FAUCI DIARY ARCHIVE — Friday, July 1, 2022
https://faucisdiary.com/diary/2022-07-01

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DIARY ENTRY — Friday, July 1, 2022
Source: Tony's Diary Package, pp. 964–966 of 2026.07.24_Tonys-Diary-Package.pdf
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Global – 543,352,927/6,331,059; USA – 87,298,343/1.012,767

Tested Ag negative today!!

Importance of vaccination + boosters:

Cases clearly going up everywhere in the USA and in UK:

I am struggling with the issue of what the precise and most appropriate time to step down
from my current position to move on to writing books and entering the next phase of the
winter of my career. It is very difficult for me to pull away from being the director of NIAID
given the extraordinary history that I have created and lived through over the last 38 years as
director. As we approach the decision making time of this summer although I lean very strongly
two announcing my departure in August and leaving at the end of 2022, the thought of this still
causes considerable anxiety in me as to whether or not I am doing this too soon. However, I will

be 82 years old at the end of the year and I have always said that I want to go out while I am still
very much on top. That is the driving force that has me feel that I will go through with the plan

PRESS:
https://paw.princeton.edu/article/commencement-speakers-offer-parting-words-2022-grads