FAUCI DIARY ARCHIVE — Thursday, January 10, 2013
https://faucisdiary.com/diary/2013-01-10

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DIARY ENTRY — Thursday, January 10, 2013
Source: Diary Prequel, pp. 303–304 of 2026.07.27_Diary-Prequel-.pdf
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Did CNN Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer regarding the Flu outbreak.
I made casual statement in response to a question by Wolf that the outbreak had passed
the epidemic threshold (which was true (7.3% with threshold at 7.2%). Anderson
Cooper later on in his CNN show “Anderson Cooper 360” made announcement that NIH
Official Dr. Anthony Fauci has now declared the influenza outbreak “an epidemic”. The
CDC was coming out with their weekly report with a big press briefing the following day
(tomorrow) and this must have gotten them pissed with their usual jealousy of my being
on TV and the media in issues that they think they own.

Jan. 11, 2103 – Did morning CNN and Soledad O’Brien on CNN and further discussed
the flu situation. Much, much press interest. As expected, Bill Hall (HHS Press office)
wrote a note to Courtney Billet, Greg Folkers and John Burklow saying that from now on
the CDC should handle press on the flu and I should only do local media and national
media only when they want to talk about research associated with flu like universal flu
vaccine. This has shades of Jenny Backus. Almost certainly a result of a complaint
from CDC. We (NIH/NIAID) are trying not to clash with them, but this is really

insulting and we will have to see how this plays out and how we should push back on
this.