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Dr. Anthony Fauci, the U.S. president’s medical director, said he will retire at the end of President Biden’s term, according to a new report released Monday.
Politico reported Monday that Fauci said he will retire at the end of Biden’s term after more than five decades of federal service under seven different presidential administrations.
The 81-year-old has been director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) since 1984, Reuters reported. It became the face of US government policies regarding efforts to mitigate the coronavirus pandemic by 2020.
Fox News Digital contacted NIAID for comments added Monday.
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Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, answers questions from Senator Rand Paul during the Senate Health, Education, Work and Pensions Committee hearing at Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. DC on July 20, 2021. ((Photo by J. SCOTT APPLEWHITE / POOL / AFP via Getty Images))
Fauci has worked for more than 50 years in the U.S. public health sector, advising all presidents from Reagan. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Fauci was a prominent figure in Trump and Biden’s coronavirus response teams.
Fauci was a regular guest on cable news, prime-time television, nightly programs, and podcasts offering his medical advice during the pandemic.
Over time, he became a politically divisive figure on the left and right on issues such as masks and blocking policies.
Famously, she discussed with Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul at committee hearings about the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic and whether her department within the National Institutes of Health funded the function gains investigation.
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Fauci became the director of NIAID in 1984 at the height of the HIV / AIDS epidemic in America.
Most of his research over the past four decades has attempted to diagnose, treat, and prevent HIV / AIDS, tuberculosis, Ebola, malaria, and other infectious diseases. Fauci advised President George W. Bush to sign the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), funding $ 90 billion for the treatment, prevention and research of HIV / AIDS throughout the world. In 2002, Bush awarded Dr. Fauci the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Danielle Wallace is a Fox News Digital journalist covering politics, crime, policing and more. Story tips can be sent to danielle.wallace@fox.com and on Twitter: @danimwallace.