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review from the NY Times up and walking. Unfortunately, despite 3 negative CT's for blood, he reverted (after one negative) to positive in his left axilla sweat/skin. April 3, 2015 - doing great. Dilemma is the persistently weakly + PCR of axillary sweat. Has resting tachycardia that might be subclinical cardiomyopathy. Has been seen in other recovered patients in the USA (Emory/Nebraska). Gregg Gonsalves (old ACT-UP and TAG) who is now a Ph.D. student at Yale has brought to NIH (7A-24) a few (three) Yale students to interview me on a piece that they are writing on the issues with unnecessary quarantine of people working with Ebola. They are interviewing me because of the stand that I took in opposition of Gov. Cuomo and Christie a few months ago. April 5, 2015 (Easter Sunday) - CBS ran their Sunday AM special profile of me in a Q and A with Scott Simon (NPR). It turned out magnificently. I received scores and scores of e-mails of congratulations, many-fold more than even when I did 2 "Full Ginsberg's" a few months ago. E-mails from as diverse people as Gary Edson, Josh Bolton, Lisa Monaco (NSC), Catherine and Wayne Reynolds, old friends from NY Hospital, etc., etc. Will have to make decision about doing a single PCR on axilla and if negative, then stop testing rather than looking for 2 consecutive negatives. This is unchartered waters, since he has already had multiple negative blood PCRs. April 6, 2015 - Axillary sweat PCR now negative. We will take him out of isolation tomorrow and have upgraded his condition from "fair" to "good". Plan to do MRI of heart (still has sinus tachycardia at rest) and brain and then discharge him sometime this week. April 7, 2015 - now out of isolation due to negative blood and axillary sweat. semen specimen shows high level of PCR signal - 18 CT! Clearly the semen is a privileged site for the virus since his blood has been consistently negative. Preparations for extending the RCT vaccine trial to Guinea coming along. Cliff doing yeoman's work with the French (Yves Levy - INSERM and Jean Francois Delfraissy). French are intent on showing that they are taking the lead in this. This relates to their traditional relationship with Guinea. Will go to White House tomorrow to discuss with the POTUS and NSC "getting to zero in Guinea". April 8, 2015 - Larry Kramer's new book is out. See review from the NY Times below and see yellow highlight: