FAUCI DIARY ARCHIVE — Tuesday, March 5, 2013
https://faucisdiary.com/diary/2013-03-05

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DIARY ENTRY — Tuesday, March 5, 2013
Source: Diary Prequel, p. 306 of 2026.07.27_Diary-Prequel-.pdf
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Media frenzy continues. I have now gone over the data from the Hannah
Gay and Persaud presentation at CROI and I have some doubts that the child was ever
truly infected in the first place. Tough to really tell whether the virus that was detected
and ultimately disappeared on ARVs was the virus from the mother or really infected
baby cells making virus. The authors claim that the 2 phase decay of virus on ARVs is
characteristic of the response to active virus replication. Cliff Lane pointed out that the
decay curve has very few points and is also compatible with a single phase decay. In
any event, I have been taking the conservative approach of emphasizing that this is just a
single case and it needs to be replicated and validated and importantly, it has little to do
with infection in the adult where reservoirs are firmly established prior to the start of
ARVs.
     Nonetheless, the media frenzy continues with interview for Men’s health, Huffington
Post, NPR- San Francisco (KQED), Boston Globe.