"I am announcing today that I will be stepping down from the positions of Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and Chief of the NIAID Laboratory of Immunoregulation, as well as the position of Chief Medical Advisor to President Joe Biden," said the statement he published this Monday on the NIAID website. "I will be leaving these positions in December of this year to pursue the next chapter of my career," added the octogenarian doctor (81 years old), although without specifying what he will be doing next.
Just a few weeks ago, he indicated that he would leave at the end of Joe Biden's term. But seems to have had second thoughts and has decided to do so in December, just after a midterm election that could leave Congress in Republican hands, leading to speculation such as this one from Raheem J. Kassam, The National Pulse's editor-in-chief:
BREAKING: Fauci to step down right before Republicans are expected to take control of Congress and commence investigations into his funding of the Wuhan Lab and pandemic response. pic.twitter.com/FmJckXf9Ey
- Raheem J. Kassam (@RaheemKassam) August 22, 2022
For his part, Drudge Report did not want to forget his also controversial role in the fight against AIDS and presented the news to his readers in this way:
