/qnotables20/ - ===Q Notables 2020===

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/9820777 (020332ZJUL20) Notable: 2015 Soros doc on Police Reform

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The source is this leak:

https://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/the-bizarre-media-blackout-of-hacked-george-soros-documents/

I'm re-seeding it now as "SorosLeak.zip." It should have been announced, but I'm not exactly an expert at this.

Also, the main part is that it shows Soros' ppl funding and grooming Black Lives Matter, not so much police reform.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/9820789 (020335ZJUL20) Notable: pb Last of the Mohicans theme - comments from patriots (pdf)

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Oh damn...the theme from the Last of the Mohicans is based on Dougie Maclean's "The Gael". He also has another piece called...wait for it...READY FOR THE STORM.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/9820814 (020338ZJUL20) Notable: 2015 Soros doc on Police Reform

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Here's a link to the magnet link if anyone wants a copy–I'm not seeing it on the tracker pages:

https://pastebin.com/6ynbtBP0

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/9820849 (020343ZJUL20) Notable: #12569

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>>72284 planefags

>>72288 the theme from the Last of the Mohicans is based on Dougie Maclean's "The Gael". He also has another piece called…wait for it…READY FOR THE STORM.

>>72286 Business Group Complains Trump’s H-1B Reform Is Boosting U.S. Graduates

>>72283, >>72285 “QAnon Sympathizer”

>>72282 BA Commish on Possible Anthem Protests: We Have to Be True to Ourselves

>>72281 Restaurant CEO Gives Away Salary and Bonus Worth $800K To Help Employees

>>72280 Colorado Supreme Court rejects governor’s attempt to allow signature gathering for ballot initiatives by email, mail

>>72278 Biden pulls together hundreds of lawyers as a bulwark against election trickery/from his basement abode in a lockdown unit

>>72276 Chaos Erupts as Democrats Adopt GOP Motion to Restrict Chinese Access to American Infrastructure Projects

>>72275, >>72277, >>72287, >>72289 2015 Soros doc on Police Reform

>>72274 POTUS Schedule for Thursday, July 2, 2020

>>72272, >>72273, >>72279 Promontory diggz

>>72271 Quiet retirement: Finnish Air Force reportedly ditches swastika logo

>>72270 McConnell: I Hope Trump Doesn’t Veto NDAA over Base Name Issue

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Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/9821158 (020419ZJUL20) Notable: Florida Gov. DeSantis refuses to cave to pressure over COVID-19 spike, won't shut down Florida-theblaze

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>>72293

At least he's taking this stand!

Florida Gov. DeSantis refuses to cave to pressure over COVID-19 spike, won't shut down Florida

'We're not going back, closing things'

https://www.theblaze.com/news/florida-desantis-wont-re-close-florida

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/9821228 (020428ZJUL20) Notable: Russian constitutional changes approved by 77,93% as 99,9 % of ballots counted - Election Commission

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>>72291

Russian citizens voted to accept the amendments/additions to the Constitution of the Russian Federation as written here in English:

http://en.kremlin.ru/acts/news/62988

This includes things like the following:

the priority of family education. In case family education is not possible, the state undertakes parental obligations towards such children.

The state undertakes the obligation to support and protect culture as a unique heritage of Russia's multi-ethnic nation.

It is proclaimed that the Russian Federation safeguards the historical truth and honours the feat of the defenders of the Fatherland. Denigrating the feat of the people who defended the Fatherland shall not be permitted.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/9821300 (020438ZJUL20) Notable: Anon on keystone, HCQ & Fauci

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Keystone

This will all be related to Dr. Anthony Fauci

who began AIDS research in 1984 and hasn't yet found a cure

but has been in charge of all funding at NIH for over 30 years.

Billions go to pharma corporations and some "start ups" too.

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https://www.iavireport.org/vol-13-no-2-mar-apr-2009/1030-capsules-from-keystone

CAPSULES FROM KEYSTONE

Mar-Apr 2009

A lot of snow fell the week of March 22-27 in Keystone, Colorado, accompanied by a flurry of updates on vaccine research and development by researchers who gathered for the joint Keystone Symposia on “HIV Immunobiology: From Infection to Immune Control” and “Prevention of HIV/AIDS.”

This year’s meeting marked the 25th anniversary of Keystone Symposia’s first meeting on HIV/AIDS, which was held in 1984, three years after the first HIV infections were described. The speakers at the conference’s opening session left no doubt that 28 years after HIV emerged, there is still much to do. “We probably got rid of the iceberg, but under the water there is a mass of ice and that’s the current AIDS epidemic,” said Didier Trono, of the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, in his introductory address. Nobel laureate Francoise Barre-Sinoussi from the Institut Pasteur said recent developments in the AIDS vaccine field show that “we have to come back to basic science.”

other subject headings:

Tracking transmission

DNA/Ad5 against rigorous challenge

DNA prime doesn’t pay

Building a better antigen

STEP by step

Mucosal protection

Antibodies: Better together or alone?

HIV-specific T cells in the gut

Non-pathogenic SIV infection

Battlefield maps

HSV-2 Infection and HIV risk

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/9821381 (020446ZJUL20) Notable: Anon on keystone, HCQ & Fauci

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>>72301

Dr. Fauci research continued

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This report is backed with 20 indexed references, some of which include HCQ

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/art.1780390122

ARTHRITIS & RHEUMATISM

Vol. 39, No. 1, January 1596, pp 157-161

6 1996, American College of Rheumatology

MATTHEW H. ORNSTEIN and KIRK SPERBER

THE ANTIINFLAMMATORY AND ANTIVIRAL EFFECTS OF

HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE IN TWO PATIENTS WITH

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME AND

ACTIVE INFLAMMATORY ARTHRITIS

(excerpts)

The antibiotic and antiviral properties of HCQ may also have been of help to our 2 patients. Neither patient developed an opportunistic infection while taking HCQ, although this may have simply been a matter of chance.

It is important to note that antimalarial medications also have antiprotozoal effects that could help to prevent opportunistic infections such as PCP and Toxoplusmu gondii (16,17). Indeed, the antimalarial drug primaquine is part of a current alternative regimen for treating active PCP in patients who cannot tolerate TMP/SMX (16). Patient 1 had been taking HCQ for 14 months, and developed PCP only after cessation of HCQ and TMP/SMX.

It has long been suspected that RA and other types of inflammatory arthritis may have a viral origin.

Using a medication that inhibits viral replication could theoretically decrease an inflammatory process by suppressing the cause.

The ability of HCQ to inhibit the replication of HIV (as well as other viruses) in vitro and in vivo suggests that it may be a good candidate treatment for patients with

an AIDS-associated arthritis.

All of the other options have considerable toxic side effects when compared with HCQ, and none possess its unique antiviral properties.

If HCQ can treat inflammatory arthritis associated with AIDS as well as act to inhibit HIV replication, it may be a drug of choice in these patients.

We are not suggesting that all patients with AIDS and various inflammatory arthropathies will improve with antimalarial therapy, only that there are multiple reasons for choosing HCQ over other agents.

Extreme caution would, of course, be needed in treating patients who have psoriatic arthritis with HCQ, so that the skin rash would not be exacerbated.

From the preliminary data presented, we believe that HCQ should now be studied in a controlled trial for patients with inflammatory arthritis who are HIV positive, in order to assess the benefits in both diseases.

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That was in 1996

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/9821446 (020452ZJUL20) Notable: Twitter removes Trump meme over copyright complaint from New York Times, MISSING MEDIA/FILES: Screenshot_2020_07_02_Twitter_removes_Trump_meme_over_copyright_complaint_from_i_New_York_Times_i_1_.png, Screenshot_2020_07_02_Twitter_removes_Trump_meme_over_copyright_complaint_from_i_New_York_Times_i_.png

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Twitter removes Trump meme over copyright complaint from New York Times

Twitter is doubling down on its social media feud with President Trump by removing a photograph he posted, claiming it violated the company's copyright policy. Late Tuesday, the social media giant removed a picture in a tweet sent by the president that read, "In reality they're not after me, they're after you. I'm just in the way." Spokespeople from the New York Times and Twitter confirmed the tweet in question was removed because of a Digital Millennium Copyright Act complaint. "Media not displayed," a message says where the photograph once was. "This image has been removed in response to a report from the copyright holder."

The photograph, taken by photographer Damon Winter, shows the president in black and white while pointing at the camera. It accompanied a piece about then-candidate Trump running for the presidency. The image was first repurposed as a meme by the president on Dec. 18, 2019, the day the House of Representatives passed two articles of impeachment against him.

Last month, Twitter continued its conflict with Trump by labeling a video in one of his tweets as "manipulated media." Trump tweeted a video of two toddlers, one running away from the other, part of a clip that went viral in 2019. Edited to depict CNN misleadingly covering the footage, it showed the captions: "Terrified toddler runs from racist baby" and "Racist baby probably a Trump voter." The video then shows the entire clip to reveal the two toddlers hugging and playing with one another. "America is not the problem," a voice-over says. "Fake news is. If you see something, say something. Only you can prevent fake news dumpster fires." "This Tweet has been labeled per our synthetic and manipulated media policy to give people more context. More on our policies and approach here," a Twitter spokesperson told the Washington Examiner at the time.

In late May, Twitter applied a fact-checking label for the first time to one of the president's tweets after he commented on mail-in voting. "There is NO WAY (ZERO!) that Mail-In Ballots will be anything less than substantially fraudulent. Mail boxes will be robbed, ballots will be forged & even illegally printed out & fraudulently signed. The Governor of California is sending Ballots to millions of people," Trump claimed on Twitter. Users who clicked the link were directed to several news articles that fact-checked Trump's claim. Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey defended the company's actions in later tweets of his own.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/twitter-removes-trump-meme-over-copyright-complaint-from-new-york-times

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/9821472 (020455ZJUL20) Notable: Anon on keystone, HCQ & Fauci

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>>72301

>>72302

Dr. Fauci continued

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no studies had been done on HCQ ?

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https://health.ucsd.edu/news/releases/Pages/2020-05-15-nih-begins-clinical-trial-of-hydroxychloroquine-azithromycin-to-treat-covid-19.aspx

https://archive.is/wip/kXiig

NIH Begins Clinical Trial of Hydroxychloroquine and Azithromycin to Treat

COVID-19

A Q&A with the trial’s study team leader, Davey Smith, MD, at UC San Diego

School of Medicine

May 15, 2020 | Scott LaFee

(my note: claims made in this report do not have reference source links)

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...But other studies have found no improvement and, in fact, report that patients receiving both drugs together were more likely to experience cardiac arrest than those who received one or neither of the therapies.

As a result, the FDA cautions that hydroxychloroquine for COVID-19 be limited to clinical trials or for treating certain hospitalized patients under emergency use authorization so clinicians can closely monitor patients for adverse effects.

Question: How is this trial different from earlier studies or investigations?

Smith: Other trials were not conducted in a way that allowed for observers and reviewers to conclude with certainty that the approach works or does not. Questions or aspects were left unanswered or incomplete.

Question: How do the drugs work?

Smith: By increasing the pH of certain cellular components called endosomes, which the novel coronavirus uses to infect cells. Endosomes are compartments inside a cell’s membrane that serve as a place where materials pulled into the cell can be sorted and directed to destinations inside the cell and materials inside can be transported and moved outside the cell. If the pH is too high in these endosomes, the virus gets stuck and cannot finish infecting the cell.

