Dr. Anthony Fauci was perplexed—and even disturbed—by the public fascination around him that emerged early on in the Covid-19 pandemic
... [+]The nearly 900 pages of Fauci’s correspondence in March and April obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request and published byTuesday show him reacting with confusion to reports of his growing cult-like following as he pushed back against the Trump administration’s controversial actions. about fans making Fauci tributes—including doughnuts, candles, socks and art—the infectious diseases expert deemed it “surrealistic” and said he hopes “this all stops soon.
“It will blow your mind,” Fauci wrote in the April 8 email, adding: “Our society is really totally nuts.”As a colleague labeled the public hype around him “dizzying,” Fauci responded in an April 1 email that “it is not pleasant at all, that is for sure.”Outside of Fauci’s reactions to the hero-like status he gleaned among some early on in the pandemic, the emails reveal the wide range of requests he was receiving from some of the country’s most powerful entities at the time.
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