down from his role at the national institutes of health, having served seven presidents, republicans and democrats. he says he s ready for his next chapter, so, what might he do next? here s our chief white house correspondent cecilia vega now. reporter: one of the most visible faces in the fight against covid, both revered and loathed, dr. anthony fauci today announcing he will step down as president biden s chief medical adviser and head of the national institute of allergy and infectious diseases, which he has led for nearly 40 years. i do want to do other things in my career. reporter: he s advised seven presidents, all of them since ronald reagan, on the front lines of everything from ebola and zika, to the fight against hiv and aids. dr. anthony s. fauci. reporter: president george w. bush awarded him the medal of freedom. but it was the controversy that turned f ed f ed fauci into a h
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from johns hopkins school of public health, also editor in chief of med page today. he s a fox news contributor. dr. makary, what does this declaration, it s a global health emergency, it s now a u.s. national emergency. what does that buy us? it s great that the biden administration is acknowledging it, recognizing it. what does it help them do to protect americans? i think it was the right move by the biden administration. it sets up a central office with a person coordinating all the efforts around monkey pox. it s enables emergency use authorization and mobilizes a strategic reserve. we made a lot of mistakes with monkey pox just as were made with covid and zika and ebola. people are learning that it s really endemic, with all pandemic responses. we fail to do the researcherly
disease, but you can get it with close contact with some children who have gotten it, and not necessarily from the sexual contact and not from sexual contact, right? no, it is a very important point, jake, but every sexually transmitted disease has the same characteristic, and the same with hiv/aids and some of the most painful ideas was looking at the kids with hemophilia who contracted aids because of the blood transfusion, and some of the syphilis was transacted with the transference from mother to child, and the same with zika which was mosquito-bourn, but it was mother to child, and so many of the cases that we are seeing are transmitted from gay men, and from the study from england, 44% of them had reported participating in group gay sex