So I said, Ill be happy to do this. But what I had in mind was, if I did it, I was going to take this sleepy field of infectious diseases, which was like the sixth or seventh largest institute at NIH with a budget that was about 300 million dollars at the time and I was going to make it something bigger because and particularly, I was going to use it as the bully pulpit to get attention to HIV-AIDS. They did some amazing things, not only to me but, in New York City, they closed down Wall Street, they broke into St. Patricks Cathedral during the middle of a mass and grabbed the chalice from the priest. So you may be on every other night and every other weekend but there were days in a row when you just wouldnt leave. And he said, You know what we really need to do to gain attention? And their motto is it was only men then it was Men for others. So what you do has to be guided by something that would be better for mankind. Ive shrunk a little. Youd take a catnap here and a catnap there, and you wouldnt go. And I was saying, I can understand and this is what I learned over years of being in Washington I can understand that the motivation of Governor Christie, of wanting to do that, was to protect the health of the people of his state. Anthony Fauci: The museum that I really enjoy is the Air and Space Museum. You cant do it. I absolutely loved it. But youve said that in some ways, Regis High School was the defining academic experience of your life. When a trial was designed to see if it works and many of the patients with HIV infection were getting cytomegalovirus and some of them were going blind, and the protocol said, from the FDA and you understand why they did it; it was reasonable in order to see if this drug ganciclovir works against CMV, you wanted a pristine situation. He developed effective therapies for formerly fatal inflammatory and immune-mediated diseases such as polyarteritis nodosa, granulomatosis with polyangiitis (formerly Wegener's granulomatosis), and lymphomatoid granulomatosis. When youre a micromanager, or you dont have a vision, and for some reason or other you get called away you could get called away in a crisis or you can get called away because youre sick or whatever it is, then the people back there, they dont have any idea what theyre doing. Weve come so far since you took over NIAID. Recipients of the award, administered in affiliation with Tel Aviv University, are expected to contribute ten percent of the prize to scholarships in their field. If you dont learn from experiences, then you can just burn out and run out of time, but I dont really think about retiring. You and your wife have children. Since smallpox, as effective a vaccine as it is, has some rare but nonetheless potentially very serious toxic side effects if youre immunosuppressed, it could be deadly, if youre one of those people who have this strange myocarditis associated with it. I surround myself with the very brightest people, and I dont micromanage them. Dr. Anthony S. Fauci said on Monday that he intended to leave government service in December to "pursue the next chapter" of his career, and that he would step down as President . Anthony Fauci: Well, I first explained the pros and cons of that to Scooter Libby and Carol Kuntz, who was a woman who worked closely with the vice president, and then they said, The vice president needs to hear this. So they brought me into the White House to explain it to the vice president.
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