Ep. 585 — Dr. Anthony Fauci

The Axe Files with David Axelrod

CNN

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4.6 • 7.7K Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Dr. Anthony Fauci became a household name during the Covid-19 pandemic. While Dr. Fauci stepped down as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) in 2022, he still has stories to share. His new book, “On Call: A Doctor’s Journey in Public Service,” recounts his triumphs and heartbreaks over 50 years in public health combatting everything from Ebola to SARS to HIV. He joined David to discuss his new book, lessons learned from the pandemic response, what he tells his medical students at Georgetown about weathering political attacks on science, and the dangers of political interference in public health. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	And now from the Institute of Politics at the University of Chicago and CNN audio,
0:11.3	The Axxwiles.
0:12.3	With your host, David Axelrod.
0:16.2	Anthony Fauchy has been my guest here many times.
0:19.4	Now he's written a memoir on call about his life and career in public health. Now he and I have talked
0:25.1	about his story before but I wanted to chat again because among the seven
0:30.0	presidents with whom he worked are the two nominees for president this year Joe Biden President,
0:34.0	with whom he worked, are the two nominees for President this year, Joe Biden and Donald Trump.
0:36.0	We spoke about his experiences with each,
0:39.0	and how in his fifth decade of public service
0:41.0	Dr. Fauchy suddenly became such a target. Here's that conversation.
0:47.0	Dr. Fauchy, great to see you again.
0:53.0	Same here, David.
0:54.0	The last time we got together here, you had just left your job of 40-some-odd years,
1:00.0	and the office that was home for you probably more home than home because you
1:05.0	probably spent more time there than you did at home. I did, I did. And you were
1:09.8	starting off on this book project that has now been realized, the book on call a
1:15.4	doctor's journey in public service, and you pointedly describe leaving your
1:21.9	office for the last time and so I thought the
1:25.9	appropriate place to start would be to ask how you're doing now in your in your
1:31.2	new life. I'm doing real well David. It's a great relief to have gotten the book out because when I did look out of the NIH for that last time I began in earnest literally hours and hours a day
1:46.4	working on the book and editing what I had already written and writing the new chapters
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