FAUCI DIARY ARCHIVE — Friday, July 16, 2021
https://faucisdiary.com/diary/2021-07-16

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DIARY ENTRY — Friday, July 16, 2021
Source: Tony's Diary Package, pp. 810–811 of 2026.07.24_Tonys-Diary-Package.pdf
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I briefed the President in the Oval Office today about the Delta variant and its impact on our
country. Present at the briefing were: Ron Klain, Susan Rice, Natalie Quillian, Jeff Zients, Anita
Dunn, Brian Reese, Mike Donilon and Rochelle Walensky virtually. Given the increasing
number of cases in the United States, even though the hospitalizations have not increased, the
President was concerned that his message that by July 4th we would be seeing an independence
from the virus here in the United states might actually be now subject to question. We spoke to
him about the importance of emphasizing that vaccinated people do not get severe disease even
from the Delta variant . In addition, we pointed out the possibility that we may need to give
booster shots , namely a third dose following the two doses of the mRNA vaccine. The President
was concerned that people would say that he was giving a mixed message when he asked
everyone to get the standard regimen of vaccination and now we are telling them that they may
need to get an additional dose. I pointed out to him that most people who are vaccinated would
be quite amenable to getting a third dose so long as they thought it would increase the duration of
their protection and or make them more highly protected. It is the people who do not want to
get vaccinated to begin with who are going to be in trouble because they will get infected and
they will need hospitalization. The POTUS and Jeff kept asking whether I thought that it would

get as bad as the winter of 2020/2021. I said no since we did not have vaccinated people back
then.

Fox News hosts Tucker Carlson and Laura Ingraham and mocking our attempts to get people
vaccinated likely leading to loss of lives.

Rand Paul and Jim Jordan tweeting about me all the time and actually raising money by trying
to discredit me

Cases continue to climb:

PRESS: MSNBC – “The Reid Out”; Peacock MSNBC – Joshua Johnson; CBS Evening
news; NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt;