FAUCI DIARY ARCHIVE — Friday, July 23, 2021
https://faucisdiary.com/diary/2021-07-23

Text below is verbatim from the released PDFs, with the original line breaks.
==============================================================================

DIARY ENTRY — Friday, July 23, 2021
Source: Tony's Diary Package, pp. 817–820 of 2026.07.24_Tonys-Diary-Package.pdf
Words: 455
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
I had a very productive conversation in my regular every two week call with our UK
colleagues – Chris Whitty and Patrick Vallance, this time accompanied by Thomas Waite. I
explained to them the situation that we have here in the United states with the delta variant. The
UK seems to be a couple of weeks ahead of us in every way. They have vaccinated a slightly
larger proportion of their population than we have and the surge in delta that they are
experiencing is much steeper then what we have at this time. The efficacy of the vaccine against
hospitalization and death continues to hold. They are a skeptical about the Israeli vaccine
efficacy data for asymptomatic and mildly symptomatic disease as we are here in the United

States. The UK has made the decision similar to us that they will try to get all the children back
to school in person by the fall. However unlike us, the unvaccinated children will not be required
to wear masks when they go back to school. They have essentially decided that since you cannot
vaccinate the younger children yet and since they generally have very mild disease, that you
should accept the fact that sooner or later these young children are going to get infected and so
be it. They do not want to close the schools or go to virtual learning. I will continue to follow the
situation with them since it is very helpful to us here to learn what the UK is doing.
Of note, both Chris and Patrick wanted me to know that I am held in extremely high
regard in the UK by virtually everyone on the basis of my standing up to Rand Paul and
his nonsense in the Senate

Right-wing attacks on me intensify – North Carolina GOP Congressman Madison
Cawthorn - "I thank Rand Paul for bringing it up and I will tell you right

now Anthony Fauci does not have the best interests of the American
people at his heart," he said. "I believe he is a pawn for the Chinese
government by giving them funding to do militaristic funding to try and
figure out how they can make an animal virus more transmissible to
humans. It's disgusting, it's wrong, and 4 million people are dead all
around the world because of it."

Did my usual weekly briefing of the Cabinet (“Principals”) together with
Rochelle, Natalie, Jeff, and Vivek. Brought them up to date on Delta
variant becoming dominant.

PRESS: CBC (Canadian) “Power and Politics; FOX with Neil Caputo;

PRESS: Very good article in the LA Times by Melissa Healy:
LA Times: Fauci: ‘There’s no way’ the coronavirus was made with U.S. research funds.
Here’s why https://lat.ms/3ruPOC6