FAUCI DIARY ARCHIVE — Monday, October 6, 2014
https://faucisdiary.com/diary/2014-10-06

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DIARY ENTRY — Monday, October 6, 2014
Source: Diary Prequel, p. 377 of 2026.07.27_Diary-Prequel-.pdf
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White House meeting discussed increased entry screening, but no firm
recommendations to date. Big 24 hour News topic is whether to close the borders to
West African flights. I have been very vocally against this (as had Tom Frieden) since it
will only isolate the West African countries and make them less able to deal with the
epidemic. It could cause political instability and even government collapse. In my
interviewers over the past 2 days I have said that to interviewers as good as Chris
Wallace and as less experiences as Elizabeth Hasselbeck of FOX News. Two things
have resulted:1) I am getting a lot of hate mail from crazy neo-Nazi types who say that
we should not care about dysfunctional black Africans. In addition, bloggers are
cheering me on about taking on the right wing news people about closing the borders. I
do not feel that I have “taken them on”; I have just told them my opinion. Bloggers have
been particularly hard on Elizabeth Hasselbeck saying she was completely over-matched
in her interview with me. I did not know beforehand, but she apparently has been a star
on “Survivor” and “The Voice” TV Shows. She clearly is very beautiful, and I do not
think that she is stupid the way the bloggers are saying.
Press appearances today: CNN New Day; Fox and Friends (Elizabeth Hasselbeck);
Diane Rehm Show; MSNBC; PBS The NewsHour (Jeff Green)

Seems that we (Cliff and I) have won the battle to convince people that we need to do an
RCT for an Ebola Vaccine.