Anthony Fauci

I really feel strongly that we should get them vaccinated as soon as we possibly can. You want him fully protected as he enters into the presidency in January. So that would be my strong recommendation.

Anthony Fauci, referring to President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President Mike Pence on ABC's Good Morning America according to "Biden, Pence to get Covid vaccine soon", published December 16, 2020., 2020

...record numbers of cases, hospitalizations and deaths, the sweetness is the light at the end of the tunnel, which I can tell you — as we get into January, February, March and April — that light is going to get brighter and brighter, and the bitterness is going to be replaced by the sweetness

Hope is on the way’: Pence gets coronavirus vaccine on live television published December 18, 2020, 2020

We have to admit it, that that mixed message in the beginning, even though it was well meant to allow masks to be available for health workers, that was detrimental in getting the message across. No doubt about it.

Fauci on conflicting advice around face masks, in an interview with Mary Louise Kelly of NPR's All Things Considered, NPR (1 July 2020)., 2020

I can't jump in front of the microphone and push him down. OK, he said it. Let's try and get it corrected for the next time.

On his response to misstatements by Donald Trump during COVID-19 press briefings, in Jon Cohen, "‘I’m going to keep pushing.’ Anthony Fauci tries to make the White House listen to facts of the pandemic", Science (March 22, 2020)., 2020

It may be something that becomes endemic that we have to just be careful about. Certainly it's not going to be a pandemic for a lot longer because I believe the vaccines are going to turn that around.

In Coronavirus updates: US has almost 2,000 deaths in a day; Fauci says pandemic won't be around 'a lot longer'; California has almost 1M cases publshed November 12, 2020, 2020

I don't regret that. At that time, there was a paucity of equipment that our health care providers needed -- who put themselves daily in harm's way of taking care of people who are ill. We did not want to divert masks and PPE away from them, to be used by the people.

Congressional testimony on early recommendations that people not wear masks during the COVID-19 pandemic. "The mask decision that will haunt Trump's reelection bid, CNN (July 6, 2020)., 2020

You don't want to go to war with a president [...] There's a temptation that you have to fight to tell the president what you think he wants to hear. I’ve seen really good people do that.

Quoted in You don't want to go to war with a president, 3 March 2020, ''''., 2020

I feel like I'm 45. And I act like I'm 35. When I start to feel like I don't have the energy to do the job, whatever my age, I’ll walk away and write my book

Quoted in You don't want to go to war with a president, 3 March 2020, ''''., 2020

It’s almost like passing a baton in a race. You don’t want to stop, and then give it to somebody, you want to just essentially keep going

Fauci says Trump administration should work with Biden transition team on coronavirus response" (November 15 2020) on CNN’s Jake Tapper State of the Union, 2020

Getting death threats for me and my family and harassing my daughters to the point where I have to get security is just, I mean, it's amazing

According to NPR's Fauci Reveals He Has Received Death Threats And His Daughters Have Been Harassed, 2020

I don't think that we are going to get out of this completely unscathed, I think that this is going to be one of those things we look back on and say boy, that was bad.

About the 2020 coronavirus pandemic in the United States, quoted in You don't want to go to war with a president, 3 March 2020, ''''., 2020

The answer is yes, a few, but one in particular. My youngest daughter’s boyfriend’s brother is a 32-year-old young man, athletic, healthy, who got COVID-19 and had one of the unusual complications of cardiomyopathy with an arrhythmia and died.

In an interview according to Dr. Fauci Reveals Daughter’s Boyfriend's Brother, 32, Died After Contracting COVID: 'Very Sad' December 11, 2020, 2020

Even before we knew it was a coronavirus, I said it certainly sounds like a coronavirus-SARS type thing. As soon as it was identified, I called a meeting of top-level people and said, 'Let's start working on a vaccine right now.'

Response to the 2020 coronavirus epidemic, quoted in Not his first epidemic, Dr. Anthony Fauci sticks to the facts (March 8, 2020) by Denise Grady, The New York Times., 2020

As experience has taught us more often than not the thing that is gonna hit us is something that we did not anticipate. Just the way we didn't anticipate , we didn't think there would be an Ebola that would hit cities. [...] If you develop an understanding of the commonalities of those, you can respond more rapidly.

On Disease X, as quoted in ''World Health Organization gets ready for 'Disease X (March 12, 2018) by , '., 2018

This is material that is quite formidable, that is infecting people with inhalation anthrax, infecting them in the absence of direct contact. You can call it whatever you want to call it with regard to grade and size or weaponized or not weaponized. The fact is, it is acting like a highly efficient bioterrorist agent.

Response to a 2001 anthrax attack, reported in Denise Grady, "Not his first epidemic, Dr. Anthony Fauci sticks to the facts", The New York Times (March 15, 2020)., 2001