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Emanuel, among others. It actually worked out quite well and was well-received. Interesting how history repeats itself. First, the White House gets the standard people out such as CDC, HHS on health emergencies and the PR is horrible. Example is my friend Tommy Thompson with the Anthrax attacks of 2001 (he said it could come from drinking water from a stream - bad briefing from CDC). Another example was Jeff Coplan, then Diretor of CDC who arrogantly refused to brief Tommy Thompson or even answer his calls. Recall that Stewart Simonson, who subsequently became my very close friend convinced Tommy to fire Coplan and then I was the PR face of the USG to "calm the nation" together with Julie Gerberding who replaced Coplan as CDC Director. Now, after all of the misteps and the poor performance of Tom Frieden in the press and at Hearings, the White House is falling all over themselves to get me on TV and elsewhere educating the public and validating what the administration is doing. Hence, my "Full Ginsburg" on all of the Sunday TV Shows last weekend (October 8) Getting many, many e-mails from colleagues around the country telling me how proud they are of me and what an amazing job I am doing in the press with calming the country and bringing scientific rigor to the situation in my explanations. I get into Contact PPEs and visit in her room with Cliff and Rick Davey. She was in good spirits. She is so sweet I told her that she looked good and she came back with "You look great, yourself, Dr. Fauci." She was obviously glad to see me. I believe it is the happiness of knowing that she is getting better. If note, her Ebola PCR is now completely undetectable, and importantly, her Ebola specific IgM is >1600. It had previously been <400, which is actually undetectable. The IgM means that she is in immunological protection area. Also, her LFTs are coming down. We feel the hepatotoxicity is due to the Brincidofovir. We move her out of isolation room tomorrow and hopefully, home on Friday. Her labs are contained below: