In The '24th Mile' Of A Marathon, Fauci And Collins Reflect On Their Pandemic Year
A year ago, everything changed for Americans as a new, highly infectious disease began spreading across the country.
Two scientists, longtime friends and colleagues became two of the most public faces of the U.S. efforts to fight what ultimately became the coronavirus pandemic: Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and a member of former President Trump's White House coronavirus task force, and his boss, Dr. Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health.
As they reflect on the past year, they both express surprise, and disappointment, at the unanticipated challenges they faced in getting public health messages out effectively.
"I think one of the diagnoses that comes out of this last very difficult 12 months is that we seem to be in a society that is so polarized in a joint interview with Fauci.
