2022

RE: Draft info - Dr. Fauci annual financial disclosure report — Arthur: Some corrections to you e-mail regarding gifts, awards, etc.: 1. The Dan David prize that was deposited in my bank account was $899,960. 00, not $901,400. 2) The Elliot…

Global USA Conspiracy theories about me continue and abound: The Spectator: The Harvard connection Was a Fauci-endorsed Chinese donation part of the lab-leak cover up? PRESS: Korean Broadcasting System documentary…

Global 527,603,107/6,290,452; USA – 83,949,036/1.002.067 It is becoming very clear that there is a different dynamic now that Ashish Jha has taken over from Jeff as the COVID coordinator. He clearly likes very much and…

Global USA Monkeypox continues to spread now involving over 23 countries with 800 cases. There are 19 documented cases in the USA but this is likely a very significant undercount at this point. PRESS: South Florida PBS…

Angela Rasmussen did an excellent job of blasting Jeffrey Sachs (and also co-author Richard Ebright) for their article claiming that COVID was due to a lab leak. See link and some selected excerpts from Angie’s tweets…

Global - 5630,266,292/6,299,364; USA – 84,762,952/1,004,260 Note for the memoir regarding my PTSD around memories of my HIV/AIDS experience: I did an interview today (see below) with The Independent”, a UK News outlet…

Global USA Io Dodds piece came out. Excellent historical piece: Exclusive: Anthony Fauci on the AIDS crisis, monkeypox, trans rights and his retirement In an exclusive interview with Io Dodds, Dr Anthony Fauci looks…

Global USA The big discussion items over the past 24 hours have been the growing number of cases of monkeypox which at last count is over 1400 globally and over 70 in the United States. In addition, there was concern…

Last night I received another humbling honor associated with the honorary doctorate in science that I received from Rockefeller University in New York City. I could not attend in person because of scheduling conflict…

Global USA Had a glorious and historic day at Holy Cross today. The college named their integrated science complex – “Anthony S. Fauci Integrated Science Complex” in my honor. The outpouring of love, affection, and…

Big tragedy is that I will be missing my daughter Megan's wedding in New Orleans. This is much more painful and disturbing then the fact that I have a disease that could possibly kill me. Getting literally hundreds of…

Global – 535,248,141/6,313,229; USA - 85,825,048/1,007,964 Feeling considerably better today. I bit the bullet and testified before the Senate HELP committee. Rand Paul was his usual stupid self asking questions about…

Global USA Symptoms still relatively mild. I'm on day three of Paxlovid. many texts and emails wishing me well from friends and people that I do not know in the USA and around the world. PRESS: The Independent: Dr Fauci…

FDA gives EUA to Moderna and Pfizer for vaccines for children 6 months to 5 years old. CDC recommends! I'm really starting to feel the depression and sadness that I will be missing Megan's wedding today in NOLA where I…

PRESS: Book about the disgraceful behavior of authorities at NY Hospital-Presbyterian (particularly Laura Forese) during the outbreak peak in NYC: Facing Death During the Pandemic Marie Brenner’s “The Desperate Hours”…

Tested negative today and have had an essentially asymptomatic course. Began reading Deb Birx’s book “Silent Invasion” and it is clear already from the first couple of chapters that she is revising history regarding her…

GOP threatening me if they assume control over Congress: Top Republican On House Oversight Eyes Hunter Biden, Fauci As Investigative Targets – ‘The Takeout’. CBS News (6/17, 5.39M) reported that “if Republicans take…

There has been some considerable tension between the new H-CORE group who is headed by Jason Roos and the rest of the HHS tream. They are involved in making major decision about distribution of money. Yet the leadership…

Real problem evolving with people having got infected at Megan’s wedding on June 18. Megan is devastated since at least a dozen family members and friends seemed to have gotten infected while in NOLA, likely, but not…

We are stuck at around 100,000 cases/day and this is very likely a significant underestimate. Deaths remain low: Had and important Zoom conversation with Peter Marks and a whole bunch of people (see below) regarding the…

Bad day with rebounds sxs. Started on 2nd course of Paxlovid

Feel much better this morning, on my second day of Paxlovid. Will take it very easy today and see what happens over the next couple of days. I'm reading Deb Birx’s book and it can serve as a really good reference for me…

