WaPo: Fauci Battling AIDS back in the ACT UP days:

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Interesting article. Here's the 4 paragraph thingy but the whole article is interesting:

“We liked Tony personally. He’s a brilliant scientist, a brilliant fighter of epidemics,” Staley said.

“I was becoming friends with some of them, like Peter Staley and Mark Harrington,” Fauci agreed. “I felt very strongly that we needed to get them into the planning process because they weren’t always right, but they had very, very good input.”

Fauci attended an ACT UP meeting in October 1989. After that, some of the group’s leaders on its Treatment and Data Committee would meet the NIAID chief and his deputy, Jim Hill, for dinner at Hill’s townhouse on Capitol Hill.

Fauci said he urged the scientific community and his own staff to include ACT UP members in the drug trial process. “I was pushing and pulling these people and screaming, ‘Hey, we have to deal with them,’?” he said. “I was in a difficult position because I was trying to convince the establishment that ACT UP had something to offer.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2020/05/20/fauci-aids-nih-coronavirus/

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1. '"I felt very strongly that we needed to get them into the planning process

because they weren’t always right, but they had very, very good input.” . .

“I was in a difficult position because I was trying to convince the establishment that ACT UP had something to offer.”'

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2. Wow, thanks for posting this. It shows the kind of man Fauci is.

And his professional courage.

If he was advocating for Act-up inclusion back then, when they did not have general support, and he got his way, what is seeing now will not bother him much.

I hope he gets the Congressional Medal of Freedom from President Biden.

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3. P.S. @ 5'7", he was captain of his high school basketball team!!!

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4. I well remember Fauci's work back in those times, a quiet

brilliant fighter, with a strong sense of ethics.