The Dream of Europe: Travels in the Twenty-First Century
by Geert Mak · 27 Oct 2021 · 722pp · 223,701 words
. ‘Every one of these doctors said, “How do you know so much about this?”’ – and sneers aimed at critical reporters and Democrat governors. When Dr Anthony Fauci, the country’s top epidemiologist and a senior adviser to a series of presidents, lowered his head despondently during one of the presidential bragging sessions
In Covid's Wake: How Our Politics Failed Us
by Stephen Macedo and Frances Lee · 10 Mar 2025 · 393pp · 146,371 words
revealed to have conflicts of interest, including Daszak, whose EcoHealth Alliance (where he is president) funded gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute. Dr. Anthony Fauci now seems to have helped coordinate the writing and speedy publication of a scientific paper arguing for a natural origin. He, too, supported and
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contingency plans to respond to outbreaks and other public-health crises,” Wen said her health department had never even considered a citywide quarantine.89 Dr. Anthony Fauci, longtime director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, doubted w hether the approach would work in China and, even if it did
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Clifford Lane, clinical director at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, U.S. National Institutes of Health (a deputy to Institute director Dr. Anthony Fauci).11 The Chinese members included four leading figures at the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (the same organization that declared emphatically on January
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Force had been created on January 29, headed by Vice President Mike Pence. The administration had not yet issued guidance when Drs. Deborah Birx and Anthony Fauci walked to the Oval Office on March 16 to show the Imperial College projections to Donald Trump. The reaction was swift. Later that day, Trump
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D. A. Henderson. Printed in a black box at the end of the document, however, was a recommendation to which Coronavirus Task Force member Dr. Anthony Fauci pointedly drew attention at the news conference: “In states with evidence of community transmission, bars, restaurants, food courts, gyms, and other indoor and outdoor venues
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Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, began an astonishing email thread (made public via a Freedom of Information Act request)20 with Dr. Anthony Fauci, Clifford Lane (from the WHO-China Joint Mission), and others: —Collins on October 8, 2:31 p.m., to Fauci and Cliff Lane (both of
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to advise him in July 2020. There Atlas came into sharp conflict with Dr. Deborah L. Birx, the White House coronavirus response coordinator, and Dr. Anthony Fauci. Birx went on to complain bitterly that Atlas was presenting the president with data and recommendations contrary to hers. She resented Atlas’s role, as
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made up of a large and shifting group of government agency officials and advisers. Among them w ere three specialists in infectious disease: Deborah Birx, Anthony Fauci, and Robert Redfield. Looking to state and local public pandemic policy, Stanford political scientist Morris Fiorina observed with astonishment that such extensive powers could be
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who refused to “follow the science.” For many Americans on the right, the crisis’s villains w ere the coastal elites, including most prominently Dr. Anthony Fauci. Th ese elites w ere purposively using the pandemic—referred to as the “plandemic” in some of the darker corners of the discourse—to obtain
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making MERS and SARS viruses more dangerous or transmissible in mammals.7 But gain-of-function research had its prominent supporters, as well, including Drs. Anthony Fauci and Francis Collins. In December 2011, they went on record in a Washington Post op-ed in support of engineering “potentially dangerous” viruses that
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do is come to the m iddle. How to do this research safely.” Seated right next to him in the video is a stone-faced Anthony Fauci.9 In 2017, top health officials successfully pressed to lift the Obama administration’s 2014 ban on gain-of-function research.10 Fauci’s National
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, and his second was to call Farrar “on the burner phone.”25 On January 31, the day a fter receiving Holmes’s call, Farrar called Anthony Fauci to communicate his concerns. A fter speaking to Farrar, Fauci immediately called Kristian Andersen. Fauci memorialized his call with Andersen in an email to Farrar
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research, with a b udget (now approaching $50 billion) that surpasses that of the next forty largest public and private health funders globally combined. Dr. Anthony Fauci’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases is the second largest division of the NIH, with a b udget of more than $6 billion
