Anthony Fauci Quotes
Anthony Stephen Fauci is an American physician and immunologist who has served as the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases since 1984. He was born on the 24th of December, 1940 in Brooklyn, New York, United States.
Anthony Fauci has made substantial contributions to research in the areas of AIDS and other immunodeficiencies, both as a scientist and as the head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID).
In this article, you will find over 60 quotes by the famous American physician and immunologist, Anthony Fauci.
Top 5 Anthony Fauci Quotes About COVID-19
The novel coronavirus “is so transmissible, and it is so widespread throughout the world, that even if our infections get well controlled and go down dramatically during the summer, there is virtually no chance it will be eradicated. Anthony Fauci
“With global travel, every single day, of literally hundreds of thousands of people coming into the United States every day from all over, there’s no chance we’re going to be virus-free.” Anthony Fauci
There’s ‘virtually no chance’ that COVID-19 will be eradicated. Anthony Fauci
“Even the experts underestimated COVID-19,”. Anthony Fauci
“Rapid, extensive and widely available, timely testing is essential to reopening America”. Anthony Fauci
60 Anthony Fauci Quotes & Sayings
Activism has been very productive in our society. Anthony Fauci
You can’t rush the science, but when the science points you in the right direction, then you can start rushing. Anthony Fauci
The most confounding thing of all is that we still haven’t identified the cause of 20% to 30% of adult common colds. Anthony Fauci
Disagreements are one of the fundamental positive aspects of science. Anthony Fauci
Today we know the best way to prevent the spread of Ebola infection is through public health measures. Anthony Fauci
It is now widely recognized that any attempt at malaria eradication must be a long-term commitment that involves multiple interventions, disciplines, strategies and organizations. Anthony Fauci
When we can get the incidence of HIV down enough to turn the trajectory of the pandemic, it will assume a momentum of its own in diminishing HIV. Anthony Fauci
You don’t have to vaccinate every man, woman and child in the country if you have a couple of cases of smallpox cropping up. Anthony Fauci
We need to know more about how group A strep interact with humans to cause so many different illnesses. Anthony Fauci
The launch of phase 1 Ebola vaccine studies is a first step in developing a vaccine that could be licensed and used in the field to protect not only the front line health care workers but also those living in areas where Ebola virus exists. Anthony Fauci
It’s extremely likely that the people who have never been exposed to a human who has leprosy, it’s very likely they got leprosy from exposure to an armadillo. Anthony Fauci
Investigating rare diseases gives researchers more clues about how the healthy immune system functions. Anthony Fauci
There are a number of candidate vaccines that are in development for HIV/AIDS. Anthony Fauci
The body’s immune system is like any other system of the body. Each of them have their vital function for the human host. Anthony Fauci
I consider myself a perpetual student. You seek and learn every day: from an experiment in the lab, from reading a scientific journal, from taking care of a patient. Because of this, I rarely get bored. Anthony Fauci
You can have an epidemic in a state. You can have it in a region. You can have it in a country where the critical level of disease passes a certain threshold, and we call that an ‘epidemic threshold.’ Anthony Fauci
Staph lives on skin. That’s the reason why many infections start as a boil. Anthony Fauci
It’s the advantage of the virus to spread, and you can only spread when you infect people and they infect other people without necessarily killing them. So if you had 100 percent mortality, the potential pandemic would almost self-eliminate itself. Anthony Fauci
Even the pandemic flu of 1918 only killed one to two percent of the people who were infected. Anthony Fauci
A pandemic influenza would mean widespread infection essentially throughout every region of the world. Anthony Fauci
We can sharply deflect the curve of HIV incidence. Anthony Fauci
The discovery of HIV in 1983 and the proof that it was the cause of AIDS in 1984 were the first major scientific breakthroughs that provided a specific target for blood-screening tests and opened the doorway to the development of antiretroviral medications. Anthony Fauci
Although it is still important to develop an HIV vaccine, we have significant tools already at our disposal that can make a major impact on the trajectory of this epidemic. Anthony Fauci
Better ways to diagnose, treat and prevent E. coli 0157:H7 infections are badly needed. Anthony Fauci
The world is a place that is so interconnected that what happens in another part of the world will impact us. Anthony Fauci
The nature of a protective immune response to HIV is still unclear. Because in a very, very unique manner, unlike virtually any other microbe with which we’re familiar, the HIV virus has evolved in a way that the immune system finds it very difficult, if not impossible, to deal with the virus. Anthony Fauci
Whooping cough is not a mild disease. Whooping cough, before the vaccination, could make you very, very sick. First of all, there was a chance you could die from it – small chance, not a big chance. You would be coughing and coughing. It wouldn’t last for a few days, like a cold. Anthony Fauci
It’s very, very difficult when you have to prepare for something that might not ever happen. Anthony Fauci
Bioethics is a very, very important field. As we get more and more in the arena of understanding science and getting better opportunities, the fact that you can do things with biological sciences that have an impact on a human being means you must have ethical standards. Anthony Fauci
