Anthony Fauci Is Worried about Bird Flu—And How Our Divisions Could Help It Hurt Us

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🗓️ 4 December 2024

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Anthony Fauci speaks with Tanya Lewis, senior editor for health and medicine at Scientific American, about his remarkable career, as detailed in his new book On Call: A Doctor’s Journey in Public Service. They discuss the experiences he faced while guiding the U.S. through the pandemic, the lessons learned by public health practitioners and the challenges posed by future threats, such as bird flu and other potential pandemics. This episode is part of “Health Equity Heroes,” an editorially independent special project that was produced with financial support from Takeda Pharmaceuticals. Recommended reading: New Bird Flu Cases in Young People Are Raising Concerns about Mutating Virus What Bird Flu in Wastewater Means for California and Beyond H5N1 Bird Flu Isn’t a Human Pandemic—Yet E-mail us at sciencequickly@sciam.com if you have any questions, comments or ideas for stories we should cover! Discover something new every day: subscribe to Scientific American and sign up for our daily newsletter. Science Quickly is produced by Rachel Feltman, Fonda Mwangi, Kelso Harper, Madison Goldberg and Jeff DelViscio. This episode was reported and co-hosted by Tanya Lewis. Shayna Posses and Aaron Shattuck fact-check our show. Our theme music was composed by Dominic Smith. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:38.2	The public health world is filled with heroes, but it doesn't exactly produce a lot of celebrities.
0:43.9	One notable exception is Anthony Fauci. This physician scientist and immunologist is best known to most for his work as the chief medical advisor to President Joe Biden from 2021 to 2022.
0:56.0	But while his work during the worst of the COVID pandemic made him a household name,
1:00.6	Fauci has been a celebrated figure in his field for decades,
1:03.9	thanks to his tenure as the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases from 1984 to 2022.
1:11.6	His new book, Bon Call, a doctor's journey in public service, offers new insight into his life and work.
1:17.6	Tanya Lewis, a senior editor covering health and medicine at Scientific American, sat down with Fauci recently to discuss his experience helping us all through COVID, and what he thinks the future holds for bird flu and other potential pandemics.
1:31.6	Here's Tanya now.
1:33.8	During COVID, working just in the government,
1:37.2	I'm curious to hear kind of how you handled this challenge of communicating the dangers of a totally new virus
1:43.2	when our knowledge was changing day-to-day,
1:46.0	and everything was still up in the air.
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