Saturday, September 3, 2022

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> Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: yearly vaccine No worries Tony. My concern is that we have so much Covid fatigue in the country, so little take up of fourth shots, we just need to try something new. I cannot stomach a winter of back to 2000 deaths a day. We have to find a way to get people to take the new shot — I think annual vaccine is a good message but you know best. Whatever whatever we can do to get big take up on this new bivalent — it’s our only real hope to not have a third winter of death. Bless you for all you are doing to help this effort. Sent from my iPhone On Sep 3, 2022, at 5:04 PM, Fauci, Anthony (NIH/NIAID) [E] <afauci@niaid.nih.gov> wrote: Ron: I just spoke with Dori about your concern that I did not mention the planned strategy of a yearly updated COVID vaccine for most of the population in the PBS (Judy Woodruff) interview. As you probably know, I clearly mentioned this strategy in the CNN Interview and the MSNBC interview earlier in the day. I was planning on mentioning it in the PBS interview, but then she steered he conversation towards resources available for the distribution of the updated vaccines. I was hoping to get back to the subject to bring up the yearly issue, but then towards the end of my last comment they said in my earpiece that we were done. I probably should have squeezed in the concept earlier when she asked “who should get it and when”. Sorry. Thanks, Tony Anthony S. Fauci, MD Director National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Building 31, Room 7A-03 31 Center Drive, MSC 2520 National Institutes of Health Bethesda, MD 20892-2520 Phone: (301) 496-2263 FAX: (301) 496-4409 E-mail: afauci@niaid.nih.gov