Fauci sometimes gets 2,000 emails a day — but never deletes them and feels he has a 'responsibility' to reply to them all
"I am the type of person, I get asked a lot of questions that are medical questions [from] people who need help," Fauci said."I've never been able to lose that feeling of responsibility of when people reach out to you and ask for help that you respond to them. So, I do that, [and] that takes a lot of time."
Fauci, the US's top infectious-disease expert, wrote in an email to a friend in March 2020 that he was receiving more than 2,000 emails a day, according to emails obtained by Buzzfeed and The Washington Post. "I spend a lot of time doing emails and sometimes late into the night," Fauci said at Journal's Tech Health event.
"A lot of the emails are people that really do need to get some feedback from you," Fauci said. He sends most of his emails from hisThe 80-year-old said he feels like he can't delete his emails because of his role as a medical expert during a global pandemic. "People tell me that, 'why don't you just wipe the screen clean?'" he said."You can't do that. You just can't.", per The Post. Fauci replied with a polite thank you.Subscribe to push notificationsSign up for 10 Things in Politics newsletter for the biggest stories in politics & the economy.
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