Anthony Fauci Quotes
We feel confident that there won't be an outbreak.
Fauci, Anthony S. Interview by Charlie Rose and Norah O'Donnell. CBS This Morning, CBS, 1 Oct. 2014.
Advocating the appointment of an AIDS czar:
He is in charge of collecting and deploying the funds donated for infectious diseases from countries throughout the world. Each nation has its own budget cycle and the public health officials have to plan and act as soon as they learn that an epidemic is breaking out. The viruses and bacteria grow when they grow, not when budgets have planned for them.
The graphic is a painting of the effect of the plague in Ireland. Clearly his first sentence exaggerates, but there were some areas where most humans died. See {620882} for a Muslim Historian’s description of the plague.
This is a historically significant quotation as it shows that Bassi, prior to Pasteur, discovered the germ theory of disease. Pasteur had a portrait of Bassi in his office.
This quotation illustrates a little known fact about America’s infectious disease history. It also reveals one of the great skills of Eleanor Roosevelt: Her ability to see a program or project in its breadth of influence and potential benefits throughout the panoply of problems facing the nation. The health fact is that malaria was a major health hazard in parts of America in the middle of the 20th century. Actually, before that time, malaria was one of the top causes of death in America. As a result of technology and programs such as this one, malaria has been virtually eliminated as a mortality risk in America.
He and the Fascist Italian government were very proud of this accomplishment which to them justified all the abuse, exploitation and denial of human rights that was inherent in Italian Colonialism then. The Fascists accomplished some worthy goals of governing like this one. American fascist admirers, of which there were many, pointed to these accomplishments in trying to persuade public opinion to adopt more right wing programs and measures.
The white Europeans had over centuries built up immunity to some of the worst infectious diseases but when they first landed in the New World brought smallpox and other deadly diseases to which the Indians had no immunity.
Despite strong efforts by the health authorities, many Americans went into an irrational panic mode regarding Ebola and States and local government were passing draconian quarantine measures that were actually counter-productive and increased the risk by pandering to public fears often instigated or whipped up by some media pundits.
Virtually every spread of virus caused disease that has occurred in the late 20th century and onward was spread to different regions by people, who in an age of rapid travel, are what the public health scientists call “the vectors” — the carriers of the disease. In earlier times it was animals like rats who spread the disease.
Anthony Stephen Fauci (December 24, 1940) is an American physician-scientist and immunologist who served as the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) from 1984 to 2022, and the chief medical advisor to the president from 2021 to 2022.
