 2020 - Global - 4,600,000/312,000; USA - 1,500,000/91,000 Despite my being kept out of the press by the Whit House COMMS people, the media blitz about me continues strong, as well as the gimmick stuff like underwear (bikini) with either my name on the front or Govs. Cuomo or Newsom (D-CA). Signs in DC: https://bit.ly/36dKb0f I decided to take the bull by the horns and address this muzzling of me and importantly, the fact that the requests that we are sending down for clearance are just being ignored. Instead of going to Mark Meadows and jumping over the head of Kayleigh McEnany, I decided to go straight to Kayleigh. It worked out beautifully. I described it in an e-m,ail that I… **[2020-05-20T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** May 20, 2020 - Global - 4,700,000/317,000; USA - 1,530,000/92,000 The Fauci craze continues. Some select examples: Brooklyn Artist Jeremy Penn's Dr. Anthony Fauci Portrait Nets $15K For Charity. Page Six (5/19, Mohr, 1.6M) reports, "Brooklyn artist Jeremy Penn, who has painted Diane von Furstenberg, Kate Moss, John Galliano and Karl Lagerfeld, sold a portrait of" Anthony Fauci for $15,000. Penn "s donating all proceeds from the Fauci piece to charities True Hero Fund and No Kid Hungry." Already starting to get clearances for press appearances. Alyssa is keeing her word. On Conference call with the OWS group, it is clear that Jared Kushner is inverting himself in the process of decisions… **[2020-05-21T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** May 21, 2020 - Global 234,100 - new 24,200; deaths 9800 Italy 3,400 deaths, now surpassed China USA - 19,300; new 5300; deaths 272 (73 new) At task force meeting I stressed the problem about the PPEs being diverting to testing as opposed to HCWs. I also emphasized this strongly at the subsequent press conference. Again, we met with POTUS after the TF meeting and in preparation for the presser. Very good press conference. Big front page article abut me appeared in the Washington Post. Very flattering. The situation with my national and international fame is explosive and really unimaginable. It is not hyoperbole to say that today I am the most famous and talked about person in the country… **[2020-05-21T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** May 21, 2020 - Global - 4,800,000/320,000; USA - 1,600,000/94,000 Will start doing print interviews in earnest today starting with Denise Grady and Noah Weiland of NY Times. Also, spoke with Sanjay Gupta explaining the Moderna data. Interesting that despitr Alyssa's promise, they still have not cleared me for Jim Sciutto. However, I was cleared to do the CNN Town Hall. Cartoon in USA Today: https://bit.ly/3bQDXVt My instgram interview with Julia Roberts: https://people.com/movies/julia-robertscute-reaction-speaking-dr-anthony-fauci/ Did a Zoom interview and town hall under Boomberg/Harvard moderated by Mayor Michael Boomberg with 190 Mayors of various cities throughout the country PRESS:… **[2020-05-22T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** May 22, 2020 - Global -4,900,000/325,000; USA - 1,600,000/95,000 Turmoil in OWS - Peter Marks drops out. Upset with how he is being treated with the arrival of Moncef. Moncef has met with pharma companies involved in the harmonized protocols and as expected they expressed doubt about the possibility that we (NIAID/USG) could pull the trials off. Deep down, they want the money and they want to do it on their own. I will set up teleconference next week with Francis, me, Larry Corey, John maslcola, Cliff and the CEIO's of the companies tomstraighten this out. Trump getting out of control in pushing to open up the country and get the economy back before election day. He is desparate. This is… **[2020-05-22T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** MAY 22, 2020 ALEX WONG / BRIAN SMIALOWSKI / GETTY / THE ATLANTIC **[2020-05-23T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** May 23, 2020 - Global 292,000/12,800; new cases - 26,000; USA 33,300/391; new cases 6800. Cases in USA went up overnight by 20%. Bad news. Got copy of proposed POTUS press conference speech for this afternoon. I objected sharply to the ststament that the ORACLE system (see above) will be able to follow every coronavirus patient in the country starting in 2 days (Wed). This is logistically impossible and I surely will clash with WH people, particularly Mark Meadows. He is a good guy, but wedded to this. They are pushing to get HC out and we really need to do it under and IND and a protocol. Much tension between me (also Steve Hahn, Cliff Lane) and the White House (Meadows et al) Apparently… **[2020-05-23T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** May 23, 2020 - Global 5,000,000;328,000; USA - 1,600,000/96,000 Some states flattening and coming down, while others showing some spiking. DC still not coming down nor is Chicago or Los Angeles. Argument about whether the CDC and other groups are undercounting or overcounting deaths. At the Senate Hearing 2 weeks ago I said I thought that if anything, we are undercounting deaths since people were likely dying at home of COVID-19 and not getting counted since they were not getting to the hospital. The media and magazine craze about me continues. Here is one from The Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2020/05/pandemic-anthony-faucitrump-ireland-tony-holohan/611890/… **[2020-05-24T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** MAY 24, 2020 - Not on Sunday shows today despite multiple requests. DC, MD VA has most cases now per capita. Nice pick up on Boston TV station of my words to the Holy Cross 202 Graduating Class: https://www.boston25news.com/news/health/dr-anthony-fauci-surprises-holy-cross-2020graduates-with-inspiring-message/PHPQQBXP3BFYDPENB4UERGCRXI/ Jennifer Rubin in the Washington Post: Distinguished person of the week: He's back! Anthony S. Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, outside the White House on Friday. (Alex Brandon/AP) By Jennifer Rubin Opinion writer **[2020-05-24T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** May 24, 2020 at 7:45 a.m. EDT President Trump has done his best to muzzle the most trusted voice on the coronavirus epidemic. Indeed, until late last week we had not seen much of Anthony S. Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, recently. Then, on Thursday, he reemerged for a CNN town hall. Fauci promised he would be out and about more. "We've been talking with the communications people, and they realize we need to get some of this information out, particularly some of the scientific issues for which I'm predominantly responsible for, so hopefully we'll be seeing more of us, will get the opportunity to talk to you." Once more, he was a source of… **[2020-05-25T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** May 25, 2020 - Global - 5,200,000/339,000; USA - 1,650,000/98,000 Will discuss on today's group call (Fauci, Corey,Mascola,Lane, Erbelding, Dieffenbach, Marston, Conrad) the conference call with Pharma to take place on Wednesday. **[2020-05-26T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** May 26, 2020 - Global - 5,300,000/345,000; USA - 1,660,000/98,000 Still no clearances for press. Spoke last night with Chris Cuomo who feels that they do not want me out there since I remind people of the challenge of COVID-19 and the administration does not want that to be the topis. The topic for them is opening up the economy, no matter what the consequences. Deb Birx out there losing credibility with the community. ton Times interview; 680,000/100,000 700,000/100,000 Was in Sit Room with the VP doing the Governors call. As usual, the governors were highly complimenting of the administration. Having said that, thing do seem to be improving with much more testing going on and several… **[2020-05-27T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** May 27, 2020 - Global - 5,400,000/345,000; USA - 1,680,000/100,000 Larry Kramer dies! Very, very sad. Many calls and e-mails PRESS: CNN with Jim Sciutto; PBS NewsHour with Judy Woodruff **[2020-05-27T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** May 27, 2020 • o o o o o "How did I meet Larry? He called me a murderer and an incompetent idiot on the front page of the San Francisco Examiner magazine." Speaking as he passed though a fever check on his way into the White House, Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, recalled some of his fondest memories of his friend Larry Kramer, who died early Wednesday morning. Nearly every anecdote in our brief interview had the same plot: the country's best-known AIDS activist publicly abusing the country's best-known AIDS doctor -- and then privately apologizing afterward, saying he hadn't meant it, that it was just how to get things done.