FAUCI DIARY ARCHIVE — Sunday, November 13, 2022
https://faucisdiary.com/diary/2022-11-13

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DIARY ENTRY — Sunday, November 13, 2022 (Sunday)
Source: Tony's Diary Package, pp. 1113–1116 of 2026.07.24_Tonys-Diary-Package.pdf
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Mark Dybul texted me to alert me that Mike Gerson was fading quickly and was in
Georgetown Hospital waiting for Hospice. Bles Building, 4th Floor, Room 24. It was very
sad to see. Mike was in dire straits literally on his last few hours to few days. He recognized me
and was obviously very glad to see me. We had a brief conversation I told them how important
he was to me and to the rest of the world and he said that he truly appreciated that. A truly great
man will soon leave us.
Was briefed today by the Moderna team led by Steve Hoge on the latest data of their
bivalent BA4/5 boost. The data look really very good and it is clear that the updated booster
performs very well and better than the ancestral booster across the board in inducing antibodies
against BA 4/5 and all of the sub variants of omicron including BQ.1.1. This is very good news
for the upcoming winter. However, there is still very little uptake of this updated booster by the
general public. There is this complacency that the pandemic is over and the confusion about why
we need to continually get updated boosts because of the combination of appearance of new
variants together with the lack of durability of response to either vaccine or infection.

Catch up on prior important information. From May, 2020:

All of Jacob Wohl’s Spectacularly
Failed Smear Attempts
By Bridget Read

Jacob Wohl. Photo: John Middlebrook/CSM/Shutterstock

       In my phone call with Ashish today, I emphasized that they need to dial this back since
       the naysayers (John Moore, Paul Offit, et al) will blast us for making statements without
       clinical data.

I did the Oxford Union Fireside Chat via zoom– very enjoyable.

PRESS: McClatchy TV “Exit Interview”; NEJM Podcast associated with my upcoming
“exit commentary” in NEJM; My comment in Washington Post article by Dan Diamond
today: “The supplemental requests that we keep putting in … just because they don’t go anywhere,
doesn’t mean the need for them disappears,” Anthony S. Fauci, the government’s top infectious-disease
expert, said in an interview last week.; Regional Media – “Make It Make Sense” with Monique
Pressley; Rolling Out with Rashad Milligan; Philadelphia Tribune (print) with Alec Larson