Fauci to Step Down in December After 50 Years in Government (1)

Anthony Fauci, the top US infectious disease expert who rocketed to unexpected fame during the pandemic, will step down at the end of the year.

Fauci, President Joe Biden’s chief medical adviser, will wrap up a storied career in which he advised seven presidents. Instead of retiring, he’s leaving his government posts to “pursue the next chapter of my career,” Fauci, 81, said in a statement released Monday by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, a branch of the National Institutes of Health.

WATCH: Dr. Fauci will step down at the end of this year.

Source: Bloomberg

Fauci has served as the director of NIAID since 1984, overseeing a ...