FAUCI DIARY ARCHIVE — Saturday, October 17, 2020
https://faucisdiary.com/diary/2020-10-17

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DIARY ENTRY — Saturday, October 17, 2020 (Saturday)
Source: Tony's Diary Package, pp. 408–409 of 2026.07.24_Tonys-Diary-Package.pdf
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Got call at 5:53 AM from Deb Birx who reported to me about yesterday’s activities
at the WH. Atlas did not come to White House. However, at the “huddle” in the

AM he tried to undermine everything that Deb and I have been saying about how
to contain the surges. He explicitly wants to never do contact tracing and never
isolate any person who is infected. He feels that this constitutes a “lockdown’ and
feels that the POTUS does not want to lock down. We (Deb and I) have
repetitively said that we do not want to lock down. Atlas has convinced the entire
White House. My conversation with Jared a couple of days ago obviously did not
convince him since he told Deb yesterday that the POTUS likes differences of
opinion and so we should just work it out. THIS IS VERY REMINISCENT OF
AIDS DENIALISM WITH THABO MBEKI when it went beyond differences
of opinion and >300,000 South Africans died without ART because he
believed from Duesberg et al that HIV did not cause AIDS

Cases continue to surge (see graph below). Could possibly start to overwhelm
hospitals in some more rural areas.