FAUCI DIARY ARCHIVE — Sunday, July 31, 2022
https://faucisdiary.com/diary/2022-07-31

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DIARY ENTRY — Sunday, July 31, 2022
Source: Tony's Diary Package, pp. 1002–1004 of 2026.07.24_Tonys-Diary-Package.pdf
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I gave the special session plenary lecture at the International AIDS Society (IAS) meeting
in Montreal via a virtual presentation. I have given a plenary lecture and virtually every one
of the IAS meetings since 1984. I reflected on what has transpired since the last meeting in
Montreal which was in 1989. My presentation triggered a prolonged standing ovation from the
audience. The session was chaired and moderated by Laura Waters of the UK.
The president remains antigen positive for the second day in a row following his rebound.
His CT values are 16 to 18. He has had no additional symptoms although he still has somewhat
of a lingering cough. The plan is to keep him isolated until he asked two negative antigen tests in
a row.

I got a call from Rochelle who is stuck in Amsterdam following the cancellation of her
flight from Amsterdam to Washington. She is coming back from a trip to Uganda and Kenya.
She thanked me profusely for sticking up for the CDC's decision about allocation of vaccines for
monkey pox.
Got a call from Jen Ashton of ABC expressing concern about something that I have been
almost obsessing about today and most recently. That is the fact that the public may be taking
monkeypox too lightly assuming that it will stay confined to the population of men who have sex
with men. In addition, we are doing nothing proactively to encourage people to cancel such
events as ”Southern Decadence” and Black gay pride galas. We are starting to see cases of
spillover into non men who have sex with men populations. Also, there is so much that we do not

know about the Natural History of this disease and with the potential is to spread beyond MSM. I
will have to talk to people at HHS and the White House that we cannot under play this outbreak.

Call from Francis Collins, Acting Science Advisor to POTUS regarding NIH Director
Choice – Charles Sawyer at MSKCC. Francis wants me to talk to him about the possibility of his
being considered for the job of NIH director. It is essentially a recruiting call that Francis wants
me to have with Charles. Apparently the president is not satisfied with either of the two names
that was submitted to him: Mary Klotman (Duke) and Kimryn Rathmell (Vanderbilt).