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Topeka — Two doctors from the University of Kansas Health System applauded Anthony Fauci’s public service at the National Institutes of Health over a half-century marked by the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic and HIV-AIDS epidemic.
Fauci served as director of the NIH’s Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for 38 years before stepping down as governor on Saturday. He served as his five presidents (two Republicans, three Democrats). Republican President George W. Bush awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2008 for his work in developing an international AIDS relief program.
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Fauci helped lead the White House COVID-19 task force under Republican President Donald Trump and served as chief medical adviser to Democratic President Joe Biden. During the pandemic, Fauci came under repeated political attacks from Kansas Republican Senator Roger Marshall.
Steven Steitz, chief medical officer of the University of Kansas Health System, said the challenge for Fauci and other public health experts in COVID-19 can be compared to assembling an airplane on the fly. .
“He did a great job of trying to tell us the truth because we always knew it,” Steitz said. , if he really understands the medicine behind this, he has been criticized wither for completely unfounded reasons.”
Dana Hawkinson, director of infection prevention and control for the University of Kansas Health System, said that when AIDS was recognized as a disease, and 40 years later in 2020, when COVID-19 swept the country, Fauci was left with reason. He said that it was the voice of
“Unfortunately, the pandemic as we know it is really politicized,” Hawkinson said. “Despite the needless and unfounded hostility and criticism of him, he is a hero to many.”
Marshall, a physician elected to the U.S. Senate in 2020 and former U.S. Representative from western Kansas, questioned Fauci’s role in the COVID-19 pandemic. Promoted the theory that the center inflated the coronavirus death toll.
Marshall claimed Fauci was involved in a conspiracy to cover up the origin of the COVID-19 virus in a Chinese lab. Marshall accused Fauci of US funding for research in China, including the genetic manipulation of viruses that contributed to what senators concluded were “weapons of mass destruction.”
In January 2022, Marshall and Fauci had a tense exchange at a Senate committee hearing, during which Senators could allege Fauci used insider knowledge to invest in pharmaceutical companies. After that exchange, Fauci reportedly called Marshall an “idiot.”
Marshall proposed the Independently Indemnified Personal Financial Liability Act, or FAUCI Act, which would require the financial records of certain federal employees to be disclosed on government websites.
“He’s more interested in being a media star and on magazine covers than being honest with Americans and holding China accountable for the COVID pandemic,” Marshall said.
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