“Intensive Treatment” as it sys in the article is a whole lot different from the “Intensive Care” headlined. I think the headline writer got his story wrong.
Tony Fauci is both the smartest and the most politically adept physician-scientist of my generation.
That interview was useful, informative, and impossible to turn into a headline.
Consider this: Since he was appointed by Ronald Reagan to take charge of AIDS science policy, he has stayed atop the greasy pole of federal science under Republicans and Democrats, and their minions, all of whom lust for money and recognition, He's managed to preserve a reasonable laboratory, keep funding pipelines open to the maximum extent feasible, and keep the respect of people who would normally kill a federal bureaucrat just for the hell of it.