My much-shortened summary of some of Dr. Fauci’s accomplishments from the article “How Anthony Fauci Became America’s Doctor: An infectious-disease expert’s long crusade against some of humanity’s most virulent threats” By Michael Specter April 10, 2020 Since his days of advising Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush, Fauci has maintained a simple credo: “You stay completely apolitical and non-ideological, and you stick to what it is that you do. I’m a scientist and I’m a physician. And that’s it.” He learned the value of candor early. “Some wise person who used to be in the White House, in the Nixon Administration, told me a very interesting dictum to live by,” he told me in 2016, during a public conversation we had at the fifty-year reunion of his medical-school class. “He said, ‘When you go into the White House, you should be prepared that that is the last time you will ever go in. Because if you go in saying, I’m going to tell somebody something they want to hear, then you’ve shot yourself in the foot.’ Now everybody knows I’m going to tell them exactly what’s the truth.”… … Dr. Fauci graduated first in his class from Medical School at Cornell University in 1966 when every new physician was required to perform some kind of military service. He got his first choice, and ended up at the National Institutes of Health, which was then establishing itself as the country’s primary center for biomedical research… The first disease Dr. Fauci discovered a cure for was vasculitis—an inflammation of the blood cells that often occurs when the body’s immune system mistakenly attacks its own blood vessels. vasculitis patients suffered from rare inflammatory diseases, such as granulomatosis with polyangiitis, which damages blood vessels in the lungs, kidneys, and other organs. The disease was almost always fatal until he discovered how to treat it. Dr.Fauci [and his team] followed by discovering treatments for lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, and transplant rejection. In 1981 Dr. Fauci began working on discovering how to treat AIDS, which he was certain was caused by a virus. He wrote a paper in which he pointed out that, although the disease “seems to selectively affect a particular segment of our society,” it demanded a medical solution. Moreover, he warned, “any assumption that the syndrome will remain restricted to a particular segment of our society is truly an assumption without a scientific basis.” The paper was rejected, BUT he was making progress in the laboratory. His lab was the first to report that B cells became hyperactive in patients with aids. When a healthy person is invaded by a virus, antibodies mount a defense, but, when H.I.V. hijacked B cells, the antibody system went awry. Fauci and his team had identified one of the crucial features of AIDS. By listening to “Act Up” and other AIDS activists Dr. Fauci and many fellow researchers succeeded in making HIV a chronic illness and no longer a death sentence. * https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/04/20/how-anthony-fauci-became-americas-doctor * In the 1980s, during the height of the AIDS epidemic, Dr. Fauci worked with activists to amend the way the government handles clinical drug trials. The policy shift increased the number of patients who had access to experimental HIV/AIDS treatments — and saved countless lives. https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/04/16/834873162/long-before-covid-19-Dr-tony-fauci-changed-medicine-in-america-forever I’ll stop now, but what Dr. Fauci achieved during the Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Clinton, George W. Bush, and Obama administrations saved many lives.