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a possibility.”75 Baric pitched in to help shape the public narrative in the crucial early weeks. A fter meeting on February 12, 2020, with Anthony Fauci to discuss “chimeras” or engineered viruses, Baric briefed the State Department’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research. David Feith, then deputy assistant secretary of state
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and others to be less than fully honest about matters of tremendous public concern. One point that o thers seem to have missed is Dr. Anthony Fauci’s striking early insistence to Dr. Kristian Andersen (in the conference call on February 1, in front of all the other participants) that if Andersen
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to our institutions b ecause too few w ere willing to speak the truth. Both Presidents Trump and Biden received draft deferments during the war. Anthony Fauci was twenty- seven years old during the Tet Offensive. It is difficult to believe that these men forgot the searingly painful lessons of their formative
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virus’s origins and to shape media coverage and public opinion. Leading t hese efforts w ere scientists with profound conflicts of interest, including Drs. Anthony Fauci and Peter Daszak, as well as, at least for a time, Ralph Baric. These scientists and others encouraged and helped fashion publications aimed at deflecting
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, Rochelle Walensky, said, “Our data from CDC today suggest that vaccinated people do not carry the virus, d on’t get sick.” In May 2021, Anthony Fauci said when you are vaccinated “you become a dead end to the virus.”88 e major medical associations, along with many other establishment Th health
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Health and Human Services and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Community Strategy, chap. IV, 30–34. 94. AMA Ed Hub, “Coronavirus Q&A with Anthony Fauci, MD,” JN Learning, April 8, 2020, https://edhub.ama-assn.org/jn-learning/video-player/18433523. 95. Donald G. McNeil Jr., “The Pandemic’s Big
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19, 2017, https://www.science.org/content/article/nih-lifts-3-year-ban-funding-risky-virus -studies. 11. Email from Greg Folkers (NIH/NIAID) to Anthony Fauci and o thers, January 27, 2020, at 6:24:59 p.m., reprinted in Paul D. Thacker, “The Wuhan Coverup: Scientists Lied while P eople
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’s interview with Paul D. Thacker, to which this section is heavily indebted. See Thacker, “Former CDC Director Robert Redfield on Inside Battles with Anthony Fauci, and Why Classified Information Will Point to a Lab Accident in Wuhan,” Disinformation Chronicle, September 15, 2022, https:// disinformationchronicle.substack.com/p/former-cdc-director
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Here, It Is You’: Fauci Turns Tables on Inquisitor Rand Paul,” The Guardian, July 20, 2021, https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jul/20 /anthony-fauci-rand-paul-coronavirus-research. We benefit here and elsewhere from James B. Meigs, “The Covid Cover-Up,” City Journal, October 1, 2023, https://www.city
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of Lab Leak Theory,” New York Times, May 1, 2024, https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/01/science/covid -lab-leak-ecohealth-nih.html. 51. Anthony Fauci on CBS’s Face the Nation. Ivana Saric, “Fauci: Republican Detractors Are ‘Criticizing Science,’ ” Axios, November 28, 2021, https://www.axios.com/2021/11/28
Longshot
by David Heath · 18 Jan 2022
eludes some of the most brilliant minds in medical research. Yet just days after China disclosed the true nature of a mysterious outbreak in Wuhan, Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, predicted in what was left of his childhood Brooklyn accent that we would have a
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at the northern tip of NIH’s sprawling campus in Bethesda, Maryland. Graham’s two superiors, John Mascola, director of the Vaccine Research Center, and Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, were there as well. They huddled around a narrow conference table near Fauci’s office
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machine in 1998 would end up not only changing her life but would eventually lead to a breakthrough in mRNA science. CHAPTER 4 The Collaboration Anthony Fauci was sitting in his office at a research hospital in Bethesda when someone laid the June 5, 1981, edition of Morbidity Mortality Weekly Report on
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of his time seeing patients at the hospital or teaching classes. He wrote up a grant application and submitted it. Carole Heilman, who worked under Anthony Fauci at the National Institutes of Health, called Graham and congratulated him; they had agreed to give him the grant. Graham says he cannot remember the
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who escaped the Armenian genocide,19 Kapikian was the chief of the epidemiology of the Laboratory of Infectious Diseases under Huebner. In 1998, he became Anthony Fauci’s deputy director at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases until he died in 2014.20 Fauci co-authored a tribute to Kapikian
