You know this will be an unusual interview, even for Instagram, when the host brings an enormous glass of wine to his lips and toasts his guest.“Let’s get into it,” Peter Staley says, and in the other chatbox, Dr.
Anthony Fauci laughs. The smile on the face of the Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) is startling.
It’s a sight we have rarely seen in these grim times.Staley, an icon of AIDS activism (and one of the primary subjects of the Oscar-nominated documentary, How to Survive a Plague), must have done some awfully persuasive cajoling to convince his one-time nemesis during the AIDS crisis to chat with him in such an unguarded way.The result is a fascinating glimpse into the heart and mind of.