These Are 10 Things People Don’t Know About Dr. Fauci

By Douglas A. McIntyre Published May 14, 8:20AM EDT

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Dr. Anthony Fauci has been the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases since 1984. At the age of 80, he is essentially the face of the federal government and medical community when it comes to how Americans should combat the COVID-19 pandemic, and he has been since the spread began early last year. He is also the chief medical advisor to President Joe Biden. However, many details of Fauci’s life are not well known. For instance:

1. Fauci’s father was a Columbia University pharmacist who owned his own pharmacy.

2. Fauci’s major at College of the Holy Cross, where he graduated in 1962, was classics. He did take courses, however, that helped him move on to medical school.

3. He has turned down the prestigious job of running the National Institutes of Health several times.
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4. Fauci has been accused of favoring some medical startup companies by awarding them NIH grants.

5. Fauci has been a major force in treatments for rheumatic diseases.

6. He was given the American Association for Clinical Chemistry Lectureship Award in 1998, in part because he “developed effective therapies for formerly fatal diseases such as polyarteritis nodosa, Wegener’s granulomatosis, and lymphomatoid granulomatosis.”

7. In a USAToday interview on February 17, 2020, Fauci described the threat of COVID-19 as minuscule. “Fauci doesn’t want people to worry about coronavirus, the danger of which is ‘just minuscule,'” the reporter wrote.

8. On December 2, 2020, Fauci accused the United Kingdom of irresponsibility in testing the vaccine, saying it “really rushed through that approval” of the Pfizer version. The next day he apologized on the BBC.

9. Fauci met his wife, Christine Grady, a nurse who he married in 1985, while they were both treating a patient.

10. All three of Fauci’s daughters graduated from prestigious universities. Alison graduated from Stanford, where she majored in computer science. Jennifer graduated from Harvard, where she majored in social studies. Megan graduated from Johns Hopkins with a pre-med degree.

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About the Author Douglas A. McIntyre →

Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.