Biden chose a date nearly six years before the first cases of SARS-CoV-2 were identified, adding an unexpected layer of intrigue to the act of clemency.

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,

Former federal prosecutor Jim Trusty said Tuesday that former President Joe Biden’s preemptive pardon of former National Institute of Allergy

Dr. Anthony Fauci helped coordinate the nation’s response to the COVID pandemic. He has never been charged with a crime, yet received a “full and unconditional” pardon back to Jan. 1, 2014.

The heads of the Jan. 6 committee say they're grateful for the decision by President Joe Biden to pardon them “not for breaking the law but for upholding it.”

In addition to Fauci, Biden also granted pardons to General Mark Milley, the Members of Congress and staff who served on the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol, and the US Capitol and D.C. Metropolitan police officers who testified before the Select Committee.

Dr. Anthony Fauci, former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), told The Hill on Monday that he intends to accept the pardon preemptively offered to him by

That is because the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), told The Hill he will to accept the preemptive pardon President Joe Biden gave on Monday. Fauci wrote in an email the White House approached him about the pardon and he did not ask for one. Fauci insisted he did not commit a crime.

Biden‘s last-minute pardon of Anthony Fauci was not done to spare an "innocent" person from abuse by dishonest politicians. Biden likely did it to prevent an

Dr. Anthony Fauci, former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, responded to President Joe Biden issuing him a preemptive pardon on Monday.

That’s particularly true when it comes to Anthony Fauci, the former Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, the former chief medical advisor to the President, and the “ little elf ” that DeSantis wanted to “chuck across the Potomac” two years ago.

With just hours left of his presidency, Joe Biden issued preemptive pardons to Dr. Anthony Fauci, retired Gen. Mark Milley and members of the House Jan. 6 committee.