FAUCI DIARY ARCHIVE — Thursday, September 1, 2022 https://faucisdiary.com/diary/2022-09-01 Text below is verbatim from the released PDFs, with the original line breaks. ============================================================================== DIARY ENTRY — Thursday, September 1, 2022 Source: Tony's Diary Package, pp. 1049–1052 of 2026.07.24_Tonys-Diary-Package.pdf Words: 194 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ United States • Total Cases: 94,385,669 7-Day average: 85,762 (-6.6%) • Total Deaths: 1,041,280 7-Day average: 404 (-5.4%) • Total new hospital admissions: 5,235,025 7-Day average 5,106 (-5%) Worldwide [Source: WHO] - most recent day • Total Cases: 600,555,262 (670,371 new) • Total Deaths: 6,472,914 (2,676 new) Very telling graph about the role of vaccination in preventing death: FDA gave EUA to BA.5 bivalent boosts and USG has ordered 170 million doses to be administered starting next week. As usual some concern among some “talking heads” about doing this from Paul Offit who generally feels that most people really do not need boosters to a milder John Moore who is concerned about the immunology of a poor response. Eric Topol gives the pros and cons today in his usual blog: Recent article in Salon (worthwhile reading whole article): COMMENTARY Farewell Dr. Fauci: How the right turned a national hero into a villain in service of Donald Trump The right's attack on science is the most dangerous of its cynical power plays. Fauci is just collateral damage By HEATHER DIGBY PARTON Columnist Nice cartoon from 2020 by Mark Tatulli : Other Tatulli cartoons with Lio: