Dr. Fauci is going into self-quarantine over potential coronavirus exposure

• Dr. Anthony Fauci, a member of the White House coronavirus task force, has become a familiar, comforting presence to Americans as the COVID-19 pandemic has dragged on for weeks now.
• Fauci, who’s also the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, is currently preparing to quarantine himself after possibly coming into exposure with a White House staffer who’s tested positive for the coronavirus.
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The health expert who’s become the public face of the US response to the coronavirus pandemic, Dr. Anthony Fauci, is preparing to begin what he describes as a “modified” self-quarantine after potentially coming into contact with the novel coronavirus.

Fauci, who directs the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in addition to being a member of the White House coronavirus task force, is doing so after telling CNN that he’s made a “low risk” contact with an unnamed White House staffer who’s tested positive for the virus. What makes this news disconcerting is that two additional chiefs of federal health agencies playing a role in the coronavirus response — Dr. Robert Redfield, director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and Dr. Stephen Hahn, the commissioner of the US Food and Drug Administration — are now doing the same.

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