FAUCI DIARY ARCHIVE — Monday, July 12, 2021
https://faucisdiary.com/diary/2021-07-12

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DIARY ENTRY — Monday, July 12, 2021
Source: Tony's Diary Package, pp. 808–809 of 2026.07.24_Tonys-Diary-Package.pdf
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Global    USA
It is important to point out how many hours we are all wasting in responding to the multiple
letters from senators and congressmen fundamentally driven by conspiracy theories that the NIH
has funded work at Wuhan institute of virology that lead to SARS-CoV-2. For example, over the
weekend I was on multiple zoom calls with my staff fine tuning the letters in response to the
multiple questions from people like senators Rand Paul, Marshall, Burr. I am somewhat
surprised that's senator Burr was part of this since he generally is a friendly person to me.
We had a very important meeting today by zoom with Mikael Dolsten and others from
Pfizer with members of HHS including myself, Rochelle Walensky, David Kessler, Francis
Collins, Janet Woodcock, all of the people from ASPR such as Dawn O'Connor. The Pfizer
people present the data from the Israeli study which we already knew showed a decrease of
efficacy against all infection down to 64%. In addition they showed some of the follow-up data
from their phase 3 trial which showed a decrease in efficacy down to 83%. Clearly, Pfizer is
intending to suggest boosts particularly for those who are elderly and with underlying conditions
. In Israel they are already boosting some of the elderly and those with underlying conditions.
There was a big debate in our own country and worldwide about giving a third shot to fully
vaccinated people when most of the world is completely unvaccinated. This is a debate that will
intensify. I believe we need to go ahead and explore the possibility of needing a boost at the
same time as we provide vaccines for people in low and middle income countries. I have been
emphasizing in my public appearances that the requirement for a boost does not mean that the
vaccines are not highly effective. A boost relates to the durability of the protection not to the
effectiveness of the protection. This is a concept that is often missed by the public.

PRESS: CBS “This Morning” with Gayle King; NPR Baltimore – WYPR with Tom Hall;
CNN with Chris Cuomo