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We walked to and from school every day unaccompanied by an adult, even at six or seven years old.
father taught us early in life that because we were fortunate, it was our responsibility to help people when we could and making money should not be a primary goal in life.
one of the New York local branches of the International Hod Carriers’, Building, and Common Laborers’ Union of America. I was able to get into the union (I paid my dues) and work almost every day with the help of one of my friends’ uncles whose exact occupation I could never figure out and did not ask.
I felt we could use the information we gathered from the detailed study of our patients to contribute to the medical literature. This knowledge could then inform hundreds of physicians throughout the world who could use that knowledge to benefit many thousands of patients.
By 2023, there would be more than eighty-six million HIV infections throughout the world with forty million deaths.
Just because no one had ever done something like this before did not mean it could not be done.
Vice presidents are always publicly loyal to the president. That is part of the job. But, in my opinion, Vice President Pence sometimes overdid it. During task force meetings, he often said some version of “There are a lot of smart people around here, but we all know that the smartest person in the building is upstairs.”
he announced at a rally in Charleston, South Carolina, that COVID was the Democrats’ “new hoax.” This was the first, but not the last, whiplash effect that I would experience in dealing with this complex
with the ghastly reality setting in that COVID was not going to go away, Trump began to grab for an elixir that would cure this disease. Along came hydroxychloroquine.
there were no clinical studies proving that this antimalarial drug would help people.
I knew some of the things Trump was saying about the pandemic were false,
the people who were lying about me and those who believed the lies for the most part were among the people who believed that the 2020 presidential election was stolen and that the January 6 attack on the Capitol either was justified or was a harmless demonstration.
Donald Trump Jr. was selling T-shirts emblazoned with messages like “Fauci Kills Puppies.”
the acceptance of public health measures such as vaccinations was highly politicized as exemplified by the fact that there were fewer vaccinations and more hospitalizations and deaths in states that are predominantly Republican versus states that are predominantly Democratic.
the true enemies of public health: the spread of egregious misinformation and disinformation enabled by the internet and social media that unfortunately remains with us today.
