Fauci, 81, Tests Positive For COVID And Is Experiencing Symptoms

On Tuesday, Dr. Anthony Fauci, chief medical adviser to President Joe Biden, announced that he has tested positive for COVID.

Fauci, age 81, is fully vaccinated and twice-boosted. He also serves as the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

“Dr. Fauci will isolate and continue to work from his home,” the National Institute for Health said in a press release. “He has not recently been in close contact with President Biden or other senior government officials. Dr. Fauci will follow the COVID-19 guidelines of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and medical advice from his physician and return to the NIH when he tests negative.”

Fauci has previously defended the COVID vaccine’s efficacy against critics who wonder how some folks can get infected with the virus and require hospitalization despite being vaccinated.

Recently, Fauci was interviewed on a podcast hosted by CBS’ Major Garrett, who was forced to record the discussion from his home due after testing positive for COVID even though he was double-vaxxed and boosted, Eat This, Not That reported.

“This is a highly transmissible virus, and it is very likely that if you were not vaccinated and double boosted, that you would’ve had a much more severe outcome than you have right now,” Fauci told Garrett. “And you and I very unlikely would be speaking to each other right now.”

For his part, Fauci is experiencing mild symptoms.

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