- Title: Fauci to step down as Biden's chief medical adviser
- Date: 22nd August 2022
- Summary: WASHINGTON DC, UNITED STATES (JULY 31, 2020) (UNRESTRICTED POOL) DR. ANTHONY FAUCI, THE DIRECTOR OF THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES AT THE NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH, ENTERING CONGRESSIONAL BUILDING AHEAD OF HEARING WASHINGTON, D.C., UNITED STATES (JULY 20, 2021) (UNRESTRICTED POOL - Broadcasters: NONE Digital: NONE) (SOUNDBITE) (English) DR. ANTHONY FAUCI, THE DIRECTOR OF THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES AT THE NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH, IN AN EXCHANGE WITH REPUBLICAN SENATOR RAND PAUL, SAYING: FAUCI: "Senator Paul, I have never lied before the Congress and I do not retract that statement. This paper that you are referring to was judged by qualified staff, up and down the chain, as not being 'gain of function.' PAUL (Overlapping): "What was--" FAUCI (Overlapping): "Let me finish!" PAUL (Overlapping): "You take an animal virus and you increase its transmissibility to humans, you're saying that's not 'gain of function'?" FAUCI: "Yeah, that is correct. And--, and--, Senator Paul, you do not know what you are talking about, quite frankly! And, I want to say that officially. You do not know what you are talking about!" WASHINGTON D.C., UNITED STATES (APRIL 15, 2021) (UNRESTRICTED POOL) (SOUNDBITE) (English) DR. ANTHONY FAUCI, THE DIRECTOR OF THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES AT THE NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH, IN EXCHANGE WITH REPUBLICAN CONGRESSMAN JIM JORDAN, SAYING: FAUCI: "My message, Congressman Jordan, is to get as many people vaccinated as quickly as we possibly can to get the level of infection in this country low that it is no longer a threat." WIDE OF CONGRESSIONAL PANEL AND CROSS TALK WITH CONGRESSMAN JIM JORDAN DR. FAUCI SEATED DURIING HEARING WIDE OF CONGRESSIONAL PANEL
- Embargoed: 5th September 2022 16:48
- Keywords: Anthony Fauci
- Location: WASHINGTON, D..C. UNITED STATES
- City: WASHINGTON, D..C. UNITED STATES
- Country: USA
- Topics: Health/Medicine,United States
- Reuters ID: LVA001992722082022RP1
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- Story Text:Dr. Anthony Fauci said on Monday (August 22) he would step down from his positions as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and as chief medical adviser to U.S. President Joe Biden in December.
Fauci, 81, will also step down as chief of the NIAID Laboratory of Immunoregulation.
The infectious disease expert has been the NIAID director since 1984, and in 2020 became the face of the U.S. government's efforts to contain the COVID-19 pandemic.
Last month, Fauci told Reuters that he planned to retire by the end of President Joe Biden's first term, but it could come much earlier than that.
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