Tony's Diary Package — page 725

he New York Times: 00,000/574,700 The far right continues to accuse me of fostering dangerous gain-of-function research. The letter to the editor of the National Review refutes this: Letter to the Editor NR.pdf PRESS: Interview with Press Trust of India Washington Correspondent (print); Seattle NBC TV (on the "Fauci effect" in med schools); Science News interview with Aimee Cunningham; WBAL radio and TV (Baltimore); King TV (Seattle) - interview together with Larry Corey; Sheryl Stolberg in The New York Times: Pressure Mounts to Lift Patent Protections on Coronavirus Vaccines Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, Mr. Biden's chief medical adviser for the pandemic, said in an interview Monday that the drugmakers themselves must act, either by greatly expanding their manufacturing capacity to supply other nations at "an extremely diminished price" or by transferring their technology to let the developing world make cheap copies. He said he was agnostic on a waiver. "I always respect the needs of the companies to protect their interests to keep them in business, but we can't do it completely at the expense of not allowing vaccine that's lifesaving to get to the people that need it," Dr. Fauci said, adding, "You can't have people throughout the world dying because they don't have access to a product that rich people have access to." May 4, 2021 - Global - 153,200,000/3,200,000; USA -32,300,000/574,700 Lower numbers - 32,500: