FAUCI DIARY ARCHIVE — Sunday, March 22, 2020
https://faucisdiary.com/diary/2020-03-22

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DIARY ENTRY — Sunday, March 22, 2020 (Sunday)
Source: Tony's Diary Package, pp. 62–63 of 2026.07.24_Tonys-Diary-Package.pdf
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Cases continue to soar. 30,000 in USA with 400 deaths; Italy
still escalating. My please to the TF regarding needing desparately to get PPEs and other
supplies to NYC seems to be working since FEMA in pusing stuff to them.

250,000 tests now done not counting those from hospitals and medical centers

Press is going wild with me. Front page in Washintgton Post yesterday and Op Ed by
Maureen Dowd in NY Times today about me and my relationship with the POTUS.
Profile by Peter Nicholas on me in The Atlantic. I am trying in several articles and on TV
to clarify that the POTUS is tsalking about hope for therapies although there are no good
data, while I must stick to the science and so fundamentally we are approaching this from
different, but not conflicting standpoints. The press are crucifying the POTUS for “not
listening to me and making crazy statements about “game-changing” therapies and
praising me fot stivking to my guns.

ORACLE (Larry Ellison – a bit of a loose cannon) . Mark Meadows wants CDC, FDA
and me to help put together by 5:00 PM tomorrow an on line site for tracking availability
of drugs like Hyroxychloroquine and Remdesivir and making these drugs available via a
physician. Bad idea, but it will happen. I will go with this as long as it does not interfere
with the conduct of RCTs. Cliff Lane helping out but employing NLM and NCATS
people. I am giving him full authority since I have absolutely no extra time given what I
am doing already.

Also, Jared and Mark are very skeptical about the CDC modesl about the trajectory of the
outbreak and what can be predicted regarding timing of modification of the mitigation.
They want to see the data before they believe the models and get CDC out of the business
of doing this alone and making policy – good for them – it is about time. I am getting
Cliff to get MIDAS people in on this.

Press conference (I did not attend) after the virtual TF meeting. POTUS went into detail
with very granular numbers of all the things USG (mostly FEMA) is doing regarding
sending masks, PPE, other equipment to high risk locations (Washingto State, CA, NYC,
etc.) On TV programs, FEMA Pete Gaynor did not look good since he did not have any
idea how many ventilators and other equipment was available. POTUS went on and on

about all the things that we are doing. Very rambling and disorganized as he ad libs his
speech I would have advised against this, since we are still getting calls that many
locations do not have enough of anything. Also, they are talking about the now hundreds
of thousands of tests that are out there and being done. However,as I have always said,
testing for the sake of testing without reason only consumes PPEs of the people
administering the tests.
Looking at the presser from home on computer has made it clear how self-congratulatory
the POTUS, VP and others appear on the stage.

Title 42 enacted – use of National Guard to help.

Role out of telemedicine without reguations so that people do not have to leave the house
to interact with their physician.

A lot of promises – I hope we can back them up.

PRESS: CBS Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan; Multiple print features