FAUCI DIARY ARCHIVE — Tuesday, October 21, 2014 https://faucisdiary.com/diary/2014-10-21 Text below is verbatim from the released PDFs, with the original line breaks. ============================================================================== DIARY ENTRY — Tuesday, October 21, 2014 Source: Diary Prequel, pp. 384–389 of 2026.07.27_Diary-Prequel-.pdf Words: 772 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jey Johnson, Secertary of DHS, announces that all flights from Liberia, Sierra leone and Guinea must now enter the USA at one of the 5 designated airports (O’Hare, Newark, IAD, JFK and Atlanta) that are now having entry screening. CDC issues the new PPE guidelines emphasizing the 3 principles that I have insisted upon during my many discussions with CDC (Frieden): 1) Training and drilling in procedure of donning/doffing; 2) no exposed skin anywhere; 3) trained monitors for donning and especially a WATSAN for doffing. Did Weill Cornell Grand Rounds by video to an SRO audience. Also, the White House now wants me to instruct physicians around the country on Ebola via White House run teleconferences. Now I am a press coach. Did one today and now they want me to do one tomorrow or next day. On the call were Rich Carmona, Zeke Emanuel, among others. It actually worked out quite well and was well-received. Interesting how history repeats itself. First, the White House gets the standard people out such as CDC, HHS on health emergencies and the PR is horrible. Example is my friend Tommy Thompson with the Anthrax attacks of 2001 (he said it could come from drinking water from a stream - bad briefing from CDC). Another example was Jeff Coplan, then Diretor of CDC who arrogantly refused to brief Tommy Thompson or even answer his calls. Recall that Stewart Simonson, who subsequently became my very close friend convinced Tommy to fire Coplan and then I was the PR face of the USG to “calm the nation” together with Julie Gerberding who replaced Coplan as CDC Director. Now, after all of the misteps and the poor performance of Tom Frieden in the press and at Hearings, the White House is falling all over themselves to get me on TV and elsewhere educating the public and validating what the administration is doing. Hence, my “Full Ginsburg” on all of the Sunday TV Shows last weekend (October 8) Getting many, many e-mails from colleagues around the country telling me how proud they are of me and what an amazing job I am doing in the press with calming the country and bringing scientific rigor to the situation in my explanations. I get into Contact PPEs and visit in her room with Cliff and Rick Davey. She was in good spirits. She is so sweet I told her that she looked good and she came back with “You look great, yourself, Dr. Fauci.” She was obviously glad to see me. I believe it is the happiness of knowing that she is getting better. If note, her Ebola PCR is now completely undetectable, and importantly, her Ebola specific IgM is >1600. It had previously been <400, which is actually undetectable. The IgM means that she is in immunological protection area. Also, her LFTs are coming down. We feel the hepatotoxicity is due to the Brincidofovir. We move her out of isolation room tomorrow and hopefully, home on Friday. Her labs are contained below: No press today since HHS and White House wanted nothing on but the announcement of the new PPEs by CDC and the DHS announcement of the 5 airports only. might ultimately lead to collapse of the structure of the country and spread to other West African countries. We repeat what we have said many times that the best way to protect Americans from Ebola is to suppress the epidemic at its source in West Africa. I went over to see and her family including sister Kathy and mother Diane in our special clinical studies unit at around 6:30 PM. As I have done every day, I was accompanied by Rick Davey and Cliff Lane. has had four consecutive negative PCRs and so we made the decision to move her out of the strict isolation room and put her in a room where there was no need for contact isolation. In other words and we could wear regular clothes and visit her. Also, her dog Bentley had been shown to be PCR negative at USAMRIID. On a visit tonight we began to plan her discharge exit from the hospital and discussed just what course we would take regarding public announcements and a press conference. I emphasized to and her family that the choice was entirely up to her and that we would help her to implement any decision that she makes. She is leaning towards making a public announcement in front of the Clinical Center and having a written statement that she reads and that she does not answer any questions. Hopefully we will discharge her on Friday, 24 October.