Tony's Diary Package — page 1085

at a Rooftop Reception by the Oct. 17, 2022 Crazy thing has now emerged. Boston University investigators have done an experiment that clearly would have fallen under the category of oversight by the P3CO process. Yet they never told our NIAID program people about it, nor was there any mention of these experiments in the grant that they cited in the pre print paper, nor was there any mention of this in the progress reports from the grant. What they did was swap an omicron spike on to a Wuhan matrix to determine the effect of the chimera on the function of the virus. As you might expect the people who have been attacking us for gain-of-function research are jumping all over this. We are putting out a statement indicating that we knew nothing of these experiments and they should have told us about them and put it through the P3CO process. Let us see how this plays out. Oct. 18, 2022 Had one of my intermittent calls from Joan Baez just checking on seeing how I am doing. I would love to visit her after I step down just o see where she is living in California Oct. 19, 2022 BU admits that they did the experiments on their own and did not use NIAID funds. Stll ongoing discussion whether this was actually GOF since fewer mice died. In any event, we are clear of this. Presented for the last time as NIAID Director to the Executive Committee of IDSA at the Marquis Marriott Hotel in DC PRESS: CBS TV News; Oct. 20, 2022 Honored with Chris and Francis Collins and Diane Baker at a Rooftop Reception by the Friends of Patients at NIH PRESS: WNYC Radio - "The Brian Lehrer Show"; Taped Local NBC TV with Doreen Gentzler; Oct. 21, 2022 United States