Fauci: Receiving an envelope full of powder was ‘very, very disturbing’

Anthony FauciAnthony FauciAstraZeneca vaccine distribution begins in Brazil Biden and British Prime Minister discuss NATO and multilateralism in Sunday call for preview: All eyes are on the Biden administration to fight coronavirus MORE, the country’s top infectious disease expert, said he received a powder casing from an unknown source at some point during the coronavirus pandemic.

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“[O]The day I received a letter in the mail, I opened it and a puff of powder fell on my face and chest. It was very, very disturbing for me and my wife because it was in my office, ”the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases told The Times. “So I just looked at it all over me and said, ‘What should I do?’ The security details were there, and they’re very experienced in it. They said, “Don’t move, stay in the room. And they have the hazardous materials people. So they come, they sprayed me and all that.

Fauci said the substance was tested and determined to be a ‘nothing benign’ but it was a frightening experience regardless. He added that he did not know if then President Trump had been made aware of the incident and that he had not alerted anyone close to Trump.

“Who was I going to tell?” What would it do to tell someone about it? Besides, it was under the FBI. investigation, and they don’t like you talking about it, ”Fauci said.

Fauci has become one of the foremost government health officials during the coronavirus pandemic, and polls routinely indicate he is the most reliable. But he and his family have also received numerous death threats which he says “infuriated” him last week.

Fauci also told the newspaper that neither Trump nor the former president’s inner circle admitted he was right about the virus even after the then president was hospitalized with the coronavirus. However, he described himself as indifferent to being fired by Trump, as he joked at a rally about it.

“I thought he wasn’t going to do it. I think that’s the way he is. People said, “Oh, weren’t you horrified to get a call the next day?” Fauci said. “I didn’t think he was going to fire me at all. It was just, you know, that Donald Trump was Donald Trump.

Fauci was often sidelined during the Trump administration but was ultimately never fired. President Biden made Fauci his chief medical adviser on COVID-19.