FAUCI DIARY ARCHIVE — Thursday, July 2, 2015
https://faucisdiary.com/diary/2015-07-02

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DIARY ENTRY — Thursday, July 2, 2015
Source: Diary Prequel, pp. 462–463 of 2026.07.27_Diary-Prequel-.pdf
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Today I appeared on the Diane Rehm Show where I did somewhat of a
debate with Dr. Robert Sears, a pediatrician from California who was concerned about
the law recently signed by Gov. Brown in California. On the show with me was Liz
Szabo from the newspaper USA Today. In addition, there was a pediatrician who is an
expert in parental response to vaccines for their children. Her name is Dr. Allison Kemp.
The show went very well and it was clear that Dr. Sears misrepresented certain facts and

cherry-picked information for his own advantage. Following the interview, when I got
back to my office, I received several e-mails telling me that I did a very nice job in being
balanced in my approach.

There has been an additional case of Ebola in Liberia. A 17-year-old boy was found dead
and was shown by PCR to have had Ebola. Since then, there has been an additional case
or two. Therefore, we are concerned that this may be the beginning of another outbreak in
Liberia and perhaps in other West African countries.

Drew Faust, President of Harvard had e-mailed me a couple of days ago to ask me for
suggestions for Dean of Harvard School of Public Health to replace Julio Frenk who had
left to become President of University of Miami. I gave her several names and then she
responded this AM thanking me and telling me that she had just watched “Larry Kramer:
In Love and Anger “ (HB0) and this was her comment to me:

  I spent the evening tonight watching the Larry Kramer HBO documentary in which you
figure so prominently—and impressively. The footage throughout is amazing, (I kept
thinking what it would be like to have such a record of the Civil War…), and the story
both tragic and triumphant. I was powerfully struck by your comment towards the end
about how Act Up permanently changed everything in how officials, the state and
organized medicine deal with patient communities. The film will remain in my mind for a
long time…

Very best, Drew