FAUCI DIARY ARCHIVE — Wednesday, December 3, 2014
https://faucisdiary.com/diary/2014-12-03

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DIARY ENTRY — Wednesday, December 3, 2014
Source: Diary Prequel, p. 415 of 2026.07.27_Diary-Prequel-.pdf
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At his request, went to the Rayburn Office Building office of Chairman
Timothy Murphy (R-PA). Murphy was upset with me at a recent Hearing (see above)
when he said that I was making condescending statements about quarantine and why we
should not have quarantines. He invited me down to his office to discuss further at a
10:00 AM meeting. With him was Committee Staffer Alan Slobodin (of past outside
activity investigation fame) and Murphy’s Chief of Staff Susan Mosychuk and his
legislative Director Brad Grantz. Murphy had also been giving Tom Frieden grief about
the same issue. Meeting actually went well – cordial, respectful. The underlying theme
was still the need in his mind for quarantining of all West African entrants to USA or
better restrict travel of West Africans (3 countires0 to USA and provide an “air bridge” to
bring in USA HCWs. Also, he was concerned that with the latest proposal for 32
additional Ebola-ready hospitals in the USA that we should quarantine the USA HCWs
after seeing Ebola patients. He was OK with just direct, active monitoring of the NIH,
Emory and Nebraska HCWs, but he felt that since the other 32 hospitals were less trained
and so would likely have a greater chance of getting infected, then they should be
quarantined since (as a former Clinical Psychologist) he feels that people deny sxs and so
he does not trust them. He is against the part of the $6.18 billion supplemental request
for Ebola on the grounds that we do not needs all the additional hospitals (I actually do
not entirely disagree with him as I have expressed to our own people). The meeting
ended cordially.