… **[2020-05-28T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** May 28, 2020 - Global - 5,500,000/350,000; USA - 1,700,000/100,000 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/27/health/larry-kramer-anthony-fauci.html 'We Loved Each Other': Fauci Recalls Larry Kramer, Friend and Nemesis In public, the activist berated the infectious disease expert for federal inaction on AIDS. But their affection lasted decades and changed the course of the epidemic. Larry Kramer in 2015. "It was an extraordinary 33-year relationship," said Dr. Anthony Fauci said of his friendship with the activist.Credit...Todd Heisler/The New York Times **[2020-05-29T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** May 29, 2020 - Global - 5,600,000/354,000; USA - 1,700,000/102,000 Had major confrontation with the people from Moderna, mostly Tal Zaks, aandStephane Bancel who wanted to push backon the collaboration (mostly do their own thing). Moncef, John, Larry and I set them straight. Also Mikael Dolsten and people from Pfizer also wanting part of our resoruces (clinical sitesd) without joining the collaboration. Several conference calls to straighten this out. It is not going to be easy. Had long conversation on "background" with Bob Woodward who is writing a book on the early response to COVID in the USA. I provided him with some history of our response in early January and into February. Will… **[2020-05-31T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** May 31, 2020 - Global - 5,800,000/363,000; USA - 1,800,000/104,000 Sunday - as expected, no shows for me. Also, conditions influenced by widespread riots and disruptions going on in multiple cities in response to a Minneapolis policeman who killed an unarmed black man (George Floyd), which was videotaped by a passerby. This has dominated the news. 00,000/104,000 00,000/105,000 A race horse owner just bought a horse to run in the Belmont Stakes and named the horse "Fauci"! I made it into a "Doonesbury" cartoon **[2020-06-01T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** June 1, 2020 - Global - 6,000,000/368,000; USA - 1,800,000/104,000 Disruptions continue. Trump either silent or fueling the problem. McEnany looking more and more preposterous as she gives single person press briefings. Riots getting worse. Disruption and property destruction around White House and now into my very neighborhood blocks from my home up at Foxhole Center. Walgren's and Vourhius vandalized. Did Zoom interview led by Father Dan Lahart for the Regis High School graduating seniors. Students loved it. Jake Tapper did a piece on CNN quoting me as saying that I have not seen or spoken to the POTUS in 2 weeks from May 18 (Governors call) through June 1. Media picked up on it and made… **[2020-06-02T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** June 2, 2020 - Global - 6,100,000/371,000; USA - 1,800,000/105,000 Riots continue in several cities. Washington, DC particularly bad. There was violence earlier yesterday, but then it was a peaceful demonstration. The POTUS ordered the police to clear the way through Lafayette Park so that he could do a photo op with a bible at St. John's Church across the street. The police came in and scattered the mostly peaceful crowd and injured several with rubber bullets and clubs. Things getting very bad. Task Force in Sit Room meeting regarding usual stuff - testing, supply chain,etc. Meeting with POTUS in Oval Office re: vaccines. As usual, POTUS was very warm and friendly with me. When he walked… **[2020-06-03T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** June 3, 2020 - Global - 6,200,000/378,000; USA - 1,800,000/106,000 No TF today. Only a Governors call on Nursing Homes to which I was not invited. Probably mostly Seema Verma. Also, despite people (including Kellyanne Conway) assuring me that we are returning to 3x/week press briefings without the POTUS (i.e. with the VP), nonetheless, the press briefing today was Kayleigh by herself at the podium. Had breakfast at my house this AM (6:30 - 7:30 AM) on the back deck with Michael Caputo who wanted to discuss with me Comms strategy involving me. Good conversation. He says that there really is confusion at the level of the WH about putting me out. Clearly Alyssa wants to put me out there (not… **[2020-06-03T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** June 3, 2020 I 9:21am I Updated 'US and 2d me Dr. Anthony Fauci Getty Images composite Fauci could be a big winner Wednesday. No, not Dr. Anthony Fauci, the infectious disease expert, but the horse named after him which will run in the third race at Belmont Park today as racing returns to Elmont, the first sporting event in New York in 80 days. Fauci, jockeyed by Tyler Gaffalione and trained by Wesley Ward, is a 4-to-5 favorite. Had a very difficult experience today. The POTUS called my cell and screamed at me because I had mentioned to the Press (likely on a Howard Bauchner podcast or a Politico interview that the duration of immunity for common coronaviruses was 6 months to 1 year and… **[2020-06-04T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** June 4, 2020 - Global - 6,300,000/380,000; USA - 1,850,000/107,000 Had call with NYC Health Commissioner Oxiris Barbot and Deputy Commissioner Demetre Daskalakis to discuss the possibility of doing a multicenter study of the Multisystem Inflammatory Sydnrome in Children (MIS-C). NYC has 140 cases. Just today informed that I have been chosen for the: 2020 Sammies Federal Employee of the Year award. The ceremony will take place in September. PRESS: Live Instagram with Jose Andres; Alan Alda Podcast; Did interview with Jonathan Swan of Axios. I got off interview quickly since it appeared I would be pitted against the POTUS with his questions. **[2020-06-05T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** June 5, 2020 - Global - 6,400,000/385,000; USA - 1,870,000/108,000 Had Zoom with activists David Barr, Peter Staley, Mark Harrington, James Kellerstein about community engagement with COVID-19 research and the issue of releasing data before publication. Moderna becoming a pain in the ass about the collaboration with mRNA vaccine. Wanting to pull back on prior agreements. We will pull the BARDA money if they do so Did "Fireside Chat" withn Brookings Institute with David Rubenstein. I made favorable comments today on CNBC about vaccines and decreasing of # of cases and the stock market went up by 3%. I should (but will not) contact the POTUS and say that he told me on Tuesday that my remarks… **[2020-06-05T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** June 5, 2020 https://www.gocomics.com/lio/2020/06/05 Nice article in Science by Jon Cohen: Anthony Fauci, loved and hated, plots his next move: 'I'm not going to sit in my house' <« Mullen; In a candid exit interview, the NIAID head reflects on the seven presidents he served, controversial decisions, and feuding with Rand Paul • 1 Sep 2022 • 6:50 PM • **[2020-06-06T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** June 6, 2020 - Global - USA Finally got a haircut with Sabine today after 11 weeks!! Quiet day. Catching up on NIH-related Talks. **[2020-06-07T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** June 7, 2020 - Global - 6,700,000/393,000; USA -1,930,000/709 Sunday - no health people on Sunday Shows. Nation gripped with protests, demonstrations and violence over death of George Floyd and other assaults on blacks. A couple of days ago the POTUS ordered the clearance of Lafayette Park to get to St John's Church to do a photo op with a bible. Police crushed a peaceful crowd. Major PR reaction. Gen Milley and Sec. of Defense Asper being sharply criticized for being there and participating in the process. They were probably taken by surprise of what they were involved in. Milley wearing combat fatigues (not good). Protests spreading worldwide. Disturbing trend over past few days in… **[2020-06-08T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** June 8, 2020 - Global - 7,000,000/399,000; USA- 1,950,000/111,000 Melissa Healey of LA Times; 980,000/1 13,000 PRESS: Univision TV; WRC TV - Doreen Gentzler; NY Times interview; WGN TV Chicago; iHeart Latino Radio with Enrique Santos; Spectrum News TV; taped Bio Fireside Chat (for tomorrow); **[2020-06-09T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** June 9, 2020 - Phone call with Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC) about "after action" evaluation of our response. Big controversy when the WHO's Maria Van Kerkhove said that transmission from asymptomatic person was "very rare". She got blasted for this since there was no data to indicate this. We feel that there is substantial transmission since asytmptomatics have equivalent viral load in nasopharynx as do people with Sxs. Also data from Teddy Roosevelt aircraft carrier and prisons and nursing homes and meat packing plants indicate that transmission occurs a lot from asymptomatics. Lovely "thank you" by the Weill Cornell Medicinegraduating students for my sending them a video brief "Commencement… **[2020-06-10T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** June 10, 2020 - Global - 7,100,000/405,000; USA - 1,980,000/113,000 Reports of multiple states including North Carolina, South Carolina, Alaska, Arizona, California, Utah, Tennessee,etc. having the highest single day number of cases reported. Cannot just be due to increased testing. Concern that the opening of states will be Global USA ine about Christine. ,050,000/1 14,000 followed by increased infections that will be difficult to contact trace since many are asymptomatic. Spoke with the David Barr group again last night and they feel that they will not be able to adequately contact trace if a uptick occurs. Also, there is a growing urge for peope to "get out". Did a Zoom call with… **[2020-06-11T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** June 11, 2020 - Global USA Had good conversation (having these every 2 weeks) today with Bill Gates on status of mAb (Regeneron, Lilly, etc.). Also, discussing other therapies. Also, discussed vaccines. Great article in Elle magazine about Christine. Big issue with companies that we are dealing with for COVID-19 vaccine. Moderna is acting like and asshole in that they want the USG money but are resisting having the NIAID network (Larry) control the trial They have the IND and so the trial is really theirs. Moncef and I and John Mascola had important call where Moncef indicated that he himself is concerned that a single network with one leader can be responsible for 3 (Moderna, Astrazeneca,… **[2020-06-12T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** June 12, 2020 - Global - 7,300.000/415,000; USA - 2,050,000/114,000 Did Council on Foreign Relations Zoom meeting; 6,000/117,000 Crazy situation where WH approved nothing and then after the Podcast with Caputo, he said "The WH did not want you to do Wolf Blitzer yesterday since it competed with the POTUS on TV and so I asked for today, but they gave no response and so let us just go ahead and do it." Tough to figure out what if any strategy they have about getting me out to the media. There is a resurgence of cases in those cities that are opening up and now the model is projecting 1000 deaths per day with total of 170,000 deaths PRESS: RAI - Italian National TV; Yahoo News TV; ABC News… **[2020-06-13T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** June 13, 2020 - Global - 7,400,000/418,000; USA - 2,116,000/117,000 Got call from Alex Gorsky (CEO and Chairman at J & J) expressing concern on the part of the company CEOs regarding whether Gen. Gus Perna (as competent as he is supposed to be in military matters) can actually pull off the massive distribution of vaccine when it is ready including providing needles, syringes, etc. I have the same issue since Gus seems like a good person but every time Alex or Esper says something, he says "Yes sir, we are on it and will get it done" Seems too over-confident. Does he really know what he is doing? Got call from Gov. Cuomo at 8:00 AM but missed it because I was running on the C & O Canal.… **[2020-06-14T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** June 14, 2020 (SUNDAY) - Global - 7,600,000/425,000; USA - 2,100,000/116,000 Riots continue with more police killing of African American men, this time in Atlanta with killing of Rayshard Brooks as he was running away after scuffle with police leading to firing of officer and resignation of Police Chief Erika Shields. Becoming clear that the increase in infections in CA, AZ, TX, NC, etc. are real increases in addition to increased testing. Had conversation with Fred Hiatt (Washington Post Editor of Editorial Page) about my evaluation of the situation. I indicate that it should n0t be pure public health versus "damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead", i.e. not shut down versus "liberate the… **[2020-06-15T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** June 15, 2020 - Global - 7,700,000/428,000 USA - 2,100,000/116,000; Governor's call today at WH and I was not invited. BARDA requesting FDA to pull back the EUA for Hydroxychloroquine and Chloroquine, I was always against the EUA for HC and Ch since I did not believe that it fulfilled the criteria (some indication of efficacy) for an EUA: see link below. Also, this is the issue that Rick Bright has blown the whistle on, i.e. saying that he was pressured into recommending to FDA (when he was head of BARDA) to issue the EUA. Got call from Michael Caputo today asking if I thought that the POTUIS should cancel his campaign rally. I told him definitely yes.… **[2020-06-16T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** June 16, 2020 - Global USA Laura Ingraham calls me "Deep State" for asking people to wear masks. RECOVERY trial from UK showed good effect of Dexamethasone on COVID-19 patients on ventilators or Oxygen, but not on early patients. Media pushing a major breach between me and the White House. Big issue is that Pence wrote an OpED in the WSJ saying that there were no increase in cases; the apparent increase was due to increased testing. He got blasted since I (and to some extent Deb) said that the increase in cases was due to BOTH increase in testing AND actual increase in cases in CA, AZ, NC, TX, AL, etc.. Politico writes: With help from Myah Ward VEEP IN THOUGHT -- Since February there has… **[2020-06-17T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** June 17, 2020 - Global USA Serius problem emerging with Moderna who are insisting (see discussions above) on implementing the protocol for mRNA in a way that both Larry Corey and John Mascola feel strongly is contrary to the safe followup of people who get infected and also contrary to good science in being able to get good end point data. We have tried, but theyhave a CMO who is incompetent (Tal ). Their CEO Stephane Bancel has a company that has never made a product or done a trial despite