Tony's Diary Package — page 783

Global USA avirus vaccine appeal comes LZ m ● Chris and I viewed the "FAUCI" documentary doe by Nat/Geo together with the leadership of Nat/Geo films at the national geographic headquarters on 17th Street, NW. Very impressive film. ● At the request of the White House I did a walking tour of the Anacostia neighborhood Of Washington DC together with Mayor Muriel Bowser. we started off at anacostia high school where we thanked the volunteers in the basketball gym who were administering vaccines to people in the neighborhood . We then went on and addressed the volunteers in the schoolyard of Kramer Middle School. After that, the mayor and I went door to door knocking on the doors and encouraging people in the neighborhood to get vaccinated. We did that for about an hour and 15 minutes. it got written up the next day in the Washington Post (see below). PRESS: Washington Post: "For Ward 8 residents, coronavirus vaccine appeal comes with a touch of celebrity: 'It's Fauci!" https://wapo.st/3vFzhLZ June 20, 2021 - Global USA Uneventful and somewhat relaxing day . Still trying to process the news from yesterday. Will have to live with uncertainty for the next three months. As indicated above, Francis Collins organized a zoom call for today with a group of evolutionary biologists as well as Steve Sherry from the NIH databank in order to discuss this issue. Jesse bloom was also on the call. See email below from Francis having organized the meeting: From: Collins, Francis (NIH/OD) [E] <collinsf@od.nih.gov> Sent: Sunday, June 20, 2021 2:33 PM To: Tabak, Lawrence (NIH/OD) [E] <lawrence.tabak@nih.gov>; Fauci, Anthony (NIH/NIAID) [E] <afauci@niaid.nih.gov>; Embry, Alan (NIH/NIAID) [E] <embrya@niaid.nih.gov>; Sherry, Steve (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [E] <sherry@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov> Cc: Kristian G. Andersen <kga1978@gmail.com>; Bedford, Trevor <tbedford@fredhutch.org>; Bloom PhD, Jesse D <jbloom@fredhutch.org>; Garry, Robert F <rfgarry@TULANE.EDU>; rasmus_nielsen@berkeley.edu; spond@temple.edu Subject: RE: URGENT: Seeking your expert advice Allow me to suggest this agenda: