By GARRETT ROSS
08/22/2022 01:07 PM EDT
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ANTHONY FAUCI, who has helmed the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for 38 years and served as the top medical adviser over the course of the pandemic, will step down from both posts in December, NYT’s Sheryl Gay Stolberg reports.
Fauci, who will turn 82 on Dec. 24, said he won’t be retiring “in the classic sense,” but rather “would devote himself to traveling, writing and encouraging young people to enter government service.”
“So long as I’m healthy, which I am, and I’m energetic, which I am, and I’m passionate, which I am, I want to do some things outside of the realm of the federal government,” Fauci said.
President JOE BIDEN, in a White House statement: “Whether you’ve met him personally or not, he has touched all Americans’ lives with his work. … The United States of America is stronger, more resilient, and healthier because of him.” Read the full statement
Fauci has notably clashed with Sen. RAND PAUL (R-Ky.) on numerous occasions, and the Times notes that Paul “and other Republicans have vowed to investigate Dr. Fauci if they win control of Congress this fall, and there has been speculation that Dr. Fauci would retire to avoid that possibility. Dr. Fauci dismissed that idea as ‘nonsense’ and also said that he had no intention of going to work for the pharmaceutical industry, as some of his critics have suggested.” FWIW: Paul tweeted that he would...
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