FAUCI DIARY ARCHIVE — Sunday, May 23, 2021
https://faucisdiary.com/diary/2021-05-23

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DIARY ENTRY — Sunday, May 23, 2021
Source: Tony's Diary Package, pp. 746–747 of 2026.07.24_Tonys-Diary-Package.pdf
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Global – 166,300,000/3,400,000; USA – 32,900,000/586,800

Cases continue to come down. All 50 states have decreases:

Appropriations Hearing (Senate and House) coming up next week. Interesting to see if they
fixate on the lab. Escape theory. I had a very interesting and helpful conversation today with
Christian Andersen of Scripps Research Institute. He was very emphatic that the work that
was done at the Wu Han Institute in Association with our grant was not gain of function . In
addition he confirmed that if you match the chimeric viruses that were made in the context of the
NIH grant in Wuhan, they are not even close sequence wise to the SARS-CoV-2. Christian will
be writing a letter together with some data on this topic; however, I feel much better now that he
is in total support of what I have been saying.