He was cited as a hero by the first President Bush and awarded the nation’s highest civilian honor by the second. Yet Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene insists he’s committed crimes against humanity and Tucker Carlson accused him of engineering “the single most devastating event in modern American history.”
Now, Dr. Anthony Fauci is getting the last word in his compelling new autobiography, On Call: A Doctor's Journey in Public Service, an inducement for speaking scientific truth to power, a gripping tale of the cost of doing so and a warning about the price of not doing so.
During more than five decades of public service — 28 as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases — Dr. Fauci maneuvered for more HIV funding during the Reagan administration; pushed George H.W. Bush to expand access to experimental AIDS medicines; worked with Bill Clinton to set up the National Institutes of Health’s Vaccine Research Center; teamed up with George W. Bush to set up the global HIV medicine initiative PEPFAR; and served on the national Corona Virus Task Force under Presidents Trump and Biden.
Dr. Fauci joins us to speak about navigating the stormy waters of Washington through the COVID pandemic; the AIDS epidemic and the crises of Ebola, SARS, West Nile and anthrax; negotiating with seven presidents; and the dangers of the politicization of public health.
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