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plans to establish a new Vaccine Research Center at the National Institutes of Health focused solely on an AIDS vaccine. The center would be within Anthony Fauci’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. It would be another three years before Building 40 on NIH’s Bethesda campus would open its
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.7 Although Graham wanted to continue his RSV research, he was approached by Gary Nabel, the head of the newly created Vaccine Research Center, and Anthony Fauci at the National Institutes of Health. But he now had a good relationship with leaders at NIH. They would tap him to be one of
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dying. The public relations team at the National Institutes of Health persuaded a local Washington, DC, station to do a news segment on it, featuring Anthony Fauci. “It’s one of the more serious viral infections that afflict children. Also elderly people can get infected and can get sick,” Fauci said, adding
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structure mattered,” Graham said. “Some really good RSV biologists, I bet I explained it to them a dozen times before they finally said, ‘Ah.’” Even Anthony Fauci said in an interview that he didn’t fully appreciate how a structure-based approach had changed vaccine science until Graham explained it to him
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was using the DNA approach because of its speed. Rather than growing proteins in a vat, he could make a vaccine with just genetic code. Anthony Fauci appeared on cable news to reassure Americans that Zika could be stopped with mosquito control outside of the Gulf Coast states. He didn’t believe
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. The stage was set for Moderna to be a key player the next time a major epidemic broke out. It would be a concept that Anthony Fauci himself acknowledges he didn’t fully appreciate until his fateful meeting with Graham and Mascola just a day or so before Graham and his associates
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gave full approval to the Pfizer vaccine in August 2021. Can we achieve herd immunity without antivaxxers caving in? “I don’t think so,” said Anthony Fauci in an MSNBC interview. “The only way you could get to herd immunity without them is the unfortunate situation where they all wind up getting
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to reprogram cells into IPS cells. He is very active on Twitter, where he ironically raises questions about the effectiveness of the vaccines and criticizes Anthony Fauci. Jason McLellan has his own laboratory at the University of Texas at Austin, where he is a professor. He has created a new, more potent
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interviews with the central characters, including Barney Graham, Jason McLellan, Kizzmekia Corbett, Derrick Rossi, Luigi Warren, Katalin Karikó, and Drew Weissman. Other key interviews included Anthony Fauci, John Mascola, Stephen Chanock, Jason Schrum, Robert Langer, Timothy Springer, Lisa Jackson, Paul Duprex, George Daley, Sean Doyle, Michael Osterholm, Arthur Caplan, Larry Corey, Susan
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Rossi, Luigi Warren, Drew Weissman, and Jason Shrum for the time and attention they gave me. I would also thank Stephen Chanock, John Mascola, and Anthony Fauci, all at the National Institutes of Health, for taking the time to talk to me. There were countless people at USA Today who were instrumental
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/nri2171. 19. “False: Dr. Robert Malone Invented mRNA Vaccines,” Logically, July 18, 2021, https://www.logically.ai/factchecks/library/3aa2eefd. CHAPTER 4: THE COLLABORATION 1. Anthony Fauci, “Dr. Fauci on 30 years of AIDS,” HIV Gov, August 30, 2011, video, @1:29, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzBJ-y-B_6I
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Angeles,” CDC, June 5, 1981, https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/june_5.htm. 4. Anthony Fauci, “Q&A,” C-SPAN, January 8, 2015, video, https://www.c-span.org/video/?323680-1/qa-dr-anthony-fauci. 5. “Kaposi’s Sarcoma and Pneumocystis Pneumonia among Homosexual Men—New York City and California,” Morbidity
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and Mortality Weekly Report 30, no. 25 (1981): 305–316, https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/1265. 6. Anthony Fauci, “Q&A.” 7. Anthony Fauci, “Dr. Fauci on 30 Years of
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AIDS,” @3:00. 8. Michael Specter, “How Anthony Fauci Became America’s Doctor,” New Yorker, April 20, 2020, https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/04/20
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/how-anthony-fauci-became-americas-doctor. 9. Anthony Fauci, “Q&A.” 10. Anthony Fauci, “Dr. Fauci on 30 Years of AIDS,” @7:18. 11. Anthony Fauci, “The Syndrome of Kaposi’s Sarcoma and Opportunistic Infections: An Epidemiologically Restricted Disorder of Immunoregulation,” Annals
