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people, international public health people (similar to the WHO meeting) and a larger number of influenza experts with hands on expertise in such studies. Post- Geneva: Have spent the past few days explaining the above summary to HHS, White House NSS X 2. Could not comment too much to the press. Feb. 22, 2012 - Briefed the NSS in the Situation Room with Heidi Avery leading (I had precontacted her explaining that I had to do the briefing and she agreed), Laura Holgate and Brian Kamoi from NSS, Kris Beardsley (more of her later), Francis Collins, Amy Patterson, Nancy Ann De Parle, Bill Shultz (HHS OGC), Bill Corr (Deputy HHS Sec.). Feb. 21-24, 2012 - had conversations and e-mail exchanges with Ron Fouchier trying to work out that he re-submit a manuscript and that the NSABB reconvene to review with the new data and the clarifications from Geneva. Also, spoke with Journal editors to try and get them to agree (which they did) to hold off on publication, but agree to quickly consider a revised manuscript. Of note, during the Feb. 22 Situation Room meeting, I outted Kris Beardsley as a "leak" to the NSABB. Paul Keim had asked how things were going right after we returned from Geneva (see e-mails on file). I told him that I was about to brief the WH on Feb. 22. He said good luck and that he already had spoken to Kris Beardsley. I did not return e-mail, but I was astounded. She is NSS!!!. Now it became clear that the NSABB people were directly trying to get to and agitate the WH through Kris and also with Mike Osterholm getting to Rick Weiss, the Press person for John Holdrin at OSTP. Rick is a former Washington Post reporter. I believe that Paul Keim is OK, but it is incredible that Kris Beardsley and Rick Weiss are doing this. In order to make sure that Kris would not undermine my presentation to Heidi and the NSS, I started my explanation (see summary above) by saying that I know that Paul Keim has briefed Kris about part of this a day or so ago, but I will give a little more information since I spoke with Ron after the WHO meeting and Paul did not. Kris almost fell through her chair and Heidi gave her a very mean look followed by a statement that we have only one point of contact with NSABB and that is Fauci. Clearly Heidi not only was not briefed by Kris, she had no idea and was extremely pissed that Kris had spoken about this with Paul. Paul is advisory to HHS and NIH and NOT to the White House. BTW, I have been completely wearing myself down by this getting virtually no sleep and doing 1000 things at a time that are very heavy, i.e. White House stuff, Press misinterpretation. Mike Osterholm acting in his usually hysterical manner, Laurie Garret getting it wrong as usual. OF GREAT IMPORTANCE: How is it possible that everyone got it wrong? Why did not anyone ever ask the "Fauci question" that I asked in Geneva of Ron. This includes the reviewers of the papers, the entire NSABB including the Chairman Paul Keim, the outside influenza expert called to advise the NSABB (Rob Webster), the editors of the Journal. After I briefed him, Bruce