Fauci’s inbox

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🗓️ 1 June 2021

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Summary

What we can learn from Fauci’s emails. Why tennis star Naomi Osaka withdrew from the French Open. And, the joyous sounds of Americans reuniting.

The Post recently obtained 866 pages of Anthony Fauci’s emails from March and April of 2020. Yasmeen Abutaleb and Damian Paletta report on the correspondence behind some of the most frantic days of the coronavirus crisis.

Naomi Osaka is the second-ranked tennis player in the world. After a back-and-forth about whether she would be required to speak with the media at the French Open, she withdrew from the tournament. Sports reporter Ben Strauss says the episode raises questions about athletes' mental health and the utility of sports journalism.

For more than a year, families and friends have been kept apart because of the coronavirus pandemic. Now, as more and more people get vaccinated, loved ones are finally reuniting.

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0:00.0	From the newsroom of the Washington Post, Washington Post is called the
0:08.0	Hi, it's Stephanie McCrements from the Washington Post.
0:14.0	This is Post Reports.
0:15.0	I'm Alexis Dio, in from Martin Powers.
0:18.0	It's Tuesday, June 1st.
0:24.0	Today, what we can learn from Fauci's emails.
0:27.0	Naomi Osaka breaks tradition and reuniting post-vaccine.
0:36.0	My colleague Damian Paletta and I obtained 866 pages of Dr. Fauci's emails
0:44.0	from March and April 2020, one of the craziest points of the government's response last year.
0:54.0	Yes, me and Abutal have the cover's health policy for the post.
1:00.0	That's when cases and deaths were really starting to ramp up.
1:04.0	The White House was doing daily press briefings and Fauci was becoming something of a media star during that time.
1:11.0	For Americans watching now and who rely on you, your voice is calm and a voice of facts in the midst of all this,
1:18.0	what should Americans prepare themselves for in these coming couple of weeks?
1:23.0	Well, it's a critical time, Jim, in the next couple of weeks.
1:26.0	So, this provided just a really unique look into his inbox and a bit of what he was dealing with and being asked to do
1:33.0	and being pulled in all sorts of different directions at this moment when he was really rising to worldwide fame.
1:40.0	And how did we come to obtain these emails?
1:46.0	Damien had filed the Freedom of Information Act request last summer and they came in just a few weeks ago.
1:54.0	And we thought, you know, there was really compelling information in there and a pretty special way to look into what Fauci's life
2:03.0	or at least one aspect of it looked like during this period where I think there's still a lot of fascination of what he was dealing with and what his life was like.
2:12.0	And why was the post interested in these emails specifically in this time period?
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