Dr Anthony Fauci appeared on Sunday to retire quickly, saying he wanted to wait until the US “really got out” of the COVID-19 pandemic before moving on.
The 81-year-old began buzzing about his potential retirement Saturday as he told ABC’s “Start Here” podcast, “I said I’ll stay what I do until we get out of the pandemic phase, and I think we they may already be there. “
But in an interview on ABC “This Week” on Sunday, the White House chief medical adviser was asked if the country was at the end of the pandemic and if he planned to get “some rest” by that time.
“I’m not so sure, George,” the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases told anchor George Stephonaupolous. “I want to make sure we really get out of this before I really think about doing anything else. We’re still in this.
“We have a way to go. I think we have clearly gone in the right direction. I hope we stay that way,” he continued.
Fauci has served as director of the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases since 1984, working under six presidents starting with Ronald Reagan.
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