FAUCI DIARY ARCHIVE — Wednesday, March 12, 2003
https://faucisdiary.com/diary/2003-03-12

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DIARY ENTRY — Wednesday, March 12, 2003
Source: Diary Prequel, pp. 73–74 of 2026.07.27_Diary-Prequel-.pdf
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Conference call with me connected to about 50 industry people
organized by John Kelly of PhRMA to explain BioShield to them. Always a concern
about anti-trust laws and so the General Counsel for PhRMA (Ken Ewing) made sure that
no questions were asked by industry that would violate this.

   2003 March 12
Teleconference on Pr

        Stewart Simonson told me yesterday that he resigned because of serious clash
with Jerry Hauer. I offered him a job at NIAID that he was very moved by. Got a call
today that Secretary Thompson insisted that he does not resign. Stew gave in to TGT.

Mar. 13 – 16, 2003 – We are getting closer to war with Iraq. The French, Germans, and
Russians are threatening to block any attempt on the part of the USA to have the UN pass
a resolution that if Iraq does not immediately comply with Resolution 1441 and disarm,
the UN will use force to disarm them. USA, Britain and Spain may go it alone.
        I am extremely concerned about the appearance in Asia (Hong Kong, Quangdong
Province in China, Vietnam, Thailand, Singapore of a mysterious acute respiratory
syndrome. Thus far 400 people, 150 in last week, 9 deaths. We have no idea what it is,
but the attack rate nosocomially is very high. More than 30 health workers in Hanoi got
infected from a single patient. Many people on respirators. The new disease is called
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS).
        On evening of March 16, had a great dinner at Galileo’s in DC. Host was Bono
who is in town to receive an award on St. Patrick’s day (March 17). Small dinner at
which Bono paid very kind tribute to me for putting together the President’s Emergency

Plan for AIDS Relief. At dinner were Chris Grady, Bono, Sens. Leahy, Dodd, Santorum,
Steve Case and wife Jean, Comedian Chris Tucker, Josh Bolten and girlfriend (?name),
Jamie Drummond, Bobbie Schriver, Cardinal ? from DC, Father Perry and others.