'It will blow your mind,' the doctor wrote. 'Our society is really totally nuts.'
As the coronavirus pandemic engulfed the world last spring, Science magazine quoted a top Chinese health official saying that the United States and other Western nations were making a "big mistake" by not telling people to mask up.
The medical director of the National Football League Players Association asked Fauci for a confidential briefing on how to safely start the next NFL season. A documentary filmmaker working on a forthcoming Disney-backed biopic asked to ride along as Fauci drove to work. An adviser to Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates expressed concern about Fauci's health.
"I saw some news that [you] are being attacked by some people. Hope you are well under such a irrational situation," Gao wrote on April 8. He ended the email with a warning: "Take care and 'Cover your six' " - military slang for "watch your back." In the early days of the pandemic, everyone, it seemed, wanted a piece of Fauci. Numerous organizations wrote to offer awards and honorariums. PayPal wanted the doctor to speak to its 23,000 employees. Michael Milken, chairman of the Milken Institute, a California-based think tank, wanted Fauci to appear on his podcast. Anthony Foxx, President Barack Obama's transportation secretary, wanted advice for the travel industry.
"My request is to have Dr. Fauci give a telephone briefing to our group on this difficult topic, which would of course be confidential. The floor would be his and I could brief him prior to the call on what we have been working on," Mayer wrote. He suggested the week of April 13 - "although of course the modeling shows that would be during the peak of the outbreak."
"I see you on TV almost every day, and although you continue to have considerable energy, I am seriously worried about you," Emini wrote. "The nation and the world absolutely need your leadership." The next day, Fauci wrote back that the answer was "almost certainly yes" but that there was not enough data to make any final conclusions. Their electronic rapport intensified when Upton, a moderate and one of 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach Trump after the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection, tried to explain why some of his colleagues were trying to block more money for the U.S. pandemic response.Fauci responded five hours later.
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