Honest, and do not tell people things that you think they might want to hear. Tell them the truth that is based on evidence. Because even though politicians, be they in the administration or the congress, may not be happy with what you tell them because it disappoints them, they will respect you if after a while it is clear to them that you are telling them the truth based on scientific evidence. Host dr. Anthony fauci, director of the National Institute of allergy and Infectious Diseases, and a prominent member of the White House Coronavirus task force, has become a fixture in americas living room during the covid19 pandemic. Recent polls give him a higher than 75 Approval Rating for his communication about the crisis. Over the next hour we will give you a more indepth look at this veteran Public Health official. You will learn more about dr. Faucis life, work, and Public Health philosophy from his own words. He sat down with q a for a profile interview in 2016, and in this program we
I have no doubt that we will stop this in its tracks in the u. S. I also have no doubt what this one is outbreak continues in africa, we need to be on our guard. Other questions in the room . Lauren graham w. Xa. Can you give us a number of scale how big this from the cdc will be entered that directly entails . Doctors in the hospital or people who were standing in the community is . Little more information on that. I can get back to you at the exact size of the team. We provide epidemiologists are deceived back his beard communications experts, hospital Infection Control Laboratory Experts as needed in a situation and the cdc staff bear or the 130 in africa are tied tightly to experts here who provide back up 24 7. [inaudible] we defer to the local state departments. They are deleted where they are to support. [inaudible] and the room . On the phone . Questioned had strawberry near guard. Your line is open. Thank you. Do we know, can we say if this is an american or is this a visitor
In those 30 years, did you ever have a feeling that something was going to get away from us in one of these crises or diseases . Not that it was going to get away from us but it was going to be a lot more serious than anything anyone anticipated. When i first started seeing and taking care of hiv infected individuals, before we even knew that it was hiv, in early 1981, before the winter of 1881 and 1982 1981 and 1982, it was very unpredictable and no one knew what was happening. I was concerned that many people in and out of government considered this just a fluke of game and, but the way i saw it evolve and following it, it was quite scary. Unfortunately my concerns were wellfounded, because it turned out to historically be today one of the most devastating historic pandemics that we have ever experienced, that sell that civilization has ever experienced. When did you first recognize this . Was there an ahha moment . There was an ahha moment, he was in the summer, and the cdc puts out
Ever have a feeling that something was going to get away from us in one of these crises or diseases . Not that it was going to get away from us, but it was going to be a lot more serious than anyone anticipated. When i first started seeing and taking care of hiv infected individuals, before we even knew that it was hiv, in early 1981 the winter of 1881 and 1982 it was very unpredictable and no one knew what was happening. I was concerned that many people in and out of government considered this just a fluke of among gay men but the way i saw it evolve and following it it was quite scary. Unfortunately my concerns were wellfounded, because it turned out to historically be today one of the most devastating historic pandemics that we have ever experienced, that sell that civilization has ever experienced. When did you first recognize this . Was there an ahha moment . There was an ahha moment, he it was the summer, and the cdc puts out a weekly mortality report, which is almost a pamphlet
Their june 5th, 1981 mmwr, five men from los angeles who presented with a very unusual kind of pneumonia that you only see in people with a very suppressed kind of immune system. And i said, wow, why all gay men . They were supposedly completely healthy other than that. I thought it was a fluke and i put it aside. And then the next mmwr appeared on my desk at the nih, and now they said 26 men, not only from l. A. , but also from San Francisco and new york, have this strange pneumonia, but a strange cancer that you see with people with this immune system that is suppressed, and it was all in gay men, and i thought whoa, this is really bad. I had no idea what it was. It looked very much like it was an Infectious Disease. When you look at these patterns, it seems to have been spread by sexual contact, and that is when i really had that combination of an ahha moment and anxiety, this is really going to be bad and i made this transforming decision of my career, i decided i was going to stop