Wednesday, May 12, 2021

Global – 159,300,000/3,300,000; USA – 32,600,000/580,100 • I had an interesting conversation today with Tom Frieden About the possibility of South Korea playing an important role in manufacturing doses of the M RNA vaccine for the rest of the world. Tom feels that we cannot depend upon the pharmaceutical companies Moderna and Pfizer to really provide doses of vaccine for the rest of the world at a reasonable price. Tom is going to present this proposition to Jeff Zients tonight. I will follow up with Jeff to make sure that he understands that I am very much in favor of this. • Things are really heating up with the GOP against me: • Republicans propose bill to fire Fauci amid growing discontent with top Biden medical officials • Fauci has been National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director since 1984 PRESS: Washington Post interview with Yasmeen Abutaleb and Damian Paletta about article about my FOIA’d e-mails; New York Times interview with Jane brody about being 80 years old; MSNBC Town Hall meeting with President Biden, Sec Becerra, and Vivek Murthy;