2021

Global – 81,900,000/1,800,000; USA – 20,000,000/345,000 Records continue to be broken with 125,000 hospitalizations and >3000 deaths. GOP and Trump planning to challenge the January congressional certification of the…

Global – 82,400,000/1,800,000; USA – 20,100,000/347,000 Deaths now averaging around 3000 per day. Hospitalizations continue to break records. Trump totally focused on disrupting the transfer of power and declaring the…

Global – 82,600,000/1,800,000; USA – 20,300,000/350,000 Data remains unstable but early signals are increasing test positivity (49) states and in some states rising cases – tracking closely. Concerned about upcoming…

Global – 83,700,000/1,800,000; USA – 20,600,000/350,700 Expecting the post-holiday surge 1. I have included the European data in slides 3 and 4 – most of the European increases being driven by the UK 2. You can also see…

Global – 84,200,000/1,800,000 USA – 20,700,000/352,000 Deb’s notes: Made this shorter to make serious points. First and foremost our Fall surge slope is nearly identical to the UK slope suggesting we have had our own…

Global – 84,800,000/1,900,000; USA – 21,000,000/356,000 Spoke on chat with Chiefs of Police and with Presidents of Jesuit Schools (led by Fr. Dan Lahart of Regis) Made rounds on COVID-19 patient at Clinical Center. I…

Global – 85,500,000/1,900,000; USA – 21,300,000/360,000 Record number of deaths yesterday - >3963. Today another record at 4000. Surging continues. Slow start in the implementation of administration of vaccines. Was…

Global USA 4111 Deaths!! Record hospitalizations. I have been on the phone with Jeff Zients a few times today. I checked the number for projected requirement of vaccines to fulfill the promise of 100 million doses in…

Global - 87,600,000/1,900,000; USA – 22,000,000/368,000 The pandemic is getting more scary. Every day more and more cases and deaths. Patients in the hallways in California. Nurses and MDs exhausted. It seems that…

Global – 88,400,000/1,900,000 USA – 22,100,000/371,100 And the surge goes on….. There is a real concern that we have our own mutant that is resulting in an increased surge in cases. People are saying they have no idea…

Global – 88,800,000/1,900,000; USA – 22,300,000/373,200 Surge continues unabated. Deb’s notes: 1. Reporting has stabilized and we have returned to the rapid pre- thanksgiving rate of cases as the current resurgence…

Global – 89,400,000/1,900,000; USA – 22,500,000/375,100 4400 deaths today John Mascola working with David Ho to determine the possibility that the UK (N501Y; B.1.1.7) and/or the RSA mutants evade the antibodies induced…

Global – 90,100,000/1,900,000; USA – 22,700,000/379,000 The surge continues. Could this be that we are dealing with our own highly contagious variant, but we do not realize it since the CDC sequencing surveillance has…

Global – 90,800,000/2,000,000; USA - 23,000,000/383,400 Note from David Ho. Mutants are becoming very troublesome: Here is an overview first. Will share detailed organized data in a couple of days. I am available to…

Global – 91,500,000/2,000,000; USA – 23,200,000/387,300 Had Zoom briefing of Biden and Harris to prep them for the speech that Biden will give at 3:45 PM on the vaccine rollout plan. We briefed him at 2:30 to 3:30 and…

Global – 92,300,000/2,000,000; USA – 23,400,000/391,000 Jeff Zients gave me the entire Biden plan to look at and approve - I mentioned to him in detail the recent data from David Ho. We will set up a call for Sunday…

Global – 92,300,000/2,000,000; USA – 23,700,000/395,000 We may have reached the peak of the surge upon a surge 1. For the first time in weeks all indicators except fatalities are flat or declining. This suggests with…

Global – 94,000,000/2,000,000; USA – 23,800,000/397,000 Zoom meeting at 7:30 AM with JZ and the team + Jake Sullivan – discussed the restrictions on travel to RSA, Brazil and perhaps other countries. Leaning towards…

Received booster dose of Moderna vaccine today together with Francis Collins and Alex Azar. Said goodbyes to Alex and Brian Harrison (his COS). Alex described how terrible it was dealing with the White House people. He…

Global – 94,000,000/2,000,000; USA – 24,000,000/400,300 Inauguration Day! Trump refusing to attend inauguration and left with a flare that was very sparsely attended. Biden was at Mass as Trump flew off to Mar-a-Largo…

Global – 95,000,000/2,000,000; USA – 24,300,000/405,000 Made speech at Executive Board of WHO (4:00 AM ET) to announce that USA is rejoining WHO. Also, we are rescinding Mexico City Policy. I spoke as representing newly…

Global – 96,000,000/2,000,000; USA – 24,500,000/409,000 Some confusion about whether 100 million doses in 100 days or 100 millionb people in 100 days. Finally straightened it out and it is “doses” not “people”. Press…

Global – 97,000,000/2,000,000; USA – 24,700,000/413,000 PRESS: Vaccine Town Hall with Ebro Darden & Kizzy Corbett; MSNBC with Alex Witt; Interview with Donald McNeil for the New York Times on my experience with the…

Global – 97,500,000/2,100,000; USA – 25,000,000/416,000 Deb Birx had a 45 minute taped interview with Margaret Brennan right after me. It was moving in some respects, but a fair bit of revisionist history. PRESS: CBS…

Global – 99,000,000/2,100,000; USA – 25,000,000/418,000 • Did really good WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM Panel chaired by John Mickethwait (Bloomberg) with panelists: Prime Minister of Greece Kyriakos Mitsotakis; Nancy Brown (CEO…

Global – 99,000,000/2,100,000; USA – 25,200,000/420,000 VP Harris visited NIH for her booster shot with Husband Greg Emhoff. She and I did a PSA together. Had moving conversation with Moncef Slaoui who felt that the…

Global USA Really good relations developing with the WH Comms team led by Jen Psaki and particularly Courtney Rowe. Dramatic difference from Trump WH Comms Did “Fireside Chat” with NEJM – Eric Rubin and Lindsey Baden •…

Global – 100,200,000/2,200,000; USA – 25,500,000/428,000 Tedros called me up and aske me to help him connect with the Biden people, i.e. Sec Becerra, Jeff Zients, the VP, etc. Stewart Simonson willing to help me since I…

Global USA • Fireside Chat with NYC Health Commissioner David Chokshi Met with Jeff Zients and Team to discuss what to do with 2nd dose of vaccine, i.e. hold it back completely, hold it back 90%?? PRESS: Did press…

Global – 101,400,000/2,200,000; USA – 25,900,000/435,2000 Daily cases continue to come down, but growing concern about the arrival of mutants: B.1.1.7 (UK) in 30 states and 434 people infected; B1.351 (South Africa)…

Global – 102,100,000/2,200,000; USA – 25,900,000/438,000 Zoom calls today discussing: a) vaccinations for the Federal workforce b) Vivek just wanting to discuss masks, variants, schools, etc. – touching base.