Just for the record – Ashish Jha is promoting himself on all major TV and clearly excluding Rochelle, Vivek and me. Rather obvious and a big deviation from Jeff Zients approach We seem to be “stuck” at around 100,000…

Monkeypox cases continue to increase. USA activists (James Krellenstein et al) now increasing pressure on HHS (ASPR) to be explicit on how many tests, antivirals, vaccines are available for distribution. PRESS: National…

Patterns starting to show insidious increases in all parameters: PRESS: Monkeypox press briefing (with Raj Panjabi) for LGBTQ community press; Multi-cultural media briefing for children vaccines Daily Mail: Anthony…

Still recovering from COVID. I had a rebound as indicated above after stopping my first course of Paxlovid. Have now finished my second course and my antigen positivity is very very slight. Hopefully it will disappear…

Global – 543,352,927/6,331,059; USA – 87,298,343/1.012,767 Tested Ag negative today!! Importance of vaccination + boosters: Cases clearly going up everywhere in the USA and in UK: I am struggling with the issue of what…

2nd day in a row Ag negative Noteworthy is that Senator John Kennedy (R-LA) despite his seeming antagonism of me sent me a very nice, handwritten “get well soon” note. Monkeypox problem growing….. Global.health: 6178…

UK reporting anther “concerning variant – BA. 2.175

I had a very relaxed day today. Went on a nice walk. After that we hung around the house and towards the evening we went fishing on the canal but, as usual, we didn't catch anything. Yesterday was a fun day in that not…

Global USA Recent article in The Atlantic by Cary Gross and Zeke Emanuel criticized the NIH for not moving quickly or effectively enough on research on COVID. Larry Tabak wrote a letter in strong response: THE…

Global USA Activists including James Krellenstein, Gregg Gonsalves and Peter Staley among others are getting agitated at HHS and NSC (Raj Panjabi) for the lack of Jynneos (MVA – Bavarian Nordic) for PrEP for Monkeypox…

BA.2.75 increasing in Australia, India and several other countries. Some cases in USA. Watching it closely Met with Adam Russell, Acting Deputy Director of newly formed ARPA-H PEPFAR Oral history…

Global USA PRESS: Mother Jones Interview on HIV Vaccines with Jackie Lynn Mogensen

People are acting like and hoping that COVID is over, but it is not. There are still >100,000 cases/day which is likely a gross undercount since many cases (perhaps x5) are not reported and deaths are stuck at ~300 with…

Asymptomatic monkeypox virus Preprint (MedRXiV): infections among male sexual health clinic attendees in Belgium We need to be careful that we do not fall into the same issue that we did early on with COVID, i.e. not…

On our weekly call with the secretary, I brought up the issue that we need to be much more proactive in warning people about the spread of infection and that we have to be pushing the wearing of masks and getting people…

Was called to the White House for a meeting with Ron Klain, Ashish Jha, Sec. Becerra, Richelle Walensky and Dawn O’Connell. Ron was really ****** that he is getting a lot of Flack from New York City who feels that they…

Hospitalizations going up. Deaths stable at ~300/day. BA4/5 >80% of isolates with BA5 >50% Europe having a big surge of BA5. Met with Bob Barnett again last night planning the announcement of my stepping down and the…

Global – 5546,897,312/6,356,812; USA – 88,932,987/1,018,035 Cases, hospitalizations, and deaths now going up: Rochelle called me up tonight and arranged to have a zoom with me to get my advice about pressure she is…

Global USA After talking with Ashish this morning, Rochelle decided to allocate vaccines for monkeypox at 75% according to the number of cases and 25% for the level of risk and a given community. That seems like a…

PRESS: CNN with Laura Coates

Important conversation with Ashish Jha. But she's called me up and wanted my opinion and backing on what he wants to bring up to Ron Klain. He wants to propose putting billions of dollars into a program that would mimic…

Sarah Ohermohle wrote an article in Politico where I mentioned that I would be leaving the NIH sometime before the end of President Biden's first term to which is January 2025. This is being interpreted by many in the…

I had an important conversation this morning with Peter Staley in which I asked his advice about messaging to the gay community regarding monkey pox. There seems to be a debate in New York City among public health…

