Anthony Fauci quotes

Anthony Fauci is an American immunologist and one of the world’s leading experts on infectious diseases. As director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, he played a pivotal role in the response to major health crises like HIV/AIDS and COVID-19. He is widely respected for his scientific expertise and public health leadership. Here are 52 of his quotes:

Although it is still important to develop an HIV vaccine, we have significant tools already at our disposal that can make a major impact on the trajectory of this epidemic.

Anthony Fauci

Antibiotics are a very serious public health problem for us, and it's getting worse. Resistant microbes outstrip new antibiotics. It's an ongoing problem. It's not like we can fix it, and it's over. We have to fight continued resistance with a continual pipeline of new antibiotics and continue with the perpetual challenge.

Anthony Fauci

You can't rush the science, but when the science points you in the right direction, then you can start rushing.

Anthony Fauci

Disagreements are one of the fundamental positive aspects of science.

Anthony Fauci

You don't want to go to war with a president [...] There's a temptation that you have to fight to tell the president what you think he wants to hear. I've seen really good people do that.

Anthony Fauci

I'd say we have a couple of people who've recovered, they've gotten excellent medical care and the specific therapy, ZMapp ... may have had a role in it but we don't know.

Anthony Fauci

This is material that is quite formidable, that is infecting people with inhalation anthrax, infecting them in the absence of direct contact. You can call it whatever you want to call it with regard to grade and size or weaponized or not weaponized. The fact is, it is acting like a highly efficient bioterrorist agent.

Anthony Fauci

I don't think that we are going to get out of this completely unscathed, I think that this is going to be one of those things we look back on and say boy, that was bad.

Anthony Fauci

It's almost like passing a baton in a race. You don't want to stop, and then give it to somebody, you want to just essentially keep going.

Anthony Fauci

I'm generally considered a conservative in my predictions for disease.

Anthony Fauci

Better ways to diagnose, treat and prevent E. coli 0157:H7 infections are badly needed.

Anthony Fauci

Previous efforts to eradicate malaria failed for several reasons, including political instability and technical challenges in delivering resources, especially in certain countries in Africa.

Anthony Fauci

Certainly the support for research in HIV/AIDS was good in the Clinton administration, good in the Bush administrations. It just was.

Anthony Fauci

Science is telling us that we can do phenomenal things if we put our minds and our resources to it.

Anthony Fauci

The launch of phase 1 Ebola vaccine studies is a first step in developing a vaccine that could be licensed and used in the field to protect not only the front line health care workers but also those living in areas where Ebola virus exists.

Anthony Fauci

I think, collectively, we should be paying more attention to what is going on around us in the world among people who don't have the advantages that we have.

Anthony Fauci

I enjoy very much communication. I think that scientists need to communicate.

Anthony Fauci

Investigating rare diseases gives researchers more clues about how the healthy immune system functions.

Anthony Fauci

A pandemic influenza would mean widespread infection essentially throughout every region of the world.

Anthony Fauci

Testing two vaccines against different H1N1s at the same time has never been done.

Anthony Fauci

There cannot be any impediment to science that will ultimately be good to the general public.

Anthony Fauci

You don't have to vaccinate every man, woman and child in the country if you have a couple of cases of smallpox cropping up.

Anthony Fauci