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This is on point. I'm Magna Chakrabardi. Dr. Anthony

Fauchy served as the head of the National Institute for Allergies and

infectious diseases from 1984 to 2022.

He was an advisor to every US president since Ronald Reagan, and that put him at the center

of efforts to combat diseases that transform the public health and

politics of this country, from the HIV AIDS epidemic in the 1980s to the COVID pandemic beginning in 2020, where he served as one of the lead

members of the White House COVID task force under then President Donald Trump.

Dr. Fauchy writes about those experiences in his new memoir,

on call a doctor's journey in public service. Dr. Fauchy, welcome back to

on point. Thank you. It's good to be with you. You know I have to say I face a little challenge here, Dr. Fauchy, because it will be impossible to satisfactorily summarize a 40-plus year career, but we're going to do our best, okay?

So, I want to start off with obviously the period that you have frequently said

really defines your medical career.

And that's the work that you did on HIV AIDS in the 80s and 90s.

Could you start with a story of one particular person that you treated?

His name in the book is Ron Rinaldi and he obviously had AIDS. He was being treated in the hospital by you. He suffered from, he also had something called the cytomegalovirus and you tell the story about one day what changed in Ron

between morning rounds and evening rounds when you saw him again. Can you tell us that?

Yeah, that was a very dramatic and moving part of my journey in HIV,

which was a 40- year journey and and Ron which is not his real name

because I wanted to main the confidentiality of the patient. Ron was a patient

who had full-blown AIDS, very advanced disease, a wonderful young man who we got to know,

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