I just had an important conversation with Rochelle in which I related to her the conversation that I had last night with Carlos Del Rio in which Carlos articulated that there's a great deal of concern and agitation in…

at 3:56 p.m. EDT PRESS: FOX “Good Day” NYC TV with Rosanna Scotto; WGN Chicago Radio with Peter McMurray and Rob Martier;

Kevin O'Connor called me this morning at 10 48 AM to give me an update on the president's condition. He is quite stable has a slight fever up to 99F that is easily brought down by tylenol. He has a cough which started…

Yesterday I spoke with dawn O'Connell and told her that I would be very much in favor of the secretary declaring a public health emergency for monkeypox. She is now running it up the chain to see what others think about…

Kevin O’Connor continues to call me 2x/day. The President continues to improve and is completed his 4th day (Sunday) on Paxlovid. He was out for four hours today by the pool doing reading work. The next big question is…

Spoke with Kevin O'Connor again this morning and evening. the president is doing extremely well and continues to improve. He we'll complete his fifth day of Paxlovid today. The next question will be when he can go out…

Continuing my twice per day discussion with Kevin O'Connor regarding the president's condition. The POTUS Is doing very well and improving substantially each day. Today is one day following the termination of his…

Paper in Nature today validates my disagreement with the CDC last year when Vivek and I pushed back against their saying that you do not need to test after 5 days of isolation after infection since most of the…

Cases and hospitalizations continue to rise slowly with very little increase in deaths. I recommend to Becerra to declare PHE. Monkeypox: Global.health: 20,671 confirmed MPX cases, 42 suspected in 84 non-endemic…

See e-mail chain below regarding the confusion about mixed messages related to my note yesterday: From: Fauci, Anthony (NIH/NIAID) [E] <afauci@niaid.nih.gov> Sent: Friday, July 29, 2022 7:35 AM To: Marks, Peter…

Just got a call at 12 noon from Kevin O'Connor that the president has had a rebound with a positive antigen test today. He is asymptomatic. This is the real problem since there are no guidelines from the CDC which…

I gave the special session plenary lecture at the International AIDS Society (IAS) meeting in Montreal via a virtual presentation. I have given a plenary lecture and virtually every one of the IAS meetings since 1984. I…

I have been somewhat concerned about Monkeypox the very beginning, but I am getting more and more concerned about it as time goes by. It clearly is spreading rapidly throughout the world the community of MSM with an…

Spoke with Kevin O’Connor. POTUS stable, but still Ag positive. ------------------------ Monkeypox spreading globally: My comment in NY Times article by Sheryl Stolberg: “Centering the response operation at the White…

The Wrap: Fox News host Tucker Carlson continued to imply that infectious disease expert and White House advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci somehow is responsible for creating the coronavirus pandemic during Wednesday night’s…

Met with Hans Kluge – WHO Regional Director for Europe. He is seeking my advice on multiple issues such as COVID, MPX, and vaccine related polio. He said the Europeans rely very heavily on my opinion: Heard from…

Continued drama now involving Larry Horowitz calling me up talking about how angry Ron Klain is at Rochelle for wanting to come out with a statement that the vaccines do not protect against infection at all. I have to…

Long conversations with the CDC team (Sherri Berger; Rochelle), Steve Sha, Vivek, Kessler to get the wording correct on the condition to end isolation regarding testing and masking.

For some time now the issue of ”Long COVID” has been gaining momentum with much frustration in the community since recent studies showed that up to 20% of people develop more COVID following infection. Senator Tom Kaine…

Deaths seem to be up a bit at around 400/day!