Question: How long do you expect the trial to run? Do you expect difficulty finding participants, given concerns and controversy regarding this approach? When might initial results be known?

Smith: We expect the study to run a few months. I do not know if we will have difficulty finding eligible participants. There is still a lot of COVID-19 in the community and we do not currently have a medication that works for people who are not hospitalized.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/9821542 (020501ZJUL20) Notable: The presidents of Iran, Russia and Turkey issued a joint stmt Wed condemning "Israeli military attacks in Syria", MISSING MEDIA/FILES: Screenshot_2020_07_02_Haaretz_com_on_Twitter_The_presidents_of_Iran_Russia_and_Turkey_issued_a_joint_statement_Wednesday_c_.png

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The presidents of Iran, Russia and Turkey issued a joint statement Wednesday condemning "Israeli military attacks in Syria"

https://twitter.com/haaretzcom/status/1278475111490863105

GOD WINS

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/9821565 (020504ZJUL20) Notable: Anon on keystone, HCQ & Fauci

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>>72304

>>72301

Dr Fauci continued

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https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22820788/

https://archive.is/wip/x6r2o

JAMA. 2012 Jul 25;

308(4):353-61. doi: 10.1001/jama.2012.6936.

Effects of Hydroxychloroquine on Immune Activation and Disease Progression Among HIV-infected Patients Not Receiving Antiretroviral Therapy: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Intervention: Hydroxychloroquine, 400 mg, or matching placebo once daily for 48 weeks.

Among HIV-infected patients not taking antiretroviral therapy, the use of hydroxychloroquine compared with placebo did not reduce CD8 cell activation but did result in a greater decline in CD4 cell count and increased viral replication.

linked to from: http://www.isrctn.com/ISRCTN30019040

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https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/0149291895800395

https://archive.is/wip/o7dvv

Clinical Therapeutics

Volume 17, Issue 4, July–August 1995, Pages 622-636

Hydroxychloroquine treatment of patients with human immunodeficiency virus type 1

Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ), an antimalarial agent used to treat patients with autoimmune diseases, has been shown to suppress human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) replication in vitro in T cells and monocytes

HCQ thus may be useful in the treatment of patients with HIV-1 infection.

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https://www.aidsmap.com/news/jul-2016/hiv-will-only-be-cured-combinations-too-conference-delegates-hear

https://archive.is/dIDw5

Dr Anthony Fauci, head of the US National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases, told delegates that HIV cure research was roughly at the stage HIV treatment was in 1990; as with the first HIV drug AZT (zidovudine), it was becoming clear that single agents or strategies might only have the most limited effect, and dual combinations were starting to show somewhat more promise.

Even combinations don’t work if they lack a crucial step in the sequence of events that would need to happen for HIV-infected cells to be purged from the body. The Towards a Cure workshop, and the main conference, heard about disappointing results from an experimental regimen consisting of three drugs; the immune modulator drug vorinostat, chosen because it can ‘wake up’ the long-lived reservoir cells in which HIV lies hidden; the anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine, chosen to contain the immune stimulant effects of vorinostat and prevent runaway HIV infection; and the entry inhibitor maraviroc, chosen because it has the potential to stop HIV spreading to new cells once the reservoir cells are woken up.

This ‘VHM’ combination was given to ten people with HIV who had been diagnosed within two to four weeks of infection, treated immediately with antiretroviral therapy (ART) and kept on ART for at least two years. It was hoped that the ‘kick’ given by this regimen would induce the body’s immune system to spontaneously eliminate the HIV-infected cells that had now become visible to it, or would convert naturally to a short-lived type that would die.

Presenter Jintanat Ananworanich told the workshop that the reason VHM did not work was probably because, as other ‘kick and kill’ studies had found, that it was not enough to flush the HIV reservoir cells out of hiding. It turned out that the body’s natural immune processes did not then kill these calls and that a ‘kill’ component or toxin that actively targeted the reawakened reservoir cells would have to be added.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/9821606 (020510ZJUL20) Notable: Turner's CNN is a symbol of the Confederacy (ha-ha-ha), MISSING MEDIA/FILES: ClipboardImage.png

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CNN was founded by a racisssssssss

https://twitter.com/T_S_P_O_O_K_Y/status/1278443975133859841

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/9821623 (020511ZJUL20) Notable: Women's soccer league on their knees, MISSING MEDIA/FILES: ClipboardImage.png

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What is woman's soccer? Never heard of it.

https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1278539178498809856

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/9821625 (020512ZJUL20) Notable: Verma: Democrats issued guidance that contradicted federal guidelines, causing the deaths of Elders

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Zerma Proves Democrats issued guidance that contradicted federal guidelines, causing the deaths of Elders

	Q asks Anons if we can prove some Democrat leaders got their Elders killed? (QMap) According to Seema Verma, Democrats like Cuomo "issued guidance that contradicted federal guidelines." (Breitbart) Deaths favor Democrats and they try to blame it on Trump with their fake news slaves. The higher the number of deaths goes, the more fake news attempts to blame Trump. If people work together and overcome fake news with their own shared news, fake news will fail and Democrats will be exposed. Q asks the People to work together; "WE MUST UNITE AGAIN." (QMap)

Sources:

1 https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/06/22/exclusive-seema-verma-cuomo-other-democrat-governors-coronavirus-nursing-home-policies-contradicted-federal-guidance/

2 https://qmap.pub/ search 3907, 4477

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/9821668 (020516ZJUL20) Notable: #12570

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#12570

note-taker after ghost

>>72291, >>72300 Russian constitutional changes approved by 77,93% as 99,9 % of ballots counted - Election Commission

>>72293, >>72297 Florida Gov. DeSantis refuses to cave to pressure over COVID-19 spike, won't shut down Florida-theblaze

