FAUCI DIARY ARCHIVE — Wednesday, November 10, 2021
https://faucisdiary.com/diary/2021-11-10

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DIARY ENTRY — Wednesday, November 10, 2021
Source: Tony's Diary Package, pp. 917–918 of 2026.07.24_Tonys-Diary-Package.pdf
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Global - 250,154,972/5,054,267; USA – 46,626,034/755,201

Many Eastern European countries by having record surges of COVID with increases in
hospitalizations and deaths. These countries include the Ukraine, Romania, Russia, Bulgaria,
among others. In the United states although the cases are plateauing as a group, there are other
areas of the country particularly some of the western and northern states it is starting to see
increases including the important state of California. In fact, the daily average over the past week
for the country has shown a 5% increase in cases.

Met by Zoom today with Eric Schultz at the request of Barack Obama - Eric was really very
helpful. He has enormous experience at being a comms expert working with Barack Obama. He
was involved in deflecting a lot of the criticism against Obama during his Presidency. Eric was
very realistic about what can be done in my case although he admitted that the level of attacks
against me was clerly organized and unprecendented. He wanted to find out what was being
negatively impacted by all of this. I explained to him that it was a very strong strain on me but
that I'm strong enough to withstand it and he seemed to resonate with that. I told him that my
scientific staff seems to be able to do their job even though the onslaught of this is so clear to
them and they feel badly about what I'm going through. I told him that the group that is getting
most overwhelmed with this is my legislative and my communications staff. Eric felt that it
would be very difficult to shame the right wing media and even the right wing members of
Congress and the Senate, and so he is unsure whether going after them would make a difference.
He wanted to know whether I needed more help at the staff level in communications and
legislation. I don't think that we do need that but I referred him to Courtney Billet with whom he
has already scheduled a meeting. He did say that he was interested in the Washington Post piece
that will be written by Yasmeen Abutaleb. He feels that if we can galvanize other media people
to call out these groups that are attacking me that this could be very helpful. Once you expose the
people who are instigating this, they often are reluctant to continue. And so, I am waiting to see
how is conversation with Courtney goes. I am very thankful to Barack Obama for helping to set
up this meeting with Eric.

Nice fireside chat with Bill First Bipartisan Center - The audience were a number of policy
makers who listened in on the bipartisan senators discussions. Bill asked the usual questions ut
the status of the outbreak but where we're going what does the end game look like and all the
other questions that are generally asked.

PRESS:Interview with “The Daily” – New York Times – Michael Barbaro;