Dr. Fauci Reflects on a Life on the Frontlines of Public Health Crises

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🗓️ 19 June 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Anthony Fauci was the face of the U.S. response to the COVID-19 pandemic, guiding the public through the upheavals of school closures and stay-at-home orders and unprecedented loss of life. He implored people to get vaccinated and weathered near constant partisan attacks. The COVID-19 pandemic was one of a number of global public health crises – including AIDS, bird flu, Ebola and Zika – that Fauci handled during his nearly six-decade career. We’ll talk to Fauci about what we’ve learned from the COVID-19 pandemic, how we should prepare for the next infectious disease crisis and what he values most about his life in public service. His new autobiography is “On Call.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:52.2	Coming up on Forum, before he was the face of the U.S. response to COVID-19, Dr. Anthony Fauci stared down other
0:59.6	deadly viruses as head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, AIDS,
1:04.5	Ebola, avian flu.
1:06.7	But none came with the relentless partisan attacks, death threats, or need for a security detail that the COVID pandemic did.
1:14.9	And yet, Fauci hopes to inspire more to a life of public service.
1:18.8	The main motivation, he says, for writing his memoir on call.
1:22.7	What do you want to ask or tell Dr. Fauci?
1:25.3	Join us after this news.
1:33.3	Thank you. to ask or tell Dr. Fauci. Join us after this news. Welcome to Forum. I'm Mina Kim. In his nearly four decades as head of the National
1:38.2	Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Dr. Anthony Fauci has advised seven presidents
1:44.0	and shaped the country's response to
1:46.1	AIDS, bird flu, swine flu, Ebola, Zika, and of course, COVID-19. He's been called everything from
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