Strange Parallels between Dr. Anthony Fauci and J. Edgar Hoover
Yet Fauci gains enormous amounts of goodwill and great publicity from all those stories. Moreover, having a scientist as the face of the government’s COVID-19 response is of enormous value to politicians. For example, Fauci, not the President, is the target of attacks on mask and vaccine mandates. Fauci takes the hits and keeps the president from having to appear on television with bad news.