
What's behind the attacks on Dr. Fauci
CNN
Having advised seven presidents in his role as director of the NIAID, Dr. Anthony Fauci is one of America's best-known doctors, and, for many, a trusted voice on Covid-19. He became so much a part of everyday life over the past two years that people started naming their pets after him. Yet Fauci has been the target of increasingly overwrought attacks from the right for his role supporting vaccines and other proven measures to stem the pandemic.
He became so much a part of everyday life over the past two years that people started naming their pets "Fauci," although not quite at the rate owners called their cats and dogs "Zoom."

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