Global – 102,600,000/2,200,000; USA -26,000,000/440,000 Had usual MWF Press conference by Zoom Had discussion with the team (+John Mascola) about how best to utilize the J & J product (Ad26). There will be a messaging…

Global – 103,000/2,200,000; USA -26,200,000/442,000 Daily cases going down but deaths still lagging at around 3000 per day Mutants continue to evolve with the 484K mutation characteristics of the B.1.351 lineage in RSA…

Global USA Biden Comms team putting me out there with the press continually. They are giving me totally open clearance for everything that I get asked to do. Completely different from the ridiculous restrictions of the…

Global – 104,000,000/2,3200,000; USA – 26,400,000/449,000 Discussions last night and prior evenings regarding the use of the excess J & J vaccine of clinical trial grade. Move to donate this to RSA to vaccinate their…

Global USA - Had terrific conversation today with Bob Cousy. Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) had called me a couple of weeks ago saying that Bob Cousy would love to connect with me by phone, Joe is a good friend of Cousy’s. I…

Global -105,000,000/2,300,000; USA – 26,700,000/458,000 Had Zoom call with David Kessler and the BARDA people trying to decide whether to invest considerable money in guaranteed purchase of the Lilly mAb combination…

Global – 105,400,000/2,300,000; USA – 26,800,000/461,000 Superbowl Sunday! Tom Brady beast Patrick Mahomes PRESS: Meet the Press (NBC) with Chuck Todd;

Global – 106,000,000/2,300,000; USA – 27,000,000/462,000 Important point is that the vaccines are protecting against severe disease (hospitalization and death): First day since Nov. 2 that daily cases were less than…

Global – 106,100,000/2,300,000; USA – 27,000,000/464,000 Eric Lander (OSTP) visited the VRC today and I we briefed him on our activities, particularly the development of the mRNA vaccine and Barney’s development of the…

Global – 106,600,000/2,300,000; USA – 27,000,000/467,000 Cases continue to fall considerably. We are now at less than 100,000 cases per day, when we were up to 400,000 at one time. • Had zoom with Dr. Hans Kluge WHO…

Global – 107,000,000/2,300,000; USA – 27,100,000/470,100 Number of daily cases continue to diminish. CDC starting to do practical things that I have actually been pushing for some time. For example: Wearing 2 masks…

Global – 107,000,000/2,400,000; USA – 27,200,000/474,000 David Kessler and I had discussion with Sen. Burr and Murray about viral variants. They wanted to be briefed on the threat and what we are doing about it. Did a…

Global – 107,800,000/2,400,000; USA – 27,300,000/479,200 • Trump acquitted by the spineless GOP Senators. However, 7 GOP Senators did vote for conviction. Sorry day for our country. Trump still has them in his grip.

Global – 108,200,000/2,400,000; USA – 27,400,000/482,500 Cases continue to come down. People like Mike Osterholm are saying that we will inevitably have yet again another surge due to B.1.1.7 that will become dominant…

Global – 108,600,000/2,400,000; USA – 27,500,000/484.000 Down to 68,000 cases yesterday! Did Zoom call with Winnie Byanyima (Exec Dir. Of UNAIDS) together with Regan Hofmann. Winnie was very grateful for my leadership…

Global – 108,800,000/2,400,000; USA – 27,500,000/485,100 Cases continue to come down globally: Media trying to show discrepancies in the Biden team response. CDC and Walensky under criticism for their recent guidelines…

Global – 109,200,000/2,400,000; USA – 27,600,000/486,400 Cases continue to plummet: Columbus Citizens Foundation's Dr. Anthony S. Fauci Scholarship - Created For Graduate Students In Medical And Public Health Fields …

FW: Request for concurrence -Gustav O. Lienhard Award -A. Fauci — Not surprising…but not a good conversation to have with ASF….

Re: Request for concurrence -Gustav O. Lienhard Award -A. Fauci — It was worth a try… Best, Tara A. Schwetz, PhD Associate Deputy Director, NIH A: P: | M: cidimage001.png@01D639B9.FBF9

Global -110,400,000/2,400,000; USA – 27,800,000/494,000 PRESS:

Global – 110,700,000/2,500,000; USA – 27,900,000/499,000 Matt Pottinger’s interview with Margaret Brennan on Face the Nation. Good summary of history of the early months: https://cbsn.ws/3pGH9tR Mike Osterholm still…

Global – 111,100,000/2,500,000; USA – 27,900,000/500,000 Reached 500,000 deaths in the USA today!! However, numbers of new cases continue to come down. Will be race between the new variants and our two tools of defense…

Global -111,400,000/2,500,000; USA – 28,000,000/500,000 Had great call with Barbra Streisand. She called my cell at 6:05 PM. She has recently had zoster with lesion on hip/buttock. She has post-zoster neuralgia down her…

Global – 111,800,000/2,500,000; USA – 28,100,000/501,200 The PBS team is here today filming their documentary. Received the 2021 Larry Foster Award for Integrity in Public Communication from the Arthur W. Page Center…

Global – 112,200,000/2,500,000 USA – 28,000,000/503,600 Cases continue to come down, but yesterday was 1st day that cases actually started to back up a little. Could be artifact. Variants gaining much attention. The…

Global – 112,600,000/2,500,000; USA – 28,200,000/506,800 Cases continue to fall however we're paying considerable attention to the possibility of surges associated with the variants. Of note, Pfizer is planning to do a…

Global – 113,200,000/2,500,000; USA – 28,300,000/509,000 Had good conversation with Ashish Jha. He is a good guy and he wants to understand much better why I am insisting on a single dose of the vaccine rather than…

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Global – 113,800,000/2,500,000; USA – 28,400,000/512,000 • We did our weekly briefing of Principals – Cabinet members and deputies • Did a podcast with the New Jersey Council of Churches PRESS: NPR Radio 1A; Podcast…

Global – 114,100,000/2,500,000; USA – 28,500,000/513,100 Still coming down, but the slope is changing: Participated in the University of Edinburgh “Futures Conversations” Chaired by Professor Peter Mathieson…

Global – 114,400,000/2,500,000; USA – 28,500,000/515,300 Still plateauing: Note that Europe cases are going up. They are using the 1 dose of vaccine approach: Governors of Texas and Mississippi withdraw all public…

Global – 115,000,000/2,600,000; USA – 28,600,000/517,200 Continuing to plateau: Governors of Texas and Mississippi are pulling back on all public health guidelines such as masks (removing the mask mandate), physical…

Global -115,300,000/2,600,000; USA – 28,600,000/519,100 Plateau maintaining: Briefed POTUS and VPOTUS virtually. He was in Oval. I was at NIH. I explained about variants and how the “cushion” of antibodies provided by…

Global – 115,700,000/2,600,000; USA – 28,700,000/521,300 Had pre-brief with the WH comms team (Courtney Rowe, Ben Wakana, Kate Berner, Mariel Saez, Ian Sams, etc for my appearance on Face the Nation tomorrow (Sunday)…

Global – 116,100,000/2,600,000; USA – 28,800,000/523,000 Status of vaccines in USA from Monica Ghandi: The intensity of both my popularity and of the hate that the far right have of me increases: Fauci.pdf PRESS: CBS…

Global 116,500,000/2,600,000; USA – 28,800,000/524,000 Plateau starting to come down” Had a very nice and informative discussion with the minister of foreign affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bisera Turkovic. She is in…

Global – 116,900,000/2,600,000; USA – 28,900,000/525,000 Oops! See below. Likely a fluke: • Had a very nice virtual ceremony inducting me as a Honorary Fellow into the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland by its…

Global – 117,300-,000/2,600,000; USA – 29,000,000/526,200 Had a very moving tribute to me upon the receipt of the Yale University School of Management “Legend in Leadership” Award from the Chief Executive Leadership…

Global -117,800/2,600,000; USA – 29,100,000/527,700 Had Zoom with Jeff and the team to go over the POTUS speech for tonight to commemorate the 1 year anniversary from the time (March 11, 2020) when the WHO declared this…

Global - USA Still plateauing: Briefed the Principals for our weekly briefing. I showed the replication cycle of SARS-CoV-2 and the vulnerable targets for direct anti-viral therapy David Kessler together with Rick Levin…

Global – 118,800,000/2,600,000; USA – 29,200,000/530,700 PRESS: Filmed with Mark Manucci for PBS

Global – 119,200,000/2,600,000; USA – 29,200,000/531,800 PRESS: NBC “Meet the Press” with Chuck Todd; CNN State of the Union” with Jake Tapper; Fox News with Chris Wallace; Gray TV “Full Court Press” with Greta Van…

Global – 119,600,000/2,600,000; USA -29,300,000/532,400 Got call tonight from Larry Horowitz saying that Drew Weissman and his collaborator are planning to hold a press conference to discuss their studies in mice…

