Some of the emails to Fauci at the beginning of the pandemic turned out to be eerily prophetic as thousands reached out to him for advice or with suggestions.
a month before. State leaders had issued draconian lockdown orders, upending millions of lives and prompting an economic freefall. Testing, social distancing and contact tracing were in their infancy, hospitals were overwhelmed, crucial protective equipment was running short and vaccines had yet to be developed.
On Feb. 18, 2020, Fauci received an email from an apparent old acquaintance who asked if he was in town for a potential meet-up over the weekend. Fauci apologized, writing that he would not be able to connect and asked if they could meet some other time as he was working nonstop. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, center, speaks as U.S. Vice President Mike Pence, right, and Deborah Birx, coronavirus response coordinator, listen during a news conference in the briefing room of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Monday, March 2, 2020.U.S. had a little over 153,000 Covid cases
One person who reached out in early March, describing himself as "neither a physician or a scientist," suggested that the government expose U.S. adults to other known and "less lethal" coronaviruses to try to develop some level of immunity against the new virus.Quilter Ami Simms reached out in mid-March to offer her services to the NIH in making a pattern for face masks.
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