Dr. Anthony Fauci, the head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) tested positive for COVID-19 on June 15.
Fauci, chief medical advisor to President Joe Biden, tested positive in a rapid antigen test, according to a Wednesday statement published on the National Institute of Health (NIH) website. Fauci, 81, is “fully vaccinated and has been boosted twice,” the statement says.
The NIH said Fauci “has not recently been in close contact with President Biden or other senior government officials.”
Fauci started working for the federal government in the 1960s and has been the director of NIAID since 1984. He recently suggested that he will retire not “a very long time from now,” in an interview with The Independent this month….