the fact that by somewhat questionable PR have built up a cash ase of billions of dollars. We may have to threaten them with the withholding of BARDA. This will be a sticky issue and likely very time… **[2020-06-18T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** June 18, 2020 - Global USA Communiation between Deb Birx and me on June 18: Thank you. I haven't been sleeping because of this. What do you think about going into MS with Lumina as the diagnostic sequencer and massive tracking molecularly? Sent from my iPhone AM 3] afauci(@niaid.nih.gov> On Jun 18, 2020, at 7:26 AM, Fauci, Anthony (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote (read from bottom to top): As you recall, I have always been in favor of massive testing. Now is the time. We are swimming in the dark. Let us discuss at the TF tomorrow. Anthony S. Fauci, MD Director National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Building 31,… **[2020-06-19T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** June 19, 2020 - Global - USA Spoke with Fr. Dan Lahart to give him advice and discussion about whther to open up Regis for the Fall term or do it virtually. I explained that it would depend on the viral dynamics at the time of opening. Their problem is that >95% of the students get to Regis by riding on a subway and so they really have a defined daily risk that would be reflected by the virus activity in the city. Or. Fauci street art on the Lower East Side ERIK PENDZICH/SHUTTERSTOCK Last day of my HHS Security Detail. The whole crew George Adams, Brett Rowland, Andre Jacobs, Greg, Mike, and also Mike Lunetto came over for photos and to brief me about future protection. POTUS tweeted about… **[2020-06-20T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** June 20, 2020 - Global USA Things are really heating up. Someone leaked to media that Deb and I advised against the Tulsa Campaign rally. We never really discussed it at the TF meeting. I got textpinged by several reporters (Jon Karl, Norah O'Donnell, Jim Sciutto, Jim LaCosta about this. I honestly said that I could not conbfirm this since we never discussed thr Tulsa rally specifically. Nonetheless, today papers are saying that this is the case. Clearly someone is leaking things without knowing the facts. Karl told me that the word was out even before the TF meeting ended. And so, someone is leaking even before we finish. Tam getting progressively disillusioned with Deb Birx. She is happy… **[2020-06-21T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** June 21, 2020 (Sunday) - Cases still surging in 13 to 20 states. Global - 8,500,000/459,000; USA - 2,300,000/120,000 Much concern about surge of cases, particularly in Florida and South Carolina and Georgia and Oklahoma. Also, tensions regarding the Tulsa campaign rally. **[2020-06-22T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** June 22, 2020 - Global - 8,700,000/462,000; USA - 2,300,000/120,000 Belowis a very good article in Politico that describes in detail whast the problem has been in ther USA response to COVID-19 How the U.S. and Italy traded places on coronavirus While Trump touted America's reopening and watched infections climb, European leaders maintained strict rules and drove cases down. The historical Piazza della Signoria square in Florence, Italy, in early June. I Andrew Medichini/AP Photo **[2020-06-22T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** June 22, 2020 9:43am • Facebook • Twitter • Print • Email • Show more sharing options Sage Grazer/Celeste Sloman/Shutterstock EXCLUSIVE: HBO Max has put in development Outliers, an anthology series based on Malcolm Gladwell's New York Times bestselling book. It hails from Brian Grazer, Imagine Television Studios and CBS Television Studios. Greg Walker, showrunner of the DC Universe series Titans, will write and executive produce the series, with Gladwell also executive producing. Outliers will take a detailed look at why people are successful, what makes them successful and at what cost. Part historical drama, part biopic, each season will profile individuals through an unique lens,… **[2020-06-23T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** June 23, 2020 - Global - USA Big day today with House Energy and Commerce Hearing on COVID-19. Me, Redfield, Hahn, Giroir. VP called me at 10:00 AM when I was driving with Farncois to the Hearing. He called from Air Force 2 (on way to Wisconsin) and we spoke for 25 minutes. He wanted to know if I needed anything. He is a good guy, but he was really calling (sub-text of his words) to urge me to go lightly in my explanations and to not forget to bring out some of the positive things that are being done. He still is a guy with the glass half full and not half empty. He even admitted this in the conversation. Hearing was very long (6 hours). I had some cantankerous exchanges with Rep. McKinley… **[2020-06-24T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** June 24, 2020 - Global - 9,000,000/470,000; USA - 2,350,000/122,000 Based on my discussions last night with David Barr and the group he brought together of people in the trenches of COVID-19 in NYC, New Orleans, DC, Seattle and Chicago, it is clear that the surge is caused by people opening up and throwing caution to the wind leading to community spread. We (me) say that in orde to contain these increases in nfection that will inevitably occur when you open, we need to identify, isolate and contact trace. They are saying that this doesnot work. Contact tracing is a sham. It is done by phone, people do not trust government, there is no isolation after the tracing Global USA when tracing… **[2020-06-25T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** June 25, 2020 - Global USA Called Deb this AM trying to figure out how to stop this disaster. Contact tracing does not work. We need pooled testing. She will talk to Jared and I offered to call Mark Meadows. Spoke with Mark for 20 minutes at 7:45 AM. I laid it on heavy and he gets it. He will call an emergency meeting at the WH and agrees that we need to do NFL Players aying there will not be Dancing with the Stars 100. 40,000 new pooled testing. I told him that our response regarding contact tracing and isolation was a "Fucking disaster and an abject failure" Also, he fully appreciates that the CDC is not up to the task. They cannot respond o a domestic or global pandemic. Had good… **[2020-06-26T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** June 26, 2020 - Global - 9,300,000/480,000; USA - 2,420,000/125,000. 40,000 new cases yesterday, the most for a single day. Spoke woth Gary Bettman, Commissioner of the NHL giving advice about their opening. My talk with Mark Meadows yesterday precipitated a major firestorm of disagreement in the WH. Some elements led by VP and his staff (particularly Katie) felt we should have a TF meeting and then have a Press Conference with me and Deb leading and run by the VP. Apparently, Kayleigh and Alyssa and the POTUS team (probably Jared and the economy team) were against this. Triggered much rancor, but finally we did it. Clearly, the lines are dividing in the WH. Clearly, I am precipitating… **[2020-06-27T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** June 27, 2020 - Global - 9,700,000/494,000; USA - 2,500,000/125,000; 45,000 cases today - highest amount ever. Florida is having increased hospitalizations as is Arizona and California. Clear, there is a SERIOUS PROBLEM. Deb, Bob Redfield, Steve Hahn and I had a Zoom call that Deb and I arranged. It is clear that we need to change strategies and rely (see above) on massive community testing and effective tracing in person and on foot at the community level. Our efforts have failed for a number of reasons. Bob still insisting that there were likely these many infections all along, but we were missing them since many were asymptomatic and now we are picking them up. That is crazy since there… **[2020-06-29T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** June 29, 2020 - Global - 10,000,000/500,000; USA - 2,550,000/127,000 47,000 new cases yesterday. 