Anthony Fauci

January 22, 2021, 7:52 am

Brought back in by Biden, Fauci says ‘liberating’ to be free to speak on science

Top US advisor on virus, banished by Trump, says he was uncomfortable with ex-president’s statements not based on scientific fact; vows to be ‘completely transparent, open, honest’

By AFP

A farm worker receives the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at Tudor Ranch in Mecca, California, Jan. 21, 2021. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

January 22, 2021, 3:59 am

Biden orders mask-wearing, travel clampdown in new war on COVID

US president signs 10 executive orders to curb uncontrolled US outbreak, warning that death toll likely to hit 500,000 next month

By Sebastian Smith

A man places flags at the National World War I Museum and Memorial Jan. 19, 2021, in Kansas City, Missouri. The 1,665 flags represent the area residents who died in the coronavirus pandemic and the display was part of a national memorial to lives lost to COVID-19. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

January 21, 2021, 1:59 pm

Biden unveils ambitious COVID-19 strategy as US virus deaths top WWII fatalities

President to sign 10 executive orders, including mandatory masks during travel, in stark departure from Trump’s policy; Fauci says US will restore engagement, financing of WHO

By Agencies

Pennsylvania Secretary of Health Dr. Rachel Levine meets with the media at the Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency (PEMA) headquarters in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, May 29, 2020. (Joe Hermitt/The Patriot-News via AP, File)

January 19, 2021, 2:02 pm

Biden picks transgender Jewish woman as assistant US health secretary

Rachel Levine is one of the few transgender Americans serving in elected or appointed positions nationwide

By Will Weissert

A pharmacist draws saline while preparing a dose of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine in Sacramento, California, January 12, 2021.(AP Photo/Noah Berger, Pool)

January 19, 2021, 8:53 am

A new COVID-19 challenge: Mutations rise along with cases

Each new infection gives the virus a chance to mutate as it makes copies of itself, threatening to undo the progress made so far to control the pandemic

By MARILYNN MARCHIONE

Ichilov hospital team members wearing protective gear as they work at the coronavirus department of Ichilov hospital in Tel Aviv, on January 01, 2021. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

January 6, 2021, 4:50 pm

Israel still world’s best for vaccination, but now among worst for contagion

Per capita, Israel state has inoculated 10 times more of its population than the US, but its mushrooming new outbreak is worse than America’s, and most everybody else’s

By TOI staff

Houston Health Department LVN Alicia Meza prepares a dose of COVID-19 vaccine Sunday, Jan. 3, 2021, at a Houston Health Department's COVID-19 vaccine clinic in Houston. The department vaccinated 1,008 people who qualify under Phase 1A or Phase 1B of the state's guidelines at the clinic's first day on Saturday. (Yi-Chin Lee/Houston Chronicle via AP)

January 4, 2021, 5:27 am

US administers 4 million vaccines as death toll passes 350,000 amid new surge

Fauci says there is ‘glimmer of hope’ and possibility of hitting target of 100 million shots in first 100 days of Biden administration, notes current ‘glitches’ in distribution

By GARY D. ROBERTSON

An Israeli receives the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine at a vaccination center in Tel Aviv, December 31, 2020. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

December 31, 2020, 9:07 pm

Israel has vaccinated 10 times more of its population, per capita, than the US

Jewish state is beating its inoculation goals, while Centers for Disease Control fails to get anywhere close to 20 million target of Trump administration

By Gabe Friedman

This combination of pictures created on December 19, 2020 shows Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Anthony Fauci at the White House on April 9, 2020, in Washington, DC and
a man dressed as Santa Claus wearing a red face mask in Libourne, France, on December 10, 2020.(Photos by JIM WATSON and thibaud MORITZ / AFP)

December 20, 2020, 2:31 am

Fauci tells worried kids: I vaccinated Santa, he can come visit

‘He can come down the chimney, he can leave the presents … you have nothing to worry about,’ top US expert says, describing quick trip to the North Pole

By AFP

Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, testifies during a House Subcommittee hearing on the Coronavirus crisis, July 31, 2020 on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Kevin Dietsch/Pool via AP)

December 19, 2020, 1:52 am

Dr. Fauci prefers latkes to hamantaschen

Leading US infectious disease expert says he likes his dish with apple sauce or sour cream

By Gabe Friedman

Former Vice President Joe Biden and Senator Kamala Harris speak on September 12, 2020, in Houston, Texas (Robyn Beck / AFP)

December 11, 2020, 11:27 am

Biden and Harris named Time ‘Person of the Year’

Duo beat out Trump ‘for showing forces of empathy are greater than furies of division’; Anthony Fauci and healthcare workers named ‘Guardians of the Year’

By Peter HUTCHISON

US President-elect Joe Biden arrives to announce the members of his health team, including his pick for secretary of Health and Human Services Xavier Becerra, at the Queen Theater December 08, 2020 in Wilmington, Delaware. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images/AFP)

December 9, 2020, 1:54 am

Biden vows 100 million vaccines will be given in his first 100 days in office

President-elect calls on Americans to wear masks, pledges to reopen most schools when he enters White House, as raging pandemic kills over 2,000 a day

By Jonathan Lemire and Ricardo ALONSO-ZALDIVAR

In this Nov. 19, 2020, file photo, healthcare workers process people waiting in line at a United Memorial Medical Center COVID-19 testing site in Houston. The surge of coronavirus is taking an increasingly grim toll across the United States, even as of a vaccine appears close at hand. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

November 23, 2020, 6:24 am

US looking to vaccinate 50 million people in next 2 months as virus surges

FDA vaccine advisers to meet December 10 to discuss approval; Germany’s Merkel expresses concern that poorer nations will not have access to vaccines

By AFP

A bus stop ad for COVID-19 testing is shown outside Pfizer world headquarters in New York on Monday Nov. 9, 2020. Pfizer says an early peek at its vaccine data suggests the shots may be 90% effective at preventing COVID-19, but it doesn't mean a vaccine is imminent. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

November 16, 2020, 5:35 am

As Trump stalls, Biden advisers to meet vaccine makers to plan rollout

Fauci cautions that arrival of vaccines will not be like flipping a switch to return to normal life, urges Americans to continue taking precautions, social distancing

By Ricardo ALONSO-ZALDIVAR and Will Weissert

US President Donald Trump's former chief strategist Steve Bannon speaks with reporters after pleading not guilty to charges that he ripped off donors to an online fundraising scheme to build a southern border wall, Thursday, Aug. 20, 2020, in New York. (AP Photo/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez)

November 6, 2020, 5:48 pm

Twitter bans former Trump adviser Bannon for call to behead Fauci, FBI chief

Bannon urged putting the officials’ heads ‘on pikes’ as ‘a warning to federal bureaucrats’; Twitter permanently suspends account for ‘glorification of violence’

By AFP