Coronavirus in the United States: the expert was vaccinated …

The immunologist Anthony Fauci, adviser to the government of the United States, He was vaccinated against covid-19 on Monday along with other senior officials and six health workers during an event at the National Institutes of Health broadcast live.

“This is a signal to the rest of the country that I am extremely confident in the safety and efficacy of this vaccine,” said the highly respected 79-year-old expert.

“I want to encourage anyone who has the opportunity to be vaccinated, so that we can have protective coverage in the country that ends this pandemic, ”he added.

Fauci He was the first to receive, in front of the cameras, a dose of the Moderna vaccine, authorized on Friday by in the United States and developed in collaboration with the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, which he has managed since 1984.

The elected president Joe biden, who takes office on January 20, recently announced that he will appoint Fauci as your primary advisor in managing the pandemic crisis.

This immunologist, already a member of the White House crisis unit, has been a trusted figure of Americans since the start of the pandemic.

Used to television programs, he tirelessly repeats the usefulness of sanitary measures.

However, the acting president, Donald trump, has been repeatedly annoyed by his recommendations, from which he has often departed.

“People are tired of (hearing about) covid,” the president said in mid-October. “People say, ‘Leave us alone’. They have had enough. Tired of hearing about Fauci and all these idiots,“he added.