50% of all new cases from CA, AZ, TX, FL. Clearly big problems with resurgences very likely related to young people at bars and in big parties related to opening, Memorial Day and crowds. Mostly young people with average 1.5 decades younger than a couple of months ago. Governors' call in Sit Room with VP leading the call. Clearly, they get it now and are worried. I spoke about making the public health response to vehicle to re-opening as opposed to the obstacle to re-opening, i.e. obey guidelines and always use mask and physical distancing even when opening. Gov Ray Cooper (D-NC) called me and… **[2020-06-30T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** June 30, 2020 - Global - 10,000,000/500; USA - 2,600,000/127,000. 37,000 cases yesterday. Multiple other states (total of 31) are showing increased cases and several showing increased hospitalizations. Testified at the Senate HELP Hearing chaired by Lamar Alexander (R-TN) and ranking minority Patty Murray (D-WS). Focus was on opening schools, but it became free-wheeling. Elizabeth Warren was her usual muted hostility towards me, probably since she is aiming to by Biden's VP and she wants to she she is tough on administration. Also, Rand Paul was his usual self obliquely accusing me of arrogance and conceit in making projections without data. He referred to my discussing whether Sports… **[2020-07-01T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** July 1, 2020 - Global - 10,200,000/504,000; USA - 2,620,000/128,000. Most involved states now pulling back on opening and closing bars and cancelling events for the upcoming 4th July. Spoke yesterday with Marc Khaly from California (see above). He is going to cancel all crowding activities over the weekend. He calls me regularly for advice. News reporting that there is now a schism in the White house with Trump, meadows, Kayleigh and Hope leaning towards economics and deeply suspicious of me versus the VP and his team (Katie, Fevin O'Malley) favoring me and being much more realistic with the VP for the 1st time wearing a mask regularly. Media speculating that Penceis now thinking about his… **[2020-07-02T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** July 2, 2020 - Global USA Big problems - >53,000 cases yesterday. Highest ever for a given day. I am concerned that we might be on "exponential" increase as we enter into the 4th of July weekend. POTUS and his people have essentially dropped out and do not even recognize that an outbreak is ongoing on. They are denying all requests for me to appear on any major TV programs. Caputo is a con man who is completely full of shit. He says he wants me out there on TV and yet I am being blocked, very likely by him who knows nothing about public health. He is a close friend on Roger Stone, for goodness sakes! Got call from Ross (POTUS speechwriter) who wants to include in a speech the beneficial… **[2020-07-03T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** July 3, 2020 - Global - 10,5000,000/513,000; USA - 2,750,000/129,000 More daily record being broken with cases now at 57,500. New Dally Confirmed COVID-19 Cases in the U.S. Day Micwing Avcraga i Daily Caputo (sleezebag) and White House comms playing games with me in that they are not allowing me to go out on TV as we enter the 4th July weekend to instruct people on how to avoind infection. They do not respond to multiple requests for me to appear. I spoke yesterday to Judy Woodruff (PBS NewsHour) and Andrea Mitchell (NBC News), bot of who want me on their show as does Jim laCosta (CNN). Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) and LtGov Dan Patrick (TX) attacking me for what I am saying about how to avoid… **[2020-07-04T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** July 4, 2020 - Global - 11,000,000/525,000 USA - 2,800,000/130,000 Andrea Mitchell called my cell very apologetic about not being able to have me on the show since they already booked a couple of governors who were giving exclusives to NBC. I mentioned to her my concern about them keeping me off the air. She was shocked and thought that when I did not come on after requests that it was because I did not want to go on a show. It is clear that Michael Caputo in totally full of shit. The WH is now saying that they are giving the ball back to Pence to decide what happens with COVID-19 and that there will be more media appearances from health experts. We shall see. Florida had 11,000 cases… **[2020-07-05T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** July 5, 2020 - Sunday - Hahn on 2 Sunday Shows. I am blocked (see above). Surges continue in multiple states with new records every day. Particularly FL. In NY Times this AM, comment about people in some states, particularly TX (Dan Patrick - Lt. Gov as an example) are making me the symbol of what they are tired of. Theyare saying to hell with the outbreak, "we are done with it", even though people are getting sick and New Daily Confirmed COVID-19 Cases in the U.S. a mn 7 Oey Moving Average a ty rump vrote column in Washington Post: hospitalized. POTUS had 4th Juy celebration on South Lawn (I and Chris were invited) that was crowded and no one wearing masks. I did not attend. Not just USA,… **[2020-07-05T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** July 5, 2020 at 7:45 a.m. EDT In Senate testimony and interviews, Anthony S. Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, sounded the alarm: We are not winning in the battle against the novel coronavirus. Even more important than that was his insistence that we all wear masks in public. Consider what he told the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions on Tuesday when Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) asked if masks should be given away for free: "There's no doubt that wearing masks protects you," Fauci said. "Anything that furthers the use of masks, whether it's giving out free masks or any other mechanism, I am thoroughly in favor of."… **[2020-07-05T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** July 5, 2020 at 10:14 p.m. EDT Texas COVID-19 hospitalizations: An alarming trend June 29 July 4 I 8,000 Abbott orders restaurants back to50% I 7,890 5,913 June 26 7,000 Abbott orders bars closed again June 12 9,102 Restaurants open to 75% 6,000 2,166 4g June 3 Bars and other businesses increase to 50% capacity nF 5,000 1,799 May 29-June 2 George Floyd protests 4,000 1,701 - 1,773 May! May 25 Reopening I May22 I wemorial begins Bars Day 3,000 1,778 reopen L511 1,578 . 2,000 i b Oo 1,000 5/2. 5/9 = 5/16 5/23 5/30 6/6 6/13 6/20 6/27 7/4 Confirmed Cases (Thousands) z ma = I o - En a8 ayES afez ayea "Represents partial week data Bue afd a Week of 3/10 1a? New Weekly Confirmed COVID-19 Cases in… **[2020-07-06T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** July 6, 2020 - Global USA Records continue to be broken in various states. Did a COVID session virtually at the IAS with Slim Karim and Deb Birx. Task Force meeting at WH. VP still focuses on fact that despite the increase in cases, the deaths are still down. I mentioned to him that I did not think that the deaths will ever reach the degree (>2000/day) that it was when NYC was surging, but increased cases will and are leading to increased hospitalizations. Wrong Direction. Washington Post : Coronavirus updates: Seven-day average case total in the U.S. sets record for 27th straight day **[2020-07-07T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** July 7, 2020 - Global - 11,300,000/532,000; USA - 2,900,000/130,000 Did press briefing via Zoom in Alabama with Sen. Doug Jones (D-AL) - went very well. Here we go again. Got call from Francis Collins who got a call from Marc Short who said the WH is upset with me because I gave