‘Fauci’ Review: Doc Examines the Scientist’s Work on COVID in Light of an Earlier Pandemic
started work on it before COVID was known to exist, having had the idea that he was a fascinating figure just for his role in the AIDS crisis in the ’80s, ’90s and early 2000s. “Fauci” has naturally ended up being a tale of two pandemics, and the battles that can erupt between scientists and activists. One of them even has a happy ending, and, probably needless to say, it’s not the one that has him getting threats from the enemies of epidemiology at the moment.
The issue then was Fauci — whose association with the National Institutes of Health goes back to the 1960s — being seen as dragging his feet on experimental treatments for HIV and AIDS while the death rate from the incurable disease skyrocketed.
It seems like a fairy tale now, at least as presented in the film, but while maintaining that drugs can’t just be rushed into the testing process — he would urge adoption of no cocktail before its time — he came to accept that communities most threatened by a disease can be as smart about what ails them as the white-coat set. Flash-forward to President George W.
Not too much time is spent on his frenemy-turned-greatest adversary of all, former boss Donald Trump, although there’s a mid-2020 phone call where he’s told the White House is responsible for suddenly turning down all his requests to do interviews about nascent vaccine development… one of what must have been many the-calls-are-coming-from-inside-the-house moments.
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