Anthony S. Fauci Quotes

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It is an indescribable
experience knowing that
what you are doing will have
an impact on the lives... of
millions of people.

Anthony S. Fauci
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 Zika, 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 the Disease X

Anthony S. Fauci
I was trying to let science guide our policy, but he [Donald Trump] was putting as much stock in anecdotal things that turned out not to be true as he was in what scientists like myself were saying. That caused unnecessary and uncomfortable conflict where I had to essentially correct what he was saying, and put me at great odds with his people.

Anthony S. Fauci
One of the problems we face in the United States is that unfortunately, there is a combination of an anti-science bias that people are - for reasons that sometimes are, you know, inconceivable and not understandable - they just don't believe science and they don't believe authority.

Anthony S. Fauci
On COVID-19:
It doesn't matter if you're in a state that has no case or one case: you have to start taking seriously what you can do now to prepare for when the infections come — and they will come.

Anthony S. Fauci
Go out, wear a mask, stay six feet away from anyone so you have the physical distancing, and go out. Go for a run. Go for a walk. Go fishing.

Anthony S. Fauci