FAUCI DIARY ARCHIVE — Friday, December 4, 2020 https://faucisdiary.com/diary/2020-12-04 Text below is verbatim from the released PDFs, with the original line breaks. ============================================================================== DIARY ENTRY — Friday, December 4, 2020 Source: Tony's Diary Package, pp. 514–516 of 2026.07.24_Tonys-Diary-Package.pdf Words: 199 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Global – 64,500,000/1,500,000 USA – 14,000,000/276,000 Did photo shoot and interview with Alice Park of TIME Magazine. • I called up Rosa De Lauro to congratulate her on being chosen by Nancy Pelosi as Chair of the Appropriations Full Committee. She had tears in he eyes thanking me nd saying how excited she was that Biden has announced that I would be his Chief Medical Advisor. • Spoke with Don Fehr of the NHL Players Association about the likelihood of the NFL having a season and what my projection for 2021 was. More records broken – 200,000 cases; 2885 deaths; >100,000 hospitalization. Hospitals are starting to get over-run. California starting lock-downs to avoid hospital crisis (see above figure) PRESS: NBC Today Show with Savannah Guthrie; Multiple press stories about Biden speaking with me, asking me to stay on as NIAID Director and offering me the title of Chief Medical Advisor; Greta Van Susteren “Full Court Press” TV (VOA); “Today with Kaye” Baltimore Radio Show; CNN Town Hall with Anderson Cooper and Sanjay Gupta; Biden said he asked Fauci to stay on and be a chief medical adviser in his administration By Jim Acosta, Jim Sciutto and Kate Sullivan, CNN