There’s always going to be the need for new medications, better medications. Anthony Fauci
It’s the advantage of the virus to spread, and you can only spread when you infect people and they infect other people without necessarily killing them. So if you had 100 percent mortality, the potential pandemic would almost self-eliminate itself. Anthony Fauci
For the first time, we have the genetic sequences of all three of the players in the global malaria debacle: the parasite, the anopheles mosquito and the human. It’s a very important milestone. Anthony Fauci
When a company is fairly certain of a profit margin that is substantial, it can assume responsibility for the clinical trials to develop a blockbuster drug. Anthony Fauci
There are so many different varieties of HIV out there. Anthony Fauci
You might be asking too much if you’re looking for one vaccine for every conceivable influenza. If you have one or two that cover the vast majority of isolates, I wouldn’t be ashamed to call that a ‘universal vaccine.’ Anthony Fauci
Previous efforts to eradicate malaria failed for several reasons, including political instability and technical challenges in delivering resources, especially in certain countries in Africa. Anthony Fauci
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases is an institute of the National Institutes of Health that is responsible predominantly for basic and clinical research in the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of immunologic and infectious diseases. Anthony Fauci
Certainly the support for research in HIV/AIDS was good in the Clinton administration, good in the Bush administrations. It just was. Anthony Fauci
Is it or is it not ethical to create an embryo, and to create a person for the purpose of getting an organ to give to someone else? Your knee-jerk reaction is ‘absolutely not;’ but you need the ethical analysis of that to show why and how that is something that you need to stay away from. Anthony Fauci
I enjoy very much communication. I think that scientists need to communicate. Anthony Fauci
The Europeans have lots of data on the use of adjuvanted flu vaccine in the elderly, but I don’t think anybody has really good data on adjuvants in children. Anthony Fauci
Well I think the media has a very powerful influence on almost anything and everything we do because the general public gets their perception of what is going on in things they don’t have immediate access to from what they get through the media. Anthony Fauci
I’m generally considered a conservative in my predictions for disease. Anthony Fauci
Antibiotics are a very serious public health problem for us, and it’s getting worse. Resistant microbes outstrip new antibiotics. It’s an ongoing problem. It’s not like we can fix it, and it’s over. We have to fight continued resistance with a continual pipeline of new antibiotics and continue with the perpetual challenge. Anthony Fauci
There’s always the danger when you have influenzas that infect chickens, that when you have the close quarters of chickens spreading from one to another and occasionally a human coming into close contact, that there will be the jumping of species from a chicken to a human. This is not something new. Anthony Fauci
I think it would be over-exaggeration to think that there are millions of viruses ready to jump on us and bring us back to the 14th century. That would be looking over a ledge that isn’t there. Anthony Fauci
Inevitably, malaria parasites developed resistance to commonly used drugs, and mosquito vectors became insecticide-resistant. Anthony Fauci
When you vaccinate someone, or when you get infected, the microbe is presenting itself to the immune system in a way that the immune system recognizes the important elements of the microbe and makes an immune response, both an antibody response and a cellular response, to ultimately contain the microbe. Anthony Fauci
What the immune system of man has in its advanced development is what we call immunological memory, so that once it sees something for the first time, when it sees it the second or the third time, it can respond against it in a way that’s much more accelerated than when it sees it for the first time. Anthony Fauci
Knowledge goes hand-in-hand with truth – something I learned with a bit of tough love from my Jesuit education first at Regis High School in New York City and then at Holy Cross College in Worcester, Mass. Anthony Fauci
Pneumococcal disease is a real threat. Pneumococcal disease is a bacterial infection that causes anything from middle ear infection to pneumonia to meningitis. Children are particularly vulnerable to it, but adults can get pneumococcal disease themselves. Anthony Fauci
There has been treatment for hepatitis C, but the treatment has not been overwhelmingly effective, number 1. And number 2, it has had considerable toxicity. Anthony Fauci
There cannot be any impediment to science that will ultimately be good to the general public. Anthony Fauci
Human nature is weak. Anthony Fauci
There is an urgent need for a protective Ebola vaccine, and it is important to establish that a vaccine is safe and spurs the immune system to react in a way necessary to protect against infection. Anthony Fauci
It is now widely recognized that any attempt at malaria eradication must be a long-term commitment that involves multiple interventions, disciplines, strategies and organizations. Anthony Fauci
The immune system’s goal is to protect the body against invaders either from without, such as microbes, or from within, such as cancers and different types of neoplastic transformation. Anthony Fauci
When I was a child, there were not that many vaccines. I was vaccinated for polio. I actually got measles as a child. I got pertussis, whooping cough. I remember that very well. Anthony Fauci
When you’re dealing with a very sick person and you’re doing something to them, an intervention, be it a procedure or a medication, safety is critical. Anthony Fauci
I believe I have a personal responsibility to make a positive impact on society. Anthony Fauci