Dr Anthony Fauci

2022 - 8 - 23

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Dr. Anthony Fauci didn't just treat infectious diseases, colleagues ... (USA TODAY)

Dr. Anthony Fauci became a household name during the COVID-19 pandemic, and also a frequent target of Republicans who assailed lockdowns and masks.

“Unfortunately he’s going out in the middle of a war in many ways, a political war, a war against the virus and a war really for the soul of our country,” Adams said. "He stood up for us and I can't quite convey how unusual that is for one leader in one agency to stand up for another agency. In multiple exchanges during congressional hearings, Paul erroneously claimed Fauci improperly received money from vaccine makers, incorrectly characterized Fauci’s statements about COVID-19 vaccines and accused him of lying about the origins of the virus. Anthony Fauci, the US's top infectious disease expert who has seeming been wrong about everything since the AIDS epidemic, says he will retire by the end of the year likely to avoid being questioned by a GOP controlled house on how he got everything so wrong for so long!” Ted Cruz tweeted, “In January, a GOP Congress should hold Fauci fully accountable for his dishonesty, corruption, abuse of power, and multiple lies under oath. “He had enormous impact because he was courageous and willing to stand up to people who were trying to say things that were politically popular but not based in science.” To date, the plan has contributed nearly $110 billion to treatment and prevention, earned bipartisan support and protected millions of babies from being infected with HIV in what was "probably the single best thing for American diplomacy," over the past two generations, Frieden said. “During a period of extraordinary crisis, he showed great precision, firmness and diplomacy. His work generated praise from the public health community and attacks from critics and political opponents in a nation sharply divided over how to handle a once-in-a-century virus that has Fauci has been a key researcher in HIV/AIDS since it was discovered in 1981, studying how the disease destroys the body’s defenses and how to develop therapies and prevention tools. [would step down in December](https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/statement-anthony-s-fauci-md) as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and President Joe Biden's top medical advisor. Many Republicans, including Trump, clashed with Fauci and were less than supportive of science-based interventions.

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Anthony Fauci 'has a lot to answer for' (Sky News Australia)

Menzies Research Centre Executive Director Nick Cater says outgoing US Chief Medical Advisor Dr Anthony Fauci is an “extraordinarily powerful figure in ...

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Opinion | Anthony Fauci's Retirement Marks the End of an Era (The New York Times)

Dr. Gonsalves is an associate professor of epidemiology at the Yale School of Public Health, a longtime AIDS activist and a 2018 MacArthur fellow. AIDS. SARS.

Fauci lives in a world of dire constraints, of the men and women of politics, who dream small and think about the next election always, rather than the nature and qualities of their legacies, of which Dr. The sound you hear is the thud of resignation in the face of the suffering of so many over the past two and a half years and a summer in which we add hundreds to the dead every day in the United States. We didn’t sit with the mounting dead and our pitiful armamentarium of weak drugs and suggest we had the tools. Fauci and other health leaders](https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/nataliebettendorf/fauci-emails-covid-response) during the Trump administration at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic [,](https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/nataliebettendorf/fauci-emails-covid-response) begging them to speak up and provide scientific leadership in the chaos and mismanagement that scientists and the public saw happening around us. But there was [little the good doctor could do](https://www.poz.com/blog/activist-peter-staley-unmasked-dr-tony-fauci-fabulous), and he even acknowledged this was a unique situation. If the age of Dr. Bush came the closest to making it a priority, with the establishment of the With the election of Mr. This wasn’t the Pollyannaish scientism of the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s — a notion that science would conquer infectious diseases once and for all — but the idea that at least there could be progress. Don’t get me wrong: No one I know thinks that our gains on AIDS and the progress we’ve made in other areas of infectious disease control — Fauci gave the impression that science could handle these challenges, eventually, through the methodological, step-by-step work of research and the application of what we learned expeditiously into the clinic, into the field. He hugged Nina Pham, a Dallas nurse, in front of cameras after she recovered from Ebola, to soothe a nation’s fears about the virus in 2014.

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Dr Anthony Fauci to step down in December: How the top doctor ... (Firstpost)

In his decades-long career, Dr Anthony Fauci has worked with seven US presidents. He shared a tumultuous relationship with Donald Trump over his handling of ...

