NIH Director: Firing Fauci Would Be ‘Unimaginable’
The head of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Francis Collins, says no one from the White House has asked him to fire Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases…
The head of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Francis Collins, says no one from the White House has asked him to fire Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
During an interview on NBC’s “Meet The Press” on Sunday, Collins was asked if he has been requested to demote of fire Fauci.
He responded, “Nobody has asked me to do that. And I find that concept unimaginable.”
“And I am amused that everybody’s calling me Dr. Fauci’s boss because his real boss is his wife, Christine Grady. She might have something to say about that,” Collins said.
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His comments come as several reports have suggested that White House officials are trying to undermine Fauci.
However, members of the White House coronavirus task force denied that officials were trying to stifle Fauci because President Donald Trump does not like his advice.
But, after days of denying that the White House that there was a campaign against Fauci, trade advisor Peter Navarro published an op-ed in USA Today that blasted Fauci’s credibility, as