FAUCI DIARY ARCHIVE — Thursday, March 12, 2020 https://faucisdiary.com/diary/2020-03-12 Text below is verbatim from the released PDFs, with the original line breaks. ============================================================================== DIARY ENTRY — Thursday, March 12, 2020 Source: Tony's Diary Package, pp. 47–48 of 2026.07.24_Tonys-Diary-Package.pdf Words: 176 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 129,846/4931. 1267 cases in USA, 38 deaths. Cases in 44 states. Italy continues to surge Has House briefing in Capitol and Senate briefing in Dirksen. Then continuation of House Energy and Commerce Hewaring from the other day with Malonet as Chair. Again, they hammered us about testing. The Senators and Congressperrdsons were enraged, especially Patty Murry (D-WA). Steve Redd during the briefings and Bob Redfield during the Hearing continued to be incoherent in explaining about the difficulty regarding testing the “Public health” system that the CDc set up works well in individual small numbes of patient/physician related requests. However, it is not suited to mass screening. Calls with Se. Joe Munchin (x2); Gov. Cuomo; Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) Very flattering article abpout me in the Washington Post by Karen Tumulty (see below) that explains the above: Anthony Fauci fights outbreaks with the sledgehammer of truth Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health, on Capitol Hill on Thursday. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) By Karen Tumulty Columnist DIARY ENTRY — Thursday, March 12, 2020 Source: Tony's Diary Package, pp. 48–51 of 2026.07.24_Tonys-Diary-Package.pdf Words: 1167 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ at 5:32 p.m. EDT A virus that is deadly and little understood. An administration in deep denial. Anthony S. Fauci has been here before. As the coronavirus epidemic escalates, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) has become a familiar media presence. Fauci’s expertise and credibility shine against the contradictory and false messages coming out of President Trump. The administration has at times sounded more concerned with protecting the president politically than stopping the spread of a potentially lethal disease. While Trump tries to play down the severity of a public health crisis that might affect his reelection prospects, Fauci has laid out the best assessment of the true danger in stark terms. In testimony Wednesday on Capitol Hill, he warned that the coronavirus has a mortality rate 10 times as great as that of the flu, and refuted Trump’s rosy promise that a vaccine will be ready “in a fairly quick manner.” Fauci also said flatly that the government is “failing” when it comes to the urgent imperative of making widespread testing available. The latest updates on the coronavirus After federal officials gave lawmakers a briefing on Thursday, a frustrated Rep. Anna G. Eshoo (D-Calif.) told me: “Everything was wrapped in confusion. The only one who answers the questions — he not only gives the science, but then he says, let me explain this in pedestrian language — is Dr. Fauci.” Then again, this is not the first time Fauci has found himself in the position of having to navigate a public health crisis fraught with political land mines. A renowned international expert on the immune system, Fauci took over NIAID in 1984, barely a year and a half after scientists had identified a mysterious retrovirus that was killing thousands of people. It would be nearly another year before President Ronald Reagan would publicly utter the name of the disease it produced: AIDS. Reagan’s sluggish handling of the epidemic left one of the deepest scars on his legacy. In 1986, Reagan’s surgeon general, C. Everett Koop, produced a report that described in graphic terms the potential toll of AIDS, projecting that 270,000 Americans might contract it by 1991. The report used explicit language, explaining that the disease was transmitted through “semen and vaginal fluids” and during “oral, anal and vaginal intercourse.” Conservatives approved of some of what was in Koop’s document: It warned against “freewheeling casual sex,” and asserted that the surest means of preventing AIDS were through abstinence and monogamy. But they weren’t so happy with the surgeon general’s recommendation that condoms be used as a fallback. Koop was concerned that his findings were being buried by the Reagan administration, so two years later, he and Fauci cooked up a bold idea: mailing an abridged version of his report to every single one of the 107 million households and postal boxes in the country. The problem, however, was that the surgeon general lacked the budget to do it. As Fauci recounted to me during a 2018 interview, he told Koop: “You know, there is a mechanism called an interagency transfer.” Fauci had the authority to provide funds to get the project off the ground, because combating AIDS related to his own agency’s core mission. Congress picked up the idea and ordered the largest mass mailing in U.S. history. It also stipulated that the seven-page brochure be “distributed without necessary clearance of the content by any official, organization or office” — in other words, that it not be edited to suit anyone’s political agenda. In addition to being printed in English and Spanish, “Understanding AIDS” went out in Chinese, Portuguese, Haitian-Creole, Vietnamese, Laotian, Cambodian and Braille. It debunked many myths about the disease, for instance stating unequivocally that AIDS is not spread by mosquitoes, and could not be caught through casual contact with saliva, sweat or toilet seats. Subsequent surveys found that nearly 87 million adults perused part or all of the booklet — making it the most widely read publication in the country in July 1988, with Reader’s Digest coming in a distant second with 48.5 million readers. Of course, there are many differences in scale and severity between the AIDS epidemic and the coronavirus threat. While most who contract coronavirus will recover, AIDS during the 1980s was a death sentence wrapped in stigma. But as Fauci well understands, all infectious diseases have something in common: Accurate information is one of the most powerful weapons for fighting them. Fauci has already shown how important it is to hit a microscopic enemy with a sledgehammer of truth. A yet-untold number of Americans will be betting their lives on him to do it again. Looks like I may have Polymyalgia Rheumatica or really bad Crestor myalgia PRESS: On Pebble Beach at the White House after the TF meeting: ABC Evening News; CBS Evening News; NBC Evening News; Then, I did a gaggle of 5 questions on Pebble Beach; CNN Coronavirus Town Hall with Sanjay Guptya and Anderson Cooper; Mar. 213, 2020 – 132,382/4981 USA 1694 Deaths. Primary health care facilities. Hot areas – WA, CA, MA, NYC I thought that it would be a quiet day since the TF meeting was called off. However, at 2:00 PM, I was called down to the White House since the POTUS wanted me next to him at the podium of the Rose Garden as he made the announcement of deckaring at “National Emergency” which would give him and the Secretary of HHS the power to remove many constraints in response to a national emergency. Also on the podium were the CEOs of the major private sector companies that would make tests readily available – CVS, Target, Walmart, etc. I was at the posium and answered many questions of the press in the Rose Garden. I will be on the 5 Sunday Showes 2 days from now (The “Fauci Five”). Prior to that, I was involved in helping to proof the speech he would give. There were some glaring errors in the speech that I corrected. Got to meet Hope Hicks who was very nice. Jared is playing a major role in all of this. After the presser the White House people showe me a minute by minute graph of the stock markert from the time the POTUS went to the podium and it went down to the 45 minutes of the speech and questions. The DOW went up in 45 minutes 1980 points, which was the greatest single increase in the market in history. The POTUS signed a copy of the graph for me and several of the CEOs My tooth crown fell out in flossing this AM and Dr. Eric Hosaka so nicely fixed it for me right away 2 hours after I called him Alex Azar is obviously being pushed aside as he played a very minor role in the Rose garden Presser. PRESS: MSNBC Morning Joe; GMA (ABC);CBS The Morning; FOX and Friends; BBC World News; Rose Garden Presser with many cameras.