--- type: Topic title: Vaccines description: "Vaccine development, trials, authorization, mandates and hesitancy." tags: - topic - covid-19 document_count: 1504 sources: - { id: baric_ti, resource: /sources/baric-ti.md, title: Baric Transcribed Interview (Redacted), author: "process:senate-hsgac-release", last_modified: 2026-07-23 } - { id: cbp_release, resource: /sources/cbp-release.md, title: CBP Release Package, author: "process:senate-hsgac-release" } - { id: diary_prequel, resource: /sources/diary-prequel.md, title: Diary Prequel Package, author: "process:senate-hsgac-release", last_modified: 2026-07-27 } - { id: fauci_awards, resource: /sources/fauci-awards.md, title: Fauci Awards Package (Redacted), author: "process:senate-hsgac-release", last_modified: 2026-07-24 } - { id: fauci_diary, resource: /sources/fauci-diary.md, title: Tony's Diary Package, author: "process:senate-hsgac-release", last_modified: 2026-07-24 } - { id: fauci_intel, resource: /sources/fauci-intel.md, title: Fauci Intelligence Community Release, author: "process:senate-hsgac-release", last_modified: 2026-06-11 } - { id: gates, resource: /sources/gates.md, title: Gates Package, author: "process:senate-hsgac-release", last_modified: 2026-07-31 } - { id: letter_dni, resource: /sources/letter-dni.md, title: Chairman Paul Letter to DNI Gabbard, author: "process:senate-hsgac-release", last_modified: 2025-10-30 } - { id: nih_public_comments, resource: /sources/nih-public-comments.md, title: NIH Hid Public Comments Package, author: "process:senate-hsgac-release", last_modified: 2026-07-17 } - { id: reading_room, resource: /sources/reading-room.md, title: Reading Room Production, author: "process:senate-hsgac-release" } - { id: slack_pm, resource: /sources/slack-pm.md, title: Slack / Private Message Drop, author: "process:senate-hsgac-release" } generated: { by: randpaul-corpus-pipeline/1.0, at: "2026-08-01T12:42:27Z" } status: stable --- Vaccine development, trials, authorization, mandates and hesitancy. Tagged on **1504** documents. # Principal voices * [Anthony S. Fauci](/people/anthony-s-fauci.md) - 658 documents * [Robert F. Garry](/people/robert-f-garry.md) - 93 documents * [Kristian G. Andersen](/people/kristian-g-andersen.md) - 84 documents * [Francis S. Collins](/people/francis-s-collins.md) - 55 documents * [Andrew Rambaut](/people/andrew-rambaut.md) - 35 documents * [Edward C. Holmes](/people/edward-c-holmes.md) - 24 documents * [Ralph S. Baric](/people/ralph-s-baric.md) - 19 documents * [Christina Salazar](/people/christina-salazar.md) - 10 documents * [Robert Eiss](/people/robert-eiss.md) - 8 documents * [Sarah J. Imhoff](/people/sarah-j-imhoff.md) - 8 documents * [Niranjan Bose](/people/niranjan-bose.md) - 7 documents * [Lawrence A. Tabak](/people/lawrence-a-tabak.md) - 6 documents * [Richard Klausner](/people/richard-klausner.md) - 6 documents * [Bill Gates](/people/bill-gates.md) - 4 documents * [Hillery Harvey](/people/hillery-harvey.md) - 4 documents # Statement timeline Attributed statements in chronological order. Each is quoted verbatim and cited to its page. * **2001-04-13** — [Anthony S. Fauci](/people/anthony-s-fauci.md) (questions): "What really, truely, is the statistically valid efficacy of HAART? - In terms of the pentultimate concern that I believe (I hope) is the bottom line for all sides --- SAVING LIVES --- what would be the impact of a massive spending commitment aimed at: -…" [^diary_prequel] * **2001-04-13** — [Anthony S. Fauci](/people/anthony-s-fauci.md) (asserts): "In other words, if a vial of measles vaccine contains 10 child doses, if should be vaccum sealed to a slab of cardboard on which are 10 autodestruct syringes." [^diary_prequel] * **2001-04-13** — [Anthony S. Fauci](/people/anthony-s-fauci.md) (questions): "How in the world can ANY humanitarian, medical or UN agency POSSIBLY justify distributing vaccines in countries with greater than 5% HIV rates without attaching enough autodestruct syringes to ensure that EVERY SINGLE CHILD receives a sterile injection?" [^diary_prequel] * **2001-04-13** — [Anthony S. Fauci](/people/anthony-s-fauci.md) (questions): "Many believe it has little to do with prevention programs or drug access, and everything to do with male/female power balance issues and female access to the cash economy.) Jon Mann for ages had a mantra: if a prevention effort works, why? and why isn't it…" [^diary_prequel] * **2001-04-13** — [Anthony S. Fauci](/people/anthony-s-fauci.md) (questions): "Remember when NIAID decided to can Phase 3 vaccine studies?" [^diary_prequel] * **2001-04-13** — [Anthony S. Fauci](/people/anthony-s-fauci.md) (asserts): "The reasons were not so much about the likelihood the vaccines would work (nobody thought they would), but concerns that people who received the vaccines would then put themselves and their partners at higher risk, based on the assumption that they were at…" [^diary_prequel] * **2001-04-13** — [Anthony S. Fauci](/people/anthony-s-fauci.md) (asserts): "NIH and CDC have spent loads of money trying to figure out how to counsel vaccine volunteers, what to say about safe sex, etc." [^diary_prequel] * **2001-04-13** — [Anthony S. Fauci](/people/anthony-s-fauci.md) (asserts): "It has been an ENORMOUS concern in the vaccine arena --- well in advance of actually