More drama with regard to the CDC and Rochelle Walenski. After much going back and forth between the CDC and the other docs including me, Vivek, Steve Cha, and to some extent David Kessler, we thought we had gotten them…

Had a wonderful dinner last night at the extraordinary home of Adrienne Arsht at 9 Chevy Chase Circle, Chevy Chase, MD. Guests included Alexandra Villard de Borchgrave (Chairman. Light of Healing Hope Foundation and…

Great disparity of COVID deaths comparing USA and other countries: PRESS: The Shade Room (Online streaming); The Grio TV;

I had a very important and moving conversation with Ron Klain in his West Wing Office today at 11:45 AM (bright, sunny, mild day). I announced to Ron that I would be stepping down from all of my positions including…

E-mail from Ron Klain after I met with him and asked to speak with the POTUS: From: Klain, Ronald A. EOP/WHO <RK.COS@WHO.EOP.GOV> Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2022 10:19 AM To: Fauci, Anthony (NIH/NIAID) [E]…

Global – 590,659,276/6,440163; USA – 93,124,238/1,034,118 ---------- CDC (Rochelle Walensky) comes out with a strong statement of “mea culpa” admitting that the CDC is broken and has failed terribly in the response to…

Cases seem to be plateauing throughout the country with some exceptions. Perhaps we are coming into a downswing as we enter the Fall PRESS: Interview with Marissa Evans of LA Times on racial disparities in MPX; WTOP…

Had my usual every three-week zoom meeting with Drs. Li and Hellmann. I explained to them that as of Monday at 11:00 AM when I made the announcement of my stepping down from the NIH, I will enter a new chapter in my…

Interesting trivia (Sports Business Journal): Dr. Anthony Fauci’s First Pitch Sets Baseball Card Record By Tom TaylorJuly 28, 2020 • • • Topps has issued a trading card of Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National…

TODAY IS THE DAY! I announce that I will be stepping down from the NIH as well as from my position as chief medical adviser to the president effective December, 2022. There has been a literal avalanche of positive…

NY Times Opinion piece by Gregg Gonsalves is really nice: OPINION GUEST ESSAY Anthony Fauci’s Retirement Marks the End of an Era

The number of texts and e-mail of thanks and praiseupon the announcement of my stepping down are stunning, ranging in the several hundreds. I am getting truly exhausted trying to answer all of them. ----- Jill Biden…

Interesting cartoon in Washington Post concerning my stepping down: We are really not coming down in cases/hospitalizations/ or deaths very sharply. We seemed to have hit a plateau with a very slight trend downward…

Dan Diamond story in the Washington Post: Health House panel: Trump sought to pressure FDA on covid vaccines, treatment The report offers fresh details about that campaign and how it rattled agency officials. This panel…

Previous 2 days my daughters and partners were here for the weekend. Very slow with regard to COVID. Clearly people like John Moore (who is the most reasonable) and Paul Offit (not so much) are pushing back on the drive…

USG (FDA) getting ready to issue EUA for BA.5 bivalent boost PRESS: JAMA Interview with Editor-in-Chief Kirsten Bibbens-Domingo;

NY Times Opinion piece by Ari Schulman (rather critical of me): Why Many Americans Turned on Anthony Fauci

United States • Total Cases: 94,385,669 7-Day average: 85,762 (-6.6%) • Total Deaths: 1,041,280 7-Day average: 404 (-5.4%) • Total new hospital admissions: 5,235,025 7-Day average 5,106 (-5%) Worldwide [Source: WHO] …

There is a very interesting situation that has emerged from the White House particularly involving Ron Klain and Ashish Jha in the context of the BA.5 bivalent booster shot. The FDA has authorized and the CDC has…

Email exchange between Ron Klain and me regarding the above: From: Klain, Ronald A. EOP/WHO <RK.COS@WHO.EOP.GOV> Sent: Saturday, September 3, 2022 7:31 PM To: Fauci, Anthony (NIH/NIAID) [E] <afauci@niaid.nih.gov>…

MPX stabilizing globally and in USA:

Very nice counter and fact check about the misinformation spread about me by ther Annenberg Public Policy Center: FactCheck.org: Correcting Misinformation About Dr. Fauci https://bit.ly/3eo3g86 Nature Medicine: •…

Washington Post/Bloomberg: So Long to Anthony Fauci, Unlikely Avatar of Polarization Analysis by David A. Hopkins | Bloomberg

From Government Executive interview: Dr. Fauci to Young Scientists: Follow the Science and ‘Stay out of Politics’ After nearly six decades of civil service, Dr. Anthony Fauci hopes his post-government life will focus on…

I was supposed to be with the President today in the Roosevelt room of The West Wing for his announcement about how we are going to approach the upcoming full season with regard to our response to COVID. This relates to…

