The eminent doctor Anthony Fauci, chief adviser to US President Joe Biden on Covid-19 and who had become the face of the fight against the pandemic in the United States, announced this Monday at 81 that he would leave office in December.
He also announced that he would retire on that date from his position as director of the National Institute of Infectious Diseases (NIAID), which he held for 38 years, while specifying that it is not yet about “retiring.” .
“I plan to pursue the next phase of my career with all the energy and passion I have left for my field,” he said in a statement.
“It has been the honor of my life to lead NIAID”
President Joe Biden immediately sent a “profound thanks” to Dr. Fauci for his work. “America is stronger, more resilient and healthier because of him,” he said in a statement.
Anthony Fauci has served under seven different US presidents, beginning with Ronald Reagan. “It has been the honor of my life to lead NIAID,” he wrote, listing the crises it has been through: AIDS epidemic, Ebola, Zika…
In 2020, this doctor by training, already famous in the world of infectious diseases and the fight against AIDS but then still little known by the general public, rose to fame by joining the presidential cell on the coronavirus, when Donald Trump was in power.
His simple and tirelessly repeated messages made him the reassuring figure America needed. But he, who had always been careful to stay away from politics, gradually became the favorite mania of conservatives, and the favorite target of anti-vaccines, in a context of very strong politicization of the health crisis in USA
During a Senate hearing, Anthony Fauci accused a Republican elected official of encouraging people to make death threats against him.
Source: BFM TV
