Sunday, October 3, 2021

Got a really nice note (see below) yesterday from Barney Graham thanking him for my support of him over the 21 years that he has been at the NIAID vaccine Research Center. of note he has won a number of prizes already for his work on developing the optimum immunogen for the COVID-19 vaccine . He has one the Albany prize as well as a number of other prizes. In addition , drew Weissman , my former fellow, has already won a number of prizes including the Lasker award. It will be interesting to see who wins the Nobel Prize this coming Monday. Thank you note_Fauci .pdf While all of this is happening , I must comment that the country is headed to or might already be in a constitutional crisis with the far right clearly indicating that they're going to try and disrupt elections and essentially destroy the democracy. The attacks on me I believe are all a tangential part of that process . I speak of the big lie of which I unfortunately have been drawn into being a target of the far right because I represent something that is antithetical to them , namely, the truth. It is stunning how much time is consumed on warding off the egregious lies about the NIID grant that funded hey small project in the Wuhan institute of virology. They claim that we created the COVID virus. Among the scientist who fall into this trap are the usual suspects of Richard Ebright and David Relmann . However , Jesse bloom has really surprised me claiming that a lab leak is highly probable when there is absolutely no evidence whatsoever that a lab leak has occurred the only issue is that it occurred in a city that happened to have a laboratory that studies bats. Amazing that he has come to this conclusion. PRESS: ABC “This Week” with Jonathan Karl; CNN “State of the Union” with Dana Bash; CBS “Face the Nation” with Margaret Brennan