FAUCI DIARY ARCHIVE — Wednesday, February 12, 2020
https://faucisdiary.com/diary/2020-02-12

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DIARY ENTRY — Wednesday, February 12, 2020
Source: Tony's Diary Package, p. 23 of 2026.07.24_Tonys-Diary-Package.pdf
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45,172/1115 Individual reports are coming out about various
clinical characteristics. Unreviewed report now of virus in saliva of infected
people. Let us see what kind of reponse that gets.

Very busy day today with 4 Congressionald briefings! Also, complicated by
wake of Eric Scorce today and funeral tomorrow. Much stress.

First we briefed House members at Rayburn led by Rosa DeLauro, Nita Lowey
and Tom Cole. Then we went to the Senate Dirksen to brief senators led by
Lamar Alexander. Then to Capitol Visitors center to brief House members led by
Eliot Engel. Then to Majority hosue leader Steny Hoyer’s office to brief
members. Steny was profuse in his praise for me, which was a little
embarrassing

On my way out of White House from the 4:00 to 5:00 PM Task Force meeting, ran
into Larry Kudlow, who has become my new best friend. He joked about how
many years I have been doing this and he has been following my career. His
main question was when is this COVID19 going to crash the economy, i.e. when
does he need to start worrying about it. It told him that we are OK for now but
this could change rapidly if we start seing sustained person-to-person
transmission. He asked me to keep him informed when in my opinion things are
starting to go bad

Having our second big multipeson conference call this AM with Mike Ryan,
Tedros and WHO, Bruce Aylward (Canadian) called from China. He is part of
WHO multi-national advance team in China. Still no invitation for US
representation from China to be part of group. Azar getting very angry and
blaming Tedros for not pushing with China to get us on the group. Azar feels that
Tedros in bowing to Xi Jinping who does not want USA. Tough situation since
Tedros and WHO depends greatly on China and often bows to them.

PRESS: WTOP Radio; Bloomberg TV (by phone;