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: Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS)—United States,” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, November 30, 1984, https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00000442.htm. 17. Anthony Fauci, “Dr. Fauci on 30 Years of AIDS,” @16:48. 18. Bridget Velasquez, “Lexington Native’s mRNA Research Leads to Coronavirus Vaccine,” Colonial Times Magazine, 2021
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. 19. “RNA Delivery for Dendritic Cell HIV Antigen Presenation,” National Institutes of Health RePORT database, https://reporter.nih.gov/search/wsE2oFYQGU2xH6ca70Rt1A/project-details/6020034. 20. Anthony Fauci, “Dr. Fauci on 30 Years of AIDS,” @12:05. 21. Ananya Mandal, “What Are Dendritic Cells?” News Medical Life Sciences, last modified February 26, 2019
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Johannes, “MIT, Quaker Oats Settle Lawsuit Involving Radioactive Experiment,” Wall Street Journal, January 2, 1998, https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB883585397204864500. 19. David Morens and Anthony Fauci, “In Memoriam: Albert Z. Kapikian, MD, 1930–2014,” Journal of Infectious Diseases 211, no. 8 (2015): 1199–1201, https://doi.org/10.1093/infdis/jiv034
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.com/watch?v=RvdxGDJogtA. 11. Steve Koppes, “Beam Us Up,” Argonne National Library, January 3, 2019, https://www.anl.gov/article/beam-us-up. 12. Anthony Fauci, “Newscast,” News4 This Week, December 15, 2013, video, @1:00, https://archive.org/details/WRC_20131215_103000_News4_This_Week/start/1260/end/1320. CHAPTER
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Threat Bigger than Zika,” The Atlantic, July 18, 2016, https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2016/07/a-threat-bigger-than-zika/491564. 24. Anthony Fauci, “NIAID Director Dr. Anthony Fauci Addresses Zika Concerns,” Fox News, August 22, 2016, video, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2bPPLEtII4. 25. Barack Obama, “President Obama Receives a
The Plague Year: America in the Time of Covid
by Lawrence Wright · 7 Jun 2021 · 391pp · 112,312 words
coronavirus officially arrived in America. “This is a thirty-five-year-old young man who works here in the United States, who visited Wuhan,” Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), said on a Voice of America broadcast. “There was no doubt that sooner or
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assertions in a documentary called Plandemic. It was released on May 4, 2020, and raced across the internet with its sensational claims—among them, that Anthony Fauci and other researchers were responsible for the death of millions of AIDS victims who were given the wrong therapy, while the scientists reaped fabulous profits
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there’s a lot of him. He’s six-foot-five, with a gray goatee and a laconic manner. Graham’s boss at NIAID, Dr. Anthony Fauci, said, “He understands vaccinology better than anybody I know.” Bookshelves in Graham’s office hold colorful 3-D printouts of viruses that he has worked
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breakthrough “vaccine,” as he termed it, a treatment that he claimed lowered the viral load in patients already infected with the disease. Other scientists, including Anthony Fauci, challenged the results. Despite admitting that he had misrepresented the findings, he presented the same data at another conference a month later. In 1996, Redfield
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. “I can’t even begin to describe all these insane factions in the White House,” Olivia Troye, a former homeland security adviser to Pence, said. Anthony Fauci was considered too “outspoken and blunt” with the media, which led Jared Kushner and Peter Navarro to describe him as “out of control.” Troye summed
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be superior to the hedgehog, or vice versa, and he acknowledged that a single person could encompass both qualities. Tolstoy, for instance, confounded the distinction. Anthony Fauci and Donald Trump, however, thoroughly embodied these opposing archetypes. They were in some glancing ways very much alike: New Yorkers, both in their seventies, immensely
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compass, always pointed at the truth. For Trump, the truth was Play-doh, and he could twist it to fit the shape of his desire. * * * — Anthony Fauci clings to his Brooklyn accent. “I’m New York born and raised,” he boasted, as if anyone doubted. He was born on Christmas Eve 1940
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underfunded, under-resourced effort to fight a highly stigmatized, invariably fatal new plague. “I call you murderers: An open letter to an incompetent idiot, Dr. Anthony Fauci of the National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases,” was the headline in the magazine section of the San Francisco Examiner on June 26, 1988
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. Barney Graham and Jason McLellan at NIAID are, I believe, real heroes in the effort to create a vaccine in record time. And of course Anthony Fauci has been a forthright and courageous leader of the public health community despite enormous political pressure exerted against him. Cliff Lane regaled me with stories
