Members of the public health community are relieved that the pardoning of Anthony Fauci, MD, former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), protects him against inappropriate legal battles -- but they're disappointed it had to come to this,

Dr. Anthony Fauci, former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), told The Hill on Monday that he intends to accept the pardon preemptively offered to him by

That is because the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), told The Hill he will to accept the preemptive pardon President Joe Biden gave on Monday. Fauci wrote in an email the White House approached him about the pardon and he did not ask for one. Fauci insisted he did not commit a crime.