Birx banished and Fauci flourishes under Biden
by Cassidy Morrison, Healthcare Reporter |
| January 29, 2021 06:26 AM
The fates of the two most prominent public health officials during the early days of the pandemic have diverged wildly in the early Biden administration, with Dr. Anthony Fauci more ubiquitous than ever but Dr. Deborah Birx effectively ostracized.
Fauci, the government’s top infectious disease expert, is now the chief medical adviser to President Biden and is more prominent on television than ever. In just the past week, he's appeared on Face the Nation and Today to air his thoughts on the coronavirus.
After having his public speaking roles sharply limited by the Trump administration, the 80-year-old National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director has made it clear that he relishes the freedom to speak under Biden.
“The idea that you can get up here and talk about what you know, what the evidence, what the science is, and know that’s it, let the science speak. It is somewhat of a liberating feeling,†Fauci said at the second press briefing in the Biden administration.
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