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,

Biden’s Fauci pardon was greeted by many in the vast and chaotic world of Covid suspicion as proof the scientist and retired public health official had been guilty of some poorly-defined crime all along. It also demonstrated how closely mainstream Republicans are aligned with the deepest reaches of the Covid conspiracy pool.