"The world is totally crazy": they publish thousands of emails from Anthony Fauci during the management of the pandemic

Visible face of the fight against the coronavirus in the United States, the epidemiologist Anthony Fauci was – along with former President Donald Trump (whom he used to contradict) -, the great media star during the onslaught of the first wave of the pandemic in that country. His periodic appearances to report on the progress of the disease were followed by millions of people. And while Fauci was relentlessly responding to reporters from the White House and touring television sets, he was also doing so from his personal computer.. BuzzFeed News has published more than 3,200 pages of emails that left its inbox between January and June 2020; For its part, The Washington Post published excerpts from more than 800 emails dated between March and April 2020.

The correspondence is a look at a hectic time and reveals the busy schedule of the infectious diseases expert, who answered not only government officials, but also journalists or even strangers who asked him whether or not to get a flu shot as precaution against covid-19. For example, in one of the emails, Fauci gives guidelines to a doctor who wants to know what to do if he has contact with a positive patient.. “Do not hesitate to write to me again,” Fauci says goodbye.

“I've never been muzzled”

“I'm really exhausted. I'm not getting much sleep,” Fauci acknowledged in an email published by BuzzFeed.. “This is the White House at full throttle and I'm in the middle,” he said in a February email, confessing that the crisis reminded him “of the days after anthrax.”. And it is that Anthony Fauci had already worked with six former presidents before becoming the visible face of the Trump Administration's management against Covid.

In another email, dating from February, a reporter asks Fauci if he has ever received any orders or guidelines about what to say publicly about the virus.. “They have never put a muzzle on me, they never told me that I could not speak publicly about anything in this Administration,” replies the epidemiologist. “I can assure you that they have not censored me,” he says in another email, from March.

In one of the emails obtained by the Washington Post, Fauci refers to the “crazy people in the world” whom he blames, without giving names, for having politicized the covid crisis.. On the other hand, there is also a small space for humor. And it is that while the pandemic progressed, Fauci became famous. His face was not only on television but also on countless merchandising products.. In an email whose recipient is not shown, Fauci attached a link to a story about him and Andrew Coumo, the governor of New York, about how the two had become “idols of the masses.”. This was the comment that accompanied the link: “The world is completely crazy.”

Fauci's correspondence also shows exchanges with Ezekiel Emanuel, a former Obama Administration health adviser, about whether or not to use a certain drug against the virus, or with Mark Zuckerberg, who thanks Fauci for his “leadership” in while informing you about Facebook's intention to launch an “information center” on Covid-19.