Anthony Fauci says he will retire at end of Biden's current term - Politico
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Chief Medical Advisor to the President and National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony Fauci will retire at the end of President Biden's current term, Politico reported.
A source familiar with Fauci's plans confirmed to Seeking Alpha his departure in January 2025.
In an interview with the news outlet, Fauci, who began his public service in 1968 at the National Institutes of Health, said that the U.S. will likely have to learn to live with COVID-19 in the future.
Although Fauci first received national attention when COVID-19 became a pandemic in 2020 and was regularly featured at White House press briefings, he has a long history of conducting important research. For example, in the 1980s, he and his staff made important discoveries related to HIV.
After initially saying in early 2020 that the threat from COVID-19 was low to the American public, Fauci eventually changed his stance based on new scientific evidence that was emerging. When Fauci advised that Americans should wear masks and observe six feet of social distancing, President Trump pushed back. The relationship between Fauci and Trump was known to be extremely strained.
Fauci has received support from President Biden, but still elicits strong feelings from many Americans. In the Politico interview, Fauci said he hopes to ease the polarization in the U.S. that has led to attacks on him and science.
Fauci noted that it's "not impossible, but more difficult" to develop shots for the next dominant COVID strain, adding COVID vaccination schedules in the future could be from every six months to two years.
COVID vaccine makers: Pfizer (NYSE:PFE), BioNTech (NASDAQ:BNTX), Moderna (NASDAQ:MRNA), and Novavax (NASDAQ:NVAX).
On Friday, Fauci urged eligible Americans not to wait to get COVID boosters amid a surge in Omicron subvariant cases.
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