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Dr. Anthony Fauci, explained

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Where Dr. Fauci came from — and the crisis that shaped his career.

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Correction: At 4:28, a previous version of this video read "Federal Drug Administration." It should read "Food and Drug Administration."

Dr. Anthony Fauci has become one of the most recognizable faces of the United States’ coronavirus response, as a member of the Coronavirus Task Force and director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. But it was an earlier crisis that shaped his career — and that’s crucial to understand his position today.

As the above video shows, Dr. Fauci’s involvement in the AIDS crisis, from the virus’s discovery to the present day, has affected the course of his career and the way the disease is treated around the world. That history, in turn, informs how we learn about and treat the coronavirus today.

In addition to scientific progress, AIDS also necessitated bureaucratic changes in the government response to the disease. By negotiating these challenges, Dr. Fauci secured his place in the public health system and changed how AIDS was treated.

Further Reading:

A topic as broad as the AIDS crisis, even narrowed to Dr. Fauci’s involvement, could have an endless reading list, from primary sources like ACT UP’s historical archive (https://actupny.org/documents/nyplPR.html) or one of Dr. Fauci’s early lectures on AIDs https://collections.nlm.nih.gov/catalog/nlm:nlmuid-101674642-vid.

However, these books provide particularly useful context on a complex story.

Against the Odds: The Story of of AIDS Drug Development, Politics, and Profits by Peter Arno and Karyn Feiden
https://archive.org/details/againstodds00pete/page/258/mode/2up

This book provides an exhaustive tour of the AIDS crisis from a drug research perspective, with extensive coverage of the NIH and FDA.

Big Shot: Passion, Politics, and the Struggle for an AIDS Vaccine by Patricia Thomas
https://archive.org/details/bigshotpassionpo00thom/
This book extends beyond the 1980s period covered in this video to explore the long search for an AIDS vaccine. It’s highly useful as a history of pharmaceutical and government efforts.

How to Survive a Plague by David France
https://www.google.com/books/edition/How_to_Survive_a_Plague/LIqxCwAAQBAJ
This book, and the documentary of the same name, describe the activist history of the crisis with plenty of research into the government response.

AIDS at 30: A History by Victoria Harden and Anthony A. Fauci
https://www.google.com/books/edition/AIDS_at_30/QosAu8D4ELEC
Written by a former NIH history director and Dr. Fauci, this is something like an “official” history of the AIDs crisis, from the beginning to the book’s 2012 publication date.

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