Dr. Anthony Fauci will leave his post as Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) in December. He announced last month he would leave at the end of Biden’s term.
Fauci became NIAID director in 1984. But most of us didn’t hear about him until COVID. Boy, that was a success!
But Fauci isn’t retiring:
“I am announcing today that I will be stepping down from the positions of Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and Chief of the NIAID Laboratory of Immunoregulation, as well as the position of Chief Medical Advisor to President Joe Biden,” Fauci said in a statement Monday. “I will be leaving these positions in December of this year to pursue the next chapter of my career.””It has been the honor of a lifetime to have led the NIAID, an extraordinary institution, for so many years and through so many scientific and public health challenges,” Fauci said. “I am very proud of our many accomplishments.”
Gotta make a dig at Trump:
“I am particularly proud to have served as the Chief Medical Advisor to President Joe Biden since the very first day of his administration,” Fauci said.”While I am moving on from my current positions, I am not retiring,” Fauci stressed, saying that “after more than 50 years of government service, I plan to pursue the next phase of my career while I still have so much energy and passion for my field.””I want to use what I have learned as NIAID Director to continue to advance science and public health and to inspire and mentor the next generation of scientific leaders as they help prepare the world to face future infectious disease threats,” Fauci said.Fauci said that over the final months of his government career, he will “continue to put my full effort, passion and commitment into my current responsibilities, as well as help prepare the Institute for a leadership transition.””NIH is served by some of the most talented scientists in the world, and I have no doubt that I am leaving this work in very capable hands,” he said, adding that, “thanks to the power of science and investments in research and innovation, the world has been able to fight deadly diseases and help save lives around the globe.””I am proud to have been part of this important work and look forward to helping to continue to do so in the future,” Fauci said.
Yeah, you did a great job, Fauci. I’ll never forget Leslie’s post about the rates of HIV infection in black and Hispanic men being the same as they were ten years ago. Leslie wrote:
As we enter into the second year of the global response to the coronavirus pandemic, perhaps it is time to start questioning how successful the efforts over the past 40 years have been in containing HIV and if resources could have been better used.And if Fauci’s “victory” over AIDS is the reason he can proclaim himself the embodiment of “science”, then the time has come for a hard assessment of the realities of that victory and his role in the response.
Let’s not forget that Fauci’s NIH division spent our money to study hormone therapy in monkeys. There were also other experiments on monkeys.
Don’t forget the #FauciEmails! Science? Nope. Fauci was a politician like everyone else.
More importantly, taxpayers fund gain of function research in the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
I shiver at the thought of who will take Fauci’s post. It seems the new person is always worse than his predecessor. Blech.
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