Anthony Fauci, medical adviser to seven US presidents, will leave office in December

Anthony Fauci, who has been medical adviser to seven presidents, a leader against HIV/AIDS and the covid-19 pandemic, and head of the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), has announced that he will step down in December.1

That would be after the mid-term elections in November, which may alter the political balance in Congress, but two years before the end of President Joe Biden’s present term in office.

Fauci, now 81, will leave his positions as head of NIAID, chief of its laboratory of immunoregulation, and chief medical adviser to President Biden. But he will not retire and will look to use his expertise “to continue to advance science and public health and to inspire and mentor the next generation of scientific leaders as they help prepare the world to …