Tony's Diary Package — page 926

. "We know what and the onset of winter will set off a wave of breakthrough infections, a growing number of governors had already offered boosters to everyone 18 and older ahead of the holidays. Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, the federal government's top infectious disease expert, has argued relentlessly over the past month for booster shots for all adults, a position shared by most of Mr. Biden's other health advisers. Dr. Fauci has said that a dip in antibody levels in fully vaccinated people was a clear sign that booster shots were needed. Public health experts who argue that healthy younger adults do not need them, he has said, are ignoring the risks of symptomatic Covid-19. "Enough is enough. Let's get moving on here," he said at an event Wednesday night. "We know what the data are." Politico "Playbook: • Mask on, mask off. That as the name of the game for ANTHONY FAUCI at JONATHAN KARL's book party Tuesday night at Café Milano. As gawkers tried to snap pictures of him indoors not wearing a mask, America's doc would put it on and take it off depending on whom he was around. SALLY QUINN -- who's known Fauci since his days as a young NIH doctor, when he inspired a love interest in one of her erotic novels -- asked him why he was at a party with a mask in hand, not on face. "I said, 'You seem pretty ambivalent about your mask' because no one else was wearing one," Quinn told Playbook. "He said, 'I just decided that if anyone came up that I didn't know, I would put my mask on.'" Quinn added that "paparazzi" were surrounding Fauci trying to get that "gotcha moment" of the Covid czar without a mask on. Guests had to show proof of vaccination to enter the party. "He was being safe," Quinn said in his defense. "He knew everyone was vaccinated. If it was someone we knew, he would trust them, and if it was somebody else, he didn't." Another guest observed Fauci's mask on/mask off dance, but said that the mask was firmly on when he came to the rescue of a guest who had collapsed. We reached out to Fauci via NIH but didn't hear back Thursday night. NY Times: Dr. Anthony Fauci has become "a very, very relentless advocate" for boosters, The Times's Sharon LaFraniere, who covers the federal government's response to the pandemic, told us. "He keeps pointing out that the data is getting stronger." Nov. 20, 2021 - Global - 254,847,065/5,120,712; USA - 47,471,270/768,619 On both of these TV shows we discussed the authorization of boosters for everyone over 18 years of age and the EUA for Pfizer for 5 to 11 yrs old and what we have to look forward to for the Holidays (see below). The major conversation topic over the last several days has been the recent approval (finally) by the FDA and recommendation by the CDC to give booster shots to people 18 years of age or older. However the CDC continues to abide by there ACIP recommendations which confused the issue some what by talking about different categories that