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Anthony Stephen Fauci is an American physician-scientist and immunologist who served as the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) from 1984 to 2022 and as Chief Medical Advisor to the President from 2021 to 2022. He was one of the world's most frequently cited scientists across all scientific journals from 1983 to 2002.
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science · American immunologist (born 1940) · immunologist · physician · researcher · also Anthony Fauci, Anthony S. Fauci, Anthony S Fauci, Anthony Stephen Fauci, Anthony Stephen "Tony" Fauci, A. Fauci
Born 24 December 1940 · Q573246
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“it will be a great honor to work with him again”
“It’s like fighting a forest fire: leave behind one burning ember, one case undetected, and the epidemic could reignite.”
“As we continue to expedite research while enforcing high safety and efficacy standards, the implementation of the public health measures already known to contain prior Ebola virus outbreaks and the implementation of treatment strategies such as fluid and electrolyte replacement are essential to preventing additional infections, treating those already infected, protecting healthcare providers, and ultimately bringing this epidemic to an end.”
“s try and get it corrected for the next time. On his response to misstatements by Donald Trump during COVID-19 press briefings, in Jon Cohen,”
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“s high fatality rate showed that mitigation efforts were insufficient, Fauci replied,”
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“when you start to see community spread”
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“While NIAID is an active participant in the global effort to address the public health emergency occurring in west Africa, it is important to recognize that we are still in the early stages of understanding how infection with the Ebola virus can be treated and prevented.”
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“could lead to a shortage of masks for the people who really need”
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“As we continue to expedite research while enforcing high safety and efficacy standards, the implementation of the public health measures already known to contain prior Ebola virus outbreaks and the implementation of treatment strategies such as fluid and electrolyte replacement is essential to preventing additional infections, treating those already infected, protecting healthcare providers, and ultimately bringing this epidemic to an end.”
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Public attention spiked: 4,542 Wikipedia readers in one day, 3.2× the usual 1,430, with 4 article edits. Editors noted: clarify title description wording
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Snopes rated the claim “Texts prove Dr. Anthony Fauci, who helped lead the United States' COVID-19 response, covered up data indicating that 82% of pregnant women who received an mRNA COVID-19 vaccine in their first trimester miscarried.” False.
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AFP Fact Check rated the claim “Fauci knew Covid-19 vaccines led to an 82% miscarriage rate” False.
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Public attention spiked: 7,579 Wikipedia readers in one day, 5.3× the usual 1,430, with 28 article edits. Editors noted: Pardon was issued Jan 19; per source in article.
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Lead Stories rated the claim “This is a real photo of the moment when Fauci's wife flipped the bird at a photographer” AI Touch-Up.
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Snopes rated the claim “Dr. Anthony Fauci co-authored a paper that found masks caused most deaths during the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic.” False.
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Public attention spiked: 11,166 Wikipedia readers in one day, 7.8× the usual 1,430, with 2 article edits. Editors noted: Fixed duplicate reference names – You can help!
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Public attention spiked: 40,534 Wikipedia readers in one day, 28.4× the usual 1,430, with 14 article edits. Coverage that week: “Why making Anthony Fauci the enemy will harm US public health for years” (The Guardian).
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The Guardian: Why making Anthony Fauci the enemy will harm US public health for years
The Senate Homeland Security Committee, where Fauci testified the week prior, voted to hold him in contempt due to his invocation of the Fifth Amendment
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The Guardian: Asking Anthony Fauci for medical advice then calling for him to be jailed? Katie Miller is the latest Maga hypocrite | Arwa Mahdawi
Snopes rated the claim “Katie Miller, a former White House adviser who has called for Dr. Anthony Fauci to be imprisoned, received medical advice from him during her pregnancy in 2020.” True.
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Public attention spiked: 39,378 Wikipedia readers in one day, 27.5× the usual 1,430, with 3 article edits. Editors noted: Open access bot: doi updated in citation with #oabot.
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Snopes rated the claim “Several U.S. Senate Republicans reportedly suffered from diarrhea in July 2026 after filming themselves eating salads to troll Dr. Anthony Fauci after he criticized the party for food regulation cuts.” Labeled Satire.
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Lead Stories rated the claim “Nate Ward, who confront Fauci and DC Mayor Muriel Bowser on Covid, is dead” Still With Us.
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Snopes rated the claim “Anthony Fauci, former top infectious-disease official at the National Institutes of Health, wrote in his publicly released diary of President Donald Trump, "POTUS has no interest at all in the Pandemic. He is focusing on blocking Biden from being POTUS. He is embarrassing the USA."” Correct Attribution.
