Looking Back at Dr. Fauci's Enduring Bond with AIDS Activist Larry Kramer & Their Final Phone Call

Looking Back at Dr. Fauci's Enduring Bond with AIDS Activist Larry Kramer & Their Final Phone Call








In an interview with the Times this spring, before he died, Kramer said he and Fauci were "friends again" — if their friendship had ever ended — and that Kramer was "feeling sorry for how he’s being treated," amid the novel coronavirus pandemic, which had made Fauci a household name.

“I usually correspond with him after he appears on television,” Kramer said to The Daily Beast in March. “He just says, ‘Hunker down.’ I tell him, ‘You’re looking tired.’ ”

Speaking with PBS for a retrospective on AIDS in America, Kramer spoke of Fauci with less vinegar and more warmth. The doctor, he said, had become the only true and great hero in all of this, in the government, in the system.

“I acknowledge him every chance I can,” Kramer said then, “because we certainly got off to a rocky start.”

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