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# Frontline Health Workers are Time's 2020 Guardians of the Year

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_Published 2020-12-11. Dr. Anthony Fauci is among the frontline health workers who are Time's 2020 Guardians of the Year._


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## Transcript

Kind: captions Language: en When you get something as emotionally charged as a major public health event the people who are looking for somebody to get angry with make me the symbol and they hate me, do they hate Tony Fauci? They don't even know who Tony Fauci is. The nation's top doctor top expert Dr. Anthony Fauci I became very interested in infectious diseases because you can prevent them and you can treat them and I was fascinated by science that you could discover unknown things everything I do now I'm intensively interested in and I'm really good at it We're dealing with clearly an emerging infectious disease.

Fueling fears of a pandemic. She's COVID positive. I'm declaring a public health emergency of international... I turn to Dr. Anthony Fauci Is the worst yet to come Dr. Fauci? Yes, things will get worse... When you get something like COVID-19 it has the potential of running wild. One million deaths... That's the chilling aspect of an evolving outbreak every day we learn the actual biological aspect is unprecedented but the impact on society is unprecedented. Enormous economic psychological implications it would but it would be temporary, things change and evolve rapidly and you can't get frozen in a state of saying I think I know everything about this because you're going to get surprised for sure.

Now instead of worrying solely about developing vaccines Dr. Fauci finds himself forced to defend science itself. The one thing you don't want to do is guess, the world is craving clarity honesty courage to stick up for what's right. I served six presidents and I have never... You want to base what you say on scientific data public health knows no politics you're just driven by the truth.

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