>>72294 Shooting star seems to have exploded above Tokyo-mainichi

>>72295 Judicial Watch Obtains Records Showing FDA Paid for ‘Fresh and Never Frozen’ Human Fetal Parts for Use In ‘Humanized Mice’ Creation

>>72296 Federal Agents Charge Four Democrat Toledo City Council Members in Bribery Investigation-gatewaypundit

>>72298, >>72299 moar on Promontory: locations and founder info

baker pickup

>>72301, >>72302, >>72304, >>72306 Anon on keystone, HCQ & Fauci

>>72303 Twitter removes Trump meme over copyright complaint from New York Times

>>72305 The presidents of Iran, Russia and Turkey issued a joint stmt Wed condemning "Israeli military attacks in Syria"

>>72307 Turner's CNN is a symbol of the Confederacy (ha-ha-ha)

>>72308 Power grab by China's Xi Jinping: President for life?

>>72309 Women's soccer league on their knee during the Nat'l Anthem

>>72310 Verma: Democrats issued guidance that contradicted federal guidelines, causing the deaths of Elders

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/9821811 (020529ZJUL20) Notable: $0.947 BILLION CUMULATIVE RAISED BY TRUMP CAMPAIGN

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$0.947 BILLION CUMULATIVE RAISED BY TRUMP CAMPAIGN

https://twitter.com/parscale/status/1278456679122731009

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Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/9821854 (020534ZJUL20) Notable: Biden and DNC outraise Trump and RNC during blockbuster fundraising month (from Q post)

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Biden and DNC outraise Trump and RNC during blockbuster fundraising month

President Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden both set eye-popping fundraising records last month – but Biden’s records were larger.

The former vice president’s campaign announced on Wednesday night that they, the Democratic National Committee (DNC), and their joint fundraising committees hauled in a combined $141 million in June, which was by far the campaign’s best monthly figure to date.

Biden’s campaign called it a “jaw-dropping sum of money”

The presumptive Democratic presidential nominee’s campaign also reported bringing in a combined $282 million with the DNC during the April-June second quarter of fundraising, which was another record. And officials touted that they and the DNC outraised their rivals for a second straight month.

The announcement from Biden’s team came just a couple of hours after the president’s re-election campaign reported that it and the Republican National Committee (RNC) and their joint fundraising ventures brought in a combined $131 million in June – and more than $266 million the past three months. The June and second quarter hauls were both records for the Trump campaign and the RNC.

Trump’s team described the fundraising figures as “massive” and “staggering.”

While being edged out for a second straight month in fundraising, the Trump campaign and the RNC likely retain an enormous cash-on-hand advantage over the Biden campaign and the DNC. The president’s team and the RNC reported having over $295 million in their campaign coffers. The Biden campaign and the DNC didn’t report a cash on hand figure in their Wednesday night release. They had a combined $122 million in the bank as of the end of May.

In an email to supporters, Biden campaign manager Jen O’Malley Dillion called the fundraising figures “incredibly exciting” and said they were “a true testament that the people are standing behind Joe Biden.”

The campaign spotlighted its grassroots outreach and fundraising, reporting that 68 percent of last month’s donors were new and that the overall average online contribution was $34.

Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale – in reporting their fundraising figures – said that the “monumental June fundraising haul proves that people are voting with their wallets and that enthusiasm behind President Trump’s reelection is only growing.”

And RNC chair Ronna McDaniel emphasized that “after yet another haul of record-breaking support, the voters are speaking loud and clear – they support President Trump.”

The president’s been raising money for his re-election bid since entering the White House three and a half years ago. And the re-election effort’s hauled in an unprecedented $947 million the past two years.

The former vice president – who declared his candidacy in April of last year - struggled to bring in cash for much of his campaign. He raised just $8.9 million in January and $18 million in February. But he saw his fundraising spike starting in March, as he became the clear frontrunner for the Democratic nomination and much of the party coalesced around his White House bid. Biden become the presumptive presidential nominee in April, as his last remaining primary rival – Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont - dropped out of the race and backed the former vice president.

LATEST FOX NEWS POLLS SHOW BIDEN EDGING TRUMP IN KEY BATTLEGROUND STATES

The fundraising reports come as Biden’s widened his lead over Trump in most national public opinion polls. He also tops the president by single digits in most of the recent surveys in the key general election battleground states.

Along with polls, fundraising is another crucial campaign metric. The fundraising dollars can be used by candidates to hire more staffers, increase grassroots voter outreach efforts, and produce and run TV, digital, radio, print ads, and direct mail.

Fox News' Allie Raffa and Patrick Ward contributed to this report

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-and-dnc-outraise-trump-and-rnc-during-blockbuster-fundraising-month

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/9821857 (020535ZJUL20) Notable: Fauci digg thread con't

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Dr Fauci continued

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https://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/28/us/aids-researcher-fauci-wins-prize.html

https://archive.is/wip/UKZ2P

By Lawrence K. Altman

March 28, 2002

Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, the pioneering immunologist and longtime director of the infectious-disease center at the National Institutes of Health, was named yesterday as the winner of the nation's richest medical award, the $500,000 Albany Medical Center Prize in Medicine and Biomedical Research.

Although Dr. Fauci, 61, has been in the international spotlight for his AIDS research, the Albany center said he won the prize for a larger body of work.

It includes developing effective therapies for other diseases affecting the immune system and rheumatology, his overall contributions to the advancement of science and his distinguished public service.

All the research was carried out during Dr. Fauci's 33 years at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in Bethesda, Md., where he has been director since 1984.

In the weeks after the anthrax attack last fall, Dr. Fauci often appeared with Tommy G. Thompson, the secretary of health and human services, as a government spokesman on the disease and bioterrorism.

