FAUCI DIARY ARCHIVE — Saturday, October 23, 2021
https://faucisdiary.com/diary/2021-10-23

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DIARY ENTRY — Saturday, October 23, 2021
Source: Tony's Diary Package, p. 907 of 2026.07.24_Tonys-Diary-Package.pdf
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Global – 242,300,000/4,900,000; USA – 45,300,000/733,834

There was the typical but not unexpected backlash on the part of the far-right media
concerning the letter that Larry Tabak sent out concerning the progress report from
EcoHealth that was late. In order to be totally transparent, Larry sent out a note to
Congressman Comer saying that Ecohealth was late in submitting a progress report of their grant
and mentioned in the letter that some of the mice in the study had an increase in viral growth and
got sicker. This was immediately taken up by the far right as proving that Fauci and Collins were
lying when they said we did not fund gain of function research at Wuhan. They failed to mention
that in that same letter Larry made it very clear that the research did not rise to the scrutiny of
P3CO. In other words by our definition, it was not gain of function. This set off a firestorm of far
right media craze saying that Francis and I lied. Therefore, I spent the greater part of today,
tonight and tomorrow morning putting together a statement for the NIH website to correct the
misrepresentation on the part of the far right media.