Global – 120,000,000/2,700,000; USA – 29,300,000/533,100 I took the led in pushing Janet Woodcock (FDA) and Rochelle Walensky (CDC) to make sure that all their ducks were in order. In fact, Janet checked and both Pfizer…

Global – 120,400,000/2,700,000; USA – 29,400,000/534,100 Testified before the House Energy and Commerce Oversight & Investigations Subcommittee chaired by Diana De Gette (D-CO) with ranking member Morgan Griffith (R…

Global – 120,900,000/2,700,000; USA – 29,400,000/535,200 Testified before the Senate HELP Committee chaired by Sen. Patty Murray (D_WA) and ranking Minority Richard Burr (R-NC). I had my typical fight with Sen. Rand…

Global USA Still flattening. General worry about surge while several states are pulling back on mask mandates and other public health measures: PRESS: CBS “This Morning” with Gayle King; Snapchats with White House…

Global – 122,000,000/2,700,000; USA – 29,600,000/538,300 Had our newly established Saturday AM meeting with the medical team led by Jeff Zients to go over important issues. I brought up for the first time the issue of…

Global USA Still flat or slightly increased: While Europe continues to surge: And Brazil follows:

Global -123,000,000/2,700,000; USA – 29,700,000/540,000 Trump has been attacking me (and Deb Birx) in recent interviews on FOX News and “the Hill” (see below) saying that we were wrong most of the time. However, he…

Global -123,400,000/2,700,000; USA – 29,700,000/540,500 Did Governor’s Association call and gave them an update. Was introduced by Governor Cuomo who bragged about my New York City roots and that I am Italian-American…

Global -123,900,000/2,700,000; USA – 29,800,000/541,300 • Moncef Slaoui fired from GSK Board of Directors for sexual harassment charges dating back a few years • AZ continues to mess up on everything they seem to do…

Global - 124,200,000/2,700,000; USA – 29,800,000/543,000 After a Zoom meeting yesterday with the DSMB Chaired by Rich Whitley, it became clear that they are furious with AZ since they feel that the AZ people are…

Global – 125,200,000/2,700,000; USA – 29,900,000/544,000 Have continued to make virtual rounds on patients at the clinical center. I have not been indicating it in these notes; however, I have been regularly going to…

Global -125,800,000/2,800,000; USA – 29,900,000/545,300 PRESS: ABC – Good Morning America (Weekend);

Global USA Going in the wrong direction: PRESS: CBS – Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan; Viewing of the Sanjay Gupta piece on CNN of the “6 doctors”;

Global – 126,900,000/2,800,000; USA – 30,100,000/546,700 • Considerable commenting rom the press about the Sanjay Gupta Special last night on the “6 Doctors” where me, Birx, redfield, Hahn, Giroir, and Kadlec were…

Global USA I remain close to Deb Birx and she still communicates with me about he observations of how things are going. Below is an e-mail she sent me this morning: Testing rates continue to drop reaching under July…

Global – 127,900,000/2,800,000; USA – 30,200,000/548,200 Still flat or inching up: • Had my every other week call with Chris Whitty and Patrick Valance of the UK. They are as concerned as we are about the potential for…

Global – 128,500,000/2,800,000; USA – 30,300,000/549,100 The Trump people including Meadows, Navarro and several other minor figures are going on a rampage on FOX news attacking me. Navarro calling me a psychopath and…

Global – 129,3000,000/2,800,000; USA – 30,400,000/550,200 • Had nice Fireside Chat with Rep. Doris Matsui. • Am still being attacked by the far right wing including Senators (Lindsey Graham) and media (FOX). Interesting…

Global – 129,900,000/2,800,000; USA – 30,400,000/552,800 Went to a “Spring celebration” at Bob Seder’s house to observe the Cherry Blossoms at Kenwood. I am a little nervous sine people were hugging and not wearing…

Global – 130,400,000/2,800,000; USA – 30,500,000/553,700 Things getting a bit scary. As B.1.1.7 becomes more dominant, we re seeing surges in some areas with younger people (even school kids) getting infected and…

Global -131,000,000/2,900,000; USA – 30,500,000/554,100 Still putting pressure on me to switch to a single dose. Mike Gerson wrote an amazing column in the Washington Post about me: Opinion: Why tearing down Fauci is…

Global – 131,500,000/2,900,000; USA – 30,600,000/554,400 Had Zoom call with Pascal Soriot, CEO of AstraZeneca. He wanted to apologize for the miscommunications concerning the interactions between AZ and the DSMB a…

Global -132,000,000/2,900,000; USA – 30,700,000/555,200 Terrific experience tonight – On my walk tonight with Christine through American University campus, on the way back we were met by throngs of American University…

Global -132,700,000/2,900,000; USA – 30,700,000/556,100 Spoke with Olive Shisana and Morena Makhoana (Biovac) about setting up capability to manufacturing mRNA vaccines in South Africa. Olive claims to be the special…

Global – 133,600,000/2,900,000; USA – 30,800,000/557,100 • Bad day – Chris brought her right arm (distal radius0 playing basketball with me for filming for Nat/Geo. Happened on the last 10 seconds of playing PRESS…

Global – 143,300,000/2,900,000; USA – 30,900,000/558,000 • Spoke again with Ari Emanuel and his team of Don Walker (lawyer, represents Obama and Clinton) and Jay Mandell (Mostly involved with books). They just wanted to…

Global – 135,000,000/2,900,000; USA – 31,000,000/558,800 Sunday -quiet day. Catching up on writing Commencement address. Heard during my interview with MSNBC (see below) that Trump, while on FOX with Laura Ingraham said…

Global USA The Daily Mail in their reporting of the removal of Father Lahart from his position of President of Regis High School made sure to mention that I was an alumnus of the school (of course) (see below under…

Global – 136,200,000/2,900,000; USA – 31,100,000/559,700 Jeff Z. calls me at 5:46 AM telling me to clear my calendar since the WH wants me out there with the press. See below – I engaged in the Jen Psaki Conference in…

Global -137,000,000/3,000,000; USA – 31,200,000/560,600 There is a very important issue going on regarding a dispute between the vaccine Research Center an Moderna regarding the inventorship of the patent associated…

Global – 137,900,000/3,000,000; USA – 31,200,000/561,400 Still hanging around 70,000/day: Major clash with Rep. Jim Jordan during the House Energy and Commerce Select Committee on COVID-19 chaired by Jim Clyburn and…

Global – 138,700,000; USA - • Andy Slavitt remarked how proud of me he was as he watched me respond to Jim Jordan. • Fox News is attacking me abut my interchange with Jordan, BUT MSNBC is attacking FOX for attacking me…

Global – 139,500,000/3,000,000; USA – 31,400,000/563,200 Cases continue to creep up in certain states (>35). Had nice dinner over Ellen Sigal’s home with Diana DeGette, Chair of the House Energy and Commerce…

Global – 140,300,000/3,000,000; USA – 31,400,000/564,000 • David Axelrod sent me a text saying that his wife Susan says that I look 10 years younger since the change of administrations. • I received a text from Dana…

Global – 141,100,000/3,000,000; USA – 31,500,000;564,300 Today is the day (April 19) when the POTUS said that everyone 16 years of age and older is now eligible to receive a vaccine. No more restrictions to priority…

Global USA Maybe coming down a bit: • I was on the governor’s call today. One of the questions that came up today was why we still have a mask mandate for outdoors. I agree that this is a problem. Rochelle answered that…

Global USA Cases back up again a bit – 57,000: Had an important call without colleagues in South Africa another southern African countries to discuss the possibility of conducting a clinical trial with the moderna m RNA…

Global USA Note the difference in mask mandates between the red and blue states: • I participated in an iPC meeting today chaired by Beth Cameron of the National Security Council. The purpose of the meeting was to…

Global – 144,400,000/3,100,000; USA – 31,700,000/567,400 Still plateauing, but the 7-day average is slightly down (~10%): Presented before the Lasker Board with Elia Zerhouni, Peggy Hamburg, Al Reese, Joe Goldstein and…

