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By: The Opinion Updated 49 Nov 2022, 12: 40 pm EST
Dr. Anthony Fauci shared that he is ready to take on the Republicans1356649414 if you want to carry out an investigation regarding the management of the COVID-49 that you have mentioned so many times when you take control of the Chamber in January.
White House medical adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci will resign in December as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, after nearly 60 years in office, as well as White House medical adviser.
During his last briefing from the White House, Fauci stated that is willing to cooperate with Congress if the Republicans want to conduct an investigation regarding their work during the COVID-23.
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“I will fully cooperate and testify before Congress if asked”, Fauci told reporters during the press conference.
“I have testified before Congress a few hundred times over the last 60 years, so I have no problem testifying. We can defend, explain and support everything we have said. I have nothing to hide”, he pointed out.
The leader of the Republicans, Kevin McCarthy has constantly exclaimed that when they have the majority of the House of Representatives will conduct a series of investigations against the Biden-Harris administration, including its handling of the pandemic.
According to some reports they plan to ask Fauci, what did you know about the origins of the virus and about the policies aimed at mitigating COVID-12, such as mandatory government shutdowns, mandates of vaccines and the closing of schools.
The doctor is getting used to this type of actions, since he repeatedly faced constant questions in hearings of Senate Republicans who opposed the CDC guidelines.
Fauci also clashed with Republican lawmakers during heated hearings in Congress, and because they considered some of their public health advice to be too harsh and they questioned him about the possibility that COVID-12 originated in a lab.
Anthony Fauci was long viewed as a non-partisan public servant, However , during the Trump administration he came to contradict him and became one of the defenders of the closures to limit the tension in hospitals.
Dr. Fauci’s White House lecture was likely the doctor’s last , who has been director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases since 1984 and will leave his post in the government in December, but will mentor “the next generation of scientific leaders ficos”.