Anthony Fauci became one of the faces of the fight against Covid-19 in the United States when he joined the presidential cell under Donald Trump in 2020.
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“America is stronger, more resilient and healthier because of him.” Joe Biden praised Doctor Anthony Fauci, the US President’s main adviser on Covid-19, who announced on Monday August 22 that he would leave office in December. The one who had become the face ofhe fight against the pandemic across the Atlantic has also announced that he is leaving his post director of the National Institute of Infectious Diseases (NIAID), which he had held for 38 years.
It will not, however, become inactive since it “plan(s) to pursue the next phase of (his) career with all the energy and passion that (he) remains for (his) field”he said in a statement.
Anthony Fauci served under seven different American presidents, starting with Ronald Reagan in the 1980s. Within the NIAID, he had to go through many crises: the AIDS epidemic, Ebola, Zika… “It has been the honor of my life to lead” this institute, he confessed.
In 2020, this doctor by training, already famous in the world of infectious diseases and the fight against AIDS, but then still little known to the general public, was thrown into the limelight by joining the presidential cell on the coronavirus, when Donald Trump was in power. By dint of intervening regularly during the Covid crisis, it has gradually become the pet peeve of conservatives, and the favorite target of anti-vaccines.