Global – 145,200,000/3,100,000; USA – 31,800,000/568,200 Real crazy anti-Fauci stuff going on. Two authors named Steve Deace and Todd Erzen wrote a book about me entitled “Faucian Bargain” - The most powerful and…

Global - 146,100,000/3,100,000; USA – 31,800,000/569,000 We had an important zoom talk at 11:00 AM today with Jeff, me, Rochelle, Natalie, and Vivek regarding our response to the crisis in India. See above. Jeff is…

Global – 146,800,000/3,100,000; USA – 31,900,000/569,300 I had an interesting conversation with Vivek late last night. He called me up after we had a meeting with Jeff and the medical team concerning the guidelines that…

Global – 147,500,000/3,100,000; USA – 31,900,000/569,800 Coming down. 2nd day in a row in the 30s: PRESS: Sanjay Gupta podcast; IAS Podcast on 40 years of HIV; White House Press Conference (spoke on variants); WTOP…

Global -148,300,000/3,100.000; USA – 32,000,000/570,400 Letter to Dr. Collins from Republican Congressmen Cathy McMorris Rodgers, Brett Guthrie, and Morgan Griffith asking many questions about the origin of SRAS-Cov-2…

Global -149,200,000/3,100,000; USA – 32,000,000/571,300 MMWR: Linked Clusters of SARS-CoV-2 Variant B.1.351 — Maryland, January–February 2021 Back up again to 53,000/day: • Did a zoom podcast interview with Quinn…

Global – 150,100,000/3,200,000; USA - 32,100,000/572,200 We shut down travel from India – See above. Travel from India will cease for all non-USA citizens. Will start on Tuesday May 4. I am concerned that by delaying…

Global – 151,000,000/3,200,000; USA – 32,100,000/573,000 I am going public that pharmaceutical companies should share their technologies with developing nations to allow them to make their own vaccine developed by the…

Global – 151,800,000/3,200,000; USA – 32,200,000/573,800 • Had dinner over Jeff Zients’s house with wife Mary, Bob Seder and Deb Harman, Denis McDonough and wife Kari. Terrific time. Jeff is as wonderful on a personal…

Global – 152,500,000/3,200,000; USA – 32,200,000/574,200 India is exploding: Good number today for the USA: Jeff called me this morning and said that it would be best for them to arrange for me to speak one on one with…

Global – 153,200,000/3,200,000; USA -32,300,000/574,700 Lower numbers – 32,500: • I did the Governors’ call and did the epi update since Rochelle was not able to be on the call. I clarified with Governor Cuomo why we…

Global – 154,000,000/3,200,000; USA – 32,300,000/575,500 • Daily cases today at 41,000 In discussions with the medical team and with the White House comms group, I made it clear but I really do have a problem defending…

Global – 154,800,000/3,200,000; USA – 32,400,000/576,200 I had an important conversation this morning with Rochelle Walensky who wanted my input on putting together some specific metrics for when the country can open up…

Friday 12:30 PM AEDT This just does not make any sense since why would someone want to make an agent that could equally infect your own population. Something is wrong with this report . I will have to follow up on it…

• Weekly (weekend) touch bases with media team (11:00 AM – Saturday) in anticipation of Sunday shows.

Global – 157,300,000/3,300,000; USA – 32,500,000/578,500 COVID Cases 05.09.21 powerpoin Cases still hanging around 30-40,000/day The anti-Fauci stuff continues with individual articles and FOX news continually implying…

Global - 158,000,000/3,300,000; USA – 32,500,000/579,000 • Did 1 hour interview for the Obama Oral History • Joined President Obama to chat with professional athletes to encourage them to be trusted messengers to get…

Global – 158,700,000/3,300,000; USA – 32,600,000/579,400 Numbers coming down: • Senate HELP Hearing today with Kessler, Walensky and Peter Marks. Senators Rand Paul and Roger Marshall came at me regarding gain of…

Global – 159,300,000/3,300,000; USA – 32,600,000/580,100 • I had an interesting conversation today with Tom Frieden About the possibility of South Korea playing an important role in manufacturing doses of the M RNA…

Global USA • My conversation with Rochelle the night before the hearing must have worked. She just called me to tell me that she has made a major change in the CDC recommendations. She will take my advice and change the…

Global – 160,800,000/3,300,000; USA – 32,700,000/581,600 In The Onion sarcastically spoofing the recent relaxation of mask mandates from CDC: Dr. Fauci: ‘There’s No Longer A Need For Statues To Wear Masks Outside’…

Global – 161,500,000/3,400,000; USA – 32,7600,000/582,300 Cases coming down, but not precipitously: It is a really tough world that we're living in. In a commentary about my commencement address at Vanderbilt one of the…

Global - USA Numbers still coming down: Kate McKinnon played me again last night on “Saturday Night Live” in the context of the new CDC guidelines (see above). The CDC (Rochelle) got slammed on all the Sunday Shows for…

Global – 162,800,000/3,400,000; USA – 32,800,000/583,100 May be just the weekend decrease, but the numbers are very low today – 17,700: • Had a good and interesting day at the White House today. president Biden and I…

Global USA 2nd day in a row that numbers are way down – 19,500: We are having a serious problem here in that the Public Affairs people at HHS are refusing to allow Francis to put on the NIH website an explanation about…

Global – 163,900,000/3,400,000; USA – 32,800,000/584,300 COVID-19 cases in USA <30,000 for 4th day in a row The “buzz” about the origins of the virus continue with multiple inquiries from the press. One of the real…

Global – 164,500,000/3,400,000; USA – 32,900,000/585,000 The White House and HHS want me to do them a favor. There is a Washington Post reporter (Annie Linskey) who is trying to write a story that the CDC is taking on a…

Global USA Cases continue to decline with 28,000 today More crazy stuff – An article appears online in RealRawNews that I was planning to flee the country since there was an arrest warrant out for me for crimes against…

Global – 165,800,000/3,400,000; USA – 32,900,000/586,300 Joan Baez - I had a most extraordinary and memorable evening last night at the Kennedy Center. Joan Baez invited me to be her escort on the occasion of her…

Global – 166,300,000/3,400,000; USA – 32,900,000/586,800 Cases continue to come down. All 50 states have decreases: Appropriations Hearing (Senate and House) coming up next week. Interesting to see if they fixate on the…

Global – 166,900,000/3,500,000; USA – 32,900,000/587,300 Numbers continuing to come down: Had typical White House press conference; briefing of “Principals”; and briefing of Sec. Becerra – Busy day Had conversation with…

Global – 167,000,000/3,500,000; USA – 33,000,000/587,800 • We had the House Appropriations Subcommittee Hearing today (virtually). it went well except for some snarky comments by Congressman Andy Harris concerning the…

Global – 167,500,000/3,500,000; USA – 33,000,000/588,400 The situation continues to get “out of control” with regard to the press reports concerning my “flip flopping” concerning the theory of the origin of the virus. I…

Global – 168,000,000/3,500,000; USA – 33,000,000/589,500 The onslaught of far-right Republican venom against me continues. We're being bombarded with letters asking dozens of questions regarding our role in research at…

• The secretary of HHS we'll ask the Inspector General to do an audit of EcoHealth and its oversight up the subaward to the Wuhan institute of virology. I am certain that there will be some deficiencies that the IG will…

Global USA • Received honorary doctor of science from Bowdoin live, but virtual. I was in my home office dressed in the commencement regalia and waved to the graduates at the ceremony as I was conferred the honorary…

Global – 169,600,000/3,500,000; USA – 33,100,000/591,300 Cases continue to come down (see below), but Jeff Z, is concerned that the daily vaccinations are also dropping such that the current rate may not get us to 70%…

Global – 169,600,000/3,500,000; USA – 33,100,000/591,400 Very few cases, probably as a result of holiday weekend:

