For the second year in a row, Fauci spent 2021 as the most visible face of the U.S. government’s response to the coronavirus pandemic. His unwavering yet diplomatic science-based argument for vaccination and mask-wearing makes him both a mainstream-media darling and the target of denialism and death threats from the far right. But Fauci is no stranger to politics, having spent the 1980s and 1990s researching how HIV undermines the immune system and working with LGBTQ+ groups to press the FDA to review AIDS drugs more rapidly.
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