the interview with Sen. Doug Jones (see above) and he is a Democratic Senator is a tight race with a Republican and they are suspicious that I am favoring the Dems. BTW, the interview was approved by HHS Leg and ASPA. Caputo called saying that the WH was just going to approve the requests for me to appear on NewsHour and CNN, but because I said that relying on decrease deaths to say that all is well with COVID-19… **[2020-07-08T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** July 8, 2020 - Global 11,500,000/536,000; USA - 3,000,000/131,100 TF meeting at the Dept. of Education - I was in Sit Room and not part of the press conference that followed. Purpose of the TF was to push for opening of schools. Good thing that I was not part of the press conference (Deb, VP, Sec. DeVos) since much negative public response. Clearly Trump is pushing to open the schools no matter what. There is concern about the safety of the children and teachers. Yet, Trump together with Redfield (being pressured) is saying that the CDC guidelines should not stand in the way of opening schools (what???). Glad that I am not involved in that discussion. Spent 1 hour on Zoom with Sean Penn… **[2020-07-09T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** July 9, 2020 - Global USA >60,000 new cases yesterday! Things not going in the right direction at all, yet continued happy talk from the VP and the White House. Clearly I am the "skunk at the picnic". New Dally Confirmed COVID-19 Cases in the U.S, g h i= Fy y vi Lf ' haf LTT I] f : Mal Set A ( ia a PISS SLE SPEC SS Se ee Ie SEL SF TS IS TEST ESI SSE SPEDE SES SL EL LSS OL LA ME Daily ee? Day Mowing Araga NATIONWIDE COVID-19 METRICS. 7-DAY AVERAGE LINES Apr1- Jul8 Daily Tests Daily Cases Currently Hospitalized Daily Deaths Jul 8: 654,730 Jul 8: 62,197 Jul 8: 43,004 Jul 8: 808 60,000 700,000 60,000 600,000 50,000 50,000 500,000 aun 40,000 40,000 400,000 30,000 30,000 300,000 20,000 20,000… **[2020-07-11T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** July 11, 2020 - In USA - 3,300,000 cases and 136,000 deaths. Numbers still soaring with ICU beds filling up in Florida. Heard from Washington Post (Jasmeen Abutaleb) that she is writing a big article for tomorrow (Sunday) about the conflict between me and the POTUS. Yikes! Let us see how that turns out. la >13.500 today REGIONAL CURRENTLY HOSPITALIZED. 7-DAY AVERAGE LINE i i Northeast Midwest South West Jul 11 3,081 (6%) 5,303 (10%) 29,495 (57%) 13,711 (27%) 35,000 30,000 25,000 20,000 15,000 10,000 5,000 Mar 1 May 1 Joll Marl May 1 Joll Mar] May 1 Tull Marl May 1 jul The COVID Tracking Project C Had call with Marc Ghaly Heath Commissioner from California (Los Angeles) wanting advice about… **[2020-07-12T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** July 12, 2020 - Cases still soring. Florida >13.500 today Big firestorm over the Post article and the fact that unspecified White House officials have compiled a list of things I said that were incorrect. This is oppositional research agsinst one of their own (me). The blowback has been incredible. I have been contacted by virtusally every reporter (Post. NY Times, mutiple CNN - Sanjay Gupta, Jim Sciutto, networks) that I have ever dealt with and they are consistently outraged by the disinformation campaign of the WH against me and the attempt to discredit me. They all want to help. I called up Marc Short (whom I trust) to ask his take on this. He was "embarrassed" and disturbed by this… **[2020-07-13T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** July 13, 2020 - Global USA Yesterday Florida had >15,000 infections - most for any state since the beginning Met with Mark Meadows. He denies knowing anything about the WH drive to discredit me. This is tough to believe in that multiple nerws outlets (networks and Cables0 have been given a list of my "mistakes and errors" directly from the White House. No way that he did nt knw abut it. Nonethelerss, he said he will make sure that it stops. Too late, they already did the character assassination. Major, Major show of support for me for multiple and varied sectors. Most peole expressing outrage that the trump administration woud be so bumbling and incompetent to try to discredit the most… **[2020-07-13T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** July 13, 2020 at 5:09 p.m. EDT **[2020-07-14T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** July 14, 2020 - Global - 12,800,000/568,000; USA - 3,400,000/136,000 Outbreaks still raging in Florida - records being broken. >60,000 cases yesterday Deep state is going more crazy than ever in attacking me as the academic community is mobilizing to defend me. Real crazy. See below: {> Alan He @ *" GRAHAM defends Dr. Fauci: "We don't have a Dr. Fauci problem. We need to be focusing on doing things that get us to where we need to go. So I have all the respect in the world for Dr. Fauci. I think any effort to undermine him is not going to be productive, quite frankly." > ever said was I did a fireside chat online at Georgetown hosted by John Monahan. It was taken up my multiple press… **[2020-07-15T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** July 15, 2020 - Global USA Continue record-breaking numbers of cases with increased hospitalizations and now even deaths. The press are all over the issue of the White House trying to discredit me. Alyssa Farah put out tweet saying that the USA Tody OpEd by Peter Navarro was never cleared or approved. Adm. Michael Mullen, former Chairman Joint Chiefs called me to empathize and give me encouragement and support. Very nice of him since I had never met him. Very nice conversation The Lincoln Project put out a vewry provocative Fauci versus Trump link: Lincoln Project ad https://bit.ly/2AYJAEy Dan Scavino retweated this cartoon mocking me. This caused outrage among my supporters: Letter from… **[2020-07-16T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** July 16, 2020 - Global USA Cases continue to surge. >67,000 cases yesterday. Hospitalizations and deaths going up. Problem emerging here. Mark Meadows is starting to be a problem. He wanted me to "walk back" the statement comparing COVID-19 to 1918. I was planning to do it on a schedule appearance on NewsHour today (Thursday). However, Mark called me yesterday and was upset that I did not do it already. He could not wait 1 day. I said OK and called Sanjay Gupta and asked him to quote me on his show and also write it on his blog that I wanted to clarify. I thought that he did a good job. Then this AM I get another angry call from Meadows saying the clarification was not strong enough… **[2020-07-17T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** July 17, 2020 - Global - 13,400,000/580,000; USA - 3,600,000/138,000 Records being broken daily. Yesterday 74,000 new cases. Hospitalizations and deaths increasing. Big issue - Despite all the walking back stuff regarding the 1918 comment, Mark meadows in an appearance on FOX News and reported by The Hill, Mark Meadows said that my comment was "irresponsible". This is really bad. He is losing control of himself with the screaming at Francis and me and the demanding walking back on trivial issues like my comment on 1918 and the "non-issue" about the incubation period being greater than 12 days (which I never said) and now this comment about "irresponsible", I am thinking about resigning… **[2020-07-18T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** July 18, 2020 - Global - 13,800,000/594,000; USA - 3,640,000/139,000. Cases continue to surge. News cycle dominated by reports of conflict between me and the Trump insiders (see below) Petitions from multiple scientific organizations going around to sign on in support of me. Comm situation becomes even crazier. Despite Caputo saying that he is now "calling the shots and not the White House (see above), Alyssa Farah called me and said that Jake Tapper wants me this week and