Global – 170,400,000/3,500,000; USA – 33,100,000/591,500 A couple of interesting things today. Did the governor's call or I spoke about the possible need for boosters. In addition I had an interesting podcast with…

Global – 170,800,000/3,600,000; USA – 33,100,000/592,200 • I gave a taped speech today to the opening session of the G7 meeting taking place in England. I spoke about the similarities between the COVID-19 pandemic and…

Global – 171,300,000/3,700,000; USA – 33,100,000/592,800 Numbers continue to come down: • Writeups by CNN and Washington Post regarding my emails are making me look very good. They show that I never criticize president…

Global 171,800,000/3,700,000; USA – 33,100,000/593,400 • I had my usual every two-week meeting with my English colleagues doctor Chris Whitty and Patrick Valance. The discussion was somewhat disturbing since they seem…

Global – 172,200,000/3,700,000; USA – 33,200,000/594.,000 40th anniversary of the first cases of AIDS reported in MMWR - a lot of appropriate attention is being paid to the 40th anniversary. There were several articles…

Global - USA Today I fly up to New York City with first lady doctor Jill Biden to promote vaccinations among the African American community. We will be visiting the Abyssinian church in Harlem. The vicious assault on me…

Global – 173,000,000/3,700,000; USA – 33,200,000/594,800 • Eventful day - I went to New York today with first lady doctor Jill Biden for two reasons: 1st )to visit the Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem in order to…

Global – 173,3000,000/3,700,000; USA – 33,200,000/595,300 Cases continue to come down: Far right still slamming away. It is very clear that this is a well-organized effort. PRESS: Interview with Dutch newspaper NRC…

Global – 173,700,000/3,700,000; USA – 33,200,000/595,600 Today the president went to England on the first leg of the trip involving the G7 summit. With regard to COVID-19, he has a very important message to deliver…

Global – 174,000,000/3,800,000; USA – 33,200,000/596,000 Cases still low: • I had a really nice conversation with Chuck Todd this morning. He had texted me to ask what I thought of the interview yesterday. I told him…

Global – 174,500,000/3,800,000; USA – 33,300,000/597,000 Press are beginning to push back and point out how ridiculous the criticism of me is (see below in Vanity Fair) • Did multiple outreach chats today with mayor…

Global USA • had our usual medical team meeting with Jeff this AM (Sat). The important good news is that the president's announcement a 500 million doses of vaccine going to low and middle income countries is going…

Global – 176,000,000/3,800,000; USA – 33,300,000/598,000 Cases continue to come: PRESS: NBC “The Tonight Show” with Jimmy Fallon

Global – 176,000,000/3,800,000; USA – 33,300,000/600,000 ● Bob Redfield is out there spouting incorrect information saying that he feels strongly that this was a virus that leaked from a laboratory. The basis of his…

Global USA Participated in Faith Vaccine Roundtable – young Muslim messengers PRESS: NPR “Morning Edition” with Leila Fadel; did the White House Press Conference – I announced the new $3.2 billion Antiviral Program for…

Global – 177,000,000/3,800,000; USA – 33,300,000/600,000 Received important e-mail with attachment from Jesse Bloom: Hi Francis, Stephen, and Toni, I’m just writing to give you a heads up that I identified a data set of…

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…

Global -178,000,000/3,900,000; USA – 33,400,000/600,000 Did an Instagam live with FGOTUS Doug Emhoff and Dikembe Mutombo to encourage people to get vaccinated. We are putting a full-court press in encouraging people to…

Global USA ● Had podcast with the Conference of Mayors Vaccinations coming along very well: PRESS: BBCTV with Katty Kay; CNN “The Lead” with Jake Tapper; MSNBC “All In” with Chris Hayes Very good interview on New York…

Global – 179,000,000/3,900,000; USA – 33,400,000/600,000 Did an Instagram with Jennifer Garner on vaccines. She was wonderful as she was last time. We spoke of the vaccination of her 3 children. Cong. Stephen Scalise…

Global – 179,000,000/3,900,000; USA – 33,400,000/600,000 I had another terrific day with First Lady Dr. Jill Biden. We flew to Florida from Andrews with all the bells and whistles of motorcades to visit two cities…

Global – 180,000,000/3,900,000; USA – 33,400,000/601,000 I did something this morning that I feel very good about. I went over to the clinical center and participated in the “graduation ceremony” of the people in…

Global - USA – 33,400,000/601,000 I had a very interesting evening last night. Christine and I had dinner over the home of Sally Quinn. Other guests were Bob Woodward and Elsa Walsh as well as Rick and Jane Atkinson. We…

Cases continue to slowly come down: PRESS: Latest thing on Fox News over the last couple of days is that they are accusing me a lying under oath at a house and energy subcommittee hearing when I said That I did not know…

Global – 181, 000,000/3,900,000; USA – 33,500,000/602,000 PRESS: BET Instagram with Mark Tallman and Ronreaco Lee; Month of Action Zoom with Partner organizations;

Delta variant swarming globally. It definitely is a more efficient transmitter. WHO is now recommending that even vaccinated people wear masks. Vaccinated people are getting infected, but without serious disease. FLOTUS…

Global 182,000,000/3,900,000; USA – 33,500,000;602,000 I just received an assembly concurrent resolution number 195 of the 219th legislature of the State of New Jersey it is a concurrent resolution honoring the life and…

It is becoming very clear that the extreme far right in the press with Fox News, in social media but the far right crazies, and especially in the Congress with the senators and congressmen who are frightened of former…

Global USA COVID-19 cases in UK increase 67%, but hospitalizations are not going up indicating that vaccines are preventing severe disease. PRESS: Regional media TV with: WRAL NBC Raleigh-Durham; WSB-TV – ABC Atlanta…

Today is the celebration of the independence from the virus. There was the most beautiful display of fireworks on the mall that I have ever seen. Let us hope that the congregation of people at the celebration does not…

Global USA Cases increasing in certain regions. Will watch carefully to determine whether this has impact on hospitalizations. We will brief the president tomorrow about the role of Delta variants with regard to vaccine…

Global USA A considerable amount of concern about the fact that reports from Israel indicate that the Pfizer vaccine is less protective against infection since the protection a few weeks ago prior to the emergence of…

Global – 184,000,000/4,000,000; USA – 33,600,000/604,000 We are stuck at ~12,000 to 14,000 cases per day: See below. It is very clear that the Israelis are increasing greatly their testing that could explain their…

Kristian Andersen, Bob Garry and many others came out yesterday with on a preprint server a paper strongly arguing with good evidence for a natural emergence of SARS-CoV-2 rather thsan a lab leak: The Origins of…

Global – 185,000,000/4,000,000; USA – 33,600,000/604,000 is waning after a period of several months. This created a lot of confusion and we all gathered on multiple phone calls yesterday evening in order to come out…

Wasting a lot of time responding to letters from Congress and Senate about Wuhan. Egregious waste of time!! Much concern about the Delta variant. Cases coming up in USA:

33,000 cases yesterday. Clearly the unvaccinated are getting infected PRESS: ABC “This Week with George Stephanopoulos”; CBS “Face the Nation” with John Dickerson; CNN State of the Union” with Jake Tapper;

Global USA It is important to point out how many hours we are all wasting in responding to the multiple letters from senators and congressmen fundamentally driven by conspiracy theories that the NIH has funded work at…

Global – 187,000,000/4,000,000; USA – 33,700,000/605,000 New cases are increasing in at least 41 states. This is particularly true among seven states in the South where the percentage of people who are vaccinated is…

I had a very pleasant experience today down at the White House where I engaged in a number of Instagrams, PSAs, and YouTube videos with the new sensational young entertainer Olivia Rodrigo. The purpose of the…

Global USA The republican Party has gone completely crazy. See letter below where Congressmen are accusing me of collaborating with the Chinese Communist Party: Follow Up NIH Re. Emails 71521 (2).pdf There are a few…

