Dr. Anthony Fauci announced his retirement earlier this year, as COVID-19 appeared to be on the wane. Few will forget the many months during which he was the face of the U.S. response to the coronavirus pandemic.
In 2014, Anthony Fauci and Beth Bell, left, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, testify on Ebola before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee on Capitol Hill.
With winter approaching, Fauci and Dr. Ashish Jha, the White House pandemic response team coordinator, urged Americans to receive theirprotect against both the original strain of the coronavirus and more recent Omicron subvariants. Reiterating a point both men have made before, Fauci said that the coronavirus can only be relegated to a background concern if Americans regularly update their vaccinations.
Dr. Ashish Jha, White House COVID-19 response coordinator, at a White House daily news briefing Oct. 25. “We were not dealing with a static situation,” Fauci explained Tuesday. It took months for scientists to grasp how the coronavirus spread. Initial guidance against masking from other public health officials was reversed; then, the plastic screens and other evidence of so-called "" gradually vanished as it became clear that the coronavirus was not spread from surfaces.
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