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Summary List PlacementDr. Anthony Fauci, the nation's top infectious disease expert, on Thursday expressed relief that he's no longer answering to President Donald Trump, who he said made statements about the pandemic that "were not based on scientific fact." Fauci made several remarks about the difference between working under Trump and newly sworn-in President Joe Biden during a White House press briefing, calling it...

Summary List PlacementDr. Anthony Fauci warned of a surge in coronavirus cases following the high amount of travel over the holidays.  "We very well might see a post-seasonal — in the sense of Christmas, New Year's — surge, and as I've described it a surge upon a surge," the nation's leading infectious disease expert said on CNN's "State of the Union" on Sunday.  Fauci...

Dr. Anthony Fauci said on PBS NewsHour that New York offers an ideal example of how to "correctly" confront novel coronavirus outbreaks. "We know that, when you do it properly, you bring down those cases," Fauci said. "We have done it. We have done it in New York. New York got hit worse than any place in the world." New York City is slated...

Dr. Anthony Fauci highlighted the range of coronavirus symptoms among young people in an interview with Mark Zuckerberg on Friday. Some young coronavirus patients "can be knocked on their back and brought to their knees pretty quickly," Fauci said. He added that it could take "months to a year or more" to determine whether these patients suffer from chronic illnesses.  Visit Business Insider's homepage...

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, emerged as an expert voice in the White House's chaotic response to the novel coronavirus pandemic. In the early days of the response, President Donald Trump praised Fauci, saying at a March press briefing he was "doing a tremendous job working long, long hours." However, Fauci's relationship with the White...

Leading coronavirus expert Dr. Anthony Fauci said on Tuesday that the traditional greeting of shaking hands may need to end even after the coronavirus pandemic is under control. "As a society, just forget about shaking hands," Fauci said. "We don't need to shake hands. We've got to break that custom." With the outbreak of coronavirus, the CDC has advised Americans to avoid shaking hands...

Dr. Anthony Fauci struck an emotional tone when discussing the disproportionate death toll facing African Americans from COVID-19 during Tuesday's White House Coronavirus Task Force press briefing. "And the reason I want to bring it up, because I couldn't help sitting there reflecting on how sometimes when you're in the middle of a crisis, like we are now with the coronavirus, it really does...

Dr. Anthony Fauci said that the United States might never get entirely back to where it was before the novel coronavirus outbreak, especially without a vaccine. "If you want to get back to pre-coronavirus, that might not ever happen in the sense that the threat is there," Fauci said, expressing optimism that new therapies and a vaccine will help the US recover.  Fauci said...