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Hi everyone, it's Megna, and today we've got a special podcast-only drop for you featuring Dr. Anthony Fauci.

Fauci spent a half century in public service at the National Institutes of Health,

and of course, as a presidential advisor across multiple administrations,

including as a COVID advisor for President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden.

In that time, Fauci was both celebrated as a clear-headed scientist who had to navigate

the unpredictable behavior of a novel pandemic and a president.

He was also hated and reviled by others for the advice he gave on vaccines, school closures,

and lockdowns.

To this day, Fauci receives death threats. He's written about

that experience and about his efforts fighting the AIDS epidemic in a memoir called On Call,

a doctor's journey in public service. Well, Dr. Fauci recently visited us here in Boston for the first WBUR festival,

a multi-day event featuring some of the most compelling thinkers in the country.

He sat down with me before a packed house to talk about everything from missteps he admits took place during the COVID lockdowns

to what colleagues still at NIH are telling him about the Trump administration's

total evisceration of scientific and health research in this country. And now you get to hear that

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