Dr. Fauci (pronounced FOW-chee) was born in Brooklyn and trained in medicine at Cornell University-New York Hospital. He joined the allergy and infectious diseases institutes in 1968. In five years, he developed what are now standard therapies for then-fatal rheumatic diseases.

Dr. Fauci found that small doses of two drugs that had been used in larger amounts in cancer therapy cyclophosphamide (Cytoxan) and steroids (prednisone) could produce remissions of three noncancerous disorders: Wegener's granulomatosis, which can affect the sinuses, lungs, kidneys and other organs; polyarteritis nodosa, an autoimmune disorder of blood vessels; and lymphatoid granulomatosis, which destroys arteries and veins.

The Albany selection committee said his work in treating the three diseases was considered among the most important advances in rheumatology.

Dr. Fauci turned his attention to AIDS shortly after the disease was recognized in 1981. His research has focused on how H.I.V., the AIDS virus, impairs the immune system and on ways to develop more effective therapies and a vaccine.

In 1983 findings from Dr. Fauci's laboratory team began revealing a paradox:

although AIDS ultimately destroys the immune system, it actually increases immunological activity.

Ten years later, Dr. Fauci discovered that H.I.V. constantly replicates even very early in the infection and that it occurs in lymph nodes. His team's report on that seminal advance was the most-cited paper in AIDS research worldwide from 1993 to 1995.

Dr. Fauci was reported to be Mr. Thompson's choice for director of the National Institutes of Health, but this week the White House instead chose Dr. Elias A. Zerhouni of Johns Hopkins University. Administration officials said they did not want to grant Dr. Fauci's request to keep his current job while directing the institutes. Conservatives opposed him because of his remarks 14 years ago supporting fetal tissue research.

The Albany prize is the largest award in medicine in this country and the second in the world, behind the Nobel. It was established by a $50 million gift commitment from Morris Silverman, 89, a native of Troy, N.Y., who made his fortune in the leasing business in New York City. Dr. Fauci is the second recipient; the first was Dr. Arnold J. Levine, for his role in the discovery of the cancer gene p53.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/9821906 (020540ZJUL20) Notable: Resignations in the news 6/30/2020 & 7/1/2020

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Resignations in the news 6/30/2020 & 7/1/2020 - part 1

Paul Levitz Steps Down From CBLDF Board as Two More Resign

https://comicbook.com/comics/news/cbldf-comic-book-legal-defense-fund-paul-levitz-resign-step-down/

Oolitic Town Council Member Bill Kendall Resigns

http://www.wbiw.com/2020/06/30/oolitic-town-council-member-bill-kendall-resigns/

Australia's Freedom Foods CEO Rory Macleod resigns

https://af.reuters.com/article/commoditiesNews/idAFL4N2E70GX

GE2020: Former ministers Lim Hng Kiang, Lim Swee Say step down as MPs

https://www.asiaone.com/singapore/ge2020-former-ministers-lim-hng-kiang-lim-swee-say-step-down-mps

Dutchess Community College president retiring

https://www.dailyfreeman.com/news/local-news/dutchess-community-college-president-retiring/article_1f4eb1aa-ba4e-11ea-ad6f-07a682c6a88c.html

Retiring NWOSU dean awarded emeritus status

https://www.enidnews.com/news/local_news/retiring-nwosu-dean-awarded-emeritus-status/article_54c1c789-e64e-5f75-a8fe-af03ed71a1a0.html

Dobson honored as retiring CEO of CCNC

https://independenttribune.com/news/local/dobson-honored-as-retiring-ceo-of-ccnc/article_87a49b6f-552a-56c8-b5cd-9ab4ae547aba.html

Federal CIO Suzette Kent Is Stepping Down

https://fedtechmagazine.com/article/2020/06/federal-cio-suzette-kent-stepping-down

Judge Prince resigns from office

https://www.observertoday.com/news/page-one/2020/06/judge-prince-resigns-from-office/

Two Florida officials fired for erasing faces of Black firefighters from city mural

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/two-florida-officials-fired-erasing-faces-black-firefighters-city-mural-n1232387

Ed Henry: Fox News anchor fired over 'wilful sexual misconduct' claim

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-53254656

One of the Cops Who Murdered Breonna Taylor is Fired

https://www.charlestonchronicle.net/2020/07/01/one-of-the-cops-who-murdered-breonna-taylor-is-fired/

Riverhead school superintendent resigns

https://riverheadlocal.com/2020/06/29/riverhead-school-superintendent-resigns/

Fired Miami Gardens police officer charged for putting knee on Black woman's neck

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-police-florida/fired-miami-police-officer-charged-for-putting-knee-on-black-womans-neck-idUSKBN23X0MX

Lebanon judge who banned interviews of US envoy resigns

https://www.startribune.com/lebanon-judge-who-banned-interviews-of-us-envoy-resigns/571564432/

Embattled Toennies resigns as chairman of cash-strapped Schalke

https://sports.yahoo.com/embattled-toennies-resigns-chairman-cash-strapped-schalke-154145695–sow.html

Hospital employee fired after making racial comments online

https://www.wapt.com/article/hospital-employee-fired-after-making-racial-comments-online/33010080

2 of Stitt’s key cabinet members on coronavirus resign

https://apnews.com/a492879b3fff07a6dc33ade24419ef1c

Routehappy founder Robert Albert to step down, shift to advisory role at ATPCO

https://www.phocuswire.com/robert-albert-routehappy-atpco-steps-down

OSU President Ed Ray Stepping Down

https://www.opb.org/news/article/oregon-state-university-president-ed-ray-stepping-down/

MSU Museum Director Mark Auslander resigns months after misconduct finding, lawsuit

https://www.lansingstatejournal.com/story/news/2020/06/30/msu-museum-director-resigns-months-after-misconduct-finding-lawsuit/3281923001/