she will put me on for Tuesday. I explained to her what Caputo said and she told me not to pay attention to him since he is a big problem. She even said that it would be better if he stopped tweeting about Roger Stine… **[2020-07-19T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** July 19, 2020 (Sunday) - Continuing surge Francis Collins on Meet the Press - did well. They continually ask him if WH has told him to fire me. Francis responded that this is "unimaginable". Many societies are writing statements in explicit support of me. It isvery moving and humbling. Kellyanne Conway called me today saying how angry she was at the unseemly criticism of me by some in the White House. She has spoken to the POTUS about this and he is strongly supportive of me Mark Mradows and I going back and forth regarding his nitpicking every word of mine on interviews. Latest was his concern that I said that NYC did a good job in getting back to basline and opening safely. He says NYC… **[2020-07-20T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** July 20, 2020 - Global - 14,000,000/598,000; USA - 3,800,000/140,200; • Kentucky, Louisiana, Oregon and South Carolina all set new single-day records for new cases on Sunday. Idaho, Nebraska, Iowa and five other states have seen their seven-day averages for daily new fatalities rise by more than 40 percent in the past week. • More than 100 Florida hospitals have run out of ICU beds for adults. The state has reported more than 10,000 new covid-19 cases on 12 different days in July. Had call with Bill Gates (usual call every couple of weeks) Was on Governors' call from the Situation Room today. Made comment about the importance of the "fundamentals" on 1) masks; 2) close bards; 3) limit… **[2020-07-21T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** July 21, 2020 - Global - 14,300,000/604,000; USA - 3,800,000/141,000. Surge continues in Southern States. Florida in trouble. POTUS had press conference on COVID-19 without having me, Deb, or other TF members with him Meadows and now Rand Paul have been actively criticizing me for saying that NYC got it right in that after their peak, they brought the infections down and now have few hospitalizations and few deaths. They are incorrect. See below numbers for NYC: Cases Hospitalizations Deaths 6,000 4,000 2,000 07/01 Cases Hospitalizations Deaths 03/01 04/01 05/01 06/01 07/01 Cases Hospitalizations Deaths 03/01 04/01 05/01 06/01 07/01 New York Times interview 'eport; CNN with Jake ocate… **[2020-07-22T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** July 22, 2020 - Global USA Death threats are ramping up again and so my security with George Adams is coming back. George will take Christine and meto the game tomorrow night and provide security. Had a great Zoom conversation with Ryan Zimmerman (Zim) who gave me tips on throwing out the first ball on Thursday. He was wonderful. Very nice man. Interesting day at the Task Force. Called the POTUS I mentioned to the VP that the POTUS did a good job on the solo press conference yesterday. I told VP to tell the POTUS that I said so. The VP told me to call him myself since he has such great respect for me. Katie Miller gave me the phone number of the POTUS's personal secretary, Molly Michael. I… **[2020-07-22T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** July 22, 2020 ShareThis Nearly 3,500 of the nation's leading public health experts are speaking out against White House attacks on National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease Director Dr. Anthony S. Fauci and are calling on President Donald Trump not to sideline science or scientists as the country continues to reel from the COVID-19 pandemic. The signers include two former Commissioners of the Food and Drug Administration, two former directors of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a former Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, a former Surgeon General, several leading medical journal editors, and hundreds of the nation's most prominent physicians,… **[2020-07-23T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** July 23, 2020 - Global - 14,800,000/612,000; USA - 3,950,000/143,000 Wall Street )20,000/144,000 Global USA 'Ss network Uneventful day with usual NIH meetings. Did not go down to White House. Getting nervous about throwing out the first ball at Nats stadium tonight in the Opening Day ceremony of Nats versus Yankees game. Amazing night at NATS Stradium where I threw out the first pitch to open the 2020 Baseball season with Nats - NY Yankees game. Unfortunately, I threw a "bouncer" to the right of the plate. I felt really badly but the overwhelming public reaction to it was sympathetic and positive. Mark Lerner (owner of Nats) had me sign dozens of baseballs to be given out to people and one… **[2020-07-24T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** July 24, 2020 - Global - 15,000,000/619,000; USA - 4,020,000/144,000 Routine day. Went for my "annual" physical with Ted Li. All is well. PRESS: FOX News with John Roberts; On front page picture of me glove tapping with Sean Doolittle; Podcast with CSIS (Steve Morrison); Interview with Ben Cohen of Wall Street Journal; podcast with Khan Academy; WINS NYC Radio; **[2020-07-25T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** July 25, 2020 - Global USA Texas now have to triage who gets into intensieve and who does not (too far gone and/or too old. Very difficult situation. California takes over from NY as state with the most cases. Florida still surging. Deaths in the USA up to 1000/day for 4th day in a row. They have created a baseball card with a photo of me throwing out the first pitch. Judy Mikovits is planning to be on conspiracy TV shows via Sinclair news network saying that Fauci created the coronavirus in China and brought it to the USA Over the past week POTUS has done 3 press conferences alone. I have commented to the press that I think that this is good since he is now giving a sober message that… **[2020-07-26T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** July 26, 2020 (Sunday) - 5th Day in a row for 1000 deaths/day. Brett Giroir on Tapper (State of the Union) talking bullshit about testing with Jake pressing him. I gave Jake some questions to ask him. Mark Meadows on This Week with George Stephanopoulos saying that public health measures are not working and we will have to rely on interventions such as vaccines and therapeutics. This is his way of backing out of a failure and trying to get an "October Surprise". Heads up for him trying to push an early approval of vaccine or even influencing the decision about convalescent sera, which actually do not look too good right now. Spent better part of yesterday and this AM working out the… **[2020-07-27T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** July 27, 2020 - Global - 15,800,000/640,000; USA - 4,200,000/147,000 Today is launching of Phase 3 trial of Moderna mRNA-1273. First patient received the vaccine in Savannah Georgia at 6:45 AM. Fastest ever in the USA from sequence to phase 1 and fro sequence to now phase 3 We had in Building 1 a virtual press conference at 10:00 AM with me, Francis Collins, Matt Hepburn, and Stefan Bancel announcing the start of the Phase 1 trial. Met with the POTUS in the Oval Office today briefing him (with Azar, Collins, Gen. Perna, Moncef, Jared Kushner) about therapeutics and vaccines. He was typical stream Global USA of consciousness and rambling on. It is clear he wants therapeutics quickly. He… **[2020-07-28T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** July 28, 2020 - Global USA On GMA, George Stephanopoulos brought up that the POTUS has retweeted a tweet from a Breitbart based group that said that I was misleading the American public and thsat I was a fraud. George asked me to respond and I blew it off saying that I do not tweet or even read tweets. After the