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When you get something as emotionally charged as a major public health event the people who are
looking for somebody to get angry with make me the symbol and they hate me, do they hate Tony Fauci?
They don't even know who Tony Fauci is.
The nation's top doctor top expert Dr. Anthony Fauci
I became very interested in infectious diseases because you can prevent them
and you can treat them and I was fascinated by science that you could discover unknown things
everything I do now I'm intensively interested in and I'm really good at it
We're dealing with clearly an emerging infectious disease.
Fueling fears of a pandemic.
She's COVID positive.
I'm declaring a public health emergency of international... I turn to Dr. Anthony Fauci
Is the worst yet to come Dr. Fauci? Yes, things will get worse... When you get something like COVID-19
it has the potential of running wild. One million deaths... That's the chilling
aspect of an evolving outbreak every day we learn the actual biological aspect is unprecedented
but the impact on society is unprecedented. Enormous economic psychological implications it
would but it would be temporary, things change and evolve rapidly and you can't get frozen in a state
of saying I think I know everything about this because you're going to get surprised for sure.
Now instead of worrying solely about developing vaccines Dr. Fauci finds himself forced to defend
science itself. The one thing you don't want to do is guess, the world is craving clarity honesty
courage to stick up for what's right. I served six presidents and I have never... You want to base what
you say on scientific data public health knows no politics you're just driven by the truth.