David Kessler

… y (diabetics, obese, HT, elderly) who will get infected by community spread. PRESS: Glenn Kessler (fact checker for Washington Post) wrote a piece in todays Post indicating that Trump was incorrect in his statements that I was wrong on: 1) saying that everything is OK a …

… team. It was a good meeting that was led by Jeff Zientz, Vivek Murthy, and included David Kessler, John Auerbach, Tom Inglesby, among others. We went on to discuss the challenges associated with the rollout of the vaccination campaign. In addition, I gave them my advice …

… y about candidates. Josh Sharfstein is being considered but many people are pushing back. Kessler is being considered, but most everyone thinks that this is a bad idea. Janet Woodcock is emerging as a top choice. I like that. • Much concern that we did not contract with …

… se, Moises Agosto Had Zoom call last night with Vivek Murthy, Rochelle Walensky and David Kessler. Vivek wanted to discuss in more detail what our advice would be to Biden regarding the mutant virus in the UK. We discussed options of 1) shutting down travel from UK; 2) …

… ned about what she is hearing that Janet Woodcock will be FDA Commissioner and that David Kessler will be the “FDA person in the White House”. She has trouble with both of them. She is feeling left out in that the Biden people are not conferring with her about anything. …

… esent were Natalie Quillian, Vivek Murthy, Marcella Nunez-Smith, Rochelle Walensky, David Kessler, Asma Mirza, and Sonya Bernstein. Plan is to develop community vaccination centers, use mobile units to get to rural areas, etc. Nursing staff in the OR at the Brigham and …

… led by Jeff Zients. Present was Ron Klain, Natalie Quillian, Marcella Nunez-Smith, David Kessler, Vivek Murthy, Rochelle Walensky, Bechara Choucair. Topic was that Biden wants to announce in a speech 3 transforming steps that he will initiate regarding vaccines. Natali …

… am, Lane, Marston briefed the ART team led by Lu Borio and Marcella Nunez-Smith and David Kessler. We spoke about the mutant viruses in UK and RSA and their impact on mAbs and vaccines. 1. There is a significant increase in test positivity rate and a high hospital admis …

… on doses in arms in 1st 100 days of Biden administration. The number in the Biden slides (Kessler derived) was 275 million doses and 135 million people (getting 2 doses) by end of April. I called Moncef Slaoui and got the actual numbers and they totaled 189 million. I c …

… the world including Ecuador. Had Zoom call with Biden team – (Marcella Nunez-Smith, David Kessler, Rochelle Walensky, Vivek Murthy, Connolly Keigler and Maju Varghese). David led discussion regarding the inauguration. Originally there was supposed to be 250 people on th …

… WH and see if anything can be done – DPA or some other mechanism. I will speak with David Kessler about this. PRESS: White House Press conference with Nunez-Smith, Walensky and Slavitt; mGreta van Sustern – VOA; KMEX 34 TV – Los Angeles – Hispanic; CNN Situation Room wi …

… ot mutate. Bill DiBlasio called me back and I explained to him that I had spoken to David Kessler about the Supply-demand issue with the vaccines and that there really was no solution. It is too late to invoke the DPA to have other factories make mRNA vaccine. By the ti …

… nes since they are being ravaged by the B.1.351 variant. Phone call last night with David Kessler, Beth Cameron/Hilary Marston (NSC), me and Cliff Lane to figure out a mechanism to get this to them since it is only clinical trial grade. And we want to avoid the optics t …

Global -105,000,000/2,300,000; USA – 26,700,000/458,000 Had Zoom call with David Kessler and the BARDA people trying to decide whether to invest considerable money in guaranteed purchase of the Lilly mAb combination that will soon go for an EUA. Their data look …

Global – 107,000,000/2,400,000; USA – 27,200,000/474,000 David Kessler and I had discussion with Sen. Burr and Murray about viral variants. They wanted to be briefed on the threat and what we are doing about it. Did a briefing of the Foreign P …

… cation cycle of SARS-CoV-2 and the vulnerable targets for direct anti-viral therapy David Kessler together with Rick Levin (formerly of Yale) made a proposal to provide through the congress 5 billion to me and NIAID to decide how we wanted to put together a “vaccine man …

… NA vaccine is effective in South Africa particularly among persons living with HIV. David Kessler who will be key in getting the product to South Africa was on the zoom. I feel that this is definitely worthwhile doing since if we can prove that the mRNA vaccine works in …

… in the world and or trying to discredit me. Had important meeting with Jeff Zients, David Kessler, Francis Collins, Car Dieffenbach, Natalie Quillian, Dina Halme, Lauren …. To discuss the $3.15 billion for the COVID-19 anti- viral program. There was considerable concern …

… 3,300,000; USA – 32,600,000/579,400 Numbers coming down: • Senate HELP Hearing today with Kessler, Walensky and Peter Marks. Senators Rand Paul and Roger Marshall came at me regarding gain of function research. They obviously were trying to do the usual connecting me an …

… use arranged interactions with young “influencers “ • Also have a zoom meeting with David Kessler , Peter Staley, and James Krellenstein. Peter and James have been pushing to have the United States government make a major investment in Lanza, which is the company that p …

… ten and others from Pfizer with members of HHS including myself, Rochelle Walensky, David Kessler, Francis Collins, Janet Woodcock, all of the people from ASPR such as Dawn O'Connor. The Pfizer people present the data from the Israeli study which we already knew showed …

