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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Richard Luscombe

Anthony Fauci says he will retire by end of Joe Biden’s first term

Fauci with Donald Trump at a coronavirus briefing in April 2020.
Fauci with Donald Trump at a coronavirus briefing in April 2020. Photograph: Leah Millis/Reuters

Anthony Fauci announced on Monday he will have retired by the time Joe Biden’s first term in the White House ends in January 2025, but said his hope of eliminating Covid will likely not have been achieved by then.

“If somebody says, ‘You’ll leave when we don’t have Covid any more,’ then I will be 105,” the government’s chief medical adviser, 81, said in a wide-ranging interview with Politico.

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