Did not know anyone could hate fauci as much as us. Mark Harrington does.
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Anthony Fauci, an immunologist at NIH, also helped change the course of the epidemic. A clinician who struggled to keep his research afloat in the early years because caring for dying AIDS patients sapped so much of his time, Fauci explained that in 1984, he took an offer to head the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) in Bethesda in part out of frustration. “I was not particularly enamored of administration, but I felt that infectious disease and certainly HIV/AIDS was not going in the right direction and did not have the support I thought it should have,” Fauci said. “That opened my life to things I never would have been prepared for as a clinician, as a scientist.” Under Fauci’s leadership, NIAID became the single largest funder of HIV/AIDS research in the world. His own lab’s research also has helped clarify fundamental relationships between the virus and the immune system.
auci showed a photo of himself testifying before a congressional hearing, which he said he has done 245 times since taking the job—often about the HIV/AIDS budget and other issues related to the epidemic. “I may have the all-time indoor record of testifying before Congress,” Fauci said. “You either get praised or you get killed. You just got to know when to duck.”
Mark Harrington took part in a die-in staged by ACT UP as part of “Storm the NIH” in May 1990. COURTESY OF MARK HARRINGTON
Harrington apologized to Lawrence Corey (r) and the other researchers if activists at times “went overboard.” CONSTANCE BRUKIN/ CSHL ARCHIVE
His job also put him in the hot seat with AIDS activists, who believed the federal government for the first decade was dragging its feet in its response to the epidemic. Fauci quoted a headline of an article published in The San Francisco Examiner in 1988 by Larry Kramer, who founded the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, ACT UP. “I call you murderers, an open letter to an incompetent idiot, Dr. Anthony Fauci,” it read. “He got my attention and I began to listen to them.”