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    America Is Thirsty for Anthony Fauci

    What is it about a crisis that can turn even a 79-year-old immunologist into a heartthrob?
    by Kaitlyn Tiffany Apr 07, 2020 5 minutes
    Source: Alicia Tatone / The Atlantic

    Updated at 10:32 a.m. ET on April 7, 2020.

    “Dr. Fauci is the total package,” claims the Twitter account @FauciFan, listing off each of his qualities with a checkmark emoji. “Intelligent. Kind. Handsome. Literally so good looking oh my god.”

    All day, Americans go online to fess up about crushing on Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. They dig up his college yearbook photos and evidence that he once played basketball in short-shorts. They edit his Wikipedia page, swapping the main photo with one taken 13 years ago, then one from 17 years ago. In my upstate-New York hometown, you can buy donuts with his face on them. More than 10,000 people have signed a petition to make Fauci People magazine’s next “Sexiest Man Alive.”

    Fauci has had the same job since 1984, and he’s

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