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McDonald's Canada names Jacques Mignault as new CEO, John Betts retiring

https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/mcdonalds-canada-names-jacques-mignault-105922788.html

Federal Chief Judge Steps Down After Racially Insensitive Remarks

https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/federal-chief-judge-steps-down-after-racially-insensitive-remarks/2387676/

Pamlico County Sheriff's Investigator fired

https://wcti12.com/news/local/pamlico-county-sheriffs-investigator-fired

Broad River Correctional Officer arrested, fired for possession of marijuana

https://www.wistv.com/2020/06/30/broad-river-correctional-officer-arrested-fired-possession-marijuana/

Hong Kong democracy figures resign after security law passed

https://www.rappler.com/world/regions/asia-pacific/265266-hong-kong-democracy-figures-resign-security-law-passed

The Meadows executive director retiring after 31 years

https://norfolkdailynews.com/wjag/news/the-meadows-executive-director-retiring-after-31-years/article_f9ae5f66-ba36-11ea-84aa-178b88ffeea5.html

Board member resigns from Sumter County Sheriff's Office citizens advisory board

https://www.theitem.com/stories/board-member-resigns-from-sumter-county-sheriffs-office-citizens-advisory-board,347606

Standard Life Aberdeen boss Keith Skeoch to step down

https://www.cityam.com/standard-life-aberdeen-boss-keith-skeoch-to-step-down/

Teen Center Employee Fired; Accused Of Relationship With Minor

https://patch.com/illinois/orlandpark/teen-center-employee-fired-accused-relationship-minor

MICA professor resigns after former student alleges misconduct, says she informed college two years ago

https://www.baltimoresun.com/education/bs-md-mica-professor-allegations-20200630-ece5eg25nfa2dejlohygdjtkeu-story.html

Helena's Richey resigns from House seat

https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2020/jun/30/helenas-richey-resigns-house-seat/

Ivan Yates to step down from full-time broadcasting

https://goss.ie/featured/ivan-yates-to-step-down-from-full-time-broadcasting-214203

KQED's Peter Jon Shuler Retiring From Airwaves After 30-Plus Years Behind the Mic

https://www.kqed.org/news/11826806/kqeds-peter-jon-shuler-retiring-from-airwaves-after-30-plus-years-behind-the-mic

York public works director resigns position

https://www.yorknewstimes.com/news/local/york-public-works-director-resigns-position/article_0f0012fe-bb06-11ea-b1d6-a30a44347234.html

Adidas HR Chief to Retire After Criticism From Black Employees

http://archive.fo/aKjG8

James Baker to Exit as CEO of ‘Love Is Blind’ Producer Red Arrow Studios

https://www.thewrap.com/james-baker-to-exit-as-ceo-of-love-is-blind-producer-red-arrow-studios/

The head of Xbox Live is leaving after 15 years at Microsoft

https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/the-head-of-xbox-live-is-leaving-after-15-years-at-xbox/

Sonoma County Alliance accepts president’s resignation amid reckoning on racial diversity

https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/sonoma-county-alliance-accepts-presidents-resignation/

Springfield police fire detective after pro-Black Lives Matter post

https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2020/07/01/springfield-police-fire-detective-after-pro-black-lives-matter-post

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Resignations in the news 6/30/2020 & 7/1/2020 - part 3

Nonprofit Art Studio 1219 director resigns, ‘It was a difficult decision to make’

https://www.thetimesherald.com/story/news/2020/06/30/studio-1219-director-resigns-it-difficult-decision-make/3279186001/

Miami Police Officer Faces Discipline After Punching Woman in Face

http://archive.fo/FR5b9

Sonoma County Alliance president to resign amid backlash over race, protest message

https://www.northbaybusinessjournal.com/article/news/sonoma-county-alliance-president-to-resign-amid-backlash/?ref=mostsection

Marcus Madison to resign from Elyria City Council

https://www.morningjournal.com/news/lorain-county/marcus-madison-to-resign-from-elyria-city-council/article_bc01dbe4-bbac-11ea-adb1-fb91b2f1e5dd.html

Bell retiring after 19 years as Leon County AD

https://www.wctv.tv/2020/06/30/bell-retiring-after-19-years-as-leon-county-ad/

North Texas school trustee resigns after joking about inappropriate touching in meme

https://www.star-telegram.com/news/local/education/article243914517.html

Judge retiring after 18 years on bench, string of high profile trials

https://www.wctv.tv/2020/07/01/judge-retiring-after-18-years-on-bench-string-of-high-profile-trials/

Bolsonaro’s First Black Minister Resigns Before Taking Office

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-06-30/bolsonaro-s-first-black-minister-resigns-before-taking-office

Slovenia's interior minister, police chief quit over police raids

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-slovenia-resignati/slovenias-interior-minister-police-chief-quit-over-police-raids-idUSKBN241272

Middletown State Rep. Quinn Johnson retiring after 12 years

https://www.wdel.com/news/middletown-state-rep-quinn-johnson-retiring-after-12-years/article_453e93e2-ba6e-11ea-9a99-8fbcf6423d9b.html

Retiring FCA director looks back on decades of growth, friendship with legend

https://www.dailytrib.com/2020/06/30/retiring-fca-director-looks-back-on-decades-of-growth-friendship-with-legend/

Lansing financial officer resigns

https://www.wilx.com/content/news/Lansing-financial-officer-resigns-571563651.html

Marion County superintendent submits resignation

https://www.wcjb.com/2020/07/01/marion-county-superintendent-submits-resignation/

Roasters founder announces resignation

https://keprtv.com/news/local/roasters-founder-announces-resignation

Three Montville Parks & Rec commissioners resign

https://www.theday.com/local-news/20200630/three-montville-parks-amp-rec-commissioners-resign