United States • Total Cases: 94,888,931 7-Day average: 70,488 (-18.8%) • Total Deaths: 1,043,921 7-Day average: 314 (-28.1%) • Total new hospital admissions: 5,267,624 7-Day average 4,620 (-10.5%) Worldwide [Source…

Had a great dinner over my house with Jeff and Mary Zients and Bob Seder. It was really great to spend time with them particularly since Jeff has been so amazingly helpful to me in planning when I transition out of…

The New York Post continues to lie and distort. This is abut the conspiracy theory that Mark Zuckerberg and I were colluding to suppress free speech: Fauci’s direct line to Zuck proves Facebook COVID censorship was all…

Florida physicians defending me in the Gainesville Sun: Dr. Anthony Fauci deserves better from Gov. Ron DeSantis than insulting comments Bruce Stechmiller and more than 30 others Guest columnists Statement made during…

Important day! Today at 10:00 AM I testified before the Senate HELP committee chaired by Sen. Patti Murray with Richard Burr as Ranking minority. It will be likely the last time that I will be testifying before the…

Monkeypox cases continue to decline in daily cases. Total for USA = ~22,000; for world ~60,000: Joel Szabat who was the acting Secretary of DoT during the trump administration asked me to say a few words to his group at…

I have always thought that Bob redfield was somewhat of a bizarre personality and his history dating back to his time at Walter Reed has proven that. But I didn't think that he was as crazy as he is now manifested by an…

Chris and I had dinner over Ellen Sigal’s home together with Diana DeGette and her husband Judge Lino Lipinsky. It was an interesting conversation and part of the discussion was the fact that the GOP will probably haul…

Met John Podesta and Leslie Dach at an award ceremony for me at Georgetown Prep where Chris and I received the Pedro Arrupe, SJ award for Exemplary Public Service. They were both aware that I will be attacked by the GOP…

I had to help clean up a bit of a mess today when the President casually said on a “60 Minutes” interview that the pandemic was over. I had a number of press today and certainly I got asked the question particularly on…

• Typical media distortions. Vivek Murthy was on MSNBC with Morning Joe and they showed a clip of POTUS saying that the pandemic was “over” and then they showed immediately after a short clip of “part” of my interview…

Nice Q & A with Erin Durkin in the National Journal about my relationship with Congress and different administrations: Wednesday Q+A with Dr. Anthony Fauci The infectious-disease expert-turned-political lightning rod…

United States • Total Cases: 95,700,347 7-Day average: 54,186 (-10.6%) • Total Deaths: 1,049,864 7-Day average: 314 (-12.2%) • Total new hospital admissions: 5,327,014 7-Day average 3,971 (-9.9%) Worldwide [Source: WHO]…

I had another of my very regular zooms with Sir Chris Whitty and Sir Patrick Valance from the UK and compared notes on COVID and Monkeypox In the GE Hatchett newspaper: ’Work from the shadows’: How Trump’s COVID…

I did not think that Rick Bright would last at the Rockefeller Foundation. They may have caught on to him. He is probably the “former BARDA official” who said nasty things about me to the WSJ. Former Health Official…

Had a great dinner last night at my home with Tom Frieden and Chris. Tom is the president and CEO of Resolve to Save Lives, In the organization he formed with the financial help of Michael Bloomberg and Mark Zuckerberg…

I had a terrific meeting with Jeff Zients this morning on the back deck of my house in our usual breakfast meeting, of which we have had many over the last almost two years. Jeff was following up with me to see how I…

United States • Total Cases: 96,052,716 7-Day average: 47,112 (-13.1%) • Total Deaths: 1,053,173 7-Day average: 344 (-6.7%) • Total new hospital admissions: 5,353,767 7-Day average 3,733 (-7.4%) Worldwide [Source: WHO]…

We had a 1 hour meeting today with all the relevant members of HHS (CDC, NIH, BARDA, ASPR, etc. ) led by deputy secretary Andrea Palm to work out the departmental approach towards the Ebola outbreak in Uganda. The NIH’s…

We had multiple zooms today (with HHS folks) that will culminate with a briefing of secretary Becerra on the evolving situation of Ebola in Uganda. I brought up in the premating the consistent difficulties that we have…

Starting to get significant uptick in cases in the UK. This is troublesome since we usually follow them by about four to five weeks.

