Analysis by Dr. Joseph Mercola Fact Checked August 31, 2022
STORY AT-A-GLANCE
August 22, 2022, Dr. Anthony Fauci announced he will resign from his posts as director of
the National Institutes for Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) — a position he’s held
for 38 years — and chief medical adviser to the White House, come December
It appears Fauci is making sure to get out before new Republican congressional
members take their seats. He’s probably banking on being able to plead the Fifth
Amendment as a private citizen and never have to answer to anything he did while in
public office, should Republicans decide to investigate his role in the pandemic
Fauci’s misdeeds include but are not limited to disastrous and contradictory COVID
policies, funding of banned gain-of-function research in Wuhan, China, colluding to
destroy the reputations of scientists who called for focused protection rather than
lockdowns, and lying to Congress
One of the darkest stains on Fauci’s career was his handling of the HIV epidemic.
Suppressing the use of repurposed drugs, Fauci zeroed in on AZT, a toxic drug that killed
an estimated 300,000 AIDS patients. He followed the same script during the COVID
pandemic, with devastating consequences