FAUCI DIARY ARCHIVE — Friday, June 18, 2021
https://faucisdiary.com/diary/2021-06-18

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DIARY ENTRY — Friday, June 18, 2021
Source: Tony's Diary Package, pp. 780–783 of 2026.07.24_Tonys-Diary-Package.pdf
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Global – 177,000,000/3,800,000; USA – 33,300,000/600,000

Received important e-mail with attachment from Jesse Bloom:

Hi Francis, Stephen, and Toni,

I’m just writing to give you a heads up that I identified a data set of early Wuhan SARS-CoV-2 sequences
that has been deleted from the NIH’s Sequence Read Archive (SRA). I was able to recover the deleted

files from the Google Cloud and analyze the sequences, and have attached a pre-print on the analysis
that I just submitted for posting by bioRxiv.

Since SARS-CoV-2 origins and early spread has become a hot-button topic, I wanted to give you a heads
up. I made sure to emphasize in the discussion that the SRA has many sequences and so isn’t in a
position to vet all deletions. Nonetheless, I think it would be highly worthwhile to do a comprehensive
analysis of SRA (and other NIH) data that might be relevant to this topic that could have been deleted or
otherwise overlooked. If I can be of any assistance, let me know.

I have been running a pipeline to identify additional deleted SRA data using various heuristics including
those in described in the attached pre-print, but have not yet completed the analysis enough to know
the extent that the data I have recovered is relevant to SARS-CoV-2’s origins or early spread. But as I
mention in the pre-print, there are two known SRR deletions that are worth looking at. I definitely think
it would be good to perform a SRA side search as well, since that will obviously be easier and more
efficient, and could identify deleted data not on the cloud.

Anyway, I hope overall this can be a good opportunity for the NIH to take the lead by using its
remarkable data archives to make progress in resolving some of the important questions about the
virus’s origins.

Thanks,

Jesse

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Jesse Bloom

Associate Professor, Fred Hutch Cancer Research Center

Affiliate Associate Professor, Genome Sciences & Microbiology, University of Washington

Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

       paper.pdf

I believe that it was somewhat imprudent on the part of Jesse bloom to make statements such as
he has that indicate nefarious motives on the part of the Chinese when we have no idea why they
deleted the sequences. He used words such as “obscure” and “surreptitious” which will certainly

   ● Chris and I viewed the “FAUCI” documentary doe by Nat/Geo together with the
     leadership of Nat/Geo films at the national geographic headquarters on 17th Street, NW.
     Very impressive film.
   ● At the request of the White House I did a walking tour of the Anacostia neighborhood Of
     Washington DC together with Mayor Muriel Bowser. we started off at anacostia high
     school where we thanked the volunteers in the basketball gym who were administering
     vaccines to people in the neighborhood . We then went on and addressed the volunteers
     in the schoolyard of Kramer Middle School. After that, the mayor and I went door to
     door knocking on the doors and encouraging people in the neighborhood to get
     vaccinated. We did that for about an hour and 15 minutes. it got written up the next day
     in the Washington Post (see below).
PRESS: Washington Post: “For Ward 8 residents, coronavirus vaccine appeal comes
with a touch of celebrity: ‘It’s Fauci!” https://wapo.st/3vFzhLZ