Michael Hiltzik: Anatomy of a smear - Fauci faces the House GOP's clown show about COVID

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : To the extent they relied on government recommendations, those came from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a government body with which Fauci had no official connection.
35% : He's revered in the communities of immunologists and virologists; even after Trump sidelined him because he was speaking truths about COVID that Trump didn't like, he was a prominent spokesman for a scientific approach to the pandemic.
33% : In January, he lamented that in 2020 he "became the villain number one of the extremists in the population," which made it "one of the worst years of my life."

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