m. Fauci clarified that he would also withdraw in December from his post as director of the National Institute of Infectious Allergies and Diseases.
Le Monde with AFP
Main advisor to the American president, Joe Biden, on the COVVI-19, he had become the face of the fight against the pandemic in the United States. The eminent d r anthony fauci announced, Monday August 22, at 81, that he would leave his duties in December.
He also explained that he would withdraw on this date from his post as director of the National Institute of Infectious Allergies and Diseases (Niaid), which he had occupied for thirty-eight years, while specifying that It was not yet a question for him of “retiring”.
I plan to continue the next phase of my career with all the energy and the passion I have left for my field.
President Joe Biden immediately addressed “his deep thanks” to the D r fucked for his work. “The United States is stronger, more resilient and healthier thanks to him,” he praised in a Communicated .
bane of the Conservatives
m. Fauci served under seven different American presidents, starting with Ronald Reagan. “It was the honor of my life to lead Niaid,” he wrote, listing the crises crossed: AIDS epidemic, Ebola virus, Zika virus …
In 2020, this doctor by training, already famous in the world of infectiology and the fight against AIDS but then still little known to the general public, was screened on the front of the stage by joining the presidential cell On the coronavirus, when Donald Trump was in power.
Her tirelessly repeated simple messages make it the reassuring figure that America needs. But he who had always taken care to keep away from politics gradually became the bane of the conservatives, and the favorite target of anti-salaries, in a context of very strong politicization of the health crisis in the United States.
During a hearing in the Senate, Mr. Fauci accused an elected Republican of encouraging people uttering death threats to him.