Former NIAID director now claims that AIDS, like COVID, was “zoonotic.”
On Christmas Eve, Dr. Anthony Fauci celebrated his birthday, but the 84-year-old, a government bureaucrat since 1968 and head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) from 1984 to 2023, shows no sign of slowing down. In his recent paper, “HIV and COVID-19: Shared Lessons From Two Pandemics,” Dr. Fauci raises a question right in the title.
AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome) or HIV/AIDS fails to qualify as a pandemic. Dr. Fauci once contended that AIDS could be spread by simple family contact and would ravage the general population. As it turned out, the syndrome never moved beyond male homosexuals, hemophiliacs, and intravenous drug users in any significant measure. As with COVID, the origin of AIDS was a matter of dispute.
