FAUCI DIARY ARCHIVE — Friday, January 16, 2015
https://faucisdiary.com/diary/2015-01-16

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DIARY ENTRY — Friday, January 16, 2015
Source: Diary Prequel, p. 420 of 2026.07.27_Diary-Prequel-.pdf
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White House (EEOB – 374) meeting with Deputies chaired by Ron
Klain. Subject matter was vaccine trials and if there is any change in approach now that
infections are so low, particularly in Liberia. Also discussed indemnification, liability
and compensation for trials. Also discussed the need (or not) for 46 hospitals to be
“ready” to receive Ebola patients (see above). I have always been against this since, in
my mind, most of the hospitals that have volunteered to be “Ebola treatment Units” in the
USA are really after the government funds that go with it. The Deputies group was
discussing reluctance to tell other hospitals that 46 is enough and we will not support any
more. I made myself clear that we should just stop recruiting hospitals that we do not
need and that could likely not be able to handle an Ebola patient if they had to.

Also, met in the AM with Delegation from India (“Vijay) to discuss NIAID – India
collaborations, particularly the Vaccine Action program (VAP), which has been onging
for many years. and importantly, a delegation from Liberia and Sierra Leone. The
deputy Minister of Sierra Leone (SL) is Dr. Madina Rahman. She definitely “gets it”
about the advantage of a RCT and wants to have us conduct such a trial in SL. This is
key, since SL is where all the infections are right now with very few in Liberia. I will
hook her up with Cliff Lane who is on his way back to USA from Liberia.