Fauci looks back
Anthony Fauci’s memoir, On Call: A Doctor’s Journey in Public Service, is a book that begins with its ending. It is Nov 8, 2020. He is home by the fire with his beloved wife, Christine, and close friends when the call comes, informing him that the phase 3 clinical trial data have projected the Pfizer–BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine to be at least 90% effective. The result came in record time, just 10 months after the identification of SARS-CoV-2’s genetic sequence, advanced in part by the research programmes and clinical trial networks that Fauci built over his 38-year leadership at the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID).