FAUCI DIARY ARCHIVE — Thursday, September 18, 2014
https://faucisdiary.com/diary/2014-09-18

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DIARY ENTRY — Thursday, September 18, 2014
Source: Diary Prequel, pp. 370–371 of 2026.07.27_Diary-Prequel-.pdf
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Yesterday had Hearing before the House Subcommittee on Foreign
Affairs (Africa) chaired by Chris Smith. On the GOP side were: Stockman, meadows,
Burgess, Royce (Chair of Full Committee). On Dems side was: Bass, Cicilline, Engel,
and McCollum. My co-witnesses were Nancy Lindborg (USAID), Luciana (Lu) Borio
(FDA), Beth Bell (CDC). Recurring question was “Who is in charge?” Real answer is

that multiple agencies/people are in charge depending whether it is health, infection
control, logistics, etc. Kent Brantley again was on the second panel.
Still much interest and interviews with written press and blogs over the ongoing
“disagreement” between Osterholm and me on the issue of the virus mutating to
respiratory spread. Ian Lipkin gave an interview on CNN agreeing with me and putting
down Osterholm.

Meanwhile, the House voted to give POTUS authority to arm the Syrian Free Army to
fight ISIS.

The situation continues to heat up with various mathematical models projecting anywhere
from 20,000 to 100,000 to a soon to be published CDC model that would indicate if we
do not have a highly effective control program, the number of cases could reach 500,000
within several months.