FAUCI DIARY ARCHIVE — Tuesday, November 1, 2005
https://faucisdiary.com/diary/2005-11-01

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DIARY ENTRY — Tuesday, November 1, 2005
Source: Diary Prequel, pp. 135–136 of 2026.07.27_Diary-Prequel-.pdf
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POTUS came to NIH to unveil the National Flu Pandemic Plan. Beustiful
Fall day with crystal clear skies and temperature around 65-70. I along with Sec Leavitt,
Elias Zerhouni, Julie Gerberding, and others greeted him as he arrived. During his
speech he specifally thanked me for my work. Attending the speech in Natcher
Auditorium were several Cabinet Secretaries including Coni Rice, Minetta, Mike
Chertoff, Johanns among others. With the POTUS was Karl Rove, Fran Townsend
among others. POTUS gave a good speech. Afterwards, I did a media blitch and
appeared on CNN Wolf Blitzer, CNN Lou Dobbs, CBS Evening News, Charlie Rose and
did many print and radio interviews. Ted Kennedy is concerned about the liability issue.
He agrees that we should give liability protection to the pharmaceutical companies to
keep them in the business of influenza vaccine manufacturing. However, he feels that we
must also provide compensation for those that might be injured by the vaccine. He
appealed to me to discuss this with the administration. He followed this up 2 days later
by having his staffer (David Bowen) call me and get more advice from me about how
they could tackle this problem.

Nov. 2 - 3, 2005 – Testified with MOL, Julie G., Bruce Gellin, and Bill Raub at both the
Senate and House Appropriations Subcommittees for HELP. We discussed the
President’s Plan as well as the more detailed HHS Pandemic Plan. We were generally
well received, but there was the usual partisan skepticism on the part of the Democratic
regarding the fact that the Plan asks the States to put up about 75% of the cost for a
portion of the Tamiflu that would go to them. The point was made that the States do not
have enough resources to do this. MOL makes the point that this is a co-pay situation
similar to what is done for prescription drugs in Medicare and Medicaid. Much press.
        Big stuff going on with the indictment of Scooter Libby. The Democrats are
trying to drag in the VP and the entire WH, claiming that there was a wide conspiracy to
cover-up the fact that the WH distorted intelligence to get us into a war with Iraq and that

Joe Wilson was smeared by outing his CIA wife in order to get back at him for
disagreeing with the evidence used for going to war with Iraq.