On Monday, Anthony Fauci MD, the United States’ top infectious disease expert, confirmed that he’d retire by the end of the US President’s first term. However, Dr. Fauci, who serves as the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and Chief Medical Advisor to Joe Biden, the U.S. President, said that it’s currently unspecified when he’ll retire.

The American physician-scientist and immunologist said of his plans to leave the US administration before the end of Joe Biden’s current term in office, which ends in January 2025 that he’s stated that for a long time. However, he added that before they get to the end of the President’s current term, he’ll very likely retire.

In an interview published on July 18, Dr. Fauci said that he didn’t anticipate remaining in administration until they got rid of COVID-19 because he said that he ponders: we’re going to be living with this lethal virus for years to come when he was questioned about staying out of a sense of obligation.

Later on Monday, the 82-year-old said that though his latest statements on leaving the government were interpreted as proclaiming a retirement plan, he just intended that it’s highly improbable. Indeed, he isn’t going to be in the government beyond the end of Biden’s first term.

Second Booster Shot for Americans Under 50

On Saturday, the US government’s leading infectious disease expert said that American health officials are in active debate with the federal health agency FDA on whether it will approve a 2nd booster dose for those below 50 years of age. Laura Coates, a CNN Senior Legal Analyst, said that expectantly they’d get the answer on additional booster reasonably soon.

The U.S. health regulators approved the second booster shots for American adults ages fifty years and up, as well as those people who have compromised immune response in March. But for every American below the age of fifty, only one booster dose is approved.

The remarks from Dr. Anthony Fauci come amid a distressing period in the deadly pandemic for several all over the country. Moreover, daily Coronavirus infections have increased again, and hospital admissions and fatalities are up, driven by the highly contagious Omicron sub-variant BA.5.

According to the US public health agency CDC, last week, the new sub-variant of SARS-CoV-2 caused almost 66% of the new Coronavirus infections. Dr. Rochelle Walensky, Director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said that the new Omicron offshoot is more infectious and more adept at passing our immune defenses.