More than 860,000 Americans have died from COVID-19 and the current omicron variant is spreading quickly. The World Health Organization is using Greek letters to identify the different variants of the coronavirus,
Fauci began his career at the National Institutes of Health in 1968 in the Laboratory of Clinical Investigation in NIAID and was later appointed chief of the Laboratory of Immunoregulation in 1980, a position he still holds.
He became director of NIAID in 1984 and has advised two presidents on COVID-19, and five presidents on HIV/AIDS and many other domestic and global health issues. President George W. Bush awarded Fauci the Presidential Medal of Freedom for his role as an architect of the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief.