His success at using the AIDS crisis to bring a deadly, toxic, and ineffective AIDS drug to market taught Dr. Fauci some key career lessons that he would faithfully repeat again and again and again throughout his long regime. During his battle to win FDA approval for AZT, Dr. Fauci pioneered the strategies upon which he would build his career and then showcase for the world during the COVID epidemic. These include: • pumping up pandemic fears to lay the groundwork for larger budgets and greater powers, • incriminating an elusive pathogen, • fanning hysteria by exaggerating disease
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