Trump drar in Anthony Faucis livvaktsskydd

National Institutes of Health (förkortas ofta NIH) är en myndighet som lyder under den amerikanska federala regeringens departement för hälsovård och socialomsorg (Department of Health and Human Services). NIH svarar för finansieringen av cirka 28 procent av all medicinsk forskning som sker i USA, vilket för NIH:s del uppgår till cirka 28 miljarder dollar årligen. NIH är därmed världens största statliga forskningsfinansiär. Huvudkontoret ligger i Bethesda i Maryland. NIH består av cirka 27 forskningscentra och fungerar både som forskningsfinansiär och som forskningsutförare, 80 procent av anslagen delas ut som projektbidrag och resten används för NIH omfattande forskningsverksamhet. NIH delar även ut forskningsanslag till icke-amerikanska forskare, under förutsättning att forskningen inte går att utföra i USA.

Anthony Stephen Fauci ( FOW-chee; born December 24, 1940) is an American physician-scientist and immunologist who served as the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) from 1984 to 2022, and the chief medical advisor to the president from 2021 to 2022. Fauci was one of the world's most frequently cited scientists across all scientific journals from 1983 to 2002. In 2008, President George W. Bush awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian award in the United States, for his work on the AIDS relief program PEPFAR. Fauci received his undergraduate education at the College of the Holy Cross and his Doctor of Medicine from Cornell University. As a physician with the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Fauci served the American public health sector for more than fifty years and has acted as an advisor to every U.S. president since Ronald Reagan. During his time as director of the NIAID, he made contributions to HIV/AIDS research and other immunodeficiency diseases, both as a research scientist and as the head of the NIAID. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Fauci served under President Donald Trump as one of the lead members of the White House Coronavirus Task Force. His advice was frequently contradicted by Trump, and Trump's supporters alleged that Fauci was trying to politically undermine Trump's run for reelection. After Joe Biden took office, Fauci began serving as one of the lead members of the White House COVID-19 Response Team and as Biden's chief medical advisor. Fauci stepped down at the end of 2022. On January 19, 2025, just hours before he left office, President Biden unprecedentedly pardoned Fauci from potential future prosecution by the incoming Trump administration.