FAUCI DIARY ARCHIVE — Thursday, September 22, 2022
https://faucisdiary.com/diary/2022-09-22

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DIARY ENTRY — Thursday, September 22, 2022
Source: Tony's Diary Package, pp. 1068–1070 of 2026.07.24_Tonys-Diary-Package.pdf
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United States

       • Total Cases: 95,700,347 7-Day average: 54,186 (-10.6%)
       • Total Deaths: 1,049,864 7-Day average: 314 (-12.2%)
       • Total new hospital admissions: 5,327,014 7-Day average 3,971 (-9.9%)
 Worldwide [Source: WHO] - most recent day
        •   Total Cases: 610,866,075 (428,321 new)
        •   Total Deaths: 6,510,139 (1,395 new)

Russia threatening nuclear attack on Ukraine as their forces are now losing to the
Ukrainians

I testified before the Bipartisan Commission on Biodefense held at the Hudson Institute
(Scooter Libby is Senior VP). The group that I testified before was Joe Lieberman, Donna
Shalala, Rep. Susan Brooks, Jin Greenwood, Tom Daschle,
                                                                   The Commissioners all
congratulated me on my career and praised me for my decades of public service. I gave a very
energetic and passionate plea for support in the long term and consistently of our research
component of the pandemic preparedness plan. I also spoke about the importance of major
funding to modernize the CDC and their surveillance efforts. All in all, it was a very good
appearance before an important Commission. My old friend Joe Lieberman wished me “Cent
Anni” and made a great joke: “In every 75 year old person is a 35 year old that wondered what
the heck happened.”

The White House MPX coordinators (Bob Fenton/Demetre Daskalakis) are trying to
micromanage (Project by project) our and the CDC’s portfolio. Bad news!! They mean
well, but this is unprecedented for any WH element to micromanage a research portfolio.

I received a delightful call today (pre-arranged) from former Congressman Joseph P.
Kennedy III informing me that I have been chosen to be honored at a gala in Boston with by
the Edward M Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate. The award is given for service to
the country and the co-awardee with me would be basketball legend Bill Russell formerly of the
Boston Celtics. I had a wonderful conversation with Joe over the phone in which he expressed
extraordinary admiration for me for what I have been through and the attacks against me by the
far right.

On my way tomorrow to Aspen for “The Weekend” where I will do a “fireside chat” on COVID.

Monkeypox cases declining:

Sept. 23-25

I had a wonderful weekend in Aspen Co where I attended “The Weekebnd” hosted by
Mukesh Ambani (Reliance; Edythe Broad (The Broad Foundation); John Doerr (Kleiner
Perkins); Ari Emanuel (Endeavor); Robert Kraft (New England Patriots); Yuri Milner
(DST Global); Eric Schmidt (CEO Google); Patrick Whitesell (Endeavor). The meeting
coincided with the wedding in Aspen of my niece Carolyn Huskey. The participants in the
meeting were the typical AAA crowd of politicians, economists, journalists, sports figures,
among others. On the side I had a very nice conversation with Alex Rodriguez (A-Rod) who
proved to be a very intelligent thoughtful person. There were also very interesting discussions
about Ukraine and Russia and cyber security. I did a fireside chat with David Agus on COVID.
Many people including Ash Carter of Harvard Kennedy School and Marc Tessier-Lavigne
(President of Stanford) were approaching me about my post-NIH life. As usual, I said no
discussion until 2023.