The NIH director was criticized for his response in the early days of the crisis, but has since led the agency to developing highly effective treatments.
Eventually, much of Fauci’s job became caring for AIDS patients.
“I went from [being] a person who was seeing patients with other diseases and developing cures and adequate therapies for them in the early part of my career to every day taking care of people who inevitably were going to die,” heThe time it took for NIH researchers to develop effective treatments for AIDS patients were “the dark years of my life and career,” Fauci said in 2016, “because almost every single one of my patients died. And that was a terrible feeling.
Both Fauci and the NIH were berated by LGBTQ rights activists in the early part of the crisis for not moving quickly enough to bring experimental therapeutics to patients. The doctor remarked on the criticism inearlier this year, recalling a meeting he once had with 50 to 100 activists in New York City’s Greenwich Village.
“They were angry with the federal government, because they felt that the federal government was not listening to them. And they were right; I mean, I think they had a really good point,” Fauci told Gross, explaining how he came to think of the activists ― one of whom
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