Dr. Anthony Fauci Wants Us to Know He’s Not Retiring
what’s being done to combat the MPV (monkeypox virus) outbreak that is raging through the gay community, I also let him know how sorry I was to hear that he was retiring.Knowing his love for baseball, I framed a question to him around Willie Mays.
One of the all-time Major League Baseball greats, Mays sort of petered out during the last two years of his 22-year career with the New York Mets.
Rather than go out on top, Mays kind of faded. Baseball aficionados sometimes refer to this as “Willie Mays Syndrome.”So, I asked Fauci, “Are you leaving now to go out on top and avoid the Willie Mays syndrome?” Fauci had a good laugh. “Retiring is an inappropriate description,” America’s doctor said. “What I was asked was if I would continue to serve in my role at the NIH [National Institutes of Health] if Donald Trump was elected president in 2025, or if a Republican was elected, or if Joe Biden won a second term.
My answer was that I don’t anticipate working in the federal government past 2025.”Fauci explained that sometime between now and January of 2025, he would retire from the federal government and pursue his research and work in a different venue.