I briefed the President in the Oval Office today about the Delta variant and its impact on our country. Present at the briefing were: Ron Klain, Susan Rice, Natalie Quillian, Jeff Zients, Anita Dunn, Brian Reese, Mike…

No change. Cases continue to rise. Gov. DeSantis has made anti-Fauci T-shirts. Amazing!! PRESS: CNN with Jim Acosta;

Cases continue to increase. The question that is being asked is whether fully vaccinated people who have breakthrough infections can transmit the infection to others. Still no direct data either way:

Jeff Z. called me early this AM (6:45 AM) concerned about the breakthrough infections of vaccinated people and waned my opinion about moving towards masking of vaccinated people who are in hot zones. I think that we…

Global – 191,000,000/4,100,000; USA – 34,000,000/607,000 Testified today before the Senate HELP Subcommittee - There was the expected big splash at the hearing today As Senator Rand Paul accused me of lying under oath…

Global – 191,000,000/4,100,000; USA – 34,000,000/607,000 Cases continue to climb: Typical e-mail from a supporter of me after the Rand Paul clash. One of dozens and dozens: Dear Dr. Fauci, I've wanted to write you at…

Global – 192,000,000/4,100,000; USA – 34,000,000/608,000 Daily cases continue to climb: Had my usual weekly meeting with the POTUS today at 1:00 PM in the Oval Office. Also present: Jeff Z., Natalie Quillian, Mike…

I had a very productive conversation in my regular every two week call with our UK colleagues – Chris Whitty and Patrick Vallance, this time accompanied by Thomas Waite. I explained to them the situation that we have…

Global USA The USA is not doing so great in vaccinations compared to other developed countries: Fully vaccinated people: PRESS: CNN “State of the Union” with Jake Tapper; MSNBC “Sunday Show” with Jonathan Capehart;

Humor: Important stuff going on!!We had at least two zoom meetings today with Jeff, Rochelle, Vivek, and Bechara to discuss the upcoming change in masking guidelines that the CDC will be proposing. It relates to the…

Global – 194,600,000/4,200,000; USA – 34,500,000/609,000 Just got a call from Jeff that he wants me to brief the President today about the issues discussed above. It is very clear and unfortunate that confidence in…

Global USA Cases continue to surge: PRESS: MSNBC – “Morning Joe” with Joe Scarborough; Joe Madison Radio Show; Morning Hustle Radio Show;

There are a lot of important things going on that I do not have a chance to comment on in my daily diary. Some of these are the continual conversations that I have been having with Jeff about who should be the FDA…

Global USA There is growing frustration fall apart of Jeff with the CDC and particularly with Rochelle. I love her but she does not seem to have control over organization. We were being briefed the other night about…

Global – 196,6000,000/4,200,000; USA – 34,800,000/610,000 Instagram from Israeli PM Bennett: August 1. 2021 – Global USA – 34,900,000/611,000 I got involved in an interesting situation regarding the expiration of the…

Global USA I briefed the President today in the Oval Office. It was part of the weekly briefing that we do where Rochelle and Vivek and Marcella were on the zoom screen and I was in the office with the President and the…

Global – 198,000,000/4,200,000; USA – 35,200,000/612,000 We continue to average about 70,000 cases per day An ironic situation is going on in Florida where Governor DeSantis has a state that has the most infections per…

Global USA Had 100,000 cases yesterday!! 104,000 cases today I received the call today from former Vice President Dick Cheney - This is medically confidential and not for publication in my memoir. The VP was asked to…

Global USA I had a very busy day today. Jeff arranged for me to brief both the house and the Senate via zoom on the latest in the COVID situation. In addition , I joined the first gentleman Greg Emhoff in discussing…

Global – 200,800,000/4,300,000; USA - 35,500,000/614,000 67,000 7-day average Cases continue to climb. There has been a lot of discussion about whether or not we should move quickly in instituting a program. I have been…

The surge continues: Governor DeSantis is a complete disgrace. He is blocking the local authorities from mandating masks in various locations including schools. He is doing this while at the same time Florida is…

Global USA PRESS: CNN “GPS” with Fareed Zakaria; NBC “Meet the Press” with Chuck Todd

Global USA Cases 140,000 yesterday. It seems that my prediction of 200,000/day will come true unfortunately. We're having continual and difficult discussions concerning boosters. With my strong persuasion we have now…

Global USA The soaring of cases continue. It is really looking rather ominous in that there have been numerous reports of gatherings of completely vaccinated people in a moderate to small sized party 20 thirty 40 people…

David Kessler is pissed at Peter Staley. David feels betrayed that Peter mentioned his name and my name in his interview with Yasmeen. Last night I called up Courtney Rowe and had a long about the pros and cons of…

Global USA Now averaging (7 day) >100,000 cases per day Hospitaliations in children increasing per 100,000 population Had a good call with Hans Kluge, WHO Regional Director of Europe. Good discussion about mutual…

Cases continue to surge We had multiple zoom calls and conversations today concerning the proper approach to his booster vaccinations. In addition, based on this submission to the FDA on data in diminished response in…

Global - USA – 36,300,000/618,600 140,000 cases in the USA today. We had continued discussions today with Jeff and David Kessler as to how we are going to deal with the activists (Peter Staley et al) in our attempts to…

Heat wave throughout the country. I had a very intensive day with the medical team trying to fashion to coherent message to justify the announcement that we plan to make this week that we will be giving a booster shot…

There is a lot going on and a lot of moving parts. We have been working very hard on trying to get a plan and a program out to deliver third boost shots to people who have received the original two dose vaccine regimen…

Global - 208,500,000/4,400,000; USA – 37,100,000/621,300 Yesterday 180,000 cases. 7 day daily average >100,000 Had a very eventful and stressful day today; however things worked out well with the rollout of the booster…

Global USA Cases recently >200,000/day weekly average >100,000 I just had a good conversation, my first conversation with New York State Lieutenant governor Kathy Hochul. Starting on Monday August 23rd she will be the…

Cases still increasing: I had a conversation today with the Minister of Health of Gabon – Dr. Guy Patrick Obiang Ndong. The purpose of the meeting was for me to give him an idea of how we handle COVID in the United…

184,000 cases today!

(no shows for me today – predominantly Vivek Murthy) Had a zoom call today with Jeff and the medical team planning how we can roll out the booster situation putting all the pieces together with the FDA, the CDC, and the…

Global USA BLA granted for Pfizer by the FDA!! I just did a site visit to the Department of State facility that does the screening for diplomatic pouches and mail. This is the facility that has been screening my mail…

Global USA Cases, hospitalizations and deaths (to a lesser extent) continue to soar. More conspiracy theory like letters keep coming in from congressmen and senators trying to link us to the origin of COVID-19. This is…

Global USA Cases continue > 120,000/day Had an extremely interesting Zoom meeting yesterday with the Israeli Minister of Health and several Israeli scientists. The Israelis have always been about a month or so ahead of…

Global – 213,400,000/4,460,000; USA – 38,300,000/631,400 Cases still soaring The people in the White House medical team are all excited now about the Israeli data, and they want me to arrange for resume between members…

Global – 214,500,000/4,470,000; USA – 38,500,000/632,800 Just as a follow up over the last days to weeks - I continue to get attacked viciously by the far right social media including FOX News. they are still dancing…

Zoom meetings with Jeff - There is concern about sticking with the eight month projection for the beginning of boosting. Jeff is adamant not to waver on the 8 month projection even though it is clear from the data in…

Cases continue to surge with increases in hospitalizations as well as deaths. The cases have been between 100,000 and 150,000 for several days in a row now. Thus far the piece by David Willman has not received much…

>150,000 cases today Did podcast with American Muslim Health Professionals Jeff continues to be frustrated with Rochelle. she does not seem to have the control over her agency that Jeff would like to have her execute…

