Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation's top infectious disease expert, briefed reporters from the White House for the last time before leaving the government at the end of the year.
On Tuesday, he joined Biden's other top adviser -- Dr. Ashish Jha -- to discuss the need for Americans to get the bivalent COVID shot.
The"most disturbing" aspect of the pandemic, he said, is the constantly evolving variants, which make it nearly impossible to stay ahead of the virus. Going forward, he said, public officials have to do a better job of underscoring the evolving nature of such outbreaks. "When I see people in this country, because of the divisiveness in our country, not getting vaccinated for reasons that have nothing to do with public health but have to do because of divisiveness and ideological differences, as a physician, it pains me," Fauci said,"because I don't want to see anybody get infected."
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