An example of the White House over ruling CDC. Rochelle and the CDC do not want to require entry screening of people coming in from Uganda in the context of ebola; however, the White House is very hyper about covering…

Yesterday I went up to New York City to appear on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. It was hilarious and the theme was to give people their booster shot. As part of the scripted show he asked me if I was going to get…

Note the growth advantage that BQ.1.1. has over BA.5. We definitely need to watch out for these new Omicron sublineage variants as we approach late Fall/early Winter : We are doing very poorly compared to other…

United States • Total Cases: 96,363,451 7-Day average: 43,693 (-8.4%) • Total Deaths: 1,056,029 7-Day average: 324 (-13.1%) • Total new hospital admissions: 5,376,728 7-Day average 3,376 (-7.8%) Worldwide [Source: WHO]…

PRESS: CNN with Pamela Brown;

Mike Gerson wrote an amazing piece on me in the Washington Post: Opinion Why Anthony Fauci is the greatest public servant I have known By Michael Gerson Columnist |

Met with the Indian contingent for the VAP program (Vaccine Action Plan), a program I started with India 34 years ago. We signed an updated MOU to continue the program. Dinner tonight at the Indian Ambassador to USA…

Met in Building 31 with Stella Kryiakides, Commissioner of EU for Health and Food Safety and Peter Piot to discuss COVID and other issues including Monkeypox. Enjoyable meeting. She told me how much all of Europe relied…

Had a very disappointing conversation today with Dep Sec Andrea Palm, Kevin Barstow and the HHS General Counsel Samuel Bagenstos. They essentially told me that they will not be able to help me at all after I leave…

United States • Total Cases: 96,640,059 7-Day average: 38,949 (-11.9%) • Total Deaths: 1,058,692 7-Day average: 328 (-8.5%) • Total new hospital admissions: 5,400,083 7-Day average 3,268 (-4.4%) Worldwide [Source: WHO]…

Did a panel at the Annual meeting of the NAM. Panel chaired by Salim Abdul Karim. I spoke on “Lesson Learned from COVID-19”. Has a brunch at “Founding Farmers” restaurant with Salim and Quarraisha. Still very tough…

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…

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

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…

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;

United States • Total Cases: 97,063,357 21-Day average: 39,803 (-30.9%) • Total Deaths: 1,065,152 21-Day average: 388 (-13%) • Total new hospital admissions: 5,422,246 7-Day average 3,156 (-4.4%) Worldwide [Source: WHO]…

PRESS: ABC “Good Morning America” (weekend); Gave interview with Roxanne Roberts of the Washington Post in connection with the unveiling of my portrait by Hugo Crosthwaite at the National Portrait Gallery

The Uganda Ebola outbreak is spreading in Kampala and causing concern. Interesting meeting this AM at the Pentagon. At the invitation of general Charles Brown, I was given a tour of the Pentagon. Apparently, a lot of…

COVID in Poland versus USA I did an event at the White House with President Biden where he got vaccinated in front of a TV camera after interacting with me, Ashish, and Vivek, as well as several CEO's of pharmaceutical…

Important history of women accusing me of sexual misconduct. This is well-documented in the attached document: FAKE NEWS She Said Anthony Fauci Sexually Assaulted Her. Now She Says Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman Paid Her…

I went to Boston yesterday to do a fireside chat with Peter Staley at the Harvard Kennedy School Institute of Politics. It was a record crowd of students from Harvard who are literally overwhelming in their enthusiasm…

United States • Total Cases: 97,329,787 21-Day average: 37 (-25.1%) • Total Deaths: 1,066,351 21-Day average: 373 (-13.7%) • Total new hospital admissions: 5,445,602 7-Day average 3,217 (+1%) Worldwide [Source: WHO] …

On “Meet the Press” this AM (Sunday) Chuck Todd discussed the attack on Paul Pelosi and mentioned several prominent people in Congress and Supreme Court who were also threatened and mentioned the arrest of the person…

PRESS: ITV News – UK with Alex Sandler; Wired with Steven Levy;

Met with Josh Levy today (via Zoom) and with his staff in person (Connie and Pang) to start making arrangement to give my papers and other material such as honorary doctorates to the Library of Congress. Paxlovid saves…

