What a moving tribute to Dr. Fauci

[mainer]

Written by an AIDS activist who once crossed swords with him. Reveals details never before known about Fauci’s unseen efforts to work with the LGBTQ community.

“Dr. Fauci walked through the fire with us, and his friendships with AIDS activists deepened with time, bound by a shared trauma. In those early years, while some in our community were accusing him of not caring enough about AIDS, he didn’t tell us about the hundreds of gay men he had tried to save under his care at the N.I.H. hospital. Until this month, he still did rounds there, a clinician above all else.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/31/opinion/anthony-fauci-hiv-aids-act-up.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

[3catwoman3]

1. "A clinician above all else."

This humble man has given so much of himself.

[TigressDem]

2. K&R

[leftyladyfrommo]

3. Wow! I didn't know that. Fauci is judt such a decent

human being. They are getting rare.

[Rural_Progressive]

9. Lots of decent human beings

You just don't hear anything about most of them, they just go about their business quietly and without any fanfare.

[hoosierspud]

12. He also took care of Ebola patients

Which is just as scary, if not scarier than AIDS.

[2naSalit]

4. One of the...

Stellar humans, one of the greatest to walk the planet. His impact will never be completely told but is felt every day by every human since his work began.


Thank you, Dr. Anthony Fauci...

[republianmushroom]

5. like

thank you Dr. Fauci

[LiberalLovinLug]

6. He should be rewarded a second medal of freedom or another higher honour

I know he’s already gotten a MOF from a Republican President no less, but he should be publicly honoured for all his work trying to combat the COVID crisis all the while enduring the bloated orange pigs insults.

[Alexander Of Assyria]

11. If science medals were as valued by media and everyone else as sports trophies.

[nevergiveup]

7. Someday there will be a movie about him.

It will make you smile and it will make you cry.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

8. Thank you Dr. Fauci

Link to tweet

[Lucinda]

10. ❤️ ✿❧🌿❧✿ ❤️

[FakeNoose]

13. Well, the ones who cursed him are mostly dead now

Just sayin'

[Joinfortmill]

14. Dr. Fauci is the best of what America can be. God bless him.

[Habibi]

15. I'm not a subscriber, so

could you tell me the author of this piece? (Sorry, it's not showing up for me.)

My best friend died from complications from AIDS, and I've always been grateful for Dr. Fauci's involvement in the quest for understanding and treating this disease.

[mainer]

16. the author is Peter Staley

an early member of ACT UP

The first time I met Dr. Anthony Fauci was at the International AIDS Conference in Montreal during the summer of 1989. ACT UP, the AIDS activist group I was a part of, had scared the bejesus out of conference organizers by seizing the stage during the opening session, then made things worse by disrupting various scientific presentations. Many, if not most, AIDS researchers wanted us hauled away and never heard from again. Little did they know that Dr. Fauci, who was leading the response at the National Institutes of Health, had been meeting with members of ACT UP since shortly after our founding two years earlier.

The regular meetings he had with an ACT UP member, Bill Bahlman, continued even after Larry Kramer, one of the group’s founders, wrote an open letter to Dr. Fauci in The Village Voice calling him a murderer and comparing him to the Holocaust organizer Adolf Eichmann. But there Dr. Fauci was, meeting with me and my comrades, branded radical homosexuals, to discuss our policy proposal for upending longstanding Food and Drug Administration strictures against public access to drugs before they are approved.

Mr. Kramer had labeled him our enemy, but I couldn’t shake the feeling that as the head of our government’s AIDS research efforts, Dr. Fauci had my life in his hands. Only four years earlier, at the age of 24, I was diagnosed with AIDS-related complex, considered a certain death sentence at the time.

Days after the conference, I found myself in Dr. Fauci’s office, along with the ACT UP members Mark Harrington and Jim Eigo, hammering out the final details of our parallel track program, which would allow thousands of people to obtain experimental drugs outside of traditional clinical trials. Within days, a New York Times front page headline about Dr. Fauci read, “AIDS Researcher Seeks Wide Access to Drugs in Tests.” The F.D.A. quickly fell in line. ACT UP had scored its first major victory, with Dr. Fauci’s help.

[Habibi]

17. Thank you! nt

[crickets]

18. No paywall link:

https://archive.ph/G3L7X

[Habibi]

19. Thank you! nt

[2naSalit]

20. Thank you!

[soldierant]

25. Thanks exponentially.

[nightwing1240]

21. Dr. Fauci has been nothing short of amazing in his duties

Imagine the lives he could have saved if we had an adult as President during the start of Covid. The OP lists another wonderful thing he did without public knowledge that he was doing so. Kudos to the activist for sharing with the public the details.

[Hekate]

22. America is incredibly lucky to have had his service

[DeeDeeNY]

23. He received death threats

https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/08/05/899415906/fauci-reveals-he-has-received-death-threats-and-his-daughters-have-been-harassed

[lambchopp59]

24. All this anti-Fauci shit is so maddening and stupid.

That's all I have to say about that.

[Hamlette]

26. Love it, thanks for posting

[love_katz]

27. I didn't know this. Thank you for posting.

To Dr. Fauci: Thank you for all of your hard work and dedication.

[LittleGirl]

28. I credit Dr. Fauci

for keeping my cousin alive since he has been HIV positive for over 20 years.
Thank you Dr. Fauci. Love you. You make us Italian Americans proud!

[Susan Calvin]

29. That needed a hankie alert.