Kidder Supervisor Franzosa resigns, Gluck returns to board

https://www.tnonline.com/20200701/kidder-supervisor-franzosa-resigns-gluck-returns-to-board/

Richey Seaton Retiring From Georgia Cotton Commission

http://southeastagnet.com/2020/07/01/richey-seaton-retiring-from-georgia-cotton-commission/

Resignation of Director

https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2020/06/30/2055305/0/en/Resignation-of-Director.html

Herb Frierson resigns from Department of Revenue

https://yallpolitics.com/2020/07/01/herb-frierson-resigns-from-department-of-revenue/

Grey Noise Theatre Co Announces Hector Manuel as New Artistic Director

https://www.broadwayworld.com/buffalo/article/Grey-Noise-Theatre-Co-Announces-Hector-Manuel-as-New-Artistic-Director-20200701

WVU Medicine honors retiring president and CEO

https://www.journal-news.net/journal-news/wvu-medicine-honors-retiring-president-and-ceo/article_0a514523-2a87-5961-98bf-57b3ed764703.html

Auto World Host Retiring

https://radioink.com/2020/06/30/auto-world-host-retiring/

Muktavaram resigns from Westport school board

https://www.westport-news.com/news/article/Muktavaram-resigns-from-Westport-school-board-15376549.php

Former Indivior CEO pleads guilty in federal Suboxone probe a day after stepping down from post

https://www.fiercepharma.com/pharma/former-indivior-ceo-pleads-guilty-suboxone-probe-day-after-stepping-down-from-post

4 Golden Rain Foundation directors resign amid dispute over performing arts center project

https://www.ocregister.com/2020/07/01/4-golden-rain-foundation-directors-resign-amid-dispute-over-performing-arts-center-project/

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Christine Grady, Anthony Fauci’s Wife: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know

By Erin Laviola

Updated Jun 23, 2020 at 9:08am

Fauci’s wife is also in the medical field, though she is not in the spotlight as much as her husband. Grady works as a nurse-bioethicist at the National Institutes of Health.

They have three daughters together.

1. Christine Grady Worked With AIDS Patients Early On In Her Career

Grady’s knowledge about HIV and AIDS earned her the attention of the White House. In the late 1980s, she served on President Ronald Reagan’s “Commission on the HIV Epidemic.”

2. Grady’s Thesis About the Search For an HIV Vaccine Was Published As a Book In 1995

Christine Grady’s Ph.D. thesis was about the ethical issues surrounding the development of a vaccine to prevent or treat HIV and AIDS. The report, titled “The Search for an AIDS Vaccine: Ethical Issues in the Development and Testing of a Preventive HIV Vaccine,” was published as a book in 1995.

In the book, Grady detailed the research that had been done up to that point and discussed the ethics of using human subjects to develop a potential vaccine.

Grady’s expertise and interest in the ethical issues involved with patient care influenced her career path. She has served as the Chief of the Department of Bioethics at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center since 2012, according to her LinkedIn profile.

Grady began serving as the acting chief in September 2011 and had been the deputy director of the department since 1996.

3. Grady Says Her Parents Instilled In Her a Sense of Social Duty By Taking Her to Civil Rights Marches As a Child

But she was inspired to pursue nursing as a career by her parents, who instilled in her a sense of civic responsbility. Grady told the NIH in 1997, “When we were children, I can remember at young ages going on civil rights marches and things like that, because my parents took us there. We did not know what they were really about, because at the time, although I was older than some of my brothers and sisters, I was not that old. Some of those things did not register directly then, but I think they had an impact later on. So I have always been interested— again, there was my parents’ influence—in social issues.”

4. Christine Grady Worked For Project Hope In Brazil For Two Years

Early on in her career, Christine Grady lived and worked in Brazil for two years.

She was involved with Project Hope, an international non-profit health care organization headquartered in Bethesa, Maryland.

Grady explained that her time in Brazil was eye-opening because she had to work with limited resources. For example, she told the NIH that syringes were washed and used multiple times because there were too few to go around. She said she often had to inject patients using syringes with blunt needles.

5. Christine Grady & Anthony Fauci Met While Caring For a Patient

Christine Grady met her husband of more than thirty years while caring for a patient. Anthony Fauci explained in a 2015 interview that he and Grady “met over the bed of a patient.” Grady was called in to translate for a patient who spoke Portuguese.

Grady and Fauci got married in 1985. They have three adult daughters: Jennifer, Megan and Alison.

Fauci raved about his wife in that interview as a “triple threat. She went to school to get her PhD in philosophy, worked, and had three children.”

Their children are all grown and out of the house, but Grady and Fauci have maintained a large home for their daughters to visit. A search of online property records shows the couple bought their 4,000 square-foot, 4-bedroom Washington, D.C. home in 2014. The house was valued approximately $1.9 million in 2019.

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Interview with Tom Burke from FRSO (Full Interview)

Tom Burke from FRSO explains the history and line of the Freedom Road Socialist Organization.

Tom Burke

Also a member of the FRSO. His home was searched in 2010 by the FBI in connection with allegations of involvement in domestic terrorism. Burke has traveled to Venezuela to meet with Communist Party officials there. He has also been alleged to have had contact with Palestinian groups.

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Agency Chief Spurs Bioterror Research – And Controversy As Dr. Fauci Pours NIH Funds Into Makers of Vaccines, Some Say He Oversteps

By Bernard Wysocki Jr.

Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

Updated Dec. 6, 2005 12:01 am ET

BETHESDA, Md. – Anthony S. Fauci has hundreds of millions of dollars at his disposal to bet on drug companies, hoping they will come up with the next hit vaccine or medicine.

Dr. Fauci isn't a venture capitalist. An AIDS-research pioneer, he runs the infectious-diseases institute within the National Institutes of Health. Since the terror attacks of 2001, he has been playing an unusual role for an NIH official by supporting start-up companies with NIH grants and contracts. His belief: Market forces alone won't provide the medicines Americans need for protection against bioterrorism.