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”: Jeremy Reynolds, “Are homemade face masks effective in protection against COVID-19?” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, April 24, 2020. “Right now in the United States”: “Dr. Anthony Fauci Talks with Dr. Jon Lapook about COVID-19,” 60 Minutes Overtime, March 8, 2020. “[wear] cloth face coverings”: Lea Hamner, et al., “High SARS-CoV
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as he steps up blunt talk on pandemic,” Washington Post, July 11, 2020. “I mean the importance”: “Coronavirus Pandemic Expert and Holy Cross Alumnus Dr. Anthony Fauci ’62: A Man for and with Others,” Holy Cross in the News, March 18, 2020. “One day during lunch break”: Donald N. S. Unger, “ ‘I
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.,” Dec. 9, 2015. Interview conducted by Brien Williams. “I call you murderers”: Larry Kramer, “An Open Letter to Dr. Anthony Fauci,” San Francisco Examiner, June 26, 1988. “No one had ever”: Brent Lang, “Dr. Anthony Fauci on His ‘Dear, Deep Friendship’ With Larry Kramer,” Variety, May 28, 2020. “What they were saying”: “Anthony S
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History Project, Dec. 9, 2015. “Here I am”: Ibid. “With AIDS in those days”: Michael Specter, “How Anthony Fauci Became America’s Doctor,” The New Yorker, April 10, 2020. “dear, deep friendship”: Brent Lang, “Dr. Anthony Fauci on His ‘Dear, Deep Friendship’ With Larry Kramer,” Variety, May 28, 2020. “I was on a C
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, “Scientist at Work: Anthony S. Fauci; Consummate Politician on the AIDS Front,” New York Times, Feb. 15, 1994. “I love you, Tony”: Brent Lang, “Dr. Anthony Fauci on His ‘Dear, Deep Friendship’ With Larry Kramer,” Variety, May 28, 2020. “This is a war”: Andy Chow, “Amy Acton Steps Down as DeWine’s
How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS
by David France · 29 Nov 2016
.” He caught his breath, remembering. “It was a wonder watching him wow the FDA, and in meetings with the biggest names in AIDS research, like Anthony Fauci. He earned the respect and the love of his fellow science geeks and those of us lower down the learning curve….Eight million on standardized
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every few months. Was it poppers? Was it sex? Confounding matters further, in the U.S. one of the nation’s leading AIDS researcher, Dr. Anthony Fauci, now claimed that AIDS might be transmitted by “routine” household contact. Without any way to know for sure who had it and who didn’t
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Sonnabend’s scientific presentation. His searing speech was entitled “AIDS and Passive Genocide.” In May of 1987, other AIDS activists and I met with Dr. Anthony Fauci—the closest person we have to an AIDS czar. We asked him—no, we begged him—to issue interim guidelines, urging physicians to prophylax those
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; let’s call it a ‘working confrontation.’ So, why don’t we start.” He turned to the guests. “This,” he said somewhat dramatically, “is Dr. Anthony Fauci.” Fauci looked up from a notepad on which he had been writing to smile at Jim Eigo, Mark Harrington, Iris Long, and a number of
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Times PI Philadelphia Inquirer PI Perspective Philadelphia Inquirer Perspective SFC San Francisco Chronicle VV Village Voice WP Washington Post WSJ Wall Street Journal PEOPLE AF Anthony Fauci AF-K Alvin Friedman-Kien BB Bill Bahlman BC Bobbi Campbell BR Bob Rafsky BS Barbara Starrett DB David Barr DW Daniel William EIK Edward
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475”: Ibid. One of them was Hill: Ibid. Fauci soon invited: AF, correspondence with author, June 6, 2014. “Fauci: Space Isn’t”: AF, “Dinner with Anthony Fauci and James Hill,” December 17, 1987, transcribed by BB, BBA. Hoping to reset relations: Intv. PS, various. “arbitrarily and capriciously”: Marilyn Chase, “AIDS Patient Advocates
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Hearing on Drug Development Suit,” WSJ, December 11, 1987. Bahlman did not: BB, correspondence with author, June 2, 2014. “To be honest”: AF, “Dinner with Anthony Fauci and James Hill.” “The fact is”: Ibid. “We want clinical”: Ibid. This kind of argument: Mark Schoofs, “The Placebo Question Is a Moot Point,” Windy
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City Times, December 1, 1988. “I don’t complain”: AF, “Dinner with Anthony Fauci and James Hill.” “We’re talking over”: Ibid. “You got a little carried”: Ibid. They met weekly: Jonathan Ned Katz, “Herbert Spiers: November 8, 1945
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, RJGA. To deal with: ACT UP Meeting Minutes, May 30, 1988, RJGA. The sole and towering: Ibid. He had just: “An Open Letter to Dr. Anthony Fauci,” VV, May 31, 1988, reprinted in LK, Reports, 193–99. “ACT UP has to”: ACT UP Meeting Minutes, May 30, 1988, RJGA. Drugs, she argued
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reasons I can’t get”: Ibid. “No, no; they don’t”: Intv. Susan Ellenberg, October 27, 2010. Hoping to reset: Transcript, “ACT UP Talks with Anthony Fauci, MD, Bethesda, MD, 6.20.89,” RJGA. He was convinced: AF, intv. Victoria Harden, March 7, 1989, “In Their Own Words: NIH Researchers Recall the
