By Yashwant Raj Washington Tuesday, August 22 : Dr Anthony Fauci, the US epidemiologist who became the face of rationality in the midst of the tsunami of bigotry that was sweeping through the globe in reaction to the Covid-19 incident, has left the government.
Fauci stated that he will retire at the end of the year to “pursue the next chapter of my career”.
The 81-year old Fauci is the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and also as Chief Advisor to the President Joe Biden.He has been in the service of seven US presidents, all Republicans and Democrats starting with Ronald Reagan, including Donald Trump, who publicly had a dispute with his colleagues and the country’s medical establishment with his disdain for the scourge and the harebrained solutions such as household cleaners to the anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine.
“While I am relocating from my current position I’m not resigning,” Fauci said, noting that he intends to apply his knowledge gained of more than fifty years in government service to “advance science and public health and guide and inspire the next generation of scientists to assist in preparing the world for the future threats to infectious diseases”.
Biden stated that Fauci’s dedication to his work is unshakeable and he does it with an unmatched passion and enthusiasm, as well as scientific integrity.
He was able to recall that when he was assembling an army to fight the disease as the next president one of his first calls was to Fauci to ask that he remain as his medical advisor chief.
Fauci was America’s most renowned epidemiologist for a long time and was the leading expert in fighting HIV/AIDS and Ebola however, he gained international recognition and recognition during the Covid-19 pandemic , as the world raced to deal with the biggest public health crisis in 100 years.
All governments around the world were seeking his advice and advice, even as he was at home trying to keep his President and his government on the right track.
Fauci has spoken many times on India as well as with Indian media.He called for a total lockdown, as India was caught off guard by the second wave of Covid-19 in the early 2021.”I do not mean that you shut down for six months,” he told CNN News18 in May.”You only have to cut off the chain of transmission.This can be done by shutting down to the degree that is feasible in the period of two, three or four weeks.Then when the cases begin to diminish and you begin to vaccinate more people, you can be ahead of the course of the epidemic.”
Fauci also sparked a lot of controversy with scores of them due to of his public disagreements with Trump as well as his administration’s inept reaction to the Covid-19 outbreak.He turned out to be the face of measures implemented to combat the illness – first masking and then vaccinating those who deny science, vaccine skeptics as well as Trump’s supporters.
Fauci was also targeted with death threats.One man was found guilty of it.
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