FAUCI DIARY ARCHIVE — Saturday, February 21, 2015
https://faucisdiary.com/diary/2015-02-21

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DIARY ENTRY — Saturday, February 21, 2015
Source: Diary Prequel, p. 428 of 2026.07.27_Diary-Prequel-.pdf
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Went on CNN to discuss the 7 cases of CRE that occurred with 2 deaths
at UCLA in association with contamination of duodenoscope used for ERCP. Press is
trying to blame FDA since FDA knew about the problem with duodenoscope
contamination for a few years. I did not throw FDA under the bus since there is not
much they can do about it except to alert hospitals to clean the instruments as best as
possible. Cannot pull the 20,000 or so instruments (made by Olympus) since 500,000
procedures are done in the USA each year and many are life-saving and avoid serious
surgery. It is a risk/benefit issue. Peggy Hamburg ran into Chris in Safeway and Peggy
must have seen the CNN interview since she told Chris to thank me for not throwing
FDA under the bus.