Jeffrey Zients

… Also met with Sheryl Sandberg (“Lean in” and COO of Facebook). Also, importantly met Jeff Zients who fixed the computer catastrophe of the role out of Obamacare. Jeff will likely become Economic Advisor to Obama. All-in-all a very festive evening. Clinton gave a great s …

… hem: Josh Sharfstein (FDA), Vivek Murthy (Surgeon General), Rochelle Walensky (CDC), Jeff Zients (COVID-19 Czar), Gina Raimondo (Secretary of HHS). Ron said that Biden wanted to call me soon but he did not want to compromise me with the Trump people. They will clear wit …

… eemed that Mark was on the brink of firing Hahn. Hope I blocked that • Got call from Jeff Zients in preparation of my briefing the Biden “landing team” tomorrow. Jeff wanted to alert me that Biden will be calling me right after the briefing. • Received the Eleanor Roose …

… 000/1,500,000 USA – 14,500,000/280,000 Had important Zoom call today (11:00 AM) with Jeff Zients and Jake Sullivan – Jeff and Jake are going to make some policy announcements for the Biden tam next week (Tuesday0 and they wanted to make sure that it was cleared by me. T …

… alizations Total deaths have not reached 350,000!! Tweet from Trump: Got a call from Jeff Zients wanting to confirm the I still am in favor of Janet Woodcock for FDA Commissioner. He was getting some negative signals from some people that she was involved in the EUA for …

… today and tomorrow we had/will have pre-brief meetings to discuss our plan – led by Jeff Zients. Present were Natalie Quillian, Vivek Murthy, Marcella Nunez-Smith, Rochelle Walensky, David Kessler, Asma Mirza, and Sonya Bernstein. Plan is to develop community vaccinati …

… on in the press about this. • Had Zoom meeting with Biden and Harris. Meeting 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 …

Global USA 4111 Deaths!! Record hospitalizations. I have been on the phone with Jeff Zients a few times today. I checked the number for projected requirement of vaccines to fulfill the promise of 100 million doses in arms in 1st 100 days of Biden administration. Th …

… ryn and Tyler Pager). Call set up by T.J. Ducklo (see note about regarding call from Jeff Zients). See above regarding content of call. I convinced them that the Biden team is a good team and that the discontent is typical Washington, DC rumors. Interesting that someone …

… so that the Biden Team can get a feel for how the current task Force works. I called Jeff Zients and Jeff gave them Cyrus Shahpar who is on the Biden team and works for Tom Frieden. Did a chat with Bishop TD Jakes including Kizzy Corbett. Trying to Spoke with Pat Foye o …

… ou are doing well during these difficult times. Please stay safe. Warm regards, Tony Jeff Zients called me to get approval of a statement that Biden will put out criticizing the Trump administration for opening up the floodgates of the Phases for vaccines (see above) gi …

Global – 92,300,000/2,000,000; USA – 23,400,000/391,000 Jeff Zients gave me the entire Biden plan to look at and approve - I mentioned to him in detail the recent data from David Ho. We will set up a call for Sunday with the Biden team (doct …

… rtually) to make this announcement. Summary of some events over past few days/weeks: Jeff Zients calls me multiple times per day checking facts, etc. I brought up to him that it would be a good idea for continuity that he keep on Francis as NIH director since if he does …

… s://bit.ly/36i7ffM PRESS: White House Press Conference with Walensky, Fauci, Slavitt, and Zients; The Hill TV with Steve Clemons; Fox America Reports TV with John Roberts and Sandra Smith; PBS South Florida Town Hall; CNN Town Hall with Sanjay Gupta and Anderson Cooper …

… alled me up and aske me to help him connect with the Biden people, i.e. Sec Becerra, Jeff Zients, the VP, etc. Stewart Simonson willing to help me since I am ultra busy. Had confidential conversation with the Janssen people – Paul Stoffels et al about the Ad26 vaccine d …

Global USA • Fireside Chat with NYC Health Commissioner David Chokshi Met with Jeff Zients and Team to discuss what to do with 2nd dose of vaccine, i.e. hold it back completely, hold it back 90%?? PRESS: Did press conference at NIH for the release of the Janssen d …

… anies to vaccinate the entire country. Met with POTUS and VP in the Oval office with Jeff Zients, Natalie Quillian, Andy Slavitt and Walensky and Nunez-Smith on video screen. Discussed the status of the outbreak (Walensky) and vaccines, particularly recent data on J & J …

… iments were done and Barney and Kizzy Corbet presented to him. He was accompanied by Jeff Zients. We then went to Natcher Auditorium where he addressed (virtually) the NIH community with a great speech in which he called out Francis and I multiple times. PRESS: Today Sh …

