With Shots in Arms, Retiring NIH Head Sees Pandemic Role Waning (1)

NIH Director Francis S. Collins thought now was the right time to retire because the work toward making Covid-19 vaccines and other tools available put the agency in a “in a very solid place.”

“Not that we’re out of this pandemic, because we most certainly are not,” Collins quickly added Tuesday in an interview with Bloomberg Law. But with three vaccines now available, in large part through NIH’s basic research and public-private partnerships, along with its “Shark Tank"-like program for testing, “it feels as if the need for my continued sort of hour-to-hour oversight has been appropriately waning over the ...