Fauci to step down in December after decades of public service

Dr. Anthony Fauci, who played a critical role in steering humanity through the two pandemics of our time

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AIDS and COVID-19, announced Monday he is stepping down from his role in the federal government.

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As of December, he will leave the position he's held for 38 years as the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

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as well as his job as chief of the NIAID Laboratory of Immunoregulation

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and his role as chief medical adviser to President Biden.

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The straight-talking scientist and physician was the government's top infectious disease doctor for decades

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and one of the few scientists that many Americans knew by name.

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