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, BBA, transcript by author. Others had demanded: Ibid.; and correspondence with Derek Link. Fauci accepted: BB videotape, “TAPE 20194.” Inside, the worn linoleum: Bill Snyder, “Anthony Fauci: Unfinished Business,” Lens (April 2004). About fifty activists: MH, correspondence with AF, November 3, 1989, MHA. Richard Elovich: Richard Elovich, intv. Sarah Schulman, March 14
Uncontrolled Spread: Why COVID-19 Crushed Us and How We Can Defeat the Next Pandemic
by Scott Gottlieb · 20 Sep 2021
was biased. That same day that China was locking down Hubei Province, on January 24 the US Senate held a closed-door session where Dr. Anthony Fauci, the longtime director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health; Dr. Robert Redfield, the director of the
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in the White House Situation Room. Joe Grogan was pressing hard on whether the coronavirus could be spreading without being detected. Secretary Azar turned to Anthony Fauci to address Grogan’s concerns. “What would be the epidemiology to justify your question?” Fauci pointedly asked Grogan. Fauci was technically correct; they had no
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were still viewing COVID through the lens of influenza. By that point, others in HHS had a firmer grasp on the virus’s true pathogenicity. Anthony Fauci had sent an email to a Wall Street Journal columnist three days earlier, on March 2, alerting them that for COVID-19, “the mortality rate
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the fact that influenza can also spread asymptomatically, the CDC didn’t assume that the same would apply for the novel coronavirus. On January 28, Anthony Fauci said during a Coronavirus Task Force press conference that in “all the history of respiratory-borne viruses of any type, asymptomatic transmission has never been
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news show to discuss epidemics that were now under way in South Korea, Japan, and Italy. I was set to appear after an interview with Anthony Fauci. We didn’t yet have any firm evidence of local transmission in the US, and Fauci seemed secure, for now, that it was not yet
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, health officials were well aware that patients could be infected with SARS-CoV-2 but not mount a fever.50 Three weeks earlier, NIAID director Anthony Fauci had cited the asymptomatic spread as one reason why he had withdrawn his earlier opposition to bans on travel from affected regions and decided to
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University of Washington. It showed that deaths could reach a million or more if the spread wasn’t brought under control. Earlier in the day, Anthony Fauci told CNN’s State of the Union that the timing for lifting social distancing restrictions would depend heavily on the availability of new tests that
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that Trump had the authority to issue the order and that Azar would implement it. I expressed my serious concerns about the idea, joined by Anthony Fauci, who was conferenced into the call after the meeting had already started. Hahn was in the Oval Office during the conversation, but remained silent through
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pursuing the idea that we needed to develop more of a manufacturing base, back at the time when we were dealing with H5N1 and H7N9,” Anthony Fauci told me. “We made investments in plants that would be able to manufacture flu vaccine, but we were always left with the problem: you can
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Coronavirus, Now Deadly,” CIDRAP News, January 11, 2020, and Edward Holmes, “Novel 2019 Coronavirus Genome,” Virological, January 10, 2020. 45.Catharine Paules, Hilary Marston, and Anthony Fauci, “Coronavirus Infections—More Than Just the Common Cold,” JAMA 323, no. 8 (2020): 707–8. 46.World Health Organization (@WHO), “BREAKING: WHO has received the
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Institutes of Health, “Covid Treatment Guidelines: Overview of COVID-19,” December 17, 2020, https://www.covid19treatmentguide-lines.nih.gov/overview/. 4.Jason Leopold, “NIH FOIA Anthony Fauci Emails,” Buzzfeed, June 1, 2021. NBC News (@NBCNews), “WATCH: ‘The best estimates now of the overall mortality rate for COVID-19 is somewhere between 0
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Lycett, Florian Duchatel, and Paul Digard, “A Brief History of Bird Flu,” Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 374, no. 1775 (2019): 20180257. 10.Anthony Fauci, “Race against Time,” Nature 435, no. 7041 (2005): 423–4. 11.US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, “Isolation of Avian Influenza A(H5N1) Viruses
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LaFraniere, and Sheryl Gay Stolberg, “U.S. Bet Big on Covid Vaccine Manufacturer Even as Problems Mounted,” New York Times, April 6, 2021. 48.Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, in conversation with the author, December 30, 2020. To help address the need for
