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I'm Dave Davies.
My guest, Doctor Anthony Fauci, is one of the most recognizable people in America.
For much of the past four years, hes been the public face of the governments response to the COVID pandemic, earning admiration and gratitude from millions and from others condemnation for masking requirements, business school and travel restrictions, and among the most darkly conspiratorial for somehow causing the catastrophe.
Both points of view were on display at a House committee hearing, where he was thanked profusely by Democrats and told he should be in prison.
One republican but Faucis leadership role in protecting the nations health predates Covid by decades.
He headed the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health for 38 years before retiring in 2022 to take an academic appointment.
He played leading roles in responding to the AIDS crisis, the Ebola outbreak, the SARS epidemic, the threat of anthrax and more.
He became a skilled Washington player, advising seven presidents and constantly briefing Congress in public and private hearing.
And he never gave up seeing patients, at one point climbing into protective gear resembling a spacesuit to treat a hospitalized Ebola patient.
Anthony Fauci is now a professor at Georgetown University with a joint appointment at the School of Medicine and the McCourt School of Public Policy.
He tells his story in a new memoir titled on a doctor's journey in Public Service.
Well, Doctor Fauci, welcome back to Fresh Air.
Thank you.