Politico April 2, 2025
The removals have gutted FDA and NIH leadership.
As an anti-vaccine activist, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. spent years attacking Anthony Fauci and sowing doubts about the successful effort he led to develop a Covid vaccine.
As HHS secretary, he’s exacting his revenge.
Kennedy on Tuesday fired Fauci’s wife, Christine Grady, and reassigned at least three of Fauci’s longtime colleagues at the National Institutes of Health, as part of a purge of senior officials involved in the government’s development and distribution of the Covid vaccine, eight people familiar with the matter said.
Fauci, the longtime head of the NIH’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, was the face of the government’s response to the Covid pandemic during President Donald Trump’s...
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