The 64-year-old Dr. Fauci is drawing his share of controversy. Some entrepreneurs who haven't been showered with money talk of a "Fauci Club" of favored companies.

Others say he is overstepping his bounds by funding rival entities and pitting them against each other for government contracts. In one case, the NIH gave materials from a supplier of one company to help jump-start research at a rival. One of his biggest bets on a next-generation anthrax vaccine has yet to pay off.

The most fundamental question is whether the government and Dr. Fauci should be trying to influence what drugs and vaccines the marketplace produces. "If you had to pick one person, he's a pretty good guy to pick," says J. Leighton Read, a partner at Alloy Ventures, a Palo Alto, Calif., venture-capital firm. "But I'm not sure Tony should be investing. His experience in products and manufacturing is very limited.

Maybe they ought to pay more attention to the invisible hand."

The workings of the invisible hand, though, have been all but invisible. Publicly traded drug companies have tended to stay away from vaccines, antibiotics and related drugs. These products have low profit margins and are especially prone to liability suits. The government is often the main customer for them.

Dr. Fauci acknowledges that bankrolling product development in the private sector "is not our spécialité de la maison." Still, he argues that some entity has to be the investor of last resort if the marketplace isn't producing crucial medicine. "The industry wasn't going to make the investment when they had a choice between developing a new Viagra, a new Lipitor, versus the very risky procedure of doing advanced development in a product where there wasn't going to be a guaranteed payback for them," Dr. Fauci says.

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Dr. Fauci is pumping about $500 million to $600 million in taxpayer money a year, or about a third of his biodefense budget, into product development. Much of that goes to companies. By comparison, biotechnology venture investments in the U.S. totaled $4.06 billion in 2004, according to surveys by PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Dr. Fauci's goal is to get companies ready to bid on contracts under the BioShield program run by the NIH's parent, the Department of Health and Human Services.

The department was authorized by Congress last year to spend $5.6 billion over 10 years on biodefense drugs under BioShield.

A native of Brooklyn, N.Y., who joined the NIH in 1968 after graduating from Cornell University's medical school, Dr. Fauci already had achieved prominence as a scientist-bureaucrat before Sept. 11 set the stage for his new role. In the 1970s and 1980s, he did groundbreaking work on the immune system, and later gained recognition for helping decipher how the AIDS virus destroys the body's defenses. At a recent concert in Washington, D.C., the Irish rock star and activist Bono dedicated a song called "Miracle Drug," about his hopes for future disease treatments, to Dr. Fauci.

The scientist wows members of Congress with lucid briefings, all delivered in a rapid-fire New York accent. Discussing pandemic flu at a recent news conference, President Bush made a point of saying that he consults with Dr. Fauci.

After Sept. 11 and the anthrax attacks in the fall of 2001, Dr. Fauci and his agency, whose formal name is the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, divided pathogens into three categories. They gave highest priority to Category A pathogens such as anthrax, smallpox and plague. Dr. Fauci argued that his agency was well-suited to receive new funds for biodefense.

It was a persuasive argument. The agency's biodefense-related funding rose from $42 million a year in 2001 to nearly $1.2 billion in 2003 and nearly $1.7 billion this year. Spurred by colleagues, Dr. Fauci says he decided to fund companies on a large scale. That was a radical role for the NIH, which mostly has funded academic or basic research.

While an anthrax vaccine already existed, Dr. Fauci and other experts worried that it was hard to make and might cause side effects such as fever and headache. Dr. Fauci's institute solicited bids for a better one. Among the responders was a company in Brisbane, Calif., called VaxGen Inc.

Dr. Fauci knew VaxGen because the company had a promising AIDS vaccine that his agency had funded over several years. In 2003, however, the AIDS vaccine failed important clinical trials. In the meantime, VaxGen was busy reinventing itself as a biodefense company with a next-generation anthrax vaccine candidate.

Demanding Schedule

NIH spelled out a demanding schedule for the anthrax-vaccine bidders, such as delivering early trial results by the end of 2003. A predecessor company of drug giant Sanofi-Aventis SA declared the timetable impossible and was disqualified. Dr. Fauci's agency awarded $100 million in two funding rounds to VaxGen and about $80 million in two rounds to its main rival, Avecia Group PLC, a United Kingdom biotechnology company. The idea was to get them prepared to compete for a big federal contract to deliver a new anthrax vaccine to the national stockpile.

One of VaxGen's rivals, BioPort Corp., of Lansing, Mich., cried foul. The bidding specifically excluded any makers of the existing older-generation vaccine, of which there was just one, BioPort. The company swung into action, hiring publicists and lobbyists. Eventually, BioPort received a $122 million contract to supply the older vaccine, which is approved by the Food and Drug Administration, to the U.S. stockpile.

In late 2004, the department awarded the entire $877 million contract for a new anthrax vaccine to VaxGen under the BioShield program. Since then, though, VaxGen has stumbled and its vaccine is almost a year late. Its first deliveries now are slated for late 2006. The company won't get paid until it delivers. Meanwhile, Dr. Fauci finds himself on the spot.

At a House government reform committee hearing last month, Rep. Chris Cannon, a Utah Republican, grilled Dr. Fauci: "So now we've got a small company [VaxGen] failing to perform…We have an experimental technology to deal with a disease that we've already been attacked with…We don't have a stockpile, even though my understanding is, we have a company that has an FDA-approved vaccine for anthrax. Is that a fair statement of where we are?"

"Yes, it is a fair statement," Dr. Fauci replied. He added that the "experimental" technology has been used in other vaccines and an authoritative federal panel called for a transition to a new, safer vaccine.

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