Dr. Anthony Fauci, the longtime director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and President Joe Biden’s chief medical advisor who became the public face of the Covid pandemic response, has revealed his retirement plans. Speaking with Politico, Fauci announced that he would step down from his post by the end of Biden’s term and warned that the United States would be fighting Covid for “many years to come.”
According to a report posted on Monday, Fauci, 81, said, “We’re in a pattern now. If somebody says, ‘You’ll leave when we don’t have COVID anymore,’ then I will be 105. I think we’re going to be living with this,” when asked if he felt an obligation to remain in power.
In separate interviews with The Washington Post and CNN, Fauci reiterated his intention to ride off into the sunset.
“By the time we get to the end of the Biden administration term, I feel it would be time for me to step down from this position,” he said. Biden’s term ends in January 2025.
According to CNN,
Fauci told CNN’s “At This Hour” that though his recent comments on retirement were interpreted as announcing a retirement plan, he just meant ‘that it is extremely unlikely — in fact, for sure — that I am not going to be here beyond January 2025.’
Fauci and Covid Origin
In the Politico interview, Fauci also discussed his “legacy,” his prediction of the pandemic course, and the possible congressional investigation into his “leadership and the Covid-19 response.”
For good reasons, some have raised serious concerns over Fauci’s role in the creation of the SARS-CoV-2 virus in the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), as well as in silencing the scientists who questioned his involvement and those who criticized pandemic policies such as lockdowns.
In July 2021, Fauci was referred by Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) for allegedly lying to Congress about funding gain-of-function coronavirus research in China.
In October 2021, internal correspondence of the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), the parent entity of the NIAID, confirmed Fauci was “untruthful” about the extent of his knowledge of the WIV funding and the nature of the research that had been conducted.
In January 2022, two GOP members of the House Oversight Committee, James Comer (Ky.) and Jim Jordan (Ohio), demanded that Fauci’s boss, Director of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Xavier Becerra, conduct a transcribed interview about Fauci’s knowledge of “two things, 1) the potential that COVID-19 leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) and 2) the possibility that the virus was intentionally genetically manipulated.”
In February 2022, Republicans on the House Committee on Oversight and Reform expanded their probe into the attempt to squelch the truth about the origin of Covid to include top scientists who expressed concerns that the pathogen leaked from the WIV, as reported by The New American.
Among numerous other Republicans seeking to bring Fauci to justice, Florida State Representative and congressional candidate Anthony Sabatini called Fauci a “criminal psychopath.” Investigating him should be the “top priority” for the Republican-led House, he told Breitbart News.
The same is believed by Representative Jim Jordan, who also serves as the ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee.
Reacting to the news of Fauci’s retirement plans, Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), a fervent critic of the doctor, posted, “Whether Fauci retires or not, he still must be investigated and held responsible for his role in Covid-19.”
According to Politico, Fauci felt confident that he has done nothing wrong, and reiterated his earlier statement that attacks on him are really “attacks on science.”
According to Politico,
‘I don’t think they can say anything about the science,’ he said of Republicans in Congress calling for probes into his leadership and the Covid-19 response. ‘If that’s what you want to investigate, be my guest. My telling somebody that it’s important to follow fundamental good public health practices … what are you going to investigate about that?’
Politico itself fawned over Fauci, emphasizing the point that the “partisan polarization” that deepened during the pandemic “turned [Fauci], and science itself, into a lightning rod.”
The report details that Fauci’s most notable “success” and “legacy” achievement was handling the HIV/AIDS epidemic, even though Fauci’s failed policies and evident corruption, as well documented by Robert F. Kennedy in his book The Real Anthony Fauci, needlessly cost the lives of thousands of people.
The Pandemic Trajectory
Fauci predicted that the COVID pandemic virus would continue to rapidly mutate into vaccine-evading variants. Because of that, Covid re-vaccinations, or boosting, will become a routine ranging anywhere between “six months to two years.”
In the near future, American adults who have received their primary vaccination series and gotten their first round of boosters will be recommended to take an omicron-specific booster as well. While the FDA has authorized the shots, the CDC has yet to issue the recommendation. Nonetheless, the Biden administration has already placed a $3.2 billion order with Pfizer.
Even Politico cautiously wondered about the shots’ effectiveness:
Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna in late June presented data for updated, Omicron-targeting vaccines to the Food and Drug Administration’s advisory panel and predicted shots could be ready in late August. By that time, Omicron subvariants BA.4 and BA.5 already accounted for more than half of U.S. cases. Reformulating the shots for those strains would push timelines through mid-fall.
As explained by renowned expert in infectious disease and immunology Dr. Geert Vanden Bossche in an interview with The New American, mass vaccination was a “blunder of unprecedented scale,” since it provided a competitive advantage to more transmissible variants of the virus that reinfect the vaccinated. That, in turn, depletes their immune systems and causes wide-ranging ramifications for their health, including relapse and metastasis of cancers.
As a result, the excess mortality rate spiked in 2021 to unprecedented levels.
“America’s Doctor” and “the nation’s top infectious disease expert” is, apparently, not aware of any of it, and continues to promote vaccines and boosters as the “most effective pandemic tools.”
