After 54 years at the National Institutes of Health and 38 years as the director of the NIAID, Dr. Anthony Fauci will be stepping down from public service at the end of the year.
"When did it all get so political?" Karl asked.
"I look upon the country, in many respects, as my patient," he went on to say. "And when you -- if you're a really good physician, you are concerned and worry about every element of your patient.""Exactly," Fauci responded. "Exactly. And even if the patient is somebody who's not the most attractive person in the world in the sense of personality, you still got to treat them the way you would treat anybody else. We learned that in medical school.
"It wasn't a day," Fauci answered. "It was a period. I've trained a lot of Italian scientists in my lab in the arena of infectious diseases, many of whom went back to Italy and were in the epicenter of the northern Italy disaster there." MORE: Fauci says he's taking 2nd course of Paxlovid after experiencing rebound with the antiviral treatment
"If you are true to the data and the evidence, if something is evolving, means it isn't the same as it was before and therefore the data are going to allow you to upgrade and update -- whether it's a recommendation, whether it's a guideline, whether it's the communication to the public," Fauci explained.
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