Ahead of 'American Masters: Dr. Tony Fauci’s' PBS premiere, The Daily Beast spoke to Dr. Anthony Fauci about the relief he felt when the Biden administration took over and his assessment of where we are now in the battle against COVID.
The dissonance between being hailed as “America’s most trusted doctor” and enduring vocal threats on his life is “a little bit disarming,” he says. “The one good thing is that, by my estimate—and I think it’s a reasonably accurate estimate—I think the people who care about me and admire the things I’ve done, compared to the people that want to kill me, it’s about a 9-to-1 ratio. The only trouble is that people that want to kill me are very loud about it and very repetitive about it.
It was gradual. But then a full appreciation from a purely scientific standpoint. Given the nature of this virus—everything from its transmissibility, which is highly efficient; the lack of universal acceptance of vaccines; the very short durability of protection against infection, even with prior infection and prior vaccination—we never were going to eradicate this virus. We’ve only eradicated one virus in the history and annals of virology, and that was smallpox.
It’s a great question, Kevin. But you know, you can’t base life decisions on what you think the public’s reaction might be. That’s a bad rabbit hole to go down. They wanted to gain our attention. So they were iconoclastic, disruptive, and theatrical. They wanted us to listen to them. Probably one of the best things I ever did in my life was to put aside the theatrics, put aside the confrontative nature of what they were doing, and listen to what they were saying. Once I listened, it became clear that they were making perfect sense. If I were in their shoes, I would have been doing the same thing.Yes.
This documentary project started in January 2021. Did you feel that there was a change to your mental health or to how you felt about doing your job when the Biden administration took over versus a Trump administration?
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