Tony's Diary Package — page 1081

the ultimate explainer. In briefings, he did not conspire to make himself seem smart. He made those he briefed feel they had spent a few minutes looking out on a vast landscape of innovation. Robin Givhan: Fauci carried all our angst and anger with patience and decency Fauci assumes that everyone is rational and thus persuadable. That is not quite true. But when he described to me the shifting shell of sugars that surround and protect the AIDS virus, or how mRNA vaccines work, it left a few impressions. First, how something that can kill you can be so fascinating. But also how much Fauci's friendship felt like mentorship. The greatness of his calling rubbed off a bit. And one was left with the infection of his mission. Fauci's forthcoming retirement as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases will cost Americans, and people around the world, far more than they realize. But he will ever remain the greatest public servant I have known. Oct. 11, 2022 Met with the Indian contingent for the VAP program (Vaccine Action Plan), a program I started with India 34 years ago. We signed an updated MOU to continue the program. Dinner tonight at the Indian Ambassador to USA (Taranjit Singh Sandhu) at his home together with the Indian Finance Minister tonight PRESS: NBC News Medical Unit with Ashkay Syal; Oct. 12, 2022 Met in Building 31 with Stella Kryiakides, Commissioner of EU for Health and Food Safety and Peter Piot to discuss COVID and other issues including Monkeypox. Enjoyable meeting. She told me how much all of Europe relied on my advice on COVID, particularly during the 1st year.