FAUCI DIARY ARCHIVE — Wednesday, April 1, 2020 https://faucisdiary.com/diary/2020-04-01 Text below is verbatim from the released PDFs, with the original line breaks. ============================================================================== DIARY ENTRY — Wednesday, April 1, 2020 Source: Tony's Diary Package, pp. 81–82 of 2026.07.24_Tonys-Diary-Package.pdf Words: 241 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Cases still going up. USA - 188,000/3700. Global – 751000/36400 NYC- 43100/1100 Some very early signs in NYC that the number of “new cases’ in starting the stabilize. However, the deaths always lag and these will continue to increase over the next week or two. Did major briefing of the GOP House leadership organized by Liz Cheney and Kevin McCarthy Continued crazy stuff: Petition to name me “Sexiest Man Alive”; videos games named after me; Fauci Bobblehead; dishes in redstaurants named after me, and on and on. Had good conversation with Bill Gates tonight who wants the BMGF to partner with me (NIAID) and BARDA in the advanced development and scaleup of vaccines, therapeutics. Also, wanted to discuss a strategy for opening up the country after the wave subsides. Really very fine podcast with Sanjay Gupta – personal, but very informative Washington Post for tomorrow: Media Perspective Dr. Fauci symbolizes everything about the Trump-era media climate Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, attends a White House briefing. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post) By Margaret Sullivan Media columnist Press is over the top. My picture and stories about me are in the national news virtually every day. Today and yesterday and tomorrow was flooded with stories. Too much; impossible to even read all of the stories PRESS: Fox Radio NYC – Rosanne Scotto; CBS Norah O’Donnell taped for tonight; NY Times Daily Podcast; White House Press conference