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Public attention spiked: 204,477 Wikipedia readers in one day, 143× the usual 1,430, with 39 article edits. Coverage that week: “Anthony Fauci’s diaries take aim at News Corp journalist Sharri Markson’s ‘nonsense’ Covid-19 investigation” (The Guardian).
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The Guardian: Anthony Fauci’s diaries take aim at News Corp journalist Sharri Markson’s ‘nonsense’ Covid-19 investigation
The Guardian: Anthony Fauci’s high-profile Senate hearing: what we learned
Fauci testified before the Senate upon being subpoenaed about COVID-19, during which he repeatedly invoked his right to avoid self-incrimination under the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution
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Snopes rated the claim “Anthony Fauci, the chief medical adviser to the U.S. president during the COVID-19 pandemic, had a pulmonary infarct that was a side effect of a COVID-19 vaccine months earlier.” Mixture.
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Lead Stories rated the claim “RFK Jr. says covid vaccines causes "turbo cancer" and causes "gayness" and called Anthony Fauci a "goblin."” Altered Video.
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Fauci and his wife Christine Grady gave the keynote address at Macalester College's commencement ceremony, where they both received honorary degrees
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AFP Fact Check rated the claim “New Zealand charges Anthony Fauci with negligent homicide” False.
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The United States Department of Health and Human Services terminated a $168,000 contract for a Fauci museum exhibit at the National Institutes of Health
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President Biden issued Fauci a preemptive pardon covering potential federal offenses between January 1, 2014, and January 19, 2025
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Received an honorary degree and was invited to speak at the commencement of the humanities and sciences graduates at the University of San Francisco
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Georgetown University announced that Fauci would join its faculty as a distinguished professor, teaching in both the School of Medicine and McCourt School of Public Policy, effective July 1
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“a number of complicated reasons”
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Fauci announced his intention to step down from his position in December "to pursue the next chapter" of his career
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Fauci said that he would resign if Donald Trump won the 2024 U
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Fauci said that the United States was "out of the full-blown explosive pandemic phase" of COVID-19
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“out of the full-blown explosive pandemic phase”
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That he has lived in the same "comfortable but modest house since 1977"
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“we need to keep the politics out of”
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“As we get out of the full-blown pandemic phase of Covid-19, which we are certainly heading out of, these decisions will increasingly be made on a local level rather than centrally decided or mandated. There will also be more people making their own decisions on how they want to deal with the virus.”
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Fauci said that the SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant is the "greatest threat" to eliminating COVID-19 in the United States
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Rappler rated the claim “Dr. Anthony Fauci said in a leaked email that masks don't work.” Misleading.
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Awarded Philip Hauge Abelson Prize (2021).
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Awarded Dan David Prize (2021).
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Won NAS Public Welfare Medal (2021).
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Fauci was admitted as an honorary fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland
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Fauci was quoted saying that letting the science speak on the pandemic got him "into a little bit of trouble" and got "push-back from people in the White House, including the president", during the Trump administration
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President Trump tweeted, "The number of cases and deaths of the China Virus is far exaggerated in the United States because of [the CDC's] ridiculous method of determination compared to other countries"
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Career landmark: Chief Medical Advisor to the President (2021–2022).
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“, Cameron Frew, Unila, (20 February 2021) There”
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“I think for those people there, they probably put themselves at an increased risk because they essentially did not adhere to the fundamentals of public health and COVID-19 context which is universal wearing of masks, keeping physical distance, avoiding crowds in congregate settings. The fact that it was outdoors is a little bit better than if they were indoors completely. But you can still have a super spreader situation when you do things in a crowded way.”
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President-elect Joe Biden asked Fauci, in addition to remaining in his role as director of the NIAID, to serve as the Chief Medical Advisor to the President in the Biden administration
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Trump insinuated he would fire Fauci "after the election" while on stage at a campaign rally at Miami-Opa Locka Executive Airport in Opa-locka, Florida
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Fauci mentioned that he "wasn't surprised" that Donald Trump contracted COVID-19
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Trump publicly opined that Fauci "is a nice man, but he's made a lot of mistakes
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Trump contradicted Fauci's comments describing a dire situation in the country, with Trump saying: "I think we are in a good place
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During a press conference, Fauci stated that it was a "false narrative to take comfort in a lower rate of death" for COVID-19 in the country: "There's so many other things that are very dangerous and bad about this virus
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Fauci spoke on a Facebook livestream, offering his opinion that the country's situation regarding COVID-19 "is really not good", pointing to more than 55,000 new cases on July 4, 2020
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Awarded John Maddox Prize (2020).
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Awarded Nature's 10 (2020).
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Awarded Prix International de l’INSERM (2020).
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“false narrative to take comfort in a lower rate of death”
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“My career and my identity has really been defined by HIV.”
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“global pandemic which would then have significant implications for”
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“right now in the United States, people [who are not infected] should not be walking around with masks”
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“still knee-deep in the first wave”
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“(November 15 2020) on CNN’s Jake Tapper State of the Union The answer is yes, a few, but one in particular. My youngest daughter’s boyfriend’s brother is a 32-year-old young man, athletic, healthy, who got COVID-19 and had one of the unusual complications of cardiomyopathy with an arrhythmia and died. In an interview according to Dr. Fauci Reveals Daughter’s Boyfriend”
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Mentioned that other members of his family, including his wife and daughters, had been repeatedly harassed since the pandemic began
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Awarded Canada Gairdner Global Health Award (2016).
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Won Mendel Medal (2016).
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Awarded honorary doctor of George Washington University (2015).
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Fauci was invited to deliver guest remarks on May 21, 2020, for the Johns Hopkins University Class of 2020
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In a United States congressional hearing regarding the Ebola virus crisis, Fauci, who, as the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) had been discussing the importance of screening
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Sean Strub of HuffPost criticized Fauci for "delaying promotion of an AIDS treatment that would have prevented tens of thousands of deaths in the first years of the epidemic" and accused him of "rewriting history"
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Won Robert Koch Gold Medal (2013).
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Awarded Prince Mahidol Award (2013).
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Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Miami (2012).
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Awarded Dr. Paul Janssen Award for Biomedical Research (2010).
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Fauci predicted that the H1N1 virus causing the 2009 swine flu pandemic could infect as many as one in three Americans, more than the amount of Americans usually infected by the seasonal flu
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Awarded honorary doctor of Harvard University (2009).
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Won Presidential Medal of Freedom presented by George W. Bush (2008).
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Won George M. Kober Medal (2007).
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Awarded Lasker-Bloomberg Public Service Award (2007).
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Won National Medal of Science (2005).
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Awarded American Association of Immunologists Lifetime Achievement Award (2005).
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For pioneering HIV pathogenesis research and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2008 for his work on PEPFAR, an AIDS relief program, by President George W
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The Institute for Scientific Information stated that from 1983 to 2002, "Fauci was the 13th most-cited scientist among the 2
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Awarded Albany Medical Center Prize (2002).
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Awarded Robert J. and Claire Pasarow Foundation Award for Distinguished Contributions to Cancer Research (1999).
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Awarded Alexander Fleming Award (1999).
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Awarded Howard Taylor Ricketts Prize (1998).
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Awarded Ernst Jung Prize for Medicine (1995).
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Awarded Dr. Nathan Davis Award for Members of the Executive Branch in Career Public Service (1992).
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Awarded Maxwell Finland Award (1989).
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Awarded George M. Kober Lectureship (1988).
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Through to the 21st edition, published in 2022
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Married Christine Grady, a nurse and bioethicist with the NIH, after they met while treating a patient
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Bore the brunt of the anger from the LGBTQ+ community who were largely ignored by the government
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Career landmark: director (1984–2022).
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And his team of researchers began looking for a vaccine or treatment for this novel virus, though they met a number of obstacles
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“I feel like I'm 45. And I act like I'm 35. When I start to feel like I don't have the energy to do the job, whatever my age, I’ll walk away and write my book”
“You don't want to go to war with a president [...] There's a temptation that you have to fight to tell the president what you think he wants to hear. I’ve seen really good people do that.”
“Fauci: Exactly, that’s the point. It could lead to a shortage of masks for the people who really need it.”
Awarded Arthur S. Flemming Award (1979).
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And in 1980 was appointed chief of the NIAID's Laboratory of Immunoregulation
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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)
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Studied at Weill Cornell Medicine, Doctor of Medicine (1962–1966).
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Studied at College of the Holy Cross, Bachelor of Science (1958–1962).
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With a Bachelor of Arts in classics and pre-med studies, then attended medical school at Cornell University, where he graduated first in his class with a Doctor of Medicine (M
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Studied at Regis High School (1958).
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Born 1940-12-24.
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In Brooklyn Hospital in Downtown Brooklyn, New York City
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As we continue to expedite research while enforcing high safety and efficacy standards, the implementation of the public health measures already known to contain prior Ebola virus outbreaks and the implementation of treatment strategies such as fluid and electrolyte replacement are essential to preventing additional infections, treating those already infected, protecting healthcare providers, and ultimately bringing this epidemic to an end.
As we continue to expedite research while enforcing high safety and efficacy standards, the implementation of the public health measures already known to contain prior Ebola virus outbreaks and the implementation of treatment strategies such as fluid and electrolyte replacement is essential to preventing additional infections, treating those already infected, protecting healthcare providers, and ultimately bringing this epidemic to an end.
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