… C IP will go along with that recommendation. Rochelle and I in our conversation with Jeff Zients had decided that when asked by the press we would say that this is an excellent vaccine equivalent to the other two. It might become problematic if the press focuses on that …

… et this sorted out and have a repeat of studies to counter this finding. More later. Jeff Zients has heard about this and called me tonight at 9:30 PM. I told him we have to get the FDA out their showing that they have DART studies and explaining what their studies show …

… 0/538,300 Had our newly established Saturday AM meeting with the medical team led by Jeff Zients to go over important issues. I brought up for the first time the issue of having Biden lead an effort to allow LMICs to produce their own vaccine. This could be a legacy iss …

… es of zoom calls with the comms team of the White House (Courtney Rowe et al) led by Jeff Zients. the final decision was that we would put out a press statement from NIAID in the middle of the night urging AZ to come clean with the DSMB and to straighten out their press …

… o provide vaccine. Tom is going to send me some talking points that I might bring to Jeff Zients so that I do not go rogue on this without letting the administration know. 2) Tom is quite concerned that there is no decision yet on the commissioner of the Food and Drug a …

… ate that they will ask me the same question about going to the border. Today I asked Jeff Zients to ask Ron Klain and the president if it is OK for me to say that since I am the chief medical advisor to the president I would be happy to go to the border if the president …

… worst villain 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 consid …

… antibodies induced by vaccines. I forwarded this email to the medical team including Jeff Zients and Rochelle Walensky. Rochelle called me up and mentioned that her colleagues in Boston including those at the Broad Institute as well as Dan Barouch were finding that the …

Global – 151,800,000/3,200,000; USA – 32,200,000/573,800 • Had dinner over Jeff Zients’s house with wife Mary, Bob Seder and Deb Harman, Denis McDonough and wife Kari. Terrific time. Jeff is as wonderful on a personal basis as he is professionally. His home at …

… derable time to join us for our series launch on national television • Had call with Jeff Zients who (like me) is concerned that the CDC and Rochelle are being too conservative with regard to not loosening up restrictions for people who have been vaccinated. The CDC is …

… rest of the world at a reasonable price. Tom is going to present this proposition to Jeff Zients tonight. I will follow up with Jeff to make sure that he understands that I am very much in favor of this. • Things are really heating up with the GOP against me: • Republic …

… Unfortunately, the damage is already done. • Met with POTUS and VPOTUS in Oval with Jeff Zients and Natalie Quillian. I discussed with him the mechanisms and implications for the mRNA vaccine platform technology. He was very grateful for the discussion and as usual vic …

… ompletely sold their soul to the infinitely lying ex president trump. • I spoke with Jeff Zients this morning and he told me that Ron Klain told him that President Biden is 100% behind me (see above).

… our country. Present at the briefing were: Ron Klain, Susan Rice, Natalie Quillian, Jeff Zients, Anita Dunn, Brian Reese, Mike Donilon and Rochelle Walensky virtually. Given the increasing number of cases in the United States, even though the hospitalizations have not …

… billion. I texted her back saying that I would push hard for this with Ron Klain and Jeff Zients. I will be seeing the President in the Oval Office today and hopefully Ron will be there so that I can discuss this with him. It should be pointed out that I have been meeti …

… ence. It was associated with my receiving an honorary doctorate from McGill Win over Jeff Zients's house last night with his White House team for a pizza and beer party . I could only stay there for about 1/2 an hour because I had to leave for another dinner over the ho …

… considerable discussion 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 …

… nedy Center. Barney Graham and Kizzmekia Corbet received the Sammie Awards and I and Jeff Zients presented them with the awards. A;sp, Eliseo Perez Stable and Gary Gibbons received special awards. Good night. PRESS: Telemundo “Produccion Hoy Dia” with Arantxa Loizaga; r …

… he was extremely sympathetic and in fact said that he would call up Ron Klain and or Jeff Zients to ask them to have the administration be proactive in countering these lies. I explained to him that President Biden as well as Ron Klain and Jeff Zients had been extremely …

Global USA Call from Jeff Zients today with a message from Ron Klain – It is noteworthy that in prior demonstrations it was always a concern when you give a message about a public health issue that the admi …

… giving Day and something has come up today that is very serious. I got an email from Jeff Zients who forwrsded an email from Stephane Bancel. Stephane was alerting Jeff to the fact that he had heard that there was a new variant in South Africa called B.1.1.529. See belo …

… bal – 528,816,317/6,294,949; USA – 84,424,159//1,003,308 I had an idyllic weekend at Jeff Zients’s palatial estate in Annapolis. Chris and I (together with Brett and Tony….) had a spectacular weekend. The weather was absolutely perfect at 85 degrees with a cool breeze a …