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Anthony Fauci
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You don't want to go to war with a president [...] There's a temptation that you have to fight to tell the president what you think he wants to hear.
— Quoted in You don't want to go to war with a president, 3 March 2020, .
Anthony Fauci
American immunologist and head of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
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Born 1940 · age 86United States
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He stood at the lectern through five decades and seven presidencies, the federal immunologist who became the face of America's COVID response—and a lightning rod in a culture war that turned public health guidance into partisan battleground.
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Anthony Fauci graduated from Holy Cross with a classics degree before earning his MD from Cornell, then joined the National Institutes of Health as a physician-scientist. He became director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in 1984 and held the post for thirty-eight years, advising every president from Reagan forward while building a research career that made him one of the world's most-cited scientists between 1983 and 2002. His work on HIV/AIDS and immunodeficiency earned him the Presidential Medal of Freedom from George W. Bush in 2008 for his role in the AIDS rel…
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Anthony Fauci
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I don't think that we are going to get out of this completely unscathed, I think that this is going to be one of those things we look back on and say boy, that was bad.
— About the 2020 coronavirus pandemic in the United States, quoted in You don't want to go to war with a president, 3 March 2020, .
Anthony Fauci
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The only people who need masks are those who are already infected to keep from exposing others. The masks sold at drugstores aren't even good enough to truly protect anyone.
— 17 February 2020 USA Today
Anthony Fauci
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It’s a very, very low risk to the United States, but it’s something that we as public health officials need to take very seriously...
— Quoted in Government health agency official: Coronavirus 'isn't something the American public need to worry about by J. Edward Moreno, 26
Anthony Fauci
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Bottom line. We don't have to worry about this one, right?
— 2020
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