FAUCI DIARY ARCHIVE — Thursday, November 21, 2002
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DIARY ENTRY — Thursday, November 21, 2002
Source: Diary Prequel, p. 62 of 2026.07.27_Diary-Prequel-.pdf
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Another pre-roll out meeting at the Department to prepare for the
upcoming announcement by the President on the Smallpox vaccination policy. Meeting
was with Kevin Keane, Bill Hall, Jerry Hauer, and on teleconference - Michael
Osterholm, Julie Gerberding and an assortment of CDC public affairs people. I have
convinced them that we should not recommend to the general public that they take the
vaccine give the non-quantifiable risk. I am also convincing them that for the Stage 2
(10,000,000 first repsonders), we also should not make a blanket recommendation that
they get vaccinated. Rather, we should say that as a group the vaccine should be offered
to them, but since this is a heterogenous group, the actual recommendation to take it or
not should rely on discussions between the CDC and the State and local public health
officials in light of the particular needs and situation within a given jurisdiction. Clearly,
the Stage 1 group (500,000 smallpox response teams) should have a recommendation to
take the vaccine voluntarily.