having a product worth testing." [^diary_prequel] * **2001-05-18** — [Anthony S. Fauci](/people/anthony-s-fauci.md) (asserts): "May 18, 2001 -- Had important meeting with Adel Mahmoud in my Conference room regarding future collaborations with Merck on an HIV Vaccine." [^diary_prequel] * **2001-08-02** — [Anthony S. Fauci](/people/anthony-s-fauci.md) (asserts): "We crafted something that was a "high road" approach indicating that since we cannot enforce restrictions among committed users and abusers, then at least we can support biomedical research to provide better diagnostics, therapeutics and vaccines." [^diary_prequel] * **2001-09-11** — [Anthony S. Fauci](/people/anthony-s-fauci.md) (asserts): "People at the DHHS meetings include Stewart Simonson (Chief of Staff to Claude Allan), Scott Lillibridge, Claude Allan (deputy Secretary), Tom Month of Acambis company that is making smallpox vaccine, D.A." [^diary_prequel] * **2001-09-11** — [Anthony S. Fauci](/people/anthony-s-fauci.md) (asserts): "We discussed and provided 'White Papers" a) to justify our not agreeing to the renewal of the 1992 Bioweapons Convention because it is un enforcible and would also hinder our legitimate scientists workiing on biomedical research on these organisms. b)…" [^diary_prequel] * **2001-10-24** — [Anthony S. Fauci](/people/anthony-s-fauci.md) (asserts): "I will prepare a vaccine report for anthrax similar to the one that I prepared for smallpox (see above)." [^diary_prequel] * **2001-12-14** — [Anthony S. Fauci](/people/anthony-s-fauci.md) (asserts): "Dec.15, 2001 - Sat. meeting at NAS regarding recommendations of giving anthrax vaccine to people who were exposed to anthrax and who are just finishing their 60 course of antibiotics." [^diary_prequel] * **2001-12-16** — [Anthony S. Fauci](/people/anthony-s-fauci.md) (asserts): "Dec. 16-19, 2001 - Much controversy and last minute scrambling in getting the consent form and the protocol out for the discretionary use of anthrax vaccine in exposed people who had been receiving antibiotics, but who are coming off their 60 day course." [^diary_prequel] * **2001-12-16** — [Anthony S. Fauci](/people/anthony-s-fauci.md) (asserts): "I had been working all day and into the night on Dec.16-19 revising the consent forms and helping people get straight why DHHS is offering the vaccine to people." [^diary_prequel] * **2001-12-16** — [Anthony S. Fauci](/people/anthony-s-fauci.md) (asserts): "I have exhaustively reviewed the data (with Cliff Lane as a great help) and come to the conclusion that vaccine + antibiotics is no better than antibiotics alone for post-exposure." [^diary_prequel] * **2001-12-16** — [Anthony S. Fauci](/people/anthony-s-fauci.md) (asserts): "John Eisold (the Navy physician who takes care of Capitol Hill people) is insisting that the Senate staffers also get the vaccine." [^diary_prequel] * **2001-12-16** — [Anthony S. Fauci](/people/anthony-s-fauci.md) (asserts): "It is true that there is a "theoretical" reason to make the vaccine available in that animal studies show persistence of spores weeks after antibiotics and there is a fear that after antibiotics are discontinued the disease will occur." [^diary_prequel] * **2001-12-16** — [Anthony S. Fauci](/people/anthony-s-fauci.md) (asserts): "However, Eisold and the Senate Staffers are demanding that they get the anthrax vaccine." [^diary_prequel] * **2001-12-16** — [Anthony S. Fauci](/people/anthony-s-fauci.md) (asserts): "Laura Petrou from Senator Daschle's staff on Dec. 19, 2001 enraged that we were taking so long in getting the vaccine to the staffers." [^diary_prequel] * **2001-12-16** — [Anthony S. Fauci](/people/anthony-s-fauci.md) (asserts): "Henderson and Tommy Thompson had told Daschle that the vaccine would be available 2 days ago." [^diary_prequel] * **2001-12-16** — [Anthony S. Fauci](/people/anthony-s-fauci.md) (instructs): "I have insisted that if I am going to help we must not "recommend" the vaccine since the data in animals show that it is not better than antibiotics alone." [^diary_prequel] * **2001-12-16** — [Anthony S. Fauci](/people/anthony-s-fauci.md) (asserts): "Therefore, we are offering, but not recommending the vaccine for any of the 9000 people who were put on 60 antibiotic course." [^diary_prequel] * **2001-12-19** — [Anthony S. Fauci](/people/anthony-s-fauci.md) (asserts): "They completely miss the point that no one really is telling them that they should take the vaccine." [^diary_prequel] # Matching terms High-confidence: `vaccine`, `vaccination`, `moderna`, `pfizer`, `booster`, `operation warp speed`, `immunization`, `mrna` Supporting: `dose`, `efficacy`, `trial`, `phase 3`, `mandate`, `rollout`, `shot` # Sources [^baric_ti]: [baric_ti](/sources/baric-ti.md) [^cbp_release]: [cbp_release](/sources/cbp-release.md) [^diary_prequel]: [diary_prequel](/sources/diary-prequel.md) [^fauci_awards]: [fauci_awards](/sources/fauci-awards.md) [^fauci_diary]: [fauci_diary](/sources/fauci-diary.md) [^fauci_intel]: [fauci_intel](/sources/fauci-intel.md) [^gates]: [gates](/sources/gates.md) [^letter_dni]: [letter_dni](/sources/letter-dni.md) [^nih_public_comments]: [nih_public_comments](/sources/nih-public-comments.md) [^reading_room]: [reading_room](/sources/reading-room.md) [^slack_pm]: [slack_pm](/sources/slack-pm.md)