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Rebecca Ballhaus, “Inside the Week That Shook the Trump Campaign,” Wall Street Journal, October 21, 2020. 8.William Cummings, “‘The Data Speak for Themselves’: Dr. Anthony Fauci Says White House Held a ‘Superspreader Event’ for Coronavirus,” USA Today, October 9, 2020; and “Margaret Brennan: Did anyone ever say this is a national
The Gods of New York: Egotists, Idealists, Opportunists, and the Birth of the Modern City: 1986-1990
by Jonathan Mahler · 11 Aug 2025 · 559pp · 164,804 words
possible to hate anyone,” he wrote Logan.) By the summer of 1988, though, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Dr. Anthony Fauci, was running a close second. Kramer had become a fleeting presence at ACT UP’s Monday night meetings and was spending more time upstate, working
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crept across his face as he started bobbing his head along with the music. * * * *** Four months after Larry Kramer’s first public attack on Dr. Anthony Fauci—he’d followed his open letter in the Voice with an even more vitriolic one in the San Francisco Examiner—ACT UP’s focus remained
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the system listen to us so that your sons and daughters, brothers and sisters, and all of us may live.” The system was already listening. Anthony Fauci had reached out to Kramer before the conference to suggest that they get together for a walk in Montreal. He’d been hurt by Kramer
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, day and night, to press the FDA to make them available immediately, he demanded to know. Thanks in large part to pressure from ACT UP, Anthony Fauci had finally set out to overhaul the government’s anachronistic clinical trial process. The group had long been advocating for what it called a “parallel
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a revolution on the night that he’d conjured the group into being. “In American medicine, there are two eras: Before Larry and After Larry,” Anthony Fauci, who had by now become Kramer’s personal physician, said in 2002. “When all the screaming and the histrionics are forgotten, that will remain.” Spike
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: Robert Hayes, Kim Hopper, Ellen Baxter, Diane Sonde, Gretchen Buchenholz, Steven Banks, Julie Sandorf, David France, Al Sharpton, Vernon Mason, Christopher Griffith, Spike Lee, Dr. Anthony Fauci, David Zornow, Bill Schwartz, Patrick Gaspard, John Jiler, Marc Greenberg, Norman Siegel, George Arzt, Bill Adler, Michael Julian, David Bright, Errol Louis, Mark Griffith, Joe
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UP was drawn from news stories, interviews, Let the Record Show, and How to Survive a Plague. On Larry Kramer’s early anger toward Dr. Anthony Fauci, I relied on interviews with Kramer and Dr. Fauci. For my account of Kochville, I relied on interviews with Rabbi Marc Greenberg, John Jiler’s
Rigged: How the Media, Big Tech, and the Democrats Seized Our Elections
by Mollie Hemingway · 11 Oct 2021 · 595pp · 143,394 words
bans is a mistake.”120 The media weren’t entirely to blame, as they were following the lead of public health experts in many cases. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), said the American public shouldn’t worry about the coronavirus outbreak in China. “It
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team was working on the important behind-the-scenes logistics efforts, government health bureaucrats were making a hash of the public messaging surrounding the virus. Anthony Fauci, director of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and America’s highest paid federal employee, told a Senate committee in March
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done, Trump shared his own thoughts on how America’s top public health official had handled things. “Well, who knew that he knew so little? Anthony Fauci is a good promoter—he’s a great promoter. He is a better baseball pitcher than he is predicting what to do with people’s
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. And several people who had been at the event later tested positive, though it was unclear if the event had led to their diagnosis. Dr. Anthony Fauci claimed weeks later that it was a “superspreader event.”12 Senator Mike Lee of Utah was the first to announce his positive test.13 Democrats
Other Pandemic: How QAnon Contaminated the World
by James Ball · 19 Jul 2023 · 317pp · 87,048 words
– was openly flirting with QAnon conspiracy theories, falsely suggesting that Twitter’s former head of trust and safety supports the sexualisation of children, and that Anthony Fauci (the chief medical advisor of the US) should be prosecuted in connection with the Covid-19 pandemic. So overt was Musk’s flirtation with the
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via social media push posts suggesting that Trump had been the victim of election fraud (while claiming to take no view on the issue), that Anthony Fauci was an investor in a biolab in Wuhan connected to Covid-19, and even that the Capitol riots of 6 January had been a false