interview, George texted me saying: "Thank you, Tony. So impressive". The POTUS is playing a weird game of acting Okay with me in person and saying that our relationship is fine to the press and then retweeting stuff that attacks me. He is a very strange guy. Task Force meeting today. Continued surge in Florida. Threats now to yellow states of Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, and others… **[2020-07-29T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** July 29, 2020 - Trump bemoaned to the press at a press conference yesterday that my approval ratings were better than his. And he did not understand why. Amazing!! He really stepped in it yesterday when he endorsed a group of whacko doctors who said that 400,000/151,000 Hydroxychloroquine cures COVID-19. Woman (African) doctor named Stella Immanuel who beiieves in alien DNA and demon sperm said you do not need masks and HC cures COVID-19. Trump not resally knowing much about her, endorses her because she pushed HC. Don Lemon (CNN) on his show last night crucified Trump for this. Again the narrative continues of me versus Trump. CNN and the media in general are having a field day with this… **[2020-07-30T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** July 30, 2020 - Global - 16,600,000/565,000; USA - 4,400,000/151,000 Participated in a "Call to Action to Donate" ceremony at the American Red Cross Headquarters. Did tour with Azar and the POTUS and visited with a person giving NATIONWIDE COVID-19 METRICS. 7-DAY AVERAGE LINES Apr 1- Jul 30 Daily Tests Daily Cases Currently Hospitalized Daily Deaths Jul 30: 819,377 Jul 30: 69,917 Jul 30: 56,462 Jul 30: 1,529 60,000 900,000 es 50,000 700,000 600,000 40,000 500,000 30,000 400,000 300,000 20,000 200,000 10,000 100,000 Apr dunt Aug 1 Apri Juni Aug 1 Apr) Mey?) dunt) dul? Aug Source: The COVID Tracking Project @ blood. Then had roundtable with POTUS, Azar Hahn, Adams, Collins, Birx. Adam… **[2020-07-31T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** July 31, 2020 - Still >1000 deaths per day. Slight flatteningin AZ, but other states still surging. Yellow states starting to increase. Red states - >10% positive; Yellow states - 5 to 10% positive; Green states - <5% positive House Hearing today - Select Subcommittee on COVID-19 - Chair - James Clyburn - Rayburn-2154, Major clash with Jim Jordan (R-OH). Go to You Tube to see. I believe that I made him look silly. Confirmed Cases (Thousands) Vs é ta a 3 Vig -,900,000/153,000 New Dally Confirmed COVID-19 Cases in the U.S. a i ely * F &¢ meen 7 Day Moving Avarage Say a "4p Important call form Larry Horowitz who works closely with nancy Pelosi. Apparently, There was a meeting in the WH with… **[2020-08-01T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** August 1, 2020 - Global - 17,400,000/675,000; USA - 4,500,000/153,000 Uneventful Saturday. Southern states still surging; >1000 deaths yesterday. The new approach of jumping on the mostly yellow states that are starting to show a slight increase in percent positive is referred toas the "embers approach" Had conversation with Ian Lipkin. Ian is responsible for the medical/public health aspects of the Democratic Convention in Milwaukee. He called me to go over all the things he has put into place - masks, testing everyone, airflow, limit numbers, physical distance, etc. - to ask if he has missed anything. Seems he has done all he can do. The ; USA -- 4,600,000/154,000. Global USA… **[2020-08-01T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** Aug 01, 2020 - Aug 10, 2021 Aug Ol, 2020 - Aug 10, 221 **[2020-08-02T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** August 2, 2020 (Sunday) - Global - 17,700,000/681,000; USA - 4,600,000/154,000. I was not on any Sunday shows despite requests for from them. Brett Giroir on Meet the Press and Deb on SOTU. POTUS continues to tweet that I am incorrect in what I am saying. He rejects that I say that the USA only shut down by 50+% while EU shut down by 90% and then goes on with the non-sequitur that we have more cases BECAUSE we are testing more. The press in blasting him for supporting the wild woman Stella Immanuel. **[2020-08-03T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** August 3, 2020 - Global USA Far right and FOX News continuing to attack me. Tucker Carlson calling me a "Fraud" and a "hypocritical buffoon". Fireside Chat with Dartmouth Medical School faculty. PRESS: Local TV - KDFW-TV - Dallas; KABC-TV - LA; KSNV-TV - Las Vegas; WTVJ-TV - Miami; KTLA-TV - Los Angeles; WGN-TV- Chicago; KGTVTV - San Diego; Voice of America TV with Greta Van Sustern; JAMA Podcast with Howard Bauchner; US News and World Report (Brian Kelly interview); Face Time Live Press conference with Gov. Lamont (D-CT) **[2020-08-04T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** August 4, 2020 - Global - 18,000,000/688; USA - 4,700,000/155,000 Amazing Day - We were supposed to have a routine TF meeting today. We were waiting in the Sit Room for a 3:00 PM start and the VP was late at 3:15 PM. Marc Short then came in and said that the POTUS wanted some of us ogo to the Oval Office. We we got there, the entire senior staff was there (everyone). The VP sat the following around the Resolute Desk - me, Deb, Redfield, Giroir, Azar. The POTUS then started eyeing and throwing around the Fuck word: "What the fuck are you people doing? Deb you are saying that the pandemic is now in the rural areas. First the cities, now the rural areas. Where is it now. I am saying we have… **[2020-08-05T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** August 5, 2020 - Global - 18,100,000/692,000; USA - 4,750,000/156,000. Met with POTUS yesterday in Oval (see part 1). Photo below: Had Peter Navarro discuss HC with NIH Guidelines Panel. He was his typical arrogant self and rejected RCTs as being flawed and stuck with the observational studies. He maintained: "I am wrong, no one is harmed, if you are wrong, thousands of people die". He denies that HC can have any deleterious effects. His partner on the call was Mark Hatfill (Yikes!) Confirmed Cases [Thousancs) a0 New Daily Confirmed COVID-19 Cases In the U.S. iy --TTh By ,y A S500 "I - ) y' hil ATT a: ae yf yf Jiao --, a I I ¥ £ #£ FF F FF F FF F FF F F FF F HF F F HF HF HF Day eee Day… **[2020-08-06T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** August 6, 2020 - Global - 18,400,000/698,000; USA - 4,800,000/158,000 Confirmed Cases [Thousancs) a0 New Daily Confirmed COVID-19 Cases in the U.S. te 3 Vy aed a ne! _-- Je # ar 4p fa fo Shy #. e020 Day eee Day Mowing Avarage fey ay 2p i May Got semi-agitated call from Mark Meadows at around 7:45 AM saying that he is going to keep me off all TV until we sit down and talk. He admits that I am probably being misquoted, but the press is pitting me against the POTUS. They are trying to drive a wedge between us. My interview with CNN this AM was terrific, and when I saw that it was Mark who was calling I thought that he was calling to tell me that the CNN interview was great. Apparently, I had… **[2020-08-07T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** August 7, 2020 - Global - USA Made rounds again today (felt really good) - saw Mr. Davis (HIV, IRIS, Steroids and Ramsey-Hunt Syndrome); Also saw Sharon Rockefeller in for Steve Holland and will get removal of rectal stump that is chronically infected with fistula due to radiation. OWS Weekly Call - All 6 companies now have advanced purchase agreements. Also, Pfizer still not giving any information even though they have adv. Purchase agreement. This is unacceptable and they need to be blasted in my memoir. Also, we are averaging 800 enrollments/day in the Moderna trial: 2020-08-07 OWS board briefing Vx & Call from Larry Horowitz (works with Nancy Pelosi) (should have described above). He… **[2020-08-08T00:00:00] Anthony S. Fauci:** Aug 8, 2020 _(150 further messages omitted; query the database for the full sequence.)_