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Sign up for our newsletter now. "Cost-benefit analysis is not the way Fauci thinks, he's a physician and immunologist," says Engel. "So that's where the frustration in some red states comes from. You're saving lives, but you're also destroying lives. Someone else needs to be there to step back and think about the whole picture, but that's not Fauci's role." Get daily coronavirus updates in your inbox:Sign up for our newsletter now. Critics ask: Did Fauci 'miss it'? Even some fellow scientists who praise Fauci's professional accomplishments suggest not only that he was late sounding the alarm, but that having one celebrated virus point person is dangerous. "In January, February and part of March there was one physician on show after show, him, and while he's great at explaining things, in terms of telling the country to get prepared, he missed it," says Marty Makary, professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. "My concern is not with Anthony Fauci as much as it is in a media and policy world that puts its faith in one person."