The director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and chief medical adviser to President Joe Biden is the subject of an eponymous National Geographic documentary focusing on his life. It will stream Wednesday on Disney+.
Fauci touched on health pandemics, including HIV/AIDS and the coronavirus, in the documentary's interviews.
"It's affecting you now," an interviewer for FAUCI said.
Fauci replied: "Yeah."
The interviewer asked why.
"Post-traumatic stress syndrome," Fauci, 80, said.
“When you’re involved in a race to stop a horrible disease, you always feel you’re not doing things quickly enough,” Fauci said in the documentary's trailer as he stood by a mass memorial.
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https://variety.com/video/fauci-cov...=NA-VARI-11240264&mvl= [Homepage Latest News]During the film, Fauci opens up about post-traumatic stress disorder from the death of a former patient. According to Tobias and Hoffman, when the moment happened, they expected him to ask for it to not be included in the documentary, but he didn’t. The moment marked a shift in their relationships with the subject, as it allowed them to delve into more personal subject matter with him.
“We had never had a conversation with Dr. Fauci going into these interviews about how they needed to be different than the hundreds, thousands of other interviews that he had done,” Hoffman said. “His display of emotions at that moment revealed that he understood instinctively that what we were doing is being a portrait of him. He had to be emotionally available in a way that is not appropriate when he’s being interviewed as a public health expert.”