… d Ron Klain continue to run by me names of potential candidates. Today for example, David Kessler came to me with a surprising request that I float his name to Ron as a possible candidate. David is currently the head of the countermeasure acceleration group (CAG) of HHS …

… em with doing a randomized placebo-controlled trial and so we got on the phone with David Kessler, the people from NIAID including Cliff, John Mascola, Mary Maravich, Carl D., and others. I came up with a solution that everyone liked. That was to do a trial where each a …

… his body language better I could sense that he was disappointed. As indicated above David Kessler and I and most recently with the support of Jeff have been trying to push the concept of getting the US government to make a major investment in Lonza company that makes th …

David Kessler is pissed at Peter Staley. David feels betrayed that Peter mentioned his name and my name in his interview with Yasmeen. Last night I called up Courtney Rowe and had a long …

… 00 140,000 cases in the USA today. We had continued discussions today with Jeff and David Kessler as to how we are going to deal with the activists (Peter Staley et al) in our attempts to cooperate with them in getting doses to the developing world. We need to get them …

… .gov> Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 2021 2:02 PM To: Sams, Ian (HHS/ASPA) <Ian.Sams@hhs.gov>; Kessler, David (HHS/IOS) <David.Kessler@hhs.gov>; Murthy, Vivek (HHS/OASH) <Vivek.Murthy@hhs.gov>; Collins, Francis (NIH/OD) [E] <collinsf@od.nih.gov>; Walensky, Rochelle (CDC/OD) …

… r Staley and others (Krellenstein and Barr) as well as a follow up call with Jeff , David Kessler, and me to plan a more coherent strategy about getting doses led by the United states to the rest of the world. The plan to do this would be to increase dramatically the pr …

… ht and we will arrange an additional call with the Israelis including John Mascola, David Kessler, and others involved in our program. PRESS: The Times of Israel: Health Ministry officials said to update Fauci on COVID booster shot campaign Today, 9:02 pm • US top infec …

… concept and I have been discussing it in detail with Jeff and with Peter Staley and David Kessler, I did not preemptively make any comments since they did not ask me to. However, in the future I will give my opinion as how we can best accomplish this goal.

… ll a fair amount of confusion and concern about the rollout of the booster program. David Kessler comes down hard on the fact that the ACIP cannot be out of sync with the FDA. If the FDA says that boosters are OK for people 18 and older, David feels it is not appropriat …

… re: Peter Marks, Janet Woodcock, Rochelle Walensky, Amanda Fine (CDC), Stephen Cha, David Kessler, Vivek Murthy, Leslie Dach, et al. The subject matter of the intense discussion was trying to align the FDA with the CDC in the interpretation of data from Israel regarding …

… Monday, September 20, 2021 10:40 PM To: Murthy, Vivek (HHS/OASH) <Vivek.Murthy@hhs.gov>; Kessler, David (HHS/IOS) <David.Kessler@hhs.gov> Subject: RE: READ THIS Definitely! This was exactly the point that I was worried about when I started off the conversation tonight …

… iscussion between Peter Staley, James Krellenstein, and David Barr and Jeff Zients, David Kessler and me concerning the activists’ desire to get the federal government to pre-emptively increase the capacity of companies, particularly moderna, to make more vaccines for l …

… ully, Yasmeen we'll have a story out of this. PRESS: Washington Post “fact checker” Glenn Kessler gives Rand Paul 2 Pinocchios in saying that I lied about funding GOF research: Fact Checker Analysis The repeated claim that Fauci lied to Congress about ‘gain-of-function’ …

, 5:00 a.m. ET A day or two ago Ashish, David Kessler, Rochelle, Vivek and I had an important meeting with Andrea Palm and Dawn O'Connell regarding the fact that we are running out of money and have no money left to purchase a …

… not pad it in my favor Important discussions today by phone with me and separately David Kessler, Larry Horowitz, Richard Koup and Peter Marks regarding what the ultimate choice for the booster vaccine for the upcoming fall surge. I have been very concerned of late tha …

… Califf, Robert <RMC001@fda.hhs.gov> Cc: Murthy, Vivek (HHS/OASH) <Vivek.Murthy@hhs.gov>; Kessler, David (HHS/IOS) <David.Kessler@hhs.gov>; O'Connell, Dawn (OS/ASPR/IO) <Dawn.Oconnell@hhs.gov>; Ashish.K.Jha@who.eop.gov <ashish.k.jha@who.eop.gov>; Salcido, Dori A. EOP/WH …

… ved in a very difficult zoom cool this evening with Peter Marks. Rob Califf, Vivek, David Kessler, Julia Tierney (FDA), Hillary Marston, among others about the potential conflict that might occur tomorrow when Ashish has convinced the president to come out and say that …

… chel (HHS/OASH) <Rachel.Levine@hhs.gov>; Murthy, Vivek (HHS/OASH) <Vivek.Murthy@hhs.gov>; Kessler, David (HHS/IOS) <David.Kessler@hhs.gov>; Varrone, Michael (HHS/OGC) <Michael.Varrone@hhs.gov>; Roos, Jason (OS/ASPR/H-CORE) <Jason.Roos@hhs.gov>; Mahon, Barbara (CDC/DDID/ …