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Former President Donald Trump thought the coronavirus would “disappear like magic” and berated him for saying it wouldn’t. Former President George H.W.

Bush offered him the job as head of the National Institutes of Health, and he turned it down. And stopped him from writing a New York Times op-ed about ending the AIDS epidemic because it was “off message.” Those are just some of the revelations from “ ,” Dr.



Anthony Fauci’s new memoir that was published on Tuesday. In it, the nation’s former top infectious disease expert, now 83, recounts how he helped guide the country through two major public health crises: AIDS and COVID-19. Fauci, the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), served under seven presidents, including Trump and Biden.

He also served as Biden’s chief medical adviser. He . Fauci also describes his upbringing as a child of Italian immigrants in Brooklyn, taking readers through his six-decade career as a physician and public servant.

But it was his tenure under Trump, with whom he often clashed over the U.S. response to the pandemic, that made Fauci a household name — and .

Trump screamed at Fauci for saying that COVID vaccines were effective only up to one year Fauci writes that on June 3, 2020, three months into the pandemic, Trump “started screaming at me” for stating that the effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines would last only six months to a year. According to Fauci, Trump was furious tha.

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