We’ve been living with Dr. Anthony Fauci for over three months. What have we learned about the man whose opinion has steered the bulk of the U.S. COVID-19 response?
We know he’s a doctor and scientist. He’s also a longtime bureaucrat. Fauci was appointed Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) in 1984. The NIAID is a subset of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), one of 27 institutes under the NIH umbrella.
Fauci has held the position for 37 years, more than three times longer than any of his predecessors. Despite several offers to move up to higher positions, such as heading the NIH, he has stayed put. To put that in context, he got the job he holds now as a 43 year-old man. He will be 80 in December.
It would seem that he enjoys the freedoms and power the position affords him. Fauci has grown the NIAID budget from just under $320 million in 1984 to nearly $3 billion last year. He has done so in a methodical manner that consists of five steps:
- Identify a disease or syndrome
- Request funds to study the disease
- Build labs to study the disease
- Study the disease
- Don’t cure the disease, but create new drugs to treat it
As the saying goes, there’s no money in the cure, and Fauci is no dummy. He graduated at the top of his class in medical school at Cornell before interning at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, then in 1968, he joined the NIH where he rose quickly through the ranks. He has worked under the NIH umbrella through ten presidential administrations.
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