A Day In The Life Of Dr. Anthony Fauci

LOADING ERROR LOADING Anthony Fauci has run the National Institutes of Health’s infectious diseases agency since Ronald Regan was president and has played key roles in virtually every public health intervention and policy since then. Visited two severe COVID-19 patients under treatment at the NIH Clinical Center and their primary physicians 10 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. Video meeting with senior National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases staff 10:30 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. Interview with newspaper reporter 11:00 a.m. to 11:50 a.m. Video meeting with Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, NIH Director Francis Collins, CDC Director Robert Redfield, FDA Administrator Stephen Hahn and other health officials 11:50 a.m. to 12 p.m. A bathroom break and more email 12 p.m. to 12:30 p.m. The elusive scheduled break 1:50 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. Another newspaper interview 2:30 p.m. to 3 p.m. Interview with scientific journal 3 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. Prep for an upcoming speech to “the centers for science and international something-or-other, one of those think tanks in Washington” 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Video meeting with White House Coronavirus Task Force 4:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. Video meeting with NIH vaccine scientists 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. We’ve sort of become like a new family unit.” Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, works in his office at the National Institutes of Health on Dec. 19, 2017, in Bethesda, Maryland.