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, conspiracists ended up focusing on one man in particular: the wizened seventy-nine-year-old director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Anthony Fauci. Despite Fauci having served in his role under presidents from both parties after being first appointed under Reagan, QAnon rapidly took against him, and their
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fatal when activated by a 5G signal, meaning billions will drop dead all at once.63 Other combinations include much of the above, but giving Anthony Fauci a role either alongside or in place of Bill Gates. People essentially mix and match the conspiratorial ingredients to their taste, picking and choosing from
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Berlin in the autumn of 2020 – the same rally that attempted to break into the country’s parliament building. Kennedy had, in previous interviews, accused Anthony Fauci of trying to poison ‘an entire generation’ with the Covid-19 vaccine, and was a regular and vocal critic of Bill Gates. He was also
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became a sort of ‘nudge nudge, wink wink’ masonic handshake for conspiracy theorists. Klaus Schwab, the former business school professor who heads the Forum, joined Anthony Fauci, Bill Gates and George Soros as one of the conspiracy theorists’ bêtes noires. By this time outlets led by Russia Today (the role of the
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to have started with the former group, who also tied the labs (which in reality are public health research labs, not bioweapons factories)53 to Anthony Fauci – on the very first day of the conflict. As usual, Tucker Carlson and Fox News picked up the useful angle, alongside Russia’s international propaganda
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in vilifying the Covid-19 virus itself, and so we need it to be the creation (or invention) of someone malign: Xi Jinping, Bill Gates, Anthony Fauci or all three in concert. Similarly, it’s easier to imagine QAnon as the product of Ron Watkins, or even Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and
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Think The Coronavirus Is A Deep State Plot’, www.buzzfeednews.com, 27 February 2020. 42. At https://twitter.com/RightWingWatch/status/1232332782401134593. 43. ‘No, Dr Anthony Fauci did not fund research tied to Covid’, www.politifact.com, 8 February 2021. 44. Elizabeth Dwoskin, ‘Massive Facebook study on users’ doubt in vaccines finds
A Shot to Save the World: The Inside Story of the Life-Or-Death Race for a COVID-19 Vaccine
by Gregory Zuckerman · 25 Oct 2021 · 368pp · 106,185 words
Jason Mclellan—Structural biologist, discovered way to keep spike protein in ideal form Nianshuang Wang—Native of China, worked on breakthrough coronavirus research Government Scientists Anthony Fauci—Top U.S. infectious-disease expert Barney Graham—Deputy director, Vaccine Research Center; chased RSV vaccines, worked with Moderna on Covid-19 vaccine John Mascola
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molecules packed with genetic instructions, producing proteins in the body capable of teaching the immune system to protect against disease. Moderna was even working with Anthony Fauci, the U.S. government’s top infectious-disease authority, and his colleagues, which were becoming intrigued by Moderna’s mRNA techniques. Moderna hadn’t tested
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a meeting at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. He walked into a cramped office and could hardly believe who sat before him—Anthony Fauci, who ran the government’s HIV research effort as director of the NIAID, and three living legends: Jonas Salk, Albert Sabin, and Maurice Hilleman, a
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having second thoughts about the entire idea of using adenoviruses for HIV or anything else. The cure truly seemed worse than the disease. “The lesson,” Anthony Fauci of the NIAID said at the time, “is that you’ve got to be careful if you use a vector vaccine.”4 * * * • • • In early 2008
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office refrigerator to revive Weissman if his sugar levels suddenly plummeted. Weissman had learned important lessons early in his career as an AIDS researcher in Anthony Fauci’s lab at the NIAID in Washington, D.C. Weissman watched as NIH scientists, frustrated that their grant proposals had been rejected by various government
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Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease’s headquarters. He pulled up a leather chair at a long, faux-wooden table, across from Graham, Mascola, and Anthony Fauci, the NIAID’s director. Within minutes, Fauci and his colleagues said they were just as intent on swiftly starting a phase 1 clinical trial for
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Covid will come remarkable advances.” For years, pandemic warnings of health policy authorities were ignored or even mocked. During the worst of the 2020 crisis, Anthony Fauci received death threats and some politicians suggested that doctors were inflating the death toll from the coronavirus as a means of generating higher hospital fees
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