Fauci to Join Georgetown University as Professor
The Facts
After a decades-long career in the US government as the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), Dr. Anthony Fauci will join the faculty at Georgetown University next week.
As a distinguished university professor, Fauci will work in Georgetown University's Department of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases, which "provides clinical care, conducts research, and trains future physicians in infectious diseases."
The Spin
Democratic narrative
Fauci, a top public servant for years, will continue his merit-filled scientific, clinical, and public health career at Georgetown. His insight and expertise likely saved an untold number of lives during the COVID pandemic, even while Republicans pedantically attacked him.
Republican narrative
Throughout COVID, Fauci made several serious blunders, including exaggerating the effectiveness of vaccines to boost uptake and flip-flopping on face masks, and his role in COVID origins is being deeply scrutinized. He is just another bureaucratic official who has reaped the benefits of his public profile, pocketing sky-high speaker fees due to his pandemic-era fame.
