On Call: Anthony Fauci Tells All—Nearly—on Trump, COVID and Other Disasters
Anthony Fauci directed the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for nearly 40 years. He tackled AIDS, Ebola, Middle East Respiratory Syndrome and SARS, yet at the end of his run, COVID-19 tested him and the U.S. like nothing in recent memory. More than 1.1 million died. Life-expectancy dropped by more than a year.
“I had confronted terrible outbreaks, but none of them prepared me for the environment I would find myself in during the coronavirus pandemic,” Fauci writes in On Call: A Doctor’s Journey in Public Service, his eagerly awaited memoir.
Smoothly written and well paced, On Call is a tale of upward arc and challenges met—but also unanswered questions.