Global -216,900,000/4,500,000; USA – 39,100,000/637,400 Trouble at the FDA. Today it was announced that Marion Gruber and Phil Krause will leave CBER at the FDA. The reason being given is that they are upset that…

Global – 217,600,000/4,500,000; USA – 39,300,000/638,700 I spoke to Rochelle this AM. I tried to explain to her the dilemma that we are in with this disagreement between CDC /ACIP and the FDA where Jeff agrees that the…

Global - USA - Weekly average 149,000 cases/day Important reflection about “controlling the message” - I thought I would make this comment now since it is something that has been ongoing for some time. It relates to the…

Global USA Continued tension between CDC /Rochelle and Jeff concerning the rollout of the booster program. The consistent problem is the concern that Jeff has that the ACIP might come out with significant variance from…

Global - USA – 39,800,000/644,800 Still a fair amount of confusion and concern about the rollout of the booster program. David Kessler comes down hard on the fact that the ACIP cannot be out of sync with the FDA. If the…

Global USA Very nice thing happened tonight. Jeff called me by phone just to thank me for everything that I am doing. He read the transcripts of my appearances on the Sunday shows and wanted to tell me how grateful he…

Global USA Jeff brought over my house this evening the POTUS speech for Wednesday to have me check for any issues or inaccuracies. I made a few edits, but nothing substantial.

Global USA Cases averaging >150,000/day. Going back and forth with FDA (Peter Marks) about whether there will be enough safety data on young people to justify boosters for everyone. Peter is aligned with me. I feel that…

I had an interesting visit today in the Oval Office with President Biden. I was there to brief him about the mu variant as well as to go over his six-point speech that he is going to be delivering tomorrow. Clearly…

Global – 222,400,000/4,600,000; USA – 40,500,000/652,500 >160,000 infections today President gave his national speech today on the 6th part plan to combat the delta variant. As mentioned above I played a role and…

PRESS: NBC News Now (Online TV) with Savannah Sellers; Regional TV -Raleigh- Durham (Jonah Kaplan); St. Louis (Cory Stark); Little Rock, AR (Mitch McCoy); “The Skimm (Alex Carr); Politica Ya Unvision (TSi-Tsi-Ki Felix)…

Increases in cases starting to taper. Still 150,000-ish, but hospitalizations and deaths decreasing slightly from prior week 20th anniversary of 9/11 - Multiple memorials occurring in New York , Pennsylvania , and at…

Global USA An article appeared today in The Lancet written by Phil Krause, Marion Gruber (FDA) and people from WHO. It was a bit of a revolt on the part of the FDA and WHO who wrote in the article that they do not…

Moderna presented to us (Medical Team + other interested parties) their data on the open label study involving the crossover from their phase three trial. Consistent with the data from Pfizer they see a waning of…

Global – 225,700,000/4,600,000; USA – 41,400,000/662,600 Confusion and controversy continues. There is a lot of discussion in the media about whether or not there's enough data to make a determination about giving…

Today – 155,000 cases Had my every couple of weeks Zoom call with Chris Whitty (UK). Oatrick Vallance is usually on the calls, but was not on today. We discussed a number of items including the tension around booster…

Very important decisions made today at VRPAC meeting. They voted unanimously to approve booster shots for people 65 years of age and older as well as those with underlying medical conditions that put them at risk for…

Was on three Sunday shows today talking about the FDA decision (see below). As expected all of the questions related to what was perceived as confusion between what the Medical Group and the president said versus what…

Over 2000 COVID deaths in USA yesterday I have to mention I had an extremely enjoyable interview with Bryant Gumbel (see below). I had not previously met him and I did not realize what an incredibly nice person he is…

Global – 228,800,000/4,700,000; USA – 42,200,000/675,100 Discussions continue to go on trying to align the FDA and CDC. Concern is mostly centered around the risk of myocarditis in younger individuals . We finally got…

We continue to have 2000 deaths per day !!! Nice op Ed in the Post today. Written by Jeff and Tony Blinken announcing that the USA will donate an additional 500 million doses a vaccine (Pfizer) to the developing world…

Highly eventful day!!! Today was the day that the acip would make their recommendation to the CDC regarding the use of boosters. Inexplicably, they voted to allow boosters for people 65 years of age or older, which is…

Alas! Rochelle listened to me. She overruled the recommendation of the ACIP. She actually called me last night at 11:25 PM and then a couple of minutes later to tell me that she had taken my advice and overruled their…

Global - USA – 42,800,000/684,900 I had a wonderful evening this evening. Joan Baez and her son Gabe who were supposed to go to New York City with Gabe's daughter Jasmine who wanted to go to a concert in Queens, NY. In…

Global USA Things turning around with all parameters starting to come down even though things are still bad: There is now considerable confusion about exactly who should get the boost. We know what the general…

Yesterday was an important day during one of the zoom calls with the “TV doctors “, i.e. people who are practicing physicians and public health people who regularly appear on TV shows. I made it very clear that I was…

Global – 232,600,000/4,800,000; USA - 43,200,000/691,500 Had a very tough and ridiculous interview with Hugh Hewitt. Hugh, who usually is a reasonable, albeit very conservative person, was extremely aggressive with me…

Global - 233,100,000/4,800,000; USA - 43,300,000/694,700 Cases continue to gradually come down as do hospitalizations. Deaths, however, are still increasing as a late indicator and lagging. Just had a great conversation…

GLOBAL USA We have reached 700,000 deaths in the USA!! Big anti-viral drug advance. Merck (Ridgeback) drug – Molnuvirapir (an RNA-dependent RNA polymerase inhibitor by inducing mistakes in the virus replication. The CEO…

I had written an email to Robert Davis the CEO of Merck indicating to him that I was concerned that in the press release for their drug Molnupiravir they did not mention that the original basic research was funded by…

Got a really nice note (see below) yesterday from Barney Graham thanking him for my support of him over the 21 years that he has been at the NIAID vaccine Research Center. of note he has won a number of prizes already…

Very interesting link showing the evolution of cases throughout the United states from the very first months of the pandemic using a heat map approach: https://bit.ly/3uE40dF I participated in a zoom Q&A regarding the…

Case and hospitalization continue to come down; however less sharply down than other surges Hospitalizations and cases continue to come down. Deaths still up somewhat as a lagging indicator. The big question that is…

Hugh Hewitt (see below with PRESS) - As a follow up of the interview with me in which Hugh Hewitt suggested that I stepped down, he has written an op Ed in the Washington Post saying the same thing. It is extraordinary…

Global – 236,000,000/4,800,000; USA – 43,900,000/707,100 102,000 case today. All parameters continue to come down slowly Mandates are working – 25% businesses, 40% hospitals and colleges serving 37% of students are…

Global – 236,600,000/4,800,000; USA – 44,100,000/708,800 Hatred on twitter!! I have not been commenting on this in my daily notes . However, the vitriol and outright hatred towards me by the far right on Twitter is…

Global USA Had a rather slow relaxed day (Columbus Day holiday). Also Chris went to New Orleans to help Megan and Melissa move into their new home. I spend time reading in depth certain articles including the…

Over the past few months and more intensively over the past several weeks there has been considerable discussion between Peter Staley, James Krellenstein, and David Barr and Jeff Zients, David Kessler and me concerning…

Global - 237,400,000/4,800,000; USA – 44,400,000/714,000 Senator Rand Paul continues his assault on me. His latest rant is that I owe and apology to the 100 million people in this country who he believes had been…

Global USA Did a very enjoyable fireside chat with Rebecca Katz of Georgetown under the auspices of the Smithsonian. Broad observation. The medical team and I have been struggling with this issue that is out there…

Global USA I briefed the POTUS in the Oval Office today. As usual he was a little bit late. We were supposed to have a briefing at 11:30 and it was not until after 12 that we started the briefing. The briefing was with…

Had a very nice zoom conversation with Raj Panjebi. He is the new director of the president's malaria initiative (PMI). He set up a zoom call with me, Lee Hall, and several of his staff. He wanted to strengthen the…