"Because of Dr Fauci's many contributions to public health, lives here in the United States and around the world have been saved. Fauci’s response to COVID-19 also triggered criticism as early in the outbreak he had negated the importance of wearing masks, saying they were not needed. Before he was known worldwide for leading the US’ fight against the COVID-19, Fauci was known for the response against the AIDS epidemic. Dr Anthony Fauci had joined the National Institutes of Health in 1968 when he was 27-year-old. Dr Anthony Fauci who became the face of COVID-19 response in America is all set to step down as chief medical adviser to US President Joe Biden. He worked alongside then President George W Bush in launching a global program– PEPFAR– to combat HIV/AIDS, which has approximately saved 21 million lives, as per the NY Times. Follow us on [also read] [World](https://www.firstpost.com/category/world) [Watch: Officials test live seafood for COVID-19 amid rising cases in China](https://www.firstpost.com/world/watch-officials-test-live-seafood-for-covid-19-amid-rising-cases-in-china-11086411.html) The two disagreed on several issues from mask mandate to use of hydroxychloroquine. This top US doctor has advised the Presidents through HIV/AIDS epidemic, West Nile virus, the 2001 anthrax attacks, pandemic influenza, Ebola, Zika and, the recent coronavirus and monkeypox. “I am very proud of our many accomplishments. He saw many successes in his career and assumed charge as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in 1984. Announcing his decision on 22 August, 81-year-old Fauci said he would also depart from his role as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) in December this year to “pursue the next chapter” of his career.

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Battenfeld: Dr. Anthony Fauci fleeing Washington just before ... (Boston Herald)

First, Liz Cheney, now Anthony Fauci. Chalk up another victim of the likely hostile GOP takeover of Congress.

Rand Paul, a Kentucky Republican who has clashed publicly with Fauci and could become the chairman of the Senate Health Committee next year. Fauci was a lightning rod and a foil for the right. “Did you hear the news, my friend?” Gail Huff Brown, the wife of former Massachusetts Sen. He will be asked to testify under oath regarding any discussions he participated in concerning the lab leak,” tweeted Sen. “After forcing mandates on Granite Staters and crippling our economy, Mr Bureaucrat is calling it quits. Fauci says he is quitting his role as chief medical adviser to President Biden to “pursue the next phase” of his career, whatever that means.

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Dr. Anthony Fauci Will Step Down in December (Physician's Weekly)

MONDAY, Aug. 22, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Anthony Fauci, M.D., who has advised seven presidents and spent more than five decades at the U.S. National ...

“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 added. Fauci joined the NIH in 1968 and rose to prominence within the agency during the 1980s AIDS crisis. 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,” Fauci said in a [statement](https://www.niaid.nih.gov/news-events/statement-anthony-s-fauci-md) posted on the NIAID website. National Institutes of Health, will step down in December to “pursue the next chapter” of his career, he announced Monday. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and is chief medical adviser to President Joe Biden.

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Top U.S. Infectious Disease Expert Dr. Anthony Fauci to Retire in ... (Democracy Now!)

The FBI seized more than 150 documents marked “classified” when it searched the residence of former President Donald Trump earlier this month. That's according ...

On Monday, Wyoming’s Department of Health said it had confirmed its first-ever case of monkeypox, meaning the virus has now been detected in all 50 U.S. The reported case came as New York health officials announced plans to administer one-fifth doses of monkeypox vaccine in order to stretch supplies. New York’s Health Department has confirmed the state’s first case of monkeypox in a person under the age of 18.

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Tributes pour in for HIV trailblazer Dr Anthony Fauci as he ... (PinkNews)

Dr Anthony Fauci, who played a key role in steering the US through the AIDS crisis and COVID-19 pandemic, will be step down in December.

Fauci frequently appeared in media reports in the US and abroad as he detailed the nation’s battle with coronavirus. Staley recalled how Fauci held dinners at the home of a gay man, who worked in his office, and these dicussions would “last for many hours”. “Had the world understood that in the very early years of HIV, I think there would have been a lot more information exchanged in a way that is productive, and that could have saved lives… Fauci first joined the National Institutes of Health in 1968 under the presidency of Lyndon Johnson. “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.” “When I arrived at HHS, the world was one year into the COVID-19 pandemic,” Becerra said.

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