For 1st time in months, the 7 day average numbers are creeping up: PRESS: Article in Washington Post today by Roxanne Roberts on my portrait in the National Portrait Gallery; Tape American Cities Rebuilding with Jeff…

Washington Post story this AM indicating that Rand Paul will come after me if GOP tkes over Senate and he becomes chair of wither HELP or Homeland Security: POLITICS Rand Paul says U.S. botched covid. He could soon lead…

I received the call today from David Ho who had recently published a preprint article showing that the neutralizing antibody response against the BA4/5 variant induced by the bivalent BA 4/5 boost versus the ancestral…

I had an amazing evening at the Mohammed Ali Gala in Louisville Kentucky where I received the Mohammed Ali Humanitarian Award for Lifetime Achievement. Others who received similar rewards included Jose Andres and former…

I had a very important meeting today in Jeff Zients’ office where he arranged me to meet with Robert Bauer, former lawyer for President Obama and Dana Remus, lawyer for President Biden until July 2022 (4 months ago)…

Election day! Deaths worldwide down 95% according to WHO RSV surging in USA and also early and touch flu season emerging. PRESS: Cox Media TV;

Red (GOP) wave did not occur with many (not all) election deniers supported by Trump losing throughout the country. Rand Paul wins in KY and during his acceptance speech says many times that the first thing he is going…

Just for the record here is the full story on Connally whom Brett arrested: S. Attorneys » District of Maryland » News SHARE Department of Justice U.S. Attorney’s Office District of Maryland FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE…

Exciting day. In preparation for the installing of my “living portrait’ by Hugo Crosthwaite into the National Portrait Gallery tomorrow, there was a gala celebration at the home of Jeff Bezos 2330 S Street, NW. His home…

Jeff Zients 56th birthday. I dropped off a signed copy of Harrison’s at his house. An historically memorable day at the National Portrait Gallery. A Gala event was held tonight honoring the inductees to the National…

Mark Dybul texted me to alert me that Mike Gerson was fading quickly and was in Georgetown Hospital waiting for Hospice. Bles Building, 4th Floor, Room 24. It was very sad to see. Mike was in dire straits literally on…

BQ1.1 is continuing to take over. XBB is very low but is a quick transmitter as shown in Singapore PRESS: STAT Summit interview with Helen Branswell;

Terrific event last evening. I was honored at the home of the French Ambassador to the United States (2221 Kalorama Road, NW) where I received the Pasteur Medal commemorating the bicentenary of Louis Pasteur's birth in…

Michael Gerson, Post columnist and Bush speechwriter on 9/11, dies at 58 Mr. Gerson helped shape President George W. Bush’s messaging after the 9/11 attacks and then moved to The Washington Post, where he wrote about…

United States • Total Cases: 98,174,364 7-Day average: 40,102 (-3.2%) • Total Deaths: 1,073,115 7-Day average: 317 (-5.3%) • Total new hospital admissions: 5,516,552 7-Day average 3,308 (-4.4%) Worldwide [Source: WHO] …

Rochelle called me up this morning and arranged for a zoom at 10:30 AM to discuss her side of the story of why she wants to simplify the boosting regimen for children less than five and six years old for the Moderna and…

Of note, all of the Omicron sublineages that we are currently dealing with are offshoots or sublineages of BA.2 (see below): Had a Sunday evening Zoom call regard the situation of boosts for children 5-6 years and…

Presentation by the Shionogi (Takeki Uehara) Phase 3 data. The drug is an anti-viral similar to Paxlovid. The data were not particularly impressive since the study was done on people with very few symptoms and all the…

I addressed the UK Parliament today on lessons learned from the COVID pandemic. It was followed by a very productive and insightful question period from the members of parliament Lawsuit by officials from Louisiana and…

I had my 7 hour (on the clock) deposition by lawyers for the Missouri Vs Biden plaintiffs. It showed up as spectators as the plaintiff’s lawyer John Sauer questioned me for seven hours. I had been well prepared for the…

On “The View”: Alyssa Farah Griffin: GOP Made Fauci Boogeyman Because They Misunderstood His Role

