Nestling the El-Hibris under his protective wing, Dr. Fauci swept aside FDA’s safety concerns and publicly praised BioPort’s experimental anthrax vaccine, BioThrax. He brushed aside the reservations of critics that the El-Hibris never established BioThrax’s safety with some of his prototypical dissembling. Dr. Fauci said, “The vaccine is designed to get the immune system to recognize the proteins—and therefore the bacteria—and destroy both.”74 In a December 2001 PBS interview, Fauci promised to deliver BioThrax—which had failed to pass a single FDA audit during the prior four years—at record
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