Nadene Goldfoot
Anthony Stephen Fauci OMRI is an American physician-scientist and immunologist serving as the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and the Chief Medical Advisor to the President.
America's top infectious disease official Dr. Anthony Fauci received a prestigious $1 million Israeli prize Monday, along with six other researchers who shared two additional $1 million prizes for their contributions to health and medicine. The Dan David Prize, affiliated with Tel Aviv University, said it honored Fauci for his career in public health and "speaking truth to power" during the politicized COVID-19 crisis.
After completing his medical residency in 1968, Fauci joined the National Institutes of Health (NIH) as a clinical associate in the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases's (NIAID) Laboratory of Clinical Investigation (LCI).
He became head of the LCI's Clinical Physiology Section in 1974, and in 1980 was appointed chief of the NIAID's Laboratory of Immunoregulation. In 1984, he became director of the NIAID, a position he still holds. Fauci has been offered the position of director of the NIH several times, but has declined each time.
Fauci has been at the forefront of U.S. efforts to contend with viral diseases like HIV/AIDS, SARS, the Swine flu, MERS, Ebola, and COVID-19. He played a significant role in the early 2000s in creating the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) and in driving development of biodefense drugs and vaccines following the 9/11 terrorist attacks. He's been working on this for 47 years.
Fauci has been a visiting professor at many medical centers and has received numerous honorary doctorates from universities in the U.S. and abroad.
In 2003, the Institute for Scientific Information stated that from 1983 to 2002, "Fauci was the 13th most-cited scientist among the 2.5 to 3.0 million authors in all disciplines throughout the world who published articles in scientific journals." As a government scientist under seven presidents, Fauci has been described as "a consistent spokesperson for science, a person who more than any other figure has brokered a generational peace" between the two worlds of science and politics.
Leading AIDS activist Larry Kramer attacked Fauci relentlessly in the media. He called him an "incompetent idiot" and a "pill-pushing" tool of the medical establishment. Laurence David Kramer (June 25, 1935 – May 27, 2020) was an American playwright, author, film producer, public health advocate, and LGBT rights activist. He was not a scientist nor an immunologist like Dr. Fauci. His hatred was purely emotional over his disease of AIDS.
Fauci did not have control over drug approval though many people felt he was not doing enough. It takes time to allow a drug to be developed and come on the market.
Fauci did make an effort in the late 1980s to reach out to the LGBTQ+ community in New York and San Francisco to find ways he and the NIAID could find a solution. Though Fauci was initially admonished for his treatment of the AIDS epidemic, his work in the community was eventually acknowledged. Kramer, who had spent years hating Fauci for his treatment of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, eventually called him "the only true and great hero" among government officials during the AIDS crisis.
Trump attacked Dr. Anthony Fauci. He said that 'people are tired of hearing him and all these idiots' on coronavirus. He said this last year on October 19th in Arizona. On the third day of a western campaign swing, Trump was facing intense pressure to turn around his campaign, hoping for the type of last-minute surge that gave him a come-from-behind victory four years ago. But his inconsistent message, another rise in virus cases and his attacks on experts like Fauci could undermine his final efforts to appeal to voters outside his most loyal base. People are still bad-mouthing Fauci just because Trump did so, not backing it up with any reason.
Fauci and Texas tangled. Fauci and other top medical leaders have flagged Texas as a COVID-19 hot spot, but Patrick said the infectious disease doctor has “been wrong every time on every issue.”Despite Texas’ surge of new COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations, The Republican Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick said Tuesday evening that he doesn’t need the advice of the nation’s top infectious disease doctor, Anthony Fauci. Patrick is an American radio talk show host, television broadcaster, and politician. He has served as the 42nd lieutenant governor of Texas since January 2015, under Greg Abbott. He's no doctor.
This is not the first time that Americans wore masks in a medical emergency. In North America, before the 1918 influenza epidemic, surgeons wore masks, as did nurses and doctors who were treating contagious patients in a hospital setting. But during the flu epidemic, cities around the world passed mandatory masking orders. Historian Nancy Tomes argues that mask-wearing was embraced by the American public as “an emblem of public spiritedness and discipline.”
Women accustomed to knitting socks and rolling bandages for soldiers quickly took to mask-making as a patriotic duty. That said, the enthusiasm for mask-wearing waned quickly, as Alfred W. Crosby showed in America’s Forgotten Pandemic: The Influenza of 1918.
Covid is far more contagious than the flu of 1918 was. Now, the Delta strain, which we are fighting against now, is even more contagious than Covid 19. Then, in 1918, they had no medicines to help.
The one thing that I was thankful to Trump for was in backing Israel and placing the USA embassy in Jerusalem. They say G-d works in mysterious ways, and he did with Trump. No other president has had the gumption of backing Israel since Truman, and Trump, with his family including an orthodox Jew who had married his daughter, turned out to be Israel's friend. Truman was impressed with his partner, who was Jewish. All those around him in Washington were against the creation of Israel; at least gave him opposing advice. Now Trump is besmirching his own name by not going along with proven science during the worst pandemic we have ever faced. His followers here in the States are following his lead blindly, as I see it.
Fauci has taken on the hardest public job of all, the health of our nation. His education is that of a doctor, so he knows his science. According to Fauci, building and maintaining trust all comes down to one crucial thing: “What you do, what you say … and the policy recommendations you make have to be based on evidence and data.” He added that leaders should never allow themselves to be pressured or influenced into taking any position that’s based on anything other than scientific data and scientific evidence. When it comes to educating the public, it’s also important to be able to explain the science and data supporting your decisions in a way that is accessible and easy to understand. This is particularly important with complex and ever-changing situations where the evidence and data evolves rapidly—if leaders are transparent about the information they are using to inform decision-making, the public may have fewer concerns about those leaders “flip-flopping,” and have more trust in the decision-making process. Fauci added, “Stick with the truth, not what people want to hear.” Who knows the truth? Not radio or TV newscasters who present their political views. Scientists in Public Health do.
On Resilience and Self-Care: Although Fauci admitted to not having had a day off in the last year, he still recognizes the importance and value of taking care of himself. In fact, Fauci makes time every single day for a three- to four-mile run to maintain his own physical and mental well-being. (He was born in 1940.) At the time of this publication, he is 81 years old! He also fully recognizes that challenges such as fatigue and burnout are more acute for care provides, saying, “We’ve got to somehow design our systems to allow for some relief for frontline healthcare workers.” According to him, our systems need a degree of flexibility and surge capacity, and that may mean bringing back retired clinicians or pulling healthcare professionals from other areas of the healthcare system. Ultimately, when healthcare leaders are in planning sessions and considering on-call schedules, the most important thing to keep in mind is that a pandemic is like a marathon, not a sprint—and we have to think about solutions with longevity and sustainability, not quick fixes.
Resource:
https://jewishfactsfromportlant.blogspot.com/2020/11/dr-fauci-immunologist-head-of-usas.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Fauci
https://www.chicagotribune.com/coronavirus/ct-nw-trump-fauci-coronavirus-20201019-rofykxwrabcxdghjpa3r6tdjmu-story.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/24/health/fauci-trump-covid.html
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