Sad news today!! Colin Powell passed away due to complications of COVID-19. He was vaccinated against SARS-CoV-2. He died at Walter Reed Hospital. I got to know him through social events. He was always very kind…

Global – 241.000,000/4,900,000; USA – 45,000,000/726,000 Interesting zoom with White House protocol staff today arranged by Jeff. The purpose of the meeting was to get my input about how to restrict or not events and…

Global - 241,000,000/4,900,000; USA – 45,000,000/728,000 PRESS: NBC “Nightly News” with Lester Holt; CNN with Chris Cuomo An example of the insanity out there making me the boogeyman for the extreme right. This is just…

Larry Tabak, representing the NIH, released some progress reports from the EcoHealth grant which were late in their submission. It indicated thatn mice became sicker than the controls and could be interpreted by some as…

Global - 242,000,000/4,900,000; USA - 45,100,000/730,000; Larry Tabak was treated very poorly by several Republican congressmen and senators that he briefed yesterday. They continue to distort the truth insisting that I…

Global – 242,300,000/4,900,000; USA – 45,300,000/733,834 There was the typical but not unexpected backlash on the part of the far-right media concerning the letter that Larry Tabak sent out concerning the progress…

We are finally getting the statement in shape to put on the NIH website (see above). Fortunately, I was on the Sunday TV Show this morning (see below) with George Stephanopoulos where George gave me the opportunity to…

There seems to be no end to the nonsense. No doubt there was a concerted effort led by a group that I'm not sure what it is but it likely is the Republican National Committee which literally has squads of people looking…

GLOBAL – 243,600,000/4,900,000; USA – 45,468,434/736,048 . It is so very clear now that this is a concerted effort to discredit me and assassinate my character. We have counted the attacks regarding the Beagle dog…

Global USA Andy Slavitt is out there tweeting in my defense. Yasmeen Abutaleb (Washington Post) Has agreed to write a story trying to uncover the source of this organized effort to discredit me period up to this point I…

GLOBAL – 244,385,444/4,961,489; USA – 45,655,635/740,348 I had a long conversation with Yasmeen Abutaleb of the Washington Post yesterday . She is getting very worked up about the fact that she realizes now that there…

Global – 244,879,472/4,970,435; USA – 45,759,230/741,566 FDA issues EUA for Pfizer 5 to 11 yo. vaccine Yasmeen Abutaleb Is continuing to gather data on the conspiracy of the far right against me. She is working with…

Had a meeting in my home today with Hugo Crosthwaite who will be doing one of his extraordinary artistic renditions of me which is a sketched portrait in motion. He was accompanied by Dr. Taina Caragol who is the…

Uneventful Sunday PRESS: Italian TV – Che Tempo Che Fa – with Fabio Fazio

Continued attacks from far right.. “National Pulse” talking about a book soon to come out by Peter Navarro that attacks me. Just found out that Nicholas Erickson of the Republican National Committee has been FOIA-ing my…

Global – 246,594,191/4,998,784; USA – 46,024,349/745,274 The decline in cases in the United states is unfortunately beginning to plateau. We have started to see the inklings of this as the steepness of the deflection…

Final pre for the HELP Hearing. I fully expect that they will come at me hard PRESS: CNN “New Day” with Briana Keilar; Usual WH Press briefing; CNN with Chris Cuomo; MSNBC with Chris Hayes

Global – 247,472,724/5,012,337; USA – 46,180,190/747,970 Very important Day!! Senate HELP Hearing - I together with Dawn O'Connell, Janet Woodcock, Rochelle Walensky testified before the Senate HELP hearing chaired by…

Global – 247,968,227/5,020,204; USA – 46,268,465/749,876 Phone call with Mikael Dolsten of Pfizer and his team. They explained to a group of us (USG) the details of the Pfizer drug trial results (See above) I continue…

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Global – 249,743,428/5,047,652; USA – 46,541,113/753,564 Pfizer announced yesterday that they were going to ask the FDA to approve on an EUA boosters for everyone 18 years old and older. There is still concern on the…

Global - 250,154,972/5,054,267; USA – 46,626,034/755,201 Many Eastern European countries by having record surges of COVID with increases in hospitalizations and deaths. These countries include the Ukraine, Romania…

Just to catch up on what is going on with the Moderna/NIH patent dispute. It has been very clear from the very beginning that there was a very strong collaboration between investigators at the Vaccine Research Center…

GLOBAL – 251,266,207/5,070,244; USA – 46,783,309/757,663 I gave an interview with Peter Baker today for the book that he is writing on president trump. PRESS: NYTimes/The Daily: An Interview with Anthony Fauci…

Global – 251,788,329/5,077,907; USA – 46,910,412/759,552 I had an important TV interview with Ted Koppel to be aired on CBS tomorrow (see below). The main gist of the interview was the attacks on me from the radical…

The interview with Ted Koppel went extremely well and I got more emails and texts than ever saying how impressed people were with it. The tone of the interview was interesting in that he allowed me to talk about the…

Global USA Went down to the White House today to participate with secretary Becerra - In a Health Summit for Indian Nation.I gave a brief overview of the outbreak and the importance of getting booster vaccinations and…

Global - 253,163,330/5,098,174; USA – 47,145,861/761,426 Michael Hiltzik of the LA Times - Has written another insightful review of the profound weaknesses of the lab leak theory. He exposes Alina Chan of the Broad…

Global -253,640,693/5,104,899; USA – 47,244,379/762,994 I went to a book party last night for Jonathan Karl’s new book about Trump. It took place at the Cafe Milano. The place was incredibly crowded and I was almost…

Global USA Call from Jeff Zients today with a message from Ron Klain – It is noteworthy that in prior demonstrations it was always a concern when you give a message about a public health issue that the administration is…

Global – 255,324,963/5,127,696; USA – 47,587,441/770,461 PRESS: Fantastic article in the Washington Post online today by Yasmeen Abutaleb the bunking in an incredibly efficient manner the false claims against me by the…

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…

Global USA Mike Osterholm and Eric Topol wrote an editorial in the New York Times sharply criticizing the CDC and the ACIP for not giving a clear message that everyone over 18 years old should get a boost. This is…

Global USA I had another very helpful conversation with my UK counterpart Chris Whitty discussing the upcoming challenges of the winter in the UK versus the USA. They are seeing a surge of cases similar to what we're…

Global – 256,966,237/5,151,643; USA – 47,813,785/772,180 I continue to do the Governor's calls as well as the Principal’s calls once a week. I do not comment on them regularly but each time Jeff asks me and Rochelle to…

GLOBAL – 257,469,528/5,158,211; USA – 47,916,623/773,779 Very gratifying public response to the Yasmeen article in the Washington Post…

Global USA The New York Times had a Thanksgiving day write-up on A summary of where we are with COVID-19 in the context of an interview with me. The last question they asked was what I was thankful for at Thanksgiving…

GLOBAL USA All set for Zoom with RSA folks this AM. Story starting to break as the South African public health people had a meeting and discussed all the details of the increase in cases that apparently are spreading…

GLOBAL USA Conversation with Jerome (Jay) Powell, Chair of the US Federal Reserve. Bob Grady texted me this morning to connect me with Jay Powell who wanted to talk to me about the implications of the new variant on the…

Global USA Very Important Day!! - An extraordinary amount has been going on over the last 24 to 48 hours. It is very clear that with the Omicorn variant is rapidly spreading from the epicenter in South Africa with…

GLOBAL USA POTUS Press Briefing - I was called to the White House to help to prepare the President for the press briefing that he would give this morning at 11:45 AM. I got to the White House at 10:00 AM and went over…

Global USA There's been a lot of concern and discussion about the decision to block travel from southern Africa. The Africans are feeling like they're being punished as a result of their transparency in getting this…

Re: briefing for DNI Haines — Ok; will ask Dina to set up.