SPECIAL | Dr. Anthony Fauci on how COVID-19 and Trump turned him into a hero and villain
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USA TODAY
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🗓️ 19 June 2024
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Anthony Fauci was one of the nation’s leading public-health doctors, working on the world’s deadliest emerging infectious diseases, from AIDS to Zika. Then came COVID-19. He soon became a voice millions of Americans trusted -- a straight-talker even when his candor put him at odds with President Trump. But it also made him the target of conspiracy theories and worse. In an exclusive interview about Fauci's new memoir, “On Call: A Doctor’s Journey in Public Service,” USA TODAY Washington Bureau Chief Susan Page sits down with Fauci to talk about his years in public health and whether he will ever again feel safe.
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| 0:08.0 | Hello and welcome to the excerpt. I'm USA Today's Washington Bureau Chief Susan Page. |
| 0:18.0 | Anthony Fauchy was one of the nation's leading public health doctors, working on the world's deadliest |
| 0:25.2 | emerging infectious diseases, from AIDS to Zika. |
| 0:30.3 | Then came COVID-19. |
| 0:32.5 | He became a voice millions of Americans trusted. |
| 0:35.7 | A straight talker even when his candor put him at odds |
| 0:39.1 | with then President Trump. |
| 0:40.9 | But it also made him the target of conspiracy theories and worst. |
| 0:45.6 | In an exclusive interview about his new memoir, On Call, a doctor's journey in public service, |
| 0:52.0 | I ask him if he felt safe. |
| 0:54.0 | Yes, but, he replied. |
| 0:56.8 | He thinks deep down that it's possible someone will kill him. |
| 1:02.5 | Here's some of our conversation. |
| 1:04.8 | Dr. Anthony Fauchy, thank you for being with us. |
| 1:07.2 | My pleasure, good to be with you. |
| 1:08.8 | Congratulations on a new memoir, On Call, |
| 1:11.9 | a doctor's journey in public service. You know sometimes when people write a memoir |
| 1:15.7 | they figure out things they didn't understand before about themselves or about their |
| 1:21.3 | careers. Did you did you learn something in writing this book? |
| 1:24.4 | It gave me a perspective that I didn't have before of looking at what I refer to often is |
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