Anthony Fauci

Anthony Stephen Fauci (; born December 24, 1940) is an American immunologist. He worked for the National Institutes of Health of the  United States. He was the head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). He became well known in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States for his information about preventing the spread of disease.

He has been called "the nation’s leading expert on infectious diseases".Grady, Denise, "Not His First Epidemic: Dr. Anthony Fauci Sticks to the Facts", The New York Times, March 8, 11, 2020. He was a member of the White House Coronavirus Task Force on the COVID-19 pandemic.

On December 4, 2020, newly elected President Joe Biden announced that Fauci would serve as Chief Medical Advisor to the President in the Biden administration.

In August 2022, Fauci announced his retirement from government service. He officially retired on December 31, 2022.

Anthony Fauci has been a principal editor of the medical textbook Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine for many years.

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