I am receiving so many wonderful warm and affectionate notes from people on the occasion of my stepping down. One among many typical notes came from Beth Cameron of the NSC. Beth texted the following note to me late…

I received a call yesterday from Dori Solcido and a similar call last night from Ashish Jha telling me that Ron Klain was upset mostly at Ashish for indicating in interviews that we could expect a mild winter. Ron was…

Met with in 31/7A-18 Ambassador Pamela Hamamoto who is US Negotiator for the Pandemic Accord. We (Cliff, Gray Handley and I) brought up some of the landmines that might arise in such an accord regarding conditions…

Marty Hirsch and David Hooper from Mass General did a very nice thing and Thanked me via Journal of Infectious Diseases and put my photo on the cover: I had an enjoyable “fireside chat” at the White House Jackson St…

I'm sure she will do fine, but this has completely destroyed one of the most intensive social commitments that we have over the next few days. . In addition, I will have to modify my visit tonight to the home of the…

Had a really nice Town Hall meeting with FDA led by Rob Califf asking me questions. PRESS: MedPage interview about my NEJM piece; L’Espresso Italian Magazine Exit Interview; Washington Post Live with Yasmeen Abutaleb…

I am really being somewhat embarrassed by the amount of honors that are be given to me and kudos my way. For example, today we went to the Hay-Adams hotel for a ceremony commemorating PEPFAR and world aids day. The…

Thank goodness, I am still COVID negative. Chris doing well on Paxlovid. Data remain overwhelming showing the advantage of vaccinated/up to date versus unvaccinated: Right around World AIDS Day, the data on the results…

Wonderful afternoon at the White House and evening at the Kennedy Center. Actor George Clooney, singer-songwriter Amy Grant, singer Gladys Knight, composer Tania León and rock group U2 were celebrated as the Kenney…

Forbes wrote a very complimentary article about my leadership: What Dr. Anthony Fauci Teaches Us About Leadership In A Crisis Edward Segal Senior Contributor I cover crisis-related news, issues and topics. PRESS: CNN…

A very touching tribute and “good-bye” to me by the AAI Council. I regularly for 38 years on an annual basis address the council here in Bethesda, they gave me a very warm last meeting with a prolonged standing ovation…

I stood for many dozens of photographs of 1-on-1 with members of NIAID who wanted to say good-bye. Very moving.

We had our 9th annual meeting today with Bill Gates in the context of the NIH-Gates Foundation collaboration on multiple projects. In the course of the meeting they showed to my surprise film clips of Bill Clinton…

Cases and hospitalization are increasing as expected following Thanksgiving and into the colder weeks: Washington Post: HEALTH Fauci slams ‘lowlife’ trolls harassing his wife, children over covid By Adela Suliman Very…

Publication of my essay in the NY Times: The photographer for the NY Times essay Wolfgang Tillmans wrote a short piece in association with my essay:

All of a sudden, Elon Musk has started to viciously attack me with tweets on Twitter: Many people are coming to my defense on tweets and some like Marjorie Taylor Green are approving of his tweets although Mark Kelly…

Many people in the press and outside are asking about and concerned about the attacks on me by Elon Musk. Look at this tweet. What bullshit! White House Says Elon Musk's Tweets Attacking Fauci 'Disgusting' - Bloomberg…

Press still active about the Musk attack on me. Sargent at the Post say libeal ourage does not help counter Musk since it merely shows that he is having an effect. Sargent suggests we ignore him: Musk’s ugly attack on…

Trying to work out my protection post Jan. 1. Still up in the air. PRESS: CNN with Kate Bolduan; CBS Exit Interview with Jon laPook; LA Tims interview with Melissa Healy;

PBS team in for final filming for the Documentary. They are filming me taking down my photographs from the walls PRESS: Urban Faith TV with MAINA Mwaura; NPR – Scott Simon (Exit Interview); Japan Nippon TV with Sho…

Momentous Day!!! Today we had the ceremony for my “stepping down” at NIH. I chose a simple ceremony with 3 minute speeches by Larry Tabak, Francis Collins, John Gallin, Cliff Lane and Christine. This was followed by a…

It is clear (I have not been reporting it every day) that the far, extreme right and Qanon literally hate me and De Santis is starting to play into this with his growin campaign for presidency. From the New York Times…